[Video description: an interview with the members of the group XLOV. The video interpolates the members talking into the microphone and clips from their music videos. Transcript of what the members say (as translated by the subtitles):
Hyun: It came naturally...
Hyun: Yeah, it came naturally to me. Using this rigid [masculine/feminine] criteria to define people... I wondered if we had to, from a very young age. It's something I've thought deeply about. So as soon as the offer to be in the group came in, I thought, "I have to take on this challenge no matter what. I want to deliver this message, in my language, in my voice, to the heart of this world". In a way, I felt it was fate. So I took on the challenge.
Rui: I feel the same way. Also, since I've always been a dancer... when you're young and you start dancing, you're told, "men have to dance like this, and women, like that". In classical ballet, women wear tutus skirts and pointe shoes. And they'd say, "in ballet, only women can do that". You really hear it all the time. And since I was little, I heard this and thought, why? Because I'm sure I'd be even better at this ["feminine" dance] than at that ["masculine" one]. Why can't I try it? I can be flexible too, I can wear pointe shoes too. Why do you tell me that I shouldn't? So, when Muti hyung invited me to do this, together, I just said yes right away, and I had so much fun doing it.
Haru: For me, the way I see this genderless concept of ours, it's about wearing whatever you think looks beautiful on yourself, about being able to do whatever you want for yourself. So what we want, and what I want to do with my hyungs, is to keep going forward as a team who acts like that.
Wumuti: Yes, what I'd like to emphasize once again is: it's not that you need to use what society call the 'opposite' gender you were assigned at birth to express yourself without gender. It's about expressing yourself accordingly to what you feel makes sense at that moment [sometimes "femininely", sometimes "masculinely".] This is what we call the concept of 'genderless' or 'gender-free'. Because when you, let's say, are going somewhere [formal], if you were born a man, and it says "male" in your ID, there's this idea that you should only wear a suit and tie. We want to break it. If I want to wear a tie, I will. And if I want to wear a dress, I'll wear a dress. The way I present myself is mine and I'm the one who gets to choose it. This is the message we want to continue conveying.
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