S.H.E : We Are Valuing Our Time Together (Exclusive Interview from My Idol Indonesia Edition 68)

Around 2005 you had ever gone to Bali for pictorial book, this time you were coming to Jakarta for concert. Both of them for working, do you have a different feeling about that?
E: That’s right. This time our feelings definitely different because we had never been here, in Jakarta, before. Actually we have a will to come for holiday but we don’t have enough time for that. So what we will do next is just staying in the hotel, that also needs to find a spare time first. Today we had just arrived here so we spent most of the time in our room, so our feeling to Jakarta actually still pretty strange.
H: That’s right. So perhaps tomorrow we will depend on audience’s reaction for leaving deep impression for us.
E: Yup. right.
H: Because we don’t even have little time to walk around Jakarta. Tomorrow we have to do the rehearsal, after concert the next morning we have to fly back to Taiwan. We still need to prepare our new album so we need to hurry back to Taipei so we can finish it.

Talking about your new album, your new album in September will be launching. In August and September, Jay Chou and Lee Hom also want to launch their album. How do you girls actually preparing for this competition?
E: Actually we often meet this kind of situation
H: We have been in this industry for a long time, so we often meet this kind of situation, so actually it is not a big problem for us. Besides, our genre of music is kinda different.
E: With these , also have a positive thing. Fans will have many choices.

Based on the Taiwan industrial music nowadays. an album that sold more than 100 thousands is including in a good achievement. For your new album, do you have a certain target for its selling?
E: (thinking) We are just… I think now it’s so difficult to measure the target for selling.
S: The economic condition is not really good. Breaking 50 thousands is something that we can celebrate already.
E: Right, if we can sell more than 20 thousands is already considered as a great selling because of the terrible economic condition.
S: The economic condition made everything worse.
E: We had ever heard from our boss, in the past time 400 million but now can’t reach 40 million [I don’t know what Ella was talking about here =p], the comparison that so far, so we couldn’t think about the selling result. For us, we can try to do our best for this album, if everyone accept our music, that’s already considered as happiness result for us. We don’t care how many albums will be sold, the most important think is whether the music has a significant step or not. What we mean here, if today we release this song and there is a fan that can sing that song even perhaps she couldn’t buy the album, but she still can sing that song, that means that song is already a success. So what we want to do is for to leave deep impression on fans and our song is memorable forever.

After a new album, do you have any plan to take a role in idol drama?
E: It should be no (answering quickly)

How about Selina? Because Ella had Hanazakarino Kimitachihe and Hebe had Bull Fighting, when would be time for you to have your own series?
S: That’s true, I’m still waiting for the right script for me, because I think shooting for a series is so exhausting. Before that, we also ever did series together [Reaching for The Stars]. For me, the process in filming this series was so exhausting. So, I’m waiting a script that I like or a great character for playing. If I have time, perhaps I will try it.

What kind of script that you probably like?
S: Myself also don’t know.. hehehehe
H: If she knew, perhaps she would write the script by herself.
E: That’s why she is still waiting and waiting.

If I’m not mistaken, this year is S.H.E’s seventh year in industrial music
E: True. This year is our seventh year.

Your position as female music group still irreplaceable (the question was not finished yet, but Ella already answered it)
E: Thank you… Thank you, duuh.. I felt so shy.

Your position also still number one
E: Aaah… it is not actually (with a funny mimic, and pretending to be shy)

What do you think about this?
E: Our opinion, ya…. Perhaps it is the result for our struggle in these 7 years.

A group passed more than five years is not easy eh….
E: That’s true and its not just because of the hard work from the three of us but also from all people in our company. This is also the result from the developing that our company had done to us. The most important thing is we want to say thank you for continuous supports from our fans in these 7 years. Perhaps some of our fans have already had their own family and kids, perhaps also the one who from elementary school and now in junior high school, the one who was in senior high school now are in college and already married. Actually we are growing up together with our fans and so do the opposite. So today we can be like this, we are really grateful for that (saying that in sincere way)

Do you have any mental preparation, just if in 10 years later from now S.H.E no longer popular like now? What do you thin you will do at that time?
E: Actually all this long we always prepare our mental. Since our second album, we were preparing already, what if after second album no one will buy our album? Actually every step that we had done, we passed it carefully. Honestly, if 10 years later we will not have any market again, we will do our own life. Married and give a birth for kid… hehehehe, actually that kind of life that I really want.
H: Because this entertainment world perhaps not the entire part of life itself.
E: True, not for the entire of our life time.
H: But now because of our fate still in lucky way, we will use this opportunity well. Doing many things that we want to do, singing a lot of good songs, but if era not let us to stay here, we would not force it. Living a life with loving husband and child also good.
E: I want to build a home in Ming Su, so probably I will live there.
S: I think the same thing like them, but actually we have been prepared for our future. Like me, I interest with presenter world. Perhaps someday if I was not a singer anymore, I will be a presenter.

