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Thank you for having me.
May I?
Sure.
Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you, too.
I'm Kata Motohiro.
I'm Anna.
Nice to meet you.
Kata Motohiro.
In 2006, she made a major debut with her single "SYNCHRO".
In 2014, "Promise of the Windmill" became a big hit.
She recorded 150 chartings, which is the highest in the Billboard Japan market.
She is a genius singer-songwriter who continues to produce great songs.
Oh, 150 charts.
That's right.
She's amazing.
Wow!
She's amazing.
I have a warm image of her.
Is it because she's big?
Do you mean her body?
When she's singing and playing the guitar by herself,
it seems like she's singing about how many customers there are and how many people there are.
I thought it was interesting.
The comments and so on.
You don't hate me, do you?
I'm glad you don't hate me.
By the way, how many songs have you made so far?
I haven't counted from over 100.
I think it's about 120 or 130 songs.
Do you remember all of them?
Yes.
What?
Of course I remember them.
You're amazing.
Don't you gamble?
I don't gamble.
You don't gamble, don't you?
You're such a nice person.
You're like a sunflower.
You don't gamble, do you?
Do you have a song you recommend for gamblers?
No, I don't.
"Shakkinmochi"?
I don't have "Shakkinmochi", Target.
This time, we're going to talk about Hata Motohiro's famous song "orekaisetsu".
We have questions about Hata's famous song.
Is it okay for you to answer about Hata's famous song?
Sure.
Songs that troubled me with lyrics, songs that took me the longest, songs I want you to listen to while driving, songs I dedicate to people in love...
There's a lot of them.
That's amazing.
Amazing.
Songs I dedicate to people in love.
Yes.
That's good.
This song is called "Love".
"Love".
Yes. Would you like to listen to it?
Sure.
Love
Everyone has a love song representative song, right?
For various artists.
I want to write a song with the theme of such universal love.
I thought it was very difficult, so I couldn't get my hands on it.
It's been about five years since my debut, and I thought I could make it now.
The song I tried and wrote is this love song.
"Love" is hard to put on a theme.
I think it's hard to get my hands on it.
It's a big theme.
Everyone has different opinions.
Even if you ask me back now, doesn't it feel like love?
I think everyone has their own love.
Being with someone and feeling happy and warm at the same time.
I wonder when I'll lose this fear.
I wondered if this was love for me.
So I wrote and sang it.
It's really good.
It hasn't changed.
It's a good song.
Thank you.
But now that you're talking about love, what kind of quality do you like?
Being able to look at the same thing and laugh.
It's nice to be able to share values.
So if you were laughing at a comedian you didn't like...
Oh, I didn't like that.
I knew it.
What kind of question is that?
But you don't have the same values there.
If we have the same values...
I'm happy.
What do you like?
Maybe manga.
Manga?
I read a lot of electronic books.
There are about 10,000 of them now.
What?
10,000?
To be exact, there are 10,500 of them now.
It's the same as reading my LINE messages.
What a coincidence!
You're weird, too.
I fell in love with manga because of Osamu Tezuka's "Hinotori".
"Hinotori"? Wow!
When I was in 6th grade, my classmate Shun and I were in charge of cleaning the boiler room.
When I was cleaning the boiler room, "Hinotori" came out in front of me.
I didn't know whose book it was, so we split it up and took it home.
I read "Hinotori" and was quite shocked.
I was like, "Manga is amazing."
That's how I fell in love with it.
That's interesting.
That's amazing.
Here we go.
Okay.
Lyrics are about worries and songs about worries.
I see.
This is "Himawari no Yakusoku".
I've already broken the deadline about twice, but I still can't do it.
Is there a real deadline?
Is there in the industry?
It's called "the other side of the deadline".
"The other side of the deadline"?
It's like a poem.
It's no good.
Even so, I have to submit it to this day, and it's absolutely no good.
I was writing it all night, and it was almost morning.
When I was wondering if it was in shape, it flashed to me.
From there, I threw away what I had put together, and I wrote it again from morning to noon, and it became what it is now.
Is that so?
I was worried about it.
Was it different until you got off?
I was worried about it a little more.
No matter how much I thought about what was missing, I was worried about it a little more.
But I was working on it.
There was a moment like that.
This is a little dangerous.
At home?
I've already broken the deadline about twice at home, and I'm not trusted anymore.
So I told my agency, "Come to my agency."
That's pretty bad, isn't it?
So I told my agency, "Come to my agency."
I didn't return it until I could.
What did you do when you received the letter?
Did you just sit in the agency?
I just wrote it while looking at the computer screen.
It was so painful, so I wrote it so that I could keep the deadline properly.
It's a promise with the agency.
I'll try to write it so that it doesn't become a deadline.
When I'm at Apex, I always think of this song in front of my computer.
What do you mean?
Because I made it in front of my computer.
Why? It has nothing to do with it.
But when I'm at Apex and I'm going to fight, I always think of this song when I'm flying in the sky.
You're the only one who promised to fly around.
Why?
I always think of this song.
What do you think of it?
Yes.
A song I want you to listen to when you're driving.
Yes, this is called "Sea".
