I mentioned this before, but I’ve been enjoying music itself for so long that, while working as a composer, I can’t even remember when I last found music fun.
Of course, things changed considerably after I entered this life and began performing onstage myself, but…
In any case, because music had been boring back then, what I became obsessed with was how successful the songs I wrote were.
In other words, their results—album sales, digital chart rankings, and things like that.
Naturally, since music wasn’t particularly fun, I didn’t care what critics said. That was why critics hated my songs, but my songs back then resonated extremely well with the public.
The reason was simple.
‘Because I left my ego out of it and wrote the songs people wanted.’
Even now, I still like achieving worldly success.
Of all the songs I’ve written in this life, the one I’m most fond of is glassy sky. You might wonder why I cherish glassy sky, which I sang with Blooming, instead of Goodbye, My Four Seasons, which I performed in the final, but…
‘Because it had the best results.’...
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