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Haegeum MV Screening
Segment 2 of 230520 D-Day Movie Night [SUGA | Agust D Fan Meeting]
Segment 1
🐱 Let's move on to the next segment. There are many segments!
👥 [cheer]
🐱 The concept of the fanmeeting today is movie night, you see
👥 Yes
🐱 This is my first time hearing about movie night, too
🐱 So together let's take some time to appreciate the music video
🐱 This could also be a TMI, but up until the MV release it was really like... I was (involved in) editting and that, coloring... Once the MV came out I didn't watch it.
👥 Why?
🐱 Because I had watched it too much. I can't really watch stuff where my face appear on. [fans in disbelief] When I film something I can't really watch the monitoring. It's just like that.
🐱 Let's take a look at it, this must be the first time I watch the full post-edited version
Haegeum MV screening
🐱 The reason why I can't watch it is because I tend to focus on the unfortunate parts (that I'm not happy with), so...
🐱 Anyway, it's been exactly a month since Haegeum came out. How is it, you guys?
👥 Gooooood! So cool!
🐱 Oh immediately we gotta watch People Pt.2
👥 [laugh]
🐱 Should I talk a little more about Haegeum? [sits back down]
👥 Yeeeeees
🐱 Behind story... I wonder if I've talked about it many times in lives, but I wrote the scenario, it's called storyboard right, I wrote it 3 years ago, then I went through the developing process of it. I went to Thailand to film it. It seems that the location will appear in a lot of movies or dramas. I filmed there, and it was so hot. And the rice tea... so there's also rice tea in Thailand
👥 Ooooo
🐱 Ooooo (copying the audience)
👥 [laugh]
🐱 Anyway, it was called catering, right? I ate and it was served in local style. There was curry, there was also ssalguksu (rice noodle/pho), and they were the most delicious Thai food I've ever tried so I ate a lot, it was good
👥 Well done!
🐱 Of course I did well, there's nothing I can't do
/he switched to speaking informally it's ❤️🩹
🐱 What else is there (to talk about)...
🗣️ How many tangerines you bought?
🐱 I can't remember. The set team gave them to me.
🐱 For four-minute (MV) we had to film for two consecutive days. Originally there were scenes of me buying tangerines, being caught, going on a pursuit, but they were eventually cut from the MV...
🐱 [coughs] [drinks water]
👥 aaahhh :(
🐱 My throat feels clogged
🐱 The system of filming in Thailand is really good, not sure if it's because they've filmed a lot, but I filmed comfortably without any meaningful inconvenience. That time the weather was not very hot like now, around 28 degrees? Filming was very fun.
[sudden silence]
👥 Whooooooaa
🐱 ??
🐱 What was that for...? Earlier when we were watching (Haegeum MV) together I could hear in which parts it blew up (with people's reactions), there were parts that blew up as I expected, but there were also parts that made me question, "Why is this blowing up?"
🐱 Anyway, we're watching People Pt. 2 MV next
continuing to People Pt.2 MV screening.
Sources: 장방울 [ZZOZZI FANCAM], DBOY_SG, BANGTANTV, and min_suga_miaow님
Disclaimer: I am not Korean, any mistakes are mine with no intended ill intention, please take this kindly^^
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IZE Magazine: 'SUCHWITA' time to get drunk with SUGA, time to get drunk on SUGA
SUGA is a member of the group BTS that debuted in 2013. In the group of seven, he is in charge of rapping together with RM and j-hope. Fair and bright face with buccal corridor (the space on both sides of the teeth) that opens every time he laughs refreshingly gives out a cute impression, but the low tone that's contradictory to the anticipation given by his appearance creates another different vibe. This kind of paradoxical charm of his shines even more on stage. Through his charisma-overflowing rapping to his perfect lyric delivery he captivates spectators and audience.
