Twice, the nine-member Okay-pop band with over 9 million Twitter followers, says it feels its rising reputation abroad.
“Folks didn’t know as a lot about us as they do now,” band member Jihyo instructed The Related Press forward of final week’s launch of the band’s third full-length album Method Of Love: O+T=3, including that the rising reputation of Okay-pop world wide has allowed the band to launch extra English tracks.
The brand new album has 17 tracks with three all-English songs. On Monday (Nov 15), they introduced a tour that can begin in Seoul on Dec 24 and can deliver the group in February to 5 US cities, together with Los Angeles, New York and Atlanta,
Twice launched its first full English-language single The Feels in October, which was its first track to debut on the Billboard Sizzling 100 chart.
Twice is a family title in South Korea and Japan – the place the band recurrently tops the Oricon music charts, Japan’s equal of Billboard. (Members Sana, Mina, and Momo of Twice are from Japan.)
The band’s success comes after years of laborious work.Twice, which debuted in 2015, walked into the interview with full vitality even after present process 5 hours of intense dance observe forward of the album launch.
Jeongyeon had stunned her bandmates by asserting that she’d briefly helped out a pal by working as a barista – a breath of recent air for the star who’d introduced a hiatus since September citing psychological well being points.
She stated nobody had recognised her and stated she didn’t play Twice songs on the cafe.
Jihyo, who co-wrote a number of songs for the brand new album, stated she’d taken inspiration from real-life occasions, together with the dying of a houseplant.
“I used to personal a cactus, actually,” Jihyo recounted, including that she’d did not water the plant and maintain it citing her busy schedule. “I completely forgot, and some months later, I realised that it’d died,” she stated. “I felt so dangerous. I even named it.”
She stated the track, Cactus, was written from the plant’s perspective, seeing its proprietor strolling out and in of the room and ignoring it. – AP
