Happy b - day Jui !! ♥♥
Do not forget about Vidoll
Have a nice memories with Gotharocka
Vidoll - Blue Star
niedziela, 30 czerwca 2013
czwartek, 27 czerwca 2013
BIG BANG
BIG BANG (빅뱅) - koreański zespół kpopowy.
Składa się z pięciu członków. Ich muzyka to połączenie hip hop’u, r&b z elementami elektroniki. Zadebiutowali w 19 Sierpnia 2006 piosenką „We Belong Together”, która pochodzi z singla o nazwie „The First Single Album” i szybko stali się popularni. W 2007 roku odnieśli sukces z singlem „Lies”. Big Bang od razu odnalazł swój własny styl muzyczny i image. Zespół należy do wytwórni YG Entertainment w Korei, a w Japonii należą do Universal Music Japan. Big Bang jest najczęściej oglądanym w Internecie koreańskim zespołem.
kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
G Dragon
Prawdziwe nazwisko: Kwon Ji Yong
Urodzony: 18 sierpnia 1988
W: Seul (Korea)
Funkcja w grupie: Lider, autor tekstów, główny raper, główny tancerz, producent
Grupa krwi: A
Prawdopodobny wzrost: 177cm
Prawdopodobna waga: 58kg
Ulubione kolory: Żółty, biały
Hobby: Czytanie, pisanie tekstów, oglądanie kreskówek, rapowanie, tańczenie, beatbox'owanie, modeling, kompozycja, rysowanie
Również znany z nazwy Iguana Idol, ponieważ pewnego roku zmieniał kolor włosów wielokrotnie
Gdy był mały wystąpił w telewizyjnym programie "Bbo Bbo Bbo"
W wieku 7 lat był członkiem Little Roora
Ma na ciele 7 tatuaży (do tej pory)
~na plecach "Too Fast to Live, Too Fast to Die"~
~na prawym ramieniu "Vita Dolce" - lepsze życie~
~na lewym ramieniu "Moderato" - termin w muzyce~
~na lewej piersi kula z Dragon Ball'a z ośmioma gwiazdami~
~na lewym boku "Mind Control"~
~na prawym boku "Forever Young"~
W dzieciństwie przyjaźnił się z Kang In'em z Super Junior
Junsu z 2PM był jego najlepszym przyjacielem, gdy byli nastolatkami
Jest nazywany Pinky Boy, ponieważ lubi nosić swój różowy szalik
Ma dwa psy: Ga Ho i Jolie
------------------------------------------
T.O.P.
Prawdziwe nazwisko: Choi SeungHyun
Urodzony: 4 listopad 1987
W: Seul (Korea)
Funkcja w grupie: Autor tekstów, główny raper, tancerz prowadzący
Grupa krwi: B
Prawdopodobny wzrost: 180cm
Prawdopodobna waga: 65kg
Hobby: Rapowanie, beatboxing, komponowanie, modeling, występowanie
W 40 dni schudł 20kg
Ma numer swojej mamy na "szybkim wybieraniu" w telefonie
W 4. lub 5. klasie szkoły podstawowej usłyszał występ rapera Notorius B.I.G, po którym uznał, że również chce zostać raperem
Znalazł się na liście Mnet's TOP 100 "Must Have" Males jako 41. w 2007 roku
Współpracował z Gummy
W 2009 roku zagrał zabójcę w Iris
------------------------------------------
TaeYang
Prawdziwe nazwisko: Dong YoungBae
Urodzony: 18 maj 1988
W: Gyeonggi-do (Korea)
Funkcja w grupie: Główny wokal, główny tancerz
Grupa krwi: AB
Prawdopodobny wzrost: 174cm
Prawdopodobna waga: 58kg
Hobby: Słuchanie muzyki, oglądanie TV, śpiew, taniec, ogrodnictwo
Zaczął interesować się muzyką po wysłuchaniu albumu Brian McKnight'a w dzieciństwie
Przedtem nie miał nigdy dziewczyny
Uwielbia piosenkę Frankie J - Don't Wanna Try
Jest bardzo nieśmiały i nerwowy przy dziewczynach. Mimo dołączeniu do boysband'u nadal wstydzi się na nie patrzeć lub do nich mówić
Nie bałby się złapać fankę za rękę
Zawsze w plecaku ma Biblię, fiszki angielskie, iPoda, a czasem napoje energetyczne
-------------------------------------
DaeSung
Prawdziwe nazwisko: Kang DaeSung
Urodzony: 26 kwietnia 1989
W: Itaewon (Korea)
Funkcja w grupie: Prowadzący wokal, główny tancerz
Grupa krwi: 0
Prawdopodobny wzrost: 178cm
Prawdopodobna waga: 68kg
Ulubione anime: Doraemon
Ma świetne poczucie humoru
Potrafi naśladować różne sławne osoby i zwierzęta
Jego IQ wykazuje 110 punktów
---------------------------------------
SeungRi
Prawdziwe nazwisko: Lee SeungRi
Urodzony: 12 grudnia 1990
W: Gwangju (Korea)
Funkcja w grupie: Prowadzący wokal, główny tancerz, maknae (najmłodsza osoba w zespole)
Grupa krwi: A
Prawdopodobny wzrost: 176cm
Prawdopodobna waga: 60kg
Hobby: Śpiewanie, tańczenie, czytanie w obcych językach
Lubi dziewczyny: Drobne, słodkie, które noszą biżuterię i mają słodki styl
Zechciał zostać piosenkarzem, gdy obejrzał w dzieciństwie koncert Britney Spears
Gdyby nie muzyka, zostałby opiekunem w przedszkolu
Jako maknae ma najmniej miejsca na ubrania
Jako maknae, zawsze w samochodzie zespołu, siedzi z tyłu
Jako maknae, wybiera sobie ubrania ostatni
--------------------------------------------
A Foul Of Tears
Blue
Candle
Day by Day
EGO
Fantastic Baby
GaraGara Go!!
