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Inspired by Life and Death: “I Choose to Live Pursuing My Passions”
-I think there were a number of times when you had to make choices in your life before you started singing in clubs. While many people around you were choosing to get jobs, did you have such a choice?
SIRUP: Until I was in high school, I had a vague idea that I would have to find a job. I really wanted to enter a music college, but the tuition was too expensive, so I went to a college near my house. I went to a college near my house. My mother wanted me to go to college because we were a single-mother family, and she supported me, so I thought I would do my best until I got there. But at the same time, I was determined to do my best in music.
When I was thinking about job hunting, I sometimes wondered if I would be able to write better songs if I found a job, but I felt that I was making gradual progress as a musician, and at that time I was involved in a major moped accident. At that time, I felt like I was living or dying, and I strongly felt that I wanted to live doing what I loved anyway. That made me determined, and in the end, I did not apply to any companies for job hunting.
-When you chose not to look for a job, there were probably people around you who chose to find a job. How did you view such career paths at the time?
SIRUP: I was concerned about the difference between the choices of those around me and my own. I would get anxious and my feelings would be taken away, but in the end I would not change my choice, which is my fundamental character. I would get anxious and confused, but I didn’t pretend those feelings didn’t exist, and even absorbed them and used them for my output. I was anxious, but I knew I had no choice but to do it, and I knew it would definitely be more fun for me.
-Was it because you had someone who was a role model that made you think, “It’s definitely more fun to do what I want to do?
SIRUP: When I was little, I used to follow my older brother around all the time, and at some point he started to spread me around [laughs], and from there I started talking to older people in the park and playing with them. In this way, the biggest thing for me was not belonging to one community from a young age, but absorbing the values of various people and meeting older people in life who had many different options.
