CD Data December 1999

Offering a Winter song with Warmth


During the interview at the time of their Best Album, MAX said "Someday we want to show everyone an undancing MAX." About three months later, their dream has come true. Singing in a girlish love pattern with a snowy setting their life sized selves seem to show through, in their new product, which is a Sweet Chistmas Song


It's their first Winter song. Their first "undancing song" as a single.
MAX's new Maxi Single, "Issho ni..." is a soft and girlish love song, which seems to float on a mid-winter landscape, where the snow floats down rapidly.

"We never had a Winter song before this. It's also our first time to release a single in winter, so we just wanted to try and sing this kind of song once." REINA
"At our concerts, we've shown not just dacing MAX but also, undancining ballad MAX, but I think they're a lot of people who have seen us that way, we thought 'We want to try a song which focuses heavily on the singing.'" LINA
"Right. I think that MAX has a really strong 'Cool' or 'cool' image, so we wanted to show people other parts of us as well." MINA
"Also, they undancing songs we've sung at our concerts had a more adult feeling, but this one, beign a Christmas song, has become a song a cute feeling. Also, with an up tempo song, with dance, your senses go towards the sound, some how, but we also began to feel 'We want to communicate the lyrics to everyone.'" NANA

"I want to spend Chistmas with the person I love." It's certain that when people who secretly feel that listen to "Issho ni..." their hearts will tighten.
The heroine meets again by coincidence a person that she'd been worrying about since Junior High, and realizes that she's in love with him, but she can't tell him her feelings.
"In the beginning, we thought that it was a song about a couple who had gone out in the past suddenly meeting again, a song where their feelings have never changed." REINA
"Right. We thought maybe it was a painful song about how they'd broken up, but she still is in love with him." LINA
"But it's really a song where she hasn't even confessed her feelings yet." NANA
"So we want this girl to do her best. (laugh) Since this song doesn't give away what happens in the end, we're praying for a happy ending." REINA
"We've song about alot of different kinds of love, but some were pretty grown up, and far away from our own feelings....but the moment we looked at these lyrics, we all said 'Oh, I understand these kind of feelings!,' so it's been a really easy song to get into. MINA

Until now, they had to pick their costumes while keeping the fact they they had to dance in mind, but they seemed happy that this time they can chose clothes without worrying about moving, and can wear pin heels. Although it wasn't completed at the time of this interview, the coupling song "Powder Shadow" is also a romantic and painful winter song. Of course, Active MAX is good, but this kind of MAX, where their true faces show through is also very charming. So, what about plans for next year?
"We're thinking that we've like to do a spring to summer tour again." NANA
"This year we went to a lot of littler places so next year we want to challenge the large places." MINA
"Because we always want to challenge ourselves and try many things. They might be rejected, but we just go ahead and say our ideas. (laugh) Like, we'd like ot try a concert with only girls, or a joint live." REINA

From elementary school students to people in their sixties, the young and old alike come running to MAX's concerts.
"When I see everyone dancing, regardless of their age, I think 'I'm so happy! I'm glad we're doing this!'" LINA

Because they are that way, for sure, they have many dreams that will become reality. The four's challenges continue on and on.

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