Seungri was a cheerful guy. He gave honest risposte immediately and straightforwardly to whatever he was asked. He has always been the most friendly and honest of Big Bang’s members, and this showed in his music. While G-Dragon and Taeyang have focused più on style in their solo albums, Seungri emphasized the power of the melody. The video to “Let’s Talk About Love,” which YG Entertainment voluntarily put up for an R rating, was shocking to watch but then again, it was Big Bang and furthermore, Seungri, so it seemed okay. After all, he’s also turning 23 years old now. When asked whether the song’s titolo was supposed to contain the word ‘sex’ instead of ‘love,’ he gave a calm and honest answer instead of blushing. He was no longer the youngest member of Big Bang. There was even a maturity to what he thinks of his group. TenAsia met with Seungri at a cafe in Seoul on Monday.
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Q. I saw in your “Making of the Album” video that te wanted to talk about love. Exactly what sort of Amore did te want to talk about?
Seungri: When asked, “What do te think Amore is?” a lot of people speak of things that are painful o lingering. I wanted to talk about various sides to love. Things such as the excitement, happiness, parting, pain, regret regarding love.
Q. Your R-rated teaser for “Let’s Talk About Love” was the talk of the town. But the reaction to it seemed diviso, spalato between “It’s excessive” versus “It works because it’s Big Bang’s Seungri.”
Seungri: Reality is that even if te come out with a really good song, all will go to waste without good promotion. I thought I could get everyone’s attention da coming up with something that’s provocative so we made an R-rated version. After much discussion with the officials of my agency and the filming crew, we came to the conclusion that it would be okay to go borderline.
Q. Then did a lot of your opinions get reflected into the video?
Seungri: They did.
Q. Watching that video made me wonder whether the original titolo to that song was supposed to be “Let’s Talk About Sex” instead of “Let’s Talk About Love.”
Seungri: Well, it does talk about the things that happen in a man-woman relationship as well (laughs). I wanted the song to contain various meanings, and what I wanted in particular was to appeal to the audience with my charms as a man. I know the video could look provocative because of the emphasis on red including the lipstick and mela, apple but it’s definitely not just meant to seem sexual and racy. I just regard it as a clip that Suits the Musica and I think that’s why it’s not repulsive.
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Q. te recently gave your first televised performance [for the album] for which te also gave a Broadway show-like performance for “GOTTA TALK TO U” in a suit and all.
Seungri: I wanted to emphasize the fact that I’ve matured. I wanted to break away from the image of being the youngest member of Big Bang, as well as the image I gave off on variety shows. My song may not seem serious if I’m not serious so I tried to be da holding myself back.
Q. What do te mean da holding yourself back? What sort of person do te consider yourself
Seungri: For me, how the person with me feels is più important than how I feel. I like making people around me feel happy.
Q. Based on what I heard in song “Love Box,” it seems that the color of your voice has changed. It looks like te practiced Canto a lot. Did te receive a lot of lessons?
Seungri: Nobody in Big Bang receives vocal lessons anymore. We’re impossible to teach because we already have very distinctive colors. te could say that too much time has passed for us to take up new styles so it’s entirely up to us to improve. I personally wanted to produce a voice that’s different from when I did “V.V.I.P” so I put a lot of effort into finding my voice through the six songs in the album. For example, I tried Canto in a deeper voice da lowering my voice that used to be più delicate.
Q. te worked on “Let’s Talk About Love” with G-Dragon and Taeyang. How was that?
Seungri: They’re set to release albums after me so I ran into them a lot in the recording studio. And I asked them to take part in my album because I thought it would be nice to have their voices in it. G-Dragon wrote some rap for me the giorno I asked him. And Taeyang paid a lot of attention to the album, making adjustments several times. It was as if they were adding color to the picture I had drawn up.
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Q. te took up the responsibility of producer for the album, your first time to do so. I’m sure it must’ve been very different from when te only did the singing.
Seungri: It put pressure on me because it was my first time. But I told myself I’d do well da using the experience I gained during my seven years as Big Bang. In my mind, the executive producer is the person that is in charge of everything up to the point that the album comes out. So not just the Musica but also the Musica video, album artwork, photographs, and even the material the album itself would be made out of.
