The online lyrics website “Song Net” has a lyricist interview column “Yu 葉の达人”, and has interviewed more than 100 famous lyricists. At the end of September, the column produced a special series. Please come to Watanabe, . RUCCA . , and . Hotaru. , who are also famous lyricists in the anime song world, telling the story behind the work of the lyricist. .
Watanabe.
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Writing, composer, also arranged in some songs. Belongs to the Smile Company. Music started at the age of 19 and became a composer at the age of 22. Focus on animation and provide music for various genres. Member of the three-member orchestra “sajou no hana” composed in 2018. .
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- “Magic Girl Madoka” TV animation OP “コネクト”, theatrical version OP “ルミナス” “カラフル”.
- TV Animation “Fate/Zero” OP “oath sign”.
- TV Animated “Sword Art Online” OP “crossing field”.
- TV Animation “Science Super Electromagnetic Cannon S” ED “Grow Slowly” “stand still”.
- TV Animated “Outbreak Company Invaders” OP “ユニバーページ”.
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RUCCA
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Debuted as a lyricist in 2006, and later used the names of Mizoguchi, RUCCA, L(R)UCCA, etc. to provide lyrics for a wide range of genres. The total number of songs available is up to about 700 songs. .
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- “The Prince of Songs” series animation, game episode, character song “Over the Rainbow” “My Little Girl” “Changing our Song!” and more than ten.
- TV Animation “FORTUNE ARTERIAL” OP “绊-kizunairo-色”.
- TV Animated “The Hero of Six Flowers” OP “Cry for the Truth”, ED “Secret Sky” “Dance in the Fake” “Nameless Heart” and so on.
- TV Animated “Rough Dim War” OP “Checkmate!?”
- Game “The corpse party Blood covered: …Repeated fear.” OP “シャングリラ”.
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hotaru
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Writing, planning, conceptual design. MYTH & ROID member. Debuted as a lyricist in 2008, and later, with a popular anime “Light Girl!” ! Centered on the animation, the lyrics are available for many best-selling works. .
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- TV Animated “Light Girl” series character song “Come with Me!!” “Winter Day”.
- TV Animated “My friends are few” OP “Be My Friend”, character song lyrics.
- TV Animated “Ace of Diamonds” OP “Go EXCEED!!”
- “Overlord” series of animations all OP, ED theme song lyrics.
- TV Animation “Youth Battle” OP “JINGO JUNGLE”, ED “Los!Los!Los!”
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Although the three lyricists usually have private contacts, in general, the lyrics industry rarely interacts with each other. Unlike composers and musicians who often drink together, this generation of lyricists has no chance to deal with their peers. The reason why the three people will meet each other is also the introduction of composers who have shared their understanding. .
Having said that, there are social networks in this era. Even if you don’t know each other in reality, you can also pay attention to Twitter and have a good understanding of each other. .
RUCCA said that before he met, he looked at the name of hotaru and always thought that the latter was a woman. Hotaru also laughed at himself and said that he is a woman. Because there were not many opportunities to show up before, until about a year ago, he met with the industry inside, the other party would always say: “The original hotaru teacher you are a man!”.
Watanabe said with a smile, it is often said that the name of the lyricist is neutral and better. There are even a lot of male lyricists who will specialize in another female pen name. In their hearts, they still don’t want the audience to read the music: “The gentle lyrics were originally written by men.”
Hotaru Also said that although I don’t know if the audience really would see “it was written by a man”, I feel that the song’s touch has been tarnished, but people who care will still care. There was also a music director who told him that it might be better to have a female pen name. .
RUCCA The reason for the current pen name is for similar reasons. The first time he received a lyric work, it was an episode of the love game “D.C.II.” At that time, the customer said: Your real name “Mizoguchi” is a hard-boiled four-character Chinese character. It is a man who is a little suitable. Therefore, RUCCA used such a neutral pen name. .
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The old generation of Watanabe listened to this list and suddenly remembered one thing he had been paying attention to: female lyrics at home, many of them are big beautiful women. He always felt that those who are more entangled in their own inferiority and who can’t satisfy themselves in their daily lives can write good lyrics. However, these beautiful lyricists have overturned his view. .
Hotaru believes that it is because of the beauty and confidence of the female lyricists that they can write a strong and handsome female image, and it is easier to be a lyricist for years. Although he relied on technology to write “a cute female image”, it would be very difficult for him to write “a handsome female image.” For example, if a female lyricist only picks up the female image of the teacher, it is very handsome. .
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For ももいろクローバーZ, でんぱ group.inc and “Beautiful Girl of Light” “Strong Witch” “Idol Activity! “On the wild lyrics (tweet avatar) of the lyrics. .
