Madara KeyWord Interview
On March 30th Gazette released their mini album “~Madara~”
This time, as Ruki tells us, different keywords from the newly released compilation of 6 songs will be the base themes for this interview. With the members' various responses, we hope to capture their true feelings in this interview. On top of that, we'll hopefully be able to get a feel for the GazettE's deep thoughts through their words.
Kai: Lately I've been hooked on an American drama Friends that's been airing on WOWOW. I get really into it to the point that I'm renting the videos and watching it continuously from the first season. One season has 6 dvds, and right now there are about 8 seasons. I've only watched up to the 3rd season, but I'm going to try my best to watch all of it.
Reita: I'm addicted to “messing things up.” For example, if I have socks on before I get in the bath I just toss it in the washing machine. If I take it off in my room then it sits there as it is for 2 to 3 days since I took it off. And today, the plate I ate jaajyan men on is still sitting around. Usually when I come back from tours, I clean up my room, but it gets messy pretty quickly. Since I'm living alone I kind of don't have a spot where I can sleep. Or maybe it's because I've become dirty as well (laughs)
Aoi: It also related to socks for me, but its more like I'm addicted to “the feeling of taking off your socks”. When I take off my socks there's that nice liberating feel. But, it's kind of a waste if you take it all off at once, so I stop at the arch of my foot and walk around like that. It feels really good if you do it that way, and I roll it up one more time and leave it like that for a while. Before I go to sleep I take it off all at once and that feels even better...um...am I weird?
Uruha: I have this thing for “this is too much trouble.” For example, when I have to take a bath, it's a pain if I'm up on the second floor in my room and have to go to the first floor where the bathroom is. Plus, I put my clothes in my room, so I have to go upstairs naked.
Ruki: If that's the case then just bring your clothes with you...
Uruha: That's even more troublesome.
Reita: A short distance between the bedroom and bathroom is a luxury! My room is only 5 steps away from the bathroom.
Ruki: For me it's about 2 to 3 steps. Anyways, I have a nicotine addiction. For example when we're making the demo tracks and we finish recording the rhythm, I have to smoke. After each stage of recording I have to smoke. Thanks to that I smoke 2 packs in a day. I really can't imagine my daily life without the existence of tobacco.
Ruki: I really hate girls who insult other people without giving it a second thought. My ideal kind of girl is someone who's feminine, and someone who's a little shy when she isn't wearing any makeup even though she's still charming without it. Something innocent like that.
Interviewer: Have you actually dated this“ideal girl” of yours before?
Ruki: I doubt it..if she existed I would have married her by now.
Reita: He rejects the people who are interested in him, but chases after the people who aren't interested in him.
Aoi: My ideal type of girl is someone who can cook and not someone who buys lunches from the convenience store. Basically, someone who can properly cook three meals for me is the most ideal.
Reita: Being together with a girl who has a gentle aura. My ideal girl is definitely someone who can heal you.
Uruha: The kind of girl I am attracted to is someone with a nurturing feminine instinct. No matter how stiff and awkward guys are when they are with a girl, they'll still want to be pampered. So a girl with that kind of an affectionate motherly instinct is attractive.
Kai: A woman I respect is definitely my mom. My parents divorced and my mom raised me all by herself while managing an independent business. I really respect her and how she supported the family financially while bringing me up. As for my ideal girl, it's someone who waits for me as I say, “I'm home,” when I return and who is protective of our family.
Reita: This is a story from when I was in elementary school. I had a white rabbit then. I left that rabbit in a huge cage, and I would often put a collar on it and take it out with me to play. But, one day, when I got back from school, the rabbit wasn't in its cage. Even though my sister was only joking when she said, 「Granny threw it away,」I went and gave my granny a light kick in the butt when she was sleeping...to this day, I still think what I did was terrible, and I'm really sorry I did it.