Q. Do te think te delivered your message well through the album?
Seungri: I wanted to deliver the emotions a man feels when he’s in love. For example, through song “GG BE,” I wanted to the express the feelings of being deceived da a woman (the song also contains the woman’s counterargument). Through “Come To My,” the emotions a man feels after a breakup, the explosive feelings. There are a lot of things that guys actually can’t express in words so I think a lot of guys would relate to this song. The first track “Let’s Talk About Love” and secondo track “GOTTA TALK TO YOU” are about seducing a woman (laughs). And Japanese movie “Be With You” served as inspiration for “Love Box.” I couldn’t fill up the album with just my experiences.
Q. Which song contains your experience?
Seungri: “GG BE.” I expressed how a guy’s Amore for his woman is dying out because he is tired of how she lies to him all the time. And the woman in the song is waiting for me to break up with her. te know how some people prefer to get dumped than do the dumping, right? I expressed all this, which could happen to anyone, in a Seungri-like way. She says she’s at a coffee negozio but is dancing at a club. And why she always steps out of a black car…
Q. It sounds like te have plenty of experience with love.
Seungri: (Answers seriously) A lot happened.
Q. When did “GG BE” happen?
Seungri: About a anno ago.
Q. How do te think she’s doing now?
Seungri: I don’t want to know!
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Q. te must’ve talked with CEO Yang Hyun-suk a lot while preparing your album.
Seungri: It started da him calling me over and saying we should do some music, and he told me to start da making two songs. So I made “GG BE” first and had him listen to it. Him and YG’s main producer Teddy were there. After listening to it for about five secondi he said, “Not bad” and I was so happy that I exclaimed, “Really!” But he then told me, “Don’t get too excited. I’m saying that it isn’t as bad as I thought it would be.” But I saw this as him complimenting me in his understated way. After that, I made about ten songs and put the good songs in the album first. While working on it, he asked me things such as, “What do te think?” and “How do te want to go about this?” And he’s usually not the type to (laughs). So it seemed that he was finally acknowledging me as an artist. It made me really happy.
Q. How was your teamwork with the composers?
Seungri: The funny thing is that everybody was blood type A. We worked respectfully towards each other and didn’t have any fights. I’d like to become better at Scrivere Musica da continuing to study it. And all the songwriters that I worked with this time detto they’d like to work with me again. Such things serve as much inspiration for me. I regard myself a melody maker so it made me happy to be recognized for my work.
Q. Yes, it seems that te focus più on the melodies unlike the albums of other members of your group that are mainly hip-hop.
Seungri: I’m the only member of the team that seeks to do pop music. I want to do Musica that anyone can like and enjoy. That’s why I added pop sounds to this album in general. For example, I put in the sounds of instruments such as the chitarra and piano, which everybody hears often, and tried to go with melodies that would sound familiar. Rather than trying to do Musica that I want to do, I focused on doing Musica that I want my fan to hear.
Q. How would te define yourself o what te call Seungri-like? How are te different from the rest of Big Bang?
Seungri: I’m the only person of the team that is cheerful, witty, friendly, and sociable (laughs). Everyone else is pretty shy. But I like being cheerful. Isn’t it nice to be able to have fun and laugh while doing interviews? I’d like to do Musica in the same way – in a witty way. People think of YG artists as rarely appearing on TV but I’d like to make Big Bang fan happy through various mediums.
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Q. You’re active in Giappone as well and have appeared in a lot of Japanese variety shows. te speak Japanese fluently too.
Seungri: There’s a reason for that. We made our debut in Giappone about four years fa and when we went on a morning mostra there to promote our album, I did a brief interview in Japanese using simple expressions such as “Yoroshiku onegaishimasu.” But one of the members of our group said, “Stay quiet if te can’t speak Japanese! It’s embarrassing!” So that’s when I told myself that I’d mostra how good I am da studying Japanese hard. Nobody says anything to me now when it comes to Japanese. They actually ask me things. I now have power! (laughs) G-Dragon may be our leader but everyone depends on me when we go to Japan. Last year, I was an actor in Giappone and I’m a regular on about three shows. I’m grateful for all of it. My personal activities like that help Big Bang as a whole as well.
Q. It seems that you’re still ambitious
Seungri: I used to be very ambitious. But reality taught me that ambition won’t get te everything te want. te need più than just passion and hope. It’s important to do what I’m good at and Suits me. And più than anything, Big Bang is what’s important.
Q. How is your Musica as a solo artist different from that of Big Bang’s?
Seungri: We all agree with the fundamental idea that we shouldn’t stray far from the Musica we do as a group. And it won’t suit me anyway if I suddenly do rock o traditional R&B because I grew up as a member of Big Bang, and therefore I’m used to it. I watched and learned about Musica as a member of Big Bang. Of course it’s important to mostra my charms as an artist da mostrare my abilities but that’s what our solo activities are for.
