JKT48

Released: January 1, 2016

[Intro]
In your position, set!

[Verse 1]
All the things that you know, everything that you've done
It is ancient history that weighs down heavily
Even the wind will go just as soon as it blows
Vanishing with no trace leaving just a blank space

[Pre-Chorus 1]
So let's go and find ourselves a new way
Take that old map and throw it far away
Then that sad eyes will rise above and then glow
And then turn into zero

[Chorus 1]
Go and ask ourselves if we still have dreams?
And is there a future for us to believe?
Move forward and have no fear
Don't separate white and black
There's no need for us to hold back!
And now go and ask ourselves if we still have dreams?
You must be like a child so young and green!
It is time for you to find strength
To break all those chains that bind

[Post-Chorus]
Change change change change
Change your mind!
Change change your mind!
No need to know all when you are a BEGINNER!

[Verse 2]
Prior endeavors ended up in failure
Embarassing torment led the way to trauma
Due to desire to suffer no further
People who are mature
They become much wiser

[Pre-Chorus 2]
Trying new things is full of uncertainty
What's the point of choosing a way
Calculating things to avoid
All risk and just play it safe

[Chorus 2]
Is this how living is supposed to go?
Do you really still want to live tomorrow?
Pretending to understand, pretending that you know all
But living without any dreams!
And is this how living is supposed to go?
Do you not think that your life is going to waste?
You must find that vibration and feel it inside your chest

[Bridge]
Stand up! Together!
Remember when we are born that everyone's a beginner!
Stand up! Right away!
At first you might never ever get it right the way you want!
Stand up! Together!
It's alright to do it over, once again BEGINNER!
Stand up! Right away!
Do it again, do it again, you will make it in the end!
Tear up and throw out that old page from long ago
Yeah come on let's go again
We can be reborn all the time (Yeahh...)

[Chorus 1]
Go and ask ourselves if we still have dreams?
And is there a future for us to believe?
Move forward and have no fear
Don't separate white and black
There's no need for us to hold back!
And now go and ask ourselves if we still have dreams?
You must be like a child so young and green!
It is time for you to find strength
To break all those chains that bind

[Outro]
We can't do anything, we cannot succeed
You know why that is? It is because we are still young
We can't do anything, can't do it instantly
And that is why we have opportunity on our side!
Rain will go away! Wind will go away!
And the dawn of a new light will begin shining its rays!
The time has now arrived
And now you have been reborn as a BEGINNER!

JKT48 is an Indonesian idol group whose name is derived from its based city of Jakarta and the Japanese idol group AKB48. Formed in 2011, it is the first AKB48 sister group outside Japan and adopts the concept of “idols you can meet”. Fans can attend daily performances at the group’s theater, which was built as a close replica to the AKB48 Theater in Akihabara.

Producer Yasushi Akimoto decided to bring the AKB48 concept to Indonesia because the group had begun to develop a fan base in the country. Indonesia’s growing economy was seen as a potential market by many Japanese companies, and Akimoto established a franchising partnership with Dentsu Media Group Indonesia to replicate the AKB48 business model. Dentsu Media Group Indonesia then cooperate with the country’s largest media conglomerate Global Mediacom (MNC Media), the southeast Asia’s largest and most integrated media group as JKT48 official media partner.

While JKT48 does not restrict membership by nationality, applicants must be residents of Indonesia. The group has 72 (as of June 2014) members and released its first studio album Heavy Rotation on 16 February 2013 via Hits Records, a division of MNC subsidiary PT Star Media Nusantara. It performs songs by AKB48 and other sister groups that are translated into Indonesian.

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