The song surely would have been hard to listen to and very technical due to the way it was composed.
Shou: I think so too. If I had composed the entire song myself, it would have become a tricky one, and the song itself might not have come about. So the members, while racking their brains on this song, took down notes about the kind of scenery I wanted to sing about. I really thought that they were amazing. It made me, once again, think that my fellow members really are amazing people, and made me see them in a new light. I think that it takes a lot of power to make something erratic not sound erratic. (about Niji no Yuki)
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Tora: Yeah (laughs). If memory serves, Shou wanted to do a song with this kind of feeling and brought us a sample. I get the feeling that after hearing it, we were like "I see! Roger!" and went on the make the song. Obviously, we didn't copy the pace of the song or the chords. It was a song that we created, communicating the fact that we wanted to do awesome lives. For some reason, I remember it clearly. (About Yami ni Chiru Sakura)
Shoxx, vol. 228
Another huge interview all about the songwriting process. But it was so sweet to read how Shou basically made Hiroto and Saga and Tora do most of the work to complete his song. Not that they minded much. Who can ever refuse that boy? But it seems like he began sneakily operating a long time ago)
Also when I heard Nemesis I thought it was Tora's song, it felt like one. Then I found Hiroto wrote it and I thought my hunch was wrong. But in this interview in turns out Tora actually took the song from Hiroto and worked on it to put in on the single so there you go.
Alice Nine really got me interested in some things I haven't paid attention to before. Suddenly I became interested in how a band functions. Especially the songwriting process. It just seems so amazing how one person comes up with a melody and basic structure and then others add and modify various aspects until it becomes what they want it to be. Until recently I was very interested in who wrote each song. I mean, I still am but now I see that it'd be unfair to attribute a song just to the original composer, it's really a collaborative effort. And Shou works on every song since he writes the lyrics. It isn't easy to try and understand what the composer wanted to convey and express it in the lyrics. Like, for example, when Hiroto wrote Fantasy about a friend who died and Shou related to these feelings because he had a similar experience so he put his feelings onto the lyrics and they are really really beautiful. To me it's very fascinating.