HIM Memoriam 1991-2017 / Ville Valo

[Swan Heart 7,382]

Thank you, lego, for the interviews, I haven't seen them before.. Ville is such a beautiful person, I wish I could meet him some day and talk to him on a glass of wine, really.. That will be magical.

 

"I'm a suffering kind of poet, who can't write any poems" ♥

I have a notebook full of quotes, I shall write down this one..

[Swan Heart 7,382]

''No it's not this one.... Is it?''

Bless his little, dark, drunk soul. ♥

 

[lego 44,165]

Thank you, lego, for the interviews, I haven't seen them before.. Ville is such a beautiful person, I wish I could meet him some day and talk to him on a glass of wine, really.. That will be magical.

 

"I'm a suffering kind of poet, who can't write any poems" ♥

I have a notebook full of quotes, I shall write down this one..

No problem  He's beautiful human being inside out and it would be so fun to pick his brain for a day.  

You should check these tumblrs, he says all kind of wise and funny ****, although Idk if all of them are real.

http://wordsofville.tumblr.com

http://villevaloquotes.tumblr.com

 

''No it's not this one.... Is it?''

Bless his little, dark, drunk soul. ♥

 

I love the way he gets out of it, when he forgets lyrics   the girls are just drooling lmao

This one was also funny

 

 
35:20 "And I forgot the words I'm supposed to be singing here so long ago my darling... Oh Oh Please, forgive me..."

55:40 "how long we have to wait...for all of you sweet people start clapping your hands according to the beat" 

 

 

[lego 44,165]

@Slavi at least we know he doesn't use teleprompter like some others.  

[Swan Heart 7,382]

@Slavi at least we know he doesn't use teleprompter like some others.  

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Good one.

[Epione 10,896]

Greetings from Placebo and Brian Molko!

 

[lego 44,165]

Interesting interview from Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights era, translated from Finnish...the interviewer is a bit of a jerk.

 

" VV: ...A few songs (Pretending, Please Don’t Let It Go) were given elsewhere as an experiment because we had a hunch that they could have been done better.

- These two songs have been produced by Kevin Shirley, who has worked with for example Aerosmith and The Black Crowes. So it wasn’t about you not being able to afford a star producer to do the whole album?

VV:  Oh ****, we have enough money to burn it if we want to. It’s just that we were happy with the other songs right away, we didn’t want anyone else tampering with them.

- Deep Shadows is new softer HIM also thematically: gone are the incense-scented gothic romance of the previous albums, the guitars as heavy as a landslide and the playful satanic symbolism. And there isn’t even much death. Have you grown out of this scene or is it a matter of commercial pragmatism a breakthrough to the American market might be hindered if radio stations refused to play for example Join Me out of fear that some unhappy kid in Texas would be inspired to end his life with daddy’s gun.

VV:  Thank god we are in a position where no marketing people are coming to talk to us about the songs. There was so much gothic symbolism on the last record, resurrections and wallowing in sin. And I don’t want all the albums to be exactly the same. On the previous albums, death meant the end of something. In fact, Please Don’t Let It Go tells the same story as Join Me, just from a different perspective in Join Me the narrator is ****ed up and he wants to end everything, on Please Don’t Let It Go his friend is trying to talk him out of it. The themes are actually the same, but their presentation is different.

- According to an old cliché, there are only two interesting themes in art: love and death. But what will happen if you take death out of the equation? How do you maintain your edge and your distance to hair metal?

VV: The edge comes from being direct. Greatest Lovesongs was about being on acid, telling stories, an escape from reality. On Razorblade Romance, on the other hand, we took the black-lip thing as far as it went but not too seriously. Now I have been listening to a lot of Neil Young and I’ve noticed that directness can be strong and heavy too. We didn’t put heavy guitars there to kill the mood just to get a few metal heads to headbang.

- It’s just that Neil Young surely wouldn’t use the word darling as much as you do.

VV: Yeah, it might not fit his style.


An Album for Girls 

- Which does success bring more of: artistic freedom or pressure to compromise?

VV:  Everything is about compromises, they are what life is made of. There are five of us in the band and nobody ever gets everything he wants. Since we were lucky with Join Me, it gives us freedom, the record company has faith in our ability to write good songs. But there’s always some outsider trying to boss us around, some failed musician.

- You mean some record company people?

VV: Sometimes they are called that.

- How close an eye do people keep on you, by the way? When you were recording this album, did people from the international record company come to the studio to see whether there are still golden eggs left in the goose?

VV: Demos were sent to Germany in the beginning, but that’s all. Actually people are now really disappointed in Germany because this one turned out to be such a poppy album. I saw an e-mail where some little hitler rants that since the album doesn’t have heavy guitars we lose expected sales of 250,000 copies. You can only laugh at stuff like that. There are people who say that you have to remix the whole thing because otherwise it won’t play on some radio station called Fritz. Like we care.

- Well why doesn’t Deep Shadows have any heavy guitars?

VV: I don’t know, I’m surprised as well. It just didn’t happen. Maybe we have gotten softer in our old age. (He was 24  ) 

We tried different options but it just didn’t feel natural. We didn’t put heavy guitars on it just for the sake of having heavy guitars there, we wanted to make something more fashionable and rounder, something softer. This is an album for girls.

- One of the definite highlights of the album is the closing track Love You Like I Do   which is interestingly multi-faceted in its obsessiveness. It’s up to the listener to decide whether it’s a love song or a psychopath’s ode to his chosen victim.

VV: It really is quite a psychotic song. We managed to create a psychedelic sonic world, like Elvis on shrooms. I was really drunk when I sang it. We were in Hollola and wanted to get it recorded as quickly as possible to make it to the Lahti nightlife.

- Despite the high record sales, Join Me is still HIM’s only really big hit outside of Finland; Pretending, the first single from the new album, opened at number ten on the German singles chart but dropped out of it the following week. What is the band’s relationship with the song nowadays: has it become a burden?

VV: Join Me is a funny song in the sense that nobody in the band has ever been very excited about it. I think there are several much better songs on Razorblade Romance. But Join Me is still a great thing, there are so many fun things associated with it. For example, the Greek Toyota wanted to use it in a TV commercial, apparently they don’t have too many employees who speak English. It would have been fun to see how they advertise Toyota as a safe family car with join me in death playing in the background. Unfortunately it didn’t happen. But Black Sabbath doesn’t complain either that they have had to play Paranoid for the last 25 years."

http://hisinfernalmajestyitaly.forumfree.it/m/?t=70232625

Join Me in Toyota commercial  

 

@Slavi ?

[lego 44,165]

Greetings from Placebo and Brian Molko!

 

Welcome  

 

that pic is photoshopped btw, but nevermind.  

How are you?

[Sister 9,907]

This song has always been a favorite of mine, this version and original.

 

 

[Epione 10,896]

Welcome  

 

that pic is photoshopped btw, but nevermind.  

How are you?

​I hate photoshop. Seriously.

 

[lego 44,165]

Ville in the pool  

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[Sister 9,907]

 

[lego 44,165]

 

You're fangirling hard right now  

 

[Sister 9,907]

You're fangirling hard right now  

 

​I love a gorgeous person who reads and is a poet, loves poetry and I LOVE being read to.

I am hoping that watching so much Ville Valo lately will inspire my own writing this new week. I haven't felt any inspiration in awhile and he is a goody. I am a dark soul, same as HIM.

but yeah, fangrrrlin'

 

 

[Sister 9,907]

 

He was really the tortured artist during this time. Happy he got better and happy.That is the true artists'way though.