I genuinely think this interview was the catalyst for Atsushi ultimately choosing to cut all his hair off in drunken frustration a little over a year later. This interviewer is being a grade A creep- Atsushi is trying to focus on the song and the band’s art and Tamori is just fucking babbling about his looks the entire time and saying he’s in love with him because he looks like a girl. Absolutely obnoxious behavior, and it was valid of the audience to shout “Shut up” at Tamori over his behavior.
Imai would tell a story later on about how Atsushi drunk dialed him one night, clearly upset, saying he was going to chop it all off and then that night he did. A moment that would have been fine and probably cathartic for Atsushi, except they had, I think, a tv appearance or photo shoot or something in around 48 hours, so an emergency team had to come in and fix his hair after he went ham on it, which ultimately led to him coming out in this famous look (although if I have my timeline right this is the revised haircut after the first initial patch-up)
….so yeah, I blame Tamori for starting Atsushi’s slow crash-out. Atsushi would later say that he was always surprised at how attached people got to his looks- when he let his hair down in ‘89 people had feelings about it, when he cut it all off in early ‘95 people REALLY had feelings about it. He described himself as an unfashionable guy who just did and wore what was comfortable at the end of the day.
I think, understanding this distraction, is why he would often come out in hats and veils for certain songs- at that point you would be *forced* to be focused on the lyrics and the music, and not on *him*, and ultimately that seems to be what he really wanted.
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