SUGA, who has been interested in making music since elementary school, has his named listed as lyricist, composer, and producer for most of BTS albums. In 2016 when BTS started to gradually make their name known, under the pseudonym ‘Agust D’ he released his first mixtape with the same title. The following year, he provided other singers with songs he wrote himself, and he took charge of the producing too. Even in between BTS activity, he was not slacking off on his personal growth, along with the name SUGA who is a member of the group called BTS, he fostered another name with its respective identity. He is hip-hop artist ‘Agust D’ who lets people listen to a little more honest voice of himself that couldn't be released under the group, and he is producer ‘Prod.SUGA’ who does the external work outside of BTS and his own song.
While so far those have been the other names of SUGA for his external activity, there is yet another name that only ARMY (the BTS fandom name) knows. It is SyubD (DJ SUGA's pet name) who officially debuted(?) as a host through the content ‘BTS HoneyFM 06.13’ that was released in 2013 to mark the 100th days since BTS' debut. Since then, SyubD has shown off his outstanding hosting skill, in the ‘HoneyFM’ held to celebrate their first Christmas under the name BTS, in addition to the content of the same name that was released every year on BTS' debut day.
With his distinctive low tone, in a calm and yet skillful hosting he led the program among 6 members who are full of energy all over the place and as the years went by his hosting skill improved by leaps and bounds. As a result, many ARMYs even wished for him to be a host of an actual radio program and get a job as ‘real SyubD’.
Due to the cross-border busy schedule, it is not known when this expectation will come true, but at least there is one point where his hosting ability that's built up through ‘HoneyFM’ meets ARMY's wish. It is a Youtube content called ‘Suchwita’.
‘Suchwita’, which is released in BTS official Youtube channel ‘BangtanTV’, is a talk content where SUGA, who became the host, drinks together with a guest and has a sincere conversation. The title — that brings ‘Daechwita’, the title song of ‘D-2’ the second mixtape released by Agust D in 2020, to mind — is short for ‘time to get drunk with SUGA’. The difference from various drinking contents is that the invited guest brings their favorite liquor and as they have a drink, they have a talk. SUGA, the host, wholeheartedly prepares snacks that go well with alcohol and welcomes the guests.
The charm of ‘Suchwita’ is that it is one step away from the stereotypical talk show format. BTS SUGA, who on any show would be chosen as an invited guest, hosts and invites someone. Accommodating the guest, the host SUGA's flexible and yet stable hosting gives you the feeling of seeing a new program every time. On December 5th last year, ‘Suchwita’ — which announced its beginning meeting with RM who was releasing his first solo album in 9 years after debut — has since invited stars with each different profession and taste, including broadcaster Shin Dong-yeop, actors Lee Sung-min and Lee Na-young, and singers Tablo and Taeyang. Facing these people, SUGA is all ears listening to the guest's story, and sometimes leads the conversation in a comfortable atmosphere. You can also see him sometimes expressing his curiosity or concerns outside of the questions prepared in the script.
In particular, it is a big harvest for the BTS members, who announced their ‘Chapter 2’ and started their individual activities, to visit ‘Suchwita’ with a new start. This is because there were not enough channels to listen to their individual's thoughts, since BTS was rarely seen on broadcasts other than K-Pop music programs. RM and Jimin, as well as host SUGA as Agust D, appeared as a guest on ‘Suchwita’ ahead of the release of their solo albums (RM was the host when Agust D guested). Jin's honest story, which was recorded three days before his enlistment, is a special gift that can only be heard in ‘Suchwita’. They unwrapped a bundle of their stories in a comfortable atmosphere as they were talking to someone familiar and friendly. On it, they honestly expressed the pressure to fill in each person's time with their own strength alone after the seven of them had spent such a long time together, about the alienation in the past, and the expectation for greeting each other in 2025 after spending time on their own names.
The members of BTS say that SUGA may be grumpy and indifferent on the outside, but out of sight, he is attentive in taking care of other people. As if to refute this, in the first episode of ‘Suchwita’ SUGA made it clear, “I'm just aiming for a talk show that is accompanied with alcohol”, adding, “I don't want a show that gets carried away under the influence of alcohol”. Even then, he said that if there is a guest who can't drink alcohol, they can drink tea instead (in fact, Taeyang prepared sikhye (traditional rice punch) and sujeonggwa (traditional cinnamon punch) on his appearance). Although it has the color of drinking content, alcohol is used as an accompaniment to create a comfortable and soft ambience, not as an essential element.
