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leecheelongIt's really hard to explain how much this song affects me.
When I first heard it, it was from a random radio show on which Kame and Junno were promoting their 5th album. I was skimming through the program, since I don't even understand Japanese, just wanted to hear Kame and Junno talk. And I heard this song playing the background. I thought, it's a new KAT-TUN song! and It sounds nice excitedly. Of course, I didn't know the title or anything. When the CD came out, I heard the full song for the first time. Faraway really caught my interest, from the first few beats until the very end. At first, I thought it was a nice melody, but assumed since it's just another one of those ballads that I would get bored of soon. (I do like songs like Neiro, and Smile, but uhhh dunno I don't really listen to those songs on repeat) The first few times I played it, I couldn't even remember the melody afterward. I just knew that it was good and I liked it whenever it was playing.
And really, the melody isn't the type that's so catchy and gets stuck in your head or anything, at least not to me. But I really like the song, it embodies a certain emotion that I can't really describe and gives me beautiful feelings whenever I listen. It's happy, but not hyper, it's calm and peaceful. It really amazes me that KAT-TUN could be soooo...warm and gentle. It's not like anything on BtR, that's for sure. KAT-TUN like to sing cool songs, feel-good songs, or rock songs filled with lots of high notes and augmented chords that send chills down your spine, and with the occasional sweet/sorrowful ballad. Faraway is different. To me, it's a little bit like Smile, but Faraway just elicits so many more emotions from me. Love the part when they go lalalalala~ the harmonizing was reaallly sweet there.
And also, the song is completely in Japanese. KAT-TUN don't do that very often either. And this makes me really take it a lot more seriously. Of course I don't have a problem with them including their English (or any other language they may choose) in their songs but the fact is that they are Japanese, they speak in Japanese daily and most probably think in Japanese so the language that I feel they can express themselves best in is...Japanese. So that, when they sing this they know exactly what they are singing. And to me, that just makes it all the more sincere.
Then there are the lyrics. I first read a translation a few days after I first heard the song, since I do not understand Japanese. Seriously, the song is so beautiful, so why are the lyrics... so depressing? It's just not what I was expecting. But really, I cried. A lot. I don't think it's supposed to be so depressing but instead sort of end on a hopeful note. Sure, it's about being FARAWAY, it's about letting go and accepting that. And it's about moving on towards "tomorrow" but no, it can't be because I hear the regret still. Of course, I do have to admit that the biggest thing is knowing and hearing KAT-TUN sing it (specifically KT-TUN). Because it tells me a feeling that I have always imagined that they would be experiencing. And if I go on to think too deeply into it all, it could serve as foreshadowing to the future. It sort of broke my heart without warning. I was expecting... more uplifting lyrics, perhaps?
Well, maybe I don't even like the song. I mean, it made me depressed. Maybe it's just the type of thing that really gets to me. But I just can't get over it either.
More than anything, I think this latest album is something for which I really enjoy listening to the tracks in order, more so than for their other albums. To me, there's such a variety of feelings filled in this album, and each song is KAT-TUN in its own way. I think someone said this and I agree: that this "No More Pain" is almost like a journey (maybe KT are seeking catharsis), from the dramatic opening song "N.M.P." which is almost like a desperate cry for salvation until the very end, with "HELLO" it's like they're starting afresh again.
When I first heard it, it was from a random radio show on which Kame and Junno were promoting their 5th album. I was skimming through the program, since I don't even understand Japanese, just wanted to hear Kame and Junno talk. And I heard this song playing the background. I thought, it's a new KAT-TUN song! and It sounds nice excitedly. Of course, I didn't know the title or anything. When the CD came out, I heard the full song for the first time. Faraway really caught my interest, from the first few beats until the very end. At first, I thought it was a nice melody, but assumed since it's just another one of those ballads that I would get bored of soon. (I do like songs like Neiro, and Smile, but uhhh dunno I don't really listen to those songs on repeat) The first few times I played it, I couldn't even remember the melody afterward. I just knew that it was good and I liked it whenever it was playing.
And really, the melody isn't the type that's so catchy and gets stuck in your head or anything, at least not to me. But I really like the song, it embodies a certain emotion that I can't really describe and gives me beautiful feelings whenever I listen. It's happy, but not hyper, it's calm and peaceful. It really amazes me that KAT-TUN could be soooo...warm and gentle. It's not like anything on BtR, that's for sure. KAT-TUN like to sing cool songs, feel-good songs, or rock songs filled with lots of high notes and augmented chords that send chills down your spine, and with the occasional sweet/sorrowful ballad. Faraway is different. To me, it's a little bit like Smile, but Faraway just elicits so many more emotions from me. Love the part when they go lalalalala~ the harmonizing was reaallly sweet there.
And also, the song is completely in Japanese. KAT-TUN don't do that very often either. And this makes me really take it a lot more seriously. Of course I don't have a problem with them including their English (or any other language they may choose) in their songs but the fact is that they are Japanese, they speak in Japanese daily and most probably think in Japanese so the language that I feel they can express themselves best in is...Japanese. So that, when they sing this they know exactly what they are singing. And to me, that just makes it all the more sincere.
Then there are the lyrics. I first read a translation a few days after I first heard the song, since I do not understand Japanese. Seriously, the song is so beautiful, so why are the lyrics... so depressing? It's just not what I was expecting. But really, I cried. A lot. I don't think it's supposed to be so depressing but instead sort of end on a hopeful note. Sure, it's about being FARAWAY, it's about letting go and accepting that. And it's about moving on towards "tomorrow" but no, it can't be because I hear the regret still. Of course, I do have to admit that the biggest thing is knowing and hearing KAT-TUN sing it (specifically KT-TUN). Because it tells me a feeling that I have always imagined that they would be experiencing. And if I go on to think too deeply into it all, it could serve as foreshadowing to the future. It sort of broke my heart without warning. I was expecting... more uplifting lyrics, perhaps?
Well, maybe I don't even like the song. I mean, it made me depressed. Maybe it's just the type of thing that really gets to me. But I just can't get over it either.
More than anything, I think this latest album is something for which I really enjoy listening to the tracks in order, more so than for their other albums. To me, there's such a variety of feelings filled in this album, and each song is KAT-TUN in its own way. I think someone said this and I agree: that this "No More Pain" is almost like a journey (maybe KT are seeking catharsis), from the dramatic opening song "N.M.P." which is almost like a desperate cry for salvation until the very end, with "HELLO" it's like they're starting afresh again.
