It was for a news program, which means there’s no clear-cut story or anything, and if there were stories to speak of, they’d be the events or incidents that happened that day. When was it? Last August, but feels like such a long time ago now. When were you asked to make it, and what was the jumping-off point for the track? You wrote “Yumeutsutsu” for Nippon Television Network’s nightly news program News Zero. That’s how the song turned out like this. So I figured I should make something sappy to the point of being vulgar in a sense. Which meant that I had to make something that properly followed through in that direction or else it wouldn’t be consistent with my view. So I went on to try this and that before ending up with “Pale Blue.”Īs I mentioned before, music has an effect of fostering narcissism and sentimentalism. There were a few that were kind of different in taste before I wrote this one, but they didn’t feel straightforward enough as love songs in my view. I scrapped about three songs before I finally made it to “Pale Blue.” It wasn’t like anyone told me that they weren’t good or anything, but I just couldn’t be satisfied with them. “Pale Blue” happened to be the most challenging song I’ve ever written in my career in music. And then I spent a really long time thinking about “just what is a romantic relationship?” based on that idea. So my initial idea was to make it so that it could sound like a song about a budding romance, and also about saying good-bye.
While divorce is a parting of ways, some romances start from that point, and that ambiguity sounded interesting to me. Rikokatsu depicts romantic relationships that begin from divorce. How did you decide on its theme from there?
So I kept thinking about what the result would be if I tried to do that now. Maybe it’s just that I’ve forgotten, but at this point in time, I can’t really recall writing anything while asking myself things like, “Just what is a love song?” It might even be that I’ve never written a love song in a sincere way like that. When I released that comment, I’d felt like I hadn’t written a love song for about 10 years.
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