[Sho Beat] (2007.03.03) Sho talking about Nino in Paris and Berlin

[winkychan]

I was waiting DESPERATELY for this Sho Beat *0*

After the now infamous Music Station where Nino talked about Paris (cuddles to nyanchan for the trans/subs <3 ) where I was half "OMG NINO YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT PARIS" and half "BAKA NO MINNA-SAN WHY DON'T YOU BELIEVE HIM!" XD

Well like, 1 hour after that, I felt the urge to write an email to Sho (as he's the only one who can read English) to tell him that Nino actually said the truth and that Arashi has many fans outside of Japan, in Europa, USA etc blablablabla... and that we LISTEN to their music (Nino no Baka! Why did he say that XDDD)
I wasn't hoping for him to read my message on his radio show (well yes I was a little hoping for it, who am I kidding, it's my baby-Sho <3), I was just worried to give the message that Nino said the truth.

But apparently, I was not the only one to write about that matter, which makes me REALLY HAPPY!

Download: [Sho Beat] (2007.03.03) : Mega | MF (thanks to fishydotlove for reuploading it!)
Paris part MP3: Mega | MF | 4S (a bit of a translation here.)

You can hear the interesting part starting around 14:30.
I vaguely hear him talk about Paris/Berlin/Nino/IwoJima/Premiere/Music Station, at some point, I "think" he still says that he cannot believe it! He also mentions Jun and Hana Yori Dango ("maybe" the japanese girl who wrote was the one that I talked to at the Paris Premiere, I remember her asking me how the hell I knew about Arashi, and I said it was because of HYD (Jun-bait here like so many others), well it's just a supposition, as the Japanese girl apparently was at the Paris Premiere, and I suppose she went to see the Mona Lisa portrait because she mentions Sho's drawing from G no Arashi (BWAHAHHAHAHA XD ) and it seemed to me that the one I talked to went to the Louvres too (as she showed me the pictures of Nino at Versailles (he talked about it in his Game Nikki) and there were others from different touristic locations in Paris)), and drama...

Well I would really love to know what he's really talking about and what his real reaction was! I'm not asking for a translation, but a general idea on his whole talk on this subject, onegaishimasu~ m(_ _)m

At least I hope this made some people happy to hear Sho talking about this (I know this made me DOKIDOKIDOKI LIKE MAD XD~ ), the whole point for me here is that Arashi knows that they have fans everywhere (and that Nino said the truth GOD DAMN IT! >< (except that we DON'T have a JPop channel in France XD AHAHAHA He just said that so the others would believe him XD (so smart!)))

EDIT: The amazing ringononohara translated it, you can see it here, thank you my dear!

Comments

[ringononohara.livejournal.com]

Iya, it was nothing! ^^;;; The reason why I'm studying Japanese is so I can understand it so I can spread the love! Though it's no where near perfect... @_@; I still can't gurantee my translation is 100% accurate.. ;_; gomen!

Yeah, Sho is pretty down to earth! And I dunno why, I guess it was cuz I was tired and typing it around 1am-ish that my brain couldnt' register what "oubei" was! @_@;; There is a line in there where he says after “You’re lying!" and he goes "Paris de wa nai! Oubei de wa nai!" (if memory serves me correctly) Which means "Not in Paris! Not in Europe or America!" I guess they never thought fans from non-asia areas would be listening to Japanese songs.. ^^;

Oh! Who did concerts in France?! =O

[winkychan]

The first to have concerts in France were mainly Visual Key bands, for really small concerts, it started 3 years ago and I seriously don't remember their name (they had concerts in Paris, but also in other towns in France, like Aix-en-Provence (where I used to live, it's in the South-East of France, and that's how I heard it)).
After that we had more known Visual Key bands giving concerts in Paris, but the real pionner of JPop in France was Kokia, whom I'm a HUGE fan of (when I've learned she was about to come to France, I fell on my knees.. seriously. She's not even that famous in Japan, so how the hell would I ever hoped she would come one day in France!), it was last year in Paris, in a small concert room for 450 persons... and all the seats were sold out in only two weeks XD~ (all of Kokia staff were surprised they even sold tickets, but to sold ALL the tickets, they wouldn't believe it).
And she gave a wonderful concert, which was the first real JPop concert in France. 2 days after that, I had the huge chance to see her again at the Midem of Cannes (because I tried my luck with her manager who was a really nice woman, when I was waiting in the line, and she gave me and my friend two invitations for her private concert), which is like the "Festival de Cannes" but for music, so you have only professionals and journalists. So we were the only two fans in the crowd for her (I also saw Rin' and Rie Fu), she even recognized us *0* Out of that, I talked with some journalists (because we had uchiwas and all and they were really curious, so we did lots of Kokia advertising XDDD), and apparently, it was only since last year (which was, at this time 2005) that Japanese music started to interest intertional business people, because this midem had like, the whole crowd filled with Japanese businessmen, meaning, starting 2006, Japanese music really started, financialy, and busenessly talking, to be exported. And that was quite true, because right after that, there were, in France at least, two Japanese labels created for publishing Japanese music in France (I think it's "Wasabi" and the other one I don't remember), so far they are only selling like soundtracks and really good JPop, like Kokia, and Arai Akino (like, I don't think they will ever sell Ayumi Hamasaki stuff, my poor Ayu), and that's how, in the middle of last year, Kokia was labeled in France (and Spain). Her new album was released last November in France and Spain BEFORE JAPAN! And she gave us another concert, last January, this time at a bigger place: Le Bataclan (which is REALLY famous in Prestigious in Paris), their was 1100 persons, the room was all crowded, it was wonderful ;^;
As for the other artists, we also had Kaggeru, they even made their goodbye-last-and-ultimate concert just before they disbanded... in Paris/Le Bataclan @_x (I mean.... they have more fans in Japan... but they said goodbye... in Paris!). We also had Arai Akino two months after the first Kokia concert, she also gave one in Germany.
I know we had others less known Japanese artists which I don't remember the name, but they were all produced in concert by Paris Visual Prod.

Err... that's a lot of talking here ^0^;;;; But I'm all excited because as I know all of this, I know that IF THEY WANT TO (and if damn-Johnny-the-devil WANTS TO), Arashi can come to France, we have EVERYTHING they need: labels blablabalbalbalablabalbal etc... and the fans XD~ (that's mainly what I said to Sho in my last email XD )

OMG I talked too much, must go to work now XD

[yukisora.livejournal.com]

like Aix-en-Provence (where I used to live, it's in the South-East of France, and that's how I heard it)).
OMG!!!!!!!!! je pensais etre la seule dans cette ville a aimer les Arashi. Sugoi *____* Trop contente il y a des fan vraiment partout c'est cool ^__^