Snow Man 'THE BEST 2020 - 2025' Solo MV Behind The Scenes

Mukai: Luxurious, isn't it?

Mukai: Nine of us each having our own individual MVs.

Mukai: Thank you.

Abe: I think a lot of people will be surprised.

Abe: I mean, there's nine of us, so that's nine whole tracks, right?

Watanabe: Groups with lots of people don't really...

Watanabe: They don't usually do solos.

Watanabe: Thinking that oh, I'd like to do this for a solo or whatever,

Watanabe: I hadn't even really imagined it.

Raul: For solo songs, well... these are our first,

Raul: And we don't know if there will be more.

Fukazawa: Well, with the best of album,

Fukazawa: We're putting out these different solos, but

Fukazawa: If you ask us when the next ones will be?

Fukazawa: We really don't know that.

Meguro: Even when we had just started planning, it was...

Meguro: Like I wanted to do this just right, that was in my head.

Miyadate: It's become an amazing setting.

Sakuma: It's like the ideal type, seriously.

Sakuma: I felt like we could finish a Sakuma theme song.

Iwamoto: The other members probably have these really deep things,

Iwamoto: Just an explosion of individuality, in a lot of ways. Different melodies and such.

Iwamoto: I don't honestly know yet either, but...

Iwamoto: At the stage that I heard the song,

Iwamoto: I started talking to PURI-san about choreography.

Iwamoto: We discussed that it might be interesting for me to dance with a lady.

Iwamoto: This kind of mood and atmosphere, and so on.

Iwamoto: We just went boom, boom, boom, boom, feeling it out.

Iwamoto: Same with the director.

Iwamoto: It was like fate just brought it all together.

Iwamoto: Maasa-san was first on the list.

Iwamoto: And all the dancers were a big support too.

Iwamoto: Everyone's done.

Staff: OK!
Thank you!

Iwamoto: Pretty.

Iwamoto: That city feeling.

Iwamoto: The song itself

Iwamoto: It's not the kind that'll have you having fun and being like "yay!" on a night drive, but

Iwamoto: "Is this reality? Is it a dream" kind of thing, not really crossing either way,

Iwamoto: "It depends on your viewpoint" kind of setting, basically

Iwamoto: That's what I'd like both the song and the MV to give off.

Iwamoto: Thank you.

Iwamoto: I figured it'd be nice to have fun with something that feels adult.

Staff: Let's have a good filming today!

Staff: This is the "iro iro" cast.

Fukazawa: Thank you. Let's work together.

Fukazawa: It's really an MV that depends on everyone lending their strength to it, I think.

Fukazawa: It's as personal as I can make it, but

Fukazawa: I figured I should see if I could get some people to participate.

Fukazawa: Because this song is fun,

Fukazawa: And I wanted the MV to be a real busy one.

Fukazawa: If I can communicate that

Fukazawa: And make everyone just have some pure fun,

Fukazawa: And then have that transfer out to everyone beyond the screen, that'd be good.

Fukazawa: I'm a real manual kind of guy, so.

Fukazawa: We won't use any CG.

Fukazawa: I wondered if I could get the song and its lyrics written by sumika's Kataoka Kenta-san, so

Fukazawa: I sent an offer, and he readily agreed.

Fukazawa: And that's how we have this song.

Fukazawa: But if Kenta-san were to sing it,

Fukazawa: That would be too much.

Fukazawa: sumika-san's lyrics just have such metaphors going on.

Fukazawa: They're not straightforward but they still communicate the intent.

Fukazawa: I really like that, which is why I asked for them.

Fukazawa: Thank you. Sorry for keeping you so late, thank you.

Fukazawa: This kind of manual, analog pattern

Fukazawa: I think there's something really good about that kind of thing.

Fukazawa: I think it's simply a me kind of MV.

Raul: The thoughts I have now

Raul: Would be a difficult message to communicate without music.

Raul: And I did try my hand at writing the lyrics.

Raul: There's things I want to communicate, so...

Raul: Steadily the song came together, I think.

Raul: The image of an angel.

Raul: Like an angel and a devil.

