keihissi | 151107 doyou tengoku partial transcript

This contains selected transcripts only. Some parts the translator deemed unnecessary are skipped.

DJ: The Japanese fans have welcomed you warmly. Of course, the Korean fans are the same, but when you come here to Japan, the fans get hyped up and wait for you. How do you feel about this?
Taemin: Well, firstly to be able to come from Korea and meet with the fans here makes us really happy. Also, during concerts, when we're close to the fans, we can see their facial expressions and they seem happy so that in a way, is a form of encouragement for us, too.
DJ: You can see the fans' faces in the concert?
Key: In the audience.
Taemin: Those that are close (to the stage), at least.
Key: We can see them quite well, and during last year's hall tour we're even closer to the audience so we can see them more clearly. Even when they're crying.
DJ: Ehh.
Taemin: Yeah, we can see it clearly.

DJ: This is SHINee's first time in this show, right? I'd like to ask you what kind of group SHINee is. However, since this show is called "The Doyou Tengoku" can you describe your group using "The--" ?
Key: Let's start with Minho.
Minho: The shining group? Since we're shining SHINee...
Taemin: Saying that ourselves kind of feels embarrassing.
Key: To say ourselves that we're shining...
DJ: But you want to shine, right?
SHINee: Yes.
Taemin: For me, SHINee are The Rain Men.
DJ: Eh?
Taemin: Whenever we go to Japan, it will almost always rain. The staff told us that we're men who bring rain. Recently, it hasn't been like that, though (LOL). But today it rained again...
DJ: I see! How about Key's?
Key: (SHINee are) The Performers. We've always...well, not just in singing...but we do our best on stage as well. Not just presenting the lyrics but "performing" them...something like that.
DJ: I see. Not just singing, not just dancing but performing/entertaining in both singing in dancing, you're such a "shining" group, right? And you also bring rain.
SHINee: LOL

DJ: Korean (idols) seem to be always good at dancing while singing?
Key: Since they're children....since they're students, they aspire to be "someone perfect" so everyone...well, instead of trying to be perfect, they just do their best and exert a lot of effort.
DJ: What kind of person did you aspire to be?
Key: For me, it's to be someone like BoA-sunbae.
DJ: Ahh, BoA of course. It's said that BoA practices by singing while running full speed on a running machine/treadmill!
Taemin: I have heard of it.
Key: It's training for live singing. I heard about it.
DJ: I heard that's how she trained (for her singing).
Key: She's amazing.
DJ: How about Taemin? What kind of person do you aspire to be?
Taemin: I could choose a lot of our sunbaes that I watch, but to be honest, during rehearsals, everyone does their best and are showing their true strengths so witnessing that, I learn a lot from them.
DJ: Because everyone's concentrated on doing their best, right?
Taemin: Before and during our debut, we spent a lot of time rehearsing/training on top of going to school.
DJ: You have to do that much in order to be able to sing and dance that well, right? How about Minho?
Minho: For me it's TVXQ-sunbae. I admire them the most.
DJ: They are amazing, aren't they?
Minho: Yes.
DJ: You have such (amazing) sunbaes. But SHINee are about to catch up to them in full power, right?
Key: But, because of our sunbaes who did their best in Japan ahead of us, we're very thankful to them. That's why, to show our gratitude to them, we also want to do our best, too. So we have to exert effort even in learning Japanese.
(t/n: Basically, Key is saying that since their sunbaes "paved" the way for them by debuting in Japan, SHINee had an easier time debuting in Japan themselves. It could also count that SHINee were often introduced in Japan as SNSD's, BoA's, and TVXQ's "younger brothers".)
DJ: But all of you are already speaking Japanese so fluently. I think that is also awesome, to be able to hold a conversation like this.

DJ: You have released a new song/single called "Sing Your Song", which (lyrics) is a blend of Japanese and English, right? Listening to it, I didn't feel any discomfort with your Japanese (t/n: she means they sound like natives). It's a good song.
SHINee: Thank you very much!
DJ: You also have a coupling song...
Minho: Good Good Feeling...
DJ: That is also a nice song! It feels like it's overflowing with love and it's such a happy song!
Key: The melody (of Sing Your Song) is also memorable. And it's a song we'd like to perform on stage with the audience.
DJ: It's something you want to hear on Christmas while with your loved one, right?
Taemin: Yes LOL
DJ: What were your thoughts while singing it?
Minho: It's a song that I want to enjoy singing with everyone. So I sang it with memories of being able to sing with the fans.
DJ: I want to sing it, too.
SHINee: LOL
Key: I heard you singing it a while ago.
DJ: When you start playing Sing Your Song, the blend of your voices come up first. I think that was really beautiful.
Taemin: Thank you. I also think that the a capella part is the most impressive part of the song and our voices' blending made it even more...impressive...I'm saying this myself again.
DJ: Please, it's okay to say it yourself.
Taemin: Thank you! Also, my part was the best...
Key: No, no, no...
Taemin: I'm just kidding.

DJ: When the five of you are together, what kind of group is SHINee?
Taemin: We're a very noisy group.
Key: We're noisy and always hyper. In the car when we're going to and from work, we talk a lot, it's like the five of us are in our own variety show. We spend a lot of fun times together.
DJ: Who is the one who talks the most?
Taemin: I think among us it's Minho.
DJ: LOL But he's quiet today!
Taemin: He kept talking a while ago, so I think he's just tired now.
Key: He talks a lot.
DJ: Then, who is the funniest?
Minho: Onew?
DJ: Ohh. But he's not here right now.
Minho: Yeah... But Onew is the funniest among us.
DJ: Then, who is the most level-headed.
Key: I think none.
Minho: No one.
SHINee: LOL
Minho: All of us are...
Taemin: Our manager.
DJ: So your manager is the only level-headed one!

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