音楽制作と分析
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Alright.
Lovely.
Okay, okay.
Anything new on your side?
Project or whatever.
Yeah, with my project, it's been...
Uh-oh, phone call.
You'd ignore it?
No.
Yeah, alright.
Yeah, I mean, the video is out there.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
The video is out there.
Yeah, okay.
It is out there, and...
The one you cannot...
The one that I will not yet publicize.
But yeah.
Congrats on that.
Oh, yeah, thank you, thank you.
Yeah, great, great.
Slowly and steadily, I'm building it.
Lovely.
It's not like an everyday upload.
It's not constant.
But I make it when I feel like making it.
And yeah, it's a slow and steady journey.
Nice.
Yeah.
That's the best way.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Right, right.
So...
Having a great, I guess, like, you know, like a constant and steady, you know, relaxing,
but at the same time, working hard on a daily life, I guess.
Yeah, it's really fun to sort of see what works and what doesn't work.
I see.
Yeah, there's a lot...
Yeah, several contents.
Pop.
Many of them don't.
And, you know, it's interesting to look at what works and doesn't.
Still, after going through all these content creations, you know, it's still fascinating
to see what the public, how the market reacts to content.
It is interesting.
Yeah.
Is that what you're excited the most in the whole process?
Yeah.
It is exciting to sort of go through the stage where you're not doing well in terms of numbers,
but like here and there, it pops and sort of you start to, you know, understand what works
and the rate of you popping raises and that's exciting.
That's exciting.
So you love, of course, like, I guess, making content, but also like analyzing, I guess.
Yeah, I love...
And see the things behind, the numbers behind, I guess.
Yeah, right.
It is exciting.
市場とアーティストのバランス
Right, right.
It is exciting.
Sort of the build-up of a new project, that's exciting as well.
It has always been for me.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, right.
That's good.
So you try many things to see...
Yeah, yeah.
That's right.
That's right.
I'm trying different types of content, you know, some with a lot of editing, some with
like almost no editing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know, different types of Kikakos.
Yeah, and it's still a journey.
And it's still a journey.
That's nice.
Yeah.
That's nice.
Do you sort of like play around and discover with your music to see how the market reacts
or is it mostly what you want to make?
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
So we're kind of approaching from like the opposite direction.
I'm sort of dependent on how the market reacts, whereas you are more centric on how you want
to make it and sort of two different sides.
Right, right, right.
Yeah.
But I'm feeling like that's really important to see, I mean, to analyze things and to see
how they react and how, you know, the thing was like received and reacted.
Yeah.
I understand it.
And I really, yeah.
So sometimes I try to see inside and see how they react.
Yeah.
Yeah, recently I do sometimes.
Oh, so like analyze the...
Yeah.
Yeah.
But to me, it's like, that doesn't excite me.
So to me, it's like kind of job.
It's like...
I see.
Yeah.
That doesn't excite me.
Yeah.
So, but I know it's important.
So sometimes I try to do.
I mean, I guess in the field of like music and artists, that's a little bit of a tricky
factor, because I guess in some ways the audience are looking for sort of an authenticity in
the musician, right?
Yeah.
It's truthfulness.
Right, right, right.
In his work, right?
So like if an artist is pandering to the market, then it just becomes nobody.
Right.
So just kind of the balance is kind of, I guess, difficult for, I guess, artists.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You're so right.
Yeah.
It's kind of difficult.
So if you see like, yeah, sometimes I see all the content that popping out in the music
industry.
Yeah, like the rankings and all that stuff.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And like little short movies and things like that to study what's going on.
And clearly there are like some formula, you know, of content.
Yeah.
音楽制作と自己最適化
And then, but I don't feel like just if I do the same thing, that's not me, kind of.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's not inside you, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Why would you create something that's not inside you?
What's the point of this whole activity?
Right, right, right.
But still, you have to be, how do you say, you have to be, how should I say?
Okay, I forget the word.
Not minimized, not maximized.
Optimized?
Yes.
In English?
Yes.
Optimized?
Yes.
Okay.
I, at the same time, I, in the other hand, I understand that I have to optimize my content
to this age.
Yeah.
Like to do the things, arrange it, you know?
Like, are you talking about like short form videos and stuff?
Or like, how should I deliver those things?
Like if you make new songs, how are you going to spread the information that you made a
new song?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, I see.
So that's also important, I'm feeling so.
So, you know, you can make your own things, you can do.
You just do it and you can do.
But, you know, it's a different thing if people will listen to your voice or not.
Yeah.
At the same time, you have to optimize your music into some optimized form at the same
time.
So, yeah.
So, yeah, I sometimes try recently.
Like how about partnering or finding somebody to find like a business person?
Like to partner up with a business person.
Yeah.
To take care of that for you.
Yeah.
That's good.
Like having a, for example, like SNS manager or like content, you know, that's one solution.
But the thing is, I don't want to, I don't want it to be too, too that way, you know?
Like.
To the point where, oh, that's not me anymore.
So, yeah.
Yeah.
Like if the manager starts talking about, hey, we need to do a TikTok trend.
Yeah.
Where you're dancing to this audio.
I don't know.
Yeah.
And I mean, yeah.
I mean.
Yeah.
So.
Yeah.
It is.
There's a fine line.
Yeah.
Right.
It is.
It's a tricky balance, I would say.
But that's what they, the companies, you know, big companies, they are like, you know, music
industry.
That's what they do.
I mean, recently they do with their artists.
Oh, sort of.
They've got like SNS.
Be trendy.
Yeah.
I see.
Guys, professionals inside and then.
Oh, okay.
Make some content with the artists and to boost.
日本への愛とコンテンツ制作
It's like a manager.
Oh, I see.
I see.
So.
Hmm.
So.
But you're born with that.
So I guess.
Like, that's opposite.
Like, I can't.
There's really nothing inside me except for, like, the love of Japan, I guess.
Oh.
There's really nothing that I strongly want to make.
It's just, I have love for Japan.
Yeah.
I would love to spread the goodness of Japan to other people.
And I love, I guess, spreading that.
So.
That's it.
So it does give me a lot of freedom to sort of, like, play around with the content.
Right.
And go for whatever is viral.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
So.
It's fun.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's always a difficult road to navigate.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
All right.
聴衆への感謝
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