Alice Nine

wow my day is starting off really good (but im still feeling like crap >__<)

that bed is absolutly beautiful!, i have a comforter almost like that on mine :P
 
^ well yeah they make a day ^ ^

does anyone now any site that translate there interviews in magazines ???
 
Can someone give my the link of the blog from Alice Nine?
I don't know it,,and i want to see it myself😌
 
Crap,,i dont can read the things that under the picture's are post,
****,,,
 
Waaahhh! All of them are updating like crazy! TORA LOOKS SOOO AWESOME!!! @__@ And gawd! Saga is really really hot! He looks darn good in that costume 8D Just like a prince xD
 
Whaaa
Hello People =D
Whooaa, i saw Tora is back to Life!
Honestly i was surprised when i looked thourgh his Blog after such a long time. xD
He updates so often. Whooa.
I'm really surprised.

And I like the new Pics on their OHP. x3
Nao looks the best. xD
Always. =D

The Tsubasa sample on their OHP is so beautiful. I like it. x3
Can't wait for it to be released. ^^
 
wow, they've been posting like crazy!!!! I bet Tora can make it to 99

I.......MISS NAO!!!!!!!! :(

I've been sending him many messages. lol maybe he'll start updating if he gets a lot of requests for his postings. :?

Shou: I have the May issue of SHOXX. That's where i read the interview.
I could try and type it out for you. But it's aloooooot!!!! 😌
lol i'll try.
 
garnet i just noticed what your icon is <3

hey if anyone wants screencaps from yuri wa aoku saite, im going to upload them to sendspace (I needed certain ones for a wallpaper) ^__^

that is a bobble head Vegeta...I WANT IT (long time DB fan)
 
This is just the first part of the interview. They just talk about the single, JEWELS


ﾂ"It has been a long timeﾂ…..ﾂ" Saga mumbled when the shooting of the magazine cover started. He had been waiting for this moment for 6 years. 6 years. Since he had been longing to be part of the Visual kei scene, he started playing instruments, made a band for the first time, and had been dreaming about the moment he would be on the cover of a magazine. Hearing these words of Saga, members nodded gently.

SHOXX, which started as the first special magazine for Visual kei, has kept watching various bands grow in the ﾂ'Visual kei' scene. The many artists who appear in SHOXX now used to be reading the magazine looking at articles of their seniors. This is their chance to continue history.

alice nine. They are the main artists who should lead the Visual kei scene anew. It was the first memorial cover of SHOXX for them. Their single [JEWELS] made alice nine.'s style, and has been concreted through this cover.

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This time I'll ask you about your new single [JEWELS] which is released on March 21st. You released the single CD after about 1 year from the last single CD, and you had a quite long interval. Did you intend that?


Hiroto: We didn't intend it like ﾂ"We'll have an interval for somethingﾂ", but after we released ?Zekkei shoku? (released on April 2006) which was quite challenging, so I think we started searching for something ﾂ'more like alice nine.' naturally, moving forward.


Shou: Yes. We didn't want to finish that album in only one tour. We wanted to prolong it for about 2 tours, and treasure it more. Usually after we finish our album, we do our tour playing songs from the album.


Of course you also play the album's songs after the tour, but in the tour after releasing the album, the live set list are usually composed mainly with songs of the album, and if there are single releases, you're sure to play the single songs in the lives after that, so you also have sings which you don't play in you lives.


Shou: Yeah. There was that and we didn't want to prolong it forcibly, but we really wanted to treasure the album.?Zekkei shoku? which was really a big presence or part of us.


Hiroto: I think so too. And in ?Zekkei shoku? and the tour afterward, we had a feeling that we could see and catch the aspect like ﾂ'how we, alice nine. should be', then we released a single a little different to before, I think.


I see. So around when did you start creating this single? I remember you saying ﾂ'We are creating a single now'.


Nao: Yes. We started it around in last autumn. This time we had two meetings to select our songs. We chose from about 10 songs.
Did you have any theme?


Nao: Well, we just had a theme of ﾂ'We should be really like alice nine.'. We wanted to make people really feel the present us.