Haru Haru
I am the best
Just a feeling
Knock Out
Little Heart Bomb
Monster
Next Day
Ora Yeah!
Ping Pong
Remember
Strong baby
Tonight
VIP
What Can I Do
Yo Yo Jazz
Until Whenever
You're my
wtorek, 25 czerwca 2013
Interview with Black Line
First of all, please introduce each other in pairs.
Syu: Our guitarist Yudai is a guitar freak who loves Gundam and LUNA SEA.
Yudai: O-Syu-san [drums] is a strange person.
Syu: Very good!
Jun: Our vocalist, Mikaru-san…
Syu: [Laughs] Why so formal?
Jun: Oh, yeah. He’s mysterious. I don’t understand him at all.
Mikaru: Our bassist, Jun, is a man who is very sexy naked.
[All laugh]
If you were a character from a genre of your choice, who would you be and what roles would the other members fill? Let’s give you some [English] ‘thinking time.’
Syu: Whatting time?
Thinking!
[All laugh]
Syu: Then… Disney. From Disneyland… I’d be Stitch, I think. An alien. [Points] Donald Duck. [Yudai] Winnie the Pooh. [Mikaru] Mickey Mouse. [Jun]
Jun: I’d have to be a movie or a manga, I think… Die Hard?
Syu: Try something major.
Jun: Major? … I need ‘thinking time.’
Yudai: A lot comes to mind. I have lots of ideas for Gundam, but right now I’m stuck on Slam Dunk.
Syu: Who am I?
Yudai: I haven’t thought about O-Syu-san but that guy [Mikaru] would be Rukawa.
Syu: What? Why?
Yudai: And this guy [Jun] would be Miyagi Ryota.
Jun: Who?
Yudai: Oh, don’t you know? Michi, then. How’s that? Hm……. Mikaru is Sazabi [Char's Counter-Attack].
Jun: Gundam?
Syu: It’s Gundam.
Yudai: O-Jun is cute, so Char’s Z-GOK. [Mobile Suit Gundam, Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, Char's Counter-Attack]. O-Syu-san would be…
Syu: Zakurero.
Yudai: No, I already used Char. So, O-Syu-san is… Rick-Dias [Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam], I think.
Syu: I don’t know it. And you?
Yudai: I’m…Hyaku Shiki [Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam].
Mikaru: Here we go. Lord of the Rings.
[All exclaim and laugh.]
Mikaru: [Chuckles and points] Pippin! [Jun]
Jun: Who’s that?
Mikaru: Pippin! Frodo. [Syu] Gandalf. [Yudai] [Laughs] I’m… What’s his name? The boss.
Aragorn?
Mikaru: Aragorn! Wait… no.
Sauron?
Mikaru: The bad guy in the mask.
Sauron.
Mikaru: Sauron, Sauron. I’m Sauron.
Jun: Following along with the live action, I’ll go with Prison Break.
Syu: You’re choosing to make it really hard for yourself!
Jun: I can’t remember the characters’ names, though.
Syu: Don’t worry. I know.
Yudai: Don’t you think I’m Sucre?
Jun: Oh yeah, I can see that. Then, Mikaru is Michael’s brother.
Mikaru: The big guy?
Syu: Lincoln Burrows.
Jun: And Syu’s-
Syu: I’m Mahone!
Jun: No you’re not. Who’s that guy who’s like a mafia boss? Abruzzi?
Yudai: I think he should be the warden.
