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GOT7 for Singles Magazine Jan 2016
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Going to the airport at least once a week
Going up on stage a few times in a day.
A day without schedules
is very rare. Idols GOT7 who have debuted for 2 years
spend each of their day busily like that
But not even once did they frown.
When you don’t see idols on TV, they’re even busier. GOT7 who has debuted for 2 years has had a hectic 2015. Junior who was the hero for 'My Love Eundong' has taken steps as an actor. Through his unique variety skills, Jackson is active as various program MCs and guest. Leader JB personally composed a song for GOT7’s album. All 7 of them have a lot of work to do with regards to their stage. From summer to winter, they have released two mini albums, and a repackaged album. From lively and cute charms (Just Right) shown, shortly they transformed to be powerful and gruff (If You Do). For the year end, they allowed us to listen to their sweet voices through gentle and warm ‘Confession Song’. 2015 was a year GOT7 used fully to show their charms. Is it due to them working without stopping? For the first time after debut, they won their first #1 on a music show and they’ve become singers that you absolutely can’t miss out on at year-end award ceremonies. Even when GOT7 are not on TV, on portal sites they update on their overseas performances and sides of them participating in events. The day we did the photoshoot, GOT7 had just returned from Singapore. The first person who turned up at the studio was leader JB. During the group shoot, when the members’ focus are scattered or disorderly, he says one phrase. ‘Let’s focus!’. The sound of the members’ laughter die down and the camera that stopped for a while continued with the shutter sounds. Junior, who was given the fishbowl with goldfishes inside was asked if he could catch the fishes with his bare hands and he replied ‘I can do anything’ with his eyes twinkling. Youngjae will always be at the place where sounds of laughter that are running out of air are heard. Youngjae was also the first to be curious about the goldish placed at one side of the studio. He knocked on the fishbowl and went ‘Fool! Look over here!” teasing the fishes. Looking at BamBam who definitely grew taller since the previous time, I was shocked. “Look at this” he said while pointing to shoes that had heels more than 7cm. Smartly dressed BamBam in black jeans and black boots will probably not even look awkward if he was to stood as he is in front of the camera. The word ‘college entrance exam’ looks like a taboo word to maknae Yugyeom who is a senior in high school. “The exams? I probably sat for it ‘well’” smiling shyly while answering and then moving with buzz feigning ignorance. Mark, the man of a few words, when he’s talking with his members or standing in front of the camera, he’s quiet. With his gentle eyes, he picks out his pose and does his part. Glancing at the monitor, Jackson looked at all the members’ photos, he mumbled to himself ‘Apart from me, all the members look cool/good’. When said Jackson is handsome too, with a playful expression he smiles. With that, the 7 people filled up the frame fully and completed one cut by one cut.
Is it because they have yet to get rid of their fatigue.. Even when seven men are gathered, from time to time, it becomes quiet. Starting at 6o’clock, it only ended after 12o’clock. After 3 days, we met up with the members again for the interview. The members were continuously laughing. For the first time I realised, this is the real GOT7.
While waiting at the filming venue, I see JB is reading. Isn’t the bookworm in GOT7 Junior?
Junior: Jaebum hyung too likes reading a lot but it’s just that people don’t know about it.
JB: When I was bboy-ing, the hyung I danced with read a lot so I was influenced by that. Just like Jinyoung, whenever I get time, I’m the type to read.
What kind of books do you like?
JB: I used to read fictions or self-help books in the past but now I read books like essays or poems – things that can be read when I’m on the move to nearby places.
Junior: I tend to generally read classics but lately I want to see a dramatic love story so I’m reading a fiction, ‘This Very Instant’, written by Guillaume Musso.
As we filmed for the photoshoot, we realised this. Seems like there are many members who have “crying mole”.
Yugyeom: When we do make up, we purposely put it on. Previously, during ‘A’ promos, the person who did the makeup said to try having a mole once and the fans’ response to that were good.
Youngjae: My mole is real but we’re always covering it with makeup. My mom doesn’t like seeing it and she said to have it removed.
Mark: What is a “crying mole”?
BamBam: If you have a mole under your eye, it’s said that you’ll have many tears. I don’t have much tears though. Even at concerts, I haven’t cried even once.
Jackson: (referring to his cheeks) I have a mole too. If the mole is here, what kind of mole is it?
BamBam: There’s not much meaning to that one (laughs)
Yugyeom is a senior in high school. When you were sitting for your college entrance examinations, did the members cheer you on?
