B1A4, Seeking an explanation from Jung Jinyoung

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This is the 3rd part to the reconstruction. We know that there have been fans waiting for it. We would like to address the fans who asked why it was taking so long for the third part to come out. This is push and pull. Now, there is also push and pull needed when writing from the viewpoint of a report.

Continuing from the second part where Baro’s story of his exam lunch was revealed and caused tears, the third part will be about ‘genius composer’ Jinyoung, and the powerful pleads of the members.

◆ As it turns out, B1A4 are bad boys?

Reporter: The main character of ‘Sleep Well Good Night’ are bad boys right? Any chance it’s a personal experience?
Jinyoung: No, it’s not my personal experience. (laugh) It’s not an experience, but you know when I make a song I personally record the guide track. The original lyrics had ‘sleep well, good night. I’ll be dancing, dancing, dancing in the moonlight”. I started to think about the possible situations. I always make my songs with my imagination. This has absolutely never happened in real life before. (laugh)
Sandeul: Jinyoung hyung has a lot of imaginations. His imaginative power is awesome.
Jinyoung: The stories in movies and dramas are always the same, so I wanted a new story that was not overused.
Sandeul: But the melody, unlike the lyrics, is very sweet.
Jinyoung: As a guy, he should always send a girl off to bed sweetly, not forcefully.
Baro: The lyrics of ‘Sleep Well, Good Night’ are really interesting. But as we sing, it starts getting chaotic. Since the melody is so sweet, unknowningly my expressions come out really brightly. It is significant as the lyrics express how a guy comes out after putting his girlfriend to see… But if you watch the music video, there is a reversal within the reversal. On places like Youtube, there are overseas fans who upload reaction videos of them watching our music video. I watched some of them, and all their reactions were the same. Their expressions got weird upon watching the last scene. I don’t think they understood.
Reporter: Could it be because they didn’t understand the lyrics?
Baro: Ah… That could be it too. But you would tend to understand it upon watching it for the second time.
Reporter: CNU’s eyes when turning the female dancer around her waist on stage are particularly impressive.
CNU: I’ve never had such an experience before, so that glare was difficult to do. (laugh) Are the lyrics of a bad influence? Honestly, it could be that the guy is not heading to meet another girl, but just to have some fun. It can refer to the guy not having fun with the girl, and would rather spend time with his friends.
Reporter: Shall we listen to what the original composer meant?
Jinyoung: That’s what happens when you nitpick over the finer details of the song. It didn’t have to be about the guy going to meet another woman. But since it was that concept

for the music video, there have been many different interpretations. (laugh) The main purpose… was to break away from daily life. (smirk)

◆ Demanding an explanation from leader Jung Jinyoung

Baro: It was like this for ‘Because of You’ too. Whenever hyung makes a song, he creates a very confused atmosphere. The feel of the song is entirely different on the lyrics. Hyung likes his reversals too much. I wrote the rap with CNU hyung, but it was really difficult to write the lyrics. When writing raps, we just have to follow the feel. But it was so hard to put our emotions into writing the rap. The lyrics go ‘it’s alright, but thinking about having to eat alone, it’s not alright’. Lamenting to a girl ‘I’m like this’, with a split personality.
Jinyoung: Look, the reason why I do so… It is true that I do like twists to my songs. It’s like how there is no charm to a rough-looking character being very strong. Same thing goes for cute-looking people only being cute. The song may be very dark, but when the feel is brighter, it hits closer to home. If you listen to only the melody of ‘Because of You’ it does sound like a confession song. But once you know more, it’s actually about a broken relationship.
CNU: The fans said that it’s because we have the ‘reversal-charm’. (laugh)
Baro: I hope he can continue being this hard-working.
Sandeul: From the singer’s point of view, this point (of reversals) is easy. If the lyrics are dark just like its melody, the emotion load comes easier. Now that it’s the direct opposite, I’m having a mental breakdown.
CNU: What are you talking about?
Sandeul: This is what I mean by ‘thinking to myself makes me think deeper”. That’s why I think the reversals are good.
CNU: Jinyoung requested us to express the calm yet painful situation of a break-up. I thought very hard about it. As Sandeul said, it would have been easy to write sad lyrics with a sad melody. It is really difficult to write sad lyrics with a upbeat melody.
Baro: Hyung made many requests on how we should sing the song, and how the rap should be written, yet it was somehow vague. The lyrics were not very hard to write yet it took us a few days. Jinyoung hyung said, “The melody is really sweet right? But when you listen to it, ‘it’s all because of you.’ It’ll be nice if you express the realistic situation of a breakup.” But it was my share of work to capture the concept accurately, and the sweet mood totally killed it. That’s why it took a few days.
Jinyoung: I have something to say too. ‘Because of You’ was written in a minor chord. It is a chord that nothing else but a sad melody could have come out, so it would have been easily written. But I don’t like it to be easy and obvious. If there was a reversal to the melody, it comes out differently. It’s not a given for a bright melody to have dark lyrics. When I thought about it, I felt that such ‘reversed’ songs would be special. Break-ups may not just be bad things. For example, you have to work but you just cannot stop crying. But when you think about it, you can sing about it too, right? As you live your everyday life, you may start to think about that girl as you are using your computer.
Sandeul: Amongst all of hyung’s songs, ‘Baby I’m Sorry’ was the hardest. You have to sing it happily, but the lyrics give you a mental breakdown. The song starts in a minor chord then proceeds into a major chord. Wah…
Jinyoung: Are you going to send the girl off badly? You have to break up with her coolly. Are you going to hold onto her and not let her go? You have to let her go coolly, while smiling.
Sandeul: Well, I do not think about such twists. Maybe it’s because hyung would coolly send her off.
CNU: But to be exact, ‘Baby I’m Sorry’ doesn’t really talk about sending the girl away coolly. He holds her back twice. If you look at my part near the end, I shout for her to ‘not go’.
Jinyoung: About that… You will still think about the girlfriend as you play around while trying to forget it. Even when you play, when you are playing, you’re not really playing. If you think about it, my songs all have a story to it. The lyrics of ‘dancing party time’ seems really out of the blue, but it may happen. The lyrics goes ‘don’t go, don’t go’, then ‘I’m dancing to forget you’, but after dancing, ‘this won’t do, please don’t go. I can’t take it anymore’.
Sandeul: He’s an amazing person.
Baro: He already has the stories all in his mind.
Sandeul: His brain capacity is all filled up. He is a smart person.
CNU: It’s our song, but I really think they’re really good. There is definitely a charm to ‘reversed’ songs.
Baro: Usually singers say that they do not really listen to their own songs right? But I really listen to our songs often. I was running on the trackmill and I wanted to listen to ‘Baby I’m Sorry’, so I put that on repeat for 10 times.
CNU: I’m sorry to say this myself, but our songs are really attractive. (laugh)
Sandeul: I thought that hyung was a weird person, the first time he let me listen to a song that he just wrote. I was about to sleep but he let me listen to it. What does he think while living.
Jinyoung: Honestly, I worried a lot while I write songs. I wondered if I expressed the reversal well. Before we record, we create a story and imagine it together. Hence the individual members have been able to express the song well in the recording sutdio. I’m thankful that the members sang my songs well. (laugh)
Baro: I nearly cried, after listening to ‘Baby I’m Sorry’. (laugh)
Reporter: And the time is up. Shall we end it up coolly?
B1A4: Fans! I love you!

