BiaIchihara Posted June 22, 2013 Share Posted June 22, 2013 Thanks for the translation Eriko and Toshiko :huglove: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toshiko Posted June 22, 2013 Share Posted June 22, 2013 thank you for the comments:blush-anim-cl: I always wanted to do something for MFC since I have received so much great information here. I am glad you liked the interview. and thank you Eriko for letting me know about this article:flowers2: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerMoment1608 Posted June 23, 2013 Share Posted June 23, 2013 Thank you so much, toshiko Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DongDong Posted June 23, 2013 Share Posted June 23, 2013 Thanks for translating Eriko and Toshiko. I love this interview!!!!So interesting.:wub2: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kumazzz Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 JJ magazine INTERVIEW : Blog This is another INTERVIEW at Tokyo. JJ is one of popular women's magazines in Japan. I try to copy their BLOG. ( Can anyone translate this paragraph into English?) http://jj-jj.net/editor_blog/mika_interview/ JJ-日本に来て、これだけはしたい！ということはありますか？ MIKA 早速いつも買い物に行く場所に行ったよ。nanamica http://www.nanamica.com/ とか、frapbois http://www.frapbois.jp/ 、それから今日着ているシャツの・・・ tsumori chisato http://www.tsumorichisato.cc/ のある場所！ なんていうんだろう？そう代官山 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daikanyamach%C5%8D,_Shibuya！いつも すべての店をまわるんだ。 そして これからの６カ月間の撮影やVIDEO-shooting に使う。 ７時間くらいで60～70着を買って、1年間使いまわすんだ。 だって、London でも Paris でも買えない、日本でしか買えないものだし、なにしろ時間がないからね。 JJ-MIKAさんのママも服を作るのが上手なんですよね？ MIKA そうだね。それに僕たちはちょうどベルギーで服のコレクションを発表したばかりなんだ。JJ- Twitter で作業途中のバッグhttp://bit.ly/11Ho8WRを up してましたが 、それはそのコレクションと関係あるんですか？ MIKA - あれは自分のだよ。これって いつ載るの？1, 2週刊以内か、それじゃあ言えないな。 La Biennale di Venezia で この6カ月間準備している ある スイスのブランドとの新しい コラボプロジェクトをスタートするんだけどね・・・・・・・。いろんな僕のコラボレーションは、全て同じフィーリング、ストーリーのもとにやっているんだ。 たとえば サングラスのコラボをやったんだけど、ヴィンテージの RIVAボート http://www.riva-yacht.com と 1940年代の vintage Ferrari が イメージソースで 、インサイドには手彫りのイタリア語でシークレットメッセージが入っている。 ベルギーの服のプロジェクトも同じで、やっぱりシークレットメッセージを入れたんだよ。 2年前にやった Coka-Cola ボトルのデザインも同じ世界観の中で表現したものなんだ。 僕はすべて同じ姿勢、同じ美学をCDのジャケット、ライヴにも通している。 そういった意味で、今回の僕のショーはすべてポルカドッツでまとめているんだ。コーラス隊の衣装も、すべてね。すべてのヴィジュアル的なアイデンティは楽しくもあり、ちょっぴりシニカルなものなんだ。 だから、きっと本当にハッピーかちょっとひねくれさせているのかわからなくなるよ。 JJ MIKA さんの作る歌自体、ハッピーなメロディーにシニカルな歌詞が多いですよね？ MIKA そう、そういった二元性は、ファッションでも、音楽でも、着る服でさえも、すべてにおいて大切だとおもっているんだ。人は悪魔と天使を持ち合わせているべきだね。日本人はその甘さと辛さとのバランスが上手だと思う。甘すぎたり、辛すぎたりするものがないよね。本当に軽々しい気持ちで言っているのではなくて、アートにとっても、ファッションにとっても、音楽にとっても、本当に大事なことだと思うんだ。人としても同じ。僕のともだちは、僕が次に何を言い出すか、何を考えているかがわからなくて一緒にいると少しハラハラしているんだ。でも、それって生きていくうえで重要なことだと思うんだよ。 JJ- 1st album "Life In Cartoon Motion"は少年、2nd の "The Boy Who Knew Too Much"は思春期、3rd にあたる今回のアルバム "The Origin Of Love" は現在の MIKAさん自身のように感じられますが、そういった意味で、ご自身をもっとも表している曲はどれですか? MIKA 難しい質問だね。・・・・・・"Underwater" か "Love You When I'm Drunk" かな。あとは、タイトルトラックの "The Origin Of Love"。 この3曲は、すべて同じことを言っているんだ。 普通のものを拒絶する、とか常に縛られない、自分の望んできた道を見つけに行くという意味のことを。 普通、16歳を過ぎたら音楽を卒業と思うんだけど、僕は何とかプロとしてやっている、みたいにね。常に模索をしている、僕自身の葛藤を表している曲なんだ。 JJ - JJの（読者）の女のコたちは、語学に興味があるコが多いのですが、MIKAさんのようにたくさんの国の言葉を話せるコツはありますか？ MIKA 語学を楽しむこと！ ちょうど今、4カ国語目としてイタリア語を学んでいるんだよ。イタリアのテレビ番組 "X Factor" に出ることになって、イタリア語で話さなくちゃいけなくて。 みんな番組に出ることをクレイジーだって言うんだけどね。 僕はまだイタリア語はしゃべれないから、24歳の若いシチリア出身の先生を見つけたんだ。 彼女はイタリアとイギリス以外に行ったことがなかったんだけど、今は僕と一緒に世界中を飛び回っているんだよ！ 今日も別の部屋にいて。僕が理解していようといまいと常にイタリア語で話してくれるから、勉強してるって感じずにイタリア語を学べるんだよ。 JJ-常にイタリアにいるという感覚にするってことですか？ MIKA イタリアにいるんだよ（笑）。東京にいるけど、イタリアに住んでいるんだ（笑）。 イタリアって世界一お寿司がおいしいんだね！ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kumazzz Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 This is uploaded by MAGAPP facebook. LARGE size (1406 x 806) : http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2817/9122211256_6c665c6e22_o.jpg Their YT is here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toshiko Posted June 25, 2013 Share Posted June 25, 2013 (edited) Thank you, Eriko as always:wub2: Here is the translation:blush-anim-cl: JJ magazine INTERVIEW : Blog Is there anything that you want to do at least while you are in Japan? MIKA I've already done some shopping at the stores I always go, like nanamica or frapbois, also tsumori chisato, the shop selling this t-shirt I am wearing now. What do you call that area... Right, Daikanyama. I always visit all stores there. Within 7 hours, I buy 60 to 70 clothes for photo or VIDEO shootings for next 6 months, and I wear them for a year. I can't get them neither in London nor Paris. Can get them only in Japan, and for one thing, I just don't have time (for shopping). Your mom is good at making clothes isn't she? MIKA Yes. We have just released a line of clothes in Belgium. You posted a picture of the bag you were making on twitter. Do they have any connection to that collection? MIKA: That’s for me. When is this article going to be published? Within 1 to 2 weeks.. then I can't tell. I am starting the new project collaborating with the Swiss brand. I have been preparing for it for 6 months. I collaborate under the same feeling or story. For example, I collaborate for sunglasses. The image source was vintage RIVA boat and vintage Ferrari in 1940s. Inside of the glasses there are hand curved secret messages. I put secret messages on the clothes for the project in Belgium. The bottle designing for Coca-Cola which I did 2 years ago also was under the same world-view. I use the same approach and aesthetics for CD jackets and live shows. This time my shows are all coordinated with polka dots; everything including choir costume. All visual identity is fun and cynical. You will wonder if it is really happy or a bit perverse. Many of your songs have happy melody with cynical lyrics. MIKA Yes. I think such dualism is important for everything from fashion, music and even clothes. Humans should have evil side and angel side. I think Japanese are good at balancing these sweetness and bitterness. You don’t have something too sweet or too bitter. I am not talking about this lightly. I do think this is truly important for art, fashion and music. Same for humans. Friends of mine are nervous since they can’t expect what I would say next or don’t understand what I am thinking. But I think this is an important matter in life. Seems like the 1st album “Life In Cartoon Motion” is your childhood, and 2nd album “The Boy Who Knew Too Much” is your adolescence, and the 3rd album “The Origin Of Love” is you now. In this sense, which song most describes yourself? MIKA This is a hard one… Maybe, “Underwater” or “Love You When I’m Drink” and the title track, “The Origin Of Love.” These three songs are saying the same thing. In the meaning of “deny the ordinary” or “always not being bound by”, and “go find the way you’ve been wanting.” Usually after 16-year-old, people graduate from music, but I manage to do music professionally. These songs show my struggle of seeking ways. Many JJ girl readers are interested in learning languages. Any tips to be able to speak many different languages as you, MIKA? MIKA Enjoy the language! Now I am learning Italian as my forth language. I am appearing on Italian TV show, “X Factor”, and I have to speak Italian. Everybody says it is crazy to be on the program. I still can’t speak Italian, so I found a 24-year-old teacher from Sicily. She had only been to Italy and the UK, but now she is going all over the world with me. She is in another room today and talks to me in Italian regardless of me understanding it or not. I can learn Italian without feeling like studying. So, it is like setting yourself always being in Italy? MIKA We are in Italy (laugh). Even if we are in Tokyo, we live in Italy (laugh). Italy has the best Sushi in the world! Edited June 25, 2013 by toshiko Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kumazzz Posted June 25, 2013 Share Posted June 25, 2013 Thank you, Eriko as always:wub2: Here is the translation:blush-anim-cl: Thanks a million for translating again !!!! You are the star !