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I'm MC Darling Honey Nagashima. Let's introduce today's guests.
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Super aggressive and flashy rock girl band, Gacharic Spin.
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First of all, please introduce yourself.
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Thank you. I'm Gacharic Spin's mic performer, Angelina 1/3.
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I'm Gacharic Spin's bassist, F Chopper Koga.
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Thank you.
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My name is pretty long, so please call me Angie.
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I'm called Koga-chan.
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Let's start with Koga-san.
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I used to be in a girl band before Gacharic Spin.
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The vocalist of the band I was in at the time was jokingly saying that the bassist needed pheromone.
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Pheromone starts with P.
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I made a mistake and used F.
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There was a bassit at the time called John B. Chopper.
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That's where I got my name from.
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It wasn't this chopper (slapping).
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It's different.
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I made a mistake in everything.
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There was a time to change it.
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Only my real name, Koga, is correct.
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I see.
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It's unique.
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I didn't think I'd be called Chopper for so long.
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I wanted to change my name.
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I wanted to change my name many times.
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I consulted with the staff.
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But I ended up keeping Chopper.
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I see.
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But with Chopper name.
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I think Koga-san is synonymous whit that kind of playing.
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When I think about putting Chopper in my name, it's amazing.
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I didn't know at the time.
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I'm regretting it now.
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It's already hot, so let's keep it.
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I see.
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Angie, how about your name?
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My name is Angelina 1/3.
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1/3 represents three countries in the Philippines, Spain, and Japan.
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I see.
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My name is 1/3.
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And Angelina is a foreign name.
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I see.
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Angie, you're not lying.
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I'm not lying.
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Koga-san, you're lying a lot.
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She's lying a lot.
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That's my name.
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I see.
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Where did you get the nickname mic performer?
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Mic performer came from Koga-san.
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Koga-san.
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Why did you name me that?
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Gacharic Spin originally had dancers in the band, and they were active for quite a long time.
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After dancers graduated, I wanted to put in new blood who could fill a similar role.
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I wanted to put a girl who could also make a voice a weapon.
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I wanted for them to be able to sing and rap.
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I thought it would be nice to name it mic performer.
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When I found Angie, I named her mic performer.
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I didn't think there were many other bands with that kind of role.
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I see.
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Did you find her during the audition?
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That's right.
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I joined after three months of auditioning.
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Three months is a long time, isn't it?
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I think I've seen a lot of human power.
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That's crazy.
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Originally, I saw you singing at a school festival.
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She was a high school girl.
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I see.
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You were in the second year of high school, right?
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That's right.
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I was singing and playing the guitar of Aimyon-san songs.
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When she saw me, she was curious about something, so she asked me.
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I see.
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I didn't participate in the audition before, so I auditioned from there.
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I see.
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Did Koga-san who wanted to push Angie?
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That's right.
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I pushed her a lot.
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I see.
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There were a few other candidates.
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Also there were few staff memebers and a record company.
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The members pushed Angie the most.
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I see.
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Angie was a alternate at that time.
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That's right.
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She was an alternate.
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Actually, another vocalist was going to join.
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I was going to do it together as a twin vocals.
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That girl was so good at it.
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I'm really stupid.
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I don't remember the lyrics.
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I make a mistake in the melody.
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I can't perform at all.
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I'm told to go to the right, but I go to the left.
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I see.
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They were afraid to let me officially join.
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I've been told that I'm an alternate.
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Of course.
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That's right.
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I see.
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The vocalist who was originally going to join decided to withdraw right before the announcement.
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So I won the lottery.
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I see.
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I won the lottery.
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That's great.
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I'm glad.
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I'm really glad.
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I see.
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You were playing the guitar.
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Did you play the guitar from the beginning?
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It was my first time I playing in front of people.
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I see.
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I had to create an opportunity for someone to see me during my three years of high school.
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I'm going to do my best to play a song that I can't play at all.
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She watched me play.
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I couldn see her standing on the stage for the first time.
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She was really confident.
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I see.
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I wondered why she was doing it all by herself.
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She said it was her first time.
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That's amazing, too.
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That's amazing.
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I thought it was important.
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I'm sure you've listened a lot of music.
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What influenced you the most?
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I really love Japanese rock music.
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I used to listen to Super Beaver when I was a kid.
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I used to listen to it in the first half of junior high school.
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I used to listen to RADWIMPS.
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When it comes to music genres, I used to listen to Western music.
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My grandmother loves Enka.
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I used to listen to Enka.
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I used to listen to various genres.
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I used to listen to all genres.
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When you play on the stage, did you peform your own songs?
