-- After a long while the single "SHIVER" has a sort of light, yet speedy and edgy feel to it, and with its melody, it is a different type of the GazettE song, which had been rather heavy lately.
Ruki [The fast songs with a story have always been something we have excelled in. When I first made that song, I had been listening and rethinking all the songs we had made until here, because until now, within myself, I felt that the old songs were a taboo. Because we have been releasing songs with a much heavier intention than that. However, the result of my thinking was that I would just once like to go back to the simple songs. Therefore there is absolutely no artificial sound and only the pure band sound in this song.]
-- Was there something different from the making of this song as compared to others lately?
Ruki [With the songs lately I have been pursuing new things, having the heavier things in mind, yet with "SHIVER" I made it with the sensation of the things within me that haven't changed. It also means that this is what the GazettE would sound like (if we redid the older songs.)]
-- What was the other member's reaction?
Ruki [They were like "aahh!" (laughs), as in the nostalgic sense.]
-- The title incorporates the meaning of a shaking/shivering body, right?
Ruki [Yes. It is close to the shivering with fear.]
-- When separating with something/someone, you can fight the things you can't forget because they are so deeply engraved, yet forgetting and the things to forget is what is really scary as emotions within these lyrics.
Ruki [Yes it is. The theme of it is "The feeling of loss"]
-- That's a heavy topic. Yet with the melody it does have a liberating feeling to it.
Ruki [(laughs) Yeah it's like that. The lyrics are not that light at all, though.]
-- Are the lyrics about your own understanding of what "separation" is?
Ruki [...when it comes to that, it is regret and a memory of something that can't be brought back. For example when the partner dies under unfavorable conditions, not much can be done but cry about the loss (in that situation). Yet, what if that person who died, looks at this "me"?]
-- To see this sad state of yourself.
Ruki [Yes. Nothing can be done about it. It is something that can't be brought back.]
-- Then the second song "HESITATING MEANS DEATH" is a heavy the GazettE song from the first riff on.
Ruki [This was the kind of song I had been hoping for, when I first listened to it. Because the world of this song is drawing a great impression.]
-- The lyrics contain expressions of a resolution and the content is much like a declaration of war.
Ruki [In connection with the tour, this is written with the sense of the rout we have taken. We have done the "Nameless Liberty Six Guns" tour before and yet this "Nameless Liberty" is still something I have always heading towards. With that in mind, I wrote those lyrics. This is not just simply about the tour, though. Without breaking once, it is the one line that is connecting everything the whole time.]
-- What about the title, which is "Hesitating means death"?
Ruki [There are things we have held onto until now and the things we came to do until here were not wrong. I don't forget the feeling from the very first live at Budokan, and I want to show this again in the lyrics.]
-- They are certainly heated lyrics.
Ruki [(laughs) Heated, yeah. The things I am doing are my fate, that's why I also need to do certain things for it. It's pretty much standard, but I write about often overlooked things. When it comes to music were are not bending to the state, we do the things we want to do ourselves and the things we don't want to do, we don't do as the GazettE as a law. I thought that this is what I needed to write about in the lyrics.]
-- Did you want to express this with the current timing?
Ruki [Yes. Until the single this time, half a year had passed, hadn't it? We also moved (to a different distribution company (note: Sony Music Records)), a number of things have been settled, and within myself I felt that with the previous single "BEFORE I DECAY" the GazettE has come to an end for once. Concluding, the single was made with the thought of "Let's go again from here!!" As something the GazettE needed to do, which is breaking down everything once、we can now think, that anything is possible.]
-- And the first step is the new single.
Ruki [Yes. For example, if "SHIVER" had been done earlier, I probably would have thought that it is way too pop-ish, and I hated being thought of as following certain intention...however, I found that we have been fighting in a very small world, haven't we? Of course, doing heavy stuff was always right for us; that is, why we are, where we are right now.]
-- A lot of things concerning the current state are clear to see right now, aren't they?
Ruki [They are. Therefore, we don't want to get too fixed on most things. We would like to think that "this is also a possibility!" Making heavy songs, as much as making catchy songs has always been what the GazettE is about originally. Therefore I think it is great we did an album like "DIM", because as this album exists we are able to take this stance now. Whatever is said, we are rushing towards the things we would like to do, and once they become clear, we simply do them like that.]
-- It is certainly an important single. As for the third track "Naraku", with its "sorrowful" melody, it has a very grown-up feeling to it.
Ruki [Within the third song, you find what is closest to us as of late.]
-- It is very much like the GazettE, isn't it? There is a lot of affection in it, yet what's the image of the sound?
Ruki [It's a very heavy feeling. From the very beginning the provisional title had been "Naraku", therefore we made it with the name of it as such. (laughs) Somewhere it is a sad song, somewhere it is a song "opening up". ]
-- The arrangements are heavy yet delicate altogether.
Ruki [Certainly.]
-- The lyrics are about love between men and women?
Ruki [It's about the dominance in that sense. It is the eventual hell of a relationship (based) on desire. There is no love there.]
-- Yet, they believed in that partner.
Ruki [Yes. Therefore they were also able to cope with the pain of it. (laughs) It's about keeping quiet and being kept quiet in that sense.]
-- Rather than a song about throwing the feelings of love directly at the partner, it is questioning how things really are, rousing a more intriguing motive to the relationship, is what you are interested in, right?
Ruki [There is certainly this kind of echo in the back. I think that generally love is not such a shallow thing. In the situation of parting with beloved things, there are still the real intentions in the back. "Actually I was thinking like this", or "My real feelings were like this", which I think is the most dramatic about it, the most attracting.]
-- Digging down to human psychology.
Ruki [Yes. Even as the lyrics are heavy, they are not unrealistic.]
-- Even as the music is rather dark, there is this sensual pleasure somewhere as well.
Ruki [Falling into that hell only at the very end, was good eventually. Until that moment there was always still hope left.]
-- Rather than deciding on a certain song out of these three, they are all good and intense songs.
Ruki [It's a single much like us, I think. The good things about the old and the new stuff have been mixed well.]
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