だから僕は音楽を辞めた (Dakara Boku wa Ongaku wo Yameta)

Meta-textual and slightly confrontational, "Dakara Boku wa Ongaku wo Yameta" — "that's why I quit music" — uses the gesture of artistic abandonment to critique the relationship between creator and audience. The production is one of Yorushika's more dynamic, shifting between quiet acoustic passages and moments of genuine rock urgency, the structure itself enacting the tension the lyrics describe. Suisui's vocal performance has an edge that her more delicate work doesn't show, and n-buna's guitar work on this track is pointed and deliberate. The lyrical core questions whether making art for an audience inevitably corrupts the thing that made you want to make art in the first place — a real anxiety for Japanese creators operating in idol-culture and fan-culture contexts that commodify artistic identity aggressively. The song is beloved precisely by the audiences it might be critiquing, which creates the interesting irony that Yorushika seems to understand and accept. This is music for anyone who has ever wondered what their creative work is actually for.