author: Zy - translation: Non-Non

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D will finally release their long-awaited new work seven months after they released the album Genetic World. The single Tightrope is full of confidence, with driving rhythm and melody, as well as aggressive lyrics. As we listen to this song with the three coupling songs, we can’t help feeling the endless power of D! Here, we’ll ask the five members about their feelings and eagerness for the event Mad tea party, which they will organize after a three year interval.


Tightrope has a real driving feeling, which matches D. But it’s rare to have such straight and aggressive lyrics like that, isn’t it?

ASAGI: Yes. (laugh)

Because of that we felt it was more rock than before.

ASAGI: Rock, I think, is an “explosion of feeling.” So in that way, I think it came to be a song that matches a rock sound.

What was the background that generated this world view?

ASAGI: For the story, I used the world I described in Corvinus (ASAGI’s solo work released on September 20, 2006) and Rebellion (Major debut single BIRTH, first limited edition type B, C/W) in my head. If I put them on a time line, their order would be Rebellion, Corvinus, then Tightrope.

Present, past, future……each song links to each other, and has D’s unified world view in all the songs.

ASAGI: The main character of Tightrope is a guard who escaped from a prison world in Corvinus, then songs that stimulated the guard to wake are put in Tightrope. The songs were made like that and are actually linked to past songs, but the present feelings and thoughts are from myself as I'm the one who wrote the lyrics and will sing them.

So songs are born through the world portrayed in your songs and thoughts you have about the world around you.

ASAGI: When we made Corvinus the world view of Tightrope was almost born as well, but we couldn’t complete it since our feelings at that time didn’t match or really link to it enough.

So your present feelings are poured into the souls of your songs at the time of writing?

ASAGI: Yes, I think so. They are also songs that stimulate me too. I want people who worry about something, and that includes me, to listen and feel the strength in them.


For the rest of the interview, please refer to Zy 48.
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