page_title: Documentaly
section_title: Background and development
hierarchical_section_title: Documentaly / Background and development
caption_attribution_description: English: Cropped from File:TVXQ in Paris France.JPG. A fan picture taken in Paris, France in 2007 during their short visit to the country for their Bonjour Paris photoshoot. From top-left: Hero Jaejoong, Uknow Yunho; bottom-left: Micky Yoochun, Max Changmin, and Xiah Junsu. Original upload log The original description page was here. All following user names refer to en.wikipedia. 2007-12-19 01:25 Ninjacatherine 3072×2304×8 (932742 bytes) A picture taken by me in Paris, France in 2007 during their visit here. I was lucky to meet them.
context_page_description: Documentaly is the fifth studio album by Japanese band Sakanaction, released on September 28, 2011. Written around a documentary theme, the band were inspired by personal and world events in 2011 to create material for the album.
  The band decided to release three singles prior to the album, as a way to alleviate the pressure that the band felt to release new music after the success of their previous album Kikuuiki, and as a way to show the album's development process. The first single "Identity", a song originally written during that album's recording sessions, was released three months after Kikuuiki. The band intended to release "Endless" as the album's second single, however as they were not fully satisfied with the song, released "Rookie" in its place in March 2011. Just prior to the single's physical release, Japan experienced the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, which made Yamaguchi re-evaluate the reasons why the band made music. Originally, the album's documentary concept focused on themselves as a band, but the disaster prompted Yamaguchi to take inspiration from world events such as the earthquake.
context_section_description: In March 2010, Sakanaction released their fourth studio album, Kikuuiki. It was the band's most commercially successful album up until that point, but Yamaguchi felt disappointed by the sales, expecting the album to sell over 100,000 copies. Yamaguchi felt that the band's sound on Kikuuiki was inaccessible to some pop listeners, leading to the album not selling well, but also felt the pressure from their new-found audience to release more music. In order for the band to sell more and become more well known, Yamaguchi felt that Sakanaction should utilize new techniques to promote themselves, such as appearing more in media and on television. One of these techniques was to release three singles before the album; something that he believed would show a story-like development of Sakanaction's album creation process, as well as alleviate the increased pressure he felt to release more Sakanaction music. At the Sakanaquarium 2010 Kikuuiki tour final on May 28 at Zepp Tokyo, the band performed a song entitled "Identity" for the first time during the concert's encore, a song that had first been written early in the Kikuuiki recording sessions in 2009, and recorded just after the band finished recording music for the album. On the same day, the song was announced as the band's next single, released in August.
  On October 8, 2010, the band performed their first concert at the Nippon Budokan, Sakanaquarium 21.1 (B), performing material from their first four albums, along with "Identity". "Rookie" was written by Ichiro Yamaguchi after the band's concert at the Nippon Budokan. Though the concert was an important milestone for the band, the actual concert felt like more of a ritual than a genuine milestone to Yamaguchi. This left Yamaguchi wondering what direction the band should take next, what Sakanaction's place in the music scene was, and how the band was seen by others. Yamaguchi wanted to create a song that expressed the reasons that Sakanaction made music. The pre-production process for recording "Rookie" began in January 2011. Originally the band planned to release "Endless" as the second single from Documentaly, however Yamaguchi was not fully satisfied with the song and continued to work on it until August 2011; releasing "Rookie" in its place. The documentary theme for the album was fully conceptualized in January, during the "Rookie" and early "Endless" recording sessions, developed from Yamaguchi's feelings of wanting to express himself more. On February 22, 2011, Sakanaction released a set of DVDs entitled Sakanaquarium 2010. Coming in three different packages, Sakanaquarium 2010 (B) covered the band's Nippon Budokan concert, while Sakanaquarium 2010 (C) was a recording of the final concert of the band's Sakanaquarium 2010 Kikuuiki tour, recorded at Shinkiba Studio Coast on May 15. The third package compiled both concerts and added a third DVD, Sakanaquarium 2010 (D), featuring tour documentary and interview footage. The band found that the public's response to Sakanaquarium 2010 (D) was so positive, that it strengthened their documentary-themed album concept. Instead of merely adopting it as a theme, Sakanaction decided to record an actual documentary of the album's creation process, on an additional visual media disc.
  Just prior to "Rookie"'s physical single release, Japan experienced the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011. Sakanaction cancelled or rescheduled many of their planned radio appearances, deciding not to directly promote the single at the remaining appearances. During these, the band preferred to focus on sending messages of hope for the victims of the disaster. In April, Yamaguchi visited Kesennuma and Minamisanriku in Miyagi Prefecture to help with the emergency relief, without a media presence. Yamaguchi made the decision to go to Miyagi after watching television segments on celebrities visiting the disaster zone, and feeling that the segments were too focused on celebrity camera opportunities, and did not show the genuine realities of those affected by the earthquake.
  The earthquake made
caption: Ichiro Yamaguchi wanted to create music that would resonate with a general pop music audience, such as that of South Korean boyband TVXQ.
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