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I wanted to do it, but I didn't have a sense for it.
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If I'm going to do something crazy, I'd rather play a song that I remember.
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I thought I couldn't do it without it.
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That's why I played Aimyon.
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I'd like to ask Koga-san a question.
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Why did you start playing the bass?
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I started with what was left over.
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When we were forming a band we didn't have a bassist.
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That's when I started playing the bass.
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I didn't know the difference between bass and guitar.
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I started with a sober mind.
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I didn't think I'd be doing this for so long.
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I really didn't think I'd start a band myself.
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I don't know what's going to happen in my life.
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The kids I used to play with at the time wanted to do music.
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I was one of those kids.
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Now that I think about it, everyone who wanted to do music quit and I'm the only one left.
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I'm the only one left.
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But that's how much I like the band and the bass playing.
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We make one thing together.
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I see. You don't care which one you're in charge of.
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Looking back on it now, I could have played any part.
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I don't know, I guess, but bass suited me.
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I see.
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What made you start a band called Gacharic Spin?
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That F Chopper girl you mentioned was in a band.
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I was the only one who's going to leave that band.
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The band was about to make a major debut.
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We had a lot of talk about it.
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I thought I was a little different, so I quit.
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I tried to go back to my parent's house after I quit music.
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I thought if I were to do it again, I'd do it more seriously and for the last time.
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Hana is a guitar vocalist now.
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But at that time, I asked Hana to join a band together as a drummer.
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She said she'd do it.
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If Hana hadn't said she'd do it, Gacharic Spin wouldn't have been possible.
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And probably I wouldn't be doing music anymore.
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Speaking of Gacharic Spin, I feel like there's a variety of music in it.
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It's a genre-less band.
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When did you decide on that kind of sound?
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From the beginning, I wanted to combine digital and rock sound.
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There weren't a lot of girls doing rock music, so I wanted to do that.
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We also wanted to do ballads as well.
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Rather than wanting to do only specific genre, I wanted to make something like this.
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As it went on, it became a non-genre.
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There are a lot of very playful members.
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Koga-san made an instructional DVD.
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It's made by a group of people with such skills.
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I have an image that it came out naturally.
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Did it come naturally? Or you needed to brush up?
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We had to brush up.
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It has decreased considerably now, but at the time, just by being a woman you'd get made fun of.
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I didn't want people to say that I wasn't good at it.
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I thought, let's put something flashy and technical as our weapons first.
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I wanted to do something that catch people's eyes.
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But I also wanted to do a song with a lot of ballads.
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First of all, I wanted to stand out.
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But, well, that's the summary.
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I wanted to do something technical like that.
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But there are a lot of women musicians now.
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There are a lot of technical people.
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At that time, there weren't that many.
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In that sense, I think we stood out.
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It's a six-member all-girl band.
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Is there anything difficult as a leader?
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Of course there is.
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If I say there's nothing difficult, I would be lying.
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There are a lot of things, but it's not because I'm a leader.
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Everyone has their own position.
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Everyone has their own difficulties, but that part is the leader.
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I was wondering what I should do to make each member shine.
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When I get a lot of opinions, I make a lot of decisions.
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In that sense, I often worry about it.
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Angie is a mic performer.
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What do you focus on when performing?
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For example, to liven up the audience's agitation.
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What I'm trying to do is to be honest all the time.
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To be honest?
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I've always loved bands.
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I loved Gacharic Spin.
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So I can understand the feelings of the audience.
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If there's a lie in it, there's a part that doesn't connect.
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I'm in charge of connecting the audience to the stage.
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As a mic performer.
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I'm always thinking about putting my honest feelings into the song or performance.
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Speaking of honest feelings, Angie, you're on a radio show.
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How do you approach the radio show?
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I'm doing two songs, so if the same person talks for 30 minutes.
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I have to make sure that both of them have a positive effect.
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I'm very careful about how to divide the story.
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But I can't talk about things I haven't experienced.
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I'm going to deliver a more personal part on TBS radio.
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I'm going to talk about what I'm feeling right now in the midst of the recent situation.
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It's like a cultural broadcast.
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That's great.
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You're like a commentator.
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I want you to listen to both and understand more.
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First of all, I want to spread the name of Gacharic Spin.
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Even if I play a song, I always say the band's name.
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I think it's a chance for people to know me and like Gacharic Spin.
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I always answer in interviews.
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I have five members as my sisters.
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One of the members, Angie, has the blood of the five members.
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I think that if people will like me they will like Gacharic Spin.
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I think that's the first priority.