Youngjae: We had a different schedule on that day. Of course we told him to do well but we weren’t able to do anything special.
Yugyeom: I just wanted to and do it quietly without causing a hindrance to the other students taking the exam. I’ve not checked my results too. I hope I’m able to attend college often.
Two members (BamBam, Yugyeom) are turning 20 next year.
BamBam: When I become an adult, I want to drink with the hyungs but on 31st December, we have a year-end show and when that ends it’ll probably be around 1AM. As soon as the recording ends, I want all the members to get together, have a meal and drink together.
In one of the broadcasts you did, it seems like if it’s just Mark and Youngjae together, it’s awkward. How is it now?
Mark: We’re not awkward now.
Jackson: That line in itself means they’re awkward (laughs)
Youngjae: In that case, we’re awkward. Hahaha.
Jackson: To be honest, if it’s with Mark hyung, I get awkward too.
Youngjae: Previously, we recorded some show in which 2 members talk with one another. Being with Mark hyung, people would call it ‘completely no fun’. Mark hyung doesn’t talk at all so it wasn’t interesting (laughs).
Jackson: Mark hyung doesn’t talk but even just looking at him, it’s good so they called it ‘enjoyably no fun’. When I’m talking to hyung, at some point, I tend to forget there’s even someone next to me. It feels like I’m talking alone.
Mark: Jackson has always talked a lot so it seems like he could feel that way (laughs).
For people like Jackson who are bright/cheerful on the outside, they’re unable to show when they feel upset on the inside.
Jackson: The dorm is the place I’m most comfortable in. At that place, since I’m with people I’m comfortable with, if there are any difficult things I tell it all to the members. That way I release all my stress.
Youngjae: When hyung talks lesser, the members will all ask (each other) “Did something happen to Jackson hyung today?” and find out.
Yugyeom: When we ask “Hyung, is there something going on?”, at first he’ll say “Nah, nothing much” but if we keep asking, he will open up like he was waiting for it. Hyung is feeling upset but if we don’t initiate conversation, he gets a little angry.
Jackson: The members are all kind and great but at times it’s troublesome. One person will come and ask if I’m alright and I have to say the same thing six times over. Yugyeomie will come and ask “Is there anything going on?” and I’ll tell him and a little later Youngjae will come and ask the same thing..
Yugyeom: When Jackson hyung tells me something, there could be moments when he wouldn’t like it if I conveyed it to the others so everyone will go and ask on his own.
Mark: If Jackson doesn’t say it and all of the members know, he will ask “Who said it?” (laughs)
It seemed like BamBam suddenly grew so tall so I was surprised but it seems like it is the power of the boot’s heels!
BamBam: I usually wear shoes with 8cm heels. Although I did want to look tall but if I wore shoes with shorter heels, I’m always overlapping with shoes that someone else is wearing. Up till now, I’ve not seen anyone wear men’s shoes that has 8cm heels. Therefore, I’ve been wearing it since. I like shoes that are from collections but what’s important is that I have to wear boots with heels when I’m standing on a large stage.
Jackson: Even when BamBam doesn’t wear shoes, he already has a great proportion but now it’s pretty much ‘God-sent proportions’.
Yugyeom: He already has long legs but now (wearing shoes with heels) his legs look s~~~~~~o long. At first it was awkward but now it’s fine. On the contrary, if he uses sneakers, it looks weird now. Lately Jackson hyung uses (that kind of) shoes too.
BamBam: There was once when I lent hyung shoes with heels and after that, he stopped wearing sneakers.
Jackson: I really liked the basketball Jordan shoes but now they’re collecting dust.
Even amongst the idols, Yugyeom is known as “hot body”.
BamBam: Yugyeom is the shoulder and chest gangster (wide shoulder and chest)
Yugyeom: My body isn’t that great. I don’t have abs, only my build is huge. Actually Jackson hyung and JB hyung bodies are great.
Jackson: Eyy, nah.
BamBam: Each member has a different portion of his body that is good
Jackson: (Towards BamBam) I’m being humble now, aren’t I? Just stay quiet (laughs)
Yugyeom: Mark hyung and Jinyoung hyung are the type to have small muscles. Even if the sizes don’t match well, the body looks pretty so even the dressing style turns out great.
Jackson: But I have short thick legs and even my face compared to these people..
Yugyeom: No! We’re all similar
Jackson: Yah, let’s be honest. Are you comparing yourself to someone who is 173cm? Anyway, that’s why when we’re taking airport photos, I don’t stick with the other members.
