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"WHO ARE TWIST? - DAZED KOREA ISSUE VOL.1 (OCT 2016)

"One twist for ya mind, one twist for ya soul! Hello, We are Twist!"

TWIST Discuss DEBUT SINGLES 'ATTENTION' and 'WOW THING' & THE MEANING OF TWIST.

TWIST entered the K-pop scene with a fresh and exciting energy, debuting with double title tracks 'Attention' and 'Wow Thing', who both cite influences from 2000s pop and 90s R&B music, Twist make sure to command the public's attention and let the people know that they are here.

On the afternoon of October 1, 2016, TWIST had a magazine interview with Dazed Korea, their first-ever interview, TWIST open up to Dazed regarding their massive debut success, the meaning of the group's name, and where they want to go next.

It's been a month since your debut and you have already received two number ones on Gaon as well as your first music-show win! Did you think you this would happen so quickly?

Mina: We come from a small independent label such as JYL Records, so it is very surprising to us that the public even found out about Twist so quickly. We are very grateful for the public's reception to the music!

Sohye: It feels like a dream. To suddenly go from being a trainee and preparing for your debut for year 3 years to basically overnight success is such a new feeling. When you're in the trainee phase, you're met with many ups and downs to the point where you even doubt if you want to continue... In the end, you realize that your hard work paid off.

Your debut single album, ATTENTION, captures the essence of girl crush as well as a very powerful and intimidating image. As a group, many of you were involved in the creative process. Would this be a proper introduction to TWIST in your eyes?

Chaeyoung: I usually put my hand in the writing and composing of the music, whereas Mina will write occasionally, Hyerim also writes and produces, and both Sohye and Hyerim will come up with the image and creative direction for the music after hearing a final base of it. After careful consideration between multiple tracks, we believed that this is indeed the best introduction to TWIST.

Sohye: Chaeyoung's our main producer of the group in terms of members. She's extremely talented, especially when you learn that she's been composing music since the mere age of 12. I think Chaeyoung did a wonderful job and capturing the sound of TWIST.

Mina: For 'WOW THING', Hyerim was the main producer and that song is personally my favorite out of the three we've released. Hyerim's musical ear is interesting. She made the single by analyzing our personalities just immediately after a week in training back in 2015.

Hyerim: To continue from Mina, I made the instrumental for 'WOW THING' after watching Bratz. This was back when I was a trainee at JYL, I was quite a new trainee, but I had been partnered with these three for the group's lineup and I had made the song after being with them for a week. 'WOW THING' showcases the dynamic and different levels of how TWIST can be.

You work extremely well as a team. How did the four of you become a team?

Mina: It's been 3-4 years of me with Sohye and Chaeyoung, however, as a group, it's been one year of us four together. I meshed really well with Sohye and Chaeyoung in our trainee days, and as of 2015, Jiyeon Lee told us she found someone that would be an interesting addition to the group. Thus, we met Hyerim. Hyerim added the ace feeling that we wanted in the group.

Hyerim: I was only a trainee for a year, but I wasn't supposed to be a trainee at JYL Records. I had originally auditioned for YG Entertainment and ended up in first place, however, Jiyeon Lee actually snatched me! She gave me a tour of JYL and let me watch trainees perform and this is how I came across these three! They were performing "Survivor" by Destiny's Child and I immediately wanted to join them!

Speaking of dynamic and the versatility of TWIST, how would you describe the three songs you've released so far?

Mina: Attention is our debut single, we basically come out the gate demanding attention from the public and peers. It has a very sweet 2000s pop sound to it, and I would liken it to being inspired by Cassie's "Me & U". The choreography, made by Hyerim and Sohye, was made with the intention of being mesmerizing and give a vibe of cheerleading. This song is meant to show our dancing abilities!

Hyerim: Our double debut single, or title track, Wow Thing, has a more R&B sound to it. I previously mentioned making it after watching Bratz, however, musically, I was inspired by a Christina Aguilera track. We showcase our powerful vocals here compared to the other two tracks on the single release. I made sure that the public would know that we can sing.

