Music for rainy days -A Quick look back at his 1st and 2nd albums Before Reviewing ``The City Where Music Disappeared（夢追翔『音楽が消えた街』）'' By Yumeoi Kakeru
この記事は、以前書いた自分の記事を英語化してみたものです。
Continuing to present "This is fiction" - Yumoi Kakeru's basso continuo of meta-thinking
When I looked at Yumeoisho's first LP, ``Esoragoto no irigucchi（絵空事の入り口）,'' and the jacket photo of their first album, I felt a scary feeling. At the time of the first piece, ``Esoragoto no irigucchi'', a vast blue sky appears to indicate a bright future for a young man who will soon be releasing his own songs.
However, for some reason, on the cover of his first album ``Esoragoto ni Ikiru(絵空事に生きる）'' he pulls back the camera. He goes out of his way to destroy his happy dreams by confronting him with objective facts, saying that this is a lie. This bird's-eye view becomes the basso continuo that appears throughout Yumeoi's songs.
If it's ``Stay close to your weaknesses(弱気に寄り添う）,'' then it's weak self,
and if it's ``Get out of my head（僕の頭から出ていけ）,'' it's a self-revealing monster trying to earn likes on the internet.
When it comes to ``Better than others(人より上手に）'' he repeatedly compares himself to others in A and B melodies, and even reflects on the fact that he was ``determining his own worth.'' From there, I vow to transcend denial and affirmation, and even with an empty heart, I will cherish what is not myself.
What Yumeoi Kakeru showed in his first album was a method he learned from what would have been fear at first: looking down at how he was perceived and reflecting on it over and over again. Then, he creates a seemingly passive but weak counterattack on his first song, ``I don't want to die, so I'm alive.（死にたくないから生きている）''
The first album is a masterpiece in which a musician repeatedly exercises self-restraint and self-reflection, finding courage even when he is covered in blood.
But the problem is when this thorough self-criticism turns to others, and when it turns to games and concepts that someone else cherishes.
Humans seeking distraction and Pascal - The fate of solipsism and SEKAI NO OWARI
パスカルはこう言っているのだ。
人間はつまらない存在であるから、たとえば台の上で玉突きするだけで（ビリヤードのこと）十分に気を紛らわせることができる。なんの目的でそんなことをするのかと言えば、翌日、友人たちにうまくプレーできたことを自慢したいからだ。（中略）
そして最後に――ここ！――こうしたことを指摘することに身を粉にしている人たちがいる。それも「そうすることによってもっと賢くなるためではなく、ただ単にこれらのことを知っているぞと示すためである。この人たちこそ、この連中の中でもっともおろかな者である」。
狩りや賭け事は気晴らしである。そして、「君は、自分がもとめているものを手に入れたとしても幸福にはならないよ」などと訳知り顔で人に指摘して回るのも同じく気晴らしなのだ。
Pascal says this. Human beings are boring beings, so just playing balls on a table (billiards) is enough to distract us. The reason I do this is because I want to brag to my friends the next day about how well I played. (snip)
And finally - here! --There are people who are at pains to point out these things. "Not in order to become wiser by doing so, but simply to show that we know these things. These are the stupidest of them all."
Hunting and gambling are pastimes. And it's also a pastime to go around pointing out things like, ``You won't be happy even if you get what you want,'' with a knowing look on your face.
Yumeoisho's second album, ``Dear Sir, From Inside the Box Garden(拝啓、匣庭の中より）'' is, as the jacket photo suggests, a work that turns its sights toward others -- or the world at large.
``We are all in hell(おそろいの地獄だね）'' is about listening to the voice of self-denial ringing in the other person's head, and sings that you and I will go to the same hell. As the title suggests, ``Me you like(君が好きな僕）'' is about someone realizing that the person they imagine in their head is different from the person they think they are.
Furthermore, the focus is on things that are considered important in society. In ``Fuck off Music(音楽なんざクソくらえ）'', he realizes that music is just a fad, holds up his middle finger, and sings that he's going to let people listen to his songs (perhaps because he thinks they're half-assed). ``Because life has no value'(命に価値はないのだから)' declares that being alive and being dead are the same, and sings to ``you'' to stop comparing and live as you are.