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Do you have any concerns?
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I don't have any concerns.
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Like a bunch of uncles listening to a magic radio.
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The age of the listener is good.
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I don't want to forget that I'm on the stage.
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Some people use the artist's face to do the radio.
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I want to convey the feeling of being 21 years old and my stage persona together.
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You always feel like you can see yourself from a bird's-eye view.
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I don't know if I can see it, but I hope so.
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You're on a variety show.
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What motivates you?
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I'm just hoping that the name of the band will spread a little.
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I'm Angelina 1/3 of Gacharic Spin, so when I'm on the media.
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I have to leave a mark on it.
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But I'm trying to be myself.
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I don't think I'm trying too hard.
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You don't try too hard.
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The more you try too hard, the more you'll be sad when it's cut off.
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That's right.
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I'm selecting where I can go and where I can't go.
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When I can go, I look at MC's eyes.
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When I can't go, I say, it's ok.
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I'm fine.
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In 2019, mic performer Angie and drummer yuri joins.
Drummer and vocalist Hana switches to guitar and vocals
to complete Gacharic Spin's final form!
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Let's go back to the story of the band.
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Yuri, the drummer, was announced on March 9, 2019.
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Hana, the drum vocalist, was converted to a guitar vocalist.
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What kind of decision did you make?
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The a decision was not easy.
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She has been playing drums for about 10 years.
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The fact that a person comes forward and becomes a guitar vocalist.
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I'm sure the audience will be confused.
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Hana herself might be confused.
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I was wondering what was going on.
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Hana can play all instruments.
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She's the kind of person who thinks that music can be played in any part.
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She said "I wanted to be a guitar vocalist".
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She can say that "I wanted to be a guitar vocalist" even though she was a drummer.
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She has been playing drums for 10 years.
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Even if the person is prepared to make this change, maybe others cannot make this change.
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I thought it would be interesting.
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But it couldn't be done without Yuri, the drummer.
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I met her there.
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Everyone felt that this group was good.
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Yuri joined.
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Hana became a guitar vocalist.
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Angie became a mic performer.
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The direction of the songs, the direction of the performance, and the way the band was shown changed.
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It was the 10th anniversary when Angie joined.
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I felt like I was starting a new band.
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It's a band called Gacharic Spin.
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I felt like I was a high school student again.
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Like "What do you do?"
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In that sense, it's Angie's first band.
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It was the first time for her to do a rehearsal.
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We felt fresh.
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It inspired me.
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It's been five years since you joined.
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How have you been doing as a new band for the past five years?
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I've always had a dream of wanting to be in a band.
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I feel like I'm in the middle of a dream.
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I met a lot of people.
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I thought about how romantic and dreamy it was to be in the sound of a band that I loved.
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I'm also doing my own activities.
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So I wish I could pay back the band a little.
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I'm always thinking about what I can do to keep being a member of Gacharic Spin.
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I'm very happy to be able to do that.
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You're an adult.
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She's not 21 years old.
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You're not, are you?
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I'm 21 years old.
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There's a rumor about that.
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What do you think is the best part of the current Gacharic Spin lineup?
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Of course, the six of us are the members who joined later.
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Speaking of Gacharic Spin, I think it's the best way to remember that this shape will never change.
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It's not easy to continue the band.
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It's our 14th anniversary this year.
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I think it's the best way to remember that the six of us are running towards our dreams.
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The new album "W" will be released on July 5,
and it will be the first album under the new label as
well as the third full-length album by the current group
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Let's talk about your new album.
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Your new album, W, will be released on July 5th.
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It's the first album since you changed the label.
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It's the third album with the current lineup.
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What was the theme of this album?
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To be honest, we didn't have a direction.
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All the members write songs and lyrics.
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We each want to put in what we want to do.
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In that sense, we've been making songs since before the album.
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We've been doing it for a long time during the pandemic.
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There are a lot of songs that aren't in this album yet.
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We've been making songs for a long time, and when we put them together, we put in what we wanted.
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Each member has a lot of songs with their own colors.
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Where did the album title W come from?
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When we lined up 10 songs, the concept of the album wasn't decided.
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When we lined up, there were 10 songs with this kind of duality in them.
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There was a new part that made me realize that each member had that kind of face and that kind of approach.
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I think this is something that everyone can relate to in their daily lives.
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Two-sidedness is something everyone has.
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I think people can live a better life by loving both sides.
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So we decided to put this title on it because it's a two-sided face.
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From Koga's point of view, where do you think Angie's two-sidedness is?
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She looks very bright, but she can be a bit dark.
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There are some dark areas.
