YOSHIKIさんがつぶやいてますね
私がこの前、書いたこちらの記事 と
同じ画像をリンクされています
http://twitter.com/YoshikiOfficial/status/19592561454751744
L.A.も寒いようですね
でも今日の東京は最低気温3度です
L.A.は最低気温10度くらいだから全然マシでしょ
YOSHIKIさんのUPされた画像はこれです
英語の読めない方は翻訳ソフトで和訳できなくて
困りますよね
私がこの前、メモ帳に書き出した物が
ありますのでコピーして貼りますね
Nylon guys magazine 12月号インタビュー(NYLON Guys Magazine "Starman")
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_irUuFrfb6ec/TQfSLYp-giI/AAAAAAAAAYw/8pAFY6nNDBA/s1600/xjapan.jpg
STARMAN
IT'S TAKEN 28 YEARS,BUT X JAPAN, ONE OF THE BIGGEST BANDS IN THE WORLD,ARE FINALLY READY TO
TACKLE AMERICA, BY CHRIS NORRIS,PHOTOGRAPHED BY NINA ROBINSON
IN A HOTEL SUITE high above Times Square,Japan's biggest rock star folds himself
info a club chair and prepares to grant an audience.Androgynously slim,with a black
scarf coiles around his neck,Yoshki Hayashi sits in silence for a moment as a hovering
photographer snaps some shots before the faintest wave from Yoshiki-san makes
him vanish into thin air.
Two days from now,the drummer and leader of X Japan will do something he's waited
for his whole life-play New York City-and he's sweating every detail,including the
greeting,“For Japanese peaple,it's hard to pronounce Ls and Rs,”Hayashi says,alluding
to Roseland Ballroom,the treacherously named venue where X Japan will make their
New York debut.“SO...Roseland? Ballroom?”he says,carefully but correcitly.“I've
actually been practicing saying that.”
Now is not the time to screw things up. Twenty-eight years after forming, X Japan
is finally touring the U.S., releasing its debut English-language album,and beginning
a full-scale American invasion-a campaign Hayashi has had decades to consider.
“I thought about it a lot,”he says.“How do we present ourselves today? Even in our
country,we were the black sheep of the industry. We were always outsiders.I feel like
America needs something new. So my strategy is just:Be yourself.”
Which is...?
“I have no idea,”he says, then bursts into laughter-softly clapping hands he keeps
jewelry-free for the grand-piano obligattos he plays during X Japan shows."We are
flashy,”he says at last of the band.“We are fast. We are loud. We are crazy.“We are
musically trained.”And at than he goes silent-his eyes hidden behind amber Ray-Bans,
his face lightly dusted with makeup,and his shoulder-length,center-parted,henna-tinted
hair all strongly suggesting David Bowie's frail,soft-spoken alien in The Man Who Fell
To Earth. Which is more than a little appropriate.
If you live long enough,pop culture becomes a dream,
a joke,or a science fiction novel-one where dancing fools
in harem pants become the world's best-selling rappers
and cyborgs from the future grovrn California.But if you
spent half your life in japanese pop culture-filling the
Tokyo Dome 18 times;composing the Emperor's theme
song;seeing your face on perfume,credit cards,and a
new species of Hello Kitty;losing your beloved bandmate
to suicide then performing with his hologram onstage-
your entire life is science fiction.
Hayashi's has been since he was a 10-year-old
classical pianist who enlisted in the Kiss Army,convincing
his mom to take him to Kiss's concert at Tokyo's Budokan.
On he briskly marched to Led Zeppelin,the Sex Pistols,
and the meaner strains of thrash-metal,forming a band in
the genre with classmate Toshi Deyama.Infamy followed.
Recruiting guitar ace Hideto“Hide”Matsumoto,the crew
adopted their placeholding“X”as an official bandname,
formed the indie label Extasy,and made records,headlines,
and some abortive overtures to the U.S.
The first involved a few mutually unfulfilling conversations
at the first Jane's Addiction concert in Los Angeles.
“Hide and I were in the crowd and people came up to us,
"Do you have X?”he says.“And we were Like [nodding,
smiling] 'We are X!' Then, 'Do you have Ecstasy?' and
we were still [nodding,smiling] 'Yes, we are on Extasy!'”
The next was a quixotic attempt to charm grunge-era
America with the single-track, 29-minute,Schubert-
inspired album Art of Life in 1993.
After this,X Japan underwent a slow,painful implosion.
Singer Deyama left and joined a sect called Home of
Heart,Hide died of self-strangulation, and the Visual Kei
movement they helped launch merged into the sanitized
J-pop culture. Offered a composing gig by no less than
Sir George Martin,Hayashi made his own counter-intuitive
rebellion and wrote music for the Emperor's 10-year
anniversary.“I felt like I was being a rebel against
rebellion,”he says of the piece,which inaugurated
a new career penning sweeping orchestral works
perfect for multiplex epics and Olympic ceremonies.
bandless and surrounded by Japanese kids flipping
West Coast gang signs, Hayashi sought escape:first
in Hollywood,where he owned a recording studio,then
in Encino-right across the street from Michael Jackson.
When Jackson died in 2009, Hayashi says he was“quite
shocked,”having met him and found him to be“quite
normal.”“But, at the same time,I was on that street that
day,so...”He trails off,the point-blank view of such
a media maelstrom defying all possible description.
“Being famous is great,”Hayashi continues.“But it's so
hard to be in this position.If you do anything a bit wrong,
people will attack you.Especially on the Internet.”Of
course,the Internet also brought the resurrection of X
Japan, when their globally viral music videos prompted
reunion shows in 2009, where documentary footage
shows young faces of all nationalities tearfully singing
along and holding up arms or glowsticks to form an X.
“To me,X means 'no Limit.' Or '"infinite possibilities.'”
Yet it also denotes in my life,”says Hayashi,whose
father committed suicide was he was 10.
Today,Hayashi writes 99 percent of his lyrics in
English. He has a new girlfriend in Japan,but his last few
have been Anglo.Does he even feel Japanese anymore?
“I feel like an alien,”he says. Early next year,Stan Lee
will release a new comic that officially makes Hayashi
a superhero-joining a pantheon in which his closest
kindred spirit is,he reckons,lronman,“For some reason
I relate to him the most.”
In less than 48 hours, Hayashi and his similarly goth-
attired bandmates will give New York a style of balls-out,
laser-lit,Neo-Romantic bombast few Westerners could
pull off with a straight face. Metallica hurricanes will segue
into florid Tchaikovsky episodes,a Matrix-dustcoated
violinist will stand atop an amp's Wagnerian promontory,
and, over the Motorhead-like“Silent Jealousy,”stocky,
sunglassed Deyama will sing the soaring plea,“Don't you
leave me alone...Kill me, Love.”
But right now, high above Manhattan, Hayashi ponders
himself as superhero. Does he have superpowers?“I may,”
he says,then laughs.“I don't now yet." Does he have
a tragic flaw? A secret weakness?
“Hmmm,”he says,turning the question over for a while,
then finally answering:“Loneliness.”
コピーを貼っただけなので改行が変ですが我慢してね
ところで、皆さんが興味ある部分はこのあたりかな？
He has a new girlfriend in Japan,but his last few
have been Anglo.
YOSHIKIさんはこれが言いたかったのかな？
よくわからないですが・・・
新しい恋人が日本にいるそうです
まぁどうでもいいけど
恋愛が生きていくパワーになることはいいことだと思います
