00:02we're at the rockstar suite at the hard rock hotel new york with idol
00:08i'm so glad we could get you guys we have so much to talk about the new song mano i
00:12love it i love
00:13it thank you thank you it's wonderful how how did you know it was done done like what was the
00:19last
00:19final tweak the last thing you had to do to the song maybe even in post to know that it
00:25was
00:25finished i can thinking about who should sing verse one oh do you do that often where you might
00:34switch like you might have you first and then like you you switch the verses that was uh also on
00:40the
00:41uh in the process or sometimes like before we record that we have to you know as her older like
00:47we have to sing the song from the beginning until the end then she would decide like which part is
00:52better for each other but then we record that then she would think that oh maybe we have a
00:57better way so then we switch that and until the last seconds so that's what she was talking about
01:03like i think she was considering about like which part should be the uh which uh which person like
01:09should sing the first part yeah yeah yeah and once it was completed do you remember like outside of the
01:14group outside of the engineers and everything who's the first person you played it for
01:18the next person was my younger sister does she like all this stuff or is she like a hard critic
01:27honest honest yeah honestly yeah she's a good reference she's a good reference she'll tell you
01:33if she's like now we have to change this around she's she's a good critic that's good how do you
01:38know
01:38when a song uh requires a feature when it'll benefit from having somebody else on it i think when
01:45that feature completes the song so for for example for this time mono yeah uh we would practice
01:53with the skywaters part blank like with early instrument yeah so we were like curious about like
02:02oh how would it come out when skywaters feature in and then after we listened to it it was like
02:09very very very satisfying and what linked you guys up with skywater i wanted to try something new
02:16um then i saw skywater video live performance oh that was really awesome so i messaged it skywater
02:28right away oh wow you just like dm'd them or something it came together through company
02:37after i did dm yeah yeah yeah oh that's wonderful well it sounds great it sounds like
02:43you guys have a real chemistry in studio so that's awesome um i want to touch on the name change
02:49briefly i know you just dropped the g um was there ever were you guys ever thinking of doing a
02:55completely different name were you spitballing that like thinking of just changing the name all
03:00together actually from the debut like um it's a we have a different kinds of version of our group name
03:07so in korean like that was the same like uh y'all died or something like that but for the
03:13english
03:13that was g idol jito is it's not bad actually that i we love this name but like in korean
03:20like
03:20the comedy just gave us the y'all means like um girls girls so that's g means but but but
03:28in korea
03:29like people always call us just either yeah so that that when they translate to the english that was
03:35idol okay so that was i think that was the first thought that we think maybe we can change our
03:40name
03:40to just idol yeah but this time after seven years um this means actually rebranding ourselves this time
03:49because i think it's a time to you know uh expand more potentials and more like perspectives and
03:56more you know more identities of our group so i think it's time to show our fans like oh
04:02even after nine years after yeah almost nine years idol still can do something new can bring
04:08your guys new things new music new genre new try new challenge so i think that's the meaning of the
04:14rebranding things and i think we're not girls anymore we're women now yeah i love that i love that
04:23so you know were you guys kind of shocked then like since you were always being referred to as idol
04:28kind of in korea anyway were you were you shocked by what big headlines that made and everyone was like
04:35oh my gosh they changed their name i love that i love that i want to talk about um labeling
04:55and and
04:56categorizing a little bit you know i i find it um interesting that like rose and bruno mars their
05:04song or the the k-pop demon hunter song golden uh you know it's often referred to as k-pop
05:11songs where
05:12if i didn't know any k-pop history and just heard the song i would think oh that's a pop
05:18song um
05:19so do you feel like songs get restricted when they're labeled something like that or do you think
05:26if there's any korean involvement it should be titled k-pop for like visibility and representation
06:03in the industry
06:10absolutely and i i love that you write like pretty much all of your stuff um in in your long
06:18career the history of the group do you have a lyric or a melody that stands out to you that
06:24is just your favorite of all time
06:28love is louder in mono that was like one of those things that when you came up with it you
06:33were like okay this is really good
06:35yeah yeah sincere our heart because that's the message we want to deliver to the to our audience yeah yeah
06:43yeah yeah i don't know if your management will yell at me for this but maybe yes maybe you can
06:49tell me the title of one song of yours that you've done that that will never come out just something
06:56never come out
06:57never so many actually because we produce a lot of songs by ourselves but every time every time like
07:06when we have to make an album we have to you know match the concept match the the lyrics match
07:11the topic
07:12so so many good good songs from you know all of us always like dropped by but uh before we
07:20wrap up you
07:21you know um bad bunny is one of the most recent artists that has um really proven that um a
07:29language barrier when it comes to music doesn't matter um do you guys feel like it's necessary to cater to
07:38the english language anymore to reach a wider audience or are those days gone
07:43i think since like k-pop culture has become more bigger and bigger a lot of people are interested in
07:50k-pop more so even with singing like korean a lot of people still listen to it but sometimes we
07:57think it's important to sing in english so that we can uh get closer to our international fans like our
08:03neverlands more so that's why this time we we came out with mono in in english
08:08and you enjoy it and you enjoy it too right yeah yeah yeah i love it it's such a great
08:13song and thank you so much for taking out the time i know you're flying all around the world right
08:17now so we we really really appreciate it thank you i don't thank you for having us really enjoy
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