Syu: Doesn’t he die?
Jun: The warden? What was his name?
Syu: I can’t remember. Never mind, I’ll be Abruzzi.
Jun: And I’m T-Bag.
Syu: Can you impersonate T-Bag somehow?
Jun: I can! It’s in the dubbed version, though.
Syu: In season one?
Jyu: At the end of the season one dubbed version, T-Bag gets his arm cut off with an axe.
[Jun does an impression of spurting blood from his arm and everyone laughs.]
Well, getting back on track. What’s the concept of Black Line?
Mikaru: Well we originally decided what the “black line” was, didn’t we? Something about a boundary line.
Yudai: [laughs] I wasn’t there back then.
Syu: We came to the conclusion of BLACK LINE from the concept of a boundary line.
Mikaru: A boundary you can’t cross? A boundary you can’t exceed?
Syu: A boundary you can’t exceed.
Mikaru: If you exceed it you can never go back.
And the name itself?
Mikaru: Let’s see… [laughs] Why did Black Line become Black Line?
Syu: We wanted something simple. We talked about wanting to make it a simple word or two, easy to say but cool sounding. Looking at ourselves and the impressions and colors we might exude, we thought “black” was suitable. So we wanted to use “black” no matter what. From there, after discussing it, the rather fitting words “black line” developed.
Sometimes you shorten Black Line to “BL”… [All laugh] Did you happen to think that out before deciding on the name?
Yudai: It’s quite easy to remember. I think it has a lot of impact. [Laughs] We didn’t really think about it, though.
Mikaru: You see, there are many people in Japan who like “Boys Love.” [laughs]
If you were to search BL on the internet…
Mikaru: You’d find a lot of that.
Yudai: Besides, that guy on bass…
Syu: He has a nice backside. It’s targeted by all sorts of people.
Jun: [English] Nice hip.
Yudai: [English] We love it!
Jun: [English] Nice body.
Syu: What the hell?
Your music so far seems to be very varied from softer music to very energetic music with a touch of electronic sound and recently a harder, headbanging number. Do you have a particular sound in mind?
Yudai: When I’m writing music, I stop working on any songs that don’t bring a picture to mind. I only complete and bring to everyone the songs that bring up a picture.
Syu: He’s the main composer, you see. The songs are all based on what he writes.
Despite the variety, both BLACK LINE’s music and image are very different from Mikaru and Syu’s Dio Distraught Overlord. Is this an intentional break?
Yudai: On the contrary, the one writing the songs didn’t have much to do with it [Dio Distraught Overlord] so… I’m just writing the same music I always have and I hope that people will come to like that, too. That’s how our music is made neutral for the feel we have now.
Mikaru: Dio had a theme of violence and pain that we had decided to express but BLACK LINE doesn’t have any such walls. We want to do many things, any kinds of songs to the point that each song is independent. Not settling on any one theme is what BLACK LINE is all about.
Mikaru and Syu were previously in Dio together, but how about Yudai and Jun? Have you been in any bands before?
Yudai: I have.
Jun: Yeah, I have.
Syu: What kind of band?
Yudai: What kind? A catchy Japanese screamo band.
Jun: My old band? It was kote kote visual kei.
Syu: [Laughs] Their make-up was really heavy!
How did these members come together?
Syu: While searching for members—we had a real hard time finding them—we began consulting with the managers of livehouses. It would be like, “I know someone good,” and we would have them introduce us. That’s how it happened.
Mikaru: That’s realistic…
[All laugh]
Syu: And that was how we four gathered by coincidence.
Yudai: We didn’t really know each other.
Syu: That’s right. It’s not like our old bands played together or anything. We really formed upon meeting each other for the first time.
Yudai: That’s what actually made it interesting, that we couldn’t predict anything.
Mikaru: Up until that point, we met all sorts of people but I think what finally decided it, rather than musicianship, was personality.
What inspired you each to become a musician?
Yudai: I wanted to be LUNA SEA.
Syu: When I was a child and saw X JAPAN live, I watched YOSHIKI’s heavy drumming and thought “Woah, that’s cool!” and before I realized it, I was a drummer. [laughs]
Jun: I love L’Arc~en~Ciel. BUT! Though I’m a bassist, the one I like is Hyde.
Mikaru: I am the reincarnation of John Lennon. [Laughs]
Black Line is a relatively new band, having debuted in December 2011. Could you share some memories about your debut live?
Yudai: Ummm…. We’ll continue working hard from now on!
How is that a memory?
[all laugh]
Syu: Well, the road to our debut live for this band was very long. But somehow, finally being able to stand onstage and have everyone listen to our songs, there was a sense of relief.
Jun: Our first live? Our first live! I feel like I’m going to forget the memory but I don’t want to. [laughs] It was fun.
