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Confess to a Crime, No. 5, YOU

Long time no see from YOU.

I'll say this immediately, but on June 21st our first single "imagine" and on the 26th our first album "Confess to a Love" will be released. If you would, please listen to them!

Haa, I feel like I'm going crazy. At the end of the live on April 7 we went backstage but...to put it bluntly, NO! Let us perform! Let us! Let us! Pleeeease let us (heart). I haven't satisfied my desiiire. I feel like I'm turning into a werewolf... Aah, the moon is calling to me; I look forward to the full moon in June! I make a limiter cut (?) and always GO in RED!! (falling apart)

Damn! The hot summer that I hate has arrived. Someone please tell me, how should we musicians deal with the heat and UV radiation? Because of my health, I'm not one to go to the beach; plus, I'm a beautiful guy with bleached hair who takes good, perfect care of unwanted hair (major point (heart)), so I think it would be odd for me to make an appearance at the beach. Rather, I actually don't think it feels good (laugh). Wouldn't it be interesting if I went all out and became a "ganguro"* (outdated!)? "I liked the white-skinned YOU-san!" (major point (heart)) is what everyone would say. Styles turn wild with time, and there's nothing wrong with looking at everyone's made-up photos and saying, "Wow, I'm gorgeous!" (major point (heart)), is there? Right...? What about how to deal with the summer heat, you ask? I got to thinking about myself and forgot about that (laugh...major point (heart)). WHAT?! YOU THINK I'M A NARCISSIST? Don't be ridiculous. But I can't say that's impossible either.

Now then, I'll leave the foolishness at that and write seriously. I believe that being overconfident isn't a particularly good thing; as they say, conceit leads to ruin. But showing one's weakness and immaturity aside, rather than its being a show of vanity, it's being able to believe in one's own strength, and I think that is amazing. I want those who aspire to music to become like that. I realize that I was taught that by my band elders not through words but through direct contact. I believe that such a feeling of looking forward will cause people to be moved. So from now on, I will believe in myself and continue making music. YOU, who's doing incredibly hard, hot exercises, out (you're not summer!).

P.S. My degree of narcissism is about the level you can't step on my ah picture (??) (major point (heart)). Could it be a hidden narcissism... Ah! Don't tell on me! To whom? Since the bakufu**...will behead you... I forgot to say one thing! Despite my being this way, I do hate parts of my body! I'm not conceited! Well, seeya next time!

* "Ganguro" is a Japanese slang term literally meaning "black face". Ganguro girls are Japanese girls who get really dark tans and then apply a lot of pale makeup, especially around the eyes and lips.
** The bakufu is the old Japanese government that ended with the Meiji Restoration in 1868. It was the period of the samurai.


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