00:00Girl Crush was first established in 2016 and we were only five members back then.
00:30So I first started dancing in 2017 and that's when I stumbled upon BTS.
00:47For me it did start with BTS as well but as I went further and like researched I think
00:54I fell in love with the choreographers that were behind the scenes.
00:57For me it started very long ago like I started dancing very young actually like since I think
01:05since I started walking.
01:06I think for me I got introduced to my brother because I was like new and my brother used
01:11to bring the songs and he just used to play like EXO or Big Bang so that was my beginning.
01:18I am a trained dancer so I did not get into K-pop very early on.
01:22I got into K-pop in COVID only.
01:24I was introduced to K-pop when I was in school in 2016 but it was in quarantine when I like
01:32started dancing officially.
01:34I started indulging into K-pop quite a while ago like 2011-2012 K-round I was just a child
01:43back then.
01:45The main motive was to like break the stereotype of what K-pop is and like if we say K-pop
01:54to like people who don't know what K-pop is like professional dancers who are not aware
01:59of what K-pop is they will be like oh cutesy dancing very easy you know just it's just
02:04a show but we wanted to show what K-pop really is you know like from the roots from the beginning
02:10first generation which is like old-school hip-hop and then branching out to next generation
02:16how it evolved from the first generation then going on to third fourth fifth like that so
02:21we wanted to show them what we're made of what attracted us to K-pop and like K-pop
02:28is just not one box you know there's fashion there's makeup there's dance there's vocals
02:35it's everything.
02:37So as as artists who have different hobbies someone here is very into fashion someone
02:41here is very into makeup styling so it all just attracts us and brings us together and
02:47it just really picks on our strengths.
02:50I feel like whatever we see we also get influenced by that since K-pop doesn't have like a definite
02:55box so we also don't have a definite box so we also trying to branch out and do a little
03:01bit of everything.
03:07We used to practice like 10 or 10 like 6-7 hours a day but that was because we could
03:19only meet during the weekends because we had members in college, working, office all of
03:26that.
03:27It was really hard to match everyone's schedule so we used to practice six to seven hours
03:31for six months.
03:38I've said this before but I'm gonna say the northeastern part of India was very much exposed
03:45to it before so that side the northeastern side has had a long history with the Korean
03:50culture right with with the mainstream India I think Covid and the accessibility of internet
03:57and Netflix really ushered in the movement of Korean culture because everyone was on
04:02their phone everyone was on the screen and everyone was open to watching anything because
04:06everyone was dying outside so they were like okay I'm gonna get an escape and I feel like
04:10Korean culture the way it's marketed the way it's produced it's very escapist you see
04:16dramas oh it's so lovely to watch a drama because it it makes you forget everything
04:20you're feeling and that because statistically also Netflix said that 2020 to 2023 was the
04:29most watched for Korean content and that's how it helped especially after Covid everyone
04:35could watch it so that really helped the growth of it and the consumption of it.
04:41K-pop is a very derived form of music it has all been I would not say taken from I can't
04:48say that but I don't want to be controversial but it is inspired from the African American
04:52music community a lot the first the first hip-hop song like first K-pop song that's
04:57considered to be the start of K-pop is a pure old school hip-hop gangster rap and there has
05:04been a lot of issues with K-pop music appropriating black culture which has been very problematic
05:10and a lot of them have ignored it so I would also like to bring the point that Bonung said
05:15that now the artists behind the dancers are coming forward same as well in the music scene
05:22now I am seeing a change where they are giving credit where it's due they're saying where
05:28it's coming from.
05:29Our main motive right now is to like branch out not only confine us to K-pop and grow
05:45as dancers as individuals and grow as a group together in this journey together yeah.
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