Perhaps considering as an artist manager? (Selina and Ella pointed to Hebe)
S: If become artist manager, she can (while pointing at Hebe), she ever thought as manager, but that’s just a thought.
E: You become my manager…. ha ha ha ha (while teasing Hebe)

As your age growing up, will you stay on this kind of music and image like now?
S: Actually since the last album, we had a lot of changes.
E: But, in our last album [Play], there are many things to be played. Even we are getting older but that’s not mean we have to sing more mature song.
S: S.H.E doesn’t have the steady genre of music.
H: Our genre is easy listening songs….hahahaha
E: Ei.. That’s right lah…

Beginning from the competition “Universal Potential Beauty Contest 2000”, finally S.H.E exist. First, you compete to each other and then become best friends. How do you value this friendship?
E: Since the beginning, we are placed as one group. We left our home and stayed together in a dormitory. Since that time we build our relationship and more relaxing feeling to be together. Because everytime we are really together, not only at work but also in the outside, so that’s how our friendship started. We are really valuing our time together. We have been through thick and thin together.
S: I think we can be one group is really fated. So we are valuing this friendship.
H: For me, both of them are people that important in my life. They are so worth for me. Even if I am not in this world already, forever we would still be best friends. Really, fate like this is difficult to get.
S&E: True (together answering it)

If in the next life, you have an option to choose. Do you like still like this as friends or want to be sisters?
S: Wah.. we had never thought of that before.
E: Let me be your mother… hahahaha
S: I think if in this life we are fated to be together, in the past time and in the future, we would never get away from this fate. Later must be people that close again.

Who knows perhaps you like to be sisters:
SHE: It can be.
S: Sisters, boyfriend or perhaps she could be our husband (pointed at Ella). I become the old wife and she [Hebe] becomes the young wife…hehehehehe
E: I think, don’t care what would happen in our next life, we should be together again. Let the God manage that for us.

Being bestfriends since a long time, is that any bad habit from S.H.E personnel that you want to change?
E: If there is a bad habit, I think I can accept it. Because we are together since a long time and I don’t think I can change it.

Perhaps, Hebe had a habit, love to rub her nose before?:
E: Until now, she still have it, as long as she feels her nose comfort, then let it be.
S: I think that’s not a bad habit. Just don’t do it in front of a person, that’s all.
H: Actually, that’s the bad habit….
E: I think that’s not. I think… for her… I hope (silent for a moment) she can be better for herself.

That means?
E: Because she thinks about other people and often choose to let people win over her. Perhaps, she will use other way to calm down her emotion but all of things that she had done , she did them just for other people. That’s what makes me love her so much ,it feels very touching. Sometimes I pity her and she looks like in troubles, so I hope she can think about herself more. Don’t think too much. For her (Selina), she doesn’t think about anything….hehehehe. So nothing to be worried about her.
S: I just think about what I buy and eat….hehehehe
E: Yup, she is just thinking about those…. hahahaha
S: No no… I’m just kidding….hahahaha
E: She is a girl that won't make us worried. A nice girl. I hope she can get a nice partner.

Everyone knows, your typical guy is different, but you are just human, who knows someday you fall in love with the same guy. Nah, what will you do then?
SHE: We will not fall in love on same guy (how do you know for sure?)
E: I think that’s impossible.
H: Yup, I think that’s impossible.
S: I feel gross if we fall in love for a same guy….. hahahaha
E: I think it would be difficult to fall in love for a same guy, please don’t let it happen.

I just say “what if…” hehehehe
S: Just adoring perhaps yes, for example, this guy is handsome or so great, but to fall in love it would be difficult. We are like sisters, if sisters fall in love for the same guy… I think that’s forbidden.
E: That just happened in movie, but if that really happens, we have to see the one that the guy likes. He has to choose one. If he chooses you (pointed at Selina), I will step back.

Time already at 20.45, the interview for 10 minutes finally over. Because of the limitation of time, interview at that night (31/7) should be over. After interview, S.H.E still need to dinner and doing rehearsal, so the concert will going to be perfect and left the deep impress.

[Caption] Selina: My ideal guy must have height 185 cm and like hero that can protect me. I’m a weak person.

[Caption] Hebe: For me, as long as he is easy to talk to, good looking, understanding, and if can… handsome.

[Caption] Ella: My ideal guy is the one who is good looking and I enjoy talking to him. My target of marriage is when I’m 28, which means next year. But if next year, I still don't have any candidate,then at least before 35 will do.