松島聡 - Talk theme: Television
When I was little I was an indoor kid, I was not just interested in video games but also television. I watched dramas together with my parents and vaguely thought „what a heartwarming story“. Although I admired idols, since I jumped into this world I wasn’t really aware of appearing on tv, so I didn’t experience it personally what it means to be seen by such a large audience. Thinking about it now I think that I was reckless and scared during that era.
In the middle of all that, being a backing dancer for Hey!Say!JUMP during „Music Station“ left a big impression on me. Our choreographer said „Do it properly!“ and was angry at us juniors but the studio had a great number of staff and camera team members, so even the JUMP members were nervous and were in a little chaotic condition. That situation was frightening, I remember I was trembling with nervousness. The following week after the live broadcast when I went to school, everyone made a big fuss about is saying „Why was Sou at Music Station!?“, that was when I really felt how big of an influence tv has on people. Now that I have a better understanding of it, I think I have to be more careful about my behaviour on tv but at the same time I will often feel both pleasure and fear at first.
Anyways it was fun to have a on-location tv show with all the members present. Not only were we able to try out various things but I was wondering can tv really be that open? I was overwhelmed that I could show my raw emotions. With that show many people got to know us and also many of you said you were able to feel our true personalities. There were also harsh challenges and serious things happening too but I think including that it has been a great experience.
From now on I am highly motivated to learn about variety. I’m still nervous and not good at talking but I like fun things after all. I want the people who watch us think „That was fun!“, it would make me super happy so next time I will work even harder. In order to give everyone a more enjoyable time and to start loving tv myself even more, as a group and as an individual I will do my best!
Q1. Did you have a dream about the members before?
Recently I had a dream about (Sato) Shori and me together trying to escape from something. I don’t know what we were trying to escape from but we were really scared and frantic. When I woke up I looked up dream interpretations and it said it might be a sign you’re going through a difficult and conflicting time at the moment. Speaking of that it might be the pressure for „24 hour television“. But not only this dream, actually the members often appear in my dreams. Sometimes only one of them and sometimes it’s all of us. Okay, that’s quite splendid (laughing).
Q2. What does Sou-kun always do on his day off?
I guess I go do muscle training. Sometimes I do it at home and sometimes I go to the gym. I don’t want to only gain muscles, I also want to increase my physical strength and immunity so I can improve my mental strength as well but recently my arms are becoming a little thicker. Since (Nakajima) Kento-kun and (Kikuchi) Fuma-kun also do muscle training, please take care of me as well. We ask each other „How are you feeling?“ and report our training situations, it’s fun to exchange information like that.
Keep in mind I am not a native speaker therefore there might be mistakes in my translations. Also I’m not exactly translating word for word. Feel free to correct me in my ask box any time you want, I’d appreciate it! I apologize if someone already translated something before me and I didn’t notice, I hope you don’t mind.
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