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205. translation: Oh! My! Goodness! pamphlet: Inohara Yoshihiko
Jamming through with my resolution to translate every day this year. Any sugggestions on what pamphlet/other thing I should do next? (PS Inocchi I just love you beyond words)
I want this to be a concert that we as V6 can take pride in!
I want us to search for a new V6-like goal. If we could also make the fans feel that... Even doing one concert in a big arena. And also an "exchange of sensibilities" with our fans.
I want to do a concert once a year, but last year, everyone was all over the country and we couldn't get the timing right. I'm so sorry to the fans for having made you wait, and so deciding on this concert tour after roughly a year and a half frankly made me really happy! The album we released in February, "Oh! My! Goodness!" is one in which the members produced the songs and so I think it's quite a powerful album. So, at the beginning, I thought we'd go all out with the music. But more than that, we ended up thinking we'd start off and go all out with "V6." A lot of us are pretty shy, so when we say "We're V6!" it's like "you all ... already know that, that's not really a thing we need to say anymore, is it?", but there are also parts of ourselves we haven't shown yet. But that doesn't mean we're switching it up. And it also doesn't mean we're going to refocus; rather, we want this to be a concert that will make us proud of the name "V6." We also want to apologize to our fans for making you all wait for so long, so there are quite a lot of love songs, and so we thought that it would be nice if we could compare our relationship to one of pure love with this performance.
I suppose you could say concert's themes are the idiosyncracies of this group "V6," and we've sort of all been aware of that for a long time. It's just, this time with this tour, we've gathered quite a few designers and a lot of staff for it. Actually, by the very nature of our relationship with our fans and with concerts, there are a lot of people who don't know us very well. So for those people, we want to use our concerts to explain to thiem, "V6 is like this," and have them realize there's a lot they don't know about us. And at the same time, a lot of people come to see us, so we've thought a lot about "if we did this sort of thing, would that be good for the fans?" So the theme this time isn't necessarily to review "V6" up until now, but to try things we haven't before, and by that I mean ... I want us to find a new "V6-like" goal to pursue. And it would be great if our fans could feel that.
Up until now, when we'd all get together and make the arrangements for concerts, I'd just toss opinions out there and then have them shot down right away... but nevertheless I was in a position where I'd just say things without getting depressed about it. This time, Okada took on that role. Putting together everyone's opinions and that sort of thing. Back in the day, we ended up working with a lot of people, and for both myself and the other members, we'd wonder what would be good to say, and curiously, there were times we sort of withered. Now, everyone has their own opinions, and we state them more and more, and in the end when we use them, we sort of forget whose idea it was in the first place (laughs). So, when we work together, as a rule, when we're deciding on stuff and no one presents an opposing view, we just OK it and go. And in the end, if we're like, "I really didn't want to do that," we just have to be adults and do it. During those times and now, I've sort of been like the whiteboard that people bang their ideas away on (laughs), but this time, Okada took on that role for me. I thought it'd be good if I could support him doing that. But, I jammed up the process quite a bit (laughs). I'd be talking about a problem and laughing and Okada would be like, "Inocchi, can you shut up for a bit?" and I'd say, "oh, sorry" (laughs). The mood changes when you add laughter into the mix. And when I'd keep doing that, this time, Sakamoto-kun would yell, "Inohara, seriously, SHUT UP!" (laughs). I thought about it and realized it was like, "I changed the mood too much~" and got everyone laughing with me, but then we'd end up with a harmonious work atmosphere.
To bring it back to the point of the members producing songs for this album, that was something I just couldn't clearly see. When you produce songs, you have to stand opposite them and then follow them through to the end, and there are honestly things you can't see -- things far into the future. When we're thinking of how to perform a song in concert, the members would ask me, "Inohara, when you produced this song, what sort of thoughts and feelings did you put into it?" and I'd explain them, but conversely it was like "what if we did it more like this?" So when we were talking about the song I produced, up until the time we performed it, I didn't have a lot of strong feelings attached to it. For example, "BINGO," the song I produced, I made it with the thought that fans could get excited and enjoy it like that, the other members had opinions like, "after we just play around, we should have a bit that really makes their hearts stop and dance it well." Announcing the song, having everyone at hand ... and so I hope that when you see it in concert, you'll see that we've carried everyone's thoughts and we'll add the others' power in with our own. Actually producing the album ourselves, thinking about it up until we perform it in concert, there's a song I produced, but I'd really like people to see it in the end as "a song everyone in V6 produced."
