In the winter of 2018, a suspenseful Japanese drama "Unnatural" starring Rimi Ishihara caught fire. For the first time, the audience truly felt the life of forensic doctors and the indispensable role of forensic doctors in the process of truth clarification and justice. The storyline of the play is mournful and tortuous, which has caused countless viewers in front of the screen to weep with sorrow.
Along with this Japanese drama, it is also popular with its theme song, "LEMON", which was composed, arranged and sung by Yonezu Genji.
How good would it have been if it had been
How nice it would be if it were all a dream
I still look at you.
You can still be found in your dreams
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The inexhaustible nostalgia for the deceased, the past and regrets that can never be released, the shadows of loss that bind the living, and the melancholy that will always be worn down by time, are all written into this song.
The whole song does not mention the most heartfelt grief, but uses every detail to show the long and delicate emotion, and whenever this song is played in the play, the last line of defense of the audience's tears completely collapses.
Death, like the bitter lemon smell, lingers around the living and cannot be dissipated.
In this song, Yonezu Genshi speaks of "death" in the tone of a person who is still alive.
After the song's release, it sold 300,000 copies in a week and took first place on oricon's public electronic singles chart for six consecutive weeks.
The bitter "lemon" is played everywhere on the streets and alleys, social networks, and after gaining the love and pursuit of many listeners, the song has lived up to expectations and won the best theme song award at the 96th Japanese Drama Academy Awards.
From composing music to lyrics to singing, the whole piece is a rare and perfect work, and its author, Yonezu Genshi, immediately became the center of everyone's discussion.
"LEMON" brought the public into contact with this person for the first time, but Yonezu Genshi's path of music creation began long ago, and he showed his talent at an early age.
In 2009, the 18-year-old Yonezu submitted a VOCALOID song made with Hatsune Mirai's voice for the first time under the name of Hatsune Mirai on the N station, which became popular with its dynamic style and imaginative lyrics, and in the following years, Yonezu's music gradually transitioned from V-family songs to his own singing and composing, without exception, receiving high reviews and high hits on video websites.
From PV's animation drawing, composing, lyrics, playing, singing, dancing, to post-production and promotion, the entire album was completed by Yonezu alone.
Because of his extremely high musical talent and excellent ability, he was jokingly called "a person who can do anything except have children" by fans.
Just as there are always shadows in the sun, the radiant Yonezu Genshi also has unknown pain.
When he was young, Yonezu Genshi was no different from ordinary people, and even his parents did not notice his problems.
Until one time Yonezu injured his lip in kindergarten and was sent to the hospital for stitches, and the wound that experienced the wound left on Yonezu's mouth completely opened his nightmare.
The young Yonezu looked at himself in the mirror and thought of himself as a monster.
"Monsters are different from others", with this idea, Yonezu is becoming more and more difficult to communicate with people, and can not understand what others are saying, so he can only gradually drift away from the group and hide in his own small world.
As the symptoms worsened, Yonezu's family finally realized that all this did not seem to be caused by loneliness alone, so they took Yonezu to the hospital when he was 20 years old.
After several examinations, Yonezu was eventually diagnosed with high-functioning autism (high-functioning autism is a type of autism, distinguished from low-functioning autism, high-functioning autism has no intellectual, aggression and epilepsy problems, and is prominently manifested as language and social communication disorders).
Despite being diagnosed with such a serious and incurable illness, Yonezu relented, and haunted by childhood nightmares and social troubles, he finally understood that it was not his fault, but that the disease was making a fool of himself.
He stopped being demanding of himself and devoted himself to music, creating excellent works with millions of hits.
For the families of autistic patients, the family needs to pay several times more and more efforts and love to the patient than the usual parents, and also face the cruel reality that the patient cannot get a response with full love.
Yonezu's parents also lost several times on the way to communicate with Yonezu, and before they became adults, the conversation between Yonezu and his father hardly added up to more than an hour.
The person who connects Yonezu's lonely and narrow world with the outside world is Yonezu's grandfather.
When the director of Unnatural approached Yonezu and asked him to write the theme song for the play, his grandfather, who had given Yonezu infinite love, died.
The words that could not be said, the emotional experience that could not be expressed, were all written into the song "Lemon" by Yonezu, and every word was Yonezu's most sincere and sad confession.
"You are still my light."
There are rumors that autistic people often have extraordinary talents in painting and music, perhaps Yonezu is one of these tragic patients with extraordinary talent, perhaps Yonezu has a different attachment to music.
But whatever the facts, the purest emotions in his songs have touched hundreds of millions of listeners.
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