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And she's surprisingly shy, right?
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Very shy.
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She doesn't seem to be shy.
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When I went to see her on the radio the other day, when I entered the booth,
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the person on the other side was a little cooler than I had imagined,
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I thought she was going to greet me with a gusto.
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She was like.
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What?
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She said "Here you go".
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That's it.
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I can feel that switch off.
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It's pretty dark in the house.
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Is there any electricity in the house?
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There's not much electricity.
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What are you doing today?
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That's what I think.
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From Angie's point of view, Koga's two-sidedness.
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I really wonder about it.
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Aren't you surprisingly good at it?
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I said it.
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It's good.
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It's a title killer.
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It's a title killer, but she can't show the two-sidedness anymore.
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I see.
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So where is the real Koga?
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I don't know where it starts and ends.
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I don't know if it's Koga when she's in front of someone.
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She doesn't like to show the switch.
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I see.
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Is that so?
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But if you look at it like this,
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she's dark, too.
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She doesn't turn on the lights.
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You really have to turn on the lights, because this is an aggressive band.
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She's not very aggressive.
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She's a pretty naive.
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Koga is also the type who doesn't turn on the lights.
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She's the type who doesn't turn on the lights.
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I'm not good at bright places.
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I want to go to a quiet place.
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You want to go quietly.
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She wants to go quietly.
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I see.
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That's why she's not on stage and playing music every day.
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It's a spark.
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The brighter the person, the more likely they are to have something like that.
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I can't express it unless it's a good part.
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I see.
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That's really...
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That's cool.
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All six of us are like that.
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I don't think drummer Yuri is like that.
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Does it natural?
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She's a bit of a natural.
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It's like that.
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Oh, I see.
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It's like "Oh, I see".
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That sounds like something you'd say at home.
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It's nice to have members like that.
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That's right.
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It makes you feel at home.
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How do you guys make songs?
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This time, we've been able to work on it for a long time.
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It's a good song, so let's make lyrics and put them in.
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Depending on the song, one person will work on it.
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As for these two, Hana, the guitar vocalist, will make the composition.
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I will be thinking about the melody and the lyrics.
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Have a good time.
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Clatteringly.
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I see. There's that way of making it, too.
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I see.
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So the tune changes depending on the song.
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That's right.
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I make one song out of three songs.
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That's amazing.
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Oreo, the keyboardist, is good at making ballad songs.
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Oreo is good at making songs like that.
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Hana is good at making live-like songs.
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Everyone bring their own things that they are good at.
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I just ask Angie about the tempo.
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She always told me to use a BPM of about 184.
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I asked what it sounded like.
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She said, "Yes, that's fine with me".
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They just sent me that BPM.
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I made the bar without thinking about the pitch.
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I got an OK and it became a song.
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It's amazing.
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It's not like Hana and Tomo-zo are playing the guitar with the tempo of 180.
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Like a guitar riff or any chord that you want to play is fine
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That's amazing.
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"I want to do this kind of thing at a live show".
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"The chorus lyrics are like this".
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I'm not sure if it's just the lyrics of the chorus, or if it's something else and if you want me to summarize the rest, I'll do it.
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It's a little interesting.
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It's interesting to see what comes back when you throw it away or leave it.
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Tomo-zo, the guitarist, really has a lot of talent.
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She make upper songs, or Gacharic Spin-like medium tempo songs.
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In that sense, Tomo-zo on the guitar brings various songs for Gachapin.
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I see.
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How do you decide the vocals?
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"What should I do with the vocals of this song?"
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Usually we have a general image of the song.
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I see.
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So the composer says, this is Hana's main, this is Angie's main.
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"Let's sing this together".
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"Let's make it something that Oreo, Hana, and Angie can sing together".
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Sometimes it's adjusted after the lyrics are written.
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I see.
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Recording sounds like a great club activity and a lot of fun.
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It sure sounds like a fun club activity.
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There are moments when it gets pretty bumpy.
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I would say, "I think this is good".
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And someone would say, "No, I like this one better".
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No, no, no.
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Please do it.
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I think it's okay to record the chorus.
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There are times when I make fun of it.
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I see.
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Make a free zone.
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Koga doesn't usually sing.
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I'm not good at it.
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I want to say one thing.
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I'm in a band where everyone can sing.
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I remember that.
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But it doesn't matter.
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The rhythm is really good, but when it comes to singing, it's really bad.
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You can't get the rhythm, can you?
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You can't get it.
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I'm the one who's taking it.
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I'm taking the rhythm.
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It's amazing.
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I'm singing while listening to the click.