Therefore, for those who are new to ‘Suchwita’, the program may feel smaller than expected and may seem trivial. However, it is a content that allows you to lend an ear to someone's words and to simply enjoy a conversation without forced laughter, and that is enough reason to get curious about ‘Suchwita’. What is certain is that SUGA's natural charm is reflected in the program as it is. Like tvN's ‘You Quiz’, which he thinks of and is aware of as a competitive program, I hope it will be a content that is consistently unburdened, consistently warm, and we can see for a long long time. Let's get drunk with SUGA who is drinking, and get drunk on SUGA's new charm that is revealed every time, I highly recommend it to those who don't know ‘Suchwita’ yet.
—fin.
A little note as I just feel like it may get confusing, the article uses two particular "drunk" phrases:
1. to get drunk with; as in being drunk together with (in this case SUGA)
2. to be/get drunk with/on; as in getting intoxicated with (SUGA) as if he's the alcohol
Any mistake is purely my own, please take this nicely xx
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230520 D-Day Movie Night TMI talk [SUGA | Agust D Fan Meeting]
🐱 The first segment is the TMI Talk
👥 [cheer]
🐱 It's been about a month since the tour started. The album came out on 21st and last month is the 20th, so it's been a month. After that I did some live, some concerts, I'm sure you must be curious about how I'm doing these days, aren't you?
👥 Yes!!
🐱 You said no?
👥 [clarify that they said yes]
🐱 [laughs] That's why I prepared some time to reveal the many things that you might be curious about. Honestly I didn't read the questions beforehand, so I'm curious as well, what could be my TMI?
🐱 [drinks a sip of water]
🗣️ *dramatically* Aaaah~
👥 [laugh]
🐱 Alright, I will start
1️⃣ What food are you into the most lately?
🐱 Are you really curious about this kind of stuff?
👥 [laugh] 🗣️Curious! curious!
🐱 When I'm on tour, I eat many different types of food but I mostly eat Korean food. So Korean food is always prepared. In the US the Korean food I ate the most was... oh but I ate quite a different menu every day, so... I ate quite a lot, mainly Korean food. These days Korean foods are made well so I enjoyed them a lot, skewers too... (🗣️Lamb skewer? 👥[laugh]) I think I ate sushi pretty often too... What else is there... Anyway, I eat everything well... Since there's no food that I can't eat...
🐱 That was my TMI... (quiet)... Is the reaction usually like this?
👥 [clap and cheer]
🐱 (...) It must be the same for you guys too, it's been a while since I saw you guys this close. Let us slowly open up our hearts.
2️⃣ Bangtan member that you talked to most recently?
🐱 This morning I talked to Jimin on the phone
🗣️ TONY MONTANA
🐱 Tony Montana? That freaked him out though?
🐱 Anyway, during the day– ah not during the day, I mean in the morning (before noon) I talked with jimin briefly
🐱 Well, there's a group chat with the members so we're always talking. But the most recent member I talked to was Jiminie
🗣️cute! 👥[cheer]
🐱 You guys don't know how to react too, right? neither do I. Usually there's something like a BGM, there's no BGM? It's usually like this? That's curious...
🗣️ I like it just right
🐱 You like it just right~? Ok~
(spoken so sweetly i'm going crazy)
3️⃣ Honestly the hardest song to perform on tour?
🐱 Ah, this... Do you guys know the setlist?
👥 Yes
🐱 How do you know?
👥 [various loud answers]
🐱 You went (to watch in the US) you said? Oh my, you worked hard/suffered a lot...
🐱 Honestly the hardest song during practice was Amygdala. Really there's no part to rest, only a few short breaks in between. But the hardest song to perform live would be Life Goes On. For real, it's so hard. I hit the high note, but I gotta play the keyboard while doing it. So I practiced... But on stage that was the time I had to really concentrate. And there could be people who didn't come (to my concert) so I won't give too many spoilers, but Life Goes On was what I personally found hard. That along with Amygdala, those two... But anyway, it could be a spoiler so...
