Riot (Haru Nemuri)
- Artist
- Haru Nemuri
- Song
- Riot
- Lyrics
- Haru Nemuri
- Music
- Haru Nemuri
- Other Information
- Production: Haru Nemuri
- Co-Production: Lucas
- Programming: Haru Nemuri
- Guitar: Lucas
- Recording / mixing engineer: Uetsuki Takashi
- Recorded / mixed at Burnish Stone Recording Studios
- Mastering engineer: Kira Takeo
- Mastered at TEMAS
- Information
"Riot" is a song recorded by Haru Nemuri. It first appeared on a limited-edition 2-track demo EP that she released on her 2019 European tour (where she also performed the song live), and later appeared as track #6 on her second album, Lovetheism.
When the song was released, Haru released the following statement in Japanese and English versions on her official website, entitled "Statement For Riot".
I can’t affirm that I’ll never ever kill someone as I can’t do that I’ll never ever commit suicide on a train.
I might love someone from the bottom of my heart, and my love might be the same gender as myself. I might have and bring up a child, but I might roar at my baby and slap his/her face. I might get sick, and then I might sing. I might not compose, but still I might live happily. I might be a victim of a crime, but I might be an assailant of a crime. All mankind might perish by WWⅢ, but even then Rock’n’Roll might not die in that fire.
I think that we cannot affirm anything when we are living.
All of ‘might’ mean possibilities of consequences that every emotion on this planet can bring. Regardless of having or not having marks (like positive/negative or name) of emotions, there’re possibilities that we will have any emotions and experience the consequences depending on them. Whatever they are, anyone can’t deny all possibilities.
For example, have you ever wanted someone to die? I’ve wanted and I think that such an emotion isn’t particularly unusual.
Why can we deny and abandon someone’s emotion born and existing on this planet as what is never related to us though we are only born and existing there?
Assuming that you’ve never felt like ‘Die!’ and ‘Wanna kill’, but you can understand the fact that there’re such feelings on this world.
In any case, the interruption of the uncomprehending sometimes appears. I’ve seen it abandoned and killed someone’s heart many and many a time. I also haven’t been able to take someone’s hands because of my own uncomprehending and uselessness countless times.
I’ve gotten angry, cried and despaired each time. To begin with, I’ve believed that the existence of human beings have the sensibility and the capacity for thought, and we should and can acknowledge each other’s existence and dignity just because we cannot understand perfectly each other. So sometimes I wanted to give up treating all creatures bearing uncomprehending on the planet as human beings, and sometimes I wanted to give uplays music. There are sparkling and colorful life in the music, and I’m touching the beauty of them. Only at that time, I can try not to give up myself, others, human beings and this world, in short, I can try to live.
If you find a light to keep struggling in the music of HARU NEMURI when you’re drowning on the similar marsh of the edge of ‘living’. If you find a blessing only for yourself as when I was shivering with the beauty of life and I was wailing as I had done on the day I was born on.
I’m able to think that it’s good that I have lived thus far.
Every time encountering you in the music, life is sparkling and gushing out. This song exists here, hugging the glitter.
riot
ri・ot /rάɪət/ noun
1a: a violent public disorder; specifically: a tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by three or more persons assembled together and acting with a common intent
b: public violence, tumult, or disorder
2: a random or disorderly profusion
3: one that is wildly amusing
4 archaic a: profligate behavior b: unrestrained revelry c: noise, uproar, or disturbance made by revelers
Music Video
The music video for the song was directed by Mitsuishi Naokazu and produced by Watanabe Hiroaki with PARADE TOKYO. The video was filmed at the Russian Circus in Moscow, Russia. The director of photography was Mishiro Fumiko, and assistant camera was Dmitry Olhovskiy. Aerial photography was handled by Maksim (sverhvideo). Styling was handled by Yoshida Erika, and hair & makeup was done by Kohbo Nobuyuki (JANEiRO). The colorist for the video was Tanaka Motoi (L'espace Vision), and the coordinator for the shoot was Boris Bulakh (Creative Coordination Russia).
