AtHeart with Brooke Morrison

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AtHeart joins Audacy's Brooke Morrison to talk about their debut EP, 'Plot Twist,' future goals, and more.

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00:00Hey, it's Brooke Morrison with Odyssey and we're here with AT HEART!

00:05Hey, we are HEART! We are AT HEART!

00:10Hello, my name is Michi from AT HEART and I'm from Hawaii. Aloha!

00:18I'm so honored to be here today. Thank you!

00:22Hi, my name is Irene from AT HEART. I learned dancing since I was young.

00:27Dancing is my life and passion. Thank you!

00:32Hi, my name is Nahyun and I'm 16 years old. I'm the youngest in the group.

00:38This is my first time in LA. I'm so happy! Thank you!

00:47Hi, my name is Bong and I really love singing and main vocal of AT HEART.

00:53I'm AKA Vocal Monster!

00:58Nice!

00:59Hi, I'm Sohyun from AT HEART. I'm 17 years old and I love singing and dancing and you!

01:12Hi, I'm Caitlin from AT HEART and I'm from the Philippines.

01:15Mabuhai! Mabuhai!

01:17Mabuhai!

01:18How's everybody feeling?

01:19We're doing good!

01:20We're pretty excited to be here.

01:22Good, me too. Beautiful LA day. The weather is amazing.

01:25Yes!

01:26Yeah, congratulations on your debut as well.

01:29Thank you!

01:30Thank you so much!

01:31The name AT HEART, I love it. Sometimes it's like stylized with the AT sign too.

01:34What does that mean to you guys either personally or as a group?

01:37So our group name actually does combine AT and HEART which means that we communicate sincerely through our hearts and communicate with all our fans around the world.

01:48I think one of our goals is really to kind of grow a global fan base and to me our group name means just to be ourselves and authentic and who we are at HEART and not change anything.

02:02I love that. That's beautiful.

02:04Yeah.

02:05In your EP, it's Plot Twist and I think that's all about like unexpected change I would say.

02:11What is the biggest kind of unexpected change you guys have experienced since debut?

02:16For me, the Korean culture and the Korean language is like the biggest plot twist because it's like so different from what I've known my whole life.

02:25And like a smaller plot twist is like in my family, I'm the sixth child out of seven children.

02:31So I'm like the, I'm used to like getting babied a lot.

02:36But in here, I'm one of the eldest.

02:39Okay.

02:40So I'm the one that's doing the babying.

02:42Right?

02:43Yeah.

02:44It's like, yeah.

02:45I love that.

02:46I love that.

02:47I never got a chance to do either as a middle child.

02:49So that must be nice to get to do one or the other.

02:51It's amazing.

02:52All right.

02:53So speaking of like big titles since your debut, I'm going to read this because it's a lot.

02:56So I have to like look at something to actually say it.

02:58You were named Billboard's K-pop Rookie of the Month at debut as well as Apple Music Korea's Up Next Artist.

03:06Ooh.

03:07And then last but not least, Variety called your debut.

03:09It could be one of K-pop's most anticipated launches of 2025.

03:13Wow.

03:14Amazing.

03:15So because that's so big, I feel like whenever you have like a newer artist or a newer group that's labeled all these amazing things,

03:21it could either be really motivational or really heavy and could add a lot of pressure to you guys.

03:26So where do you guys stand with that both individually and then as a group?

03:30The attention makes us so happy.

03:32I love that.

03:33That's so much.

03:34It seems like you guys have had a great start already.

03:36You're welcome.

03:37And you've trained under Titan content, which has bases, you know, in LA and in Seoul and that's kind of like across cultures and everything.

03:42Do you think that gives you guys an edge?

03:43Then what do you think you've taken from, you know, having a Western training system versus a K-pop training system?

03:47Since our main office is in LA, so 저희가 데뷔한 지 얼마 안 됐는데 이렇게 미국에 와서 여러 프로모션을 할 수 있는 게 너무 기쁘고

04:03이로 인해서 저희가 더 글로벌적으로 성장할 수 있다는 게 저희 너무 영광스럽고 기쁜 것 같아요.

04:08그래서 저희 앞으로 더 열심히 해서 좋은 모습 보여드리도록 노력하겠습니다.

04:09감사합니다.

04:11Wow.

04:12Amazing.

04:13And you guys, I'm sure I've become closer to this.

04:14This is a K-pop training system.

04:15This is a K-pop training system.

04:16This is a K-pop training system.

04:17This is a K-pop training system.

04:18You're going to find a K-pop training system.

04:19You're going to be the fastest and slow to the world, you're going to become more big.

04:20And you guys, I'm sure it have become closer since debuting as well.

04:35So between like Good Girl and Plot Twist now, who is surprised you the most?

04:41This is hard.

04:45I think that all of the members are a lot more grown than a good girl.

04:50I think that all of them have been a good girl.

04:53I think that they all have done well, but I think that's it.

04:55I'd like to pick Mi-chi.

04:59Because the good girl of Mi-chi is the person who has her personality.

05:06It's so well expressed in her happy.

05:08Plot Twist, I thought it was great for a different time and different emotion.

05:17Nice. Amazing. And speaking of the music, I mean a big deal for you guys. You guys sound amazing. Plot Twist is great. We all love it.

