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[Trans] 161101 mini December issue 2016: Fly to high ❤︎ GOT7 Special Interview
161101 Mini December issue, 2016
FLY TO HIGH ❤︎ GOT7 SPECIAL INTERVIEW
GOT7 who will release their new mini album "Hey Yah" on 16/11 to be featured again!
Beside their new songs, this interview will also cover stories about their activities throughout this one year, which allows you to feel the essence of GOT7's "present". A must read!
〓 ABOUT "HEY YAH" 〓
★ GOT7 will release their new mini album "Hey Yah" on November 16. "Hey Yah is their title and also lead song in the mini album. What kind of song is it?
Bambam: A powerful song that will cheer you up and make this winter hotter when you hear it.
★ Did your recording for this song go well?
Bambam: We finished it with a happy mood ❤︎
Youngjae: Since everyone had fun recording, I think the happy atmosphere is also showed in the song.
Jinyoung: Every time we released new CD, we always did rehearsal recording before doing it for real though...
Mark: But when we did that this time, the record we made when rehearsing was already nearly perfect it felt as if we didn't need to do real recording anymore.
Jinyoung: Like that, we prepared ourselves sufficiently and carried on the real recording well. I had a feeling we had made a very good song as a result.
Bambam: True as he said!
★ How about the filming for your music video?
Mark: We filmed it smoothly without any mistakes.
Bambam: That's right.
Jinyoung: In the MV this time, there is a part where everyone acts like honor students, making it a very lovely acting scene. I hope you will pay attention to that part!
★ Your another track "Over & Over" is the second music product given to you from 2PM's Wooyoung. During the recording for that song, did you receive any advices from Wooyoung?
Jinyoung: Same as the recording last time for "Yo Moriagatte Yo", this time he also guided us very carefully to every detailed part. In a sense, you can also say he went strict on us in some parts, therefore we have an impression that the recording with him took a lot of time. He directed us very professionally, there's plenty of things we was able to learn from him.
★ This is also the first time member's self-written songs, which are from Yugyeom and JB, were chosen to be recorded for a Japan mini album.
All: (applaud)
Bambam: Yeah!!
Jackson: Woooh!!
★ What kind of song is Yugyeom's self-written track "Let Me Know"?
Yugyeom: It tells the story of a boy no longer able to cope with the push-and-pull antics in love of a girl who is very good at it, and wanting to tell her to stop doing it. But he loves her so much he can't even express that frustrated feeling to her.
Bambam: The melody gives off the feeling of a very cute style.
Jinyoung: Yugyeom asked me to sing cutely at the hook part, but I overdid making it a little too cute, it really sounded dangerously like a girl's singing (laughs). Yugyeom is our maknae so we always see him as a little brother, but when recording he gave us directions in a really serious manner. By the way, what kind of song is JB hyung's composition? Is it a ballad? (laughs)
JB: The meaning of my song is sad, but rather than ballad I would say it's a song with acoustic taste.
Jinyoung: It's my most favorite song in this album.
Bambam: For me, I love Yugyeom's song the most.
Youngjae: Yeah!!
Jinyoung: He gave such severely strict directions during the recording, so I don't like his song (laughs)!!
★ I can see that since the release of "FLIGHT LOG: DEPARTURE" album in this year's spring in Korea, GOT7 members have been very active in participating in music production. How do you write your own songs and lyrics?
Youngjae: I often listen to a lot of songs with powerful and catchy beat similar to the track "REWIND" I wrote for "FLIGHT LOG: DEPARTURE". I also had composed many ballads with a lightly melancholic vibe, but perhaps their vibe doesn't match well with GOT7's image, they weren't chosen to be put into our album that time.
Jinyoung: Sometimes they just didn't go well with the energetic image of GOT7. To fit GOT7 well, there is a song called "WOLO" written by Jackson. The atmosphere from that kind of song is a match for us, and its melody is also what all members prefer.
Jackson: I'm the best producer in GOT7!!
All: (Burst out laughing)
Yugyeom: No, I AM the best!
Jackson: It's not Yugyeom. It's me!!
JB: Everyone thinks they're the best. (laughs)
Jinyoung: I think I still have a long way to go.
★ The song "Can't" composed by Jinyoung is also a very good song!!
Jinyoung: I think so too (laughs)!
★ Do you write lyrics based on your own experiences?
Yugyeom: At an extent we have brought some of our own experiences into the lyrics. Beside that we also expand some ideas using the imagination in our mind. We make songs by mixing those two methods.
Jinyoung: Our rap parts are usually written by Bambam. Bambam, please tell us how you do!
