2: Q: What is your most memorable experience/memory of Arashi? A:Hmm, this is a really, really difficult question. I have so many amazing memories and experiences concerning Arashi that it's hard to name just one. In fact, I think I will proceed to name more than one, just for sanity's sake. I guess my first really memorable memory with Arashi would be when I first watched Nino's performance of Niji in 2007's Time concert. I am a piano player myself, and I sort of have a thing for pretty guys playing the piano (well), so that, added to the fact that that song in particular is amazing and beautiful and just very indescribably perfect and Nino-ish and wonderful, kind of had me shaking and in tears for at least a half hour afterwards. That was probably the one moment I really noticed that Arashi was more than just a boyband — that they had actual talent, and that they really put their heart and soul into what they do, more so than almost any other pop act I've seen. It really, really touched me, and that's when I knew I was hooked.
One other really amazing Arashi-related experience was when me and my friends went with a school group on a tour of France and Italy, and in every new city/country we set foot in (or rode a train or bus through, actually), me and my best friend, Grace, sang A•RA•SHI. We have made it a point to sing it everywhere we go, and now it has been sung in the streets of Paris, the alleyways of Florence, the Parthenon and Colosseum of Rome, under the Swiss Alps, in the hills of Tuscany, and, of course, over the Atlantic ocean (twice). It was really, really fun being able to sing that everywhere we went, and knowing that we were doing something we would remember for a long time. For this reason, this song has become very important to me.
Another memorable Arashi experience of mine was watching Sho's performance of Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You, back in their first concert. That song has been a favorite of mine for as long as I can remember, and Sho has been my ultimate favorite (to a really crazy extent that I'm not even going to try to go into here, because I know everyone would think I am just a crazy fangirl. Which I totally am. But I swear to god, I am convinced in every way that we are soulmates. And there is little I can imagine that will deter me from thinking this) since around April of this year (I got into Arashi in March). Although the performance was... to tell the truth, really weird and wannabe-punk and not at all even relatively comparable to performances of the same song by greats such as Frankie Valli and Frank Sinatra, it left me stunned. Stunned, crying, and clutching onto a nearby lumpy pillow which has since become my Sho!pillow that I cling to every night when I go to sleep. (...Seriously, I am not really insane.) It is one of the most adorable performances (if not the most adorable performance) of anything I have ever seen (ever), and I suppose that is what finally did me in. Because there is no way I am ever going to heal from that.
Finally (I am concluding this here, because I could seriously go on and on for at least another 10,000 words — hahaha, get it? 10,000 Word Interview? Haha? Ha?... No, I know, that wasn't even a joke. I am sincerely sorry for that. But actually, I'm kind of not, because I found it a little teeny bit funny.), my most recent and — I guess one could say my most powerful Arashi memory would be when I recently stumbled upon a collection of most of Sho's solo songs that have been recorded in some form or another, and... I discovered that he recorded a cover of Where Is The Love? (another one of my favorite songs of all time), which was... um, kind of amazing and... too wonderful for words, and also way too short, what the heck, and also that he wrote lyrics to Pachelbel's Kanon in D major (probably my ultimate favorite song ever), and... that sort of completely killed me. And I have listened to that song 126 times in the past week (which has surpassed my record for plays-on-repeat, previously held by Morning Musume.'s Nanchatte Renai at 98 in a week, and before that, Nakashima Mika's GLAMOROUS SKY with 75 in a week. ... Yes, I remember these things, what?...), and I have cried every single time, because it is so gorgeous and amazing and it's Sho's voice and he wrote it for one of his best friends' weddings, and that itself is really freaking amazing and beautiful and I really want him to write me a song, and this song is just amazing and also just wonderful and perfect and... yeah.
So, um. In conclusion.
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Those are just a few my most treasured, memorable Arashi experiences and memories. Please believe me, though, when I say that there are many, many more where those came from, and I plan on making more happy memories every single day.
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