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bmsgRolling Stone interviewed edhiii boi following the release of his album, "Manshin Soui" [Creativity All Over]
The following is a summary of what they discussed!
Note: It's not a complete transcription as I skipped over some parts of the interview.
Original interview here!
- eddy reached out to Iimori-san about making a song round May - June
- On Galaxy: had 30-40 beats and couldn't choose one.. and something about the files being too big so his laptop crashed???
- playing with the "notes (of the music)" rather than through "song / vocals"
- On Uiteiru and working with Taku Takahashi: Taku Takahashi gave him advice on his lyrics, and he said it was also a song where he requested some things to be kept / not changed. Ending Uiteiru with piano was something he wanted to keep. He was seeing trends of Hyper Pop Soundcloud tracks that end like that. He says after an intense hyper pop track, ending with piano is like coming out of a tunnel and he wanted to do it on a track of his own too.
- working with Iimori-san on "Non-fiction" and "Chameleon": iimori actually told eddy if he wanted to do hip-hop and hyper pop it's best to consult hirihiri and not him. Though he still made these 2 tracks.
- eddy fell sick around the time of working on Non-fiction and Chameleon so these 2 tracks were the most difficult out of the album for him and also took a lot more time to finish.
- one advice he got was, "you can do it your own way, but if it comes out wrong then you will be the one embarrassed; regretting it" so he relearned Japanese written composition and grammar. He wrote many versions of the lyrics and a lot of them got rejected so he struggled when working on the lyrics and how to convey his thoughts better and in a way that's easier to understand.
- was still going to school as he worked on the album so, naturally, he wrote about them in Non-fiction (not sleeping, the stress, and how he felt at the time)
- on one of the lines in his songs being,
Forever Friend - written for his friends back in Hyougo
Otomodachi - written for the friends he made once he moved to Tokyo
He went out with friends to a Chinese restaurant. He can eat a lot and he ordered so much he had to take the rest home but there was still a lot. He wrote about that day and sent it to his friends. His friends said they were listening while they were in the car and sent a video back of them vibing to his song to him, which made its way into the lyrics for "Otomodachi"
before moving to Tokyo, he thought he needed at least around 100 friends or people would feel sorry for him. Thanks to the friends he made in Tokyo, he thinks he doesn't need that many. When he thinks about who are the people that truly think of him, like him as he is, and people who he can trust, he only has a handful. Otomodachi is for those friends he has.
he has friends he hangs out with at school. They go karaoke, game centers, hang out at family restaurants, all the high school things.
1. Otogibanashi
2. Kawaii
3. Fushigi na Kuni no Alice
4. Aoi Haru
Weave together to tell a story
eddy thinks honest lyrics hit home rather than lyrics that try to be cool, so if he went through a break up he would sing about it rather than hide it
On the album title being "滿身創意 / Manshin Soui":
He looked up the meaning again and it has his name in it and felt like it matched the creative process of making the album. And he did actually fall sick.
Japanese proverb and kanji lesson:
eddy's "滿身創意" (manshin soui) is a word play on the original proverb "満身創痍" (manshin soui). It means to have bruises, cuts all over - whether physically or mentally. In context, it can also refer to falling sick.
This proverb is often used to describe a soldier or samurai returning back from war with "bruises / cuts all over" (満身創痍).
The kanji 痍 [cuts, scars; read "i"] when used with 創 [to create; read "sou"] forms the word 創痍 (soui) which means cuts / scars (are formed)
The "sou" in 創太 (Souta), eddy's real name, and "sou" from 創痍, soui, shares the same kanji: 創
eddy replaced the kanji 痍 (i) with 意 (i) to form the word = 創意 (soui) which means creativity or innovation; separately the kanjis mean to create (創) meaning (意), respectively.
The pronunciation of the proverb is the same even though eddy replaced the kanji (意 vs. 痍), but the new kanji gives the proverb new meaning, which is the title of his album, "creativity all over" :)
Hope you found eddy's creative process with his latest album interesting!
Please note I translate these for free and I'm not a professional, so they may not be super perfect.
Retranslations or sharing of the summaries is fine! For retranslations, please notify me beforehand and credit once posted!
If you like my translations, you can consider tipping me on Ko-Fi!
The following is a summary of what they discussed!
Note: It's not a complete transcription as I skipped over some parts of the interview.
