But I think that the most important reason that this year felt like it went by quickly was because the whole time, I was doing what I loved. We went to the whole country in a long tour, and I feel like that was a very big thing. After last Dec., and for the half year perpatory period I had alot of fun together with the staff and the members making something together. Usually when you're with someone too much, time passes really slow. But when you're having fun, it passes really quickly. Yeah,yeah. It was definately that kind of thing. I guess this was a year that made me feel 'After all, I do love concerts the best.'
Yeah, speaking of concerts, there's something else as well. I really thought strongly '(What I love most,) It's concerts! It's having and watching concerts!' Well...I saw a High-Lows concert. The first time I thought 'Concerts are cool.' was when I saw a concert of the Blue Hearts, the band I first grew to love, before I had entered into the Entertainment World. And, when I saw the High-Lows concert this year, it felt like that energy from the past had come to life again. Moreover, I was able to meet Hiroto-san, whom I've loved for sooo long.
Half of my live is Hiroto-san. (laugh). I calculated, 'I've loved him since I was in 5th grade, which makes it 10 years that this feeling has continued. Which is half my live!' and went wild by myself. (laugh) And of course a person like that has had an impact on me. Because my music life began from him. When I look back for an origin, I realize the kind of music I like (punk beat music) is that kind. So it's a huge thing now. I seriously think 'I want to be in a band' and start learning to play all sorts of instruments. (laugh) Right now, I have to gather friends to make my band. I've tried to ask them, but it hasn't been very sucessful. But I don't know how much I'm improving if I just play guitar by myself, and even if I want to make songs, I don't have a theme, so I'm not making any headway, so I think, I just want to put it quickly into something concrete. When I get my friends together, sometime I want to have an absolutely secret concert, at a tiny live house. And then have the guests that come there listen, and give their impressions. What do I want to do in the band? Um...I want to express my true self on that spot having fun, in music. Like, rather than having songs that have already been made up, to just freely let out sounds and songs about my mood of that moment. I would have a melody, but...for example, if I was hungry, I would sing 'I'm hungrryy....' or something. (laugh) Interesting things like that. Something simple but with abundent expression. But I think that the reason I was able to become to think about that kind of thing is because in our world view and our direction as MAX, you've begun to see our colors, nevertheless the bonds of our 4 person team are strong. (Those bonds) are unshakkable, so I've been able to begin to think 'I'd also like to do something different individually.'
Huh? It was easy to see our growth this year? It seems like if we took a step back somewhere, we put ourselves back on track? That makes me happy. I don't really have any self-conciousness. I don't really notice if I've changed at all very much. But....it is certain that I'm different than I was in the past.
To tell you the truth, until we did the tour last year, I couldn't see what I liked most. So I always thought, I'll try a lot of different things in work, and from that I'll find what I really like. And last year, I began to feel 'Oh, it's concerts!'. And then coming into this year, I realized clearly 'What I live is singing, and music.'No matter what you're doing, 'finding what you love and doing it' is completely different from 'I don't know what I love so I'll search for it.' Yes...when last year's tour ended, my feeling towards music changed, and this year began. Then I went to the High-Low's concert and by that stimulus I was convinced. 'This is it!' (laugh)
I feel like I may have become an adult a bit. I think that I don't When I couldn't see what I wanted to do, I felt like I was just settling into the things I was given, but now I can think 'I'm not doing that. I want to absorb many kinds of things, I have so many things I want to do, and I'm overflowing with desire and ambition for those things.'
I guess in a sense my sense of responsabity has grown stronger than it was before. But only a little. (laugh) The reason for that? I think because MAX has four members, and all of our individual colors have a place. I think that my feelings to find that place and my own individual color were always really strong. When MAX debuted, the name 'MAX' was really strong, and then the next year 'The people of MAX' and now because the impression of a MAX where each member has their own individual color has gotten strong, I'm going to try to do as much as I can, do my best to express that. Like, 'MAX isn't four people that are one, MAX made up of separate people who all have different individualities. I've had parts that I asked the other members to deal with, but I'm doing my best to communicate myself myself as much as I can.
The current Miyauchi Reina! A challenger day by day! I think that phrase captures it, yeah.