The concept of your new solo album, Blue Forest, revolves around the themes of ‘blue’ and ‘love.’ What kind of message do you want to deliver to listeners through these themes? How is your message important?
Yoko Hamasaki: ‘Blue’ is a mysterious, wonderful word. It can express a depressed feeling, and it’s also used to express ‘immaturity’, meaning not being able to grow up enough. And I simply imagined rain, the deep sea, and pieces of glass. ‘Forest’ is actually not a forest in nature. I got the idea from high-rise buildings, the streetscapes of cities, and the nightscape, and I tried to blend visual images and electro sounds.
When it comes to ‘love’, I especially focused on sexual love. If you were to set the goal of love as marriage, you could be united with only one person, so other love relationships would eventually reach sad, agonizing farewells. Thinking like this, most relationships have bad endings, and I wanted to express the ‘dark’ and ‘shade’ of love rather than the excitement.
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