#i also play one instrument and have no experinece in writing an album

[ezra-oi]

The album concept of mine for the far-far future.

Apocalypse: decay

First album, in which we go through everything that makes us humans. I want everything to be concentrated on the humanity of everything. How we experience happiness and anger and greed and everything, how we destroy everything around us by being selfish and uncaring and just seemingly not good people; while one the other end, everyone has pretty things, everyone does good things, every motivation is pure for the person.

I want to show the many layers humanity has.

Then at one point death starts. Which is awful and irreversible. And no one really deserves it, yet, even if they finally somehow work together and come together, or anything else, nothing will work. And you can pray to God, restrict yourself all you want, be good for one more day, do more for others, or give up, and just get everything yourself. Despite this, the good, the bad, the selfish and the selfless. Everyone burns the same. Everything ends the same. And there will be nothing.

some possible song titles: 1. Thirst - this is already valid. This will happen, somewhere around the end of the album. It's about thirst. Every meaning. But it's mostly just about yearning for something you cannot have. 2. Apocalypse - title. 3.

Apocalypse: rebirth

Then this is rebirth. The second album is about how, in an empty world, nature takes over everything again, how trees and flowers and rivers take their rightful place.

The first half is completely fucked. The beginning is empty like nothing you ever heard. Barely nothing, barely a sound, barely a group of notes. And when something appears, it is just objectively fucked. There's radiation. There are genetically altered animals and plants and life. There is the expanding death that somehow doesn't seem to disappear. There are melodies of the past - quite literally melodies that were heard already in the first album. But somehow different, just not right.

Then, the change comes slow and steady. As flowers bloom, and generations pass and continents merge and time flies. Life appears again, in the depths of an ocean and the top of the highest mountains. Slowly, the notes take their rightful places. Flowers open their petals and the greenery finds its way through the dead cities, mold settles on everything left behind, and mushrooms form on couches. Like a second birth, nature takes its rightful place in a world once destroyed but never truly dead.

some possible song titles: 1. And then there was nothing - possibly the first song. A lot of minutes. Mostly silence.

[fyjw]

( trans ) wonwoo’s japanese md pamphlet — february ‘17

my role in seventeen is 'brains.’ i like books, be it mystery novels, historical novels, literature, poetry; i don’t choose based on genres. if there’s time, i’m always reading. after reading an emotional book, my tears don’t stop. i’m usually not the type to cry, but when i’m touched by a movie or book, my tears become a lot. recently, i read 3 of higashino keigo’s books. in korea, higashino keigo is very popular (his books). the one that left a deep impression on me was 'miracles of the namiya general store.’ it’s a story about communication between the past and the future via letters, it was very emotional.

my birthplace is changwon, gyeongsangnam-do. i can’t really remember much regarding kindergarten, but the thing that remained in my memory is a high slide. i often went to the nearby park with my friends, it was a very average childhood. in elementary school, i goodheartedly joked around and played with my friends. the most fun was after class, we would have a drawing battle on the blackboard. now that i think about it, it was comedic and cute. (laughs)

i liked playing with my friends, but i also liked doing stuff at home quietly, since then i often read books. in 1st grade someone bought me the whole set of the record of the three kingdoms, i read it multiple times. also, i liked solving quizzes on computer games.

i got into music in middle school. the rock band buzz was popular, so i got excited with my friends and said 'let’s try being a band too!’ and we learned how to play instruments together. i learned guitar, my friend learned drums. i had the vague dream of 'it would be good to have a concert in seoul someday,’ so i started going to a music academy. practicing dance with my friends, we even recieved an offer to stand on the stage of our middle school academy. i couldn’t dance well then, but it was a fun memory. (laughs)

at the suggestion of my teacher at the music academy, i went for an audition. i said to my friends, “if i have a dream to be an artiste, it’s definitely going to be a good experience,” i went to the audition with the purpose of gaining experinece, in the end i couldn’t believe i passed. so i came to seoul, and became a trainee from my 3rd year in middle school.

actually, before passing the audition, i thought 'when i grow up, i want to do music with my friends freely’ or 'i want to travel the world,’ there were a lot of things i had interest in, but i never thought about what i wanted to do for my future job. however, having passed the audition, i formed the goal of being a singer. my father is very happy and is supporting me for chasing my dream now. i’m always concerned about seventeen’s activities, so i search my name on the internet (laughs). my father looks after and treasures my family; at work, he’s someone who devotes himself to his work persistently. i respect him as a father, and looking at the back view of a man who lives confidently, there are a lot of things to learn from him. for the first 6 months in the dorm, there were so many things that i couldn’t get used to from my original lifestyle, it was tiring, but the friends who became trainees first taught me many things, and i could get used to it later on. when i got the sense of things, i could do well in terms of singing and dancing, it was like jumping over a wall. also, i felt reassured that i gained friends who did it with me.

originally, i listened to many genres of music. i also liked hip-hop, so i started doing rap. even thought it was my first time rapping, i was unexpectedly natural. i think rap matches me.

in my opinion, the charm of rap is its lyrics. writing about what you think and feel, and expressing it along with a rhythm was very fun. you can feel the charm of it especially when the rap is very natural. using literature as an example, a vocalist’s lyrics would be a poem, a rap would probably be an essay.

since i've read many books since childhood, i believe im the type that has a wide vocabulary. also, i like to imagine various things when i'm alone. when i imagine, i get the feeling that the scope of things that i can do broadens a lot. therefore, when i write rap lyrics, while imagining various things, i make an effort to widen the range of the lyrics. since debut, i've filled about 5 notebooks to the brim with lyrics. lately, i haven't been carrying a notebook around, and i would write lyrics on my smartphone or computer, or record them with a recorder. the content would be my thoughts about the latest happenings in society, or things that i usually feel, there are even times that i wrote about dreams that i had. when i write lyrics, i don't decide on a theme. i just freely write and collect them.

out of all the lyrics that i've written for seventeen, the one that i like most is 'fronting'. when we were sharing ideas for making the song, mingyu suggested 'what about writing lyrics based on the theme of 'controlling your expression''. i was thinking of how i could express 'controlling your expression,' so i spent two days slowly thinking about how to do it. thus, people who heard the finished product of my part told me, 'when i listen to the lyrics, that scene pops up in my head.' i wrote the lyrics while also thinking of that scene, i'm glad that they could feel my heart. it would be good if many people could listen to this song.

to me, after becoming a seventeen member and currently chasing my dream, i still have many things i want to do and want to express, the base of which became the recent album 'going seventeen'. to release the album, the 13 of us combined our strength and really prepared eagerly. we gathered different songs to top our previous albums. it would be nice if many people listened to seventeen's various songs. also, i want to be an artiste that can empathize with the fans.

translation by nutjereon / source _j_kei take out with full credit