Ville Valo on The Voice

[matheusSerp]

When he speaks his voice changes so much oO

[Thunder6957]

Ville has the most comforting voice ever! Its a voice that says everything will be alright through good and bad!

[TheCityBreeze]

Any finnish speakers willing to translate? I'd love to know what he's saying. <3

[OxanaK13]

Вот реально, Финляндия, для меня, очень тёплая, но можно Я не буду учить финский язык?

[nickyidol]

I met the artist, David Harouni, of the Venus Doom album art last week in his New Orleans art gallery. Very cool guy.... He didn't mind at all talking about HIM and how his art piece became the album cover.

[h30WONS]

Hahaa jännä ku porukat puhuu et toi kuulostaa seksikkäält ton puhe. o.0 :D

[Sunniivax]

Finnish is such a beautiful language. Too bad i can only swear in finnish, thats all xD I don't know finnish, but i watch interviews when he talks finnish anyways because its hot o.o

[PoisonGirlX6]

@Sunniivax haha i can swear in finnish too, thanks to the dudesons :P

[specialness16]

0:28 I like the way his hair goes over his face like that

[PunkFerry]

Haha han pratar fett roligt x) TEE-HEE

[abby1261]

finnish is very sexy

[Candeesay1]

i love when he speaks finiish

[MissSnoopyFOO]

I love it when he speaks.... ah, sexy

[FEMALEJOCKER]

*¬* VILLE!!!!

[rockhoward2joos]

mi love ville

[ancheto0]

That's not his house...he said that he has the original painting for Venus Doom at his home...That's their manager Seppo's office...

[Jeever1981]

Thank you!

[Magirk38]

This is his home. He said he has the Venus Doom cover painting on his living room wall. I saw it.

[Jeever1981]

This isn't his Tower. 100%

He wouldn't let a camera crew inside his house for an interview. And that painting, there are replica's of it.

[Magirk38]

Wow, then, that is amazing I see his gold and other records on the wall. Like someone replicated all of that? I've seen a picture of the outside of his house.........I have a video a friend made when he went to Finland last year. Cool house on the outside.  I'm not trying to argue. I just love HIM and Ville to death.

[Magirk38]

I just love Ville house on the inside and out! I would love to spend some time with Ville, talking. HIM ROCK!

[Kirsiminni]

Ville also tells (after 2:50) that he wrote some of the songs on venus doom in Lapland...

He says that it was peaceful (off-season), some aurora borealis and snow and everything like that. He says that they've been everywhere expect in finland so much that it is not interesting anymore, and that it felt also more natural to write songs in lapland than in bright sunshine...

[Kirsiminni]

I could translate the whole thing if I had time. It's about the cover of the album (meaning the picture of this black-haired guy, the painting, loosing words again...) and about some tour they'd been on and about making of venus doom and about the album's title and that kind of stuff.

[Kirsiminni]

Around 6.54 the interviewer tells that finnish magazines made a lot of headlines about ville's withdrawal (or whatever, not sure about the word, please try to understand ;)), and that one headline went like: "Ville Valo went to withdrawal being drunk" and he asked what ville thought about it.

Ville was like, "hell, of course, why else would anybody go there?" and stuff. He kind of thought it was a stupid headline, like ridiculous.

Exactly. :D

[hispoisongirl36]

yeah, i can tell,... he answered a bit

upset...8s

[XzTOBYzX]

he should do damn scream o he has a DIESEL deep voice

[Ethlinks]

Hän tekee joitakin parhaita musiikin maailmassa

[bittersweet182]

mä rakastan tätä poikaa.... se on vaan niin söpö .... =]

[Jewels622]

OMG, I wish I could understand what they were saying!!!!

[TanithMelaina]

But the truth is that none of us are ever going to even meet him probably, so I think it is ok to dream for a while and then go out and find someone real with the qualities that we admire in Ville. The alternative is a terrible lonely life, which I hope nobody here ever has to suffer. Ville seems at least to be a wonderful person who I imagine would be easy to fall in love with. All I am saying is I think we need to be sensible and careful, myself included. Love to all and of course, HIM <3

[taborszernagy]

just because you're single, you don't have to be lonely, you can be happy on your own

[sikabean]

@TanithMelaina:  I have met him.

[TanithMelaina]

Is this Villes house? He has such good taste. It must be so strange for Ville to read all of these messages (if he does). Everybody says that they love him. I think that obviously we all have fallen in love with the idea of Ville, none of us can know who he really is, and I suspect that each of us have a different version of him, tailored to our own needs at the time. I think this is ok as long as nobody builds a life around it. We all wonder what the man is really like, and I am no exception..

[jaja8998]

wow, great thinking, i feel the same about it. No one can tell how he really is unless you've met him.

