It could open the lid on people hurt by those things. Right, I haven't. And building off this album, I expect that I'll keep on changing. The album is titled STRAY SHEEP, and features a song with that title. When I was making this song, the novel coronavirus was spreading disorder worldwide, and various musicians were announcing things, and I was looking at them and wondering what I should do. That discussion of Campanella seems to connect with the motifs of other songs, too. But ultimately, I just have to live in this country, in this world. This song really wrenches at your heart. Kenshi Yonezu is a rock music and pop music musician. In the act of making pop songs itself, for one thing - but I realized music is nothing without someone to listen to it. That's right. (laugh) I wanted to film something with some comical elements this time. I have influence, so people tell me "shouldn't it be more like this or that?" Q. I take it the title Campanella comes from the character in Night on the Galactic Railroad. A. Making music is my livelihood, and part of my lifestyle. When you're choosing the bare minimum of things that are necessary for life, music is one of the first things people will say they don't need, and we're still in a state where concert venues can't be properly opened. A. I thought not. So you could say the tour and this album's creation were linked. I was reminded what an incredibly frail entity I am. Could you go into more detail about the idea of the album you planned to make, before the pandemic changed the situation? How did it come about? A. Kenshi Yonezu has finished his fifth original album STRAY SHEEP, his first in approximately 2 years and 9 months. Translation of 'カムパネルラ (Campanella) (Kamupanerura)' by Kenshi Yonezu (Hachi) (米津玄師) from Japanese to English Deutsch English Español Français Hungarian Italiano Nederlands Polski Português (Brasil) Română Svenska Türkçe Ελληνικά Български Русский Српски العربية فارسی 日本語 한국어 Ultimately, I have to affirm living and existing in the world. Since it had become this massive thing, even when I gave thought about where to go from there to make Flamingo and Ghost of the Sea, it felt like the start of "Kenshi Yonezu: Chapter 2" in a sense. A lot's happened in the last three months or so. While taking him out drinking various places, I brought up how I wanted us to do something together someday. I think Zanelli is someone who witnessed that in person. It is not. At first, the chorus didn't say "it's you, so it's fine," but rather "it's fine if it isn't you." Our relationship's continued since our battle of the bands in 2015, and in drinking with Yojiro-san and having worthless conversations, it really did take that form naturally. It features countless songs that have spread across the world: his biggest hit Lemon, Horse and Deer which livened up the Rugby World Cup, Foorin's Paprika, a cover of Masaki Suda's Spot the Difference, and more. I figured I would arrange songs in such a way to clearly illustrate the three years that followed from that. Especially for people whose hearts have been wounded, who have experienced oppression, maybe it'll allow them to take another look, and see themselves as gems fostered in that way. I want to constantly be questioning that sort of thing. According to FamousDetails, he was born in the Year of the Goat.Producer and songwriter who produces Vocaloid music under the name Hachi, having scored several major points in Japan, including “Mad Head Love,” “Poppin’ Apathy” and “Flamingo.” fugainakute naita hi no yoru ni tada tsuyokunaritai to negatteta sono tame ni hitsuyou na yuuki wo sagashimotometeita. I believe I need to be attuned to the responsibilities surrounding that. Q. I didn't think that much about bringing it close to the show; I just took the general nuance and flow from the script and made what came to mind, and I think that resulted in something that fits the story. Making track 15, Canary, was really difficult, and after finishing it with all sorts of thoughts on my mind, I was stuck in a mindset of "it's still missing something." First, let me ask what your thoughts were after finishing the album. In that way, I believe it expresses the reality of how you've changed since Lemon. I completely shut down contact, and didn't have a drop of alcohol. You realized that was your identity. That's especially borne fruit lately, I think. Like you said, I can see how this is a song made with consideration of the sudden changes brought on by the novel coronavirus, but at the same time, I think it's a song with a universality that will continue to resonate even listening to it 10 or 20 years from now. It's a song being sung about Campanella, but the singer isn't Giovanni; if anything, I think it's Zanelli. However, that was also a goal I had long sought to achieve. During the period where they were asking for self-quarantine, I didn't talk with anyone outside of work at all. What kind of place did this song come from? I was like, "Already 30, huh?" If you have any questions or anything at all (or even just want to talk about Yonezu) then please don’t hesitate to message me! 3 years is long enough for a middle schooler to become a high schooler, for a high schooler to become a college student or employee. So for instance, if you love someone, and say "I want to be with you because you're this kind of person," that's only a temporary state, and they'll someday change. Not only the tour, but other things I'd wanted to do or planned to do... Not only concerts, but I couldn't do shooting, say, and plans had to change as a result. At the time, I was trying to keep it objective, but