Hai! (Indonesia) 15 – 21 February 2009
“30 Seconds to Mars. More Powerful!”
In a very interesting chat with Ryo from Hai! Magazine, Jared admitted that he’s proud of “This Is War”. The album that he called more powerful.
Who doesn’t know Jared Leto? This multitalented guy amazes many people through his works. When he played in movies like, Fight Club, Girl, Interrupted, and Panic Room, his terrific acting made reaping praise. When he’s with 30 Seconds to Mars, his energic performance and incredible line track made a lot of people willing to become his fans. When he turned into a clipmaker, his works success made people gape. Amazed and surprised with the idea in his head.
In order to release the album “This Is War”, which is 30 Seconds to Mars‘ third album, Hai! Magazine had an opportunity to chat with Jared via international telephone connection. The following excerpt of the interview.
H: Hai! Magazine
J: Jared Leto
H: Hi Jared. How are you?
J: Very good. I’m in Los Angeles now. While waiting for ration phoners completed. Thank God, you’re the last.
H: Hahaha. Okay, let’s talk about 30 Seconds to Mars. There’s a Latin language that always appear in your CD. Provehito Altum. What does it mean?
J: Hmm, it actually like a motto for us. “Launch forth into the deep”. That’s pretty much the meaning. We hope that motto can make us challenged to move forward, although we’re something that cannot be predicted in the future.
H: Interesting motto. But in the previous album written “Prohevito”
J: This is actually a confession. For this album there’s a misspelled. So, the correct one is Provehito, not Prohevito.
H: Okay, back to the album. You guys made a lot of breakthrough in this album. Including taking a lot of people to get involved. In fact, in some countries, you’re releasing album with different covers. Tell the story a bit?
J: Yes. We really did it to get a perfect vibe. We wanted to make this album more powerful. And, we wanted to invite the fans to contribute their energy in this
album. And this became reality. We really put in their voices to the record. And the result became maximal. If you got an album without a picture of a tiger in the cover, that’s blessing. We invited 2000 people to present in our front cover. But, we’re still including a tiger picture in the inside. We did this to interpret the spirit of this recording.
H: Are you going to make an album like this someday? Inviting fans to join the recording again?
J: Hahaha, the answer is clearly no! We’ve done it before. And we felt that the concept is fit. For the next album, we’re going to find a different gimmick. Adjusted with our moods.
H: Okay, what do you think about this album?
J: This is an album that boasts. The music is powerful. And I’m proud of This Is War.
H: Now you’re just three. How does it feel to perform in stage?
J: No difference. Because we always include two additional musicians in our concert. So we don’t change many things. But, for This Is War concert, we have designed a maximum stage concept. That could make the audience gasped when watching. Just wait.
H: Are you going to come to Asia?
J: It’s in the plan. Clearly, Asia and Australia are the destinations. Just wait.
H: Talking about the album, there’s the name Steve Lillywhite there. How does it feel working with a legendary producer?
J: I’m a fan of Steve’s works. Therefore, we invited him to handle this album, I have to admit, the result’s maximal. I’m glad I could work with Steve. He’s one of our best friends.
H: You said, a collaboration with Kanye West in the track ‘Hurricane’ will also included in this album?
J: Yep! That’s the plan. But, until the CD is produced, the material of that song hasn’t been finalized. What can we do, we must go on, and that song had to be abandoned.
H: But, you said that you’re going to include that song’s material to your certain tours?
J: It still could happen. So, we’re going to show that material, although it’s not included in the album.
H: Kanye has posted a photo where there’s you, Kanye, and Brandon Flowers from The Killers. What actually Brandon did there? Is he involved in the project ‘Hurricane’?
J: No. He just happened to be there. It does no harm if he was in the studio during the recording session, right?
H: Right! But really? There’s not anything?
J: Not at all.
H: May specify your favorite songs on This Is War?
J: This question can’t be answered. I like all the tracks. And, until now I still feel the same thing.
H: Okay, any message for your fans in Indonesia?
J: Thanks for listening to us. We will try to produce things that can make you satisfied. Including this album, and our concerts.
http://www.jared-leto.net/hai-indonesia … #more-1156
BRAVO (Germany) Issue 8 - 17 Feb 2010
30 Seconds overcomes label battle
Musicians often fear the dreaded sophomore slump, but what about the third-album lawsuit? Not so much.
L.A. rockers Thirty Seconds To Mars found themselves embroiled in a $30-million lawsuit, when the group was sued by their label, EMI, after leaving the record company just two albums into a five-album contract.
