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Talking about new song "eternal" that fits the current SCANDAL!
Episode #50 blog
HARUNA: This is the 50th episode of "SCANDAL Catch up"!
All: Thanks so much as always.
HARUNA: Our new single eternal is releasing on March 3rd.
So, we're going to be talking plenty about our new song.
MAMI: Where should we start from...
RINA: It's been two years since we last released a physical single...
All: Eh?
TOMOMI: No, no, that can't be right...
HARUNA: We've been doing digital releases.
MAMI: Two years have already passed? How scary...
RINA: It's the era of subscription services.
HARUNA: This year is our 15th anniversary, after all.
RINA: Aside from it releasing on CD and streaming services, it'll also be on vinyl and cassette...and we've also made a bunch of merch for it. Having a CD release is now a special thing in and of itself, which is why when releasing something physically we'd usually be thinking of how to make it more fun such as holding events, but that's completely changed now.
HARUNA: The CD has become merch.
TOMOMI: It's for your collection.
HARUNA: When was this song made, again?
MAMI: I think last summer.
HARUNA: At first it was a demo sung and played by MAMI.
MAMI: I usually complete demos with all of our instruments in it and have everyone listen to it, but this time I pruned it down and sung to my own accompaniment.
Normally I'd then add stuff on, but since this was the opposite approach to how SCANDAL does things in a sense, I think it was a new challenge for me.
HARUNA: In the early stages we decided to have Satori Shiraishi-san do the producing.
TOMOMI: I wonder if the unique atmosphere we have with Satori Shiraishi-san was the key. We recorded it while just chatting and relaxing.
RINA: In a good way, we were able to relax while making it. We wanted to make it with a sense of leeway. We jointly contributed to how we wanted the song's image to be.
HARUNA: They were all abstract words, though.
RINA: That's right, but somehow the four of us shared the same image, such as a slightly mellow atmosphere, a gentle feeling, an image of light.
We made all of those words into a song. Also, we decided on them from the tempo.
HARUNA: That was also unusual. The way we recorded it was also done in a way we never have before.
We each went to the producer's studio and recorded individually.
MAMI: The video on YouTube of HARU-chan speaking, where she recorded vocals several times during the production process, is from the first round of recording.
HARUNA: Normally, we'd decide on one day to record everything.
Not having any direction from the other members put a good feeling of pressure on me. There was also a sense of responsibility to keep doing it until I was completely satisfied with it.
Since the way we recorded our instruments was different, I want to deliver a song like never before... I also wanted to record it as if I was speaking normally. Rather than being conscious that I was singing,
I wanted to record it as if I was reading it, but I had a hard time with that...
Also, I like the title too.
RINA: Oh! That makes me happy.
HARUNA: A recent theme of ours is to not perceive eternity as fantasy—or rather, we want to perceive it realisitically.
RINA: As we approach our 15th anniversary, we don't have any dreams that we can clearly state right now, and we don't have any easy-to-understand dreams or goals...
That may sound negative, but instead, we're just happy about this miracle of us being together for so long, and it's something that we're a bit proud of.
It doesn't mean that everything lasts forever, but that's why the present is important and why we think it's amazing we're still around today.
We're always thinking of the four of us continuing to move forward without the band coming to a halt, and these were words that came out.
We had a lot of time to do some soul-searching in 2020, so I think that's why we were able to make this song. So, it really fits who we are right now,
And I hope you like this side of SCANDAL too.
HARUNA: Although this song was created from abstract words, it became our own song.
RINA: It hits hard, even when we're performing it.
HARUNA: We also wanted to make a new wind blow.
RINA: It's been 15 years and I think we now have an image of ourselves, but this was the point in time when we thought we'd make ourselves into a song over time.