[Interview] TEEN TOP targeted the noona fans, now it’s time for planet Earth! “Practising vocals while running on the treadmill”!



After ‘Clap’ and ‘Supa Luv’, with ”No More Perfume On You’ on 2011, the group that has definitely targeted the hearts of noona fans is TEEN TOP. In 2012, with ‘Crazy’, as the name suggests, it is driving the fans crazy.
Having done the so-called ‘fierce’ songs in the past, TEEN TOP is in the spotlight once again with the rhythmical melody in ‘Crazy’ Before KBS 2TV on the 27th, met up with TEEN TOP and asked “Do you feel your popularity” and they were shy about it.
On stage they seem to be overflowing with confidence, but in the waiting room they are still the shy teenagers who love to joke around.
L.Joe laughed “Even Andy hyung went through this”
“We feel our popularity during music programmes more fans turn up. During pre recordings the screams are really loud, after conquering the hearts on noonas with ‘No More Perfume On You”, in real life (the number of noona fans) has really increased. In the music video for ‘Crazy’ L.Joe became the main focus of the fans”
L.Joe who smiles alot, kept smiling brightly during the interview. Because he smiles too much, he was even told off by the representative of the company i.e the senior in the music industry, Andy.
He explained “I haven’t smiled much in performances this time round, because I’ve to maintain the chic-ness but I’ll give smile once in a whole”
This song required even greater effort to fully express the song so they had put in a lot of effort to practise live performances. It’s a must to practise at the recording studio with Brave Brothers for ‘Crazy’, and to make sure that their voices don’t shake during live performances, they practised singing while running on a treadmill TEEN TOP dreaming of becoming ‘Earth idols’
“Promise to the public when we get 1st place? It’s a secret”
Recently it’s a trend for singers to set public promises; “I’ll do this and this when I win 1st place” “Previously we’ve gave promises like “We’ll walk on our hands on stage” “We’ll do acrobatics” etc.. But every time we do that, we only end up being 1st place contenders” “To actually win 1st place, our public promise will be a secret”
TEEN TOP has many nicknames like ‘handcuff-idols’ ‘holiday-idols’; when asked what other nickname do they want to add to the list in the future, they chose ‘Earth-idols’ It has the meaning of TEEN TOP wanting to be know in any part on Earth Will the 6 men achieve the results in 2012? TEEN TOP is planning for their Japanese advancement
“For one, we haven’t been able to sleep much, we haven’t been able to experience school life like the rest and we’re drifting apart from our friends. But this is something all of us want to do. We’re teachers in life as compared to the others as we started life in society earlier.” Because we have to sync their dances, we only have activities twice a year, so the nickname of ‘holiday-idols’ was created. We’ll work hard in order to meet our fans more frequently in the future”

eng trans: @oursupaluv