UPDATED with Mediafire download links from Beedance:
● MNET MIC interview: Lee Seunggi, Part 1
● MNET MIC interview: Lee Seunggi, Part 2
January 13, 2012 – Happy Birthday to Seunggi! As promised, here it is~~ the FULL, awesome MNET MIC interview with English subs [from Nov 27, 2011]. With a special birthday wish to Seunggi at the beginning~~! One of the best full-length interviews Seunggi has done talking about music, and also variety and dramas. You guys will all just love him more… if that’s possible~~!!! Hope Seunggi has the best year ever! Happy Birthday to dear Seunggi~~~~! Enjoy the awesome interview! Thx Beedance!
UPDATE- OMG, love this so much (and even more with Beedance’s subs!) Ok, it’s LONG, so you may have to watch in parts! Seunggi always has such intricate and lengthy responses! So, see below for Table of Contents (Ha!) + some fun excerpts..
[@0:00~] Happy Birthday Seunggi!
[@2:40~] MNET MIC interview intro
[@5:40~] 2011 – Lee Seunggi’s 5th album < Tonight >
With top musicians involved and various genres included, an album with a higher level of musicianship.
[@7:30~] Story behind “Time for Love”
A song resulting from extreme loneliness… Feeling lonely, wishing I had a girlfriend now. Going out together, eating great food together. That constant feeling of loneliness…
I was in Japan. I was laying down in my room and the hotel plaza area was really nice. I thought, two guys shouldn’t be hanging out here! Before going out for beers, it was written in 20 minutes. I thought, why not write some lyrics before going out? I wrote down what I wanted to say. Then adding some melodies, what I recorded before leaving was “Time for Love.” The song came out that way. It felt good. Since I wrote it, you then get greedy…
First, I suggested we have a narration. A guy and girl talking to one another about that encounter. We were just going to bring in anyone, and I would do the guy’s part. But I thought it’d be nice if a good person did it. Then Hyojoo happily agreed to it. Originally, the lines were very short, after the song. But after Hyojoo got involved, I thought we need to go bigger. Let’s go for a whole bridge. So it became longer, split into 2 parts. When Hyojoo first got the narration,she said “It’s going to be hard to act out this bad dialogue!” But because Hyojoo did such a good job, I think the song turned out well.
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