looking at things unfold has made it feel like I'm being dragged into them, so sometimes it got more emotional. For about three months. A. Where did you get the idea to make a funky song using horns? Before making Canary, I made another song about the novel coronavirus. At what stage did this song come in? In celebration of his new album Yonezu has released a brand new MV for one of the new songs on the album, “ Campanella “. A. But the idea is that there's empty space for the words "(it's fine if it's not you, but)" before "it's you, so it's fine.". It's the best. A. So even before hearing the 8 new songs, I was expecting this to be a kind of best-of album. I'm getting to an age where people tell me "Shouldn't you settle down soon and stake your place? View entire discussion ( 1 comments) More posts from the KenshiYonezu community. I suspect that was a major axis for this album as a whole. To relate it to current events, it's possible that I'd be carrying a disease without knowing it, and unintentionally infect someone, causing them to get seriously sick and die. But it's not like I forced myself to make this song, it was very natural for me. Peace Sign . A. I've always thought gems were a really good motif. Q. Gems are born by happenstance as rocks, dug out by human hands, then polished and cut and such to achieve a beautiful form. Keeping in mind my wretchedness as an adult, how can I wrap them up in a hug? It Became Something Different From the Original Plan, What People Feel Wasn't That Different 1,000 Years Ago, And Won't Be 1,000 Years Later, To the People Who Couldn't Hear This Album, The Yojiro-san You Know, and the Yojiro-san I Know, My Idea Of "You" Has Developed More and More, Building Off This Album, I Expect To Keep Changing. Even I was looking forward to that, and when our voices overlapped in recording, I felt something in my chest. I did my own cover of Spot the Difference for this album, but I definitely don't think I'd be who I am now without Masaki Suda. Kenshi Yonezu to release the fifth album with 15 songs total, including huge hits songs such as “Lemon” and “Flamingo.” Also includes a self cover version of “Paprika” and ” Machigai Sagashi” Tracklist. Kenshi Yonezu – Campanella Lyrics. But at the very least, I think this is what I should and can do right now. On August 7th, Yonezu became the first Asian artist to perform at a … Q. On the other hand, with chaos unfolding both in Japan and many other countries, I was thinking what I should make in a time when no one knows what's the right thing to do. I thought releasing it as-is would be looking away from something, eschewing a responsibility I should be carrying as a pop musician. It hadn't taken shape yet, but while I was thinking about the melody and such, it came time that I had to decide on a title for my tour. For as calmly as I work normally, when I go somewhere like that, the differences between me and the person opposite me become more evident. This blog is for information and any Kenshi Yonezu posts! were especially strong. 39. Kenshi Yonezu. Part of it being the effects of the novel coronavirus. After over 2 years, Japanese singer-songwriter and music producer, Kenshi Yonezu, has officially released his long-awaited 5th studio album, STRAY SHEEP; along with a music video for "Campanella." #米津玄師 Yonezu Kenshi – Campanella カムパネルラ: https://t.co/ooQTlnoRQr dir. That's why the title ended up being STRAY SHEEP. In other words, making the theme song for a story is near to my nature. In my first meeting with Director Okuyama, it felt like things clicked. It is the theme song for the TV series Unnatural.It has sold more than 500,000 physical copies and 3,000,000 digital copies in Japan. But whatever anyone says, only you know what's essential to you. ", A. :) All kinds of choices can lead to the potential of someone dying. I think all sorts of choices are connected to the deaths of others. Still, I also thought "Is it okay to put this song into the world?" A. I planned to unveil this song somewhere on the When Your Spine Becomes Opal tour. Artwork. In 2012 he debuted under his real name, releasing music with his own voice. Twitter: @hachi_08 01. Like, you could live just fine without it. Though that directly ties into my music, and because I'm satisfied with it now, I can think it was for the best. Q. The first song Campanella has the lines "A crystal taking in light, and rebounding it with a sparkle; the wounds you gave me, too, are part of that sparkle." A. It didn't. We should support him by buying some stuff! With PLACEBO, you did a collaboration with Yojiro Noda-san of RADWIMPS. A. I wouldn't call it healthy. I think I released this album, to some extent, as my own answer to that. While thinking to myself "this isn't quite what I'd planned," that was the situation I found myself in, so I had to consider in a short time what I should be making. Lo subtitulé porque recién sale esta canción y ya la amo, me encantó. Since Ghost of the Sea, my songs have been arranged working with Yuta Bandoh, and I remember us talking innocently about things like "the commercial is sort of sci-fi, so we wanna make it a sci-fi-esque song," and "let's end it like 2001: A Space Odyssey with the birth of the Star Child." (laughs). In an earlier stage, there was wording that left gaps, and allowed room for interpretation, but I couldn't square that with my current self. Q. That said, it wasn't just affirming them. At first, it wasn't titled STRAY SHEEP, it was something more positive. … I'd been drinking all the time until then, but I was totally fine without it. It really was. While making this album, I thought