Mikaru: For two… Or was it a year and a half? For a year and a half I hadn’t done any lives but the people who came, the many people who had waited for me was touching. I was so nervous I thought my heart would leap into my mouth. I don’t remember anything.
Yudai: Let’s say that everyone being that nervous was interesting.
As Mikaru just mentioned, how did it feel for you all being onstage again after such a long time?
Yudai: It’s like, “I’m back!”
Syu: I’m simply happy. Over a year before I was standing onstage like that was the obvious thing to do. With such a break in between, I feel like I was able to truly appreciate the value of being able to stand onstage.
Jun: I hadn’t been doing lives, so I think that performing live as I am now, I’m at my most alive.
Mikaru: While I wasn’t performing, it was like being in the middle of an abyss so I feel like I finally got my life back.
Even before your debut, you began a show on Youtube called Black Line TV. Could you tell us a little about that?
[All laugh]
Yudai: We thought that it would be good to knock down that barrier right away resulting in surrealism.
Syu: Since I’m sure most people don’t know who we are, I wanted to do something that would show everyone even a little faster, a side of the members that you can’t see onstage which would also serve as an introduction.
Do you plan to continue it now the band has begun performing?
Mikaru: For now, that’s the end. [Laughs] I think we’ll pursue a new project and if we come up with something good, then we’ll try that.
What goals do you have as a band for 2012?
Yudai: I wanna do a oneman! Oh, and I want to release a CD.
Syu: I want to go on a tour. I want to believe there are people waiting for us in cities all over the country, [laughs] so I want to go!
Mikaru: [English] Oneman sold out!
Jun: My old band never went on tour so I want to go to different places this time. I want to go overseas! [Yudai and Syu whisper to him.] Oh, and I want to get a drivers licence at the same time! [Yudai and Syu whisper to him.] I want to develop a nice ass. [Yudai laughs]
Well, since you apparently already have one, a better one at least.
Yudai: [English] More, more!
Syu: He’s going to upgrade.
Mikaru and Syu, we know you’ve been abroad with Dio. Do you have any memories from those trips to share?
Mikaru: It was… very hard, but… when the live started, so many people had come to see us that all of that just blew away. You feel, “That’s what a real live is!” As a bandman, the way that fans overseas react is what really makes a great live. That’s the real reason I want to return to Europe.
Syu: We were able to go to different countries, and depending on the country the reaction to a live was very different. The reaction in Germany was very similar to that of Japanese fans. It was like, “Wow, they really understand Japan.” But in France etc. it went beyond fever. There were lots of crazy boys. Enjoying that difference in the reactions of different countries became another memory.
Have you been overseas aside from touring?
Syu: Never.
Mikaru: Aside from the band, I’ve been a little. To China, Hong Kong and other Southern countries.
Yudai: The three of us have never been.
Jun: I don’t have a passport.
[Syu laughs]
Is there a country you’d like to visit?
Yudai: America! There’s a lot of bands I like in America, bands I want to see and perform with. Oh, and I want to see a huge red bull.
What band would you most like to perform with?
Yudai: Story of the Year.
Syu: I want to go to Taiwan. I heard there’s a close relationship between Taiwan and Japan, so I’d like to try going there.
Jun: I want to go the Eifel Tower.
Syu: Paris?
Jun: The Eifel Tower. I want to see it.
Yudai: So you want to see the Eifel Tower but not the country.
Jun: I don’t know what country it is.
[Whispers] That would be France.
Yudai: That’s one of his good points, right?
Syu: That’s his good point.
Jun: France, then. My favorite French movie is Taxi.
Syu: Oh, Taxi!
Yudai: The movies he likes are the important part…
Syu: He likes action movies.
Jun: My favorite movie is Die Hard.
[All laugh]
Jun: Bruce Willis!
Mikaru: If it’s a personal trip, I want to see the pyramids in Egypt.
[Syu and Yudai agree]
Mikaru: And I want to see Alaska’s aurora and… India.
Yudai: I want to go to Beijing!
Syu: Machu Pichu!
So who are your favorite Western artists?
Yudai&Syu: There’s lots!
Yudai: Story of the year and… Saosin. They toured with Taste of Chaos, too. The name came from Chinese and was made into English. [Sounds out the Chinese] Shaoshin? But they’re called “say-o-shin.”
Syu: Then there’s Cold Play. And Linkin Park.
Yudai: Oh, Linkin Park! Lost Prophets!
Mikaru: Marilyn Manson. KoRn.
Jun: What was it? Buretto…
Syu: Bullet for my Valentine.
Jun: Buletto- fo- mai Varentain?
Syu: Ramstein!
