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RINA's "Kiss from the darkness" Lyrics Essays
First Essay: "Masterpiece"
It's very important that the gasoline called "excitement" is stored in your heart.
On February 12, SCANDAL will be releasing Kiss from the darkness, their first album from their private label "her." The album will contain 11 songs. Vocalist HARUNA talked about how this work is a very ambitious one for them: "We have confidence in it. It's seriously the best thing we could make. Our four creative energies are exploding."
Today's song column is the first of three lyrics essays that will be posted weekly from drummer RINA, who has written the lyrics for many of their songs! What we had her talk about are her feelings towards "her," the private label started by the girls; and how their song "Masterpiece" reflects those feelings. We recommend it to those who are excited about new challenges in front of them! Please enjoy both the essay and the lyrics!
~First Lyrics Essay: "Masterpiece"~
2019, spring.
A few months removed from the 10th anniversary of our major label debut, we established and started up our private label called "her." I'm sure that there are many people who don't really understand what "private label" means when they hear it. To put it simply, it's our new place for making and dispatcing music.
We named our label "her" because we thought it'd be nice if you catch at a glance that it's related to women. We never thought this day would come, and although it was ambiguous what changes would occur, we were simply excited to have created an atelier just for us.
When making things such as music that are invisible and cannot be physically touched, it's very important that the gasoline called "excitement" is stored in your heart. The more there is, the more it feels like you can run further. The good/bad things along the way will make your heart sway, which will then become a melody or lyric.
You refill the gas and stand in front of a brand new road. Without having a set destination, you go, "So where shall we head to now?" The song we wrote at that time was "Masterpiece."
Our feelings were overflowing and it took quite a bit of time to complete the song, but I think we were able to finish up an exihilarating and punky "beginning-again song" that's very frank and doesn't give you time to waver.
―――Our second chapter had begun. That's what it felt like.
It's been a year since then, and we're making music feeling more free than ever before. We were freed from curses we had cast on ourselves―our way of thinking that SCANDAL needs to be a certain way, or rules for production―without realizing it.
Then, in regards to launching our label, more musicians were interested in it than we expected. We're happy that it was talked about several times at places such as the backstages of festivals. One musician stated, "It feels like the blood's been flowing ever since you started 'her.'"
When you listen to this song when you feel unsure about something, you feel like you can remember the day when you became stronger and went, "I want to keep being an adult who always chooses to take on challenges without fear."
Accepting all that has happened and will happen, we stand on stage in all our frankness. I'd like to think that every day was a masterpiece. A masterpiece is a stand that replenishes excitement.