It rained the day we shot the photo for the cover even though every other day had been sunny, and boy was it foggy. It was pretty thick in the music video too. So yeah, it rained a little bit when we were shooting the cover. We got a pretty dreamy picture out of it, though. There was so much fog behind me. I’m glad it did in such a nice way, though! I wrote this song when we were right in the middle of recording “Akatsuki no Love Letter” and decided to hang onto it for later. I sing about whatever I was thinking about at the time in some of my songs, but the apartment in this song is actually the apartment I lived in until the 4th grade. I know I sing, “Time goes by~” in the song, but… TOO much time went by! (laughs) I really like the phrase, “I’ll find you even when I’m born anew.” I wrote it ‘cause wanted to convey what it feels like, having someone who makes me feel like that’d be an easy thing to do. You’ve gotta stand right in front of the mic when recording vocals, and yet my body just kept moving… That’s how fired up I was, singing this. I also went and watched a baseball game. I learned what a double play was! That’s when two people are out, right? Oh, and Livedoor.
Senmenjo
This one’s bittersweet for me. I love the lyrics. Like, I know I’m the one who wrote this, but any time I listen to it I’m like, “Right?! That’s so true!” (laughs) Anytime I remember this guy I broke up with, or laugh about my memories of him with my friends, I still think of him fondly. I’m glad I was able to put those thoughts into a song. I actually did write this song at the bathroom sink. I cracked my soap dish by accident. Losing something I’d always had made me think, “I can’t believe this actually broke… I guess people’s feelings are like that too, huh…” I still haven’t bought another soap dish. My soap keeps getting stuck because it’s constantly sitting on the sink. And then when I try to grab it, it slips and goes flying through the air… I think I’ll buy another one soon. Former T-Square member Honda [Masato] played the flute on this track. Like, I know I watched him play it right in front of me, but he was so amazing I almost thought someone was playing a synthesizer or something. He’s so good it doesn’t even sound like a flute, sometimes. Like, it made me do a double-take. Everyone in the room was in total awe.
Ponytail
I’d been wanting to put this song on a CD someday so I just kept asking*, “Oh come oooon, can we PLEASE include this one too?”* (laughs) There’s this line in the lyrics that goes, “Be as close to me as you possibly can, always.” When those words came to me, it just kinda felt like I was able to put something I’d been wanting to say into words. The word ‘ponytail’ wasn’t in the lyrics at all when I wrote the first chorus. It was only after I went back over the first chorus of the song that I imagined the word ‘ponytail’. It really reminds of me of like, when I was still a studentー how I still knew nothing, and the only thing on my mind was how in love I was. Every day when I went to school, I’d go from being super happy 5 minutes before, to wanting to cry an entire ocean later on. It was this constant emotional yo-yo between joy and sorrow. The word ‘ponytail’ just encapsulates my image of that immature, brand new, sparkling time in my life. I always admired ponytails. I had long hair but never did it. I was just kinda shy about wearing my hair in a ponytail… Or I guess I should say, I used to really hate exposing my face like that so I never liked the act of tying my hair up all that much. You wouldn’t catch me dead tying it up into two, or putting my hair up in general. It’s just my personal image of what it’s like to be excited over falling in love. To me, it looks like a girl wearing her hair in a ponytail.
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