Sea
Yes, "Sea", there is a song called "Sea", so please listen to it for a moment.
Let's go on an adventure!
I'm sure it's more fun that way.
It's really good!
I'm sure it's more fun that way.
It's a song about going to see the sea in a car.
I wrote it as it is.
In the morning, I think about it and head for the sea.
The song was played on the car radio.
It's a song like "I want to come with you next time".
I think it's perfect for driving.
It's perfect.
Do you drive?
I drive myself and go to work.
Do you go to work?
I usually go to work by myself.
Do you go to work by yourself today?
I go to work by myself today, too.
That's amazing!
It was difficult to get here.
It's hard to get to the parking lot.
Be careful of accidents.
That's right.
Let's go!
The song that took you the longest.
It's called "Into the Blue".
I recently made a collaboration album.
I collaborated with various people and wrote songs together.
Among them, there is a Western music CD I bought for the first time when I was in high school.
There is an artist called Lisa Robe.
I decided to make a song with Lisa Robe.
Wow, that's amazing.
Since we are abroad, we make songs together on Zoom and so on.
We did sessions one by one and cleared data one by one.
It took more than a year.
Wow, that's long.
One song took more than a year?
I can't speak English at all.
In the meantime, I worked with people who made the lyrics in English.
I translated what I wanted to say into Japanese and made it into English.
Wow, that's amazing.
I sent it to Lisa Robe and talked with her.
It took a lot of time.
That's right.
I was happy when it was completed.
I was happy, too.
I was happy to sing with an artist I bought when I was in high school.
A song that was completed in an instant.
Now it's the other way around.
There is a song called "My Soul, My Soul".
"My Soul, My Soul" is a song about shoes.
It's a song about shoes.
I'm going to write a song that makes me feel a little different depending on the shoes I wear, like sneakers, boots, sandals, and so on.
That's why I made "My Soul, My Soul".
It was time to release my third album.
I decided to make a new song for all of them.
There were 12 or 13 songs in the album, and I decided to make a new song for all of them.
But one song wasn't enough.
This is not good.
But I told you.
I was pushed into it.
It took me a day and a half to write it.
I was recording, but I imagined it in the studio and played the accordion for a while.
I went home and it was done in the next studio.
Did you record it there, too?
Yes, I recorded it there, too.
That's amazing.
It was like writing a note.
I knew exactly what I wanted to write.
I see.
Maybe that's why it was so fast.
Is it rare for you to write a song like this in an instant?
It's very rare.
For example, I make one part like A melody and leave it for a while.
Then I pull it out and make it again.
It's very rare for me to make a song in an instant.
I see.
That's interesting.
Let's find out what kind of influence Hata had on music from his childhood to his 20s.
Can you show me the album?
It's an album.
First of all, let's look at photos from his elementary school days.
Baseball?
Yes, he played boys' baseball.
I see.
He played until the first grade of middle school.
He's still little.
I think he was in the third grade of elementary school.
At this time, which artist and which song influenced you the most?
At this time, it was Suzy Nagabuchi's "Shabondama".
What? Nagabuchi-san?
It's the influence of my older brother.
I like my older brother very much and Nagabuchi-san's songs were played a lot on good days.
I have two older brothers, but my oldest brother got me a guitar.
I got it from a friend for 3,000 yen.
I borrowed it and played it. That was my first impression of it.
You have a guitar playing book, don't you?
It's thick and I had all of Suzy Nagabuchi's songs at home.
Anyway, I looked for a song with the least number of chords and it was "Shabondama".
You can play four "Shabondama" and you can't play a difficult chord like "f".
I thought it was good and I started playing guitar from there.
That's good.
It's a song you can play at first.
Next is the middle school age.
Here it is.
This is where you show a high jump.
What? This?
No one is looking around.
It's true!
You can jump this high.
This is the height of middle school age.
Which artist and which song influenced you the most in this era?
At this time, it was Spitz and Michelle.
I see.
That's why you learned guitar from Suzy Nagabuchi and then you learned guitar from Michelle and Spitz and you learned chords you didn't know.
That's amazing.
That's how you played it, didn't you?
Yes.
And this is high school age.
Yes.
This is rock and roll.
I was in the music department.
Oh, really?
Yes, that's when I was in high school.
This high school era was...
Which artist?
This is Lisa Robe.
She made a song with me earlier.
It was the first music CD I bought.
Until then, I listened to a lot of legal music.
Since high school, I started listening to music a little bit at a time.
The first CD I bought thinking I could do it myself was Lisa Robe.
At the time, there was something like a neo-acoustic boom, and it was often called neo-aco.
Female singer-songwriters like that were pretty popular.
Lisa Robe was one of them.
Even now, I like female singer-songwriters with country roots.
I like it when I realize it.
And here's a picture of your 20s before your debut.
Before your debut...
I was either a college student or graduating.
Which artist influenced you in this era?
There's an artist called Carole King.
She's also a legendary singer-songwriter in America.
I was waiting for the train at the station I usually use.
I was waiting for the train while listening to Carole King.
I could see a river from there in the evening.
I could see it very clearly.