Aoi: I only injured my mom one time, around the time when I was quitting high school. I was going out at night to go play and hang out, and she stopped me. When I was shaking off the hand she grabbed me with, I elbowed her in the arm, and she got a bruise. At that time, I kept going, 「I'm sorry」, but no matter how much I apologized, I also felt hurt and guilty.
Uruha: That's not bad, you know. When I went through my rebellious stage in middle school, I put holes in the wall, stole bikes, shoplifted, kicked my mom in the back, fought with my sister, but I didn't want to lose to my dad, so I didn't fight with him much. Well, my rebellious spirit was really dependent on other people's kindness.
Kai: For me, I felt my father was an unforgivable person, so I was always defiant towards him. There were endless reasons on top of that, but at any rate, each time he made my mother cry, my dad and I got in a fist fight. As a result, when my parents divorced, and they were deciding, 「Who's going to have custody of him,」 I made it clear that I was going to be in my mother's custody.
Reita: On that note, Aunty says you're the spitting image of your father.
Kai: What?! I always thought, 「I never want to be like my father」though...You're kidding right? About that? (laugh)
Ruki: For me, I went through my rebellious period until recently. Especially with things related to the band...Recently though, when I was doing an interview for a magazine like this, I've gotten some support. At any rate, there were disagreements (laugh). And there were times when I ran away from home. But when it comes to hitting me when I was rebellious, in my situation, should I say that there wasn't an instance like that? My parents are super strong. Things like my dad's punches, if you took one of those, your vision would go white. And kicking into my mum...Even until now, it's really scary. But, well, I have a nice dad and mom!
Aoi: I don't have any personal supernatural experiences, but the one thing that I definitely can't stand are haunted houses. Even this time around, with the photo shoot on a mountain, we had to climb up the mountain to get to the actual spot. On top of that, when it was night and there was no light at all, Reita and I had to rely on the light from our phones to walk. And then, suddenly, Reita ran off and left me in the darkness...... I was seriously scared to death at the time.
Reita: It was really only for a moment, you know.
Aoi: I'm really a guy who can't handle the dark.
Ruki: This is from before, when the band visited Sendai. I was heading to the parking spot where the van was parked. And then, I heard a girl's voice from behind where the car was parked. But, when I looked, nobody was there.....
Reita: That was just the wind. I experienced that recently too. This was when Uruha and I finished recording, and we were heading to the office in the van. For some reason, there was this feeling that someone was behind us in the back of the van. But it was dark when we looked at the back mirror, and when we took a photo with our phones of the back, the thing in the back looked kind of like a human face. So we bravely turned around and switched on the light...And it looked like there was an alien...buu~ttttt, if you looked closely, it was Kai-kun.
Kai: Eh? Even though I've heard about something like this before...aren't you taking it too far by calling me an alien?
Uruha: This is a true story from when I played at my friend's house. Every time I slept over, I would always--without fail--get sleep paralysis. No matter what I did before falling asleep, I'd get sleep paralysis, and on top of that, I'd see a daimyo's procession in all white cross over my bed when I got it. And, when I woke up in the morning, I looked at the Furby next to my bed. The Furby's eyes were usually closed, but that morning, I saw that they were half open.....that was a really terrifying experience.
Kai: This is a true story too. In middle school, there was this 1 video that was really popular at the time. But my idiot friend accidentally switched it up with a porn video when he was going through the woods, and ended up bringing the popular video instead.
When everyone was watching it, there were a group of boys just standing still at the top of the embankment in the video between a school club and some old ladies coming and going with their bikes on the street. That in and of itself wasn't weird, but my friend said, 「Take a look at this,」and we surrounded the screen to take a closer look. According to the people who had seen the video before, the boys should have begun to gradually turn around. So we gathered the people who had seen it first to watch it together. We watched it one more time, and all the boys who hadn't turned around the first time began to turn around one by one on the screen. It was reaa~lly scary, and afterward, everyone went to the shrine to burn the video.