When I think about how I feel when I go see concerts of musicians I like, like for example... I think about talking with my friends as we're on our way there. "I wonder what they'll sing today?" and stuff like that. And on the way home, "what do you wanna eat?" and "you totally called them doing that one song!" and that sort of thing. And then afterwards we'll be eating and talking about, like "man, that concert was awesome!" I really feel like concerts give you the strength to go on and power through the next day. For V6 fans, we're that object of fixation for them. For people who come to our shows and have the same feelings I do when I go to concerts, and when I think about gathering together 10,000 people, I think concerts are just really amazing. And by the same token, at the beginning, I think about my sort of "stage fright," and I also end up thinking about if we're able to construct a world different from the ordinary and the everyday. For example, before the show, I think about what would make people happy to talk about during MCs, and what sorts of things would be good to do as an ad-lib during dances. At the beginning, I really get this sort of odd spiral of enthusiasm, and I get the feeling that I'll be showing someone different than my usual self. It's actually a pretty fun feeling (laughs). We show different expressions and things than we do just in rehearsal with each other. Everyday, we face the question of "what sort of reaction will we get today?" and then the mood completely changes by the next day, and we have to let those feelings go. I feel like a good wind blows on the first day of our tours. Although that doesn't mean that sensation I get has changed in the last year and a half; it's really fun. I keep thinking like "I wanna get to the venue already!" However, that doesn't mean I'm just looking forward to day one; every day we change venues it's like another first day. So with that, there's a totally different feeling with each venue we go to. "We got this kind of reaction in this venue, but this other one was totally different," that kind of thing. Like, the venue reflects the mood of the region -- it's really neat! It's like finding "there's still another new feeling to discover!", but while we and our fans can't exactly exchange sensibilities, but I'd like to do one concert in a really big arena, but I also think we have to keep on keeping on. So, when we tell the fans, "please come see us again!" what I really feel is that we'd like to give you more of these concerts into which we put our hearts and souls.
I want this to be a concert that we as V6 can take pride in!
I want us to search for a new V6-like goal. If we could also make the fans feel that... Even doing one concert in a big arena. And also an "exchange of sensibilities" with our fans.
I want to do a concert once a year, but last year, everyone was all over the country and we couldn't get the timing right. I'm so sorry to the fans for having made you wait, and so deciding on this concert tour after roughly a year and a half frankly made me really happy! The album we released in February, "Oh! My! Goodness!" is one in which the members produced the songs and so I think it's quite a powerful album. So, at the beginning, I thought we'd go all out with the music. But more than that, we ended up thinking we'd start off and go all out with "V6." A lot of us are pretty shy, so when we say "We're V6!" it's like "you all ... already know that, that's not really a thing we need to say anymore, is it?", but there are also parts of ourselves we haven't shown yet. But that doesn't mean we're switching it up. And it also doesn't mean we're going to refocus; rather, we want this to be a concert that will make us proud of the name "V6." We also want to apologize to our fans for making you all wait for so long, so there are quite a lot of love songs, and so we thought that it would be nice if we could compare our relationship to one of pure love with this performance.
I suppose you could say concert's themes are the idiosyncracies of this group "V6," and we've sort of all been aware of that for a long time. It's just, this time with this tour, we've gathered quite a few designers and a lot of staff for it. Actually, by the very nature of our relationship with our fans and with concerts, there are a lot of people who don't know us very well. So for those people, we want to use our concerts to explain to thiem, "V6 is like this," and have them realize there's a lot they don't know about us. And at the same time, a lot of people come to see us, so we've thought a lot about "if we did this sort of thing, would that be good for the fans?" So the theme this time isn't necessarily to review "V6" up until now, but to try things we haven't before, and by that I mean ... I want us to find a new "V6-like" goal to pursue. And it would be great if our fans could feel that.
