[Translation] [Interview] 109 News 2015.04.08

[Yoake]

Thank you for the translation.

To be honest, during my rehearsals for the Countdown Live, I noticed I had been running away. I kept rambling about things like wanting to separate my private life and my work when I started living overseas and in Japan, right? Having said those things makes me laugh now. Like, “You just said those things because you wanted to run away, didn’t you?” Making up such reasons, I wanted to run and tried to run, but actually, I can’t run and I don’t want to. It’s not about where I am or who I am with. Wherever I am or whoever I am with, I can’t be anyone but me. I know that now. I have decided to stop running away. When I made the Countdown Live with this mindset, I felt “Aah, that’s right! This is me.” I spontaneously returned to myself. When I accepted myself honestly, it wasn’t scary or hard, it felt right, like “I was always like this, huh.” Afterwards I was to able clear several things and things came into focus. I felt confident, how should I put it, I stopped doubting my instincts about what’s right.

When I read this, I think about WARNING. It might be the real meaning of the song. The Ayu who says "shut up you don't know me, I want to be myself, I'm not your puppet" to the Ayu who wanted to run away. It could be the reason why it's the first song of the album (just after a bell) too.