100% “Expected To Receive 19+ Rating For The Music Video” [Interview Part 1]
[Newsen Reporter Kwon Soo Bin]
"We’ve expected to receive 19+ rating for the music video."
100% has come back as a whole, not an unit group, after 10 months since their last comeback in May last year with the members reduced from 5 to 7. Taking up the leadership role, Rokhyun said, “We were worried if the stage looks empty since it’s our first time stepping on the stage with 5 members but we gained confidence from the fans’ support and good comments.”
This interview was held at Jonghwan’s alma mater, Jangan Elementary School in Seongnam, Gyeonggi-do Prefecture. It has been a long time since Jonghwan visited his school and his childhood memories come flooding back as he and the other members took a tour around the school.
We sat down in the classroom on small chairs meant for elementary school children and talked about the their title track <Beat>, an intensive, powerful song inspired by the ‘Frankenstein’ concept. According to Chanyong, “The guy died and the girl selected pieces of body parts from the other members in order to revive the dead guy. I am that guy.”
"If you watch our music video, you’ll notice that the members have something attached to our bodies. Those are the body parts that will be used in the revival process. In order to revive a dead person, a heart is needed and the girl gave up her heart for that. In the end, the revived man writhed in agony (upon seeing his loved ones dead) and ripped out his heart." (Hyukjin)
Watching the music video with the addition of the above information, it’s clear why this music video and the video teasers were rated 19+. Rokhyun explained, “We’ve expected that because there are blood and heart ripping out scenes.” Jonghwan went on and said, “It’s alright as long as the storyline is presented clearly to the audience.”
Seems that they are not bothered by the fact that other groups have challenged these strong vampiric and zombies concept before in the past. “Actually we’ve wanted to try these concept ourselves, whether if we can deliver the story to the audience within that short period of time while performing on the stage. That’s why we took on this challenge. We added in our own individual colors and mine is kinda strong this time.” (Jonghwan)
Chanyong exclaimed, “Truthfully speaking, it’s not a strong character but rather, a sad one. There are a lot of harmonization in the song and at the same time our distinct individual voices could be heard as well, giving the song a rich contrast of sounds.”
It was said that Chanyong lost consciousness during the filming of the music video. “I was topless throughout the entire filming, didn’t rest and in the end it was too much for my body so I fainted.” (Chanyong)
"The other members had time to rest but Chanyong kept on filming since morning. He took off his clothes after sweating from all the dancing and filming topless at night, causing his body temperature to drop a lot."
Chanyong, who is the main actor in the music video, had a kiss scene with the heroine, model Jung Ho Yeon. “It took us 3 takes because I want to go quickly end it and go back and sleep. I normally don’t wear insoles but because she was about 186cm while wearing heels so I had no choice but to wear insoles to match her height.”
"There were scenes where we played the piano with our hands intertwined, the girl leaning on my shoulder and me giving her a back hug but we really feel awkward with each other." (Chanyong)
The other members disagreed with Chanyong’s statement about them being awkward with each other saying “He really liked it.” and “He’s the only one smiling.”.
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