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Apart from Arashi there were only 2 bands in my entire life that I got so deeply attached to as I did with them. Both of those two had disbanded/on hiatus, so I learnt already how much it can help with accepting if I write all of my thoughts out. I’ve never been the socialising kind of fangirl and not thought that my first post ever would be something like this, but now I just need all of these thoughts out of my head. So there are my terrible amount of nonsense and illogical babbling about Arashi this time, however with them I honestly never believed that this day would come. :(
I listened to Arashi for the first time on the 27th of July in 2017. I just got into Japanese dramas around that time so I was binge-watching a really lot of them, and still, couldn’t get Maou’s theme song out of my head. So one day I googled it and found their performance of ‘truth’ at HeyHeyHey from Dec 15th, 2008. I still remember —now it only makes me laugh though— how shocked I was when I saw Naruse Ryou, Yoshimoto-sensei and “that poor guy” singing and dancing together, wondering what the hell was going on, since I thought them to be full-time actors. However I was fascinated at the same time.
I liked ‘truth’ so much that in a few days I searched for Arashi songs again. However I was mostly into Ohno and his voice so it was mostly only for him, slowly I started to get more and more interested in them. To my biggest surprise.
I have never thought I would, I could like any boybands, especially not ‘idols’. In addition to being prejudicial in the past, I never was into pop music at all; it has always been the one genre I thought I’d never be able to listen to and truly enjoy – and I was avoiding it purposefully. All of the pop songs sounded the same while all of them were about the same things; I couldn’t find any good, any special, any unique thing in them. Given the fact that I was listening to same kind of things in the past ten years, I believed that no one ever will be able to change my opinion about my musical preferences. I never thought I could like a group like Arashi. At the beginnings a part of me didn’t even want to like Arashi, since it wasn’t my style at all.
A lot of friends of mine are into Asian pop music —mostly K-pop though— and by hearing some of those things they prefer to listen to, I just decided that everything that idols do are bad. No one could show me anything I found good. Or even bearable. In the past, I always found idols to be terribly overrated. I always believed that they try do everything, even though they don’t have any particular, any real talent to do any of those things they are trying to make money from with their cute face only.
And still, as I was watching Arashi-related dramas without even knowing them or their faces, I somehow happened to like them – not only the actors but their songs too. I liked them, even though I was too tone-deaf to realise that they all were sang by the same people – so I just ended up more shocked when all of those lives I found were for those songs I liked in my dramas.
By starting to watch more and more of their performances, and later varietys, these five slowly opened my eyes, after almost fifteen years of close-mindedness, and made me realise that how terribly mistaken I was. They proved me absolutely wrong and truly fascinated me by how hard working they actually are. They made me realise that they are humans too with their own mistakes and difficulties, and that they are actually talented, not at least —for me the most shockingly— wonderful, humble human beings despite being ‘national idols’. Especially Jun whom I couldn’t stand at all at the beginnings. Damn, for at least a half year I was even avoiding all of his stuff on purpose after seeing only one episode of HanaDan and seeing some of his shirt-ripping performances. Funny how things can change, in the end, after getting to know them more, he was the one I ended to love the most, after all.
I never intended to change and still, they completely changed me with their music (among other things) which since I listened to it for the first time —it doesn’t matter how hard I try to find something else—, simply can’t stop playing for more than an hour or two. It’s rare. I can barely think of any bands or musicians whom I didn’t get bored with within a year. There really is something special in them, though I still could not name what that special thing is. But there are a very few musicians that could make me that happy and help me through hard times with their music and their simple existence as Arashi still does. It might be the real reason that made me —and lots of other fans —so devoted to them; because, mostly without even realising it, but somehow we were saved by them, right?
In the last year and half Arashi made me realise again and again that they are special. And they’ve just shown it again by rather going on a hiatus than continuing only the four of them. Arashi’s bond is special. I woke up seven hours ago, and the first thing I saw was these news. I spent almost my entire day crying, but slowly I managed to accept that it’s actually a good thing.
I was Ohno-baited and still think of him as my ichiban along with Jun so —while a part of me is terribly sad since it means in two years there won’t be anything Arashi related stuff—, now that I am over my angry phase, I am truly happy for him. And very proud of him as well. It must’ve been a terribly hard decision even to tell it to the members, not to mention announcing it to the fans. But we all need to accept is and respect it – in case by going on hiatus he can be happy, I am happy for him too. Now I only wish for him to have the best days of his life after 2020 and be able to find himself again.
And, obviously, I hope for everyone in Arashi to find their happiness, finally be able to be really happy, get married and became the best papas ever while —in case of the other four—having the chance to prove that they actually deserve to be the entertainment industry because there are even more in them that we’ve seen until now.
I so damn grateful for all of these past months in which they brought me happiness, I can’t even describe it. It’s the least I can wish for Arashi is to have all the best of their lives and have the chance to actually live it the way they want it and be happy. They made us all happy, now they deserve their happiness too.
