[Abe] Well, you can say it’s something easy to be accepted. When the songs to be recorded into the album were selected, there was a feeling telling me “Ah, it is pop”. The word “pop” itself contains the meaning of “something links the deliverer with the receiver”, which I think is really great. It will be really nice if this album could strengthen the bond between the listeners and me. This album includes all the singles released so far, and there’s also a lot of tie-up. I think it will be always in my heart.

 

 [Abe] Not actually. I think I just want to depict myself with the word of no coloration. But, most of the songs in the album were written during the third year of my senior high school. At that time, I was still in the time of fantasy, thinking “maybe someday I could get debuted” and I was imagining so freely that someone would listen to my song. <Furri> was the focus of those songs I wrote a long time ago, which seems quite different.

 

 [Abe] I wrote this song during September 2009, shortly before that, someone who was very important to me passed away. It just reminded me of that moment. “No one can avoid paying the debt of nature, someday you have to say goodbye. So the thinking of the people who're important to us is just beyond words”. This feeling was always with me, that’s how “Itsu no Hi mo” comes. And I’m feeling the same way when singing <Furri> that I want to live to this moment.

 

 [Abe] Yeah, I'm also planning to continue writing this kind of music. It feels warm, but somewhere it feels hurt… When I make new songs, I let my mother listen to them at the first place. She commented “your song is about the disappointment in love, isn’t it? It’s sad, but it’s love!” I think she meant to say “don’t be too proud” (laughing).

 

 [Abe] Oh, Thanks! I also love this song. First of all you must have the feeling from inside that you deserve to have the praise “good job”. It’s a pity if you expose your heart to someone who is not important to you. I don’t want to show my heart to the 10 people’s one by one, but 100 times for each one of them. And then I feel the tension when I sing. This one is the temporary song recorded with the band. So it feels quite realistic and live.

 

 [Abe] Yeah, I also think it’s going to be a nice album. But you can’t always be confident. Instead usually you may think “the past time was much more glorious”, and then you become negative. Comparing with before, I feel less unsecured, the album gives me confidence, and so the future work will be a burden. And if it does sell well, I will quit. You know the burden will be endless… (laughing).

 

 [Abe] That’s right. Like when I have the live concert, I enjoyed so much. It feels like “I’m connected to everybody there through music, if the live is over, the connection is also gone”… It’s more complicated than ever before. This time I didn’t simply think it’s a negative feeling. My heart becomes wider because I’ve gone through the negative feeling and also created the positive feeling.

 

 [Abe] I hope when people see my face they would scream “Oh look! It’s Mao Abe!” And I also hope the national tour starting in March will be groovy, I just have many things to think over.