Q. What do te think of the Musica of other members of Big Bang?
Seungri: G-Dragon’s Musica is like sushi. It’s sophisticated and has different flavors. His Musica also changes depending on how much he cooks it. Taeyang’s is like hamburgers. He’ll produces various flavors while staying within the boundaries of them being hamburgers such as a chicken burger and gamberetto, gamberetti burger. TOP’s is steak! It’s important what wine te have with it. And Daesung’s is like spicy hangover soup.
Q. Everyone is currently working on their solo albums. When about will we get to meet te guys as a full group?
Seungri: I think you’d get to see the five of us together around the end of the year. Even if we don’t release a new song, I believe that it’s our responsibility to meet with fan through TV o concerts.
Q. What do te want to achieve through this solo album?
Seungri: I’d like to put meaning into the fact that I discovered my hidden talent rather than hoping to place well on Musica charts. This is the first album I’ve produced so I wanted to make it really good. Also, G-Dragon and Taeyang’s album will come out soon. It’s unusual for a single group to release so many solo albums in a row but I hope I’ll help them with a good start.
Reporter. Kwon Seok-jung
Translator. Jessica Kim
Source: link
postato da vic on August 28, 2013
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Q. I saw in your “Making of the Album” video that te wanted to talk about love. Exactly what sort of Amore did te want to talk about?
Seungri: When asked, “What do te think Amore is?” a lot of people speak of things that are painful o lingering. I wanted to talk about various sides to love. Things such as the excitement, happiness, parting, pain, regret regarding love.
Q. Your R-rated teaser for “Let’s Talk About Love” was the talk of the town. But the reaction to it seemed diviso, spalato between “It’s excessive” versus “It works because it’s Big Bang’s Seungri.”
Seungri: Reality is that even if te come out with a really good song, all will go to waste without good promotion. I thought I could get everyone’s attention da coming up with something that’s provocative so we made an R-rated version. After much discussion with the officials of my agency and the filming crew, we came to the conclusion that it would be okay to go borderline.
Q. Then did a lot of your opinions get reflected into the video?
Seungri: They did.
Q. Watching that video made me wonder whether the original titolo to that song was supposed to be “Let’s Talk About Sex” instead of “Let’s Talk About Love.”
Seungri: Well, it does talk about the things that happen in a man-woman relationship as well (laughs). I wanted the song to contain various meanings, and what I wanted in particular was to appeal to the audience with my charms as a man. I know the video could look provocative because of the emphasis on red including the lipstick and mela, apple but it’s definitely not just meant to seem sexual and racy. I just regard it as a clip that Suits the Musica and I think that’s why it’s not repulsive.
seungri-lets-talk-about-love-20
Q. te recently gave your first televised performance [for the album] for which te also gave a Broadway show-like performance for “GOTTA TALK TO U” in a suit and all.
Seungri: I wanted to emphasize the fact that I’ve matured. I wanted to break away from the image of being the youngest member of Big Bang, as well as the image I gave off on variety shows. My song may not seem serious if I’m not serious so I tried to be da holding myself back.
Q. What do te mean da holding yourself back? What sort of person do te consider yourself
Seungri: For me, how the person with me feels is più important than how I feel. I like making people around me feel happy.
Q. Based on what I heard in song “Love Box,” it seems that the color of your voice has changed. It looks like te practiced Canto a lot. Did te receive a lot of lessons?
Seungri: Nobody in Big Bang receives vocal lessons anymore. We’re impossible to teach because we already have very distinctive colors. te could say that too much time has passed for us to take up new styles so it’s entirely up to us to improve. I personally wanted to produce a voice that’s different from when I did “V.V.I.P” so I put a lot of effort into finding my voice through the six songs in the album. For example, I tried Canto in a deeper voice da lowering my voice that used to be più delicate.
Q. te worked on “Let’s Talk About Love” with G-Dragon and Taeyang. How was that?
Seungri: They’re set to release albums after me so I ran into them a lot in the recording studio. And I asked them to take part in my album because I thought it would be nice to have their voices in it. G-Dragon wrote some rap for me the giorno I asked him. And Taeyang paid a lot of attention to the album, making adjustments several times. It was as if they were adding color to the picture I had drawn up.
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Q. te took up the responsibility of producer for the album, your first time to do so. I’m sure it must’ve been very different from when te only did the singing.
