TV Guide March Issue 2004
「Together with vain for the moment of fully blooming.」
Flower, bird, wind, and moon. On the basis of this kind of image Hamasaki Ayumi created the new song "Moments". By the performance for the cm Kose Vise that she did, this song was streaming fast, and on March 31st at last it was released.
"The characteristics in the elegant melody are that when I try finding from within the stock song it isn't called a ballad or an upbeat, I arrived at this tune. The image was "Flower, bird, wind and moon", I intended to do the arrangement for it but when I heard it, it had an amazing feeling."
So that the listeners would be able to imagine many things, an English title would always be created, and having the words "Flower, bird, wind and moon" presented an empty feeling to it. The thing included in there was like the keyword within the song, it introduced "flower" against her feelings and linked them.
"There is the word "flower" in the song but it had an empty feeling to it. That's why, I also felt like living with utmost effort. When the boundaries of living, seems to bloom beautifully the most, is "living" against "wanting"? Meanwhile, it felt like the continuing to whither aspect, seems to consider the was fully blooming ... The difference is too huge, that I believe made me sad. Somehow, saying that, the meaning that's there felt like 'moment'."
Because the withering can't be seen, previously Hamasaki Ayumi said that she hated flowers.
"Nowadays, I love them. However the flowers I love are few."
Her favorite flowers are roses and casablanca, in the present time she's going to her nationwide tour and is visiting the meeting place's backstage as well, and nowadays the backstage is decorated with flowers.
"The live performance because of these days' moments, they truly can't be the same twice. Saying this I believe resembles the flowers, that's why, the backstage had flowers and I was feeling like "Ok, let's do this!"."
This tour's interval was sewed, and the new song's PV was shot. As I thought the theme she did on flower, bird, wind and moon, the image was mixed beautifully and cruelly but, the shooting scenes also had those exact feelings, and it seems that there were some difficult scenes as well.
"Again it's cold that I thought I was dying (laughs). About 27 times we did the shooting, and at the very last, I sang and was soaked by a thing that looked like mud. At first hot water was spilled over me and, the warmth that I felt was for a second that's why, I felt cold immediately. With the ultra coldness, I was clattering while thinking to myself "My trembling hand, stop, stop" but I did it in the end. And then, the performance stopped exactly and at that time I thought that I became an amazing human being (laughs)."
In the tour, at the television stage performance, with the wavering busy days, Hamasaki Ayumi also created a song and revealed it as well. She already faced forwards to the next stage and the running preparations advanced steadily.