Up until now, when we'd all get together and make the arrangements for concerts, I'd just toss opinions out there and then have them shot down right away... but nevertheless I was in a position where I'd just say things without getting depressed about it. This time, Okada took on that role. Putting together everyone's opinions and that sort of thing. Back in the day, we ended up working with a lot of people, and for both myself and the other members, we'd wonder what would be good to say, and curiously, there were times we sort of withered. Now, everyone has their own opinions, and we state them more and more, and in the end when we use them, we sort of forget whose idea it was in the first place (laughs). So, when we work together, as a rule, when we're deciding on stuff and no one presents an opposing view, we just OK it and go. And in the end, if we're like, "I really didn't want to do that," we just have to be adults and do it. During those times and now, I've sort of been like the whiteboard that people bang their ideas away on (laughs), but this time, Okada took on that role for me. I thought it'd be good if I could support him doing that. But, I jammed up the process quite a bit (laughs). I'd be talking about a problem and laughing and Okada would be like, "Inocchi, can you shut up for a bit?" and I'd say, "oh, sorry" (laughs). The mood changes when you add laughter into the mix. And when I'd keep doing that, this time, Sakamoto-kun would yell, "Inohara, seriously, SHUT UP!" (laughs). I thought about it and realized it was like, "I changed the mood too much~" and got everyone laughing with me, but then we'd end up with a harmonious work atmosphere.
To bring it back to the point of the members producing songs for this album, that was something I just couldn't clearly see. When you produce songs, you have to stand opposite them and then follow them through to the end, and there are honestly things you can't see -- things far into the future. When we're thinking of how to perform a song in concert, the members would ask me, "Inohara, when you produced this song, what sort of thoughts and feelings did you put into it?" and I'd explain them, but conversely it was like "what if we did it more like this?" So when we were talking about the song I produced, up until the time we performed it, I didn't have a lot of strong feelings attached to it. For example, "BINGO," the song I produced, I made it with the thought that fans could get excited and enjoy it like that, the other members had opinions like, "after we just play around, we should have a bit that really makes their hearts stop and dance it well." Announcing the song, having everyone at hand ... and so I hope that when you see it in concert, you'll see that we've carried everyone's thoughts and we'll add the others' power in with our own. Actually producing the album ourselves, thinking about it up until we perform it in concert, there's a song I produced, but I'd really like people to see it in the end as "a song everyone in V6 produced."
When I think about how I feel when I go see concerts of musicians I like, like for example... I think about talking with my friends as we're on our way there. "I wonder what they'll sing today?" and stuff like that. And on the way home, "what do you wanna eat?" and "you totally called them doing that one song!" and that sort of thing. And then afterwards we'll be eating and talking about, like "man, that concert was awesome!" I really feel like concerts give you the strength to go on and power through the next day. For V6 fans, we're that object of fixation for them. For people who come to our shows and have the same feelings I do when I go to concerts, and when I think about gathering together 10,000 people, I think concerts are just really amazing. And by the same token, at the beginning, I think about my sort of "stage fright," and I also end up thinking about if we're able to construct a world different from the ordinary and the everyday. For example, before the show, I think about what would make people happy to talk about during MCs, and what sorts of things would be good to do as an ad-lib during dances. At the beginning, I really get this sort of odd spiral of enthusiasm, and I get the feeling that I'll be showing someone different than my usual self. It's actually a pretty fun feeling (laughs). We show different expressions and things than we do just in rehearsal with each other. Everyday, we face the question of "what sort of reaction will we get today?" and then the mood completely changes by the next day, and we have to let those feelings go. I feel like a good wind blows on the first day of our tours. Although that doesn't mean that sensation I get has changed in the last year and a half; it's really fun. I keep thinking like "I wanna get to the venue already!" However, that doesn't mean I'm just looking forward to day one; every day we change venues it's like another first day. So with that, there's a totally different feeling with each venue we go to. "We got this kind of reaction in this venue, but this other one was totally different," that kind of thing. Like, the venue reflects the mood of the region -- it's really neat! It's like finding "there's still another new feeling to discover!", but while we and our fans can't exactly exchange sensibilities, but I'd like to do one concert in a really big arena, but I also think we have to keep on keeping on. So, when we tell the fans, "please come see us again!" what I really feel is that we'd like to give you more of these concerts into which we put our hearts and souls.