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Hey!

Hi!

Hi, we're so excited to be here.

Hi.

Hi.

Hi.

Hello.

I mean, do you want to do your intro?

Oh, yeah.

Our intro?

I don't want to mess it up.

Oh, we don't really have an intro, but we'll just say.

Wait, that's so cool.

Yeah.

That alone is really rare, right?

Yeah, we don't have like any like signature hand symbol or anything.

We just say, hi, we're Le Serafim.

Is that where it kind of begins for you all being anti-K-pop, but not anti-K-pop, if that makes any sense?

Oh, I think it's rather than like breaking like K-pop rules, I think it's just like in the beginning when we first formed our company.

I think it's just like us being very like expressive and being able to communicate with our company.

Our company asked us, do you guys want a hand symbol?

Like what would you guys like to do?

And we were like, no, I think we'll go with that one.

It's like more simple and like neater that way.

So we just rolled with it.

Do you guys work together as one in the studio or do we kind of like figure out whose strengths are where?

I'm assuming it's the latter, right?

Well, for like the overarching theme of our music or the message that we want to talk about in our music is something that we all very openly communicate with our producers and our company.

Like musical wise, that's what that's kind of how our process works.

Like we have interviews with our producers and just like the people at our company to talk about what we're thinking about or like what emotions we're going through and what thought process we have.

And so that kind of just like melts itself into the music.

And performance wise, we all have like a different vibe, I guess.

So depending on who like stands in the center, I think the mood of the performance changes.

So I think we...

Interesting.

Yeah.

So definitely we move around based on that to give the most like dynamic performance.

So I guess in a way, both.

It's like, I think, yeah, we were talking about like the hero's journey.

So fearless is like the start of our journey being like, we're going to be fearless.

We're not going to be afraid of chasing and dreaming, dreaming of what we want.

And then anti-fragile is talking about how we're going to go our own way.

We're starting our journey now.

And no matter like what challenges we face, we're going to overcome them.

And then unforgiven talks about how I can be the villain in your eyes as long as I get what's mine.

Kind of dark.

Yeah.

Well, yeah.

That's kind of.

Yeah.

Is anyone here surprised by the success of the group?

Or did you know?

No, I remember all five of us.

Our debut song was is called Fearless, but we were all very fearful.

So it felt like a lie when we were preparing the song because we were also scared.

We were like, are we like we're confident in ourselves, but like we're not sure if we're like people are going to like us.

So it felt like, yeah, it was all very new for like three of us because these two have like been in K-pop earlier than us.

So for the three of us, especially, I think we were very scared.

You also are fearless in the way you choose to explore genres.

Who is leading that charge in terms of like exploring different genres?

Mr. Bang.

Chairman Bang.

You know, it's actually a very, I think we're very blessed to have someone who's very trusting.

Like he's always bringing us new music and letting us like challenge ourselves because I don't think we've like, you know, any of us have sung like Latin based songs before or Afro beat songs before.

But thankfully, we have like such a good team and an environment that lets us just try things out and help us foster more skills to take on more genres.

And you, what'd you learn?

Just, I think I've become a lot more of an introspective person.

In retrospect, I didn't have emotional capacity to really sit with my emotions and really think about what kind of person do I want to become?

What kind of music do I want to be doing?

What kind of message do I want to be giving out to the world?

And I'm so thankful to our company who's always giving us so many opportunities to really be able to express that.

And so I think like musically, I've grown a lot.

And just as a person, I've also grown a lot in terms of really finding what I want to do and what I want to become.

What part of making art are you connected to the most or fulfills you the most?

For me personally, I am a very existential person.

So I'm always kind of fearing the end of something.

And I think being able to kind of document or beautifully express or lay out my thoughts and me as a person in music or in fashion or in our dances, just art in general is very beautiful to me because I feel like there's nothing, there's no other end that I can control.

But for this, at least I can save myself or let myself live in this piece of art eternally.

That's deep.

For me.

Yeah, it's a little like big picture.

I like that.

So I guess for me, it's like a part of me lives somewhere.

You guys are interesting.

Thank you guys for being here.

Thank you so much.

Let's hear from everybody.

Thank you so much for having us.