And on the other hand, i also think that there are a lot of people that want to be like him, but that's just silly, he is just himself and i think that everybody should be themselfses. :) I mean, what i like in ville is that he is himself and that gives him so much charme and makes him real and, you know.. special :)

[lilmisskins]

@TanithMelaina Yes it's his house and lve met him afew times he's really nice a very charming man so polite and very sweet

[LostBlossom]

FreakRaven: I think it's not his house, as he says he has the original painting there. Maybe it's their studio or something... (:

[hurtreliefhurt]

omg, 'old' :) maybe for you, at your 'sweet sixteen', 32 year old people look old, grow up and you'll see what is young and what is 'old'.

[smcknight87]

AMEN! grow up and then you'll know what sexy is as well! the man's like a fine wine-he just gets better with age!

[lindsaymcc]

i love ville, hes hott!!!

[FreakRaven]

Thats ville´s home???

I love that fuckin house...its elegant but dark in same way

[Jendonna]

no, it's not ville's house. i think it's kid of traininghouse.

Ville: No, i have a same painting in my home.

[LostBlossom]

I hope the translation brightens someone's day =)

[videl41]

oh it did !!!!thank you so much sweetheart:]

[EdwardianMaiden]

Yes, indeed! It was most kind of you :) *hats off*

[missdarknbright1]

thanks!

[LostBlossom]

(continuing) ...For example, we lost a lot of list positions in Germany as there weren't any albums

to sell there. These kind of things always happen. The album art doesn't work,

the final master version doesn't work, there's always something some "crisis" in the

album process. Now we're jumping from crisis to a crisis, like Ismo Alanko once sung...

Jussi:

It's great to end this interview to his wise lyrics. Thank you very much.

Ville:

It was an honour.

[End of the interview]

[LostBlossom]

(continues) ... And if it's good enough, you can

be proud of it, and show to the other guys in the band. And if they also dig it,

the proudness spreads to the band, and if we record the songs really well, it spreads

to the recording company, and through the recording company it spreads all around for

everyone to listen to. This time the succeeding of the album was mostly up to me,

but I remember the recording company screwing up with the album deliveries last time.

[LostBlossom]

Jussi: This is your sixth album, right? Ville: Yeah. Jussi: Do you see HIM as a band that will publish the 16th album, or the 10th album, or so? Ville: No, I think it's good that every album is an unique existential crisis. I mean, you have to look for new reasons to... exist every time. You have to do a song that sort of kicks yourself in the ass and starts the snowball effect, and suddenly you realise that you've just created something new.

[LostBlossom]

(cont.) It was like

digging a hole for myself, so to speak. I guess it was necessary for this specific

album, and it was really good for me to rest for a while in order to keep spreading

our "depressing good news". It's as simple as that. I won't be the only one, the

first one or the last one doing so.

Jussi:

It kind of shows your dedication, as you really go into a such state in a creative

process.

Ville:

Let's just hope the album sells enough, so I can pay those 50,000$ that month cost me.

[LostBlossom]

Ville:

It was all about the working stress. I was tired and over-stressed. And as you go

through a creative process, you simply turn into a tabula rasa - a bit like the

depression after giving birth. I can't compare it to the actual postpartum

depression or whatever it is, but it was just the outcome of personal life going

badly and of drinking more than you should. I had to go through the same sad

things of the album all over again when we were mixing the record.

[LostBlossom]

Jussi: I don't know how much you've read the shock media lately, but when the news about you going to a rehab came out, I remember this newspaper title saying: "Ville Valo went to a rehab drunken." I was wondering what was the big deal. Vill: Of course you're drunk when going to a rehab. It's the classical final beers. Jussi: I was thinking, should it be... Ville: ... like being sober for two months, and then going to a rehab. Jussi: Yeah.

[LostBlossom]

(In July and August, HIM was touring with Linkin Park, My Chemical Romance and Plasebo

around USA in a Projekt Revolution -tour.)

Jussi:

Wasn't this your first summer camp -style of tour?

Ville:

Yes, the first longer one. Everything went alright but the distances were insane.

We were traveling 500-800 kilometres each day for a one 40 minute gig in sunlight.

Occasionally it felt just mindless.

[LostBlossom]

(continues)... We haven't gotten into the point where I'd be in a cold

barn in the middle of Finland's winter, drinking four bottles of vokda and drawing

pictures of myself hanging to my own manly organ. I mean, the intense horror of reality

is so far not showing in what we do. And you can find some humour even in the downsides.

Maybe it's the strenght of this orchestra.

[LostBlossom]

Ville:

We have to remember that eyes get used to dark. And after a long period of darkness

the sunlight hurts your eyes. Meaning that the things generally though as good can

appear in a very reverse way in an inviduals' life. I'm not complaining. More or less

I'm doing a musical self-therapy. I think melancholy is a different thing than gloomyness.

Gloomyness is sort of negative.

[LostBlossom]

Ville:

Well, there's so many types of sensitivity.

(Venus Doom went on 12th place of USA's album chart on it's first week.)

Jussi:

On the Image-magazine, I remember you saying that you do all the songs from basically

the same subjects, and they are caricatures of love and death. Maybe you didn't put it

in these exact words, but anyway. If you'd be living a really happy and light period

in your life, would it reflect into your music in the form of happy songs?

