Interview Morning Musume。'15 Part 4: Iikubo Haruna
https://www.facebook.com/notes/up-front ... 7890618795Haruna Iikubo
UFL: The first time you have heard that Morning Musume。'15 new song would be in English, how did you feel?
Haruna Iikubo: It was such a shock! A song in English… All the lyrics in English! I really wondered if I was able to sing it. But I thought also at Nonaka-chan, a member who lived in the USA, so we would somehow surpass this difficulty. But here is an example of what was difficult. In the lyrics of the new song, there are the following words “Happy in life” and during the lessons at first I said those words really distinctly, but in fact it was too much (something like “HA-PPY-IN-LI-FE”, with a break after every syllable). I have been said it was strange, not natural. It was too much like a Japanese way of reading English. This is why the recording was not easy.
UFL: In Morning Musume。 history, there were several performances in the world so now that you have this new song in English, what is your new goal concerning overseas?
Haruna Iikubo: I want to do a world tour! I think about this everyday… Tsunku♂-san wants Morning Musume。 to become global and he made the 12th Generation members joined the group. And this is what I also want personally, performing all over the world and spreading our messages, exchanging with the fans.
UFL: Where do you absolutely want to go next time?
Haruna Iikubo: Our senpai get to France so I want to go to Japan Expo as well. After more personally, I want to go in countries where nobody knows about Hello! Project and idols. I want to show our songs and dances to the young girls. I think about Ethiopia for example, I am not sure there are fans of Morning Musume。 there but still, I want to go to a country like this and share things with those people.
UFL: On YouTube, you receive many comments in many languages from all over the world for each music video uploaded, how do you feel about it?
Haruna Iikubo: Of course YouTube is not only for Japanese people. And I like reading comments from Japanese but also foreigner people. There are some easy comments that I can understand so I feel happy reading them.
UFL: Do you have any specific message to foreigner fans?
Haruna Iikubo: I want to introduce more and more the Japanese idol culture to everyone and spread Morning Musume。 songs to the world!
Thank you Haruna!
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So it's looking like if the girls have anything to say about it, MM's going to France next, sheesh.
cool and cute dance
