page_title: Sakanaction (album)
section_title: Title and themes
hierarchical_section_title: Sakanaction (album) / Writing and production / Title and themes
caption_attribution_description: English: A photograph of a green paper Möbius strip. David Benbennick took this photograph on March 14, 2005. For scale, the strip of paper is 11 inches long, the long edge of a U.S. standard piece of "letter size" paper. The background is a piece of white paper. The strip is held together by a piece of clear duct tape, behind the top-right curve. Català: Una fotografia d'una Cinta de Möbius de paper verd. En David Benbennick va fer la fotografia el 14 de març de 2005. La cinta fa 28&#160;cm de llargada, el costat llarg d'un full estàndard americà. El fons és un paper blanc. La cinta s'aguanta amb un tros de cinta adhesiva transparent, darrere la corba de dalt a la dreta. Español: Una cinta de Möbius construida con un trozo de papel y cinta adhesiva. Français&#160;: Un ruban de Möbius construit à partir d'une bande de papier (un ruban adhésif retient les deux bouts). Italiano: Un nastro di Möbius costruito con una striscia di carta e nastro adesivo.
context_page_description: Sakanaction is the sixth studio album by Japanese band Sakanaction, released on March 13, 2013. Primarily created in recording sessions that began in September 2012 and lasted approximately four months, the album was recorded at the home of band's vocalist and songwriter, Ichiro Yamaguchi. In order to reach an audience, the band challenged themselves by creating music for commercial tie-ups and television dramas. Prior to the album, the band released three singles: two acting as theme songs for Japanese television dramas and another used in a commercial campaign for the design school Mode Gakuen.
  Theming the album around the concept of a Möbius strip, the band separated their music into two different types: external-facing songs meant for a wide audience, and internal-facing, created as a reflection of their personal musical tastes. The theme represented the band's efforts in attempting to bridge the gap between these two song types. Yamaguchi classified each song on the album as either external or internal, except for the album's preceding single "Music", which he saw as both. The album featured a strong dance sound, influenced by the band members' current musical tastes.
context_section_description: The band decided to self-title the album between the "Yoru no Odoriko" sessions, and before the start of their September recording sessions. This was based on discussions the band had in 2010, where they wanted to release instrumental songs as sakanaction (ibid.) as opposed to their name in Japanese which they used for their regular releases, サカナクション. Originally the band planned to release two albums simultaneously, with an album composed of songs with lyrics released under their Japanese name and an album of instrumental songs, released with their name in lower case roman script. The band abandoned these plans due to their busy schedule, instead using lower case roman sakanaction as the album's title.
  The band had originally planned to self-title their previous album, Documentaly (2011), due to the album's documentary theme. However, as the events of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami affecting the album's recording so much, as this did not reflect their attempt to express everything that was happening in 2011, as opposed to just what happened to the band. For their next album, they decided to revisit this idea. This was due to the band's greater exposure in Japan through their commercial tie-ups, which would mean a great number of people would be listening to Sakanaction for the first time for this album. Yamaguchi described making music for this new audience as feeling like the band were releasing their first album again, which strengthened their desire to self-title this release.
  The band decided on a Möbius strip theme before their main album recording sessions. They saw their music being composed of two different types of songs: omote (表, "external") and ura (裏, "internal"), where their externally focused songs were those created for a wide audience and to attract new fans, such as their single and promotional songs, while the internally focused songs were those that the band members personally wanted to make musically, without considering an outside audience. The album's Möbius strip theme represented a synergy between the two different types of Sakanaction songs, much as a Möbius strip only has a single surface. Yamaguchi classed five of the album's songs as external: "Yoru no Odoriko", "Aldebaran", "M", "Aoi" and "Boku to Hana", while seeing the remaining songs as internally focused. The exception to this was "Music", the first song they created with this theme in mind, which they saw as a mix of both types of songs and a representation of the album's theme. The band included an album mix of "Music" on Sakanaction, to create a mix of the song in a style that they personally wanted to have, as opposed to the single edition which was mixed for the drama. The band originally intended for the entire album, except for its singles and "Aoi" to be internally focused songs, however as the band further experimented, they found themselves naturally creating other externally focused songs: "Aldebaran" and "M".
caption: Sakanaction gave the album a Möbius strip theme, to represent the synergy of their songs created for a wide audience and for personal reasons.
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