In contrast, the female image of a male lyricist is often relatively rigid and lacks realism. To say that, the male lyricist is better at it, but it is the lyrics of “lost love” and “not dare to talk to the boy who likes it”. Perhaps because I have had personal experience, I understand that mood. .
He believes that men who write lyrics have a naive side. Such as the words of Matsumoto Takashi and Matsui Goro, and so on, give people such an impression. .
When Watanabe is writing the lyrics of love, he occasionally writes his own personal experience. He believes that his lyrics are often said to be “mother-in-law”, perhaps because of this. In addition, his bank is a composer, and customers often do not ask him to write lyrics when participating in the bidding. At this time, he will release himself and write his own personal experience into the lyrics of the song. It is this kind of work that writes its own inner works, which is often used in conjunction with the songs. Therefore, Watanabe believes that personal experience is very significant for the lyrics. .
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Watanabe has created many ED theme songs for the “Fake Love” series of animations, vividly depicting the emotional entanglement of the love girl, and does not know what kind of personal experience he reflects.
And RUCCA writes words, basically relying on fiction. In other words, he rarely writes negative love songs like lovelorn. Although he will write a weak protagonist, he has not written the lyrics of “can’t forget you”. .
Watanabe asked, did you write your own personal experience in the lyrics of the subject other than love? For example, bad memories in the past. .
RUCCA Slightly sinking, answer, he has a very bad relationship with his father, so in the middle school, I feel very occluded in the future. At that time, the mood deepened into the bone marrow, so even if it was based on fiction, it could start from the standpoint of the protagonist and would not write a taste similar to the third person’s sympathy for the protagonist. RUCCA laughed and said that he was very good at writing such dark lyrics, but rarely received a dark commission. .
“Xia Hui”, a veteran male lyricist in “Music Girl”, relies on fictitious, “as a 17-year-old girl” to write youth lyrics. .
Watanabe said, before they were three plus another, four lyricists were drinking together, talking about family topics, and the family environment of the four people was not so good, so that he was suspicious: Is the family unfortunate? Is it a necessary condition for being a lyricist? His own student days are not going well, and every time he mentions it, he will lead others to sympathize. .
Although many lyricists have shadows in their hearts, RUCCA points out that if you have been immersed in the quagmire of negative memories, you will not be a lyricist. Everyone uses writing to digest the pain of the past. Perhaps there are some things that can be written because of such a family environment. .
Hotaru Also said that his lyrics, no matter which one, will reflect his true feelings more or less. As RUCCA said, he feels that he is filling the inner void by writing a lyrics that is not smooth. So love is also the same, lost a love, can produce a few songs of the material. .
Watanabe pointed out that he has read many words of people who want to be a lyricist. Many people have joined too many personal experiences, so that he only feels pain when he reads. So he wants to ask his peers how to maintain balance. .
Hotaru said that the lyricist is to take care of the work. Therefore, even if he has just lost his love and is not vomiting, as long as he has not received the commission of the theme of falling out of love, he will not dig into this personal experience. Only when the appropriate theme is received will he add real feeling and enhance the power of the lyrics without guaranteeing deviation from the theme. .
He believes that he can only be a person who lives on the lyrics until he can grasp this balance. In the beginning, he couldn’t do this. He only knew that he would write what he liked and always lost in the bidding. Obviously, he did not follow the client’s proposition. He did not reflect on his introspection and complained that “the lyrics I wrote are definitely better than the ones selected.” Until the age of twenty-five, he finally found a compromise between what the client asked him to write and what he wanted to write. .
RUCCA also said that the newcomer’s lyrics did not have objectivity at the beginning, but they were trained after a lot of work and feedback. .
Hotaru said yes. He has experienced countless failures, and the words he has handed over do not meet the expectations of the other party, so that the customer finds others. He accumulated this kind of anger and grew up to the present. Therefore, when he receives a theme that exactly matches what he wants to write now, he will be especially excited. The lyrics written at this time will also be highly praised by the music director. .
Watanabe thinks that the person who wants to be a lyricist is also pursuing this. Because I want to communicate to someone around me, I want to be a lyricist. .
RUCCA also said that this is the entrance to the lyricist. Through popular songs, you can convey to a specific person only the message that the person can understand, like using the songs that everyone listening to in the streets and lanes repeatedly hangs the person. If it is not for this, who will write the lyrics specifically (laughs). And as your work is recognized by the world, this kind of revenge will become a different mood.
Hotaru agrees that in terms of motivation, many lyricists and singers are similar because they want to convey to others what mood. They entered this line with this kind of thinking and gradually polished their skills as a lyricist. For the lyricist, the most important thing is to write what the realistic proposition is, how convincing the sentence, how much charm to the singer and the work. At this time, personal experience will become a weapon to complement the imagination. .
