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The latest album by Koto Yumin Dakota, who also utilizes his experience as a critic
Yoshida: We write the name “口頭遊民” which means that we are a group of three people who wanted to be high society people who could only focus on art, but we couldn’t be. We are three people who are just trying to make a living.
Takano: I can really understand. I had a chance to see the music video of Koto Yumin Dakota, who are such oral nomads.
Yoshida: Thank you very much.
Takano: It was really cool. I got the impression that you were fighting something invisible, but what was the background behind the creation of this song “Jii”?
Yoshida: It’s been a while since I made a rap album, but I wanted to use a critiqued perspective. Hip-hop is based on singing about one’s own real life, isn’t it? But for this album, I wanted to take a different approach and do something nonsensical and experimental. But in the end, the album would not have been complete without songs that tell my own story. It’s a song about saying to yourself that you wanted to tell your own story, as if you were masturbating after all.
Celeina: It became clear to me.
Takano: I’d like to read the lyric carefully.
Yoshida: We are planning to release a physical version with a booklet of the critique soon, so I hope you can see it there.
Celeina: Is the critique about this album?
Yoshida: Yes, it is. I asked up-and-coming critics such as In Humio and Tsuya-chan to write critiques of the album, and also included a selection of sources of inspiration for the work, as well as text in which I critiqued myself.
Celeina: It looks like it will be worth reading.
Yoshida: I wanted to do something interesting in connection with the critique.
Takano: Since you are also active as an artist, you may be more persuasive as a critic.
Yoshida: The weight of the words of a person who has created a simply amazing work of art is amazing, isn’t it? As long as I am also creating artworks, I feel that I cannot create artworks that betray the words of my critics.
Takano: You don’t want people to say, “You’ve never made a piece of art before!”,right?
Yoshida: It is an interesting aspect of criticism to be able to say sharp things because you have never made the work, and I think that is also important. But on the other hand, there are also things that can be seen while making the work.
Takano: I am becoming more and more curious about you, Mr. Yoshida.
Celeina: I couldn’t catch a glimpse of his mischievous side at all.
Yoshida: Oh no, I made a mistake (haha). How about this part where you get serious is mischievous?
Celeina: The professor part came out perfectly. In “FIST BUMP,” members are introduced to their friends through a circle of friends connected through the goo touch, but what kind of people do you introduce to us?
Yoshida: I would like to invite a planner and filmmaker, Kosaku Shimamoto.
Celeina: If you had to describe him in one word, what kind of person would he be?
Yoshida: He is a stinking gentleman in black. I have met him about 1,000 times so far, and I have never seen him dressed in anything other than black. And his title is “planner,” which is suspicious, like, what kind of planner is he? But inside he was a very nice guy, and he helped me when I was writing my reviews. At the time, I didn’t have any friends who liked criticism, so when I started attending the “Critique Rebirth School” I would suddenly call him in the middle of the night like a new girlfriend and ask him to meet up. When he said he couldn’t meet, I’d say, “I’m fine with just a phone call.”
Takano: That shows his mischievous side.
Yoshida: I would call her saying, “Just for 30 minutes,” and it would end up being about three hours. Thanks to his patience over the next year or so, I was able to win the “Critique Rebirth School” championship. I am truly indebted to him.
Takano: It’s a good story, and I’m glad I got to see your mischievous side at the end. Tomorrow, I’ll be talking to planner and filmmaker Kosaku Shimamoto, who was introduced to us as a stinky gentleman in black.
Celeina: “FIST BUMP”, today we welcome critic, beatmaker, and MC Masashi Yoshida. Thank you very much.
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