Shou: We had something which we could see after we made the album and something which we held dear since we made this band, but we think our selling point is ﾂ'catchy and melodious' so we thought we wanted to research this part more.


Tora: When we say catchy, we mean not only bright, but also hard sounds that give dark impressions, you will find that melodies are always steadily present.


Saga: Yes. This time, we selected 3 songs, with pop among them.


I see. Well, let's talk about the songs one by one. The title [Jewels] is written by Saga.


Saga: Yes. In this song I made the vocals and melody the most important. And we created the song mixing our originalities which we have made up until now and which we newly arranged. This time the way we created the the song wasn't usual. Usually I make the mood, or backgrounds, but this time I made codes and melodies of the song. I wanted to make a song that is comfortable to listen to, but a vocal song, with words that remain in your ears.


Tora: The original song was so pop that we really cared about how we arranged it as an alice nine. song. We didn't want to make it just pop, and spent time to arrange rock to be in it. It's not only for this song but for the other two songs, too. This song contains the most synchronization out of the three songs, so I made most of the synchronization and backing.


Hiroto: We showed the song off and really thought about band dynamics.


I felt the depth of the song.


Hiroto: That's right! We wanted to make the sound three dimensional in this song. We decided not to mix it all into one, but to have each sound stand out respectively. I played guitar feeling like it was ﾂ'made by Hiroto'. (laugh)


ﾂ'Made by Hiroto'? What's that? (laugh)


Hiroto: I played guitar feeling like I wouldn't insist on doing it but ﾂ'I'll do this song.' (laugh)


Nao: When Saga let me listen to this song, I fell in love with the melody.


Saga: How can you say such a thing with a calm face? (laugh)


Nao: Ahahaha. It's nice to see Saga smile. But I really felt so. I made it thinking that many people would listen to it, so I think it became to be a song that you really feel an expanse. Personally I played drums thinking about how the drums are put in our songs, so that was my first experience making the vocals stand out. It was sure to be ﾂ"Made by Naoﾂ", too. (laugh)


Shou: Saga's songs are so pure and clear, opposite to his image.


Saga: Wait. I'm a man of purity! (laugh)


Shou: Well, calm down all. (laugh) I felt pure like white in this song, so I tried to write the lyrics without complicated feelings. Anyway, I wanted to write about a pure love which I really want to do something for someone. At that time I read a book about parents raising a child who isn't related by blood with their love, so I combined such a story and my good memories together, took the best, and like brilliant cuts of jewels, completed it like the image of sparkling angels.


Saga: Well, I'll tell you, there wasn't a song which people don't die until then. (laugh)


Shou: Ahahaha. Maybe so. (laugh) That's because many of your songs are quite fantastic. In [DEAD SCHOOL SCREAMING] people don't die, but it's a story which a machinegun is shot around in a school, so surely someone dies catching a bullet...(laugh). In contrast Hiroto's songs have more humanity in the lyrics. I think. They are so energetic. Most of Tora's songs are stylish, so I can write lyrics freely. I think I can express my words very honestly. These days I start feeling different drawn by different composers. I really sing with my words really expressing this musical world in this song.


The 2nd song [ROSARIO] is the song which I really felt alice nine..


Tora: Yes. This song is most like alice nine. among the 3 songs, I think. I confirmed its arrangement in my head soon after I listened to the original song without thinking about it.


Saga: This song was made by me too, which was nominated as the lead song in our first meeting to select songs.


Hiroto: Since hearing this song for the first time it really sparked my imagination. In [JEWELS] I played guitar to show off the song, but in this song I played the guitar to stand out, like I was playing on my own. I felt like I was expressing the images of my feelings using my guitar.


Nao: I think this song is like a hidden A track. The theme of the drums in this song was ﾂ'drumming freely and comfortably'.


Shou: I wrote the lyrics about feelings not about concrete things. But the theme was a ﾂ'sparkling' feeling connected to the 1st song, and I think it expresses strongly the sincere feeling which I want to give to others. The flow from [NUMBER SIX] came out strongly, I think.


[ﾂ"13ﾂ"] is the song made by Tora, so it's kind of dark song.