From now on I can only hope that Ohno truly meant his words when said something like he needs to maintain his looks so the fans won’t be shocked by him when they re-unite. And until then I’ll cling to all of those things they’ve gave us in the past 20 years, and patiently wait for that day they’re come back again.
嵐の皆さん、ありがとうございました! ❤
I listened to Arashi for the first time on the 27th of July in 2017. I just got into Japanese dramas around that time so I was binge-watching a really lot of them, and still, couldn’t get Maou’s theme song out of my head. So one day I googled it and found their performance of ‘truth’ at HeyHeyHey from Dec 15th, 2008. I still remember —now it only makes me laugh though— how shocked I was when I saw Naruse Ryou, Yoshimoto-sensei and “that poor guy” singing and dancing together, wondering what the hell was going on, since I thought them to be full-time actors. However I was fascinated at the same time.
I liked ‘truth’ so much that in a few days I searched for Arashi songs again. However I was mostly into Ohno and his voice so it was mostly only for him, slowly I started to get more and more interested in them. To my biggest surprise.
I have never thought I would, I could like any boybands, especially not ‘idols’. In addition to being prejudicial in the past, I never was into pop music at all; it has always been the one genre I thought I’d never be able to listen to and truly enjoy – and I was avoiding it purposefully. All of the pop songs sounded the same while all of them were about the same things; I couldn’t find any good, any special, any unique thing in them. Given the fact that I was listening to same kind of things in the past ten years, I believed that no one ever will be able to change my opinion about my musical preferences. I never thought I could like a group like Arashi. At the beginnings a part of me didn’t even want to like Arashi, since it wasn’t my style at all.
A lot of friends of mine are into Asian pop music —mostly K-pop though— and by hearing some of those things they prefer to listen to, I just decided that everything that idols do are bad. No one could show me anything I found good. Or even bearable. In the past, I always found idols to be terribly overrated. I always believed that they try do everything, even though they don’t have any particular, any real talent to do any of those things they are trying to make money from with their cute face only.
And still, as I was watching Arashi-related dramas without even knowing them or their faces, I somehow happened to like them – not only the actors but their songs too. I liked them, even though I was too tone-deaf to realise that they all were sang by the same people – so I just ended up more shocked when all of those lives I found were for those songs I liked in my dramas.
By starting to watch more and more of their performances, and later varietys, these five slowly opened my eyes, after almost fifteen years of close-mindedness, and made me realise that how terribly mistaken I was. They proved me absolutely wrong and truly fascinated me by how hard working they actually are. They made me realise that they are humans too with their own mistakes and difficulties, and that they are actually talented, not at least —for me the most shockingly— wonderful, humble human beings despite being ‘national idols’. Especially Jun whom I couldn’t stand at all at the beginnings. Damn, for at least a half year I was even avoiding all of his stuff on purpose after seeing only one episode of HanaDan and seeing some of his shirt-ripping performances. Funny how things can change, in the end, after getting to know them more, he was the one I ended to love the most, after all.
I never intended to change and still, they completely changed me with their music (among other things) which since I listened to it for the first time —it doesn’t matter how hard I try to find something else—, simply can’t stop playing for more than an hour or two. It’s rare. I can barely think of any bands or musicians whom I didn’t get bored with within a year. There really is something special in them, though I still could not name what that special thing is. But there are a very few musicians that could make me that happy and help me through hard times with their music and their simple existence as Arashi still does. It might be the real reason that made me —and lots of other fans —so devoted to them; because, mostly without even realising it, but somehow we were saved by them, right?
In the last year and half Arashi made me realise again and again that they are special. And they’ve just shown it again by rather going on a hiatus than continuing only the four of them. Arashi’s bond is special. I woke up seven hours ago, and the first thing I saw was these news. I spent almost my entire day crying, but slowly I managed to accept that it’s actually a good thing.
I was Ohno-baited and still think of him as my ichiban along with Jun so —while a part of me is terribly sad since it means in two years there won’t be anything Arashi related stuff—, now that I am over my angry phase, I am truly happy for him. And very proud of him as well. It must’ve been a terribly hard decision even to tell it to the members, not to mention announcing it to the fans. But we all need to accept is and respect it – in case by going on hiatus he can be happy, I am happy for him too. Now I only wish for him to have the best days of his life after 2020 and be able to find himself again.
And, obviously, I hope for everyone in Arashi to find their happiness, finally be able to be really happy, get married and became the best papas ever while —in case of the other four—having the chance to prove that they actually deserve to be the entertainment industry because there are even more in them that we’ve seen until now.
I so damn grateful for all of these past months in which they brought me happiness, I can’t even describe it. It’s the least I can wish for Arashi is to have all the best of their lives and have the chance to actually live it the way they want it and be happy. They made us all happy, now they deserve their happiness too.
From now on I can only hope that Ohno truly meant his words when said something like he needs to maintain his looks so the fans won’t be shocked by him when they re-unite. And until then I’ll cling to all of those things they’ve gave us in the past 20 years, and patiently wait for that day they’re come back again.
嵐の皆さん、ありがとうございました! ❤