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Inner Complexity: Understanding Emotions and Personalities
-Of the six songs, “The Way of Defeat” is the only one that is different from the band’s sound. It is also the only one that is far removed from the band’s sound.
Ouchi： Mocchan (Motomura) contributes to “The Way of Defeat”.
YONCE: Mocchan programmed the beat for the breakbeats. The five of us recorded many takes of “The Way of Defeat” with various voices, and he took them home and made an interesting collage of them. I feel like this song was transformed by that process, or rather, it showed its true nature.
Ouchi： It started out with a completely different arrangement. It was a bit surrealistic, but while we were working on it, we kept thinking, “How is this going to sound? I don’t know. Let’s try different things until we figure it out. Then Motomura-kun came up with something really cool and said, “How about this? YONCE：Motocchan gave me the idea.
YONCE： Motomura made me realize [laughs].
-I know it’s not polite to ask him to talk about the lyrics, but since they came out honestly, I’d like to hear what thoughts were going through his body at the time. For example, “Logic is Lonely” was played at the end of the debut live performance before the release of the soundtrack, and it shook me to my core. It sounds like a song about happiness, life, and human beings.
YONCE： Hirauta is followed by two times, and it is written like two opposite sides of the same coin. Maybe there are both of them. There is a song by Shintaro Sakamoto, “Don’t take off your mask,” and the point is that people have various expressions. Basically, we aim to be natural, but there are times when we act under the influence of our natural environment. You say “just be yourself,” but you can’t just put your feet up on a desk here, you have to act like it.
Here, I am saying “you” (
If you are looking for a place where you can never waver, like the “best” place or the best positioning, you will probably end up alone. In short, I think people cannot be with others unless they are imperfect.
I don’t think I can explain it perfectly – there are people who climb a mountain and then climb the next mountain from zero, and there are people who think they are at the top but there is more to come, and there are people who think they are just enjoying the ride. I think that the time we have to climb the same mountain in our lives is very precious.
Also, there are feelings and personalities that even within ourselves we cannot understand each other, and there is a deep river running through us, so we have to acknowledge it, not just say “over there” and “over here” or “I can’t forgive the other side”. The world has come to that kind of situation. I think the last part of the song probably has more to it. I may end up being alone, but I don’t think I will be.
Ouchi： “Loneliness” is an interesting theme. When I stay in this place while other band members around me go on to stardom, I have the feeling that I am alone, even though there are people around me. Maybe the other party might feel the same way.
YONCE: That’s true.
