sLaVe: Although BoA may be promoting to stop drunk driving, she might as well promote to stop drunk WALKING.
Two days after her birthday, BoA was caught drunk with her friends in Japan.
I’m not a biased fangirl, I’ll tell you straight out—I think our little BoA might have a drinking problem. Back in Japan, all she ordered were alcoholic beverages on shows and interviews. She even talked about being drunk and also has pictures of her hanging with friends and having drinks. This would probably explain her sudden change in voice. For singers, you should know that alcohol can damage your vocals. Recently, it seems like BoA’s voice isn’t as great as before. It’s scratchy, it can’t go as high, and sometimes very strained.
ShenYue: Indeed the concern over her latest well being has hit the roof top for the artist herself, since the girl came out for the first time and confessed it all out to public! Checkout the latest interview that has made a stir in media these days!
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ＢｏＡ 留学、米デビュー…梦を语る
「仕事が楽しくなくなっちゃったんですよねえ。もっと大げさにいえば、人间としての存在感をなくしてしまったというのでしょうか」
芸能界の第一线で活跃する彼女の口から意外な言叶が漏れた。平成１３年、隣の韩国からやってきた少女は表情にまだあどけなさが残る１４歳だった。
翌年には「ＬＩＳＴＥＮ ＴＯ ＭＹ ＨＥＡＲＴ」「ＶＡＬＥＮＴＩ」を大ヒットに导き、出すアルバムは立て続けに１００万枚を突破した。
デビューから７年、２１歳を迎えた。少女から大人の女性に成长した彼女に何があったのか。
「ベストアルバムを出した（１７年２月）あたりから目标をなくしたというか…たぶんずっと走り続けてきたからだと思う。自己満足しすぎていたのではないかと今は反省している。
でも正直、歌を歌うために生まれてきた私が歌をやめたらどうなっちゃうんだろうと思ったらすぐに立ち直った。まあ、休みがなかったことが一番大きいことですかね」
事务所のスタッフにちらっと目线を送り、笑う。休みのほとんどないハードスケジュールを７年间続けた。日韩をはじめめまぐるしく海外を行き来する日々。
パスポートは４册以上にも及んだ。多忙すぎたのかもしれない。疲弊していく自分を感じた。そんな中でも梦は失っていなかった。１５歳のときに描いた１０年后…米国への留学だ。
「２５歳、あと４年后。たぶん间违いなく留学やってると思いますよ。英语の勉强をしたいし、バレエなどの踊りのレッスンもちゃんと受けたい。今の私に必要なことだと思うから。
留学していてもレコーディングはできますからね」
向学心がある。１０代のころは経済学の勉强をしたいとも言っていた。
「あぁ、今思うと昔の方がまともだった、もっとしっかりしていたかも」
いや、今でも十分にしっかりしていると思うのだが。自分の意见を持って仕事へ向かう姿势は１２日発売の新曲「ＬＯＳＥ ＹＯＵＲ ＭＩＮＤ」に顕著に表れている。
ロックバンド、ＤＯＰＩＮＧ ＰＡＮＤＡの古川裕とのコラボレーション。高度なメロディーラインで、得意とするダンスもより激しさを増す。
TRANSLATION:
BoA’s Dream– Studying Abroad and Debut in America!
“I do not feel as happy doing what I am doing now. To put it more exaggeratedly, I think I might have lost myself, my sense of belonging, in the midst of working.”
These words let slipped by BoA, debut in 2001, who has been active as a front runner in the entertainment scene, were both shocking and surprising to the people around her. When she was only merely fourteen years old, she was still a young girl who held a childish and innocent look on her. Yet in the years to come, she has successfully released hits like ‘Listen to my heart’, ‘Valenti’ and her albums have all managed to break the million sales mark. She has been in the entertainment showbiz for seven years, and is now twenty one years of age. Now, what prompted BoA who has transformed from a young teenager to a mature lady, to say those words?
“It was probably after the release of my compilation album (Best Of Soul), that I began to lose my aim in life. I guess in a way, it was having to work constantly with no breath in between each moment, that made me feel that way. From time to time, I will think back and reflect, whether I am being too contented with what I have now. Honestly, I always wonder what will happen to me if I were to give up singing one day, but because singing has been my life, the thought of it is enough to just jolt me back to my senses that I need to go on with singing. But I guess it is the fact that I haven’t had a break for so long that it is making me burnt out.”
As BoA told us these, she secretly threw a glance to her colleagues(manager etc) at the side and gave them a small but bitter smile. Indeed, throughout these seven years, she has been shuffling back and forth between Japan and Korea without rest in her schedules and has used up four passports in the midst of her travelling. Perhaps it’s because she is so busy, that she cannot seem to find the motivation to drive her anymore. However, BoA has not lost her dreams all these while. It’s a dream made since when she was fiften years old –That she wants to go abroad to America to study for ten years by the time she’s twenty five.
“There’re still four more years to till I’m twenty five. Maybe, I will really go abroad to study. I want to study English and also take up ballet. These are what I feel are important and essential to me. Besides, I can still do recordings even when I am studying.”
Being an avid and inquisitive learner, BoA has mentioned during her teens years, that she would want to study Economics.
“Ah yes. But come to think of it, I would have been able to put in more time and effort than to study as compared to now.”
It’s not too late for BoA to study now though.
BoA’s ability to express her views and understanding in what she does can be seen in her upcoming single ‘Lose Your Mind’, which is to be released in December.
This is the first time she is collaborating with a rock band member, Doping Panda’s Yukata Furukawa and the rock style coupled with BoA’s amazing dancing skills, just adds more passion to the song itself.
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I don’t see how those pictures show that she was drunk. If you even step outside your computer room, you would see tons of people walk around with their friends like that- they’re just fooling around and having fun.