I thought, "Oh, music can change the scenery you know like this."
I wanted to make music like that.
That's wonderful.
How old were you when you made your debut?
I made my debut when I was 26.
I worked part-time and booked live houses and played at live houses.
That's amazing.
That's a lot of work.
We didn't have any more customers, but we played in front of a couple of people.
That's amazing.
There were times when we only had partners.
You had a lot of customers.
I saw it in rehearsal.
The same person is watching the actual performance.
I see.
That's amazing.
Didn't you want to quit?
I didn't feel like it.
Now that I think about it, it's really scary.
Is it scary?
There aren't many customers and there's no guarantee.
I only thought about writing a good song or singing a good song.
I think it's scary.
That's amazing.
What was the turning point for you?
I was releasing CDs in indies.
When I made it, I thought, "Will I make a major debut with this?"
I was pretty confident, but there was no response.
I was doing it with a lot of confidence, but I thought I might have a problem.
Why did you lose confidence?
I lost confidence.
There was an opportunity for me to look at myself.
I didn't know how to make a song.
I couldn't write songs for a while.
It's like a slump.
I came back to a simple place and thought about writing beautiful melodies and words that I thought of.
When I made it, my reaction changed a little.
When I made it, I happened to be found by my current office.
That's amazing.
I wonder if it's a turning point.
That's amazing.
Today, Hata has something he wants to do with Ano-chan.
A confrontation.
A confrontation?
I want to confront her.
Even though it's our first meeting.
What will you confront her with?
As you saw earlier, I was playing baseball.
Ano-chan was also a world champion, wasn't she?
Yes, I was a world champion.
I thought you had great athletic nerves.
I want you to catch me with a short bound.
You're too manly.
What's a short bound?
I'd like to compete in which of you can catch me with a short bound.
I'd like to see Hata-san's glove handling.
I used to be a catcher.
I'm good at short bounds.
You're good.
I'm good at short bounds.
I've already stopped you with my body.
That's amazing.
Let's go out and compete in the yard.
Short bound catch competition!
So, you will throw the ball at each other's feet and get a short bound catch.
If you do it three times and get more catches, you win.
Since it's a competition, let's do something like a penalty game.
What do you want Hata-san to do?
I want her to write "ano-chan" in Chinese characters.
You've never seen Hata-san's Chinese characters, have you?
No.
But I won't lose, so it's okay.
Oh, you're full of confidence.
Short bound catch competition!
So, first of all, "ano-chan", short bound catch, please.
First of all, I'll go from below.
Oh, with a low throw.
Oh, that's good.
Here we go.
Oh, there it is!
Wow!
OK?
OK!
Yes.
You were pretty kind, Hata-san.
I'm kind.
Well, it's just the beginning.
Oh.
Oh!
OK!
Wow, you're serious.
Hata-san's baseball is so good.
Oh, OK!
It was too strong.
You have a habit of stopping it with your body.
Stop it with my body.
You're really "yashuen".
Great.
OK, second throw.
OK, I'll go from above.
Oh, there it is!
Here we go.
Oh, that's good!
That's good!
That's a good spot.
That's scary!
She's watching you.
She's really good.
Hata-san, what will you do?
Oh, her waist is dropping.
Her head is dropping like this.
She really likes baseball.
OK, please.
Oh!
OK!
That's dangerous.
That's a good...
That's a good spot.
OK, third throw.
Here we go.
Pull yourself together.
This is only the third throw, Hata.
If you don't catch it, you lose.
I'll do my best.
Yes, I'll catch it.
Please.
Oh, good timing.
Pull yourself together.
Hata-san lost!
I lost!
Yay! I won!
That was an amazing chance.
Yay!
The game plan...
The game plan and...
The timing...
The Chinese characters...
Are you sure about that?
It's precious.
I've never done it before, so...
It's too precious.
I don't know the form.
Can I do it like this?
Ah, that's an interesting form.
That's cute.
Can I do it?
Yes, you can.
It's "ah"
ah
Wow, that's amazing.
ah
na
I did it.
No, you didn't.
It was fun and relaxing.
It was very relaxing, wasn't it?
Yes, it was. It was fun.
Let's do it again.
Revenge.
Please come back and play again.
Thank you very much.
Then, bye-bye.
Bye-bye.
He was like a teddy bear and healed me.
He was like a teddy bear?
Yeah, healed me.
Ah, that's true.
He was kind in every way.
He's a kind person.
Yeah.
He was too kind and his short bound was...
Yeah.
It was...
A little?
Yeah, it was.
But I won.
Wow!
You threw it hard for the third time, didn't you?
Yeah, it was a little scary.
I was like, "What if it hits my face?"
But I threw it hard.
When you really got into a fight,
you were like, "Who has the courage to kill?"
Like, "Can you hit me in the face without hurting me?"
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You won with that in mind, didn't you?
That's right.
As expected of you.
You had the courage to kill.
I was kind of in a bad mood.
Ah, I see.
You were a good person.
Yeah.
Hata Motohiro's first collaboration album, Hata Equisposa Collaboration Album,
is now on Spotify.
He's collaborating with gorgeous people.
Please listen to it!