Twice has spent the final near-decade working to turn into one of the profitable woman teams on this planet.
In 2015, JYP Leisure, the Korean leisure company that launched hit international and home teams corresponding to Marvel Ladies and 2PM, debuted their newest woman group, Twice. The nine-member group was fashioned by means of the music survival present Sixteen, which featured sixteen trainees from the corporate vying for a spot within the group.
Within the years since Sixteen and the group’s official debut, Twice, comprised of members Jihyo, Nayeon, Jeongyeon, Momo, Sana, Mina, Dahyun, Chaeyoung and Tzuyu, has discovered each home and international success. As soon as dubbed “the nation’s woman group,” Twice and its members are family names in South Korea. Internationally, the group’s success has exploded lately. They secured their first entries on the Billboard 200 Prime 10 (Style of Love) and Billboard Sizzling 100 (“The Feels”) in 2021 and their first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 (With YOU-th) earlier this 12 months, cementing their spots as international stars.
Now, Twice is again with their newest album Technique, a seven-track pop album that permits the ladies to wade by means of a number of sub-genres of pop. The album’s lead single of the identical title options rapper Megan Thee Stallion, their second collaboration. The group says the brand new album has been an excellent problem for them.
“We’ve labored on so many albums up till now and we’ve tried so many alternative issues,” Nayeon, the group’s eldest member, tells The Hollywood Reporter. “The upcoming album is one other new strive, the place it was fairly difficult for us,” she continues, including that it’s additionally fairly significant for the group.
Twice joined THR throughout a current journey to Los Angeles to talk concerning the new launch. Under, the 9 members additionally share what it was like working with Megan Thee Stallion, what they do to unwind amidst hectic schedules and the way they need the world to see them.
What was it like collaborating with Megan Thee Stallion for “Technique?”
JEONGYEON She has a strong, robust picture. We have been questioning, would that slot in with our fashion of music and our picture? As soon as we recorded, we thought we really match rather well, loads higher than we imagined. I really feel like Megan’s fashion actually enhanced our a part of the music. After we have been capturing the music video, Megan actually needed to be taught Korean, so she saved saying like, “귀여운,” which implies cute. That “you’re very cute” or “that’s actually cute.” She did loads of Korean-style jokes and people hand hearts that Koreans do loads to interrupt the ice.
The nine-piece woman group topped the Billboard 200 earlier this 12 months with their EP, ‘With You-th.’
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That sounds prefer it was loads of enjoyable. Are you able to speak extra about capturing the music video? That is the primary time you’ve ever shot a music video with somebody apart from yourselves.
TZUYU At first for us, as a result of she’s so well-known and well-known, we have been fairly shy, however similar to she [Jeongyeon] mentioned earlier, Megan actually tried loads to interrupt the ice. She saved making an attempt to be taught Korean and make jokes and simply saved saying, “Let’s simply have enjoyable collectively.” I really feel just like the music video turned out very nicely.
As you method 10 years as a gaggle, it’s particularly reasonable to say that you’ve turn into position fashions as a gaggle and as people within the business. What sort of stress, or pleasure, comes with having youthful teams cite you as somebody they give the impression of being as much as?
NAYEON Each time I hear that, I really feel fairly proud and grateful. Proper now, quite than stress, I really feel that gratitude much more. I simply look again to how we’ve been working actually onerous, and all these phases that we’ve been displaying, it’s been an awesome affect on these individuals.
Do you may have any situations that come to thoughts of a youthful artist telling you that themselves?
JIHYO There have been undoubtedly situations the place they got here as much as us and advised us that. However loads of the instances, we see interviews. When different artists do interviews and so they point out us, then our followers see that and add it. We see that.
You could have been on tour for nearly two years now, on and off. Once you’re continually on the go, how do you’re taking time to relaxation and recharge? What are a few of your favourite issues to do for “me time?”
JIHYO Purchasing.
TZUYU Massages.
MOMO We exit to eat good meals.
NAYEON When we’ve time to sleep, we attempt to sleep in.
MINA I get jet-lagged. Due to the time that I’m awake at evening, I recreation loads.
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When it comes to the place you’re at in your profession, do you’re feeling you’re fairly totally different as an artist than while you began? Or do you’re feeling that possibly you’ve reached the potential you have been hoping for?
SANA I couldn’t think about that we might ever come to the U.S. and carry out right here.
CHAEYOUNG Yr after 12 months, I really feel like our targets received greater and greater. We’d dream greater. After attaining all of these issues, I felt like we gained much more confirmations and affirmations, and that drives us to strive more durable every time.
You’ve dominated the worldwide music house and turn into fairly well-known just about all over the place you go. What do you suppose your youthful self would suppose in the event that they noticed you right now?
MINA I don’t suppose I might consider it even when I noticed myself doing all this stuff, as a result of within the earlier days I simply by no means imagined we’d be acting at such massive venues. We’d by no means think about going round to this many nations to carry out.
JEONGYEON I wish to educate all of the songs and the choreographies that we’ve identified for the previous 10 years to my youthful self. [Laughs from the rest of Twice]
What does a women’ evening appear to be for Twice? How do you bond with each other while you spend nearly each waking second subsequent to one another in your skilled life? How do you preserve private relationships with each other?
SANA We’re actually shut to one another, not simply as coworkers, however as ourselves. We speak about probably the most random issues to probably the most severe issues about life. After we can’t determine on one thing, we come collectively to debate and we respect one another and one another’s opinions and hear to one another.
NAYEON We even have very informal meets outdoors of labor. “I wish to go right here. Does anybody wish to include me?” “I wish to go purchase one thing. Does anybody wish to include me?” These type of informal relationships.
When it comes to Twice as a gaggle, do you may have targets that you just haven’t reached but that you just’re actually working in direction of? Or are you taking it in stride because it comes?
DAHYUN Within the early days of our debut, we undoubtedly had tangible targets the place it’d be, “We simply wish to have a live performance on our personal.” “We wish to get this award.” “We wish to get the primary place on this.” Final evening, we carried out at Amazon Music Stay. We simply may have by no means imagined performing in these settings. I really feel like we’ve been experiencing loads of good issues. We’re type of anticipating and anticipating much more of that in our profession as nicely. Fairly than having a tangible aim or goal, I really feel like with the intention to accomplish all these issues, a very powerful factor is well being. We wish to maintain ourselves wholesome, so we will do all of these issues.
The group’s newest single “Technique” options rapper Megan Thee Stallion of their second collaboration.
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Listening to you say well being is a very powerful factor, what do you guys do to prioritize your individual well being? What do you do to really feel good when you may have a tricky day?
DAHYUN I’m fairly certain it’s totally different for everybody, however for me, I attempt to sleep in as a lot as potential after which drink loads of water. After I’m alone, I actually like to remain within the quiet and simply learn a e-book. In that, I actually acquire that therapeutic inside me.
NAYEON I believe simply spending alone time in an area that I actually love is a therapeutic time in itself. It actually helps me to only take a step again and unwind. Even when it’s slightly factor, if I similar to being in that house and simply on my own, spending that point alone, I really feel like that’s how I handle my very own well being and let myself unwind.
What would you like the world to think about once they hear the title Twice? Who do you wish to be seen as?
MOMO Even after 10 years, or years after, we wish to be remembered, and for them to suppose that we’ve been actually energetic. We wish to keep as many individuals’s position fashions. We simply wish to be remembered as one of the best woman group.
JEONGYEON We wish to be part of historical past. We wish to be historic. So, possibly at colleges, of their textbooks, we may have Twice’s music in there. We wish these children to be taught music by means of Twice’s music.
