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Yoshiki / Rose of Pain PV Director Interview
« on: February 26, 2010, 04:45:48 PM »
http://xjapanfantasy.site.voila.fr/page7.html

Has anyone ever seen this interview? I came upon it while searching for something entirely different and it's got some interesting input on Yoshiki.
The interviewer (Neo Kerberos) had been trying to find the places where the Rose of Pain PV was shot and eventually met the director of the film, Didier Deleskiewicz, in 2007.

So here's the story of Rose of Pain PV...

Deleskiewicz had already worked in Japan in the movie industry when he was contacted in 1989 by a Japanese producer (called "Harry'') who knew Yoshiki. This producer, a friend of Deleskiewicz, said that Yoshiki was a bit depressed and didn't seem to be in tune with his bandmates. Deleskiewicz and Yoshiki met for the first time in 89 in Shibuya. Deleskiewicz says Yoshiki looked like he was surrounded by people who only cared about his money. Harry had withdrawed from the project and Deleskiewicz says the band's new producer looked like a Yakuza, and that it felt like X was being made a phenomenon by Sony for profit only.

Yoshiki wanted to come to France for two weeks to work, and Deleskiewicz made arrangements for that: he found an appartment (Yoshiki didn't want to stay in a hotel since it was too impersonnal) and rented a piano. Yoshiki stayed in the neighbourhood of Belleville, which is quite a popular district (lots of North African and some Asian people lived there at that time, even nowadays it's quite a multicultural area). His favourite restaurant there was "Chez Marianne''.

Once in France, Yoshiki started to talk about a new song he was writing, Rose of Pain, and said he wanted to take shoots for a PV. Deleskiewicz chose the castle of Ferté Milon to take the shoots because it wasn't too far away from Paris. The shoots took about 2 to 3 days.

Deleskiewicz says about Yoshiki that he was very pleasant but didn't know what he wanted, and that he probably felt unsettled to be so far away from his country but at the same time kept being nice to everyone around him.

Deleskiewicz also says that Yoshiki often overslept and took a lot of time to do his hair. He says that the only difficult part about working with Yoshiki was that he never knew what Yoshiki expected from him, as Yoshiki never explained the meaning of his lyrics or what the message of the song was. Deleskiewicz says about Yoshiki : "He wasn't autistic but he liked to act like he was." Deleskiewicz thinks that Yoshiki is actually unable to express what he's looking for through words, as being ambiguous is part of his personality. He also thinks that at that time Yoshiki probably couldn't come to terms with the true meaning of his lyrics.

Since there's a ''she'' in the song, they decided to have a woman in the video, which would be like an spook or a ghost (obake in japanese). This woman would leave traces of her passage: the roses. They chose a well-endowed woman, wearing a pink dress in the fashion of the 17th century, pale foundation and dark red lipstick. The woman was never in the same shoot as Yoshiki, she appeared and disappeared between the walls of the castle.

But the PV was edited in Japan when Yoshiki came back, and all of the shoots of the woman were edited out. Deleskiewicz thinks it probably was because the woman didn't suit the image Yoshiki wanted to give at that time.

Deleskiewicz met Yoshiki for the second time in 1995. They spent the evening together and Deleskiewicz interviewed Yoshiki, but the interview was never broadcast because back then the French media weren't interested in Japanese music.

What do you guys think? I find Deleskiewicz point of view interesting... since he isn't working for any major company he's probably not biased in any way, even though he's only known Yoshiki for a short period of time.
There are also some great unreleased photos from Deleskiewicz personal archive on this page!
(and right now I'm LOLing imagining Yoshiki doing his hair in the morning and bitching about it xDDD)

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Albums/Singles / Confused about ''say anything''
« on: February 24, 2010, 12:51:02 PM »
I was discussing the lyrics of Say Anything with a friend today... and the meaning of it is now giving me headaches xD

I always thought that when Toshi said 'say anything' it meant 'say nothing'.
But, literally, 'anything' is 'everything' right? So 'you say anything' means 'you say everything'?? Or is it you say anything = you're *not* saying anything = you say nothing?
Yoshiki's engrish is making me doubt my grammatical abilities.  ::)

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General chat / Anyone knows where I can find this pic?
« on: February 09, 2010, 02:21:46 AM »
Sorry to bother you with this question but it's been bugging me for some time...
I remember coming across a DeviantArt gif pic on the forum, where basically Yoshiki talked about "all the great sex they had" and hide kept saying "PG13! PG13!"
It was absolutely stupid and absolutely funny and I can't seem to find it anymore... >_< I tried to google it but I only found porn sites, haha. *FAIL*
Does anyone remember this pic ?  :-[

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X JAPAN World Tour / Organisation of the concert ~
« on: September 01, 2008, 02:25:08 PM »
Here are some ideas for X Japan concert... ^_^

1 - What about creating pages with the most famous chorus of X Japan songs, and put them online so that people can print them and learn the lyrics in the queue? I'm sure there are lots of people who love X Japan but won't have the time to learn them before the concert... 20.000 fans singing together would be a beautiful gift for X Japan. Plus it's always funny to sing (or scream xD) while waiting for a concert with people you've only known for 3 minutes. ^_^
We could make two versions of these lyrics: one with only the chorus, so that it would fit on one page, and another one with more pages for the die-hard fans who want to learn the whole discography of X. ^^

2 - I was also thinking about making banners and placards... not for the concert itself (it's alway exasparating when there's a fangirl brandishing posters with love declarations in front of you... =_= ) but for the waiting time. Just to show Paris how much we love X! ^_^ => everything should be fan-made, no stealing of copyrighted images of X or such.

3 - It would also be great if people had red pompons to wave during Kurenai... but I'm not sure lots of people will think about it, so the best would be that the ones who do take extra pompons for the others. You can easily make them by scissoring plastic bags. ^_^

That's all for now... share your ideas too ~
Oh, and another question: how many people will sleep in front of the livehouse? I know I will but I'm don't know for how long... u_u Bercy really is a nice area, but it most likely will be very cold... >.<

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