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REWIEW OF INTERVIEW TO VILLE IN DVD
“I’d rather be electrocuted on stage…”
General discussion above a specific life. This is the history of a journey, his journey, through the darkness and the ages...how he understood he became a man once he got over the blur of a miserable wonderful life.
Talking about carpets, we can easily understand in this interview that Ville Valo is tired to hide the garbage under his carpets. He was not literally hiding it under a solid carpet but he was surely trying to find an answer written on the bottom of a bottle, emptying tons of them every day.
And now, as he explains, he sees things better, and the first thing he doesn’t want to do is to disappoint people: the fans, his beloved family, the band, the manager and so on…it’s not a good “way to go” to hide behind a bottle to kill himself with alcohol…he’d rather prefer to be electrocuted on stage, while he’s doing his work, something he makes the better, to sing, to play an instrument, to rip reality and dig deeper into himself with a note, with a rhyme, with a rhythm, with a chorus.
Music is his life, and he doesn’t want something else to be his death; now we are living the present ten years of a man who found himself again, and in the better way and shape he could be, happy to be alive, to do his job, to have friends and family.
A long interview, without questions, we have to understand them through his answers, and the matters are different from each other, and answer after answer we can understand what a man he became and how much he’s deep into himself, he’s grown up his cultural side reading books and everything can be handles, he’s watching the world with different eyes…last time he closed it he was in the early 2000s, and now they are back wide open to understand he’s got so much to give, to himself and to us.
Love.
Love is the guiding line of this interview, speculating through his last relationship which has ended more than a year ago leaving scars everywhere to end into a more worldwide view of that feeling, love for a child, for the family, for his work.
“Love is losing yourself for the hope for a smile”, he sentences, and some lines after e deeply describes his work like “giving up everything in that particular time to be reborn into a note”, which is another way to say that word…love.
Eskimo have 20 or more words to describe snow, he notices we just have one word to describe love, which is love…but love, as he explains, can have different faces, we fall in love for different reasons each time and we let go that love for different reasons too…even if we usually don’t know when it’s the right time to let go.
After this large explanation of what is his life, the perpetual search for love, to write, to live, to exist, he talks about his readings and his heroes we can easily see tattoed on his body: one of them is Timo Mukka, a Lappish writer dead at the age of 29.
He was a good and passionate writer, but he never forgot his duties anyway, he has always been a good father, that’s why Ville defines him a hero, because he’s been able to be the sponge an artist must be but without losing the contact with reality and what’s around him.
Talking about Lapland and the wonderful way to live of the people who live there he confesses he rented a wood cabin and stood there for days to write two of the most amazing tracks in the last album: Sleepwalking past hope and Cyanide sun…in the notes of these songs we can easily listen to the magnificent greatness of that land, forests, infinite landscapes, something that touches our heart.
People in the north are different he confesses; they just need to know if you are a good guy to enjoy your company, they don’t care if you are someone in the “big world” or if you have money, you just have to be good, because life is hard up there and only good feelings can survive.
A bed, white sheets and his friends…a cigarette pack, an ash tray and a guitar, that wonderful “piece of wood”, as he defines it, which is able to translate into notes what’s in his heart and he can’t put it out with mere words…his feelings must be translated into music, only when he does it he’s well aware of the importance they have and what are they doing to him, and once they are gone, written on paper and played with an instrument, he feels empty, but sure to succeed in filling up somebody else hearts. His first song has been written when he was 13 and his heart was broken…perhaps he’s just unable to say “You break my heart” without any note under the sentence…
Food and religion are two other matters in this interview…talking about how being a vegetarian and a fruitarian helped him to get healthy in a reasonable amount of time and about his friends’ habits about food; religion is seen in a particular way…talking about visual arts which are mostly made by very religious people but still are the darkest pieces of arts ever made…he assumes that religion is not light, above all when it’s based on money and doesn’t have of course nothing to deal and any relation with spiritualism.
He talks about many things in this interview, we can say he finally opens the door of his heart, always talking a look at his eyes which can betray a smile coming from the inside, symptom he’s lying a bit, perhaps not to disappoint you.
In Finland there is a ritual about washing carpets into the sea, they usually do it in July…he did it before, and his carpets now are clean, with no garbage under and above, and he can walk through them with his usual majestic walk, while reaching the microphone to give us another, wonderful and amazing night of music.Nailedtoacross-Monica
Planned and developed by Mrs Lindstrom with the help of Nailedtoacross, Legolas di Mirkwood,
Shikaia590 and Maia.Editor in chief: Mrs Lindstrom, Graphic Project: Dan[616]
