Finnish Translation/ Transcript.
Remember the Finnish Interview videos from New Years Eve?
(http://blog.dark-light.us/2009/12/31/finnish-video-interviews.aspx)
Thanks to sineresi from Live Journal, here's the translation:
Ville Valo had a chest x-ray
First he’s asked whether he still wants to break up HIM every other day like he’s said he wanted to when he was drinking. He answers that he couldn’t really break up the band (even if he wanted to), it doesn’t go like that, and it was just a question of finding himself in situations where he wasn’t having fun and when that happens you shouldn’t do those things. He says that you have to remember that they are five individuals with their own good and bad moments and that you have to give people time.
Then he’s asked whether he’s now more tolerant when it comes to the other band members. He says no, "Mika anti-Kristian Karppinen" is still overweight and Ville is not afraid to say it out loud. Although, Ville admits, Gas has recently lost about 20 kilos. Then he (jokingly, I assume) starts to go on about how the risk of heart disease is so elevated for Gas and how can they tour and he has a kid at home etc.
The interviewer then asks about Ville’s own health. Ville says he just had a chest x-ray and his lungs are like those of a newborn baby so there’s nothing to worry about yet. He says he knows that smoking isn’t good for you but things could be worse. When asked about the long walks he took in America, he says that he likes walking just like his mom and finds it calming and meditative. He says that doctors have told him that a few cigarettes a day are fine but adds that so are supposedly also a couple of glasses of red wine a day and some other things he finds a bit suspicious.
Ville Valo puts down American hit songs
The goal for the new album is that it would sound like Depeche Mode who have a rare gift of making songs that are tragic but at the same time make people want to dance.
Then he’s asked whether the new album is aimed for a specific market (since Venus Doom, for example, didn’t do that well in America). Ville says that Venus Doom is a classic album in the sense that the critics loved it and critics always diss all the albums that sell well. So he’s happy they made an album for the critics.
Ville says that the new album is more easily accessible. He goes on to say that if you look at the American charts, the stuff that’s on them is pure shit. 99% of new R&B is crap and then if you look at the latest Britney Spears songs, there’s a lot of experimental and freaky stuff in it and it’s amazing that it’s so popular. So it’s impossible to start to speculate what will be successful while you’re making an album, it’s just better to do an album you’re happy with yourself. You have the producer, the mixer, the record company, the photographer and others, but in the end the band is the one responsible for the album. Nobody is going to say that it’s a fucking good album but really badly mixed, they'll say that HIM has made a shitty album.








Comments