page_title: Good-Bye (Sakanaction song)
section_title: Writing and inspiration
hierarchical_section_title: Good-Bye (Sakanaction song) / Writing and inspiration
caption_attribution_description: English: Picture of Gen Hoshino at the Space Shower Music Awards in 2017. Image used to serve as the primary means of visual identification at the top of the article dedicated to the work in question.
context_page_description: "Good-Bye" is a song by Japanese band Sakanaction. It was released as a single in January 2014, as a double A-side single with the song "Eureka". A rock ballad primarily based around non-electronic instruments, the song was composed by the band's vocalist Ichiro Yamaguchi about his mental state while physically unwell and mentally frustrated, after being unable to finish writing the song "Sayonara wa Emotion". In January 2014, a remix of the song was used in the NHK documentary program Next World: Watashi-tachi no Mirai, later to be included on the band's compilation album Natsukashii Tsuki wa Atarashii Tsuki: Coupling & Remix Works.
  The physical single debuted at number two on Oricon's weekly singles chart, while "Good-Bye" outperformed "Eureka" on the Billboard Japan Hot 100, also reaching number two. Critics received the song well, praising the song for its simple band sound that developed with the additional of guitar feedback, and believed that the song was an expression of a musician reaffirming their identity and their desire to continue into uncharted musical territory.
context_section_description: After finishing the recording sessions for "Eureka", he returned to the recording studio to work on the rest of "Sayonara wa Emotion". During these sessions, Yamaguchi improvised an entirely different song, purely using musical techniques that he personally wanted to explore. The composition, "Good-Bye", reminded Yamaguchi of the period when he first started making music. Originally he saw the song as an album track or a B-side, but found the melody had consumed him, and his confidence in the song grew. Yamaguchi felt distressed that he could not complete "Sayonara wa Emotion" during his sickness and exhaustion, and instead developed a strong desire to release "Good-Bye" in its place. Yamaguchi felt embarrassed at this, seeing it as selfishness as a musician. While talking to Tatsuya Nomura (the band's executive producer) about the situation, Nomura reassured him that although suddenly changing plans were not a good thing, it was necessary for him to address his feelings about releasing "Good-Bye". Yamaguchi asked Victor Entertainment's management to liaise with Tōshin High School, to see if they would accept "Good-Bye" in the place of the already submitted chorus of "Sayonara wa Emotion". Though they liked the song, the commercial had already been completed, so they were unable to replace the song, and began airing the commercials with the original song in September 2013.
  While creating "Good-Bye", the words and melody came to Yamaguchi at the same time, while he was improvising. The lyrics were directly inspired by conversations that Yamaguchi had with staff, his bandmates, and his friend and fellow musician Gen Hoshino; expressing how he felt in that moment frankly. The title was chosen by Yamaguchi to link with Japanese author Osamu Dazai's 1940s unpublished story Good-Bye. Thematically, the song was written about Yamaguchi's decision to continue to make music in Tokyo, linking to the single's other leading song "Eureka", which was written about living in Tokyo. While recording the song, Yamaguchi considered how an audience would react to the song as it was unveiled, especially the audience of his regular segment on the Tokyo FM radio show on School of Lock!.
  Yamaguchi's desire to release music was revitalized when he thought of an idea to stream footage of the band during their recording sessions for the song on Ustream. At one point, the song had developed a hip-hop style arrangement, which made Yamaguchi wonder if the song could be finished by adding a rapper. They band asked Tamaki Roy to collaborate with them during these sessions because of how impressed they were in his freestyle rap skills, which they saw when he sampled Sakanaction's "Eiga" for one of his songs. The day after they asked Tamaki Roy to collaborate with them, the band recorded their collaboration live, and released it as an unannounced guerrilla broadcast uploaded to their Ustream account on November 28, 2013.
caption: Ichiro Yamaguchi was inspired to write the lyrics of "Good-Bye" by real conversations he had with staff, his bandmates and the musician Gen Hoshino (pictured).
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