Celebrating its fifth debut anniversary, BEAST pushed ahead their second comeback this year, which was exceptional for the group, in order to remain faithful to their fans. It is their first time to put a ballad, not a dance track, in their title spot. The group put much efforts into this new album despite their busy schedules at home and abroad to pay back fans’ unchanged love which the group’s been receiving for five years.
On October 16th, which was the day of their 5th debut anniversary, BEAST held an interview with the press including Wiki K-pop at Cube Cafe located in Chungdam-dong, Seoul and shared their feelings about releasing their 7th mini album with a new title track ’12:30′.
There were two issues that got our attentions. ‘Why did BEAST choose a ballad?’, and ‘What is BEAST’s fifth anniversary look like?’.
The title track ’12:30′ is composed by a music composition team ‘Good Life’ which BEAST’s Yong Joon Hyung is a member of with another composer Kim Jo Tae. The title track ’12:30′ is a ballad song that portrays heartbreaking feelings of those who recently ended a relationship by comparing their sadness to an hour hand and a minute hand of a clock that face opposite directions.
The first talk with BEAST was about the song ’12:30′.
✔ It is your first time to return with a ballad track. What did you have in mind while preparing for the album?
Joon Hyung: We showed fancy and powerful features when we promoted our previous song ‘Good Luck’. So this time, we wanted to show you something more relaxed than that. I wanted to touch people’s sentiment as the season is the season. It is not a typical ballad song as you’ll find out on our stage.
✔ What do you mean that it is not a typical ballad song?
Joon Hyung: It is too strong to be called a ballad. It has firm rhythm and I tried to make the song more fresh by adding electric and dub-step sound to piano and string melody. The song is groovy which is great for dancing. You’ll find out that we can present such a stage with this type of song.
✔ On <Beautiful Show>, Yoseob remarked that he would like to release an album in autumn. Did you anticipate this comeback?
Yoseob: We talked about releasing another album this fall when we promoted ‘Good Luck’, but nothing was set in stone back then. My hasty words made Joon Hyung tired. I was worried that the song would be low in quality because we prepared in hurry, but Joon Hyung had already written 3~4 songs, so there weren’t much difficulties.
Doojoon: We have arena tour coming up in Japan in November…and I was wondering whether releasing another album this year would be possible…and Yoseob made such a rash behavior…
Yoseob: Don’t blame it on me~! Everyone praised me for my action.
✔ What was the motivation behind Joon Hyung forming ‘Good Life’ with Kim Tae Joo?
Joon Hyung: When I write ‘composed by Yong Joon Hyung – Kim Tae Joo’, it feels like we are not on the same boat, so I wanted to unite the team. I admit that there’s little bragging. Haha!
✔ Do you guys separate your roles when composing a song?
Joon Hyung: We crosscheck each other’s work. For example, if one person goes too far, another person puts him back on the track. It is not like one person puts more time into work. When I suggest him ‘Let’s try this’ while I’m busy with my schedules, he fills up my lacking parts and puts the plan into action.
✔ What about other members? Do you guys want to work on songs like Joon Hyung?
Yoseob: It’s not that we don’t have that wish in mind. In the future, we will have conditions that will allow us to work on songs. For now, Joon Hyung is doing excellent job working on songs.
✔ Why did you name name the title track as ’12:30′?
Joon Hyung: It has clean-cut image. 3:45 doesn’t sound right…
Yoseob: Doesn’t it have to be 6:00?
Joon Hyung: The time does not make a perfectly straight line..but it’s very close to it. Symbolically, this is the quiet time that people get impressible and sensitive.
✔ People often say ‘BEAST’s songs are trustworthy’, and are Joon Hyung’s songs ‘trustworthy’ for other members?
Yoseob: No. We are very objective…haha! We don’t simply like a song just because Joon Hyung wrote it. Many songs have been rejected by us. However, we feel thankful to be acknowledged as trustworthy musicians. That’s what make us pay more attention to our work. It’s a great reinforcement for us.
✔ Unfortunately, this year’s K-pop fall match is going to be tough. There are veteran artists such as Seo Taiji and Kim Dong Ryul in music charts.
Yoseob: What can we do…we have to humbly take the outcome.
Doojoon: Although it’s not easy, we’ll try to leave a trace in a music chart.
Joon Hyung: Although we can’t catch up with sunbae artists’ maturity, we have our own music colors. Rather than obsessing with the outcome, I’ll put fans’ satisfaction on the top priority. I just want our fans to know that we are releasing this new album to keep our promise to our fans.
cr: wikikpop
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