Tora: Yes. This song is only included in the normal edition, and straight rock. We also wanted to play music which anyone can play, but play it like alice nine.


Saga: We had difficulties because it's simple. But we could pursue and complete the coolness just because it's simple. It's a strong song I played heavy and hard sounds with 4 strings.


Hiroto: It's more like a live song, so we cared about playing together, and pursued a live feeling in a flow. It's a song where you can feel our live performance, I think.


Nao: In this song, we also pursued speedy and free feelings. I could play drums as I wanted to in this song too. The 16 beat rhythm is great I think.


Shou: As I said before, this song was made by Tora, and I wrote the lyrics straightly and freely. As I'm interested in the Middle Ages recently, I wrote lyrics about ﾂ'memories, feelings, relations' comparing with stories about Christ and Judas. I felt a decision within the chaos in this music, so I put a message in this song. After this single was finished, I realized what we got from our tour of last year. It's the single we expressed so much of what we learnt from our tour. But what we learnt was so much that we couldn't express all of it yet. So we think we will be able to make good use of what we learnt last year. If we'll do so, we could grow in different way, and we could see something new, I think. Such new growth would continue to our next year, and then the year after when we would grow even more, which I hope would continue forever. I hope we can bring the band: alice nine. up not in haste, but slowly and firmly.

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Now i'm off to type the members interviews. The longest part!!!
I'm going to start with saga, cuz shou's is long! 😌
 
@pinkbuta
Hey, thanks a lot for the interview xD Saga writes really nice songs xD

@silver881
I also finally realised what garnet's avatar is xD I love that show so much!

I guess Tora is now a tiger who has just awaken from his deep sleep... He's posting like crazy xDD Literally spamming xD
 
pinkbuta304

I've send him a fanmail too T_T But nothings new !!

And thank you very much for the interview XD

I relly like jewels
 
sorapon said:
pinkbuta304
I've send him a fanmail too T_T But nothings new !!
And thank you very much for the interview XD
I relly like jewels
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Yeah, i sent him a lot too! lol
NAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
anyways here's more from that interview!
I decided to go in order so...this part is the interview with Shou
i apologize if there are any grammar errors! XD
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Shou

How is Shou recently?

How am I? (laugh) Well, these days I think I have become more manly in how I think. I went back to my former way of thinking, I guess. I preferred hard core music which I listened to and played in a band. I was wanting to be a "manly man" and once I had been in such a world, I was quite manly in my character and how to think. But since I met the Visual kei genre, I became delicate in how I think. (laugh) That's just 'being influenced', I think. (laugh)

Yes. The world of lyrics is totally different. By having a different take on things means you see or feel many new things, and probably the way you interpret these things change in you, Shou.

Yes. I was already like that. In my adolescence, I didn't have many experiences in the world, so I was easy influenced by something new. In an extreme story, I wasn't influenced at all until yesterday and I rather resisted against it, but after an unexpected prompt became attracted and absorbed in it. Well, my character itself won't change totally, but as you said now, because the angle or take on things changed, my way of thinking also gradually changed.

At around that age, it's the time when the things that influenced you the most return to you. It's easy to see, as it also influences your taste in clothes.


Yes! I used to be really manly in my appearance too. I liked street wear, and wore such clothes always. I'm sorry to say badly, but at that time, I thought Visual kei was girlie. If my high school friends would see the present me, I'm sure they would be surprised, saying "OMG! You are doing the Visual kei scene?".

But Shou, you said you were influenced by LUNA SEA, didn't you?

Yes. In my junior high school, I respected LUNA SEA very much. At around the same time I really liked THE MAD CAPSULE MARKET, too. For me, LUNA SEA wasn't Visual kei, but 'a rock band which cared about their Visual appearance as well'. So I didn't think I was addicted to Visual kei. But once I was addicted to it, my clothes and my thinking changed. Is there any better way to say it? Saying girlie might be misleading……

It's like you take care in how you say things, Shou. Being careful not to offend anyone. But it's OK, they understand you. Instead using the word 'girlie', it seems to me that they expose their inner weakness in their lyrics. Visual kei seems more delicate than punk style.


