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flytotheworldI thought about just doing this all in one go, but I would hate for this to get overwhelming and then I never finish it (like so many of my translation projects). So I'm gonna try to do about 100-ish lines at a time and see how far that gets me. This is about 13/4 of the 31/2-4 total pages that this interview takes up, so we're nearing halfway done! The next section will probably be done sometime next week, since the rest of this week and weekend is super busy for me.
THAT HAVING BEEN SAID! Enjoy this lovely interview. V6 start off talking about the colour blue, and then about "Timeless" and "SPOT LIGHT," and then about "24 Hour TV" (bonus talk about HSJ! (not much, though)). I haven't skimmed much of the next section, but it does start with them talking about the tour and !!!
"Through the good and the bad, we've never much thought of this as 'work'"
V6 are milling about in the 20th anniversary year. Our gravure presentation this time is a blue image, "skyrocketing," using V6's passion. And so, let the blue-themed round table discussion begin!
Okada: Man, I love blue.
Inohara: It's my favourite, too!
Okada: I've been doing shooting lately for my movie, "Everest," and I've basically been in a world of nothing but blue, white, and black. That blue sky just has an overwhelming power over the scenery. Former Governor (of Tokyo Shintaro) Ishihara regulated exhaust fumes, the sky got more blue. And I've gotten to just want to gaze up at the perfectly blue sky forever. When the sky isn't blue, I also feel blue. So when I feel like that, I have to work through it and do my best.
Morita: I love clouds, so I love looking up a cloudy blue sky. Looking at clouds calms me down.
Sakamoto:We had a question earlier on our radio show asking "what do we think of when we think of 'blue'," and the three of us in Tonisen all went, "the sky" in unison. It's natural to just want to throw yourself down and look up at the sky. For me, I like when I'm cruising along on my bike along the riverbank and stuff. And I just think to myself damn, this feels so good!
Miyake: You guys really like blue!
Nagano: Of course, the Earth is inherently blue. The sky and the sea are blue. We have that image of water being blue, too. Blue is the colour we see the most, isn't it? It might be an origin colour.
Of course for V6, too, they've begun waves of activity started with their origin, their debut, on November 1st. The start of all of which is their new single, "Timeless," released on May 8th. With a theme of "bond," it's a mellow, graceful ballad.
Miyake: The melody line is beautiful, and it's a song where the more I listen to it, the more it sinks in. The lyrics are pretty universal, too, so I think anyone could get into it. And like, it's like parts of experiences that people have had that have all built up...
Morita: In the lyrics, I feel like it also gives off a hint of V6 as we are now. Like, the bond between men.
Okada: The PV shoot for it was hard, though, for sure.
Inohara: We danced it over and over and over~
Miyake: Because the director said he wanted to shoot it with multiple layers. Repeating the same phrase at the same place, we shot it time after time.
Nagano: For example, Go would exchange glances with himself and pass by himself. It's like... showing off our future selves, our current selves, and our past selves.
Morita: It's something the director thought of as he listened to the song.
Sakamoto:We shot it in a sprawling warehouse without any kid of set. We were the only living things in it.
Nagano: We danced the same hook in the song 9 times.
Okada: And we had to remember a lot of dance moves.
Inohara: We were shooting through the middle of the night, but the choreography and filming staff were working for us without sleeping since the day before. The finished product is... kinda creepy -- how many people did we end up becoming? (laughs)
Nagano: There were a ton of us!
Miyake: It might be hard to watch (laughs).
Morita: We didn't recycle any footage, and it was just us doing it however many times, and I thought that was fun. You can see the past, the future, and the present all in one go. It gives off that feeling, one way or another.
The b-side is "SPOT LIGHT," a song that takes them back to their roots. They also produced the PV.
Sakamoto:This is a song where you'll get fired up when you dance it. A song that makes you feel like "bounce! more!" We had our fans there with us at the PV shooting, but I sweating so much. (laughs)
Miyake: It's been a long time since we shot a PV in front of our fans. It was actually kind of embarrassing, since we haven't had that kind of scene or that sort of communication between us and our fans in a while.
Morita: I had a weird sort of nervous feeling.
Miyake: And when they were all like "whoo!" and screaming, I had no idea what was so great.
Morita: But we made some great memories.
Nagano: This time, to shoot for 2 PVs, we did shooting for 2 days in a row. That might be the first time we've ever done that.
Okada: We shot it before I left for Mt. Everest.
Inohara: Because we were filming the footage to use on TV shows and also for the bonus features at the same time, we rushed through it. It was like, "is this our debut again?!"
Okada: It really was a lot to deal with.
Inohara: Oh no, no -- we all have times where we're all busy doing lots of different things.
They've been chosen to appear on "24 Hour TV" this August. It's been 15 years since their last appearance.
Nagano: It's awesome. It's been this long since our last appearance. The year 2000 only feels like 7 or 8 years ago.
