Purple Stone “Panic Panic!” Interview (English Translation) - Part 2
Original Japanese Source: Cure v-splash Vol. 34 Published: July 2016 Part: 2 of 2 Translation: VerwelktesGedicht Note: Not more or less than I said in part 1 xD
- You will have a one man live at Shinsaibashi SUNHALL the day of the release of “Panic Panic!”. You’re from the Kansai-region, so that’s why you’ll hold it in Osaka? Keiya: We’re not giving many onemans, so we’re putting all our power into creating songs but finally we’ve come to the point where we can give onemans. The first time we had one in Osaka and the 2nd time was last December [2015] in Tokyo. We were thinking about where we should do it this time. It would’ve been great to have one in Tokyo AND Osaka but after arguing with ourselves, we thought it would be better to go on an actual one man tour and visit many places. [Before doing that] we decided to hold one in Osaka once again.
- It will be already your 3rd one, so can you already imagine how it will be? Keiya: The topic will be Summer Halloween. It’s fine if everyone who comes doesn’t like it hot, so you can decide to wear costumes. Wearing costumes in summer is quite rare, isn’t it? So we thought it would be interesting to wear costumes while saying “it’s so hot!”. [note: I think he’s just talking about the fact that he thinks of it as unusual hearing people in costumes saying “it’s so hot!” because there’s no real opportunity to wear costumes in summer.] The same day we’ll also have an instore, so I want everyone to show us their costumes! We’re also thinking about what to wear. GAK: This oneman will follow our release “Panic Panic!”. I haven’t really done furi [dance moves] until now but we put lots of them into this song during our live. At our live on August 17th we want to make this song grow together with our fans. Aiming at that we’re giving our current lives, wanting to make that day perfect. Fuma: Comparing it to our first live, we’ve not only changed looks but also what’s inside and the lives themselves. I want to get the people really excited at the live who already came last time and I want to give a live that makes the people who come for the first time feel and think: “People Stone is making so many different kinds of music!?” I also want to hold a live that gives every single person different feelings. The feeling of being back in Osaka for this live is strong.
- You gave your first oneman live around one year ago. People will be able to see how much you’ve grown since then. Keiya: We gave many lives since then and it’s just normal that we’ve grown. I want everyone to feel that way. We want to create a place together with the fans. I think it would be great if also our fans can think of this growing like: “We took part in creating this place as well.” We want to make the live a time when they feel this. Fuma: It’s shortly after the “Obon”-festival in August. I think it would be nice to celebrate Obon and “Panic Panic!” together a bit. When the festival in the beginning is over, it’s already mid-August but that time as well we want our fans to be excited once again and make it a happy summer. Please, don’t do your homework but come to Amemura [where the live takes place] instead! Keiya: What are you saying there! Do it – at the last day of your summer vacation! Fuma: So, listen to “Panic Panic!”, feel the urge to come to our one man live and do your homework the next day, maybe? Keiya: That sounds exhausting! (laughs) Fuma: Maybe you can’t do it when you’re in panic? (laughs) Anyway, please listen to “Panic panic!”
- After the release of this 5th single, fans will hope for an album. Do you have any plans to release one soon? Keiya: We talked about this. We had many conversations if we shall release a single or an album. But there are special things we want to do and we talked about how we can convey these things the best way and how people can enjoy it the best way and how we can get them excited the most. We can’t tell you yet how the next CD will be but we came up with funny things!
- Do all three of you decide together what’s fun? Keiya: It’s most important that all of us enjoy it. But more than anything else we talk a lot about how to make our fans getting excited and think things like: “That’s what they’re doing next?”, “I’ve never seen something like this before!” or “Today as well I’m so happy I could go to see Purple Stone live.”
- What is your strong point/part [as member of this band]? GAK: It’s sound arrangement. Usually all three of us are doing it but in the end they’re letting me doing it most of the time. Every day we’re focused on one thing: „Speaking of Purple Stone, the sound is not like this.“ Keiya: It’s amazing, because GAK is listening to various types of music, also to popular and super new music. I have trust in him, so that’s why I leave it up to him. Fuma: The others let me write lyrics. I like Keiya’s voice and want him to spread those words out into the world. That’s why we came together. This might be my part – to write the lyrics that can fulfill our goal. Sometimes I let him sing strange lyrics and there are people that seem to become strange by singing it. But when it’s a vocal with character it doesn’t sound weird. That’s important. Keiya: When it comes to being proud of their own skills, I think that Fuma-kun can be proud of the lyrics he writes and GAK-kun of the songs he composes. It’s so cool! When Fuma-kun talks about things that haven’t to do with politics I think that he’s such an interesting person. Sometimes he comes up with extraordinary lyrics like in „Panic Panic tonight“. When I sing lyrics just like that there are also times when they don’t sound cool. When you sing them to a cool sound it gives you a feeling of strangeness. I think about how to make them sound cool with a special kind of music. I often think: “Whatever lyrics they write, it would be great to make them sound cool.” I think that’s my part.
- In the end, please send a message to our readers! GAK: Thank you for reading our first interview in Cure V-Splash! Purple Stone will continue running, so please treat us well! Fuma: “Panic Panic!” is a song for which I didn’t write party-like lyrics. There are many hidden elements. Maybe while reading those lyrics there will be parts that make you think: „Eh?? Does this eventually mean that?” The solutions are also included. This song is about the end of the world – and in these times when such things as atomic power plants exist, we don’t know what will happen tomorrow. I wrote lyrics about the question of what to do tomorrow. And I want everyone to think “If it’s like this, then let’s be happy tomorrow!” Listen to this song closely! Give your best this summer! People who do homework, do your homework! People who go to work, work like a carriage horse! Please listen to “Panic Panic!”! Keiya: For the MV of “Panic Panic!” I came up with dance moves and we accepted many challenges but we broke away from what’s usual from “Visual Kei is like this or that”. We were indeed worried that you don’t accept this style but we thought that it would be nice to walk a new path. It became a song in which we included a lot of things we wanted to do. Even if we were recommended to people who are reading this interview [and they don’t know us yet], maybe it makes them think that this song might be fun. Actually, of course at our lives there are Bangya but there are also people who haven’t been to Visual Kei lives before. I think this might also be a strong point of our band. It would be great to reach many different groups of people. Let’s dance together to “Panic Panic!” at our oneman live on August 17th [2016] and enjoy a lot of songs!
