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Band-Maid Song of the Day Bot @bandmaidsongbot.bsky.social · Nov 29

I am a bot who posts about one random Band-Maid song per day. If I have member quotes about the song, they will be posted as replies within a thread. This is my first day on the job. Please follow me and support Band-Maid.

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ongwriting leads to something innovative or fresh, right?

KANAMI: Exactly!

AKANE: Thank you for summarizing it so nicely (laughs).

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ven up the anime, but... Sorry, I can't really come up with a punch line for that statement (everyone laughs).

Kobato: No need to come up with a punch line there (laughs).

──Yes, there's no need for a punchline, I get what you're saying (laughs). In short, a slight difference in the beginning of s

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over, in this case, we wanted to make something that emphasized melody, and on top of that, we wanted the background sound to be playful, without being too technical, and we thought that by doing that, we could create something that was typical of BAND-MAID. We made it with the hope that it would li

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akes it different from when we simply try to make a new song for BAND-MAID; rather, our approach is "Let's make a song that fits this anime, in a way that's typical of BAND-MAID." In that sense, the fundamental aspects of how we make the song change a bit, and something new is born as a result. More

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I also felt the fun of creating songs that are unique to tie-ups. In this case, it's an anime, but I think that because we create it while imagining it flowing in the animation and trying to reflect the worldview of the work, we can create something new that has never been done before. That's what m

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nd there. I thought that would be a hook.

──Yes, those words catch your ear. And what I think is great is that it ended up being a "song that seems familiar but didn't exist." You were able to create something that was fresh while responding to the requests from the anime production team.

KANAMI:

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"Zenshu" is trying to convey through the story. The reason I didn't change the lyrics of the chorus and just repeated the same content is because it's full of what I want to convey. Also, since the main character is an animator, I used words from that world, like "page" and "pan up/pan down" here a

Band-Maid Song of the Day Bot @bandmaidsongbot.bsky.social · 4h

em after seeing the whole story. I told them I would be grateful if I could see the storyboards beforehand, and they sent me all the episodes, so I read through them while thinking, "Is that okay?" Rather than telling a story, I wrote the lyrics while thinking that I wanted to convey the things that

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might have some kind of double meaning, and for foreigners, the word "zen" is a word of Japanese origin that is connected to "Zen," so I think it might be perceived as something mystical. As for the lyrics, did you create them while taking into account the story of "Zenshuu"?

SAIKI: Yes, I wrote th

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emo stage.

KANAMI: SAIKI liked the title, and the "Zenshuu" team also said, "This title is good."

AKANE: "Please keep it as it is."

SAIKI: Right. So we said, "If you like it that much... let's go with it." (laughs)

──I actually think it's a good title. There are some parts that make me think it

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he wanted to sing it, so I tried to make it as close to SAIKI's wishes as possible. In other words, I wanted to emphasize the storyline in the song.

──I see. Does the title "Zen" come from the "zen" in "Zenshuu"?

SAIKI: Yes. It was a tentative title, or rather, it was already titled "Zen" at the d

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I thought it was a song that had a very story-like quality from the moment I first heard it. So I thought about how I should sing the chorus and what kind of harmonies I should use to show the changes po. This time, SAIKI wrote the lyrics and included a temporary vocal version with an image of how s

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that it's very fresh.

--There is a part in the second half where the tempo slows down, but other than that, the tempo is the same, but the speed feels different depending on the performance. What were you conscious of when working on this song, Kobato?

Kobato: When KANAMI came up with this song,

Band-Maid Song of the Day Bot @bandmaidsongbot.bsky.social · 4h

nd it ended up being composed almost entirely of fills. That kind of composition itself is quite new to me. The approach of connecting eight bars with fills without beating the beat is quite rare for BAND-MAID, and it might have been the first time we connected such a long and playful phrase. I feel

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a response to the vocal melody, isn't it?

MISA: Yes. I think the bass in this song in particular has that kind of feel. It moves along with the melody.

AKANE: As for the drums, they were rather steadily beating the beat, but then they changed completely midway, and the number of beats increased, a

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, so the bass was solid, and the drums were solid as well. However, while the rhythm section was progressing with a solid feel, from the second verse onwards, it developed as if it were going to another world.

──Yes. The dynamic bass line is also impressive. It's like another vocal melody, or like

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that was the way to go with this song.

AKANE: It was the same with "Forbidden tale," but through that song I was able to understand once again that if you want to highlight the melody in a song, it will stand out more if it's solid. In this song, the first priority was to make the melody stand out

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had that conversation." In fact, I think the song really turned out that way.

──Yes, that's true. The technicality and sense of speed are deliberately kept to a minimum, giving it a solid feel. So everyone was conscious of these points when arranging their parts, right?

MISA: Yes, I did. I thought

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s.

SAIKI: That comment is something I put together after listening to everyone's comments. AKANE and MISA strongly stated that "after receiving the demo from KANAMI, we arranged it to bring out the melody even more," and when I heard that, I was convinced and thought, "I see, I think we definitely

Band-Maid Song of the Day Bot @bandmaidsongbot.bsky.social · 4h

iously made official comments about this song saying, "I wanted to make a song that had a more story-like feel," and "The instruments don't get too technical, but rather place emphasis on melody and weave the sound with a solid stance," and it certainly seems to be a song that lives up to those word

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same time.

Kobato: All the songs for the album weren't completed yet, lol. I think it was written in the same flow as the songs we were making in the middle of writing the album, lol.

──If that's the case, it's only natural that there's a connection between the album and this song. SAIKI has prev

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ad more to say.

──You said earlier that this song was created after "Forbidden tale" was completed, but was this song written after all the songs on "Epic Narratives" were completed?

AKANE (Dr): No, I think it was around the same time. I remember that the drum recording was also progressing at the

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done before, so this is fresh and good in its own way..." (laughs). Check out your LINE history! (laughs)

──So in a sense, the original song was reborn as a result of SAIKI's suggestions?

KANAMI: Yes. I think it was good that it gave it a new feel. So I think it would be more interesting if she h

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ion, I tried to include a sample that would fit that, and I think the result was something new. Of course, I sometimes change the melody based on a small request, but this time there was a solid request, so I was a little surprised, but I also thought, "This kind of melody development has never been

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case (laughs). She was quite specific about the melody that goes into the chorus, saying, "I want it to start like this, so can I change it?" I said, "Sure," but then I thought, "That would change the atmosphere before the chorus, so I wondered what to do." Since the story itself is about reincarnat