Yudai: Lost Prophets! Thirty Seconds to Mars.
There are some English lyrics in your music here and there and some of you like to tweet or post blogs in English sometimes…[Syu laughs] Are you actively trying to learn English?
Syu: Rather than studying, it’s more like watching a movie and listening to the actors’ pronunciation and thinking “Oh, so this is what you’d say at a time like this…” I’m just learning by myself.
Mikaru: I want to be able to speak English but…
Yudai: [English] Oh! How are you?
[All laugh]
What’s your favorite word or phrase in English?
Syu: Like lyrics or something… [Yudai whispers to him.][English] “Love!”
Jun: [Syu whispers to him][English] “Hip.”
Syu: [To Mikaru] S…
Mikaru: “Sex.”
Syu: E…Ok.
[Mikaru laughs]
Yudai: [English] “Hip!” Me too! Me too, “hip!”
[all laugh]
Yudai: [English] Hip brothers. [Jun laughs] Ah! Hip sisters!
Syu: [Laughing] This is really dangerous.
Jun: It’s dangerous!
Well then, of BLACK LINE’s songs, could you each recommend your favorite for people to get a feel for the band?
Yudai: Ummmm…
Syu: It’s hardest for the composer to choose.
Yudai: That’s right. I think the latest song is the best, so “GLAD EYE.”
Syu: “ALBA.” It’s a fairly recent song but it’s cool.
Jun: We played it at our first live but “DEEP INSIDE” is good.
Mikaru: Hmmm…“Furimukeba Itsumo.”
Syu: I knew he’d say that.
Mikaru: Because it’s really sad. The lyrics.
Lastly, please give a message to ROKKYUU’s readers!
Yudai: We’ll definitely come to see you, so please wait!
Syu: Hello readers!
[All laugh]
Syu: I think there will be many people who will hear of us for the first time but we’ll write more and more cool songs so please look forward to them!
Jun: I love you!
Mikaru: Well, to everyone in Europe and America, countries we’ve been to are a given, but my dream is also to someday do a world tour and go to countries we haven’t been to before, too! We’ll come for sure, so please wait!
Black Line - Show Time
Syu: Our guitarist Yudai is a guitar freak who loves Gundam and LUNA SEA.
Yudai: O-Syu-san [drums] is a strange person.
Syu: Very good!
Jun: Our vocalist, Mikaru-san…
Syu: [Laughs] Why so formal?
Jun: Oh, yeah. He’s mysterious. I don’t understand him at all.
Mikaru: Our bassist, Jun, is a man who is very sexy naked.
[All laugh]
If you were a character from a genre of your choice, who would you be and what roles would the other members fill? Let’s give you some [English] ‘thinking time.’
Syu: Whatting time?
Thinking!
[All laugh]
Syu: Then… Disney. From Disneyland… I’d be Stitch, I think. An alien. [Points] Donald Duck. [Yudai] Winnie the Pooh. [Mikaru] Mickey Mouse. [Jun]
Jun: I’d have to be a movie or a manga, I think… Die Hard?
Syu: Try something major.
Jun: Major? … I need ‘thinking time.’
Yudai: A lot comes to mind. I have lots of ideas for Gundam, but right now I’m stuck on Slam Dunk.
Syu: Who am I?
Yudai: I haven’t thought about O-Syu-san but that guy [Mikaru] would be Rukawa.
Syu: What? Why?
Yudai: And this guy [Jun] would be Miyagi Ryota.
Jun: Who?
Yudai: Oh, don’t you know? Michi, then. How’s that? Hm……. Mikaru is Sazabi [Char's Counter-Attack].
Jun: Gundam?
Syu: It’s Gundam.
Yudai: O-Jun is cute, so Char’s Z-GOK. [Mobile Suit Gundam, Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, Char's Counter-Attack]. O-Syu-san would be…
Syu: Zakurero.
Yudai: No, I already used Char. So, O-Syu-san is… Rick-Dias [Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam], I think.
Syu: I don’t know it. And you?
Yudai: I’m…Hyaku Shiki [Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam].
Mikaru: Here we go. Lord of the Rings.
[All exclaim and laugh.]
Mikaru: [Chuckles and points] Pippin! [Jun]
Jun: Who’s that?
Mikaru: Pippin! Frodo. [Syu] Gandalf. [Yudai] [Laughs] I’m… What’s his name? The boss.
Aragorn?
Mikaru: Aragorn! Wait… no.
Sauron?
Mikaru: The bad guy in the mask.
Sauron.
Mikaru: Sauron, Sauron. I’m Sauron.
Jun: Following along with the live action, I’ll go with Prison Break.
Syu: You’re choosing to make it really hard for yourself!
Jun: I can’t remember the characters’ names, though.
