page_title: Night Fishing (album)
section_title: Song inspiration and production
hierarchical_section_title: Night Fishing (album) / Writing and production / Song inspiration and production
caption_attribution_description: English: Queen performing in New Haven, CT.
context_page_description: Night Fishing is the second studio album by Japanese band Sakanaction. It was released on January 23, 2008 through Victor Entertainment's BabeStar Label. The album primarily features music written by vocalist Ichiro Yamaguchi since the release of their debut album Go to the Future. Compared to their debut album, which compiled songs that the band had already written, the majority of the songs on Night Fishing were written specifically for the release. The album was an attempt by the band to find a better balance between popular music and underground, and was an album where the members wanted to incorporate more of their own personal styles; which caused the members to disagree over its content much more than on their debut album.
  The album was preceded by the digital singles "Word", "Sample" and "Night Fishing Is Good", all released in December 2007. Out of these, "Sample" was chosen as the main promotional track for the album, receiving high radio play in Hokkaido. Critically, the band was praised for their new direction on Night Fishing, with critics praising the album's mix of pop and electronic musical elements, Yamaguchi's poetic lyrics and "transparent" vocals.
context_section_description: Lyrically, Yamaguchi worked around a "night" theme, and was inspired by creating film-like imagery for each song. Yamaguchi wanted to compile lyrics featuring introspective feelings of worry and sadness that people primarily felt at night. Yamaguchi was further inspired to write more autobiographically, creating a documentary-like non-fiction work. He wanted to create lyrics closer to the style of haiku than standard pop lyricism, in order to express many things with as few phrases as possible.
  Despite the album's track order not being decided until the very end, Yamaguchi had thought from the start that "Ame wa Kimagure", "Malaysia 32" and "Uneri" should be in that order. After plans for "Ame wa Kimagure" to become the leading song were scrapped, Yamaguchi decided to elaborate on the "oriental" feel of the song. "Malaysia 32" is the band's first instrumental song, and was based on a synthesizer riff made by the band's guitarist Motoharu Iwadera which was then completed with ideas from everyone in the band. The song was called "Malaysia" because of how at one point they added a vocal melody that sounded like the name of the city Kuala Lumpur. The number 32 in the title is a reference to the fact that the song is based on a synthesizer loop of 32 bars. Originally "Uneri" had been envisioned as a rock song, but the band decided against this after creating "Night Fishing Is Good". The band's musical director suggested that they perform the song acoustically instead, which led to the final studio arrangement of "Uneri".
  "Night Fishing Is Good" was inspired by the style of musical theatre and classical music. Originally the other band members were hesitant about the song when Yamaguchi first played it to them, and they suggested that they split the piece into two compositions. During the song's recording, Yamaguchi felt that the song would benefit from having a similar style to the English rock band Queen, which the band's pianist Emi Okazaki in particular responded well to. Iwadera added Queen-style guitar riffs to the song, and the group decided to add a vocal chorus, in the style of a Queen song. Only after "Night Fishing Is Good" had been finished did the band decide to title the album after this song.
caption: The arrangement for the song "Night Fishing Is Good" was partially inspired by English rock band Queen.
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