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I see.
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It's amazing that you're playing.
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Really, when it comes to the chorus, we went in together with Koga and something happened.
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The member who directs the song says,
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"I'd like you to sing with a voice like this".
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I was singing as if to attract people.
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I do it like this.
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That's really in the song.
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In that sense, the song called Kachikachiyama in this album has lot of play in the chorus.
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I see.
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Now, let's talk about each song.
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First of all, the first song, Replica.
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It's a song with a sense of fast and a sharp cathartic tone.
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I think it's a great lead song that fits the duality.
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When it comes to the word Replica, I think there are a lot of people who have a negative image.
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I think a lot of people feel like it's fake.
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But it's precisely because there's that fake part, you can protect yourself and others.
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Replica can be used to protect people and to protect yourself.
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It's a song that I was able to express that a lot.
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I think it's the best lead song in the album to express this duality called W.
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On SNS (social media), you can have a different personality.
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There's something a little scary about that, too.
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And when you're dealing with people, don't you wonder what they're like?
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What kind of face is this person using to talk to you?
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I think it's a song that you can see yourself in it.
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And in terms of interpersonal relationships,
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in order to live as a person, there are things that you have to keep asking yourself.
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There are parts that you have to digest in yourself.
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I felt a lot through this song.
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When I entered the recording booth, I was wondering which lyrics I can relate to myself.
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I was reading them one by one and overlapping them with my sense of life.
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I took a little bit of a beating from it.
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Recording was hard, wasn't it?
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It was really hard to sing.
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Was it hard?
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It's really hard to sing live.
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It's the same with facial expressions and words.
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I'm singing this song while taking great care of it.
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I see.
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It took a long time to write the lyrics.
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What was the hardest part of recording?
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Recording is really about the way you talk.
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As I said earlier, I'm the kind of person
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who can't sing or stand on stage if it's not with that honest feeling.
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When I'm with myself, I have to think about how to match my sense of life one by one.
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When each word comes into my body, I feel like I'm being dragged into the dark side.
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But that's not a negative image.
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It's a song that makes me think that I can live because I'm taking great care of the dark side.
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It's a song that I've been facing for a long time.
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I see.
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That's what I felt.
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It's really suitable for the first song.
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I wrote and released the lyrics that everyone imagined.
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I released the chorus as a keyword.
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Then Oreo read everyone's lyrics and wrote the same nuance.
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When guitarist Tomo-zo brought this song, there was a word called Replica in the melody.
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Replica really sticks in your ears, so we used it as a theme for this song.
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I wanted to mix in a little bit of everyone's lyrics,
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so Oreo was the one to do it.
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There was also a consultation about what to do about this song.
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We wrote it to the last minute.
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The lyrics were finished the day before the recording.
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That's right.
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That's how we wrote it.
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I see.
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And the second song, The Come Up Chapter.
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The two guitarists stand out in this song.
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Tomo-zo wanted to make a song where the twin guitars come forward.
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So we brought it and listened to it as a demo.
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We had the lyrics to the point where I wanted to use it as a lead.
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After that, Tomo-zo brought a lot of songs.
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The lead of this album became Replica.
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It's a song with a punch.
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It's a very technical song, like many other Gacharic Spin songs.
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It's a hot message sung by Angie.
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I hope you'll pay attention to the lyrics that make Angie's singing voice stronger.
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The Come Up Chapter also means the beginning of the show.
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That's right.
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In the lyrics, it's not the current me, but a new me.
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I want to take care of myself, but I want to take the next step and open up a new chapter.
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Gachapin has evolved more and more.
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This form is the final chapter.
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It's not the beginning of the final chapter, but I wanted to give you a nuance like that.
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That's why I chose this title.
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And the third song.
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This is also a lead song.
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What kind of song is this?
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The guitarist Tomo-zo wants to start with an interesting riff and a rap.
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We wanted to make a song like that.
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We made about 10 patterns of rap and riff.
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We made it while thinking about which one would remain one's ears.
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After that, the chorus was a very bright.
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Gachapin seems to have a lot of bright songs, but this time there are no bright songs.
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I wanted a bright song, and I thought it would be nice for Angie to sing a bright song.
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At first, I put on summer-like lyrics.
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But it became normal.
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I thought it was different, so I decided to put in words that left a punch.
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I was addicted to the words "Kachi-kachi Yama", and that's why I put them on.
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I think there are a lot of things that are related to your daily life, such as the pressure you have with your boss and the things you always think about.
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I think there are lyrics like that.
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I thought it would be interesting for pop music to have the characters from the old stories, and I thought it would remain in my ears.
