Everything Works Out When You Exaggerate｜Listen to My Guitar

Since the beginning of this year, I have been posting on note every single day before I knew it, and nearly a year has passed already.

Before I started, I had prepared a large stock of content to prevent running out of ideas, calculating that if I posted two or three times a week, I could keep it up for about a year. I thought that if I continued for a year, I might come to understand something.

However, as it turned out, once 2024 arrived, I started posting daily, and it actually began to feel uncomfortable if I didn't post. This caused the issue of running out of ideas, which I had originally worried about, to resurface.

Admittedly, even now, I sometimes struggle with what to write about when it comes to daily posts, but my work and life are not that flat; events occur and thoughts arise, and when I put them into writing, I manage to post them, and somehow I have made it this far.

In other words, I have learned that it is possible to write even if nothing special happens. I believe this applies to more than just writing.

The song "Boku no Guitar" (My Guitar) by Spitz, which I often listened to when I was a student, is included as the first track on the album "Sazanami CD".

I think this song well represents Spitz's stance toward music (at least in my own interpretation), and it is a song I still love and listen to often.

Spitz's songs leave a lasting impression on the listener with Masamune Kusano's memorable singing voice and catchy melodies. A melody that stays in your heart is hard to get out of your head, and throughout a long life, that melody can even ring in your mind whenever something happens.

As for the lyrics of such Spitz songs, they are actually very mundane, and in a good way, many of them are not on a grand scale.

Phrases like "So I'll take you further away and run off" or "I want to be a cat" are not very rock-and-roll, and that can be said to be their greatest charm.

"Boku no Guitar" embodies that stance in its lyrics, and even though the song sounds grand, what is being sung is rooted in everyday life.

I believe that Spitz, by continuing to strum their guitars "so that small things become a great light," ended up becoming one of Japan's representative bands before they knew it. (Of course, I am aware of the background of their struggles to become successful.)

As for my own daily life, since I cleared my past period of illness and found employment, I have been spending my days without anything significant happening.

Even so, I try to keep exaggerating everything, just as small things become a great light.