about what we could be doing for those guys right now. Q. I think the stimuli and influence from your meetings with others has been especially striking in the past few years. I've taken influence from them, so it's all one context. The idea of beauty someone completely different has might be hard for me to accept. In that sense, there's a direct connection between the influence people have given me lately and my music. Of course, there are times that making things freely and innocently like a child can be beautiful and emotional, but I feel that's not the way to healthily make sincere things. J-pop group Wednesday Campanella released the accompanying video to their new song "Kaguyahime / The Bamboo Princess" from their latest EP, Galapagos. At first, I was thinking of making a song called "Dog Policeman." My tour last year, "When Your Spine Becomes Opal," was similar - there was a song that started with me singing "when your spine becomes opal," and I was thinking I'd reveal that song sometime during the tour. I knew at that moment it would be something good. In the proposal for the Calorie Mate commercial, there was the ad copy "The world is changing at a startling rate, but the things humans need won't change that much," and I had to agree with that. Q. That seemed too direct, and it was really hard to make it feel consistent, so it became "it's you, so it's fine." For instance, even when we're drinking, I sometimes hear some trivial words someone says and think "Ah, that's a good expression." I'm always working with a desire to make pop music, so it was one kind of achievement. I thought a lot about how anything you do can hurt someone, and how it's my responsibility to caution myself about that. 16756 fans Top tracks. August 4, 2020. I'm 29, turning 30 next year, so I've been thinking more about what this country and this world will be like when the next generation is born. Part of me is almost obsessed with "having to keep changing" when I make music, and I suppose that's actually a fundamental part of me. With your tour being canceled, the novel coronavirus spreading, and state of emergency declarations causing major changes to society, what have you been thinking about? Check out STRAY SHEEP by Kenshi Yonezu on Amazon Music. Romaji. There's all kinds of anger and disappointment swirling around inside me, so I had to affirm them with consideration of that. Him saying that served as a huge compass needle for this album, and made me want to make something like a gem or crystal. I'm confident I could've made something good going along those lines too, but I had a hunch this wasn't the time for it. As a person who makes pop music, you needed to put out a proper answer that considered how you've managed to make it to the center of that world. At the time, it started with me singing "when your spine becomes opal, I wonder where I'll be." This song features people who are clearly being oppressed, but there are many people experiencing that kind of thing as we speak. That worthlessness included, I don't think what humans feel changes that much, even if it likely changes form. I've been thinking a lot about that sort of thing. The chorus lyrics are exactly the same, for instance. A. I think that could be called "damaging the raw ore." The act of preparing it to look beautiful is essentially "wounding" it. This is a general impression of the album, but I felt a lot of songs used "you" in the lyrics, and are themed around relationships with others. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. I started thinking "Okay, then what should I make? Q. Release date: 2020.08.05. A single from Yonezu Kenshi’s third studio album STRAY SHEEP. After over 2 years, Japanese singer-songwriter and music producer, Kenshi Yonezu, has officially released his long-awaited 5th studio album, STRAY SHEEP; along with a music video for “Campanella.” Fans all over the world showcased their excitement, as pre-sales for the album skyrocketed to 1 million copies, shipped out yesterday, August 4th. What kind of album were you thinking it was going to be? Everyone has their own lives, and they have to place importance on protecting them. So I asked director Yoshiyuki Okuyama. A. I don’t know a lot of Japanese so I try my best to get info from vgperson and bad translator websites. I often wonder about what kind of person and musician I am, and those words hit the bullseye. I don't produce light from inside me like the sun; I think I'm like the moon, shining by reflecting outside light. 39. A single from Yonezu Kenshi’s third studio album STRAY SHEEP. The "a troubled woof-woof-woof" and "a lost and wandering meow-meow-meow" parts might have been the first things to get made. Kenshi Yonezu (米津 玄師, Yonezu Kenshi) is a Japanese musician, singer-songwriter, record producer and illustrator who began releasing Vocaloid music under the stage name Hachi (ハチ) in 2009. When I think about how I'm going to live in this country from here on, I can't help getting emotional - getting mad at things, feeling disappointment or despair. What did you think when you watched the finished product? On "Campanella," Yonezu turns remembrance into purpose, "devoting oneself more to the other than taking care of your own self," as he describes it during our conversation. Q. But if I must force myself to find a positive, I suppose it was good I could concentrate on making the album. A. That's why it's a song about the relationship between those who were left behind and those who have gone far away, like Giovanni and Campanella. We dug into all this in a 5,000-word interview. The sound has a dark and turbulent feel. I made it