"The 1st Internet Fan Meeting on Nov 24, 2000"
- summary about taiji's explanation on his Ultramania album

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Mic check one two, nae mic-eh nuga ggumul buchu noassuh~ (someone put gum on my mike~) Umm.. I think at least today there's no gum put on my mic.

Hello, You super-ultra endlessly fighting vaccine, this is your "The Most Revered", "Prince","The rubber band -  big devil"  Taiji. :)
(These are his nicknames, mostly formed at internet fan sites after his comeback : annotation by translator.)

Uh.. It has been really long time, no, not long time, you know, to meet you on this radio-type broadcast, it has been really long time.  :)
This is internet live broadcast, so I'm little bit nervous, but because this is internet, I'll tell my thoughts freely and go easy today.
Well,  "Chae Song A" is here now, I guess you already knew it. Hello, miss Chae ?

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Q. Many fans say that the overall titles and the words of this album are so difficult. Would you give us simple explanations of those songs and hidden meanings of titles?

A.
You mean somewhat of the whole album...all songs in album?  
Here is the CD next to me. :)  I'll explain them one by one as I look at these titles.
The first music is <Item>. This is instrumental music. You know, saying item,  it's like flushing ideas...   Making this album, I got a lot of such items. Uh.. listening this music, I felt some real fantasy, flushing items, so the title is <Item>.

Second one is <Tank>.
This one, too, I know that many fans wonder so much about its meaning... why "tank".
Umm.. Tank is.. in fact, it was TV. It's TV, so following that "T" of "TV", the title and also the words became "Tank".  In a word, this is a story about TV. :)

And I guess you will easily understand the words of <Tank>. Also <Orange> and <Internet War> are not difficult, right?

And there is another song, <Lego>. Actually this one had the words, but I took out it. Umm...Well, I don't know, maybe some time I can sing for you.
Anyway the meaning is, you know, when you play "Lego", you put together the blocks and make something new as you like. Well, then I think people make their own Seo Taiji, like Lego. Uh...that's the meaning of this. Someone can make me as a real monster, or someone can make me as a nice guy. I wrote the words just as I imagine something like that.

And this is important: there were many opinions about <GI-OK-NA-NI?> (Do you remember?) on the internet , that this song tells about a relationship of fans and myself.
Uh.. In fact, that's not true.
After I had seen that opinion, I also thought that you could understand this song at such a point of view. Well, I agree with the interpretation to some degree.
However, though you could find such meaning in it, I'm not telling that it's really true.  
Actually what I wrote is, I told you before, feelings of sadist and masochist. Mostly masochist's feeling. You know, hardcore itself is a little bit abnormal, and the words of hardcore music are mainly kind of hurting others or kind of abnormal things.
This song expresses such feeling. Also I wanted to sublime such feeling in art, so I made this song. For example, at any film, you can see a scene of murder or something like that. People usually think it's weird to find such things at music, but I made it as arts.

Q. Among the words of <Orange>, there's a part : "Nae gaen dda-ddut-han nu-gim-ee ob-so wae?! Ggoh-jyo-bo-ryo, non cham bee-gob-jaeen-gorl! (To me there is no warm feeling, why?! Fuck off, you are truly a coward! )" . Is this part to blame the yellow journalism?

A.
Oh, that's not.
I guess many of you already know it. Let's say <Ultramania> is the song that I praise mania, this song is sarcasm to them. I was the same in old days and perhaps I could be the same right now. Not much understanding of music in general, they behave in somewhat narrow-minded manner. Well, so this song means, "let's awake from the prejudice."

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Q. What do you imagine or wish about yourself after 10 years from now?

A.
That's a little bit difficult question. :)
Umm.. after 10 years.. I usually think about it. I just want to do my music. I want to do my music and I hope that I still have popularity at that time. I want to age together with my fans, feeling my music together. Much effort should be necessary to come true it, but what I want is, for example, aging like "David Bowie". Anyway, I will go on with my music.

(Trans. By earendel)