Seungri: It put pressure on me because it was my first time. But I told myself I’d do well da using the experience I gained during my seven years as Big Bang. In my mind, the executive producer is the person that is in charge of everything up to the point that the album comes out. So not just the Musica but also the Musica video, album artwork, photographs, and even the material the album itself would be made out of.
Q. Do te think te delivered your message well through the album?
Seungri: I wanted to deliver the emotions a man feels when he’s in love. For example, through song “GG BE,” I wanted to the express the feelings of being deceived da a woman (the song also contains the woman’s counterargument). Through “Come To My,” the emotions a man feels after a breakup, the explosive feelings. There are a lot of things that guys actually can’t express in words so I think a lot of guys would relate to this song. The first track “Let’s Talk About Love” and secondo track “GOTTA TALK TO YOU” are about seducing a woman (laughs). And Japanese movie “Be With You” served as inspiration for “Love Box.” I couldn’t fill up the album with just my experiences.
Q. Which song contains your experience?
Seungri: “GG BE.” I expressed how a guy’s Amore for his woman is dying out because he is tired of how she lies to him all the time. And the woman in the song is waiting for me to break up with her. te know how some people prefer to get dumped than do the dumping, right? I expressed all this, which could happen to anyone, in a Seungri-like way. She says she’s at a coffee negozio but is dancing at a club. And why she always steps out of a black car…
Q. It sounds like te have plenty of experience with love.
Seungri: (Answers seriously) A lot happened.
Q. When did “GG BE” happen?
Seungri: About a anno ago.
Q. How do te think she’s doing now?
Seungri: I don’t want to know!
seungri-lets-talk-about-love-21
Q. te must’ve talked with CEO Yang Hyun-suk a lot while preparing your album.
Seungri: It started da him calling me over and saying we should do some music, and he told me to start da making two songs. So I made “GG BE” first and had him listen to it. Him and YG’s main producer Teddy were there. After listening to it for about five secondi he said, “Not bad” and I was so happy that I exclaimed, “Really!” But he then told me, “Don’t get too excited. I’m saying that it isn’t as bad as I thought it would be.” But I saw this as him complimenting me in his understated way. After that, I made about ten songs and put the good songs in the album first. While working on it, he asked me things such as, “What do te think?” and “How do te want to go about this?” And he’s usually not the type to (laughs). So it seemed that he was finally acknowledging me as an artist. It made me really happy.
Q. How was your teamwork with the composers?
Seungri: The funny thing is that everybody was blood type A. We worked respectfully towards each other and didn’t have any fights. I’d like to become better at Scrivere Musica da continuing to study it. And all the songwriters that I worked with this time detto they’d like to work with me again. Such things serve as much inspiration for me. I regard myself a melody maker so it made me happy to be recognized for my work.
Q. Yes, it seems that te focus più on the melodies unlike the albums of other members of your group that are mainly hip-hop.
Seungri: I’m the only member of the team that seeks to do pop music. I want to do Musica that anyone can like and enjoy. That’s why I added pop sounds to this album in general. For example, I put in the sounds of instruments such as the chitarra and piano, which everybody hears often, and tried to go with melodies that would sound familiar. Rather than trying to do Musica that I want to do, I focused on doing Musica that I want my fan to hear.
Q. How would te define yourself o what te call Seungri-like? How are te different from the rest of Big Bang?
Seungri: I’m the only person of the team that is cheerful, witty, friendly, and sociable (laughs). Everyone else is pretty shy. But I like being cheerful. Isn’t it nice to be able to have fun and laugh while doing interviews? I’d like to do Musica in the same way – in a witty way. People think of YG artists as rarely appearing on TV but I’d like to make Big Bang fan happy through various mediums.
seungri-lets-talk-about-love-17
Q. You’re active in Giappone as well and have appeared in a lot of Japanese variety shows. te speak Japanese fluently too.
Seungri: There’s a reason for that. We made our debut in Giappone about four years fa and when we went on a morning mostra there to promote our album, I did a brief interview in Japanese using simple expressions such as “Yoroshiku onegaishimasu.” But one of the members of our group said, “Stay quiet if te can’t speak Japanese! It’s embarrassing!” So that’s when I told myself that I’d mostra how good I am da studying Japanese hard. Nobody says anything to me now when it comes to Japanese. They actually ask me things. I now have power! (laughs) G-Dragon may be our leader but everyone depends on me when we go to Japan. Last year, I was an actor in Giappone and I’m a regular on about three shows. I’m grateful for all of it. My personal activities like that help Big Bang as a whole as well.