Although the same lyricist, the lyrics written by the three have their own colors and characteristics. .
Watanabe said that when writing the theme song to the animation, he intentionally wrote the ambiguous abstraction of the lyrics, so that the lyrics did not know what to say. This is to leave enough imagination for the audience. He believes that people who listen to the theme song have different understandings of the story of the work. Therefore, the theme song is best not to do too much explanation. But at the same time, he will add a particularly powerful sentence to the lyrics to close the fuzzy lyrics that are not in the ground. .
RUCCA pointed out that Watanabe’s lyrics are the strengths of the lyricist who can compose music. Blurring the lyrics sounds like everyone can do it, but it’s actually very difficult. Like RUCCA, I am not very good at it. On the contrary, he and hotaru rely on the amount of information in the lyrics to win, and can be said to be the opposite of Watanabe’s style. .
Hotaru explains from a more realistic point of view: the professional lyricist handed in only one lyric, so he will feel uneasy: “Can such illusory lyrics really work?” “This is not a good customer to change personally. Have you written a word?” So, they will stick to the proposition and stuff as much information as possible. Only a person like Watanabe, who can both lyricize and compose music, has Yu to abstract the lyrics. .
Watanabe felt that his lyrics would be vaguely written, and there was another reason for writing more theme songs for the works of the combat department. It is easy to write vulgar violence to select words related to the handsome works of the combat department. For example, the words “剣(つるぎ)” are difficult to use. Therefore, he will develop strengths and avoid weaknesses, and be closer to the character’s mood, the lyrics will become abstract. .
In addition, to say that you can both lyrics and composing long items, it is often said that Watanabe “the timing of lyrics disconnection is very strange.” For example, the TV animation “Magic Girl Madoka” OP “コネクト”, the first sentence is “哒啦啦啦啦” five sounds, the average person will write words that will pick exactly five syllable words, such as “いつまでも” and the like. However, Watanabe chose to disconnect the “constraints” and become “transfers/くそく”. .
RUCCA Praise, this song is just like this unique segmentation, which makes people unforgettable. However, if someone who specializes in lyrics does this, he may have to be complained by customers that “it is close to the melody!” He feels that there are advantages for those who can both lyrics and compose music. Professional lyricists don’t have the courage to do this, and even if they want to challenge, they won’t simply master it. This unique segmentation is also the biggest personality of Watanabe’s lyrics. .
Watanabe in turn praised RUCCA, saying: He can match the Japanese lyrics recorded in foreign composer home English, and at the same time not erase the momentum of the song. When ordinary people give Japanese composers a piece of Japanese lyrics, it is easy to make the songs mundane. .
RUCCA shared his own 诀窍: After receiving the sample song recorded in English, he will give priority to the English lyrics of the vowel and the sample song. In particular, the song will become a “hook” in the hearts of the listeners, and must be completely consistent with the song. Consonants should also be combined with the original lyrics. The lyrics he gave to Janis were precisely because of this. .
RUCCA When writing this lyric, even “illusion” will appear, just like the original English lyrics tell him “give me this way”. He said that the Chinese characters of sound reading are more easily combined with the rhythm of the rhythm of foreign composers. The best example to understand is “Southern Lianhua.” Chinese idioms often use plosives and limp, so he often uses Chinese idioms in the lyrics. However, idioms often have multiple levels of meaning, and the amount of information on the lyrics will increase significantly. .
Conversely, the word “する” of Hiragana does not have the clear and clear sense of listening to Chinese characters, so he will only use it when the lyrics are finished, and will not be used in conjunction with the song beat.
Hotaru said that this skill of condensing information is the most powerful part of RUCCA. This is also a special skill among professional lyricists, which is difficult to imitate. RUCCA’s lyrics don’t know what the connection between words and words is, but they can also form a complete song. This is hard to do. He believes that no one in the lyrics of today can do better than RUCCA in this respect. .
And in hotaru’s view, his strength is that the lyrics contain a strong message that you want to express. To say that he is an “artist-type lyricist”, although he is fluent, his lyrics are more like an artist with a clear image packaging than a lyricist who is working on a single order. He attaches great importance to what he wants to express through the lyrics, and whether this lyric can accept it. .
RUCCA also said that he looked at the lyrics created by hotaru such as MYTH & ROID, and deeply admired that he felt that his own lyrics were slightly different from the “J-POP English”. The place where the Japanese is sung to the sense of English, the lyrics are really like English. The depth of information that hotaru’s English lyrics can express is something he can’t imitate. .
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