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This is the last part in the monthly series where Shou invites his band members and makes a presentation of the band’s words (lyrics) in photographs. All 5 band members made appearance, Shou selected the lyrics and together they created this article. Here the story that Alice Nine has woven comes to an end.
Kowarete hibiki au sore demo ii sa~ (Subete e)
(Even if we’re broken, we’ll resound together, that is also good.)
Shou: Overall “Subete e” lyrics are extravagant all the way so it was hard to choose just one verse. I guess the “broken~” part is the explanation about people who play in bands. One by one we are lacking, but in a band we complement each other and resound like one music.
Hiroto: Of course, the lacking band members. (laugh)
Tora: Since we are all broken.
Shou: (laugh) But I think in the long run if you look at it it’s all thanks to the band members.
Saga: I composed this song and I remember when Shou-kun added the lyrics I talked to the producer and he (or I) said: “The lyrics are awesome!” It’s Buddha level! He achieved enlightenment.
Shou: Even though there are all sorts of hard things and foul things but not hating the world and declaring “I love you”, even now looking at it I think it’s cool.
Hiroto: The picture we took this time to represent the lyrics, isn’t it good? Although I do think at the time of the band’s formation we had the chance to do a photoshoot while chatting, even now without changing the feeling from that time, being able to do this is a wonderful thing, isn’t it?
Nao: The things that we talked about that time were out of a dream. The kind of things you can’t say loudly. (laugh) The aura or should I say pheromones that we emanate gives off a mature feeling. We’ve become adults (laugh)
Shou: This time we decided all 5 of us should participate. Before we would invite band members one by one, I’m glad now we can summarize with “Subete e”. If I were to say one thing, normally the vocalist is sitting in the middle so there’s no problem, but when you sit in the corner because of the wide-angle lens your face gets stretched so I m really hate it! (laugh)
Saga: Saga and Tora become the victims of this effect almost every time! By the way, I proposed something called “incorporation” but it was dismissed. I want to try it sometime.
Shou: It didn’t seem good so we decided to go without.
Tora: Thus we extracted a part of the lyrics, did a photoshoot, and created a new concept. It was really enjoyable.
Shou: That’s right. Before our 9th anniversary we managed to revise our lyrics and history, reaffirm the band that is Alice Nine. I would be happy if people who read this series will get interested in our music even a little.
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Quote 19: “There is no such thing as one truth, every person has their own truth and their own world.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
Alice Nine’s vocalist, Shou. In this series every month we publish a great quote, meet with him and he writes down his own understanding of it and stories from his life. This month it’s a quote from a philosopher who left us a lot of great words… Today a lot of lucky and unlucky things happened… and so on. It seems like everyone is in good spirits. It’s already December. Let’s continue to the last Alice in Wonderwords of 2012.
To support our album “9”released In February we had a tour called “Court of “9” #1” in April and “#2” in July as well as having concerts in Asia for the first time. In December we had the “# 3” tour with concerts divided by using the dress code of white clothes and black clothes. On December 31st we had a countdown concert and thus all year round from #1 to # l 4 we had tours related to the album “9”. Since the pace of new releases is fast and we really live in the age of consumerism I think it’s a true luxury that this year we were able to stock up on energy. The things we want to do. The things we must do. The things we’d like to do for our fans. We were able to properly reaffirm it.
Even though we weren't doing any big public activities people always kept supporting us… for such a precious, treasure-like existence, for myself, for Alice Nine’s 9th anniversary next year I want to flap my wings.
So this month the quote I’m going to discuss belongs to Nietzsche. “There is no such thing as one truth, every person has their own truth and their own world.” I tried to introduce this quote and I got the chance to do it through the usual social networks such as Twitter, people shared their opinions, worries and troubles.
The most common theme of discussion was people saying that the right answer for them differs from the right answer for other people and even though they have their own ideals, dreams and the truth that they strive for, they were told that they have to abide to the current state of things according to other people’s and environment’s rules so the gap between their ideals and reality makes them worried. Moreover, since they can understand the reasons behind other people’s opinions and the current state of things, they end up getting even more confused. Yet, as the quote states, there is more than one truth. You might think that what you do is for the best but end up hurting someone, or unintentionally do something that benefits someone.
Humans are imperfect, the imperfect humans formed things like communities, and it also happens that different truths collide and contradict each other. Thus I try not to perceive things as right or wrong, I try to make judgements based on what I want and what would increase the cumulative happiness. In the end a person’s truth is something that would be most convenient for them. There isn't a person in the world whose truth would be something inconvenient for them. Thus all you can do is live without thinking too deep trying not to be manipulated by your surroundings and asking yourself “Is this really something I want to do?” If somewhere there was a computer that could teach us “the only right answer”, it’d probably be a different story but since there is no such thing as “the only right answer”, it sounds unbelievable something out of a fairy-tale.
“Every person has their own truth and their own world” So every person’s truth is not perfect. In this world a person can’t live alone, there are also things that you can’t overcome on your own without joining forces with other people. But since different truths exist, you want to peek into worlds unknown to you and explore each other’s worlds. Thus I also like to do the same part- time job with people who aren’t singers. So Happy New Year, everyone!
“There is no such thing as one truth, every person has their own truth and their own world.”
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