[tenshi no hane]

Originally Posted by mellody

Btw, someone should translate this, the interview part : http://ent2.excite.co.jp/music/speci...iwa/photo.html

I'm too busy to translate it fully, but here's the gist of it:

The title ‘guitarissimo’ is a play on ‘pianissimo’ (=a soft, small sound) because she’s small and plays the guitar. Also, ‘issimo’ means ‘very much’ in Italian and she feels it strengthens the word ‘guitar’.

The album has a ‘spring feeling’ to it in her opinion: a time of new beginnings, which might also be scary, but she hopes her songs encourage those who listen to it.

She wanted to make an energetic song like ‘arienai!!’ because she’ll go on tour soon (and songs like that can get the audience pumped up).

The title ‘hys-‘ is short for ‘hysteric’.

Some of her lyrics refer back to her high school days. She wanted to write those songs because as she grows older she might no longer be able to write about such things.

She wrote ‘tsuyoku naritai’ before her debut. Back then she wasn’t sure if she was ever gonna debut and felt troubled. She thinks she might no longer be able to write a song in which she sings ‘I want to be stronger’ in such an honest way. It was a song she could only have written back then.

She wrote ‘Dear Days’ recently. In the lyrics she sings about the city slowly changing. One of the stores where she used to get her guitar fixed also disappeared.

She's a bit afraid of change, she doesn’t want to be stereotyped. The things she writes about might change as she grows older, but she hopes her ‘core’ will stay the same.

She loves performing with a band/with other people.

She’s more a musician than an artist. As a child she would always check which musicians were credited in the CD booklet. For example, she’d check who played what instrument and would remember the names. She loved performing with so many different people and hopes she’ll meet lots more people this year. And she also wants to continue to improve her skills as a musician.