🐱 Anyone got the concert ticket? (won the D-Day in Seoul concert raffle)
👥 Noooooo
🐱 You could've used up all of your luck to win this (D-Day movie night) raffle
🐱 I wanted to sell many tickets too...
🐱 Well, there will be good days, right?
4️⃣ What's your recent best purchase?
🐱 During the one month I was in the US... What did I buy again? I can't remember... I didn't buy anything when I went out though? Recently? Uh what was there...
🗣️ Coupang? (Korean e-commerce)
🐱 Coupang is not available in the US
🗣️ Cat keyring! 🗣️ Valentino!
🗣️ ARMY's heart!
🐱 To say I bought your hearts is kind of weird, isn't it? The expression "to buy one's heart" is a bit...
🐱 Ah! That's right, I bought some medicine
👥 Ooh? :(
🐱 It's not something to oh~ about.. You know the nutritious/health tonic, for fatigue relief. They helped me get through the tour, it's really good
🗣️ Ooooh :(
🐱 I told you it's nothing to oh~ about. Everyone take nutritional supplements, it's nothing to oh~ about. So seeing that I went on tour by myself for the first time, I made a lot of preparations, like nutritional supplements... I didn't normally eat nutritional supplements, but once I tried it during the tour, it really helped a lot so I made sure to eat them
🗣️ Please recommend some
🐱 Oh, that's not really.... I'll do that if there's a commercial. I don't have to go out of my way to do it, right? Isn't it okay to (just) say that someone likes it? I'll pay for it myself and eat it...
5️⃣ Any dreams you remember having recently?
🐱 I dreamed a lot when I was on tour
👥 Ooooh
🐱 It's nothing to oh~ about, why? We all dream...
🐱 But sometimes, it's really... You can't always have only good dreams you see, but there are dreams that make you wake up feeling bad and you always forget about them after a few minutes, right? I dream, but i don't remember them, so... Dreams that I remember having? Well, I can't recall any, though... Let's skip this one since i can't remember.
6️⃣ Korean food that you crave the most when you're abroad?
🐱 At first 10 years ago — since it's been 10 years since our debut — there were not many Korean restaurants but, I guess Korean food must be quite popular these days, so you can find it anywhere, especially in LA... Is there anything you guys wanna eat perhaps?
👥 [various answers]
🐱 [responding to all different answers] Tteokbokki? They sell tteokbokki in LA, various places. What? Samgyeopsal (pork belly/Korean BBQ) they sell them. What? They sell bibimbap (mixed rice) of course. Nakji-bokkeum (stir-fried octopus), there's a delicious place. They sell makchang (beef intestine) too. They sell yang-kkochi (lamb skewer) too of course. Mak-guksu (buckwheat noodles), they sell them all. They sell pyeongyang-naengmyeon (North Korean cold noodles) too. So there was no food I craved, I could eat all the food I wanted. And the cities I went to were big cities, so I ate all the Korean food, everything you can think of. And I normally enjoy the local cuisine as well, so I eat pretty much anything.
🐱 Alright, the 7th question~
🐱 Usually there's a (sound effect) ~Bbabam~ no?
👥 We'll do it~ Bbabam~!
[👥 continue to add Bbabam sound for every new question til the end of the segment]
7️⃣ The era that I think as my prime era?
🐱 I've said this before a few times in broadcasts but, during HYYH...
🗣️ No!
🐱 No? Then when?
👥 Now!
🐱 Now? I should've come a little less swollen today, my body doesn't feel good
👥 [strong opposition]
🐱 Alright those who film/take pictures edit it well on your own and upload it~
🐱 Well, now is not bad, I maintained myself well but during the tour I gained a little weight about 1~2 kg
👥 It's okay~ You can gain more~
🐱 Gain more you said? If I gain more my clothes won't fit though?
👥 Beautiful!
