RoundAbout Lyrics by YES is the Ending theme of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Anime Series.
The JoJo's Bizarre Adventure anime series' Ending theme song for the first season was Roundabout, which was used in 2012. The director claims that Roundabout was one of many songs that Hirohiko Araki, the author of the original manga for JoJo, listened to while writing it.
The song Roundabout and the series To Be Continued insert have both become internet memes as a result of their appearance in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
Videos of real-world events, particularly, often begin with the song's opening acoustic guitar riff before cutting to the To Be Continued insert, which is usually frozen at the point where an accident, injury, or death appears to be about to happen.
The 1971 single Roundabout comes from the album FragileW by the British progressive rock group YesW. The first season of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: The Animation uses it as the ending theme and features both Phantom Blood and Battle Tendency.
The song is played once again as Stone Ocean's last coda and the conclusion of the primary JoJo chronology.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure's extensive use of high-caliber music wouldn't be far-fetched to claim that practically all of the anime's closing songs might have been included here.
Yet most JoJo fans have a soft spot in their hearts for Roundabout. It was widely parodied, which is understandable given that the song has been written specifically to go with a cliffhanger.
Story Behind Adding Roundabout as JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Anime Series’s Ending Theme
The discussion the anime side had with Hirohiko Araki when they were working on a new theme song led to the choice of "ROUNDABOUT" as the ED theme music for the first season.
About such discussion, the music producer, Hiroyuki Omori of Warner Brothers Japan, said, "At first, I wanted to choose the OP theme, so I suggested various sample songs based on the rock to Mr. Araki. I questioned him about songs that were similar to his vision because the direction was different from what he had anticipated.
He proposed "ROUNDABOUT." But, creating an original progressive rock song like this was pretty challenging, so we chose to request permission to borrow "ROUNDABOUT" and utilize it exactly as is.
The general course that following ED themes would take was determined when Omori proposed that it would be more fitting as an ED theme than an OP tune. According to the idea of "music that Hirohiko Araki was listening to a lot at the time of writing" or "songs that are related to the picture of each portion of the original manga," the ED themes were selected.
Miwa Iwanami, the sound director, is from the generation that was into music when Yes became popular, thus she was shocked to learn that "ROUNDABOUT" had been selected as the ED theme.
He strongly advised the director, Naokatsu Tsuda, to make the ED video so that the ED could be played from anywhere as he wondered if it could be used as background music.
As a result, they created a unique method in the first season where "ROUNDABOUT" was played as a background music before leading right into the emergency department.
Omori claims, "Mr. Iwanami enthusiastically informed me that he had integrated all the components of the song after the first season concluded. (laughs)” He entirely utilized the original song's eight and a half minutes without being wasted.
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About Original ROUNDABOUT
One of Yes' most well-known songs is "Roundabout." It served as the group's fourth studio album's single, Fragile(1971).
In the song, there are two opposing theories. One is that when Jon Anderson and Steve Howe created this song, they traveled to Scotland, where Anderson lived.
It could have been composed on the train as they rode to the Montreux Jazz Festival, according to another idea. Both their perception of the surroundings and their ideas for the next event are reflected in the lyrics.
Howe plays an acoustic guitar riff for the first 40 seconds or so of the song. The song employs a variety of time signatures. While the majority of the song is in the straightforward 4/4 time signature, the choruses and the last vocal piece are both in 7/4.
The ending credits theme of the anime Jojo's Bizarre Adventure in 2012 gave rise to the "To Be Continued" meme, which featured the instrumental intro to this track paired up with some random videos of people about to get injured.
This song has experienced a bit of a comeback in recent years, first as one of the hardest songs in the 2010 rhythm game Rock Band 3, then as the ending credits theme.
When it reached 8th generation consoles and PC, it was included in Grand Theft Auto V on the tracklist expansion and could be played on Los Santos Rock Radio.
LYRICS
Roundabout Lyrics by YES
(English Lyrics)
ラウンドアバウト 歌詞 YES から ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 アニメ シリーズ
I'll Be The Round About
The Words Will Make You Out 'N' Out
I'll Spend The Day Your Way...
Call It Morning Driving Through The Sound And In And Out The Valley...
The Music Dance And Sing
They Make The Children Really Ring
I'll Spend The Day Your Way
Call It Morning Driving Through The Sound And In And Out The Valley...
In And Around The Lake
Mountains Come Out Of The Sky And They Stand There
One Mile Over We'll Be There And We'll See You
Ten True Summers We'll Be There And Laughing Too
Twenty-Four Before My Love You'll See I'll Be There With You...
I Will Remember You
Your Silhouette Will Charge The View
Of Distance Atmosphere...
Call It Morning Driving Through The Sound And Even In The Valley...
In And Around The Lake
Mountains Come Out Of The Sky And They Stand There
One Mile Over We'll Be There And We'll See You
Ten True Summers We'll Be There And
Laughing Too Ooo Oo Oo
Twenty-Four Before My Love You'll See I'll Be There With You
Along The Drifting Cloud The Eagle Searching
Down On The Land
Catching The Swirling Wind The Sailor Sees
The Rim Of The Land
The Eagle's Dancing Wings Create As Weather
Spins Out Of Hand
Go Closer Hold The Land Feel Partly No More
Than Grains Of Sand
We Stand To Lose All Time A Thousand Answers
By In Our Hand
Next To Your Deeper Fears, We Stand
Surrounded By Million Years
I'll Be The Roundabout
The Words Will Make You Out 'N' Out
I'll Be The Roundabout
The Words Will Make You Out 'N' Out...
In And Around The Lake Mountains
Come Out Of The Sky And They Stand There
Twenty-Four Before My Love And I'll Be There...
I'll Be The Roundabout
The Words Will Make You Out 'N' Out
We Spend The Day Your Way
Call It Morning Driving Through The Sound And
In And Out The Valley... Eh
In And Around The Lake
Mountains Come Out Of The Sky And They Stand There
One Mile Over We'll Be There And We'll See You
Ten True Summers We'll Be There And Laughing Too
Twenty-Four Before My Love You'll See I'll Be
There With You
Da Da Da Da Daaa Da Da (X 8)
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