BTS RM 엘 파이스 인터뷰 원본 찾아보기
BTS RM의 스페인 매체 엘 파이스와의 인터뷰가 계속 화제여서 인터뷰 전문이 궁금해 찾아봤다.
인터뷰 원본 링크는 아래에!
알엠은 작년 12월 발매한 솔로앨범 인디고를 홍보하러 스페인에 갔다고 한다.
스페인 매체 엘 파이스는 알엠과의 인터뷰에서 케이팝의 성공과 제도에 대해 질문을 했는데, 이에 대한 답변이 너무 훌륭해서 연일 뉴스에 나오고 있다.
RM, the leader of K-pop band BTS: 'We work so hard in Korea because 70 years ago there was nothing'
As he promotes his first solo album, the South Korean rapper reflects on the price of success, the history of his country and collecting art
Kim Nam-joon, 28, seems genuinely surprised that a group of jans recognized him a few days ago on the streets of Bilbao, Spain. "You'd like to think that maybe in small cities, on the other side of the world, you could go unnoticed...." says the Seoul-born rapper known as RM. He's better known as the leader of BTS, the K-pop boy band that has broken, in 10 frenetic years, all the records in the global music industry, Bilbao included.
* frenentic 정신없이 바쁘게 돌아가는, 부산한
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Q. Your track opens with the lines, "Fuck the trendsetter / I'm a turn back the time / Far to when I was nine / When things were only good or bad / I think I was more of a human." Does K-pop's amazing success dehumanize the artist?
A. You start your career very early and as part of a group. There's not a lot of time to be an individual, but that makes K-pop shine: it's very young people all struggling really hard together... You generate that energy that you only have in your 20s. You fight day and night to perfect the choreography, the videos, the music, and there's an explosion, a Big Bang. Throughout our whole 20s we invested all of our energy and time in BTS. You get success, love, influence, power, and what's next? The root of everything remains: the music... What was the question?
인터뷰 첫 질문은 RM의 Indigo 앨범에 수록된 Yun (RM, Erykah Badu)의 가사를 언급하며 케이팝 시장이 아티스트들을 dehumanize 하냐고 묻는거였다. 이것에 대해 RM은 가사의 의미를 이야기 하며 20대의 온 시간과 에너지를 방탄소년단에 투자하여 성공을 했고 결국 남는건 음악이라는 대답을 했다.
Q. Is that system dehumanizing?
A. My company doesn't like how I answer this question, because I admit that, in part, it is, and then journalists throw up their hands and say "it's a horrible system; it destroys young people!" But that's partly what makes this such a special industry. And the system is getting better and better, in terms of contracts, money, education; now there are teachers, counselors, psychologists...
케이팝 시스템이 아티스트를 착취하는 시스템인가에 대한 질문을 되묻고, 이것에 대해서는 일부 인정하지만 그것이 케이팝을 특별하게 만든것이며 현재는 더 좋게 많이 개선된 상태라고 대답했다.
Q. Korean record labels, called entertainment agencies, train their artists for years. You lived with your peers from when you were 16 to19 before you debuted in BTS in 2013. What did your parents say?
A. My mom spent two yours telling me "Go back to school, you were so good at it, go your own way, go to college, make music a hobby!" But there was no turning back.
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Q. The cult of youth, of perfection, of overachievement in K-pop, Are therse Korean cultural traits?
A. In the West, people just don't get it. Korea is a country that has been invaded, razed to the ground, torn in two. Just 70 years ago, there was nothing. We were getting aid from the IMF and the UN. But now, the whole world is looking at Korea. How is that possibe? How did that happen? Well, because people try so fucking hard to better themselves. You are in France or the UK, countries that have been colonizing others for centuries, and you com to me with, "oh, God, you put so much pressure on yourselves; likfe in Korea is so streeful!" Well, yes. That's how you get things done. And it's part of what makes K-pop so appealing, although, of course, there's a dark side. Anything that happens too fast and too intensely has side effects.
* cult (생활 방식태도사상 등에 대한) 추종, 숭배
raze (건물 도시 등을 아무 것도 안남도록) 완전히 파괴하다
이 질문과 대답이 특히 한국 뉴스에 화제가 되고 있는 거 같다.
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이외에 케이팝의 가장 큰 편견은 조립식이라는 답변, 다른 나라에서 인디 뮤직으로 시작한다면 어떨지, 미술작품 수집 등에 대한 질문과 대답이 오갔다.
그리고 또 케이팝에 대한 질문이 있었다.
Q. Are you sick of the "K-pop" label?
A. You can get sick of Spotify calling us all K-pop, but it works. It's a premium label. It's that guarantee of quality that our grandparens fought for.
이 질문과 대답 또한 한국에서 화제다. 뭐만하면 K를 붙인다며 자조적인 모습이 인터넷상에서 많이 보였는데, 보다 현명한 관점을 보여준 대답이라고 생각한다.
진짜 멋진 마인드를 가지고 있는 가수인거 같다!
RM, the leader of K-pop band BTS: ‘We work so hard in Korea because 70 years ago there was nothing’
As he promotes his first solo album, the South Korean rapper reflects on the price of success, the history of his country and collecting art
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