
Sho:
Indeed this is a journey. As stated in the name of the concert tour, this period of time “5x20” is a journey. Therefore, you could feel things like footprints of this journey.
Jun:
Q. Do you have any special thoughts towards 20th anniversary?
J. No.
Leader:
Normally, you don’t do a work for 20 years.
Sho:
Not only our “façade” that fans have been seeing thus far, how we ...
Nino:
Because our group suspension is coming, so ...
Masaki:
Already, even without looking at each other’s face ...
Jun:
Well, we do the shooting naturally. This would be the best.
Leader:
I thought “Is it necessary to take so many shots?”, but somehow I think we are targeting the chance.
(Title: Making of 5x20 ARASHI)
Jun:
More than anything, I think it is good that we five come to do the shooting like this.
Rather than conveying lots of contents, I think it is great that, after the live, we five could again gather and spend our time together like this.
Sho:
Even we are welcoming our anniversary, we have no intention at all to do large-scale things, really we just want to do things we manage to do with the staff we are familiar with.
When we enter this shooting site, there are guards in suits here. Though I think even you put guards here, actually no one will attack us. Such sense of scale ... I am bit shocked that the shooting turns so large-scale.
Jun:
Ten year ago, when we worked on the song “5x10”, at that time we also wrote the lyrics ourselves; Sho-kun also wrote the rap, and Nino wrote the lyrics embedding our messages inside, the song was created in this way.
In fact, in November 2019, we shall have our full 20 years old. That this song is released in such timing probably has a significant meaning.
Masaki:
The Director said to us, “Sing for your members. All these years you have been singing in front of your audience, singing for your audience. Today, by the sea, you sing this song for your members”.
In the first place, the lyrics of “5x20” is created by us five, so it is easy to get into the feeling of the song.
Leader:
I sing thinking about my members ... but this is really personal feeling, to sing with various feelings. I think the director may be more touched than we are.
Sho:
They have been shooting us all along in the green rooms. Not only our “façade” that fans have been seeing thus far, I think this is a video that audience could see how we went through this journey. Therefore I think this is a video that audience could feel the warmth in it, though I do not involve in the editing at all.
I write the rap lyrics, indeed the lyrics like “‘Go cruising from tomorrow?’”, “Reaching towards the horizon line”, the sea, the storm as the meteorological phenomenon, to look through the rift in the clouds, “No matter how heavily rainy the day is”; indeed I wrote the rap when things like cloud, sky, sea came up to my mind.
When I wrote the rap, I was in the living room of my home, I silently listened to the melody alone and wrote the rap. It is deeply touching that the scenery I wrote on the table of my living room can be sung in front of the sea like now.
Especially because we did not make music video for the song “5x10” during our 10th anniversary, so when we are in our 20th anniversary ... my living room is a small world to me, so it is deeply touching that when I was in my living room drinking - drinking is important to me - drinking and wrote the rap in my small world like this, and it turns out that we can come to this place and shoot a video for this song.
I write the rap for this song, while he (Nino) is responsible for the lyrics of the singing part (Nino doya face). Indeed, we are “5x20 band” (Nino: Right!), please also ask about his thoughts (Nino: All the more!)
Nino:
Really because this song was originally created for the birthday of ARASHI, at the end I am told that it is included in the Best Album ... because I never thought about “let’s put it in the Best Album”, “let’s make it a single”, I started writing the lyrics thinking about how to make this song to be able to be listened to by everyone.
Because I really started writing the lyrics with this wish only, it feels so extraordinary that we are shooting a PV for this song, and I am very shocked. And it is very cold here, freezing. It’s already mid-April but ... it’s cold. There is such a thing. Ah! Please take a look. There are lots of rain clouds.
Leader:
Indeed going through 20 years, I feel two times of weight when singing those lyrics again in lives, more than during 10th anniversary ... though I also felt the weight in the lyrics during 10th anniversary. But indeed 20 years is amazing, I feel so when I sing the climax part of this song.
It’s significant. The lyrics are so simple but the weight is so significant.
Nino:
In order to convey the message as much as possible that we have not changed in our 18 years old, 19 years old, 20 years old, I wrote the lyrics in the form of putting together the words I have heard them saying.
Leader:
Because the words and thoughts of us five are the same, the lyrics is like joining our thoughts together, though it may also feel “of course it would be so”, somehow, there are parts that only we five could understand.
Normally, you don’t do a work for 20 years, in a group. Indeed there are lots of things that only we five could understand.
Masaki:
We already become so close like even without looking at each other’s face, we would know what each other wants to say. We do not have to look at each other to know what they want to say. Yes.
Jun:
Q. Do you have any special thoughts towards 20th anniversary?
J. No. I don’t. Not that I have no thoughts towards this, but that this is not something to be put into words.
Nino:
Because our group suspension is coming, so, our 20 years would be different from that of people who would continue their journey, right? Well ... because our 20th year is bit different from that of people who would continue afterwards, I am not able to answer this question so simply.
Because this is the 20 years that we see when we know that this is going to suspend.
Masaki:
The motivation and feelings that keeps us going on is the same among us. We also very much look forward to making this song in such form so that we can convey our messages to everyone in such timing of anniversary, and we think this is a worthwhile work.
Sho:
Since we were born in Hawaii up to what we are now, I think this is a monumental journey.
By the sea of Hawaii, on the cruiser, in the sea, we uttered our first newborn cry, this is indeed one significant element of ARASHI.
PV Making - Members Messages:
http://bit.ly/2YoynDO5x20 Lyrics - ARASHI (To Fans Prose Ver.):
http://bit.ly/2JhJrfJ5x20 Lyrics - ARASHI (To Members Prose Ver.):
http://bit.ly/2Ym6yfd