[LostBlossom]

Ville:

You have to find new views to those same old things you have. To us it was "hugging

our headbanger" inside. So we were basically just hugging Kaasu (Kristian "Kaasu" Karppinen,

the band's drummer). As Dark Light was so elegant recording, it felt nice to a kind of

"in your face"-type of album, still not forgetting the sensitivity which glimpses in our

music every now and then.

Jussi:

I wouldn't underestimate the sensitivity in your work.

[LostBlossom]

(continuing)...There's a lot of Finnish

tradition and melancholy in my songwriting, so it felt only logical to write the

record here rather than somewhere far in the sunlight.

[LostBlossom]

Ville:

Well, we've already had the opportunity to see many places, and to spend so much time

in them that they are no longer interesting. Lapland is a place where I haven't been

so much. I got to Sirkankylä, near the arctic hill of Levi, and there were only local

people there, and everything was so peaceful. Northern lights, first snow and stuff

like that... sort of leaving the world behind for a while.

[LostBlossom]

Jussi:

You were writing the song in Lapland, right?

Ville:

Yes, some of them.

Jussi:

How did you end up in there? I think most Finnish bands go as far away as possible

from Finland as they grow.

[LostBlossom]

(still continuing)...It has worked in a

way as an inspiration, so it felt natural to ask if we could use it on the album cover.

(The band also considered using Kalervo Palsa's painting on the album cover.)

[LostBlossom]

(continuing)...The voodoo priestess

was on a vacation, but there happened to be this gallery next to the store, which had

this painting. I don't usually go to galleries, but this one just caught my attention.

The shades of the painting are actually a bit lighter than in the album cover. Anyway,

I liked it and decided to buy it if I could afford it. I sent it to Finland and it has

been on my living room's wall throughout the album-making process.

[LostBlossom]

Ville:

It's just one of his works. I have the original one at my home. We were at New Orleans

for the first time. We had one day off, and we spent it at a French block. I was looking

for a certain voodoo-store, which supplied blessed chicken feet.

[LostBlossom]

(Venus Doom's album art is painted by American artist David Harouni.)

Jussi:

You spoke of the album cover before, which is also seen here above us, was it specially

ordered for the album or was it an independend piece of art?

[LostBlossom]

Though of translating it:

Jussi:

Venus Doom - is she a woman character of some sort, or what's the story behind the name?

Ville:

Well, yes and no. It's a combination of characters both alive and dead. Yin yang -kind of

opposites have always appeared on our titles: we've listened a lot of doom metal while

doing the album, though Venus is the goddess of love, and "her doomsday" fits our

lyrical thematics quite well. It also sounds good, and VD is the abbreviation for venereal

disease in English.

[promiblue]

7:34

post-pardum stresS??? um...heh

[PoisonGirl1717]

he's so pretty!

[lovefire101]

I don't kno but I think I betta learn me som finnish! Lovvvee the tattoo eyes

[lrockstar5]

I think that in this video he looks a bit more to his brother... .oO

[WhatGirlNow]

yea i'd join him in death.

ong i LOVE his laugh and smile

i had NO idea what he was sayin thruout the interview but i couldnt leave lol

well i think i hear oscars or seomthing.

omg 10 min with Ville would be heaven!!!!!!

[peaceloveandrock1]

ville's voice is perfect. deep and sexy when he talks but solf and angelic when he sings =]

and can someone please tell me what the heck they r saying!

[sjy1122]

damn I really need to learn finnish!

[HIM4LFE]

cute<3

[LINDALOVELACE2008]

ooh my god put ville in a romantic vampire movie ..his voice is so alluring ..wow..

[jackborsatti]

@LINDALOVELACE2008 Ville is too serious for it!

[midnightmare14]

omg wtf, didn't I saw this ;/

[missfuture]

haha ville is so clever :D i really like his thoughts

[WhatGirlNow]

what is he saying?

[666xSarahx666]

can somebody please translate this video into english or with subtitles please :)

[Bronthea]

that´s not actually Villes home. when they talk about the painting, Ville sais that he has the original one at his house.

And Jussi is pronounced as "you sssee" :D

[Kiisa]

Yeah, I think they're at the record company's place or something.

[cazzycurse]

wow! hes got such a pretty face

its almost feminine

love him x

[lilmisskins]

haha Yeah my mom saw a photo of him and she thought it was a girl haha he's such a beautiful male

[esteway]

....most of the time if someone thinks a guy is actually a girl....then something is wrong.

[gothpinup]

OMG! I want this with subtitles =(

[lovemevamp]

yeah i think its at his home because he has the paint of venus doom in there..he once said in an interview that he has that paint in his living room..

[Alixblood]

Is the interviewers name pronounced as "Juicy"?

[Him0mel]

No you have to pronounced the names as they are written . you have to pronounced it like "you see" but faster!^^

[Alixblood]

oh ok :)

[lilmisskins]

I know can someone plz tell Bam how to pronounce his name he say's yes-see haha