...He's green.
Yup, today is Green Day (Midori no hi) so he dressed in green. Makes sense, no?
But yeah, he still doesn't look too thrilled with what seems to be a regular new part of his Monday appearance on Waratte Ii Tomo. Basically, they pair him up with an older woman (at least 40s), and ask the rest of the participants if they look like friends (read: lovers) or mother and child. Yeah, I know:
Shingo: the greatest Stoic of the modern age.
He did look genuinely thrilled on tonight's SMAP x SMAP, an extravaganza of various SMAPpers (but of course not Kusanagi) performing various songs past. Not only was Shingo super happy and doing the pointless random stuff we are used to him pulling:
it was also cut weirdly, and had shots of lots of famous guests listening, but no interviews, suggesting it was taped ages ago and had all the Kusanagi stuff quickly binned, even if it meant binning stuff that had him just sitting there when someone else was being interviewed. It also had way too much of Goro Inagaki's lame-ass CCB Goro character for this to have been intentional from the start. I mean it even had stuff from when Shingo was blond which I believe is at least a year ago:
He did it for The Monkey King (don't ask) and kept it for a while, if I remember correctly (oh dear, I really am becoming quite the SMAxpert).
And, while we're on the topic of Goro, seriously, if you're gonna take style tips, does it have to be from Enrique Inglesias?
It worked for Shingo though. This was his reaction to the line "I want you to laugh and say it was just a joke you were leaving me":
Which leads me to suspect that our Shingo is just a rather sensitive lad in general, and that maybe we shouldn't be too worried about his appearance over the past few weeks as clearly he is a boy who is not afraid to cry. And often.
Case in point: Shingo singing The Carpenters' Yesterday Once More:
However, please note: 'Tache present. Which means this is post-Kusanagi and so perhaps a little deeper the sorrows, as indeed it seems here.
Oh give me your tired, your poor. Well, your tired and kawaiso Shingo, at least. Anytime.
And seriously, Goro AGAIN with the Enrique:
AND KimuTaku again looking ridiculous and AGAIN being saved because although dude looks ridiculous, dude looks like a very cool lady. In this case - Louise.
Anyway, here is the whole performance, because you know you want it.
There is some brilliant Engrish on this as well.
"When I was young I'd listen to the ladio, writing for my favourite songs. When they'd play, I'd sing alone." Ah, Shingo! Love! I'll listen with you. I'll write with you! And we can sing along rather than alone.
At least Shingo's English is decent and his mis-singing still makes sense, unlike Goro's effort:
"When they get to the pod, when he's breaking her hood, he can really make me cry."
It's funny, though, as is Kimutaku's "And I'd memo-write each word."
Next: Shingo can actually sing rather well as he did with Kome Kome Club.
Ah, Kome Kome Club. It's like ABC but if ABC kept doing the same stuff well into the 90s. Which is, of course, awesome. Good for Shingo for not being shy about his love here, nor indeed his ability to actually sing, nor indeed his penchant for strange non-stripping stripping.
More 80s came after that. Nena, yes, that Nena, performing 99 Luftballons. Yes, the German version and all. Sadly, there was no mangled Japanese German or... Gelman? I wish Goro would have attempted to sing a bit but, alas, he was happier just making fun of it all. Indeed, the 80s are officially funny in Japan. Welcome to the 90s.
Leftovers:
Kurt Cobain?
From an ad break. It's a new DS game (or possibly a new DS, I didn't bother to check), which has over 90 "Puchi Games" (puchi being the Japanisation of "petit"). Among them, this one:
So much less satisfying than the real thing.
Finally Goro, Shingo and Janet Jackson. Just because it happened.
And that concludes this Monday's Shingo roundup. Every sha-la-la-la, every wo-o-wo-o, and every Shingo-ling-a-ling.
