GACKT ARMY

Perennial idol looks back on triumphs and tragedies

Cutting a wide swath across Japan’s entertainment world, Gackt is one of the country’s more widely known artists. After leaving visual-kei juggernaut Malice Mizer in 1999, he embarked on a highly prolific solo career, releasing 15 albums and scores of chart-topping scores of singles. He has also launched a second career as an actor, appearing in a slew of TV dramas and portrayed a samurai alongside Woody Harrelson in the action mash-up flick Bunraku.

Despite his prodigious output, Gackt labors over each and every project. The 40-year-old Okinawa native says he spent half a year preparing his 44th single, “P.S. I Love U.” “This song is meant to be like a letter from someone who died and left that letter for their loved one to read,” Gackt told Metropolis in an English interview at his office in Shibuya. He explains that although the song is written from a woman’s perspective, it expresses his own thoughts, experiences and philosophy.

Source: http://metropolis.co.jp/arts/japan-beat/gackt/