Yes. I agree with you. I felt like I became interested in the Visual kei scene later than others, so when I became a vocalist in this scene, I tried to catch up to the world around me. So I didn't wear street clothes anymore. Then I became used to it. (laugh) But recently, I became more natural again, not enough to wear street wear yet, but I listen to music which I used to, and my way of thinking has become more manly, I think. No real reason or cause really.


It might be because you could connect to your inner-self, so you could come back to your original self. Before you tried to fit yourself into an image, but now you have confidence in yourself.

Ah, that may be true. I don't think I have a feeling of oppression like 'I have to be like this', anymore. alice nine. played a big part in this. Last year we had only 2 tours, then had several moments when I thought "I can make the rounds without being forced to". Before then, as I told you in previous interviews, I felt like "I should be like this as alice nine." so strongly that I forced myself to do different things. But I could see "This is enough", then I could be a little more relaxed and though "This is us; alice nine. as we are". When we showed ourselves as strong, putting on a bravado, our inner selves were very week. We don't need to do that now, I feel our inner-selves have become very strong and we have come back to the original us. When I listened to hard core music before, I was attracted to the emotional and open parts, not the aggressive parts. Now, I'm feeling so, very open.

You don't worry about the small things in life, do you?

Well… It's my nature to tend to look around too much. For example, as I said before, when I sleep I think in my bed about "Did I hurt anyone by what I said today?". I still think about these things now.

So how have you become manly?

I don't think about myself and my music as much, because I have a strong confidence of "this is good". Before, I was thinking about it too much.

I see. Before in your adolescence, what did you think about most?

I grew up having special education for gifted children since I was about 3 years old. I went to a cram school 5 days in a week. So my grades were good in public school, but once I entered into a private junior high school, there were older kids there, then I found I didn't have my own personality or couldn't express myself for the first time. Then I wanted to die thinking like "Is there any reason why I'm living? Where is my personality? Who loves me?", because I thought I want loved by my parents, because I couldn't live up to their expectations. I was doing my best until around the 4th grade of elementary school, then I started to skip school secretly. I think back now and think that humans try to find a way to protect themselves and escape. I think I made my balance by escaping from it, not going against it. But now when I see that time standing one step to the side, I understand that my parents made me study hard because they loved me. My parents made me study hard not because they are doctors or they wanted me to be a doctor, but because they are common people so they wanted me to have something, and made me go to a cram school.

Well, we often understand love and meeting of things afterwards.

Yes. I really think so. So I don't want to miss a thing now. I want to live holding important things dear and doing my best. Especially as I met alice nine. And many others because of them, I really want to sing my best too.

I'm very impressed the phrases of "Could you make me sing beside you?" in the lyrics in this new single [JEWELS]. I think that your lyrics really say your feelings as you did now.

Yes. That seems to be everything for me at the moment.

So if the present Shou gave fans advice 'how to live', what would he say?

I'm not really one to give advice because I'm not so experienced and still immature, but now I really feel that "We can't live alone". I found that through my club activities and alice nine., I want fans to have many experiences so that they can feel connections and bonds with others. As for the shooting of the cover, there are editorial staff who composed the set for us, writers who organized and make drafts from my incomprehensible talking, designers, make up artists, and many people who help us to be here, which ewe thank very much. I want to feel all these people's love everyday. I will never forget it and want to grow too.

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pon is next XD
 
wow Tora is freaky he saw gosts or something like that when he was young !!

Continue with the topic on spiritual stuffs. I was pretty sensitive toward the spiritual stuffs when I was little, and I cried and talked to my parents. (laugh) Normally I would wake up, and there is this sound that kept going around in my head until noon time.

I felt something but I couldn't find a way to explain it. That is the difference in viewpoints.

Since I turned into an adult, I don't see spiritual stuffs anymore but this viewpoint thing has not changed.

As your perspective changes, the distance of something also changes and even though you can't explain it well, the feeling was really uncomfortable. (laugh)
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He told this on his blog
translation credits to http://glass.machina.org/secret/
 

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