Raul: The MV is fundamentally just taking you through this world and letting you feel it.

Raul: I wanted to try doing something sort of like an art video.

Raul: And of course there's dancing, too.

Macoto: For instance, like...

Raul: Right, right, yeah, yeah.

Macoto: ...or like.
Raul: Let's try that.

Raul: Thanks.
Macoto: Yeah.

Raul: My own world, with no distortion.

Raul: I think this is me without distortion, this work this time...

Raul: Like I'm really putting my full self out there.

Raul: It's not really a new side, or anything.

Raul: But rather just that I've stuffed it full of the things I'm good at, that's my impression.

Raul: Thank you!

Raul: Saying that I want you to like this world...

Raul: I'm of course not really that selfish.

Raul: If this just makes you feel something, I'd be happy with that.

[Oto no Naru Hou e (Towards The Roar of Sound)]

Watanabe: The song called "Oto no Naru Hou e"...

Watanabe: J-pop that's easy to understand is the type I personally like, so

Watanabe: Choosing something that sounded familiar was my priority.

Watanabe: From there, I went with lyrics that were easy to get

Watanabe: And a theme to go along with them, that was how the sequence went,

Watanabe: So this is how that song turned out.

Watanabe: Shit.

Watanabe: Oh no.

Watanabe: It's like we've hidden cameras in these everyday situations.

Watanabe: There's some scenes with little gimmicks too.

Watanabe: So it seemed like the director and all were having fun, which made me really happy.

Staff: OK!

Watanabe: This time I've got 8 outfits for this one song.

Watanabe: It's one week, but we've got one extra.

Watanabe: This one was the original plan.

Watanabe: The stylist we've been working with for years was like

Watanabe: "Watanabe-kun said black, but..."

Watanabe: "When I listened to the song I wanted you to wear this color."

Watanabe: And brought it, even though I hadn't ordered it at all.

Watanabe: That made me so happy.

Watanabe: It's good, the pink. It's really good.

Watanabe: The last part, everyone watching it got all excited, even the staff.

Watanabe: I want to see the finished product soon.

Watanabe: So, to the next member...

Watanabe: Switch!

[Finder]

Mukai: สวัสดีคับ

Mukai: I've been in Thailand for about a month.

Mukai: I'm filming a movie here, so

Mukai: I'm thankful we were able to shoot this here too.

Mukai: This place is a great find.

Mukai: It's different, the whole atmosphere.

Mukai: I couldn't film this in Japan.

Mukai: It's a monkey!

Mukai: Hi! Monkey!

Mukai: Well, I like photography, so I figured I'd do a song that had to do with that.

Mukai: I was pretty particular about the lyrics, too.

Mukai: I wanted them to be easy to understand so you could just slip right into it.

Mukai: I like stuff that's easy to understand.

Mukai: ...so that's how we made it.

Mukai: And then I thought we'd go with some love stuff, some matching stuff.

Mukai: Like I was a long-distance boyfriend,

Mukai: Something that everyone could like share in.

Mukai: Hey! It's the last cut.

Mukai: ขอบคุณครับ

Mukai: I think it'd be nice if this becomes a good memory in everyone's hearts.

Mukai: Then see you!

Mukai: สวัสดีคับ

[Isso, Kirai ni Naretara. (If Only, I Could Hate You.)]

Abe: Let's do it.

Abe: We've come to Yamanashi prefecture this morning.

Abe: It's an art gallery.

Abe: There's a lot of interesting objects.

Abe: Is there an inside to that treehouse?

Abe: It's high.

Abe: I didn't really realize.

Abe: The mountain I can see over there is really pretty.

Abe: And more than anything else, I'm so thankful it's clear skies today.

Abe: Weather's nice.

Abe: This time, it's about a one-sided love,

Abe: How painful that is, but also how you can't help but have fun,

Abe: That's the kind of song I've sung.

Abe: The MV gets more vivid as you go, that kind of sense of color,

Abe: We paid a lot of attention to that.

Abe: More than anything, it's about having that presence in your life,

Abe: The kind of person who makes the world you live in more vivid,

Abe: And how fantastic that is.