The three-part interview with B1A4 has ended. B1A4 successfully ended their ‘Sleep Well Good Night’ promotions in Korea, and is starting on their Japan promotions. They have debuted with the Japanese version of ‘Beautiful Target’, charting 4th on the Oricon Charts and given the green light to conquer Japan. We hope for super rookie B1A4′s success in conquering not only Korea, but Japan and Asia and even larger markets. Let’s fly, B1A4!

source: Joy News 24, trans by skipfire @ flightb1a4

Part 1 and 2 of the interview

Comments

[kuumin.livejournal.com]

what is this i thot it was lawsuit boring

[ginevragirl.livejournal.com]

If you can't understand the intelligent discussion about composing and song lyrics, maybe you should just go to the SuJu MV post.

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[palebluedot09.livejournal.com]

[yinky-xuan.livejournal.com]

Sandeul and his mental breakdowns! LMAOOOOO!!

i didn't really like the concept of baby good night too. D: but i respect jinyoung for being able to put the song together. the music is really good!!!

[lazmy.livejournal.com]

glare at me cnu glare at me

[chunsakuma.livejournal.com]

Reporter: CNU’s eyes when turning the female dancer around her waist on stage are particularly impressive.
CNU: I’ve never had such an experience before, so that glare was difficult to do. (laugh)

lol Suuuuuuuuuuuuuure.

[palebluedot09.livejournal.com]

Baro watched reaction vids? OMG. *flips everything*

And I love how Jinyoung doesn't take the obvious route when composing. I know it confuses people sometimes like with Baby Goodnight because the song was so cute sounding and then it was about cheating. Or in Baby I'm Sorry with dancing party time in a song about a breakup. But I respect that he tries to think outside the box. It's one of the things I love about him.

[peanim.livejournal.com]

New fan here! This interview is so fun to read I almost feel like it's a reward for me being a new fan hahahaha
I love that this "young" group (just a year old since debut) is making interesting interviews, talking about their music rather than just talking about the hackneyed topics idol interviews always have.

[palebluedot09.livejournal.com]

Awwww. Welcome!

And yeah their interviews are fascinating. I really love reading them. Especially when they talk about creating music. You can tell they are really passionate about it.

May I ask do you have a bias in B1A4 yet? I'm just curious. :)

[peanim.livejournal.com]

The one that really made an impression on me at first was CNU. So maybe it's him. But then! Jinyoung and Baro always seem to stand out in perfs. Jinyoung's mind is awesome. Baro's voice is just lfkdsfkdfkdkfj. But then! Sandeul and Gongchan seem really funny in videos. WAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I think this is going to be the first time where I don't like one member the least. :)

Seriously, I will now give you my answer. Excuse my weirdness. It's really CNU. I like his voice, his dancing in Baby Goodnight kills me, and I like his appearance. Oh and since CNU's nickname is Bear, I think it's funny that he's my bias. My friends called me Bear a few years ago. I'm petite, so I'm not bear-like in a rough way, probably was bear-like in a chubby, teddy bear way. (Well, accdg. to my friends.) Bear love! HAHA

[palebluedot09.livejournal.com]

Awwww. Yeah B1A4 definitely screws up your bias list. It's like every day I am spazzing about someone else. They all have their different charms that tug at your heart.

