http://www.xradicaldreamers.net/xjapan/iv_yoshikilong.htmY: No, it stopped everything, it means that time I stooped all my works about music.
S: Stopped all works about music?
Y: Because I didn't know what to do, I was all blinded, so that time I didn't want to have interviewed, didn't want to play music for whoever. The only thing I could do is... to produce, that time I couldn't even write my own songs, the only one song I could do is... the song for hide... ar... do you want to listen a bit?
S: Sure I do.
Y: Ok, we'll go back to the studio.
By that words... we had to go back to the studio again, Yoshiki sat down in front of PA and set DAT and saying "The name of this song is Without you" Then the beautiful ballad melodies were poured out from the large megaphone. This song is for hide's death, every notes and words were passed on his whole feeling. As if each note pray for hide to heaven. This song is really different of Violet UK... his new solo unit but strange in similar to X Japan's, if the vocal not be Toshi anymore... everyone will believed that this is new song of X. After we had listened for 6 minutes the vocal in last words was vanished while a light sound from Yoshiki, "In fact I want Toshi to sing this song...", although that studio was covered of dark but... I could saw clearly that around Yoshiki's eye have some tears...
This is beautiful. After reading the whole thread, only like 2 users, specially PN, were insisting on it being for Toshi and not for hide. One of the arguments that sustained the drama was that Yoshiki never said that the song was for hide before being implied by an interviewer if it was for hide.
In this interview, Yoshiki takes the initiative to talk about the song. In fact I don't remember an interview that mentions Without You before.
Now, before anyone asks for original japanese script, it's from a Shoxx magazine issue from 2000, search it yourself, if you're in Japan. Taking credit away from this source is ridiculous, doubting the translation is ridiculous, context is enough to make it clear. They were taking about hide and Yoshiki says "oh, I wrote this song for hide, wanna hear?". There.
About the argument of "we were born at the same time, pursued the same dream" thing, time is a very vast concept. The same time can be the same decade, the same age, era, whatever. Also hide shared the dream of music.
Of course, it's only natural for Without You to hold certain feeling like it was meant for Toshi, since he was also away from Yoshiki at the time, and Yoshiki might have also projected some feelings about Toshi, maybe Yoshiki himself hasn't it clear in his mind. But here you just got evidence, from Yoshiki's words, saying he wrote the song for hide. Textually.
What is it now? baww, the interviewed pressured him to speak about hide and Yoshiki had to say it was for hide? or is it people projecting their fantasies on wanting it to be for hide? Meh, say what you want, all evidence says it's for hide. None evidence (ambiguous song lines ain't evidence) says it's for Toshi.
However, I do agree that the song may have some of Yoshiki's feelings for Toshi. But I see it more like Yoshiki wanting Toshi to speak for him. After all, it would be silly from Yoshiki wanting Toshi to sing a song for... himself.