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Momotaro is a hero, isn't he?
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And people think that demons are bad guys.
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What do you think when you think from the perspective of a demon?
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If it's a story according to the demon, Momotaro might be a bad guy.
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Momotaro became a hero because he had a demon.
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If you don't have any encounters, you can't meet that kind of thing or feel that way.
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I wanted to say that.
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Sometimes you feel like crap because of a boss.
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What do you think because you have a boss?
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What do you think when you are in the position of a boss?
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I wanted to write lyrics that asked such questions.
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The words of the lyrics come out like Kintaro and Tanuki, so it's easy to think of it as an interesting song.
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What I wanted to say is...
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If you read it well, it's deep, isn't it?
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That's right.
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And the fourth song, Rabbit Hole.
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It's a song where Angie and Hana-san swap twin vocals which are also a bit captivating.
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That's true. The 5th lineup with these 6 members also have twin vocals.
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I think it's a song that has a good balance and a new approach.
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Rabbit Hole was originally a live song before it was included in the album.
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A dream has become the meaning of this song.
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But until then, it was about love?
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That's right. It's a little bit more about love.
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I like hyenas.
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This time, I compared hyenas to dreams.
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Dreams are sparkly.
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But having a dream can crush you or hurt you.
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So dreams and love are the same.
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Because if you have someone you love or you have a dream, you feel like you can't get hurt anymore.
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You're lost in a hole you don't know where to go.
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I wanted to express that frustration.
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And when I listened to the song, it had a mature atmosphere.
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I wanted to write lyrics that couldn't be answered.
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There are a lot of serious themes.
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The only bright song is Kachikachi-Yama.
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Did you have any thoughts about singing this song?
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I've never sung a melodious song like this before.
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It was my first time to put my voice on a song like this.
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I think there was a song like that in the past, sung by Hana and Oreo, with a similar approach.
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I was wondering how to sing this song.
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I was wondering what to say to this mature melody.
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When the theme was love, I didn't understand it even more.
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I was wondering what love was.
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When it came to the theme of dreams,
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I thought about how I would sing while embracing my dreams.
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It's strange to say this while calculating,
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but I made it like a puzzle while assembling it.
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I see.
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Also, that's the song that Hana-san and I really sing together with twin vocals.
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I wanted to clearly show the difference with Hana.
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The meaning of singing with a twin vocals was very strong in this song.
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I tried various approaches that Hana couldn't do.
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Speaking of singing, the next song is Lonely Mart.
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This is also a rock ballad song.
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That's right.
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It was my first time to sing a song like this as a main.
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Originally, there were two arrangements.
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We were thinking about which one to use to make it sound like a ballad,
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and which one to use to make it sound like a rock song.
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There were two ideas.
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The older sisters team decided to go in the direction of a ballad.
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Yuri and I wanted to change it from the second half to a rock song.
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Then, Oreo, who wrote and composed the song,
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had a lot of thoughts about what to do.
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But I wanted to include both elements,
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so we made it sound like a ballad at first.
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After that, we changed the tempo and made it a rock song.
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That's how we made this song.
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We call it the kindest cheering song on this album.
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There is a frustrating feeling of a person who wants to be alone but doesn't want to be alone.
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When I felt that kind of feeling,
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I felt that it would be nice if this song could be a song that gently pat someone's back.
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I took the vocals with that in mind.
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It's a bit of a catharsis to make it a rock song from a ballad.
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That the feeling of opening the bar makes it more emotionally explosive.
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I felt like I could explode my emotions more.
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I thought it was normal, but I wanted to express it in the form of music.
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I was very happy to be able to do that.
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And the sixth song, Kira Kirai.
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This is the impressive "I hate sparkles" song.
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I think it's going to be a hit.
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I think it's going to be on TikTok.
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I was jogging a lot during the pandemic.
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At that time, I had a dream of a sparkling love.
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The more sparkling it is, the more I hate it.
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I thought it would be interesting if I could write a song that I hated.
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I wrote the lyrics and threw them to Hana-san.
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I just wanted to say that I hate the chorus.
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What happened?
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What happened while you were jogging?
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I was reading a lot of books at that time.
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I was reading a manga about a naive girl falling in love.
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It was a jogging from there.
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That's the lyrics.
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I wrote down the lyrics on my phone and threw them to Hana-san.
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Then, at a relatively early stage, I thought, how about this arrangement?
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I thought it wouldn't go with this melody.
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We decided to play it live even before it was included in the album.
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It's a popular song for girls, so I thought I'd put it in this time.
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And the seventh song, Voice.