He continues to sing about "life," "music," and "internet," which are generally good things (although the internet is a little strange...), but he continues to sing about things that aren't.He remains calm and powerful throughout.
But these songs probably fall into the trap of philosophical solipsism. In short, these songs don't ask us to hear what ``you'' or ``the world'' are specifically thinking.
When I perform these songs in front of people who value music, or in front of people who are currently doing the work of saving lives, the meaning of these songs changes dramatically. I end up. And from Pascal's point of view, if done poorly, the album's powerful assertions, which pretend to be obvious, may seem like a ``distraction.''
SEKAI NO OWARI's ``Habit'' is a masterpiece that makes you realize that what adults preach is ``after all, it's for pleasure''. However, this song has an expiration date. Perhaps they are aware of this, but this song itself is on the verge of becoming a ``sermon''. Therefore, SEKAI NO OWARI did not repeat songs that repeated sermons in the songs on subsequent albums.
Following Pascal's argument, the important thing is not to point it out (as in this article). It is important to be aware that when people talk to others, there are grooves in which they cannot understand each other, and there are dark depths that they cannot talk to anyone about. Kokubun, who introduced this argument, analyzes the ``boredom'' that people suffer from as a great suffering, and explains the importance of ``luxury'' and the ability that humans have to move beyond boredom. It becomes like this.
Music for a rainy day - music for when you're stuck in a gloomy truth
There's no way you can say that music is bad because it's "solipsistic." And Pascal's argument also cannot provide an answer beyond ``defend common sense.'' First, music is not a dissertation.
In his latest book, ``Psychology on Rainy Days'', Kaito Higashihata writes that ``common sense'' and the knowledge of ``understanding'' the other person, which is known as common sense, can be used on a sunny day (Mental Care). It is said that sometimes it is important (if things are going well).
However, when your mental health is not going well or your mental health is not working properly, simply saying, ``I understand you,'' can sometimes be hurtful.
When you're sitting next to a friend who loves music and the music sounds harsh and you can't stop the urge to say it. When other people's words come into your head and it's hard to live. I don't want others to simply say, ``I understand.'' When there are facts that I can only think of, those words can become a deadly weapon.
Yumeoi Kakeru faced his own weaknesses and continued to express them. The way he only looks inside his own mind and tries to see things objectively may give the impression that he is a weak person who keeps shutting himself in, just as he wrote in the song (Where Dreams Are). Even so, he continued to compose songs, even though he regretted hurting people and saying bad things about him. This is for people who look down on people when they talk to others, and people who have suffered due to different opinions and environments, and who have become the seeds of suffering. According to her, salvation may not come--although it may not be in a pretty way, she continued to support him.
When the story begins in the sky that looked like a cloud
The way out of solipsism is a little thing. Listening to other people's stories and changing the concept of words, even if it sometimes hurts each other. It means facing people, society, and the world, facing people who are unclean, whose opinions differ from yours, and who are the object of your jealousy. And it's about finding words that are unique to you.
It is important to look at yourself objectively and think honestly. However, it is impossible for humans to be 100% objective. At that time, people end up telling stories that do not know whether they are true or false.
This is because stories are born only when people and solitudes meet and collide.
``A City Without Music（音楽がない街）'' is truly a story about a world where music is treated as noise (shit) and suppressed. Furthermore, from the first song, this character, who is loved by God, has a meta perspective of ``a tranquil school of false pretense（静謐なるきょそく学園）'', which in fantasy can hinder immersion (this is a lie). It will probably be. Just like the person who made this album.
However, the characters on this album are not alone. What kind of worldview will these characters create?
"Niji no Arika(虹の在り処）" is a song released as a solo single by Yumeoisho before the release of the album "Ongaku no Nai Machi". At the end of his self-reflection, he discovers his inability to accept others. He also declared that there is a place where ``you and I'' would like to face each other, and that he discovered the rainbow that is here now.
Come to think of it, the group he belongs to is called "Nijisanji." It is strange that he would release an album with seven (color) livers including himself.
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