🐱 Pardon?
🗣️ WDYM YOU GAIN WEIGHT!
🐱 Thank you~
🐱 Anyway, I don't look too bad either now... Well, then I'll go with now (as the answer)
👥 [cheer]
8️⃣ A guest you'd like to invite on Suchwita?
👥 Me!
🐱 No but if you come, are you confident that you'll secure enough airtime?
👥 Yes!!
🐱 You wouldn't be able to though? The camera is moving a lot. You guys, when you film something like this I'm sure it's comfortable but when the camera films you instead people get really nervous
🗣️ I don't get nervous
🐱 [telling the others] Hurry up and film that person who said she's not nervous! [points at the person] There are 350 people here, right? So 349 camera film her
🐱 It might not be easy to do it for a few hours but if there's a chance, someone could be a representative
👥 Me!
🐱 Is it okay to show your face?
👥 Yes it's okay~
🐱 ?? [making ssseub sound] Well, if there's a good opportunity... Anyway...
9️⃣ Something you always do before going to bed?
🐱 Don't we always brush our teeth? I think I always brush my teeth before bed, always. And turn on YouTube...
👥 What do you watch?
🐱 Well there were times when I watch suchwita.. The kind of videos that are calm and quiet that are nice to listen to in your sleep...
👥 Cat videos!
🐱 Well, I watch them all various videos
🐱 Science videos...
👥 Ooooh
🐱 It's nothing to oh~ about! Why are you oh~ing? Economy videos, something like that
👥 Ooooooh
🐱 I only turn them on. I'll turn them on like an e-Book. I can sleep well listening to that kind of thing, as if listening to ASMR...
👥 So cool!
🐱 Why is that cool? I told you I only turn them on, it's not like I watch them and learn something. Anyway, I watch those kind of videos a lot. It's not like I remember them, because I turn them on and sleep. I do it to sleep early, especially during the tour it's important to stay in shape so I brush my teeth and go straight to bed.
🔟 What to eat right away after this ends?
🐱 So you're asking for a recommendation for dinner
👥 Oooooh
🐱 It's not something to oh~ about! I know that much, no matter how much I don't
🐱 What's there to eat for dinner? How old are you all?
👥 19! 17!
🐱 You're saying there are a lot of teens here?
🐱 I'll just tell you what I wanna eat. I wanna eat nakji-bokkeum. Have nakji-bokkeum on your way home tonight
👥 Let's eat together!
🐱 Let's eat together you said?
🗣️ Let's have a group dinner!
🐱 Let's have a group dinner you said?
👥 [cheer]
🐱 I'm asking (if you said let's have a group dinner). I also have a fancall event to do after this...
👥 We'll wait!
🐱 No no
👥 We'll wait
🐱 You'll wait? No, don't be like that, just go home~
👥 It's okay!
🐱 It's dangerous it's dangerous~ I have to do my schedules don't I💦
(he was so flustered he dropped honorifics altogether😭😭😭)
🐱 Alright, so we had our TMI talk. How was it?
👥 Good!
🐱 What does TMI stand for again?
👥 Too much information
🐱 Too much information? I don't think I did the "too much" part, though
—end of segment 1—
Sources: 장방울 [ZZOZZI FANCAM], DBOY_SG, BANGTANTV, and twitter accounts for fill-ins.
Disclaimer: I am not Korean, I try my best to be as accurate as possible but any mistakes are purely mine.
A little guide:
🐱 yoongi
👥 armys (plural)
🗣️ one army
[] actions
() context
(...) I can't hear what's said
** emphasize? (lol idk i only used it once i think)
number emojis are the post-it questions.
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SUGA at ENDRECHERI MIX AND YOU with Tsuyoshi Domoto
👤 Before meeting SUGA-kun I looked up a lot of interviews of him, I got the impression that he is a very honest and strong person. I hope to spend the time leisurely today, but I have the thought that amidst busy schedule he makes time to be here so I gotta let him rest quickly. With that in mind, I hope to be able to talk with him comfortably.
