Voice actor and singer Miyuki Tomita released the first album of ALBUM progrue. In 2019, he debuted as a singer of "Present Moment" and released 3 singles "Progrue", which included all 10 songs including the title song of the same name and 7 new songs of these 3 singles. In the interview, she started from the idea of incorporating the song "Letter", which she composed for the first time, and asked her about her big encounter with the title "Progrue" and the experience she said she wanted to cherish the encounter.
"Progrue" contains inspiration for itself
- The first album is complete, how are you feeling?
I think the performance of a work is very suitable. The included songs are also 3 songs and 7 new songs released so far, all because I hope that through this album, fans can review the journey they have traveled with me and see how I grew up.
——This time I also challenged the lyrics, how much does it have to do with the production of the album.
After hearing that I wanted to make an album, I also proposed the title of the album, the direction of the song, and the smoothness of the song. I think it's very close to my own production. Although singing is also like this, but re-examining what you want to do, the music you want to make is also completed in this year and a half, so this form is formed.
——Looking back on your debut 1 and a half years ago, how do you feel?
Although I think debuting as a singer is recent, I have gained valuable experience in a very dense year and a half. Looking at the schedule before becoming a scourge of the corona, it is a matter of course that activities will be held every Saturday and Sunday for five months, but I think it is a very rare thing to be unable to meet with guests. Although this singer activity is good for voice actor activities, on the contrary, there are different types of work, but I think it has a good influence on each other. As a woman also grew a lot.
——What are your feelings on the online concert?
The audience was excited and supported my various sides. Although I often sing online, there are times when I don't know the dividing point between formal performances and rehearsals. The teacher who was caring for me told me that "the concert is Disneyland", which is one of the things I have learned in the past year and a half, that is, to bring you non-daily concerts. However, if you are online, you must have a more formal awareness than usual. From the final rehearsal onwards says it is an official performance. Because that was also taught to me by the teacher, I had a real sense of benefiting people.
This change of consciousness is also full of it in this work. So, what kind of work do you want to make this time?
So far, I have also experienced the joy of carrying animation works on my back, and there are also works that can be expressed without carrying them. Judging from the people who listen to anime songs, I think that the songs with unfamiliar sounds are also good, and I think it is possible to do this album. So I proposed to my manager and the record company that I wanted to sing such a song.
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Although it was not yet at the level of a plan, I handed over the notebook where I had written my ideas to my agent.
At what stage was the title of "Progrue" decided?
The songs are out, and the recording is nearing the end. Every song has a concept, and because it is a voice actor, what is the advantage that can be played? Because it's a deductive job, I think it would be nice if I could create a main axis character in each song and let everyone see 10 kinds of Tomita Miyu. So, I hope you can feel the story-like atmosphere, I think the word "Prologue" is very suitable. As a work, I don't insist any more, Progrue is the maximum I can do now, a title that includes a title that must be surpassed even one step at the time of launching the next work, and this is not the end, inspiring its own meaning.
——The first song of the debut song "Present Moment" also began here, is this awareness very strong?
Originally, because it was the title song, I wanted to use "Dilemma" as the first song. This time there is a song of my own lyrics "Letter", this song is full of my life, I think it would not be possible without this single, so I want to use "Letter" as the summary song of the album The first song is the first step as a singer, I think "Present Moment" is very good.
" "Dilemma" is a very mature song, how did you think when you first listened to it.
"Dilemma" is a song that has been released in the third single " Broken Sky " . Because it feels different from the worldview of the animation work, it deviates from it, and it is a song that makes the staff feel that they will one day sing and not sing. Therefore, the production of the album also began at the same time, so I wanted to include it. So, the song has also been very warm. The key word in this work is the growth of Tomita Misaki, and I thought it would be nice if anyone who sang "Present Moment" could also sing such a song, so I deliberately changed the second song to "Dilemma".
- Is this song also decided from the beginning?
From the beginning, I never thought of calling the main song, and in the process of singing, the image of the MV gradually emerged, "This song is the title song!" "Intuitively think so." "Dilemma" is a song based on the concept of time, in order to express the past, present, and future, and shoot lipstick from the opposite direction. Finished something like the movement of my mouth lyrics, the surrounding objects moved in reverse. In order to reproduce that, the director gave me an upside-down image, and I sang with that practice.
I think the lyrics will become Roman and read backwards, and the mind will become messy.
yes. Because I attach great importance to expressions when I photography, if I focus too much on the lyrics, the expressions will become distant, but the lyrics are also difficult, and it is the most difficult of the MVs filmed so far, and it is the most practiced photography.
The "dilemma" is based on the concept of time, and if time can be turned back, where do you want to go back.
I think voice actors are a vocation, and of course I don't regret it, but if I can turn back the clock, I want to spend ordinary student life. Because I started working in my 10s, I wasn't able to spend my student life like everyone else. I had little experience going to karaoke after school, or playing on campus. I remember very clearly that on the second day of the graduation ceremony, I had a job to get on the bus in Oita Prefecture in advance, and I also sneaked out with my graduation certificate. I don't have experience writing or taking pictures with everyone, so I wanted to give it a try.
Singing moves people's hearts
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Didn't you try to compose a song at the beginning of the album production? Such words. I also have the mood that I will try to write lyrics one day, and if I want to write, I would like to write a thank you to everyone into lyrics. So I got that opportunity, so I took the form of word first.
--What kind of mood was it written?
Although this is true for myself, this is a song for the characters who have played them so far, and it is also a song for people and fans who have taken care of themselves every day. I'm not a lyrics professional, so I don't think I can write fashionable lyrics, so I write lyrics on the credit card of the album: What is the thing that makes People Feel Excited when Mimi Tomita rides? When I think about it like this, I think I should be able to convey my feelings directly to everyone. Writing a letter can be written frankly even if it is something that is usually too shy to express in words.
Why is the first person "I"?
One of the reasons is that "I" was chosen so that fans could also enter the worldview of the music. When people other than me hear about it, I would be happy if I could remember the path I walked with Miya Tomita like a marquee.
- Have you noticed after experiencing lyrics?
Professional lyricists find the vocabulary of language to be enormous. For example, if you change the word dream to another language, will it become a goal? In order to express a word in other languages, it is difficult to take it out of your own drawer. Also, singing is not about self-satisfaction, but about hoping that my song will change that person's life a little bit. Although fans also say that they want to become like me, when I listen to these words, I feel that Singing can move people's mood and move people's hearts, so I think singing for others is an answer Letter"The first theme is for yourself, the second theme is for you, if you can feel this change, I will be very happy."