You aren't weird at all. CNU is great. Hahah actually he's my ideal type from kpop even though he isn't my B1A4 bias. And yes that man is multi-talented. Sings amazing, raps great, is a terrific dancer.. Cute! I also like his nickname Classical Scholar CNU.

[peanim.livejournal.com]

I haven't come across that nickname! I have much to learn. Haha! Why was he given that nickname?

[palebluedot09.livejournal.com]

It was during Sesame Player. And if I remember correctly it was because CNU was quiet and always looked like he was deep in thought.

If you haven't watched Sesame Player I recommend it! You will just fall in love with the boys more. http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9FA232CAA7B99DAF&feature=edit_ok

Also Match Up is good too! http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFC0FFCA36107F904&feature=mh_lolz

[peanim.livejournal.com]

Lawl reading that already makes me laugh. Ah so it was from Sesame Player. Someone recommended it to me in another thread! (Might've been you keke!) Thanks! I'll definitely watch those. Just haven't been able to because I've been busy. But B1A4's music has definitely made the past 2 weeks better!

[peanim.livejournal.com]

I almost forgot, other than really enjoying their Baby Goodnight perfs, the first physical feature I liked about CNU was his long hair. I have a thing for guys who can rock long hair. I don't like it styled too much. Just the right amount. I blame period dramas and Rafael Nadal.

[palebluedot09.livejournal.com]

Oooo yes. I totally agree. Never, never cut his long hair! Although I am sure they will eventually.

[purring-feline.livejournal.com]

Excuse me for jumping in but YAY, you decided to give them a go! Welcome! :D

[peanim.livejournal.com]

Heehee thanks for the warm welcome! :D :D :D

[ginevragirl.livejournal.com]

I really just want to peep inside Jinyoung's head for a day. He's one of the quieter members, but when he does talk, it's always so eloquent and intelligent. I really just want to see what he thinks of the world. He's just fascinating to me.

/not biased/ :P

[palebluedot09.livejournal.com]

No I would love for that too. Especially when he is creating music. I would love to see how he operates and comes up with his ideas. Things like that fascinate me.

[forevrseptember.livejournal.com]

ngl that would be fascinating, i wonder what his thought process is really like

[peanim.livejournal.com]

"CNU: I’m sorry to say this myself, but our songs are really attractive. (laugh)"

I like that what CNU said shows how the boys are genuinely proud of their music. It's always cringe-inducing and sad at the same time when idols talk about their music and just parrot the press release. Sometimes it's obvious when an idol isn't really proud of their material, and it sounds worse when the press release makes such a big deal of out of some details in their song/production/choreography. Obviously it works when what they're selling is good material, but when it's not, ack I just feel sorry for them.

[palebluedot09.livejournal.com]

I agree. But then again they put the work in to it so they should be proud. I'm proud of them! My babies.. gah

[peanim.livejournal.com]

Exactly. It's not undeserved. I'm so happy I finally took notice of them! Felt like something was missing in my K-pop playlist. (Just an observation on myself and what' I've been listening to, not on the industry.)

[falling-empress.livejournal.com]

haha jinyoung is such a fucking weirdo, i love him. like, really his lyrics don't make any sense with the music but idk i guess sometimes i can dig it? it's like a lot of korean songs sound like FUCKING MUSIC (making baby music) and then it always turns out to be about breaking up! hmmm...haha

i like that b1a4 tried to explain the meaning behind baby goodnight, because honestly i thought the lyrics were fine but the video was messed up and i don't think that was their doing of course.

[erisinia.livejournal.com]

Maybe Jinyoung just sucks at writing sad melodies. XD One of my favourite songs is Nickel Creek's "Lighthouse", which they wrote because a friend challenged them "You can't write songs that aren't happy!" and the lyrics were TRAGIC but the melody is still up-beat and perky. ^^

I really like how they're all involved in the production side of the music. It makes them seem like artists instead of just puppets. Well-trained puppet-y stars are part of the appeal of kpop, but Bilasa are the best of both worlds.

[purring-feline.livejournal.com]

That was a really interesting read! I'm glad Jinyoung puts so much thought in his composing!

[oliwon.livejournal.com]

I always enjoy reading their interviews XD
i wish they'd release a baba episode of them recording or jinyoung composing ..it would be really awesome! ;w;

[weerainbow.livejournal.com]

Wow this was actually really fascinating. I'd love to take a trip inside Jinyoung's head, it sounds like such a weird and wonderful place to be.

[daesung-fanatic.livejournal.com]

omg I had to read parts 1 and 2

and they are just too damn cute and amazing

I love them!

[hileahrious.livejournal.com]

they are so perfect and i'm so proud of them fhagdhsfk