-Introduction clips-
Listening to the latest album
👤 Before meeting SUGA-kun I listened to a lot of SUGA-kun's music
🐱 Oh my, thank you
👤 Listening to the most recently released album, firstly I thought that this work is such a pure album as a whole. Really pure. Because as people live, naturally we feel various emotions and in this day and world you can express it to your heart's content, but it's not necessarily a good thing to express it like that. It's important to exchange this emotion inside our heart, and the tenacity, agony, sadness, and more than anything happiness and love to realize that feeling, that they are important, it sits in the sound and lyrics and flows into my entire body, that's what I felt about the work.
🐱 Thank you
Tsuyoshi-san's impression of SUGA
👤 I wanted to know a little deeper about SUGA-kun so I looked up many interviews. I got the impression that he's a really honest and strong person. What do you think of yourself?
🐱 I'm someone that can say I like it if I like it, if I hate it then I hate it. Rather than being honest, I think it's just my personality since I was young. I think it's also reflected in my music. The music that I liked since I was young, I fell in love when the artists were telling their own stories then I started music, so I think I was influenced a lot by that.
👤 I think to be honest to yourself and to live as you are is not something that just anyone can do
🐱 That's right
👤 But I think, because someone who lives honestly like SUGA-kun delivered such a message, there are more people in the world who have been able to get out of their own sorrow and hardship that they go through and have that strength. So I think it's really impressive to live while always keeping that childhood's pure heart until now.
🐱 I think these days the world is especially very harsh to young people. Whenever I hear (someone say) that after listening to my music they gained strength or that it became their reason to live, it also gives me a lot of comfort. It's not that my messages are exclusively for young people, but if it becomes a comfort for those who are struggling and hurting in this world, I honestly think it's enough reason to make music.
👤 I feel the same kind of reason
What they have in common: 'Grandpa'!?
👤 We have something in common, I'm also called 'ojiichan'
🐱 *laughs* Me too
👤 For example, even when people around me are in panic I'll be like ...🧍♂️... My hometown is not Tokyo, I really like the hometown I was born in and I enjoyed the culture there so I was called grandpa and such. Knowing that SUGA-kun is also called 'grandpa' I felt some kind of familiarity.
🐱 I've been making music since I was very young, I've made music since i was 12. I started doing music work when I was 17, so I always worked with older hyungs and nunas and naturally I grew up a bit faster I think.
👤 Amazing. I watched your interviews and works while keeping on saying 'amazing'
Thoughts put into Agust D
👤 Can we listen to the meaning behind SUGA-kun's artist name, Agust D?
🐱 It's actually DT SUGA put backwards and becomes the name Agust D, DT is Daegu my hometown... Daegu... SUGA.. When i was young there was this thing, I first made Agust D 7~8 years ago, we debuted as dance singers, and even though I did rap and producing actually I didn't belong in the idol team nor did I belong in the underground rappers. It felt like being halfway when I was young, there was some kind of a victimhood where I wasn't recognized in both sides. So wanting to show the best things I could do, I changed my name, but because it's a character made for that, early Agust D music has a lot of anger and is destructive. At first when i made it 7~8 years ago I already had the thought of making it a trilogy. Now that it's finished, from such a very destructive and rebellious music to some extent a mature music, I think I've showed them all well. I think I've showed another persona really well.
About the moment when you want to write a song
👤 Talking about when the song becomes 1 (one) from 0 (zero), for me there were a lot of instances where the thought came to me when I was in the shower, so I came out, took notes, and went back in, this happened often.
🐱 I tend to record on my phone
👤 When is the moment SUGA-kun thinks you should write a song?
🐱 I think the most important thing for a person who does pop music (popular music; for general public) is sincerity. I don't really like the scenes that are shown a lot in media where a singer-songwriter or composer suddenly get an inspiration at a certain moment and starts writing. Because I just always carry around my equipment and work on music, and I work a lot, so that I simply have a lot amount songs with me.
