GACKT Official blog update. Translation below:

Before leaving Japan,
I had meetings, on after another, today.
After I finished my training, I completed one meeting
then went to change and headed straight for another meeting.

I checked a variety of things that I needed to check, and had an annually scheduled meeting.
After finishing a few meetings,
I went straight to the audition venue.

Today is the final review for the audition held by SHOWROOM.
It would be great if we could find good talent but the time frame is too short.
I have absolutely no idea what kind of results we’ll get.

I went into the venue and started preparing.
I worked out the details with SHOWROOM’s representative, Yuuji too.

I’ve done all kinds of auditions thus far but
honestly, it’s quite rare to be able to encounter really good talent at auditions and
the success of the candidates who get picked from there
depends on whether they can further cross a few other hurdles from then on.

In terms of probability, I suppose it’s quite low.
That’s the reason why,
the kids who can get through those number of walls shine.

The overall review was supposed to take around an hour and a half but
the time frame was too short after all, and several problems were clearly understood.

I clearly conveyed to the girls what they don’t have enough of.
With the idea of doing the selection all over again, I made the conclusion
to redo the audition.

Being good at singing with superficial tricks is not necessary.
What’s necessary is having a presence, the emotions of wanting to express something,
and whether I can feel great potential from the candidate themselves.

I look forward to seeing whether these candidates will appear in front of me again
after one month, and seeing how much they have grown.

Actually, I believe there are many who don’t really get what expressiveness is.
【Expressiveness】 means to create a large movement from a small expression,
and how a person shows the thoughts and feelings that they want to deliver and convey to the outside.

Of course,
you can study this and apply it to yourself but
there are very few people who can naturally and instinctively do this.
Kids who can instinctively do something like that since young
are overwhelmingly different from normal people in terms of presence.

Before considering whether someone is good or bad at singing,
these people have an overwhelming presence and possess charm, along with a unique air that draws everyone’s attention to them.
If someone only has a cute face or looks pretty, they will definitely be unable to arrive at the destination that we’re aiming for them reach.

We can simply look for kids with cute faces,
or who are good at singing.
Of course, it doesn’t hurt to be cute,
but we need someone whose innerself overflows and shows outside.

I sincerely hope from the bottom of my heart that I’ll be able to encounter someone like that a month later.

Source: GACKT Blog

Translation: GACKT ITALIA Team

Translation © GACKT ITALIA