Dps Final

DPS context

He said that he respected  kayōkyoku (Japanese style pop music) but we told him he was wrong. His music contained something that was new, epic and unknown to tradition.

“I wanted something more!” He spoke in a furious temper. We all noticed that we shouldn’t have touched that topic but we wanted to know why; why was his music so different? 3 years after leaving back number, Mr Takahashi left on a journey to travel around the world, to see different sights, in a different environment. “I came back with something…” we didn’t know what he meant at first, but after releasing this bestselling album we all knew something must have happened, something that would scar the Japanese music history.

After his major return, we went to Miss Ogiso Setsuna who was his fiancé before he left on his journey. We asked her a question seeking information about what he did while he was away. She answered, “I knew nothing.” She said averting her eyes with a tremble in her voice. We knew there was something; we knew something had happened.

Months later we received an unknown threat from someone who didn’t want us to research the topic. We were taken aback from what happened, our superiors told us to stop researching and most of my team members left the music industry to escape the threat.

I was alone, alone and was the only one left who wanted to know the truth behind his change. I knew that I shouldn’t do this, but I wanted to know, I had to know, I wanted to be someone whose name would be in history. I was broke and unemployed after months of pursuing the truth. “What did I do wrong!” I shouted, left in the darkness ever alone. But I saw a light, hope reached out to me in the human form of Mr Takahashi.

That day was the moment I will never forget.  He reached out to me and I took his hand. Before I knew it I was in a room. It was dark and I couldn’t see anything, but I could hear the voice, his voice reaching to me. “Fine?” he asked.

“Yes” I replied. That was the last thing I heard.

After a blank space of time, I could sense a change, and I heard a loud voice “Bam!”

“Yuki!” I shouted. It was a song, a song I was really familiar with, it’s them. HI hats, guitar, bass lastly his voice played a harmony of instruments. The next thing I knew was that I felt that my eyes were hurting, it was tears, how long have I waited for this moment, how long have we've been waiting for them.

*Join backnumber on revival concert  held at Budokan 4^th October 2016