Kai: This was about a person who was a GazettE roadie for some time. When he was involved in an accident and he passed away, everyone went to the funeral. Since I hadn't experienced anything like this, with someone similar to my age passing away, when I looked at his face, I couldn't say anything. I thought, 「The boy who had spoken so normally before—why did something like this happen to him」 and...I was overcome with shock—that was really painful for me.
Uruha: My mom's older sister was hospitalized for cancer. I really loved that aunt, and she was someone who made me laugh every time I played with her. When I first visited her after she had just been hospitalized and was still doing alright, she invited me and said, 「Let's go out for a smoke together,」and said things like, 「I don't have much longer.」At that time though, I still didn't really understand what death was. The next time we visited, she had lost so much weight that it was impossible not to realize. And, I wonder to myself now, “What could I have done...”, but all I could do was pat her arm. Her skin had lost all its elasticity. That time was really hard on me.
Reita: Our house too. My parents divorced when I was 5, and my dad moved out. My grandpa substituted for my dad the entire time since my childhood, and he'd always pay attention to my problems. But my grandpa passed away when I was 18 of a heart attack. When my mom contacted me and said, 「Grandpa collapsed,」that was also the day my band practice ended and I went back home. I rushed back, but when I arrived, he was already cold...After that, I cried for so many days. I want my grandpa to be captivated by the current me.
Aoi: This is a story from when I was still at home. My friend passed away after he got rear-ended on his bike. He wasn't even 17 yet, and I'm sure there were plenty of fun things in store for him. He hadn't even discovered his own purpose in life before dying. Aren't there people who think things like, “Let's just die”? I really can't forgive those types of people. Since there are a lot of people around them that consider this person precious to them, they definitely shouldn't want to make them sad.
Ruki: When my dad had a heart attack and collapsed, he broke out in a cold sweat all over his body, and his breath was also fading. I had a frantic smile on my face when the ambulance took him out, but I thought, 「Don't die, Dad.」When I was told that my mom had breast cancer, I was really depressed.
Ruki: I'm sort of a fickle person. After dating someone for about a year, I start to lose interest. Naturally, I start to feel distant and also stop calling her. But when she called once, and I heard her crying voice through the phone, I got depressed.
Reita: Dude, why are you the one that's depressed.
Ruki: No, that's just how one would feel in that situation, right. I'm not trying to make excuses, but when we first started dating it was really pure. As time went on, we sorta...
--Was this the type of girl you wanted to project in your lyrics?
Reita: You just wanted to make someone cry (laughs).
Ruki: What?! Was not! It's just, the first image that comes to me of a girl is her crying. So, seriously, don't think that I'm a horrible guy or something, it's just something from the past.
Aoi: Before I went off to Tokyo, I was dating someone, we were in a long distance relationship for about half a year. We started to grow apart bit by bit, and we eventually broke up. As expected, I was depressed.
Reita: My experience is something that happened in junior high. I was talking to a girl that I had a crush on at the time, and she asked me “Who do you like?” I thought maybe she liked me too. After I said her name, I asked her “Who do you like?” She said my name and another name, and I thought “What the heck?!” then. On my way home, I was really down, so I went home doing the hand stand.
Uruha: I get depressed when I'm dumped, and when I break up with someone I also get tortured by this unusual sense of guilt and get really depressed.
Kai: There was an instance in high school when I lost my trust in girls.
Reita: Oh really now...
Kai: ?
Kai: This girl I was dating at the time had a friend who wanted us to break up, so she started spreading rumors about me cheating on her. One day, a group of my ex's friends, about ten of them, came up to me and were going, “What the heck, man?!” I had no idea what was going on but that was how the situation turned out. So all I could say was. “Whatever, just do what do you want!”
--You became unable to trust girls, and you finally crossed the point of no return...
Kai: Huh???
The other 4 members: (whispering) But that wasn't her fault, you're just making excuses.
Kai: Yeah, I've come to realize that, I was joking about losing my complete faith in girls.
Zdroj:http://michido.blogspot.com/2011/05/magazines-shoxx-vol-135-feat-gazette-pt.html
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