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toshiko Posted June 25, 2013 Share Posted June 25, 2013 Thanks a million for translating again !!!! You are the star !!! i am flattered:blush-anim-cl: thank you, Eriko:blush-anim-cl: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yasi Posted June 25, 2013 Share Posted June 25, 2013 Thanks so much for posting and translating:wink2: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamiam Posted June 25, 2013 Share Posted June 25, 2013 Thank you, Eriko as always:wub2: Here is the translation:blush-anim-cl: Eriko and Toshiko: I hardly can express how thankful I am for everything you find, share, translate og give us all, almost daily - so also for the rest of you guys doing the same thing: THANKS A MILLION TO ALL OF YOU !!! Without your efforts and good work, we wouldn't know much about our boy, his doings - and inner thoughts about almost each and everything - which he so well express during his well formulated answers in these interviews - it's really priceless - I do feel I know him a bit better every day - even after all these years of "following him" as good as possible, you often think there might not be much more to know, but of course there is !!! So - I do hope you'll all keep up your good work !!! Love,love me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mari62 Posted June 25, 2013 Author Share Posted June 25, 2013 Thank you very much again Eriko and Toshiko!! Poor boy, he seems to be obsessed with Italy and Italian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamiam Posted June 25, 2013 Share Posted June 25, 2013 Thank you very much again Eriko and Toshiko!! Poor boy, he seems to be obsessed with Italy and Italian And THAT is very easy to understand!! Love,love me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alireine Posted June 25, 2013 Share Posted June 25, 2013 Thank you for the translation and the article! I like what he says about his way of learning languages, the best way for me is to be fully inside the language Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerMoment1608 Posted June 25, 2013 Share Posted June 25, 2013 Thanks for the translation again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kumazzz Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 Mika wore this shirt at that day in Tokyo. TSUMORI CHISATO OFFICIAL page : http://www.tsumorichisato.com/en/ http://www.hmr.jp/shop/g/gTM31FJ7080601 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clara85 Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 thanks for posting and translation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kumazzz Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 FM yokohama Radio HITS Radio https://soundcloud.com/seira-xoxo/radio-hits-radio-06-08-mika This USER has uploaded another Japanese INTERVIEW ( InterFM Sunday Sound Studio ) . https://soundcloud.com/seira-xoxo/sunday-sound-studio-05-19 Keiko Imaizumi @RadioDJSnoopy 今日2本目のインタビューはMika http://t.co/8WKr3XomBF The INTERVIEW will be May 19 (sun) 01:00 - 03:00 FM YOKOHAMA "Radio HITS Radio" :EDIT: will be on their PODCAST : iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/radio-hits-radio/id368670354 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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