[TRANS] Part 2. ViVi Jan 2018 issue. Now and Forever – Our future

I listened to their new album and realized that how good their ballads are. Perhaps the style of “duo” is suited to express not only love and emotions between man and woman but also passions between human beings. When their vocals blend in, when their vocals exhibit beautiful contrasts, or when their vocals keep their roles, yet support each other, you can feel love in many different forms have become one. Yunho says that he feels differently when he sings a love ballad now and five years ago.
YH: I guess I have aged and my thoughts on love relationships have changed. I think my theory of life has more established. So even I sing the same song, the lyrics gets to my heart a lot more deeper. Therefore, I feel that love songs are much more suited to TOHOSHINKI now than in old days (laugh). I may sound a bit arrogant by saying so, but I really feel this way. Back then, I sang love songs with my pure heart. I think that is good too. But right now, I can sing songs to reflect my passion and feelings. When I re-read lyrics these days, something clicks in my heart.. I guess we have a lot of great songs.

One of newly re-recorded songs is Bolero. This song was released in 2009. It seemed to be a difficult song for two people to sing as it is a very complicated and challenging song. But the product is so suited to the current TOHOSHINKI and they sounded more mature. Especially, Changmin recorded the song right after being discharged, but his high tone vocal was perfect and his ability to convey emotions through his vocal has improved a lot.
CM: I did not take vocal lessons but during these two years, I had a lot of times to think about things alone. Yunho just mentioned earlier but I agree with him that we might have matured as a person. Indeed, habit is a bit scary thing, when I had some free time, out of the blue, I heard TOHOSHINKI music in my head and I danced to that. Ah, I did not dance to the extent that I did on stage.. but just a bit so that no one noticed that I was doing so (laugh). It is more like my habit. Whenever I have free time, I naturally check choreography.. it is in my bone (laugh). Music as well as dance.. my life had been full with activities of TOHOSHINKI, so when I was away from these activities, I realized how important these activities are to me... I took them for granted before .

Yunho continued..
YH: During these two years, my responsibility towards TOHOSHINKI has become much more stronger. The name of TOHOSHINKI is not just for the two of us. Our fans have supported us and this fact is most important to us. About our tour, we goes on tour with the same program at each venue, but for someone, it may be the once in the life time event, and the person made time and saved her/his money and he/she must be looking forward to our concert very much. While we were in hiatus, I read letters from our fans a lot. It helped me to realize how much our fans love us. There is a precious/an indispensable relationship in between TOHOSHINKI and our fans. Therefore, from now on, I want to continue to walk along with everyone and I guess I should say that I need to walk along with everyone. I strongly feel this way right now.
To support these words, Changmin feels that Yunho has become even more passionate than before in these two years.
CM: Yunho has been working out and has shed some weight. He was good looking/cool in the past but these days he has been more stylish. And he was passionate before but he has been passionate even more (laugh).
Then, Yunho said, in return to the complement that Changmin just gave to him,
YH: I think Changmin has become more gentle. Of course, I am saying this in a good sense. He has some masculine part but at the same time he has some gentle/soft part. When I worked with him for the first time after the hiatus, I thought “Ah, I love the way Changmin is now.”

YH then talked about how passionate he was,
YH: Of course, I get passionate easily about how I express my feelings/thoughts. But these days I don't think too much/deep as the way I used to do. The responsibility that I feel towards TOHOSHINKI has grown bigger but about myself, I may be a bit more relaxed/not too tense anymore. I had tried all my best to run, to look up, in order to touch everyone’s heart/inspire everyone. Right now, the principle is the same, but I feel that we need to love each other at first. We just resumed our activity, and I’ve started to realize that we pushed ourselves too hard in the past.. We got carried away so we did not realize that.. but on occasion, people around us did ask us, “Aren’t you pushing yourself a bit too hard?” (laugh). Right now, I feel that we can slow down a little bit but I am confident that we can still reach to the place where we want to be in the future. I want to take some time for that.

After he said that, he continued,
YH: Well, I have not talked about this much (in other interviews), but to be honest with you, I really feel this way now. It is not that we’ll change the way we have been. I just had some change in my mind.
His smile was honest. He has matured and seemed to have emotional leeway in his life now.

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