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is a song by Japanese band Sakanaction. It was the leading track from the band's fourth studio album ''Kikuuiki'', released in March 2010. == Background and development == The song was first written in 2001 by Ichiro Yamaguchi, while he was a member of his high-school band Dutchman. At the time he struggled to create a completed version of the song, feeling that the members of Dutchman could not actualize his vision for the song, and that such a song would make him seem conceited. The phrase ''me ga aku aiiro'' came to Yamaguchi in a dream when he was a teenager, where an unknown woman stood in front of him and chanted those words. Yamaguchi created the song as a seven-minute long rock opera suite, something the song had been even in the initial writing stages. After deciding the theme of their fourth album would be mixing the unmixable, Yamaguchi remembered the song, and felt that this single song could explain the concept of the whole album.〔 He decided that "Me ga Aku Aiiro" should be the leading promotional song off of the album, in order to display parts of Sakanaction the band did not show off on their dance-pop single "Aruku Around", to their new audience who had come to know them through the song.〔 Even though Yamaguchi felt that his band Dutchman could not create the song in 2001, Sakanaction members were skilled enough to be able to complete the song.〔 In particular, he was impressed with the band's bassist Ami Kusakari, who managed to create the vocal chorus section exactly as he imagined, despite him only giving her a rough demo.〔 The string instrument and orchestral instrument recordings were recorded in two different sessions, with the orchestral instruments needing only a single take.〔 Despite this, the song took up much more time than Yamaguchi had intended, with the band members only finishing the song on February 16, 2010, a month before the album's release. Yamaguchi found singing the lower notes of the song difficult, so in his place drummer Keiichi Eshima sings these low notes. Yamaguchi wrote new lyrics to the song, and felt like the song mixed his past self with his present self.〔〔 He inserted many lyrical gimmicks into the song's lyrics, such as hiding the album's title ''Kikuuiki'' in the lyric .〔 This gimmick was the reason that Yamaguchi decided to capitalize the two central letters of the album title (''kikUUiki''). Yamaguchi felt that the lyrics he wrote were like a first-person novel, using lyrical techniques that he had not personally experimented with before. He wrote the lyrics abstractly, using words that meant a lot to Yamaguchi personally that would not mean anything to outside listeners.〔 He hoped that this technique would move listeners, however without fully understanding why they felt moved.〔 The song was written considering how popular music consumers chose to listen to music in the early 2010s: by listening to samples on a purchasing page, or to ringtone versions of a song, and from there deciding if they like a song or not. Yamaguchi wanted to create a song that was hard to critically review due to its complexity, and that music consumers could not evaluate listening to a single sample.〔〔 Yamaguchi wrote a song that was similar in style to songs in a Japanese school chorus competition: songs without a chorus but with multiple different verses.〔 He made the first section begin with a kayōkyoku-inspired pop melody, so that the song could be understood by casual pop music listeners.〔 Yamaguchi felt that the song was a failure, because it did not bridge the gap between underground music listeners and listeners of popular music as he had wanted it to.〔 Yamaguchi continued to use the lyrical techniques that he had utilised in "Me ga Aku Aiiro", which he saw as something people were more likely to empathise with.〔 He used these on the next song that the band produced after "Me ga Aku Aiiro", "Identity" (2010), which was released as a single four months after "Me ga Aku Aiiro"'s release.〔 After "Me ga Aku Aiiro"'s release, Sakanaction asked electronic musician Rei Harakami to create a remix of the song, as he had done for "Native Dancer", the leading track of their previous album, ''Shin-shiro'' (2009). However, Harakami could not find the time in his schedule to create it, before his death in July 2011. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Me ga Aku Aiiro」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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