🐱 When i made this album i certainly was stressed out, I had to write the lyrics, I had to write the melody, and I had to do the arrangement too, but normally when I work on songs I don't get stressed at all. There's a songwriter friend who I work with, the two of us made most of this album. With that friend, even when we're drinking we end up working. And since I'm going around with the band (on tour), while drinking together with the band I would suddenly play guitar, or play keyboard, and make songs that way. So normally when doing a song camp or working on songs it feels like I'm just playing around, so I don't think there's an exact moment when I suddenly get inspired. I just always carry equipment to able to record it whenever that happens, or seeing that these days handphone, smartphone recorders work so well, I appreciate them as much as possible and record (on phone) a lot.
🐱 And since you also work on songs you must know, but when you first make a song and listen to it you don't know if it's any good, but after a few months there are moments when you think, "Oh, this is really good?". For this album too, Haegeum the title song was already written 3 years ago and I just needed to re-arrange it to fit the trend. That way, I'm the type that just steadily work on music. I need to produce an album so I don't do it like hurriedly, the oldest song in this album is from 4~5 years ago.
👤 That's right, I don't use voice memo but there were many times I used it in private, for phrase or guitar riff, bass riff, rhythm pattern, or * makes music sound* ...I put them all first and when I make a song I give them a listen again and, "Oh this beat sounds nice?... Um this is not so good..." then I save a dormant beat or riff, melody and make use of it, there are cases like that.
About the number of tracks in a song
👤 There are also times when I talk to my friends (imply talking in terms of making music) and I'm getting more and more into it, then the number of tracks increase. I adjust that number of tracks and take out some or use some parts to balance them out. How many tracks you put in a song?
🐱 What does 'How many tracks in a song' mean?
👤 *explains* At the region, and guitar... So the bass, drum...
🐱 Ah you mean how many instruments I use in a track, right?
👤 Yes, yes. So voice...
🐱 For me it's different for every song, but this time in the title song Haegeum's case, apart from the beat there are not many tracks, just a Korean instrument called gayageum, a Korean instrument called haegeum, and a Korean flute called daegeum, and 808, snare, hi-hat, I kinda made it minimal-ly. When I make commercial songs, or various OSTs, this type of light music, instrumental music, I fill it with a lot (of sounds/instruments). So I think it's different depending on the song's vibe. These days minimal music is very trendy too so I think I tend to reflect on the situation, to reflect on the trend.
About traditional instruments, timbre, and musical scale
👤 There was a message that traditional instruments are important in making music for you, what is the sound or instrument that you consider important? For example for me, my hometown is Nara and there's an instrument 0distortion, this time as well in Haegeum I apply distortion oare called Nara. By playing the musical scale f that instrument with a guitand20where I applied electric nuanceC I can feel the atmosphere gf our country there, but I (implying personal colour) don't disappear. There are times when a funky music that are not usually applied on instruments a lot, and the way I often produce is after reversing it I chop it, that's the mix. For SUGA-kun too, is there any traditional instrument oout traditional inst
🐱 I surely did use them a lot, I used Korean traditional instruments a lot. But honestly it's not that I use them to let people know about traditional instruments, I just think of them as one of various instruments and sounds. And when I make a sound I like making one that not many people do, I like to use samples by cut, paste– by chopping them. For traditional instruments I either apply distortion, this time as well in Haegeum I apply distortion on gayageum, even though I don't know gayageum well. There are also instances where I applied electric distortion on voices and guitar. I really like making beats by making unique sounds that way. A lot of effects can be done on traditional instruments, so it rather makes a fresh sound. I use effects that are not usually applied on instruments a lot, and the way I often produce is after reversing it I chop it, that's the sampling method I use a lot. I actually use it in this album too. I think I tend to approach it (traditional instruments) as one sound. Honestly it's not that I wanna tell people about traditional instruments, seeing that I don't have a lot of understanding about traditional instruments too. I just approach it as a sound.
👤 When choosing a timbre, do you decide right away after getting an inspiration or do you contemplate about it a lot before deciding?