Chaeyoung: Uh-Oh, the bside of the album, is an ode to 1990s hip hop. I specifically referenced the boom bap side genre with this track. While 'WOW THING' shows the vocals of TWIST, Uh Oh is meant to showcase the rap skills of TWIST.

Sohye: I came up with the overall concept of 'Uh Oh' as a response to the people in my life who didn't believe in me and had doubts of me becoming an idol. However, Chaeyoung helped put my vision to life as I'm currently working on my writing skills.

What does TWIST mean? What are your fans called?

Mina: TWIST means we can do any genre, any sound, any concept, any image by putting a twist to it. We each have individual charms that contribute to the music. We each have an input on the creative process whether its composing or coming up with the concept. We're simply putting our twist on things.

Hyerim: As for our fans, we were considering TWISTERS... but that is absolutely corny. I had to beg the members to not go for that. However, I came up with NADOS. Representing the tornado that is TWIST storming into the industry!

Sohye: That happens to be less corny. But I will add to the possibility of our fanbase becoming huge to the point where their power is equivalent to a tornado.

Would you say you have musical influences?

Chaeyoung: I feel as it may be impossible for someone to not be inspired or influenced by another act. However, I would say as a group, we look to 2NE1 for the goal of being strong of stage like them.

Hyerim: Vocally, I would love to have harmonies like Destiny's Child. I want us to be a vocal force.

Sohye: Individually, I am influenced by The Spice Girls. Each member had a specific charm to them that was quite different from the other, however, they didn't contrast or clash.

Mina: Mariah Carey's songwriting abilities and musical ear is something I would love for us to be likened too.

What are your plans after this?

Mina: Surprising fact, we do have another release planned before the end of the year! We also plan to do more promos and try to get the public to see us more. As of now, we have a couple variety shows lined up.

Do you have any words for your fans and the future ones to come?

Mina: Firstly, thank you Dazed, for having us. We're very thankful for our fans and we will work harder to show many sides of ourselves.

Sohye: I'm thankful for your immediate interest in us and I hope you stay.

Hyerim: I'm very excited for the future to come! I'm grateful for everything that has happened! May we continue to develop from here.

Chaeyoung: For our next release, we will promise to continue to raise the expectations of NADOS. We are grateful for your love.

You can listen to TWIST's debut release, ATTENTION, here.

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JYL Records' Debuts New Girl Group 'TWIST' With 'Attention' and 'Wow Thing (September 1, 2016)

JYL Records’ new girl group created by Jiyeon Lee has made their highly-anticipated debut!

In 2010, Jiyeon Lee, former creative director and writer for JYP Entertainment, established an independent label named solely after her, JYL Records. JYL Records have been preparing for their first group under the label for six long-awaited years, and the debut is finally here!

TWIST made their debut under the release of a single album, consisting of three tracks. Two of which are double title tracks “Attention” and “Wow Thing”.

The group already has noteworthy credits under their belt, as both title tracks were written and produced by the members themselves! “Attention” was produced and written by members Chaeyoung and Hyerim, whilst “Wow Thing” was similarly produced by Chaeyoung and Hyerim, and written by Mina.

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TWIST — THE 2ND MINI ALBUM '180°' TEASER

OVERDOSE (MV TEASER)

050517. SAVE THE DATE. LET'S GET TWISTED. PREFERABLY TO 180°.

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TWIST — THE 2ND MINI ALBUM '180°' TEASER

050517. SAVE THE DATE. LET'S GET TWISTED. PREFERABLY TO 180°.

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🌈, 🔥, and 👁 for the ask game !

👁️ EYE - what colour are their eyes? do people notice their eyes? is there anything special about them (shows emotion easily, literally magical...)?

“If we’re talking in a magical sense… I am most definitely a psychic. The girls always make fun of me when I say this!” Hyerim tries to stifle a laugh as she looks towards the members who all sigh dramatically as she begins to ramble about astrology and her spiritual powers. Sohye immediately intervenes before the girls are here for hours being told about their birth chart. 

“Please do not get Hyerim started about powers. She will claim that she had dejavu at the smallest situations ever…” Sohye laughs, playfully shoving Hyerim in the chair. 

