Every song, everyone has a story behind it, and this time the stories of those musicians want to take you to see: ghost singer-songwriter, Yonezu Genshi.
Born on March 10, 1991 in Tokushima City, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan, his father worked for a computer-related company. Because mi's father did not interact with him often when he was young, the relationship between father and son was not harmonious, and his mother was not only a housewife, but also a teacher related to art. Yonezu also has a sister above. His sister usually practiced piano at home, so Yonezu grew up with music and painting.
Yonezu has not been very good at communicating with others since he was a child, and because his name "Yonezu Genshi" is very unique, he feels as if he is different from others, he once fell and injured his lips when he was playing in his childhood, went to the hospital for several stitches, and when he returned to school, he found that his classmates were watching him. In that instant, he felt that he was really different from ordinary people. "Maybe I'm a monster in the eyes of others."
Such ideas began to be born in Yonezu's mind, and it also made him very disgusted with seeing his own face, which indirectly affected the content of future creations.
In his creations, it is almost impossible to see male characters, but mostly girls. And the "monsters" that everyone is familiar with, created by Yonezu. In this regard, he once said in an interview: "Whenever I draw a male character, I project my own appearance. I hate the feeling so much that whenever I want to paint myself, I take all sorts of things to cover my face. Thus the "monsters" were born. The so-called "monster" is Yonezu's projection of himself.
In 2013, he serialized the "Monster Atlas" in the Japanese music magazine "Rock'on Japan", each issue will draw a different monster, and at the end of 2015, Yonezu's final monster will be very special, because it looks a little lonely and cute human girl. And the following note: Many people do not know that they are actually a monster until the end of their lives.
Perhaps before the end of the series, Yonezu already knew that the essence of all the monsters that humans call "monsters" is actually human beings themselves. In his childhood, Yonezu often painted alone. In the fifth grade of elementary school, when his home was connected to the Internet, Yonezu began to connect with the outside world, and the most influential of them was the "flash animation". He used several pictures to match music to make a film, and then became interested in "music" and "painting", and aspired to become a cartoonist at that time.
After going to high school, he began to try to make music, and formed a group with friends in high school, called "late rabbit edda". And went to participate in the music season competition, but unfortunately did not win the award in the end. The orchestra eventually disbanded due to disagreements.
Yonezu, at this time, also found that he did not like to cooperate with others, and was an "egoist" at heart. So he originally went to Osaka to study art after graduating from high school, but chose to take a break from school at this time and began to make his own music wholeheartedly. The animation part is also drawn by himself, because he does not have professional equipment, so many of the animation pictures of early music are drawn by him little by little.
After Yonezu's fifth composition, he changed to hand-drawn and submitted the film to the Japanese animation website niconico.
At the age of 19, Yonezu Genshi, who was not confident in his appearance, regained his joy and happiness in making music and animation, but in the following year of success. When Yonezu Gensei was 20 years old, he was diagnosed by doctors with a high IQ and strong language skills, but he was very poor at interpersonal interaction. Let the learned Yonezu accept the diagnosis as if he had solved the problems of the past 20 years. Coupled with his height of 188 centimeters, he is more certain that he is different. And the name that haunted him for a long time was Yonezu Genshi. His parents never said where the name came from, he only knew it because his name was very special. So he decided to live up to his name and continue to create with a spirit that was not inferior to his own name.
So, in 2012, he decided not to continue to hide in the invisible cloak of the vocaloid, using his real name Yonezu Genshi, and launched his first personal work "diorama", music lyrics and composition, album cover design, animation painting all of which had its own hand, and created its own things with its own voice. "diorama" Chinese meaning "a model that recreates a scene", and the concept of the album is a kind of innocence, precisely because it is not good at communicating with other people, so it creates a world where everyone is connected.
At that time, he decided that he should make songs that could connect with many people. But because it was the first album, it was still produced with a lot of songs with a strong personal style, and only brought in melodies that I thought were good and cool. So this album is not yet a real JPOP song in Yonezu's mind.
So in 2014, he released his second album "YANKEE", YANKEE means American in English. The album, titled Yankee, is about people who emigrated toward the United States. This album is closer to pop music than the previous one. It was also made as the theme song of the Tokyo Metro.
Then in 2015, the third album "Bremen", Bremen was named after the fairy tale "Bremen's Band". The story tells that four animals decide to flee the farm because they are about to be killed by the owner of the farm because they are older. Put down a local orchestra called "Bremen". But in the end, for some reason, they settled down in a small hut in the forest and lived a happy and happy life.
In 2016, Yonezu held a concert tour, and the name was officially called: Yonezu Genshi Music Team. The first song of the album puts unbelieverd, that is, people who don't believe in anything, don't believe in "believe everything", aren't they believing something? This is a song that uses negation to reach affirmation, and only by completely denying oneself can one indirectly reverse thinking to achieve affirmation.
The first MV made in 2016 by Yonezu himself. The music style and lyrics are very strong LOSER. The single also achieved the best single of all years, finishing second at ORICON.
2017 was arguably the year of Yonezu's most collaboration. In February 2017, he collaborated with the anime "Lion of March" to produce the theme song. In June of the same year, he produced the opening song "Peace Sign" for the anime "My Hero Academia Season 2".
Then there is the most popular song of the summer of 2017, the theme song for the movie "Fireworks". The success of the fireworks was even rated as a song more popular than the movie itself.
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At the end of 2017, Yonezu also released his fourth album BOOTLEG, which also included "Gray and Blue" with actor Shoko Sugata. The album also managed to reach number one on the ORICON Credits Chart.
In 2018, Yonezu Genshi collaborated with the Japanese drama "Forensic Queen" to make a hit song that has been on the charts for a long time with the theme of death in the play. Speaking of lemon, Yonezu himself did not expect the song to be so popular. He wrote songs aimed at the pop music market. As Lemon spread the word through the streets, he only thought in his heart, "Ah, it was this song." In Lemon's MV, the fact that Yonezu was wearing high heels was answered in a later radio program. Once Yonezu dreamed. Dreaming that he was at a funeral scene, the sky was very blue and clean, and in front of the funeral queue, suddenly a person began to whistle, blowing in a very noisy way, at this time others began to talk about it, why did he whistle?
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Yonezu's own understanding is that whistling is a tacit understanding that the person shares with the deceased. Only the man and the deceased understand the meaning of whistling.
"Even if some people can't understand things, I don't care about the eyes around me and love you wholeheartedly." 」
The high heels in the MV were chosen to represent such items. Flamingo was made in October 2018. The song differs from the style of the previous single, Lemon. He said: "A lot of people have recognized me by Lemon and I wonder how these people will react when they hear Flamingo.
Yonezu Genshi is not a singer-songwriter who happens to be popular. Before coming to this day, he injected his own ideas and ideas into his own works. Many people kept talking: I hope that the former Yonezu can come back, I hope to hear the previous songs. For this, he also responded with the radio: it is impossible, it is impossible to go back to the past, and the products of that era are the favorites of that time. Even if I go back and do what I did at the time, it won't be the same.
Yonezu, who once had no confidence in himself, put all his efforts into music, was not good at communicating with others, but began to try to cooperate in order to make better music. For many, the music he made was a form of redemption: "You are still the light that guides me today." This lyric has also been taken to heart by many.
Yonezu possessed a worldview and the product of his philosophical thoughts, as well as the chemical changes in his lyrics. These things are more attractive and deeper than mere appearances, and if you are not careful, you will fall into the world created by Yonezu.
I don't know what awaits me in the next life, I may fall, but to get up, I may be injured, but I have to keep living. I think this kind of life is also very beautiful.