05:25Your sound is a lot like classic K-pop trends but then some Gen-Z trends thrown in there. It's very like new and now and fun.

05:32What were you guys personally listening to when making this EP?

05:36Oh yeah. So this album, Plot Twist, definitely is able to keep that traditional K-pop kind of style while incorporating a Western style as well,

05:47which I think is really cool nowadays because it kind of keeps up with the trends and a lot more people can find enjoyment in our music.

05:55So with this album we actually experimented with so many different styles to kind of find what suits us.

06:02So we got to try Hyper Pop, Dream Pop, R&B, even Afro. So while making this album to really kind of

06:12do all of these styles justice, I was listening to a lot of Billie Eilish and SZA, Tyler, all those amazing artists.

06:21Love that. So Plot Twist, the visuals are cinematic and they're very sleek and I love it. It's very movie-like.

06:28If it was a movie for you guys, who would star in it? What would it be called?

06:33I think the movie name could be The Maze.

06:38And the main character is At Heart.

06:42Yeah! Nice!

06:45Because now, Miro Chaki is going to be able to find a way to escape the path,

06:52but in the process of the future, I don't know the future, I don't know the path,

06:55but I don't know the path in the future, I don't know the path in the future.

06:57Our At Heart members have had a lot of dreams and experiences in the past,

07:01and many experiences in the past, but in the end, I think the story is similar to Miro Chaki.

07:08I think Miro Chaki is similar to Miro Chaki.

07:12Wow. That is an answer. That's such a great answer to that question.

07:17No, I haven't. That's why I'm like, oh my god, I'm learning so much.

07:21No, but that's amazing. The maze and everything, now I want to watch the movie. That's crazy.

07:27I mean, speaking of fans, I know you guys love your fans,

07:29and you guys have built this now global fan base from the Philippines to Japan, the US, and everything.

07:36What has been your favorite or funniest fan moment so far?

07:39Actually, we just had our At Heart experience, so that was super fun,

07:45because we didn't know we would have so much fans already here.

07:49Yeah, oh yeah, I love that.

07:50And we also have this fan event where we meet fans and talk to them, and I really love it when I receive fan letters.

08:01So whenever I'm just in bed and I'm reading them, I'm always smiling like my cheeks are hurting.

08:07So I'm like, I really love it when I get fan letters. There's one time that I cried.

08:14Yeah. No, I love that. It's always nice interacting with people and just being reminded why

08:19you're making music and doing this and everything. That's beautiful.

08:22And I do have a question for you, Nahhyun. So you're the youngest, right?

08:26Right.

08:27So what advice have you gotten from the older members that you cherish, or what advice have you been able to give them?

08:34What advice have you been able to give them?

08:36일단 언니들이 저보다 무대 경험이 진짜 많아요.

08:40아린언니는 댄스 대회도 많이 나갔었고, 보미언니는 밴드부 생활도 한 번 했었고,

08:46서연언니랑 케케언니랑 미찌언니는 연기도 해보고 뮤지컬도 해봤는데,

08:51저는 무대 경험이 많이 없어서 언니들한테 많이 배웠던 것 같아요.

08:55약간 무대에서 떨림, 긴장 이런 감정들보다는 기대, 설렘 이런 감정을 더 느낄 수 있도록 언니들이 옆에서 많이 도와준 것 같아요.

09:06Yeah, that is great advice.

09:08That's amazing.

09:09From all you guys, I mean, you guys have been, it sounds like you guys are really close.

09:12And I love that.

09:13Yeah, so speaking of new music and comebacks and everything, what can we expect from any kind of like new drops,

09:20or what do you guys hope to do? What's going on?

09:23We want to have a concert, okay.

09:26and

09:28신인상을 위해서 저희는 다음 컴백을 조금 더 열심히 준비해서 돌아오도록 하겠습니다.

09:34Amazing.

09:35So, one year from now, I mean, we're talking about goals already,

09:39but what do you guys hope is the biggest plot twist for at heart?

09:42저희의 목표는 너무나 많지만 얘기를 해보자면, 일단은 월드 투어도 있고!

09:50Also, I want to grow and grow and grow.

09:54And I want to grow and grow and grow.

10:00So, I want to thank you so much and love.

10:04Thank you!

10:06Amazing.

10:08Can't wait for more success from you guys. Love to see that.

10:11But you guys definitely gave me a gift and we have to kind of open it on camera.

10:15If that's okay, because I want to see which card I got, which photo card.

10:19Which, so cute guys.

10:21By the way.

10:22I don't know if you can hear me. Hopefully you still can.

10:24But let's see.

10:25Let's see what I got.

10:27Our At Heart album.

10:30Check it out.

10:32Check it out.

10:34I don't want to like drop anything.

10:37Oh, oh, oh.

10:38Photocard!

10:39There's two inside.

10:41Oh!

10:42Nahyun and Caitlyn 언니!

10:45High five!

10:47So cute! I love it!

10:48Make sure you guys go get it.

10:49You have to.

10:50And look for a lot more from At Heart.

10:52We love to see it.

10:53Thank you guys so much.

10:54Thank you!

10:55Thanks.

10:56Thank you guys.

10:57Thanks.

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10:59Thanks.

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11:06See you soon!

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