For many people, like Bunya Jun, among the idols in the memories of youth, there is the name of w-inds., and the three members who carry everyone's memories finally came to the mainland to hold concerts on November 30, after 8 years.
During the w-inds. Shanghai concert, Jun Buya also had the honor of interviewing them and asking them a lot of interesting questions.
Q1: It's been 8 years since the last concert in Shanghai, and when you come to Shanghai again after 8 years, do you feel any changes? Or what a different mood to say twice
Keita: Actually, we've only just arrived in Shanghai and don't have a lot of time to walk around
Ryuichi: But this time we have three days
Keita: Yeah, although we just arrived, we felt that the street was beautiful
Ryohei: Yeah, so pretty
Ryuichi: The sunset is beautiful, and now at night, the streets have changed again
Keita: I've been taking pictures of the night scene very beautiful
Q2: The theme of this tour is "Future/Past" For w-inds. What is the future and the past described in one sentence?
Long Yi: 18 years after our debut, it is very beautiful to see that the future is still waiting for us in front of us.
Keita: w-inds. Is also constantly challenging new genres, of course, this is also based on the accumulation of past w-inds., I think this sentence should be "a combination of past and future w-inds."
Ryohei: Carrying up the history of w-inds. to explore the future, based on this to understand the future things.
Dragon One: I feel a lot of baggage (laughs)
Q3: If you could go back in time and travel to the future, what would you most like to do?
Keita: First of all, I want to go back to the past, because it is now 8 years before I came to Shanghai, so I want to say to my past self: "I have to come to Shanghai every year to hold concerts; in the future, I am more concerned about our situation at that time, and I want to quietly peek at what w-inds. was doing at that time."
Ryuichi: If you see yourself not dancing when you were 45 years old, you would think it would be very good.
Q4: Three people have grown up with each other since childhood, and what part of yourself today is influenced by the other two people?
Keita: Influenced by two people? My words are to try not to become like Ryuichi (laughs)
Ryuichi: My words are trying to be different from the other two, if three people are the same, it will be meaningless. From the perspective of human design, when I first looked at the two of them, I thought it would be better not to imitate them, for a while I thought so, and now in the past few years there will be a feeling of wanting to catch both of them.
Keita: After each person's role is determined, under the influence of the other two people, I know what I should do.
Ryuichi: Yeah, not only music and performance, it's because their lives are different, their ideas are different, I will share the scenery or ideas that only I can see with two other people, and everyone sees things to share with each other, such as listening to Ryohei's thoughts, Keita's thoughts, I will also feel "Ah, there is this way of thinking" Although it is different, it is very interesting
Liangping: It should have been affected unconsciously, after all, we have been together for so long, and the way of thinking must also be similar.
Q5: Which song has meant the most and influenced you the most in the singles since its debut?
Keita: My words were the first time I composed "We Don't Need To Talk Anymore", which was the first w-inds. song I made, and since then the songs I have written have become w-inds., which is a new style for me.
Ryohei: My words are "Forever Memories" because it's a debut song, and we listen to it at different stages, and we ourselves will be very touched, and there will be a different kind of feeling than other songs.
Long Ping: It's a very difficult question to ask a very important song that has been greatly affected, as if you are asking your own child which is the most adorable but can't answer it.
Keita: But you don't have a child yet, so you probably don't know, I'm a bit convincing when I say that (laughs)
Q6: No matter how varied the genre, w-ind.'s songs are highly recognizable What is this unique style that belongs to w-inds.?
Keita: First of all, I think sound is the most impressive, and then including the performance, plus our voice, singing and dancing, no matter what kind of song is interpreted, whether it is lyrical songs or rock songs, or dance music, it can be divided into "w-inds." This style.
Q7: Have you had any interesting stories lately, and you can also break down some interesting facts about the other two.
Keita: Recently Ryuichi's personality has become like a child, before when I was shooting, everyone shot together from morning to night, when I wore a pair of slippers, that scene was a factory-like place, everyone's socks were very dirty, Ryuichi wore that dirty socks and put on my slippers, made my slippers very dirty, I thought to myself, really like a child.
