#109
Yanai Tadashi (President of UNIQLO): But isn’t “popularity” itself an ability?
Nakai Masahiro: I don’t know. In my world, selling lots of CD and making a lot of money in the box office do not necessarily equal popularity. It is not guaranteed that songs sung by good singers will become big hits. I think “popularity” is a strange thing.
Y: SMAP’s success is probably a combination of individual powers and your wonderfulness as a team.
N: It is because the other four members kept growing and improving so rapidly. In this case I do not allow myself to slack off. I become desperate trying to catch up to them.
-Nakai Masahiro and Yanai Tadashi (President of UNIQLO) crosstalk (from SMAP Magazine, 2010)
*translation by elyn524
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Sorry for missing last week. Computer died. :| Still dead, actually >:
But YAY for SMAP's 20th anniv celebrations!
Nakai Masahiro: I don’t know. In my world, selling lots of CD and making a lot of money in the box office do not necessarily equal popularity. It is not guaranteed that songs sung by good singers will become big hits. I think “popularity” is a strange thing.
Y: SMAP’s success is probably a combination of individual powers and your wonderfulness as a team.
N: It is because the other four members kept growing and improving so rapidly. In this case I do not allow myself to slack off. I become desperate trying to catch up to them.
-Nakai Masahiro and Yanai Tadashi (President of UNIQLO) crosstalk (from SMAP Magazine, 2010)
*translation by elyn524
*link here
Sorry for missing last week. Computer died. :| Still dead, actually >:
But YAY for SMAP's 20th anniv celebrations!