The members tell Junior that he looks like Kim Soohyun and Yoo Seungho?
Yugyeom: Don’t they really look alike? Those men are cool too but just looking at hyung’s face, he has the face of an actor
Junior: Ohew. Just being mentioned together with them is an honour.
Lately, there are a lot of idols who are acting. Junior and JB started the acting activities first. Do the other members have greed for acting?
Youngjae: If anyone asked for me, I would gratefully do it but I won’t go out looking for it on my own. Since I debuted as a singer, I want to focus on music.
Yugyeom: The members all have experience acting in web-drama “Dream Knight”. Even so, I like being on stage more.
On the internet, pictures or gifs of your past come up. Are there any photos you’d like to erase?
BamBam: I want to erase all the photos before the ‘SSI’ era. The hair and the outfit, really..
Jackson: Don’t be like this in front of me! In the past, I even pushed all my hair (laughs)
Mark: I want to erase the photos I took when I was in the States. Compared to now, I was definitely more tanned and there are even photos of me in swimsuit. It’s such a different look from me now.
Yugyeom: I want to delete the videos of me acting.
Youngjae: Me too. I know the fans like it but I cringe at it.
Junior: I want to delete all the selcas I took when I first debuted.
JB: I don’t really have a dark past or memory I want to erase. The past are also sides of me.
You’re the only member who doesn’t have an IG account. Is there a special reason for that?
JB: I saw a side of me that was only obsessed with IG. In that time, I could be watching another artist’s stage or watch dance practice or listen to music. Spending that time going on IG feels a little of a waste.
You’re raising a puppy ‘Toto’ in the dorm?
Jackson: (Referencing to the name the Editor used) Isn’t ‘Toto’ a brand name you’ll see in the washroom? (laughs) It’s Coco.
Youngjae: A coconut is white in colour so we call her ‘Coco’. Together with Mark hyung, we wanted to raise a puppy so we adopted one that doesn’t shed much fur.
Mark: At first, we called her ‘ssalddeok’ but the pronunciation was too hard so we changed it (laughs)
Yugyeom: At first Jaebum hyung raised a cat in the dorm but since Youngjae hyung has a fur allergy, he was not able to raise the cat. At the hospital, we asked if raising a puppy was fine and after getting the other members’ approval, we’re all raising it together.
Youngjae: When we have overseas schedule, we leave it under the care of some place, but when we have local schedules, it doesn’t feel great leaving her alone at home.
BamBam: Because there’s a puppy at home, the atmosphere is much better.
Fans sometimes have requests that are unreasonable. You love the fans but you had to choose (a request) that you cannot fulfil, what would it be?
Jackson: I know it’s a joke but when they ask to marry them? If they ask to date them, I could think about it but marrying.. (laughs)
JB: Isn’t marriage something you have to be extremely careful about? I’m really thankful that fans like me but something important in life like marriage isn’t something you talk about lightly and there are times I get worried.
Youngjae: I try to grant most things but at fansigns, fans will ask for me to write my first impression of them. When that happens, I don’t know what I should write so I just end up writing their names.
BamBam: When fans ask for those requests, you can just write what you see. Like if he/she comes with a red scarf, just write ‘red scarf’.
Jackson: Even so, we know fully that they love us.
Yugyeom: That’s right. In the event I went to today, the fans practiced and memorized our choreography for ‘Just Right’ and ‘If You Do’ – I’m touched seeing that. If the fans had no pride in being a GOT7 fan, dancing like that in front of so many people would be a difficult task.
At the end of this interview, you’re heading to China. Airport, stage, lodging. It’s quite a waste going to just these 3 places.
Jackson: That’s right. Apart from the difference in the person doing the room service, and the language we use with that person, our pattern is exactly the same every time.
BamBam: That’s why in the hotel room, doing whatever we can do (within that space), we try to enjoy it as much as we can. I mostly use the room with Jackson hyung so we put on good music, look at the view, eat delicious food and pass time like that.
Youngjae: For me, I just rest in the hotel.
Junior: I read books, soak in the tub, listen to music. I pretty much do the things that I’m not able to do leisurely in Korea. Ah, when we go overseas, I’ll definitely head to their convenience store to get a local cracker and drink each to try.
Yugyeom: Even though we live busily due to our schedules, I really like this life. Although sometimes we tend to fight even without remembering the reason, if I’m with the members, it is always fun.♥Source: Jr.RAM | haetbitmark (translation)
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