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Angie wrote the lyrics.
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My father passed away when I was in the first grade of junior high school.
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Based on the letter my father gave me, it's a song that I wrote as an answer song.
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It's a really personal story.
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I was a little worried about whether it would be okay for me to bring a song with my lyrics to the band.
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In February of this year, the six of us decided that this is the final form of the band and we're going to create a new wave.
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My sisters told me that with determination.
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Originally, the reason I joined the band was this voice.
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When I thought about it again, I wanted to deliver my voice more.
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That's why I named it Voice.
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When I think about it, I really hated the sound of my voice.
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There were times when I was bullied for my voice and built a complex.
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But now I'm standing in the front with this voice as a weapon.
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I'm so happy to be in a band.
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I wrote the lyrics with my father's feelings in mind.
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This song was the last one to slip in.
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Originally, I thought it wouldn't be able to get in.
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She had the song for a long time, but this song is amazing.
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This song is really good, so I want to put it in.
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When we were talking about writing lyrics and submitting them again.
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Other members were arranging and doing other lyrics.
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When Angie said she'd write it, I was hooked.
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I'm sure this will be in the album.
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I'm so happy that it made it in.
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The song that have been kept warm for a long time are now being played by the new members.
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The fact that the new members put the lyrics on and expressed it in the current form.
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I think there's history.
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The history of the band and Angie's experience.
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I think it's important for a singer to have a strong feeling.
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I think it's great that there are both.
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Angie, when you heard this song,
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The moment you decided to put your feelings into the lyrics.
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What were your thoughts when you heard it?
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When I first heard the song,
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I was really worried about how to write the lyrics.
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It's a song that conveys very straightforwardly.
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It's just the sound that conveys it.
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The feelings of the members who have cherished this so much.
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I don't have to listen to the story, but I can tell.
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I thought I'd write the lyrics about what I cherish the most.
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What I want to cherish the most right now is this band.
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The activities in this band are the most important things in my life.
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If you write about the feelings of the people who were really important to you,
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I think you can find emotions that can be made to explode.
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That's when I wrote the lyrics.
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Of course, I'm writing based on my own experience.
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I think there are many people who are separated from their loved ones when they are alive.
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And not just people.
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Family, dogs, cats,
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I think there are many forms of family and important people.
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I hope you can remember and listen to it while staying close to them.
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The reason I fell in love with music is because
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just by listening to it, you can feel the life of that person and it's important.
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I felt the romance of the precious time coming back to me.
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I wanted to do music.
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I hope everyone will make such a song and grow up.
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It's a song that I want to grow up with everyone because it was just born.
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It's a song that feels like a bond.
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I thought this voice would be a different expression when Angie grew up.
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I'm looking forward to hearing that.
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I'm going to cry a little.
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I imagined it.
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The 8th song is called Live Every Moment.
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This is Ohmura-san, the guitarist of Babymetal.
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We've been interacting with Ohmura-san for a long time.
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We've been doing Omura-san's birthday live together for more than 5 years.
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There's always Gachapin on Ohmura-san's birthday.
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We want to spend time with Omura-san.
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We always ask Omura-san to write a song.
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We asked Ohmura-san to write a song last time.
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After that, Ohmura-san told me that he would write a song again.
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But before this album was even made,
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Ohmura-san suddenly came up with a song.
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Ohmura-san said, "I made a song with the image of Gachapin".
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That's timely.
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I didn't officially order it, so I was wondering what to do.
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I'm grateful, but I was wondering what to do.
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I thought it was cool, so I wanted to make it.
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I told Ohmura-san, I don't know what the album will be like yet.
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I don't have a release date yet.
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Of course we can play it live without a release,
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but I don't know how it will turn out.
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I asked Ohmura-san if it's okay.
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And he said, "Okay, let's do it".
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It's amazing.
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Since then, Hana has been interacting with Ohmura-san.
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If we want to change the arrangement.
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We added rap.
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Added rap and added lyrics.
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We've been working on it.
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It's a song from a place that's not us.
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The approach is very interesting.
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I was very happy to be able to do it together this time.
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And the ninth song, Nanmaida.
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It's a complicated composition.
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I think it's a song that represents the history of Gacharic Spin in both the song and the lyrics.
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Nanmaida is not about Buddha.
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Gacharic Spin has a lot of timing that doesn't make sense, no matter how many times you die.
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It's a band that has a lot of ups and downs, such as member changes.
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It doesn't make sense even if it's disbanded 100 times.
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There was a time when it was disbanded hundreds of times.