Miyake: We got the news from our manager right around the time we were shooting for the PVs.
Sakamoto:When they called us all, I was like "oh god, who did what now?" (laughs)
All: Ahahaha
Nagano: There's a lot of nervousness around it, huh (laughs).
Sakamoto:When we went to go prepare for it, we got the wrong presents, so I was like "what?!"
Nagano: I know our fans were really surprised, but I think we were also really surprised.
Sakamoto:Right, right. I was like "What?! Are you sure?" It wasn't like I got super excited like "let's do this!" I'm sure the staff were also like "are they going to be all right?" (laughs). There may still be surprises in store this year, so you have to have a really good reaction to it. Like, "for real?!" (laughs)
Morita: It's been so long for me that I've forgotten it all!
Miyake: I don't even know if we can be awake for 24 hours. We're much older now. Don't we all get sleepy when we haven't slept now?
Inohara: 15 years ago, we could just get through things with our youth.
Nagano: To prepare for the actual day, we're going to have to really adjust our sleep schedules. We'll be waking up the morning of the program, and one way or another we can't not be awake for something like 30 hours. Whether or not we really remember it, this isn't our first time, you know. We'll go into it knowing it's our second match and approach it like we can win it.
Sakamoto:We'll be having two generations of MCs at the same time with Hey! Say! JUMP lending a fresh feeling to the whole thing during daylight hours. At night, they'll have to leave it up to us as the adults!
Miyake: We're gonna be all tangled up with our kouhai this time. I'm not used to it, so that'll probably be the most troublesome thing for me personally... (laughs)
Morita: That's right. What should we do?
Miyake: This is Inohara-kun's speciality.
Sakamoto:Other than Inohara, none of us have really worked with Hey! Say! JUMP. Arioka (Daiki), when the announcement was made, said, "we'll borrow the hearts of our fathers." To them, we're their fathers' generation! So we have to show them old mens' power!
Nagano: We really have to start connecting with them in preparation for August. And all the more because of our age difference, it'll be something probably never seen on TV until now. It'll reach a wide demographic.
Morita: The things people wished for before and the things they wish for now are different, so if we could have fun and make their wishes come true, that would be great for me.
Okada: I don't know what I can do or what I will do, but it's a show we're all going to do be able to do together, and that's something we haven't done in a long time. You're all great people... it'll be fine!
Miyake: The best thing would be to do it honestly and be as large as life. And take on the thing we have to do (laughs)
Morita: Just do your best. Anyway.
Sakamoto:Using the skills we've built up and the the things we've done over the past 15 years, I want to properly convey whatever it is our current selves can do.
Part 2 is here
THAT HAVING BEEN SAID! Enjoy this lovely interview. V6 start off talking about the colour blue, and then about "Timeless" and "SPOT LIGHT," and then about "24 Hour TV" (bonus talk about HSJ! (not much, though)). I haven't skimmed much of the next section, but it does start with them talking about the tour and !!!
"Through the good and the bad, we've never much thought of this as 'work'"
V6 are milling about in the 20th anniversary year. Our gravure presentation this time is a blue image, "skyrocketing," using V6's passion. And so, let the blue-themed round table discussion begin!
Okada: Man, I love blue.
Inohara: It's my favourite, too!
Okada: I've been doing shooting lately for my movie, "Everest," and I've basically been in a world of nothing but blue, white, and black. That blue sky just has an overwhelming power over the scenery. Former Governor (of Tokyo Shintaro) Ishihara regulated exhaust fumes, the sky got more blue. And I've gotten to just want to gaze up at the perfectly blue sky forever. When the sky isn't blue, I also feel blue. So when I feel like that, I have to work through it and do my best.
Morita: I love clouds, so I love looking up a cloudy blue sky. Looking at clouds calms me down.
Sakamoto:We had a question earlier on our radio show asking "what do we think of when we think of 'blue'," and the three of us in Tonisen all went, "the sky" in unison. It's natural to just want to throw yourself down and look up at the sky. For me, I like when I'm cruising along on my bike along the riverbank and stuff. And I just think to myself damn, this feels so good!
Miyake: You guys really like blue!
Nagano: Of course, the Earth is inherently blue. The sky and the sea are blue. We have that image of water being blue, too. Blue is the colour we see the most, isn't it? It might be an origin colour.
Of course for V6, too, they've begun waves of activity started with their origin, their debut, on November 1st. The start of all of which is their new single, "Timeless," released on May 8th. With a theme of "bond," it's a mellow, graceful ballad.
Miyake: The melody line is beautiful, and it's a song where the more I listen to it, the more it sinks in. The lyrics are pretty universal, too, so I think anyone could get into it. And like, it's like parts of experiences that people have had that have all built up...
Morita: In the lyrics, I feel like it also gives off a hint of V6 as we are now. Like, the bond between men.
Okada: The PV shoot for it was hard, though, for sure.
