LiSA releases new song "Hallucinate" MUSiC CLiP! The song was written, composed, and arranged by Vocaloid producer Tsumiki

■ “Tsumiki was one of the musicians who gave me the same excitement I felt when I made my debut.” (LiSA)

The MUSiC CLiP for LiSA’s new song “Hallucinate” has been released.

“Hallucinate” is included in the single “Shouted Serenade” released on May 22nd. The song was written, composed, and arranged by Vocaloid producer Tsumiki.

Tsumiki felt the consistent aesthetic he felt from LiSA, “I want to break through something, and deliver a message to someone waiting beyond,” and he received it on a life-long basis in this song, which is filled with Tsumiki’s own message of inheritance.

Since her solo debut, LiSA has teamed up with Vocaloid producers on numerous songs, and this song allows you to feel her updated sound and vocals in 2024.

“Hallucinate” by MUSiC CLiP is a fully animated work created by illustrator/animator Toki Chiaki. Toki Chiaki’s interpretation of the song is that “creation is accompanied by pain and struggle along with joy, and in the real world, pain and happiness are always side by side, and are not so far apart,” and he expresses this in the story of “the protagonist, who lives in a fictional underwater world, struggling to find happiness.”

■ Comment from LiSA
I spent the last 13 years searching for and trying to find an exciting future.
It’s been 13 years of pouring my heart and soul into this.
Tsumiki is one of the musicians who made me feel the same excitement I felt when I made my debut, that there may still be things I want to do, things I can do, things I can make happen.
“I want to invent something together.” That dreamy phrase was put into the words and sounds of my song “Hallucinate.” To all of you who continue to search and swim.
I hope it reaches your hearing.
■Tsumiki Comment
I am someone who has been touched by LiSA’s music and her feelings long before I began my musical career as Tsumiki.
The consistent aesthetic that I feel from LiSA, of “I want to break through something, and deliver a message to someone waiting beyond,” has given me a lot of salvation both in my life and in my musical career.
I wrote “Hallucinate” as a kind of inheritance from LiSA, an aesthetic that I have inherited on a life-long basis.
I hope that this song will help people to receive the impulsive, destructive sparkle and illusion they felt that day, and that it will reach someone else as a source of salvation in their life.
■Tokitchiaki Comment
When I first heard the song “Hallucinate,”
I imagined a person trying to communicate something, even though it was difficult, and I wanted to include in the music video how that person communicates and how they give it shape.
Manufacturing is more than just the joy of “producing” something.
To create something means sacrificing something, and even having to suppress one’s own sense of justice.
That’s the kind of suffering that occurs when something is created, and I feel that the song strongly conveys that pain and conflict.
That’s why the entire MV is underwater.
It represents a world of constant suffering that stands in stark contrast to the real world we live in.
But the real world is similar, and pain and happiness are truly side by side, or rather, not that far apart. I created this work with that image in mind.