III.The PV

While gathering info about music and lyrics of forbidden lover, I was thinking how much the PV is deeply linked to ken’s tune and hyde’s words.
I couldn’t find any reference to the PV in the interviews I’ve read up to now, because it was shot a little bit later (probably around middle September, 1998), so I’ll write down only my own ( Read more... )

II.The LYRICS

This is intended to be a sort of analysis of the lyrics, an interpretation of forbidden lover, on the basis of a few precious hints hyde himself gave here and there in some interviews. I’ll try to make a precise distinction between what he said and my own thoughts.

( So, as soon as I thought: “ah, hyde is coming”, I started playing games in another room. (laugh) (ken) )

I.The MUSIC
The song ken composed between August 8th and 9th, 1998, was quite different from the version released on the following October 14th. He confessed that, since the beginning, he had considered it a “what-can-it-be?” song. Yet, in less than 20 days, thanks to band and staff’s hard and passionate work, it was transformed into one of the most ( Read more... )

__In yukihiro-san’s career, the longest tour [Tour ’98 “Light my fire”] has just begun. How do you feel?
yukihiro: “I feel it’s getting better. I have only the experience at Tokyo Dome as Laruku member, but personally it was very good. So I feel I have to top it”

__ Overall, I feel your lives have a very deep and dark sound. Did you make it on ( Read more... )