Abe: If that kind of excitement comes across, I'll be happy.

Abe: Thank you!

Abe: It's a good sky.

Abe: It's cold, let's go home.

[Asa no Jikan (Morning Time)]

Meguro: The concept this time around

Meguro: is something that I think everyone will have thought at least once.

Meguro: Hitting that wall day after day, worrying, almost breaking down...

Meguro: I have that too.

Meguro: I wanted to sing a song to just gently push you forward at times like that.

Meguro: I was particular about everything, like the melody,

Meguro: But I was very particular about the lyrics.

Meguro: "I want to put this feeling in," or

Meguro: "I want to use this word".

Meguro: I had to really think back on my true feelings

Meguro: And we had a lot of meetings to make it.

Meguro: I was particular about the MV, too.

Meguro: There's parts where I myself appear,

Meguro: And there's parts where I'm acting, too.

Meguro: I did this to make it easy to understand.

Meguro: I'm singing at this moment.

Meguro: A really gloomy morning, but

Meguro: Steadily moving forward until you leave your place...

Meguro: We've really carefully depicted that.

Meguro: This is the wrong key, though...

Meguro: When any of the fans are facing worries in their own life,

Meguro: I'd be happy if this song can help them out a little bit.

Meguro: Thank you.

[I-Datte Tomaranai (I, However, Can't Stop)]

Miyadate: This time I've got a song that depicts a pattern of love between a man and a woman, but

Miyadate: It's also a song where you'll be able to really enjoy a world that's full of my own color, I think.

Miyadate: The choreography is catchy too, made by KABA.-chan-san.

Miyadate: KABA.-chan!

Miyadate: "I" from the mouth.

Miyadate: A heart in front of the chest for "love".

KABA.-chan: He's really so cool, so I aimed for 100 points,

KABA.-chan: But we ended up at 200 or 300 points.

KABA.-chan: No, I'm serious.

(atama jya wakatteru)
In my head, I know

(demo, iya, datte, matte)
But, no, however, hold on

(yappa, chotto... aa tomaranai)
It’s just, wait... ah, I can't stop

Miyadate: Everyone's confused by the "miya, datte" piece.

Miyadate: We've got "datte" in the lyrics,

Miyadate: Which of course refers to me,

Miyadate: The "Date" against "datte".

Miyadate: It really takes advantage of that kind of wit, like...

Miyadate: "It can't be straightforward."

Staff: The water dripping down...

Miyadate: Say no more.

Miyadate: Definitely use that.

[Mamoritai, Sono Egao (I want to protect it, that smile)]

Sakuma: Taking the world of RAB-san and Ooishi Masayoshi-san

Sakuma: And fusing that with the world of Snow Man's Sakuma Daisuke

Sakuma: I'm just so into it.

Sakuma: I mean, I think we've managed to make a really great piece.

Sakuma: I really do.

Ooishi Masayoshi: Using the theme of supporting your faves,

Ooishi Masayoshi: It's like a kind of cheering song, that's what I think.

Sakuma: It's got "SKM" written here.

REAL AKIBA BOYZ: Amazing!

Sakuma: The scene where I'm in the seats as an otaku is just the best.

Sakuma: It's like this, really. I've seen it.

Maron: It's a song that really discusses feelings about your faves,

Maron: And it's like your body is just overflowing with happiness.

Maron: There's a lot of moves where you're just moving your whole body.

Suzumiya: Like here.

Suzumiya: We were like this'll definitely suit Sakkun when we made it.
Maron: Right.

Maron: And just like we wanted, he went big with everything,

Maron: So it just looks so good to watch.

Sakuma: Ooishi-san is in an excellent position, too.

Sakuma: It's so funny.

Sakuma: "I'm so glad that my fave exists."

Sakuma: "I support them."

Sakuma: "Happy." "Thanks."

Sakuma: This MV and song is really the embodiment of all of that, I think.

Sakuma: So if you empathize with that at all,

Sakuma: Or even just have fun with it, that's good.

[Translation: Ekala]