No surprise, then, that the three man band — featuring singer-guitarist and famous actor Jared Leto — named their recently released third CD, This Is War. In addition to Leto (who had big roles in My So-Called Life, Requiem For A Dream and Panic Room), Thirty Seconds To Mars includes Leto’s brother and drummer Shannon Leto, plus guitarist Tomo Milicevic.
“We had a giant corporate battle,” said Jared Leto, 38, in an interview in Toronto shortly after the album’s release in December.
“We had sold millions of records around the world, and had tons of success, and we were celebrating — and then it’s that age-old story. You find out that not only are we not going to get paid a single penny, but that we were millions of dollars in debt. So we decided to fight. We made this record on our own, financed it ourselves, and we went to war. It’s amazing what you’re capable of when you’re backed into a corner.”
Under California law, Thirty Seconds To Mars was allowed to leave EMI after seven years with the label, and they had signed with EMI nine years previously. In the end, the two sides settled out of court and the band remained with EMI.
“EMI addressed our concerns before we actually went to trial,” Leto said. “It took a while. It was quite a battle. But eventually they did the right thing. And that was to take steps to treat us fairly.”
This Is War, which follows Thirty Seconds To Mars’ 2002 self-titled debut and 2005’s multi-platinum A Beautiful Lie, was co-produced by U2 collaborators Flood and Steve Lillywhite.
“It’s not a record of U2 influence,” Leto pointed out. “It’s a distinctly Thirty Seconds To Mars record. And I think the exciting thing, really, is becoming more of who we really are. And that’s been a lot of fun. It certainly was an interesting time in the history of the world. We made this record and the entire planet fell apart while we were making it. There was all kinds of economic turmoil, the housing market, financial crisis, so it was a transformational period for us creatively as well.”
Perhaps, more significantly, This Is War features fan involvement on all fronts.
The group had members of their fan community, called The Echelon, show up at clubs throughout the world — including Toronto’s Tattoo Rock Parlour — to be part of the recording process.
“I don’t think it’s been done in quite this way before,” Leto said. “It started in Los Angeles. There were a thousand people that came out to a place called The Avalon, and joined us in this interactive recording experiment, and it went so well we did it in eight different countries around the world, including Canada.”
They also set up an Internet site on which fans could contribute vocals and sounds to the album digitally, through their computers, at home using new technology.
“It’s actually tens of thousands of people all over the world that sang on that song (the first single Kings and Queens), and many other songs,” Leto said. “So it was a timely kind of thing to do. It was a way to bring a bit of the live show to the album.”
Additionally, the album features 2,000 different covers submitted by fans — some famous, some not — from around the world.
For example, the album art QMI Agency got was a self-portrait from up-and-coming director Spencer Susser in a fake moustache.
“It’s been exciting for me because I started as a visual artist,” said Leto, who was studying photography and filmmaking before he dropped out to act as a way of getting into directing.
“To do these things like Faces Of Mars, I mean really this is just an art project. When you see them all together, the disparate nature, it’s really striking, the different faces from all over the world, it’s really compelling.”
As Thirty Seconds To Mars tour — they’re currently headlining arenas in Europe and begin a North American leg April 9 in Las Vegas (all dates thereafter to be determined) — fan involvement is a natural.
“The audience is in the band now,” Leto said. “So it’s just phenomenally exciting. It’s really, really something to be a part of, for us, and I think and hope for the audience. The call-and-response. Everyone knows their part.”
Music remains priority to Leto
Thirty Seconds To Mars frontman Jared Leto is also a famous actor. Which craft does he prefer? For the time being, Leto says music will be winning out over film roles.
“Music is demanding so much of my time,” Leto, 38, told QMI Agency.
“And touring extensively like we do, takes a lot of time. I don’t make very many films as it is. I just am not interested in making films all of the time. I’ve been making music as a kid, long before I ever thought about being an actor. I didn’t become an actor until I was 21, really. But it’s great to be able to do both. My brother (Thirty Seconds To Mars drummer Shannon Leto) and I were just two poor kids from Louisiana crawling our way out of the muddy banks of the Mississippi, with food stamps in one hand and our instruments in the other. And I happened to make some films, and that’s great, and I’m lucky and I wouldn’t change it for the world.”
Leto’s next film role is in the sci-fi flick Mr. Nobody, opposite Diane Kruger and Canadian Sarah Polley. The movie doesn’t have a release date in Canada yet, although it was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival.
“It’s really a surrealistic love story that takes place in the past, the present and the future,” Leto said. “It’s a very unique film. I play 12 different versions of the same person, including a 120-year-old man. It was wild.”
http://www.torontosun.com/entertainment … 1-qmi.html
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