🐱 I'm not the type that worries about that when writing a song, especially since I make beat first then add melody and lyrics to it. Actually at first, together with the friend that I work with for 6-7 years, we just go "Shall we try doing something like this?", we tend to start off this way. But after starting with a particular song vibe, that song vibe doesn't come out in the end, a whole different song always comes out, that's how I usually work on many songs. When I was young, there were a lot of songs that I participated in, and when one got stuck it affected me badly mentally. But these days, just...even if I work on several things at the same time I don't get stressed, even though I tend to get stressed around the last minute of an album (production).
SUGA's future prospect
👤 In the future how do you think SUGA will change?
🐱 I only have this thought... While going on this tour, I have this strong conviction that I will perform even when I'm in my 50~60s. Honestly I have the most fun when I'm doing music, I have the most fun when I'm on stage, that hasn't change. It's just that since I was young I have to do various genres, so I'm not sure what kind of music I'll do in the future. I think being able to do all kinds of genres is my forte. But these days while the tour is going, after only rapping in the past, this time there are a lot of songs with vocals in it so I got to sing. There's a charm that only vocal has in its own way, so if there's a chance I wanna work on a lot of songs with the sound of acoustic band, and rap too separately in rap songs, if I can mix these two just right, won't I be able to do music for a longer long time. When I'm in my 50s will I rap? I wonder about that a lot hehe... I think to rap in my 50~60s will be very hard and I find a lot of fun in vocal parts so I wanna improve by doing various genres of music.
👤 What are you looking forward to in live concert in Japan?
🐱 Actually I couldn't do a concert in Japan since 2019 because of COVID-19. At that time a stadium tour was scheduled, but now two of our members are on military service so we're in a situation where we can't tour with all 7 members. I'm doing a solo tour, but honestly I longed for the fans a lot. Japan is one thing, but that time we certainly should've done all of the stadium tour, even though it wasn't for us to take responsibility , it wasn't our fault, the thought of wanting to do a concert soon was so prevalent and since last year while preparing the album— actually in a way it's an album that is made for the purpose of doing a concert. And fortunately since I was young — to call it a solo activity is a bit like that* — but I produced or wrote enough solo songs to be able to hold a concert, so I'm grateful for the younger early 20s me, for making it so that I can go on tour at any time.
🐱 It's a concert in Japan after a long time and Japan experienced COVID-19 just like us so I wish to relief the stress or such things that people have gotten from that time, (for people/fans) to really excitedly sing along and have fun together, dance, actually I think that's the biggest reason to do a concert.
👤 Today is the first time that I meet SUGA-kun and listen to many of his stories. Just like you, I express my performance in various forms, and my main genre is funk but other than that I enjoy and do various genres and I can think of it as fun because it feels alive, I enjoy music with that kind of feeling. As expected you have to enjoy yourself to deliver that happiness to a lot of people so everyone can gain the strength of that positivity... I felt that we share the same thoughts regarding that part. But just like I said it at first, I can really feel that SUGA-kun is definitely more honest and stronger than me.
🐱 Thank you
👤 Hereafter as well, I will watch SUGA-kun's activity and continue to feel that. I sincerely hope that hereafter SUGA-kun continues to live his life to the fullest as SUGA-kun is right now.
🐱 Thank you
👤 Originally I really was going to cut this interview shorter even just a little so that I can give you a break even just a little... Sorry, I talked too much, sorry.
🐱 [shakes head]
👤 I'm really happy to have met you. Thank you.
🐱 Thank you
👤 I had an interview with SUGA-kun and as expected along the interview I had the impression that "Even at this time he's encouraging a lot of people with the words he say that contain each and every thought of his". I think through this interview you guys have heard the words that can help you gain strength as well. For me along with the episode of SUGA-kun making music, I get to know more about SUGA-kun and in the future, any work he makes and how his life turns out I hope to be able to root for him, and I had an honest time with a heart full of love. Thank you.
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The japanese words (Tsuyoshi-san's) were translated from Korean (JP➡️KR➡️ENG) credit to sugajeong님 and B_bud님.
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👤 Tsuyoshi Domoto
🐱 SUGA
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