Inohara: We danced it over and over and over~
Miyake: Because the director said he wanted to shoot it with multiple layers. Repeating the same phrase at the same place, we shot it time after time.
Nagano: For example, Go would exchange glances with himself and pass by himself. It's like... showing off our future selves, our current selves, and our past selves.
Morita: It's something the director thought of as he listened to the song.
Sakamoto:We shot it in a sprawling warehouse without any kid of set. We were the only living things in it.
Nagano: We danced the same hook in the song 9 times.
Okada: And we had to remember a lot of dance moves.
Inohara: We were shooting through the middle of the night, but the choreography and filming staff were working for us without sleeping since the day before. The finished product is... kinda creepy -- how many people did we end up becoming? (laughs)
Nagano: There were a ton of us!
Miyake: It might be hard to watch (laughs).
Morita: We didn't recycle any footage, and it was just us doing it however many times, and I thought that was fun. You can see the past, the future, and the present all in one go. It gives off that feeling, one way or another.
The b-side is "SPOT LIGHT," a song that takes them back to their roots. They also produced the PV.
Sakamoto:This is a song where you'll get fired up when you dance it. A song that makes you feel like "bounce! more!" We had our fans there with us at the PV shooting, but I sweating so much. (laughs)
Miyake: It's been a long time since we shot a PV in front of our fans. It was actually kind of embarrassing, since we haven't had that kind of scene or that sort of communication between us and our fans in a while.
Morita: I had a weird sort of nervous feeling.
Miyake: And when they were all like "whoo!" and screaming, I had no idea what was so great.
Morita: But we made some great memories.
Nagano: This time, to shoot for 2 PVs, we did shooting for 2 days in a row. That might be the first time we've ever done that.
Okada: We shot it before I left for Mt. Everest.
Inohara: Because we were filming the footage to use on TV shows and also for the bonus features at the same time, we rushed through it. It was like, "is this our debut again?!"
Okada: It really was a lot to deal with.
Inohara: Oh no, no -- we all have times where we're all busy doing lots of different things.
They've been chosen to appear on "24 Hour TV" this August. It's been 15 years since their last appearance.
Nagano: It's awesome. It's been this long since our last appearance. The year 2000 only feels like 7 or 8 years ago.
Miyake: We got the news from our manager right around the time we were shooting for the PVs.
Sakamoto:When they called us all, I was like "oh god, who did what now?" (laughs)
All: Ahahaha
Nagano: There's a lot of nervousness around it, huh (laughs).
Sakamoto:When we went to go prepare for it, we got the wrong presents, so I was like "what?!"
Nagano: I know our fans were really surprised, but I think we were also really surprised.
Sakamoto:Right, right. I was like "What?! Are you sure?" It wasn't like I got super excited like "let's do this!" I'm sure the staff were also like "are they going to be all right?" (laughs). There may still be surprises in store this year, so you have to have a really good reaction to it. Like, "for real?!" (laughs)
Morita: It's been so long for me that I've forgotten it all!
Miyake: I don't even know if we can be awake for 24 hours. We're much older now. Don't we all get sleepy when we haven't slept now?
Inohara: 15 years ago, we could just get through things with our youth.
Nagano: To prepare for the actual day, we're going to have to really adjust our sleep schedules. We'll be waking up the morning of the program, and one way or another we can't not be awake for something like 30 hours. Whether or not we really remember it, this isn't our first time, you know. We'll go into it knowing it's our second match and approach it like we can win it.
Sakamoto:We'll be having two generations of MCs at the same time with Hey! Say! JUMP lending a fresh feeling to the whole thing during daylight hours. At night, they'll have to leave it up to us as the adults!
Miyake: We're gonna be all tangled up with our kouhai this time. I'm not used to it, so that'll probably be the most troublesome thing for me personally... (laughs)
Morita: That's right. What should we do?
Miyake: This is Inohara-kun's speciality.
Sakamoto:Other than Inohara, none of us have really worked with Hey! Say! JUMP. Arioka (Daiki), when the announcement was made, said, "we'll borrow the hearts of our fathers." To them, we're their fathers' generation! So we have to show them old mens' power!
Nagano: We really have to start connecting with them in preparation for August. And all the more because of our age difference, it'll be something probably never seen on TV until now. It'll reach a wide demographic.
Morita: The things people wished for before and the things they wish for now are different, so if we could have fun and make their wishes come true, that would be great for me.
Okada: I don't know what I can do or what I will do, but it's a show we're all going to do be able to do together, and that's something we haven't done in a long time. You're all great people... it'll be fine!
Miyake: The best thing would be to do it honestly and be as large as life. And take on the thing we have to do (laughs)
Morita: Just do your best. Anyway.
Sakamoto:Using the skills we've built up and the the things we've done over the past 15 years, I want to properly convey whatever it is our current selves can do.
Part 2 is here
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