Original interview here!
- eddy reached out to Iimori-san about making a song round May - June
- On Galaxy: had 30-40 beats and couldn't choose one.. and something about the files being too big so his laptop crashed???
- playing with the "notes (of the music)" rather than through "song / vocals"
- On Uiteiru and working with Taku Takahashi: Taku Takahashi gave him advice on his lyrics, and he said it was also a song where he requested some things to be kept / not changed. Ending Uiteiru with piano was something he wanted to keep. He was seeing trends of Hyper Pop Soundcloud tracks that end like that. He says after an intense hyper pop track, ending with piano is like coming out of a tunnel and he wanted to do it on a track of his own too.
- working with Iimori-san on "Non-fiction" and "Chameleon": iimori actually told eddy if he wanted to do hip-hop and hyper pop it's best to consult hirihiri and not him. Though he still made these 2 tracks.
- eddy fell sick around the time of working on Non-fiction and Chameleon so these 2 tracks were the most difficult out of the album for him and also took a lot more time to finish.
- one advice he got was, "you can do it your own way, but if it comes out wrong then you will be the one embarrassed; regretting it" so he relearned Japanese written composition and grammar. He wrote many versions of the lyrics and a lot of them got rejected so he struggled when working on the lyrics and how to convey his thoughts better and in a way that's easier to understand.
- was still going to school as he worked on the album so, naturally, he wrote about them in Non-fiction (not sleeping, the stress, and how he felt at the time)
- on one of the lines in his songs being,
Recently, I've been thinking growing up is scary: eddy used to have the image that adults have got everything together. Since making friends with people older than him, that thinking has changed.. even though they're adults, they haven't really changed.
Forever Friend - written for his friends back in Hyougo
Otomodachi - written for the friends he made once he moved to Tokyo
He went out with friends to a Chinese restaurant. He can eat a lot and he ordered so much he had to take the rest home but there was still a lot. He wrote about that day and sent it to his friends. His friends said they were listening while they were in the car and sent a video back of them vibing to his song to him, which made its way into the lyrics for "Otomodachi"
歌詞を覚え車の中で流し歌うFriends // kashi wo oboe kuruma no naka de nagashi utau Friends
before moving to Tokyo, he thought he needed at least around 100 friends or people would feel sorry for him. Thanks to the friends he made in Tokyo, he thinks he doesn't need that many. When he thinks about who are the people that truly think of him, like him as he is, and people who he can trust, he only has a handful. Otomodachi is for those friends he has.
he has friends he hangs out with at school. They go karaoke, game centers, hang out at family restaurants, all the high school things.
1. Otogibanashi
2. Kawaii
3. Fushigi na Kuni no Alice
4. Aoi Haru
Weave together to tell a story
eddy thinks honest lyrics hit home rather than lyrics that try to be cool, so if he went through a break up he would sing about it rather than hide it
On the album title being "滿身創意 / Manshin Soui":
He looked up the meaning again and it has his name in it and felt like it matched the creative process of making the album. And he did actually fall sick.
Japanese proverb and kanji lesson:
eddy's "滿身創意" (manshin soui) is a word play on the original proverb "満身創痍" (manshin soui). It means to have bruises, cuts all over - whether physically or mentally. In context, it can also refer to falling sick.
This proverb is often used to describe a soldier or samurai returning back from war with "bruises / cuts all over" (満身創痍).
The kanji 痍 [cuts, scars; read "i"] when used with 創 [to create; read "sou"] forms the word 創痍 (soui) which means cuts / scars (are formed)
The "sou" in 創太 (Souta), eddy's real name, and "sou" from 創痍, soui, shares the same kanji: 創
eddy replaced the kanji 痍 (i) with 意 (i) to form the word = 創意 (soui) which means creativity or innovation; separately the kanjis mean to create (創) meaning (意), respectively.
The pronunciation of the proverb is the same even though eddy replaced the kanji (意 vs. 痍), but the new kanji gives the proverb new meaning, which is the title of his album, "creativity all over" :)
Hope you found eddy's creative process with his latest album interesting!
Please note I translate these for free and I'm not a professional, so they may not be super perfect.
Retranslations or sharing of the summaries is fine! For retranslations, please notify me beforehand and credit once posted!
If you like my translations, you can consider tipping me on Ko-Fi!