“It’s true! I had dejavu when we were at Inkigayo and we got our first win! I was told I was delusional!” A loud Hyerim emerges in the room, standing up from the chair. She begins to point at the members, specifically Sohye and Chaeyoung. It was one of Hyerim’s many perks, to get loud and defensive. Chaeyoung audibly gasps as she wasn’t expecting to be brought into this little debacle. “That’s because who expects a 1 day old rookie group to their first win in 10 days?! Be realistic!” Matching Hyerim’s volume, the youngest two begin to get into a debate.

Mina suddenly speaks up, a bit overwhelmed by the sudden chaos in the room, she tries to everyone to a reasonable volume. “Well, to answer the first question… We all have brown eyes!” Stating the obvious, she hears laughter from the three other members.

“Why thank you, Catherine Obvious!” Sohye blurts out, despite having the incorrect saying. Providing even more laughter from Chaeyoung and Hyerim, the group’s lovely maknaes.

“Don’t you mean Captain Obvious?” Hyerim, now in tears of laughter, says as she holds onto Chaeyoung for more laughter. “Where in the world did you get Catherine from?!” Chaeyoung yells, her face is way beyond baffled. This was a new low for Sohye, who is now sitting flustered in her seat. Her cheeks are red and she covers her face in peak embarrassment.

“Shut up! I said what I said!” Sohye yells in defense, she folds her arms and turns her cheek to the girls. “Yeah, and you definitely said it wrong.” Mina makes a remark as she looks at the live comments.

“Well, as you can see, Sohye gets red in the face when she is embarrassed!”

🔥 FIRE - do they have any self destructive tendencies? what habits do they have that hinder them from becoming their best self?

“Self destruction is this one’s middle name.” Sohye points to Hyerim, completely throwing the maknae under the bus. So much for loyalty, huh? Hyerim rolls her eyes and completely shrugs off Sohye’s remarks. 

“Let’s not talk about self destruction when you’ve destroyed every relationship with a man that you’ve come across!” A passive aggressive Hyerim smiles as she pours herself some tea. A loud silence falls amongst the girls. This was pretty common between Sohye and Hyerim. There was a slight competition between the two behind the scenes. Quite frankly, it was an annoying thing to deal with if you have lived with them for multiple years.

“I may be self-destructive in my relationships, but aren’t you the one who destroys actual prior existing ones? If I recall, weren’t you just crying about being called a homewrecker?” Sohye questions. Leaving Mina and Chaeyoung in complete shock and having to clean up the mess that takes place after.

The comments are going insane, in the meantime. “I can’t help but be attractive to those who come across me. I’ve done nothing but exist and men with audacity feel the need to offer me things! Sohye, that’s what happens when you have a pleasant personality!” Hyerim chimes, her voice lowers as she leaves her tea on the counter.

“Please do not be alarmed, guys! This is just them joking with each other.. As you can see it gets really intense here, aha!” Mina, now feeling secondhand embarrassment and wanting to shut the livestream off. She can only imagine the rumors and possible controversy that can come out of this.

“Umm, I personally tend to overthink my work and critique myself way too much! I’ve deleted a lot of unreleased music because of this.” Chaeyoung switches the topic as she looks at the comments with Mina. Noticing the worried look upon her leader’s face, Chaeyoung squeezes her hand unbeknownst to the average viewer’s knowledge.

🌈 RAINBOW - what advice would they give to their younger self?

“What advice would you give your younger self, guys?” Mina cheers up as she looks at this particular question in the comments. She looks to her members for approval before she answers.

“You know? I would honestly start a bakery or get into cooking at a younger age. Baking is just very peaceful to me.” Chaeyoung smiles, her eyes twinkling as she begins to think about what could have been a nice alternate future for her. “You love baking. I’ve had some of Chae’s cookies, they’re really good!” Hyerim agrees with Chaeyoung as she recalls a memory.

“Oh, yes! Chaeyoung actually made a cake for my older brother’s wedding. Everyone loved it!” Mina exclaims, nodding her head in excitement.

“I would take up modeling. I can easily do that now, but I’ve always wanted to be in the children's beauty pageants, my parents on the other hand…” Sohye sighs. She shudders at the mere thought of that small part of her childhood where she actually lived with her parents.

