Source : always-gd
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
[INTERVIEW] BIGBANG INTERVIEW ON ORICON MAGAZINE , JUNE 2012
Q: Your new album ‘Alive’ has received good comments, it is said that G-Dragon has participated in melody and lyrics writing of all the songs?
GD: Yes, I am so glad that I have participated in this album from the perspective of producer; however, objectively speaking,I want to show you our new sides…I was very troubled to think of it when it came to this part. I want to show you the message that ‘Big Bang is still alive; and convey you the ‘pains’ and ‘internal struggles’ that we have been going through this year so we have created ‘Blue’.
Q: Based on this idea, you have created ‘BLUE’ and it reminds us that Big Bang is back and it seemed to have suddenly shortened the period that you have not been doing any promotion. It is really meaningful and has become one of the classics songs of Big Bang.
GD: This is the effect that I want to achieve (laugh), ‘Winter is nearly over and we are going to enter Spring’. Although it describes the bitter love that one has to experience in their romantic relationship and it can be interpreted as the description of the situation of Big Bang too. We want to convey our feelings to the fans who have been supporting us for a long time and at the same time, we want to convey the feeling of ‘hope’ to you, too.
Q: Reading the lyrics written by G-Dragon, we can feel the ‘pain’ and ‘internal struggles’ that you have just said, they are the gentle feelings that only men can express.
GD: No matter they are romantic songs or songs I want to express other feelings, I will not add any fake feelings to them. I think that if we put into our true feelings in the songs, not only can we convey our feelings to others but we can also shorten the distance between us and others. In this way, we can ‘echo’ with each other.
Q: Perhaps because the five members of BigBang has different extraordinary talents and charms so the first-time listeners might not be used to it and therefore they feel distant from them. But here is where the magic of Big Bang lies!When you are listening to them as a whole , then you will feel enchanted. Moreoever, talking about Big Bang, we noticed that there is a sharp contrast between the low vocal range of GD and the top range of TOP’s range, did you deliberately make the difference?
TOP: The characteristics of composing songs is we have to emphasize the features of the voices so our songs will not be monotones and the most important is I have good collaboration with G-dragon.
Q: So, please talk about the favourite tracks of the album.
VI: I still love ‘Blue’. Although it is a sad song but I still love the plain and calm feeling that it conveys to us. Why I say so? Because of my part (laugh). “The winter is passing and Spring is coming” (suddenly he bursted out singing). It is just like what the lyrics has been written, we had been experiencing so much hardships last year, it was really a period of hard time. I was hoping that it would be better if Winter could be ended at this very moment and the warm Spring could be started. I recorded this song when I was feeling this way.
Q: You can handle ‘Blue’ only after you have overcome so many difficulties.
VI: I think many fans were worried about BigBang and they must have felt as painful as us and had the same sad memory as we did too. Because of this, if we can warm your hearts by this song, turning your cold heart to warm just like how Spring can warm up the coldness, it is fine.
GD: I have really deep impression about ‘Fantastic Baby’ because originally I was good at writing poetic lyrics and match it with romatic melody. However, when I was producing this kind of dance song, I had to put in my emotion, too. It is really difficult for me. After 2-3 months of making this song, I had to make ‘Blue’, it was really hard for me to change the mood so suddenly.To transit from the dancing mode of ‘Fantastic Baby’ to ‘Blue’, I had watched a lot of sad movies and listened to sad songs. In order to make this song, I had to make myself sad in the reality and forgot myself when I was singing the song.
SOL: I love ‘Bad Boy’ most. Because I personally love Hip Hop. This song is not only a hip hop song but the melody is also good too.
TOP: I like ‘Feeling’ most. This song is limited to be promoted in Japan because it was collaborated with BOYS NOIZE(German, The World Top DJ and producer),the rap is perfectly matched with the melody, too.
Q: In the lyrics of ‘Fantastic Baby’, there is a line,’I am perfect and if you want to grab my weaknesses, It is still 100 years later’. What weaknesses do you think you have?
VI: I have really serious dark circles; however, because it is something that I cannot change so I will emphasize my other charming points.
DLITE: My weakness is I am always worried about others.
SOL: I have too many… (shortcomings)…all are weaknesses.
TOP: Sometimes I think that I don’t have anyone rely on,especially before i need to work,I will be very sensitive and I will be very emotional,too. And sometimes I do give up because of this.
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