[TRANS] Ilgan Sports “Drunk Talk” with Sechskies (1/3)
-Official question for our interview. How much do you guys drink?
Jaejin: 3 bottles of soju. With beer, I can drink upto a box.
Jiwon: I can walk with two legs after I drink 3 bottles of soju. After that though, I don’t remember much.
Suwon: I can drink about a bottle and a half of soju. I can drink more when I mix- I really like so-mac* (*a mix of soju and beer)
Jaeduck: I like beer. You know how they have special deals like “10,000 won for four cans” at convenience stores? Those are great.
Sunghoon: I think I’m the weakest. I can go up to one bottle of soju.
-Do you guys drink with one another often?
Jiwon: not really since we each have our own schedules. But when we do, we drink a lot.
-Any special drinking habit?
Jiwon: I say the same thing over and over again. It makes people around me tired.
Sunghoon: none of the members are particularly annoying. We don’t drink until we’re that drunk.
-This is your first comeback in 16 years.
Jiwon: I have as much passion as younger idols- or even more- but it’s sad that my body isn’t up to that level. There are some parts of the old choreographs that I can no longer do. That bothered me a little bit, but everything else was fine. I’m satisfied.
Jaeduck: Because we have less physical strength, we focus for less amount of time. Now, we have to learn quickly and intensively.
Jaejin: I don’t even know if I’m doing something wrong when I’m on stage. It’s all because we can’t focus as much as we used to.
Sunghoon: I wonder if it’s okay to call ourselves “idols”. When I see idols at salons, I notice they have fierce makeups. Compared to them, I feel like we’re not idols.
Jiwon: We’re more like maheun-dol* (*maheun: 40 in korean age)
-The new song “Three Words” won first place in charts. Did you expect that?
Jiwon: I didn’t expect it, but I did hope. But I was still skeptical about being 1st because so many big guns are out right now. I prayed “please let it be in top 5″ and I was so happy to see that it was in #1.
-The track was released at midnight. Did you check the chart hourly?
Jiwon: I was on the charts until 4AM when I finally went to sleep. I didn’t know, but these days, there’s even a chart called 5 minutes chart. I was going crazy because it shows a live graph. You know, I’ve never bought any stocks, but looking at those graphs, I could understand why people get addicted. Also, I could see how the fans were streaming with those five minute charts.
Jaeduck: Jiwon showed me the graph and that’s how I found out.
Jaejin: I became a zombie at certain point because I kept staring at the chart.
-There’s a new term called “hitting the roof”* (*when the number of downloads / streaming hits the maximum on the graph)
Jiwon: Ah, even that term, I found out about it not too long ago. I’ve released a lot of digital tracks before, but of course I don’t know since they’ve never been around the “roof”. I’ve discovered a lot of new things because of the recent release.
-How did you react when you first listened to “Three Words”?
Jaeduck: Didn’t we all cheer? We all liked it.
Jiwon: Of course we liked it. There was a preview at the concert, and 10 thousand people were all listening without making a single noise. I thought that was impressive. Not a single person made any sound. I was really nervous because I didn’t know what they were thinking. Were they quiet because they liked it, or because they didn’t like it?
Sunghoon: I thought they didn’t like it because there was no reaction from the fans. I like the song. It’s trendy, but not too trendy; it has some old school vibe but doesn’t overdo it.
-How was working with Tablo?
Jaeduck: He’s emotionally sensitive. I saw him crying. He also makes a great atmosphere for recording. He gives a lot of compliments. He kept comparing us to some good vocalists and saying that we are like them- when we know we’re not on that level. He encouraged us a lot.
Jiwon: He gave so many compliments that I felt like he was just messing with us. I was like “Is this really a compliment?” It must mean we should keep working hard.
Sunghoon: In the 90s, we were scolded a lot during recording sessions. Therefore, we lost confidence and we couldn’t be at 100% when we were recording. This time, it was nice to have people complimenting and encouraging one another.
-The concert ended with success.
Jaeduck: As the screen opened and we entered the stage, I could see all the yellow lights. I got goosebumps. At that point, I felt like we and the fans were somewhere off in another place. I still get chills thinking about it. I believe singers go on stage to feel this.
-Does that moment linger for long?
Jaeduck: I still get emotional thinking about it. It makes me want to be on stage again.
-Was there anything at the concert that you felt was unsatisfying?
Jiwon: I went back to the stage after the concert and looked at the seats, and they were taking them apart. It was a place where we and few thousands of fans were together for two days. I didn’t want to see it being taken down.
Jaejin: Seeing them disappearing in front of my eyes made me sad.
-It must’ve been hard physically.
Jaejin: “Reckless love”, “Com’ Back”, “Pomsaeng Pomsa” all have a lot of moves where we have to squat and jump. It was so hard that I saw someone I shouldn’t see in front of my eyes a couple of times. I thought my knees were going to dislocate.
-You guy must feel sorry to the fans (who’ve waited for so long).
Jiwon: They’re the fans that have waited for 16 years, so they don’t whine or grill us. So I feel even more sorry. I feel like the bond between us has become stronger because we have so much trust. Instead of telling us what to do, they say “They’ll do the best and decide for themselves”.
-I heard Yang Hyun Suk checked on even the concert stages.
Jiwon: Hyung is a Tsundere. He doesn’t show, but he cares a lot. We’re his juniors, you know. No one else in YG except for 1TYM and JINUSEAN was active when Hyunsuk-hyung was active. So he tries to take care of us. He even edited the music video himself.
-Did you ever get scolded while working?
Jiwon: He did say “Do I still have to check these things” once, but that’s all because he cares. Suwon and Jaeduck’s solo stages were saved by him. He saw the first version, said we should change it- and the second version was way better.
Sunghoon: It’s more like an advice really. I’d be happy to be scolded by him because I respected him as my idol even before debuting as Sechskies.
-You have a lot of respect for YG.
Jiwon: Jaeduck and Jaejin as dancers always picked Hyunsuk-hyung as the most respectable sunbae even before debut. We sang a lot of his songs on music shows. Even in our autobiography that we wrote back in the day, it says “I want to be like Yang Hyun Suk”.
Sunghoon: I was a big fan who followed his schedules in real life. I got hit by the guards.
-And he is Jaejin’s family.
Jaejin: We set boundaries when we’re working, though. We’re a family, but it’s different when we’re working.
Jiwon: I thought we would have some benefits because of Jaejin, but he has no power whatsoever. He gets scolded even more. (Laughs)
-”Infinite Challenge” played a big role in the reunion.
Jiwon: We owe so much to “Infinite Challenge”. I’m so thankful that I want to be on it every week, but they’re not contacting me. I’ll go whenever they need me.
Suwon: They should just call us without thinking about paying us or anything.
Jaejin: Last time we were on it, we talked about us only, but I want them to make us suffer more. I want to be on it every week.
Sunghoon: To be honest, even before “Infinite Challenge”, we were planning a concert and were continuously talking about the reunion.
Jiwon: Suwon wanted it to happen more than anyone else, but I opposed it every time. I wanted to be really careful about it. Then, an opportunity came with “Infinite Challenge”.
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