Bambam: After listened to the demo, I often ask for their feeling or the concept of that song then make the raps according to it.
〓 ABOUT "FLY" 〓
★ It feels like both in name and in reality, "FLY" is a meaningful promoting activity that set GOT7's reputation on a great stride. Now try looking back, what kind of promotion is "FLY" to you?
Yugyeom: True as you said, we also think it's an important promotion.
Bambam: After all, when you compare before and after "FLY" promotion, we also do feel that things have changed in many aspects. For example, we feel like there are many more fans coming to our concerts comparing to before, even the chances to go on variety shows or commercials also increase. It seems like the range of our activities has also expanded.
Jinyoung: Of course there're many specific achievements like that, but I have a feeling through this promotion, we were finally be able to clearly show our fans "What kind of group is GOT7?". That is the greatest achievement we could get. What I think is, even for just a little bit, this promotion might have somehow left in the memory of those who has watched and listened to us a feeling that tells "GOT7 is a group pursuing this kind of music".
★ You also made a global tour that went around many places like Seoul, Shanghai, Japan, Bangkok Guangzhou, Singapore and America.
Jinyoung: I have a feeling that through this tour we were able to grow up in many aspects including our performances, and also to learn many new things. The tour was held for around 4 months, starting with concerts in Seoul then went on around America, Thailand, China ... then went back to Korea to make an encore concert. As expected, there were some parts in us when we did the encore concert that are far more mature than when we started the tour, and each member had more or less learned something too. That is how the global tour was to us.
Bambam: It had become easier for us to stand on stage both mentally and physically. Of course there still is an appropriate amount of nervousness, but I think we can enjoy being on stage in a relaxed state now.
JB: Plus, we also somehow have learned more know-how's on doing live shows.
★ You also did some girl groups imitating performances. Which member suits girl costume the most?
JB: Can I reverse the question? Who do you think was the cutest (in girl costume)?
★ I think everyone was pretty.
Bambam: Everyone was horrendous.
★ Yugyeom is quite a giant, but he was pretty.
All: (burst out laughing and applauding)
Youngjae: As expected, it's Yugyeom for you!
Bambam: As we thought!! Maknae baby!!
★ JB was the first member who removed the long hair wig right?
JB: It's not like I intentionally took it off. When I swung around it was accidentally dropped.
★ You seem to dislike wearing girl costume very much...
JB: I definitely dreaded it (laughs).
Bambam: I enjoyed it a lot (laughs).
JB: I only did it with an absolute mindset that is to make the fans happy and let them have fun watching us (laughs)!!
〓 ABOUT GOT7 〓
★ You just finished your latest Korean comeback in this October. In every comeback, it's required to practice for live performances. How do you practice normally?
Bambam: We practice at night. Even when the day is packed with work, there is also a span of time calling "practice time" added into our schedule, which is set to be from this time to this time on that day. For example, if the practice time is decided to be 8 hours then we have to practice for 8 hours. We try to practice for the exact amount of time that is decided everyday.
JB: For example, even if we only have the interval time for breaks between work left, we will try to focus on those time and practice.
Bambam: Yes!
★ Lately you all suddenly became manlier and more handsome. Tell me the truth, what is the reason?
Youngjae: Maybe you got that feeling because each member has been worked out a lot, and also being on diet lately.
Yugyeom & Bambam (spontaneously): We just grew up (laughs).
Bambam: It's just that time passes and so do we. No one can be aging backward right? (laughs)
Yugyeom: According to the age counting system of Korea, even I who is the maknae has also become adult. Since I'm an adult already, my manliness just comes out naturally.
Bambam: Your beard is also growing right? My beard grows a lot!!
All: (burst out laughing)
★ There are also many hoobae groups has appeared right? Like in JYP NATION concert, when you performed with your hoobae groups, are there any moments you feel like you have become a senior?
Yugyeom: I don't care much about things like sunbae-hoobae relationship.
Bambam: For example, all TWICE or DAY6 members are the people we have always been seeing face-to-face and practicing together for more than 6 years ever since our trainee days. Even if we head to separate groups and make different debut time, I'm happy that we are still able to do activities together and get along with them after we all debuted.
Jinyoung: But there are some members even younger than GOT7's maknaes, it feels a bit strange.
Bambam: It's strange right?
Jinyoung: They are soooo young.
JB: I have a feeling that we're privileged with more know-how's when being on stage than them. Not that we strongly sense that "We are the sunbaes!". It's just because we were able to debut and do activities a little more early.