Syu: Don’t worry. I know.
Yudai: Don’t you think I’m Sucre?
Jun: Oh yeah, I can see that. Then, Mikaru is Michael’s brother.
Mikaru: The big guy?
Syu: Lincoln Burrows.
Jun: And Syu’s-
Syu: I’m Mahone!
Jun: No you’re not. Who’s that guy who’s like a mafia boss? Abruzzi?
Yudai: I think he should be the warden.
Syu: Doesn’t he die?
Jun: The warden? What was his name?
Syu: I can’t remember. Never mind, I’ll be Abruzzi.
Jun: And I’m T-Bag.
Syu: Can you impersonate T-Bag somehow?
Jun: I can! It’s in the dubbed version, though.
Syu: In season one?
Jyu: At the end of the season one dubbed version, T-Bag gets his arm cut off with an axe.
[Jun does an impression of spurting blood from his arm and everyone laughs.]
Well, getting back on track. What’s the concept of Black Line?
Mikaru: Well we originally decided what the “black line” was, didn’t we? Something about a boundary line.
Yudai: [laughs] I wasn’t there back then.
Syu: We came to the conclusion of BLACK LINE from the concept of a boundary line.
Mikaru: A boundary you can’t cross? A boundary you can’t exceed?
Syu: A boundary you can’t exceed.
Mikaru: If you exceed it you can never go back.
And the name itself?
Mikaru: Let’s see… [laughs] Why did Black Line become Black Line?
Syu: We wanted something simple. We talked about wanting to make it a simple word or two, easy to say but cool sounding. Looking at ourselves and the impressions and colors we might exude, we thought “black” was suitable. So we wanted to use “black” no matter what. From there, after discussing it, the rather fitting words “black line” developed.
Sometimes you shorten Black Line to “BL”… [All laugh] Did you happen to think that out before deciding on the name?
Yudai: It’s quite easy to remember. I think it has a lot of impact. [Laughs] We didn’t really think about it, though.
Mikaru: You see, there are many people in Japan who like “Boys Love.” [laughs]
If you were to search BL on the internet…
Mikaru: You’d find a lot of that.
Yudai: Besides, that guy on bass…
Syu: He has a nice backside. It’s targeted by all sorts of people.
Jun: [English] Nice hip.
Yudai: [English] We love it!
Jun: [English] Nice body.
Syu: What the hell?
Your music so far seems to be very varied from softer music to very energetic music with a touch of electronic sound and recently a harder, headbanging number. Do you have a particular sound in mind?
Yudai: When I’m writing music, I stop working on any songs that don’t bring a picture to mind. I only complete and bring to everyone the songs that bring up a picture.
Syu: He’s the main composer, you see. The songs are all based on what he writes.
Despite the variety, both BLACK LINE’s music and image are very different from Mikaru and Syu’s Dio Distraught Overlord. Is this an intentional break?
Yudai: On the contrary, the one writing the songs didn’t have much to do with it [Dio Distraught Overlord] so… I’m just writing the same music I always have and I hope that people will come to like that, too. That’s how our music is made neutral for the feel we have now.
Mikaru: Dio had a theme of violence and pain that we had decided to express but BLACK LINE doesn’t have any such walls. We want to do many things, any kinds of songs to the point that each song is independent. Not settling on any one theme is what BLACK LINE is all about.
Mikaru and Syu were previously in Dio together, but how about Yudai and Jun? Have you been in any bands before?
Yudai: I have.
Jun: Yeah, I have.
Syu: What kind of band?
Yudai: What kind? A catchy Japanese screamo band.
Jun: My old band? It was kote kote visual kei.
Syu: [Laughs] Their make-up was really heavy!
How did these members come together?
Syu: While searching for members—we had a real hard time finding them—we began consulting with the managers of livehouses. It would be like, “I know someone good,” and we would have them introduce us. That’s how it happened.
Mikaru: That’s realistic…
[All laugh]
Syu: And that was how we four gathered by coincidence.
Yudai: We didn’t really know each other.
Syu: That’s right. It’s not like our old bands played together or anything. We really formed upon meeting each other for the first time.
Yudai: That’s what actually made it interesting, that we couldn’t predict anything.
Mikaru: Up until that point, we met all sorts of people but I think what finally decided it, rather than musicianship, was personality.
What inspired you each to become a musician?
Yudai: I wanted to be LUNA SEA.
Syu: When I was a child and saw X JAPAN live, I watched YOSHIKI’s heavy drumming and thought “Woah, that’s cool!” and before I realized it, I was a drummer. [laughs]
Jun: I love L’Arc~en~Ciel. BUT! Though I’m a bassist, the one I like is Hyde.