“For me, I would grow a backbone early on and actually defend myself. I’m too timid as of now.” Mina gets candid for a bit. She believed she found herself to be a pushover and a bit weak at times. She often questions her leader role, as well. Especially when it becomes hard to tell if her members are fighting or playing, she finds herself wondering… Can she really do this?

“I would tell myself that I can do anything I want! Technically speaking, I’m already doing that. But I mean in the sense that I can major in Psychology as I’m also an idol. You know, multitasking! I have a deep love for psychology!” Hyerim stirs her tea and takes another sip. She found herself wanting to ramble about the human mind and the influences of society.

Noticing the comments still mentioning the questionable tension between Sohye and Hyerim, Mina finds that it is time to end the livestream. Mina puts on a forced smile, “Well, that’ll be all for today, guys! We actually have to go to rehearsal soon! Oops, did I mention rehearsal?” Mina giggles, she internally pats herself on the back for shifting the focus onto something that really matters.

The girls say their respective farewells to the livestream and it soon ends. Leaving the girls to look at each other in silence. Mina slowly becomes furious, but she would never let it show.

“You two need to get it together. I know you both read the comments. There’s no reason that little stunt should have taken the focus of the whole livestream. You are aware that people are going to think there’s tension, right?” Mina sighs once again, her voice starts to fluctuate between several volumes. This might have been the angriest the members have seen their leader.

“Unnie, it’s okay. You did a great job on distracting the comments! They actually think there’s music coming and me being me, I can fix that.” Chaeyoung places her hands on Mina’s shoulders, trying to ease her leader’s stress. 

“Sohye started first! She shouldn’t have said that I’m self destructive. I simply pointed out facts.” Hyerim retorted. “It’s actually hilarious that I can get under your skin like that,” Sohye smiles as she leaves the three, going into her room. She knew she would be hearing Mina’s mouth for the rest of the day. 

Mina’s eyes widened, she couldn’t believe Sohye had the audacity to leave the room in the middle of a group meeting. Immediately rising from her chair, Mina follows Sohye into her room.

“How dare you! You have the nerve to leave when I’m in the middle of letting you guys know that the idiocy taking place is ridiculous?!” Mina yells, this was her first time even calling the members out their name. Sohye’s heart might have dropped just a teensy bit. She’s lived with Mina for four years, and hearing the insult being hurled from the leader was shocking.

“You’re not excluded from the lecture, Sohye! It’s not solely Hyerim’s fault, this is yours too! Do you know how serious bully accusations are?!” Mina’s voice gets louder, she knew the general public weren’t fond of bullies. Hell, they’ll petition for both Sohye and Hyerim to leave, leaving the rest of Twist to fend for themselves. Mina valued her career, and she knew Chaeyoung did too.

Sohye, still silent, begins to paint her toenails as she dismisses Mina’s need to yell. “Mina, please. It was a joke. Don’t you think you’re overthinking, a bit?” Shrugging Mina’s worries off, Sohye finally looks to her leader. Deep down, Sohye was not joking. It was a bit fun doing whatever she was doing to Hyerim. It’s not exactly a competition, but the banter is indeed fun. 

As the older two of the group are arguing amongst themselves, Chaeyoung doing damage control, has uploaded a song to the group’s soundcloud. Hyerim, sitting next to her, witnesses the moment right before her eyes. “I cannot believe you just did that, thank you.” Hyerim says as she looks towards Chaeyoung.

Slowly regretting her prior remarks to Sohye earlier, Hyerim did not like seeing Mina in such an angered state. Chaeyoung on the other hand, did not take any offense to Sohye and Hyerim’s continuous banter. Did it become too much at times? Yes. But she also understood why her leader was under panic.

After a few minutes of yelling from Mina, she heads back to the living room and sits in silence. She finally notices the soundcloud notification on her phone; ‘Twist have uploaded a new track. Listen here.’ Slightly easing her previous anxiety, Mina sighs in relief. She knew there wasn’t much that could be done about Sohye and Hyerim in the current moment, but as long as fans were focused on something else for the time being, she was fine.

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