JKT48

Released: June 11, 2014

[Verse 1]
Though I really really do
Have a great big crush on you
I can only hide it deep inside
As you walk by while you push along your bike
You laugh but you don't know what it feels like

[Pre-Chorus 1]
As we make our way to work
On the street next to the shore
The sun is like it wants to flirt

[Chorus 1]
Gingham Check
Those short sleeves on your shirt
That shirt you like to wear
Looks so cool that it hurts
Mixing feelings of love and despair
That check pattern is what you'll see in my heart
Gingham Check
Is the pattern of love
Blue-White-Blue
Tell me where do I start?
Should I tell you how I feel inside?
Can't decide
I feel just like
Gingham Check

[Verse 2]
As the sea comes into view
In a single shade of blue
It will tell me all I have to do
All it takes is just one word inside my mouth
But I try to speak and nothing will come out

[Pre-Chorus 2]
It's because I am afraid
This thing between you and me
Is enough to make me happy

[Chorus 2]
Gingham Check
And now summer has gone
So when do I get to put my cardigan on?
But it does not mean for both you and me
We're on this road to wherever it may lead
Gingham Check
Even love has its time
Yes No Yes
If you go I'll be fine
It's because you mean so much to me
Next summer again I'll see
Gingham Check

[Bridge]
You see the twinkles on the sea
From sun rays as they glow
Just like how my heart feels when it breaks in two
Between light and shadows

[Chorus 1]
Gingham Check
Those short sleeves on your shirt
That shirt you like to wear
Looks so cool that it hurts
Mixing feelings of love and despair
That check pattern is what you'll see in my heart
Gingham Check
Is the pattern of love
Blue-White-Blue
Tell me where do I start?
Should I tell you how I feel inside?
Can't decide
I feel just like
Gingham Check

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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