Mikaru: I am the reincarnation of John Lennon. [Laughs]
Black Line is a relatively new band, having debuted in December 2011. Could you share some memories about your debut live?
Yudai: Ummm…. We’ll continue working hard from now on!
How is that a memory?
[all laugh]
Syu: Well, the road to our debut live for this band was very long. But somehow, finally being able to stand onstage and have everyone listen to our songs, there was a sense of relief.
Jun: Our first live? Our first live! I feel like I’m going to forget the memory but I don’t want to. [laughs] It was fun.
Mikaru: For two… Or was it a year and a half? For a year and a half I hadn’t done any lives but the people who came, the many people who had waited for me was touching. I was so nervous I thought my heart would leap into my mouth. I don’t remember anything.
Yudai: Let’s say that everyone being that nervous was interesting.
As Mikaru just mentioned, how did it feel for you all being onstage again after such a long time?
Yudai: It’s like, “I’m back!”
Syu: I’m simply happy. Over a year before I was standing onstage like that was the obvious thing to do. With such a break in between, I feel like I was able to truly appreciate the value of being able to stand onstage.
Jun: I hadn’t been doing lives, so I think that performing live as I am now, I’m at my most alive.
Mikaru: While I wasn’t performing, it was like being in the middle of an abyss so I feel like I finally got my life back.
Even before your debut, you began a show on Youtube called Black Line TV. Could you tell us a little about that?
[All laugh]
Yudai: We thought that it would be good to knock down that barrier right away resulting in surrealism.
Syu: Since I’m sure most people don’t know who we are, I wanted to do something that would show everyone even a little faster, a side of the members that you can’t see onstage which would also serve as an introduction.
Do you plan to continue it now the band has begun performing?
Mikaru: For now, that’s the end. [Laughs] I think we’ll pursue a new project and if we come up with something good, then we’ll try that.
What goals do you have as a band for 2012?
Yudai: I wanna do a oneman! Oh, and I want to release a CD.
Syu: I want to go on a tour. I want to believe there are people waiting for us in cities all over the country, [laughs] so I want to go!
Mikaru: [English] Oneman sold out!
Jun: My old band never went on tour so I want to go to different places this time. I want to go overseas! [Yudai and Syu whisper to him.] Oh, and I want to get a drivers licence at the same time! [Yudai and Syu whisper to him.] I want to develop a nice ass. [Yudai laughs]
Well, since you apparently already have one, a better one at least.
Yudai: [English] More, more!
Syu: He’s going to upgrade.
Mikaru and Syu, we know you’ve been abroad with Dio. Do you have any memories from those trips to share?
Mikaru: It was… very hard, but… when the live started, so many people had come to see us that all of that just blew away. You feel, “That’s what a real live is!” As a bandman, the way that fans overseas react is what really makes a great live. That’s the real reason I want to return to Europe.
Syu: We were able to go to different countries, and depending on the country the reaction to a live was very different. The reaction in Germany was very similar to that of Japanese fans. It was like, “Wow, they really understand Japan.” But in France etc. it went beyond fever. There were lots of crazy boys. Enjoying that difference in the reactions of different countries became another memory.
Have you been overseas aside from touring?
Syu: Never.
Mikaru: Aside from the band, I’ve been a little. To China, Hong Kong and other Southern countries.
Yudai: The three of us have never been.
Jun: I don’t have a passport.
[Syu laughs]
Is there a country you’d like to visit?
Yudai: America! There’s a lot of bands I like in America, bands I want to see and perform with. Oh, and I want to see a huge red bull.
What band would you most like to perform with?
Yudai: Story of the Year.
Syu: I want to go to Taiwan. I heard there’s a close relationship between Taiwan and Japan, so I’d like to try going there.
Jun: I want to go the Eifel Tower.
Syu: Paris?
Jun: The Eifel Tower. I want to see it.
Yudai: So you want to see the Eifel Tower but not the country.
Jun: I don’t know what country it is.
[Whispers] That would be France.
Yudai: That’s one of his good points, right?
Syu: That’s his good point.
Jun: France, then. My favorite French movie is Taxi.
Syu: Oh, Taxi!
Yudai: The movies he likes are the important part…
Syu: He likes action movies.
Jun: My favorite movie is Die Hard.
[All laugh]
Jun: Bruce Willis!
Mikaru: If it’s a personal trip, I want to see the pyramids in Egypt.
[Syu and Yudai agree]
Mikaru: And I want to see Alaska’s aurora and… India.
Yudai: I want to go to Beijing!
Syu: Machu Pichu!
So who are your favorite Western artists?
Yudai&Syu: There’s lots!
Yudai: Story of the year and… Saosin. They toured with Taste of Chaos, too. The name came from Chinese and was made into English. [Sounds out the Chinese] Shaoshin? But they’re called “say-o-shin.”