★ Well then, can you tell us about any change that happened in you recently?
Youngjae: I lost weight. Since we also had comeback, I went on a diet.
★ You really did become more handsome.
Youngjae: I did it! I did it!!
Bambam: You just aged.
Yugyeom: We became adults, and we so grew taller. We also have grown bigger in many aspects.
Jinyoung: Yugyeom is the one that grew tallest among us. I don't like that (laughs). Nowadays, whether when I pull jokes on him or scold him, it always feels like I was being looked down on, it's scary (laughs).
JB: My perspective on the world became wider. Even toward a single simple thing, I now can form a deeper view on it. If it's the me from before, I would just have followed the flow or overlooked it. But now I'm able to perceive things more carefully. It's not like something specific has occurred to make me like this, I just naturally grew to be that way. Day by day I feel it more and more clearly - the increasing importance of readiness when we're waiting for the morning to come.
Jinyoung: I am the opposite. Compared to before, I have become more open-hearted to comfortably accept the way things are nowadays. In the past, whenever something happened, I always felt like that's a very big deal and started getting worried or thinking I can't cope with it. But now, I am able to think "Well, things could be like that too. But I believe it's gonna head to a better direction anyways" and accept any feelings with ease.
Jackson: I'm changing everyday.
★ Amazing!
Jackson: I mean I'm changing in a good meaning. I keep feeling a new urge coming that says "I want to try this!" in various fields and am conscious that I have to do my best in my job. At the same time I'm also able to find out what I'm still insufficient of, so I tell myself to work harder and do endeavor everyday. Therefore day by day I'm changing nonstop.
Mark: I don't feel like I have particularly changed (gives a big, full smile).
Bambam: Because Mark hyung is already perfect and so handsome from the beginning. There's possibly nothing he would ask for more, isn't it?
Jinyoung: He was already too handsome to begin with, but now he has become even more handsome.
Bambam & Jinyoung: Compared to before, Mark hyung's face has become much smaller (laughs).
Youngjae: His face just keeps shrinking smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller, wouldn't it sooner or later disappear completely? (laughs)
★ Lastly, since mini is a magazine for girl fashion, can you tell us what is your favorite fashion style on girl, this time as Winter 2016 version?
Jinyoung: How about keeping warm by wearing coat and scarf?
Youngjae: I hope the girls will keep warm by wearing coat with a scarf, combining with a fedora hat.
Mark: You should wear long coat to stay warm!!
Yugyeom: As long as it's easy to move around and warm!!
Bambam: While draping yourself in a long, large scarf, please choose a big-sized top that is long enough to cover your thighs to wear as a dress, plus stockings with Dr. Martens boots too! If you wear coat, it's also cute to wear a sleeveless top as inner. I will keep you warm then!!
All: Ohhhh~
Jackson (in a serious tone): Please make sure to keep yourself suppppper warm, even if you have to become a triangular rice ball.
(T/N: He means when you wear many layers of clothing or big jacket on upper half of your body, it will make your whole figure look like and upside-down triangle)
All: (Burst out laughing)
★ A triangular rice ball like outfit means...
Jackson (in serious tone): The kind of fluffy jacket that looks like a rice ball...
JB: I choose the outfit like on the front cover of this mini magazine. (points at the front cover of mini September issue, 2016)
All: We're talking about winter though (laughs)!?
JB: This one will do. But if the girls choose to wear what they wanna wear, it'll also be fine that way.
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★ From editors' eye ★
GOT7's photoshoot was held in a certain metropolitan studio. The atmosphere throughout the whole interview was so buoyantly noisy, just like the break time in school. There was the trio Youngjae & Bambam & Yugyeom who kept interrupting other members' talking and never ceased to be less hyper from beginning to end. There was Jinyoung who automatically turned himself into the interviewer and ignited conversation by asking members questions like "How is it?", what a big help for us in carrying on the interview. There was Mark, bursting with amusing innocence, who kept smiling throughout the session but when it's his turn to answer, he couldn't help but to ask other members "What is the question again?" while still smiling so wide. There was this boy too, who is not a talkative person, but when he opened his mouth to drop the answer as if had estimated the time in advance, everything was settled in one go - as expected of JB the leader. There was Jackson who always managed to give the funniest answers in crucial moments, his gag sense forged through many variety shows really brought the staff into many big laughter. Despite being squeezed in hectic schedules, GOT7 who always tackle every photoshoot with their angelic plus earnest manner, now have brought us a totally opposite image of cool and dynamic, so we hope mini can deliver to you that youthful boy image of GOT7!