Today on the plane is also, when the plane is about to land said" "Sorry, give me a cup of carbonated water" He drank the carbonated water for a while, there was a little left, and then put it on the side, and then the dragon fell asleep, when the plane landed on the brake, I saw that the cup was about to overturn " Oops" Sitting next to me, I blocked the cup, and then looked at the dragon one still sleeping, I thought to myself, "Drink it all Oh, otherwise it's dangerous" Later, the moment The dragon woke up and snapped the cup over towards me. As a result, the cup fell to my side, and I was all wet here, "Ah Dragon One is true" So he has been loving Dragon One like a child, it is really funny, he himself is not conscious at all.
Ryuichi: All I know is that this is the last one.
Keita: Just like that, just loving Ryuichi as a kid, and that's something I've been thinking is fun lately.
Ryuichi: A 34-year-old child
Liangping: It's a bit big
Keita: What a big boy
Q8: It is said that Keita usually likes to relax by playing games after music creation, wondering which video game you have played the most recently.
Keita: Recently playing Fort knight and the soccer game FIFA, some people from the same agency have been playing Fort Knight and playing with them recently, because they want to play with friends more than they play alone.
Q9: Liang Ping is now involved in stage plays, are you planning to actually try filming or filming?
Ryohei: There is no shooting plan.
If time permits, of course, it will be interesting, but TV dramas and movies and the like will be edited, before the release of things, and stage plays are rehearsed in the early stage and then performed, I prefer the feeling of stage plays, after repeated practice before the formal performance, rehearsals every day, I prefer this.
Q10: Will Keita stick to one song a month next year? Where did you get the inspiration for Too Young to Die? The style of the song is very different from the previous one I want to hear Keita talk about the creation opportunity and process of this song
Keita: Ready to work on w-inds. Next year W-inds. Didn't release a new album this year Because I've been writing singles for 12 months, I haven't had time to make an album for w-inds.
"Too Young to Die" was inspired by the recently popular genres like Billie Eilish (a 17-year-old talented singer-songwriter), a genre of music with a very concise accompaniment but only a strong bass, which has become mainstream in the past two years, so I also want to make songs that do this style.
Ryuichi: Keita composers often like to add rhythmic tracks, because they are doing dance music, and adding rhythmic tracks to sing is very emotional, but the song "Too Young Too Die", there are some blues in it, which feels very novel.
Q11: Fans plan to challenge mt. Fuji next year, but have no experience in climbing, I would like to ask Ryuichi if there are any relevant suggestions, and which mountain is the highest mountain you have climbed?
Ryuichi: Mt. Fuji is really dangerous, the same mountain sometimes feels very easy to climb, but sometimes it feels very steep, it is a dangerous place that will kill you. Not only Mt. Fuji, every mountain is like this, Mt. Fuji I have only climbed once, it is really enough, I climbed from the 1st station for ten hours quite difficult, if it is a friend who has not climbed the mountain, I recommend going to climb other mountains.
Q12: Do you usually go to karaoke and sing in private, do you sing your own songs? Or which song you like to sing the most
Keita: We don't go to karaoke much, but once I went with a famous Japanese musician, everyone sang "Forever memories", I was very happy to hear famous Japanese singers sing this song, one ok rock Taka and Shimizu Shota sang "Forever memories" It really feels very different.
Q13: There are a lot of fans who grew up listening to w-inds. In addition to Shanghai, there are also many fans in other mainland Chinese cities who strongly want you to go to their cities to hold concerts such as Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, etc. Finally, do you have any message to the fans in China?
This time is eight years after coming here, really let everyone wait for a long time, we are also looking forward to the long-lost Shanghai solo performance, I hope to be a complete success, there are many fans everywhere, I hope to come back to China on the 20th anniversary, perform in more places.
Looking forward to the upcoming 20th anniversary of their debut, w-inds. can come to China again to hold concerts, in addition to Shanghai, what other cities do you want them to go to? (Buya Jun helped convey that fans in many cities in China are looking forward to their singing)