Syu: Then there’s Cold Play. And Linkin Park.
Yudai: Oh, Linkin Park! Lost Prophets!
Mikaru: Marilyn Manson. KoRn.
Jun: What was it? Buretto…
Syu: Bullet for my Valentine.
Jun: Buletto- fo- mai Varentain?
Syu: Ramstein!
Yudai: Lost Prophets! Thirty Seconds to Mars.
There are some English lyrics in your music here and there and some of you like to tweet or post blogs in English sometimes…[Syu laughs] Are you actively trying to learn English?
Syu: Rather than studying, it’s more like watching a movie and listening to the actors’ pronunciation and thinking “Oh, so this is what you’d say at a time like this…” I’m just learning by myself.
Mikaru: I want to be able to speak English but…
Yudai: [English] Oh! How are you?
[All laugh]
What’s your favorite word or phrase in English?
Syu: Like lyrics or something… [Yudai whispers to him.][English] “Love!”
Jun: [Syu whispers to him][English] “Hip.”
Syu: [To Mikaru] S…
Mikaru: “Sex.”
Syu: E…Ok.
[Mikaru laughs]
Yudai: [English] “Hip!” Me too! Me too, “hip!”
[all laugh]
Yudai: [English] Hip brothers. [Jun laughs] Ah! Hip sisters!
Syu: [Laughing] This is really dangerous.
Jun: It’s dangerous!
Well then, of BLACK LINE’s songs, could you each recommend your favorite for people to get a feel for the band?
Yudai: Ummmm…
Syu: It’s hardest for the composer to choose.
Yudai: That’s right. I think the latest song is the best, so “GLAD EYE.”
Syu: “ALBA.” It’s a fairly recent song but it’s cool.
Jun: We played it at our first live but “DEEP INSIDE” is good.
Mikaru: Hmmm…“Furimukeba Itsumo.”
Syu: I knew he’d say that.
Mikaru: Because it’s really sad. The lyrics.
Lastly, please give a message to ROKKYUU’s readers!
Yudai: We’ll definitely come to see you, so please wait!
Syu: Hello readers!
[All laugh]
Syu: I think there will be many people who will hear of us for the first time but we’ll write more and more cool songs so please look forward to them!
Jun: I love you!
Mikaru: Well, to everyone in Europe and America, countries we’ve been to are a given, but my dream is also to someday do a world tour and go to countries we haven’t been to before, too! We’ll come for sure, so please wait!
Black Line - Show Time
poniedziałek, 24 czerwca 2013
piątek, 21 czerwca 2013
Black Line , Syu
Syu
Urodzony w: Saitama
Funkcja w zespole: Perkusja
Grupa krwi: AB
Ulubione marki: D&G, Tornado Mark
Ulubione kolory: Czarny, niebieski, fioletowy
Ulubione sporty: Koszykówka, zapasy
Ulubieni sportowcy: Michael Jordan, Hulk Hogan [:3]
Ulubione filmy: Mr. Lonely, Las Gump
Lubi dziewczyny: O wielkich piersiach [:33]
Poprzednie zespoły: Emily Raysphere, Digras, Dio
Ciekawostki:
Black Line - Bad Angels
Urodzony w: Saitama
Funkcja w zespole: Perkusja
Grupa krwi: AB
Ulubione marki: D&G, Tornado Mark
Ulubione kolory: Czarny, niebieski, fioletowy
Ulubione sporty: Koszykówka, zapasy
Ulubieni sportowcy: Michael Jordan, Hulk Hogan [:3]
Ulubione filmy: Mr. Lonely, Las Gump
Lubi dziewczyny: O wielkich piersiach [:33]
Poprzednie zespoły: Emily Raysphere, Digras, Dio
Ciekawostki:
- Rzucił palenie
- Bardzo lubi Paryż
- Gdyby był zwierzęciem, byłby psem
- Zjada codziennie ramen i glony
- Gdyby nie muzyka, zostałby urzędnikiem
- Nie lubi plotek
- Kocha muzykę metalową
- Uwielbia cycki
- Ulubionym przedmiotem szkolnym zawsze był język angielski, pozostałe były nudne
- Grał na fortepianie, gdy był młodszy
- Uważa, że gra na basie jest dla niego za trudna
- Podziwia rosyjskiego kompozytora P. Czajkowskiego
- Nie lubi, gdy fani nazywają Go Denka. Utrzymuje, że Denka i Syu to dwie różne osoby
- Jego ulubionymi piosenkami Dio są "Lord's Prayer" i "God Forsaken"
Hello World Blackers
Black Line - Bad Angels
Subskrybuj:
Posty (Atom)