Ai/SOlate

On December 6, 2017, hitorie released their new mini-album ai/SOlate,{{Cite web |date=2018-01-14 |title=ヒトリエ ミニアルバム「ai/SOlate」リリース＆全国ツアー開催記念ニコ生スタジオライブ開催決定！ |url=https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000001138.000013546.html |access-date=2024-11-23 |website=プレスリリース・ニュースリリース配信シェアNo.1｜PR TIMES |language=ja-JP}} featuring "Unknown Mother-Goose" as the lead single.{{Cite web |date=2017-12-07 |title=＜インタビュー＞ヒトリエ『ai/SOlate』強い信頼感 初めて語る愛 |url=https://meetia.net/interview/hitorie-aisolate/ |access-date=2024-12-30 |website=ミーティア(MEETIA) |language=ja}} The title is a double entendre, as it can be interpreted as "isolate" or "愛 ("ai", love in Japanese) so late". As promotion for the album, all tracks, excluding Unknown Mother-Goose, and "{{Nihongo|Zettaiteki|絶対的}} (Absolute)",These two already had music videos released previously. had short music videos released by the members on social media. The first video released was for the song "NAI.", which was directed by {{Nihongo|Hidenobu Tanabe|田辺秀伸}}, who directed the music videos for "{{Nihongo|Kara no Waremono [ReREC]|カラノワレモノ[ReREC]}}" and "One Me Two Hearts".{{Cite web |date=2017-11-28 |title=ヒトリエ×歴代クリエイター参加の映像プロジェクト発足。12月6日リリースの新作より「NAI.」をSNSで一斉解禁。 |url=https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000001038.000013546.html |access-date=2024-12-27 |website=プレスリリース・ニュースリリース配信シェアNo.1｜PR TIMES |language=ja-JP}} The theme was "white".{{Cite web |last=Department |first=Skream! Editorial |title=ヒトリエ、12/6リリースのミニ・アルバム『ai/SOlate』で歴代クリエイター参加の映像プロジェクト発足。第1弾として「NAI.」をSNSで公開 |url=https://skream.jp/news/2017/11/hitorie_aisolate_video-project.php |access-date=2024-12-27 |website=Skream! 邦楽ロック・洋楽ロック ポータルサイト}} Tanabe's comment on the video:

Immaculate purity. White, not yet soiled by any other pigment. Beautifully pure. Within that gleaming beauty lurks a swarm of moths. I tried to use the contras" of lurking moths upon an innocent smile to emphasize the idea of ‘white’.

The color pink was the only prompt I received, so my initial inspiration was to use the hues of skin. With closeups on the tonality of the girl’s skin, and the combination of soft-colored flowers… The video turned quite feminine, yet still with a slightly bare and ominous aura to it.{{Cite web |title=12月6日にリリースするミニアルバム「ai/SOlate」より収録曲「Loveless」を解禁。 {{!}} ヒトリエ {{!}} ソニーミュージックオフィシャルサイト |url=https://www.sonymusic.co.jp/artist/hitorie/info/489071 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20241231135405/https://www.sonymusic.co.jp/artist/hitorie/info/489071 |archive-date=2024-12-31 |access-date=2025-01-01 |website=ヒトリエ {{!}} Sony Music |language=ja-JP}}

I recorded low-key streetlights and the highway at midnight, to enhance a low-key setting.{{Cite web |title=12月6日リリースのミニアルバム「ai/SOlate」から「Namid[A]me」を解禁 {{!}} ヒトリエ {{!}} ソニーミュージックオフィシャルサイト |url=https://www.sonymusic.co.jp/artist/hitorie/info/489078 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20241231112757/https://www.sonymusic.co.jp/artist/hitorie/info/489078 |archive-date=2024-12-31 |access-date=2025-01-01 |website=ヒトリエ {{!}} Sony Music |language=ja-JP}}

In the present country we dwell, what is red, I ask. From nuclear power, the mass media, vested interest, to politics as a whole… Just thinking about it there’s no end. If you know it’s red and yet get too scared to voice how red it is, then at that point it’s already bright red. Every bit of imagery in this video was forged from layers of reds, so the act of releasing this video into the world is virtually red in itself. Red is an amass of energy, I think.{{Cite web |title=12月6日リリースのミニアルバム「ai/SOlate」歴代クリエイター参加の映像プロジェクト　柿本ケンサク監督による「ソシアルクロック」を解禁 {{!}} ヒトリエ {{!}} ソニーミュージックオフィシャルサイト |url=https://www.sonymusic.co.jp/artist/hitorie/info/489104ish |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20241231112953/https://www.sonymusic.co.jp/artist/hitorie/info/489104ish |archive-date=2024-12-31 |access-date=2025-01-01 |website=ヒトリエ {{!}} Sony Music |language=ja-JP}}

{{Track listing

| all_writing = wowaka

| all_lyrics = wowaka

| title1 = {{Nihongo|Absolute|絶対的|Zettaiteki}}

| length1 = 2:24

| title2 = {{Nihongo|Unknown Mother-Goose|アンノウン・マザーグース}}

| length2 = 4:38

| title3 = Namid[A]me

| length3 = 4:31

| title4 = Loveless

| length4 = 4:48

| title5 = {{Nihongo|Social Clock|ソシアルクロック}}

| length5 = 4:01

| title6 = NAI.

| length6 = 4:14

}}

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