as part of a collaboration with Calorie Mate for a commercial, but also, I started making it around the time the tour was canceled and I couldn't freely go outside anymore. Stream ad-free or purchase CD's and MP3s now on Amazon.com. Q. A. Kenshi Yonezu is a Japanese musician, who began releasing Vocaloid music under the stage name Hachi in 2009. As I've polished my music that was born as a sphere, it's happened to take a shape that can be sent out into the world as pop songs, which is why I'm here now, I feel. Q. It takes things that aren't pretty, that you don't want to see, so you'd normally put a lid on them, and puts them into words. Q. Yojiro-san mentioned it in his own comments, but it's really nice how there's a feel like never before in the points where your voices overlap. Maybe that's why I imagined the distant future, and people living healthy lives and looking back like "That happened way back then," when I made this song. See the super vibrant and beautifully lit video below which reached over two million views on YouTube in the first couple of days since the release. Role: Super Member. músicas: Loser - Campanella - Flamingo (todas de Kenshi Yonezu). Lemon by Yonezu Kenshi is indeed a song with heart-piercing lyrics. Calling it a "grave marker" might be a bad choice of words, but I somehow felt it was my responsibility to leave something like that as a warning. Since the release of the previous one BOOTLEG in November 2017, you've released many singles after kicking things off with Lemon. To put it bluntly, he described me as "a disco ball reflecting the world's light every which way," and that really stuck with me. The "made for a TV drama" aspect of Shock is very strong. by Kenshi Yonezu, this is the theme song for the movie “children of the sea”. A. I felt a clear contrast with myself in it, and I was pretty happy to see a new side of someone who influenced me so much, and for it to be in my song. While on one hand I'm like "I suppose that figures," when I see it written out in front of me, I just think "so is my life non-essential?" However, time's passed, and my circumstances and position have changed. With some time having passed since you finished, what kind of album would you say STRAY SHEEP became? What I can do for people suffering from this ongoing pain is make music with a message of "It'll be okay living in this world." This past weekend, Kenshi Yonezu, performed for Fortnite’s virtual Battle Royale Game, as the first Asian artist ever. So my thoughts after finishing of "Is this really best?" The fact that there needs to be someone opposite me has become more and more concrete in the process of making pop songs. A. I think more often than I used to about how there are people completely different from myself. Indeed, a lot of things are expected of me. with horns blaring. Hey guys, Kenshi Yonezu has a collab with Uniqlo. So by making Campanella, I'm saying the people who died in these three years... whether they're children I've never met, or people who I don't know but who know about me, definitely existed. You mentioned it being a "best-of album," and at the time, I was indeed planning on showing the long 2-and-a-half-year period starting with Lemon in a sort of story format. 04:27 Writer: Kenshi Yonezu / Composers: Kenshi Yonezu. As I started to see the bigger picture of the album, I realized that sure enough, it had become something completely different from what I was thinking. 1. The first verse has a sample of a dog barking, and the second verse a cat meowing. You said you really struggled with the last track of the album, Canary. What do you mean by "something like a gem or crystal"? A. I've been talking with Yojiro-san for a while about making a song. Yes. What were Yonezu's thoughts as he put the finishing touches on this album? Q. I had a very different idea of what the musical midpoint between RADWIMPS and Kenshi Yonezu would be. RADWIMPS has steadily built up a history for themselves. How is the world changing? (laughs) But we dared to do this. A. Q. The lyrics certainly express what you're saying. So then I started to make Canary. Thinking that got me being incredibly hard on myself, like "What have I been doing all this time?" My music has really evolved thanks to the presence of other people, and become something I can approve of. Born in Japan, on March 10, 1991, Kenshi Yonezu is best known for being a music producer. A. Especially when I'm making pop songs, I do sometimes feel a kind of adult wretchedness and worthlessness. Spirits of the Sea: Comments. Kenshi Yonezu Speaks on "Post-Vocaloid" Pop Music: "I Want to Get Closer to Listeners" After releasing many famous songs as the Vocaloid producer "Hachi," then switching to his real name to cut out a new world of his own singing, Kenshi Yonezu is releasing his second album YANKEE on April 23rd. Artist: 米津玄師 (Kenshi Yonezu) Song: カムパネルラ (Campanella)(English Translation) Album: STRAY SHEEP Year: 2020. However, I came away with a strong impression that there was a consistency and sense of story to the album as a whole. Learn how your comment data is processed. A. Since I was working in a chair the whole time, not moving my body at all. Kenshi Yonezu writes this song for a drama. Q. I see. ", and worked on songs stuck at home by myself. Let's check with each other and find meaning there... And so I decided to sing about affirming change. That said, the song has a sort of overhead perspective. That can hurt people in unintended ways, and even if I'm saying things that can be taken positively, the more people there are listening to me, the more people there'll be who reject them.