Q. It seems that you’re still ambitious
Seungri: I used to be very ambitious. But reality taught me that ambition won’t get te everything te want. te need più than just passion and hope. It’s important to do what I’m good at and Suits me. And più than anything, Big Bang is what’s important.
Q. How is your Musica as a solo artist different from that of Big Bang’s?
Seungri: We all agree with the fundamental idea that we shouldn’t stray far from the Musica we do as a group. And it won’t suit me anyway if I suddenly do rock o traditional R&B because I grew up as a member of Big Bang, and therefore I’m used to it. I watched and learned about Musica as a member of Big Bang. Of course it’s important to mostra my charms as an artist da mostrare my abilities but that’s what our solo activities are for.
Q. What do te think of the Musica of other members of Big Bang?
Seungri: G-Dragon’s Musica is like sushi. It’s sophisticated and has different flavors. His Musica also changes depending on how much he cooks it. Taeyang’s is like hamburgers. He’ll produces various flavors while staying within the boundaries of them being hamburgers such as a chicken burger and gamberetto, gamberetti burger. TOP’s is steak! It’s important what wine te have with it. And Daesung’s is like spicy hangover soup.
Q. Everyone is currently working on their solo albums. When about will we get to meet te guys as a full group?
Seungri: I think you’d get to see the five of us together around the end of the year. Even if we don’t release a new song, I believe that it’s our responsibility to meet with fan through TV o concerts.
Q. What do te want to achieve through this solo album?
Seungri: I’d like to put meaning into the fact that I discovered my hidden talent rather than hoping to place well on Musica charts. This is the first album I’ve produced so I wanted to make it really good. Also, G-Dragon and Taeyang’s album will come out soon. It’s unusual for a single group to release so many solo albums in a row but I hope I’ll help them with a good start.
Reporter. Kwon Seok-jung
Translator. Jessica Kim
Source: link
postato da vic on August 28, 2013
The news was released earlier thru the official website (see foto below), then removed because their performance as concerto series opener was supposed to be a guessing contest on the website.
To purchase tickets for the event, click here. (As Big Bang is performing on the main stage in zone 4, make sure te purchase the Zone 4 tickets)
foto via: @sayseungri and @chrome_hurts
Source: link
Note: Technically the announcement of Big Bang's participation at the event was part of another "Guess Who" contest that is open for fan to guess and vote on until July 3rd, but someone accidentally already postato the news on the official media portion of the site before removing it. Both the "Meet and Greet" and the "Guess Who" are still open and available on the Singapore Grand Prix website.
Filed under: Big Bang, News
postato da vip4daesung on July 2, 2013
To purchase tickets for the event, click here. (As Big Bang is performing on the main stage in zone 4, make sure te purchase the Zone 4 tickets)
foto via: @sayseungri and @chrome_hurts
Source: link
Note: Technically the announcement of Big Bang's participation at the event was part of another "Guess Who" contest that is open for fan to guess and vote on until July 3rd, but someone accidentally already postato the news on the official media portion of the site before removing it. Both the "Meet and Greet" and the "Guess Who" are still open and available on the Singapore Grand Prix website.
Filed under: Big Bang, News
postato da vip4daesung on July 2, 2013
The 'MTV VMAJ 2013' (Video Musica Awards Japan) were held on June 22 at Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan.
K-pop's hottest idol groups TVXQ, Big Bang, and 2PM were nominated in 3 different categories and both Big Bang and 2PM each won an award.
Big Bang's Musica video for "Fantastic Baby" which was directed da Hyun Seung Seo won the category of 'Best Dance Video'. They were able to beat out the Musica video of SKRILLEX's "Bangarang", ZEDD's "Spectrum", livetune's "Transfer", and group_inou's "9".
Source: AKP
Note: parts omitted.
Filed under: Big Bang, News
Boom Shakalaka x3
Congrats to our Fantastic 5
K-pop's hottest idol groups TVXQ, Big Bang, and 2PM were nominated in 3 different categories and both Big Bang and 2PM each won an award.
Big Bang's Musica video for "Fantastic Baby" which was directed da Hyun Seung Seo won the category of 'Best Dance Video'. They were able to beat out the Musica video of SKRILLEX's "Bangarang", ZEDD's "Spectrum", livetune's "Transfer", and group_inou's "9".
Source: AKP
Note: parts omitted.
Filed under: Big Bang, News
Boom Shakalaka x3
Congrats to our Fantastic 5