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The members who are there at each time and the staff who are around to tell me what to do, they haven't changed much anymore.
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It's a song that represents the history of Gacharic Spin.
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I think it's a song that represents the history of Gacharic Spin.
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There's a lot of development in the song.
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I think that's part of the history of Gacharic Spin.
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I think it's a song that represents the history of Gacharic Spin in both arrangement and lyrics.
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Hana made this song.
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It's fun.
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As she was making the song, she was wondering if it would be a song that expresses that.
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I think it's going to be a lot of fun at the live show.
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I'm scared.
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Anyway, the bass slapping is really fast.
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I don't know if I can play this song.
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Hana said, "I think you can play it".
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I said, "I can't play this song".
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I was desperate to record this song.
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I didn't expect so many vocalists to come in.
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I thought they finished, but I couldn't get in.
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I thought I was going to do it.
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You were nervous at the live show.
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But I think it's the most fun song when the six of us put it together.
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And the 10th song, Reverse Psychology.
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It starts with Koga's slaps.
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This song is included in the album, and it feels really cool.
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But originally it was a joke song that was all about jumping.
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When Hana arranged it, it was really cool.
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It's a waste of a joke song.
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So we decided to make something cool with the full version and put it in the album.
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I see.
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That's the story behind it.
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It was a song that only had you jumping for about a minute and a half.
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There was only the chorus.
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It's been jumping all the time, but the chorus is really cool.
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Wouldn't it be better to make this a song?
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I see.
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When we talked about what to do with A melody and B melody.
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Initially it was a bit more of an instrumental without including a melody.
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There's a chorus, but the flow of the A and B is instrumental only.
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It's not cool that the flow feels like this.
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In that sense, it's a bit of a unique position on this album.
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But this is the last song on this Gacharic Spin album.
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I like the performance part, or the rap part by Angie as a player, but the chorus also has a solid melody.
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The Gachapin verse is still there, and we wanted to wrap it up with something that had a solid melody,
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so we put in the Reverse Psychology at the end.
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I see.
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The lyrics are interesting, too.
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It's a bit of reverse psychology, like you shouldn't do something or you don't have to do it, but it doesn't matter.
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If you say no to that, I want to do it.
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I feel like I want to move a little on the contrary.
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I think there are many ways to look at it.
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Even though you think you shouldn't fall in love with someone like that, you end up falling in love with them.
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Or you feel like your dreams are no longer here, but you keep chasing them.
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Something like that.
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This is what humans are like.
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Feelings and actions.
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If you're conscious, you'll be pulled towards it.
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That's right.
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While including things like that, in the sense that it's a show, and performance is the highlight.
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It's Angie's rap.
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I hope you'll listen to it the most.
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I see.
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This time, the first limited edition will include the LINE CUBE Shibuya show that happened on February 23, 2023.
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It's Shibuko.
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It's a recording of a live performance.
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What are the highlights of this live performance?
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It was a lot of fun.
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I don't know if I can put all of this in.
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It's a great deal, isn't it?
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You can hear old songs that give you a deep sense of history as well as the current ones.
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If you look at this, you'll be able to understand the history of Gachapin and the current Gachapin.
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Moreover, if you can listen to the songs from the new album there, it will be a great value album that you can now complete.
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I think it's a good deal.
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And, yes, on November 18, it will be the wild music!
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Hibiya Park's outdoor music hall.
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What you can tell about this?
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As Gachapin, we've already had a one-man live performance.
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In the final form of these six people, it's the first one-man live performance.
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In that sense, I'm a new member.
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But it's something I've cherished so much.
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That's Shibuko.
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Let's step onto the stage called Yaon once again with the six of us in our final form.
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Put your feet on the ground.
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I'm so happy to be able to put my feet on the ground and make a sound.
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So I want to deliver music at Yaon that can go beyond that.
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I see.
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What about from Koga-san's point of view?
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Well, I don't think it's a place where you can really do it over and over again.
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Yaon is like that, isn't it?
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It's a renewal.
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I feel very lucky to be able to do it at that timing.
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If I think back, this live was crazy.
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I'd like to make it a live performance.
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It's a run-up to the 15th anniversary.
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We've had a lot of talk.
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It's time for the ending.
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Please send a message to the viewers.
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It's Gacharic Spin.
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It's only two of us now,
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but there are other interesting members.
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If you come to see the live performance of Gacharic Spin, you'll understand.
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First of all, listen to the album a lot.
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I'd be happy if you could come to our live performance.
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Thank you.
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This month's guests were Koga and Angie from Gacharic Spin.
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Thank you.
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Please look forward to the next time.