November 17, 2025 • 31 mins
Cortis Talks NYC Dreams, Music, Meaning + Power of Youth
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome, Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I'm krys Otlesas This is our Z one hundred artist
interview lounge for that of by Celsius Energy. Today, they're
really writing what it means to be a K pop group,
self driven, genre blending and unapologetically original.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
The five member.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Crew they don't just perform, they create it all, from
songwriting to choreography to visuals. Every move they make is
instinctive and unscripted. Their debut EP Color Outside the Lines
just landed number fifteen on Billboard two hundred, making them
the only K pop act this year to debut on
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the chart and the first rookie boy group in four
years to break into the top twenty. In just a month,
they've sold over six hundred thousand cumulative sales, racked up
millions of followers on socials, and built one of the
fastest growing fan bases of twenty twenty five. Fearlessly pushing boundaries,
they are redefining what the next generation of K pop
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looks like.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Sounds like please Welcome.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Is I was getting the chows like reading that.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Great compliments, That's very cool.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Intro of course song he Juhunjun Yes, Martin going on
and James welcome in New York City for the first time.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
The Big Apple. How does it feel?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Oh my gosh, it's crazy.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
I mean like every like building I say, it's like
so tall and big, and Martin looks so small.
Speaker 6 (01:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (01:41):
Yeah, it's like every building is so big.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Like when I first landed, and then on the way
here in the van.
Speaker 7 (01:51):
Like I saw bridges that are so big, like helicopters,
and it's like like cars fast, and like it's so
different from La since we just came from La.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
It's I feel the contrast.
Speaker 8 (02:04):
I mean, like the hotel that we're in, like that
has like forty four floors.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
Yeah, crazy, that's insane.
Speaker 8 (02:11):
Crazy.
Speaker 7 (02:11):
Yeah, I felt like it feels very more like Korea. Okay,
It's like it feels a little.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Bit more familiar than La.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (02:22):
Yeah, so it's like more apartments more so it's like
it feels familiar, but at the same time, it's so big.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
So now you understand why people say that the New
York energy is just unmatched, Like it's just different, right,
it's still different differently. Well, how cool is it that
the first time you're in New York, you guys are performing,
You'll be performing in Brooklyn, Yeah, and all the fans
are so excited. How is preparation for this show different
than anything you've done before?
Speaker 6 (02:51):
Wow? I mean I heard that, Like there will be
like the three three thousand people coming to the festival
just to see us, and like, you know, like it's
such an honor to like performing this city, you know,
like it's such a legendary city. And like you know,
like we had one show in La our Heart radio show.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
The way like they're overseas.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
Yeah, like there were like four hundred people and it
was still a great energy. Already, I can't imagine how
this show will be you know.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Yes, right, and we just hit a little bit. But
you guys are the first boy band in six years
to debut under big Hit Music.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yeah, and everyone's been awaiting. They're like what are the gain?
So what does it mean to you personally to be
part of that?
Speaker 3 (03:45):
First of all, it's a grateful honor.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
You know.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
It's like like.
Speaker 7 (03:51):
Our senior artists in our label like t xd bts YO.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
And it's us Like I can't believe it, first of all.
Speaker 7 (04:01):
And it's like I feel like it it has a
certain amount of responsibility, like because it's like they're amazing
artists and they're like, you know, so big in the
scene and we're just getting started. So it's just like
we got we have some some how should I put
it at this?
Speaker 8 (04:22):
They really yeah, open like paved the way and yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
I mean if it wasn't then we won't be here.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
So and I want to take it back to the
roots of Cortis color outside the Lines.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Yes, let's talk about that.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Let's let's lets you one to know where that came from.
Speaker 7 (04:40):
So I feel like the phrase color outside the lines
just best represented our group. Yes, so it became the
first title of our first DP and we took five
six random alphabets from it and made it.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Into a name, Cortis.
Speaker 9 (04:59):
Yes.
Speaker 7 (05:00):
So I feel like it really has a unique and
authentic meaning to it because like since it's not just initial,
it's like six random ofphibits from it. So yeah, it's
like it's really cool.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Yeah, like describing you guys in your own right, Yeah, art.
I also want to talk about your debut project, your
debut album, because it it was so musically what we
need at this time, but also bold and personal, like
you still were able to give your fans or people
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that never heard your music before something really deeply personal.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
So how would you describe the message behind that.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
We in this album. We didn't really have a fixed concept,
you know.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Or like a certain genre.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
Yeah, like we just wanted to express who we were
when we were making this album last year in so
and La and like we won. We wanted this album
to be as authentic as possible and as raw as possible,
because I think that's who we are, you know, like
we're not like perfect, you know, like we all have
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like raw like we were teenagers, so like we all
have different Yeah, we're just growing up. We're looking for
like what we want, and I think we just wanted
to put our like true emotions into it.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
And the fact that your guys' first album of your
debut already hit number fifteen on the charts, that's crazy.
Speaker 8 (06:31):
It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
I mean we didn't notice it until.
Speaker 7 (06:34):
I mean we were not taking the charts first of all,
I mean any charts, and we noticed like I mean,
my mama, But like it's crazy because like first it
was like Apple Music on Apple Music charts, and then
it was like now we see it on Billboard charts.
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Like our manager woke us up, like Yo, we're on
the fifteenth.
Speaker 8 (07:05):
Like for us, like the goal wasn't too like to
have great scores on charge. It's definitely the main goal
is to share.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
Our story, introduce ourselves.
Speaker 8 (07:16):
Yeah, introduce ourselves, but like to have fans reciprocate that
feeling and like just give us tons of love.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
I think it's an honor and it's just so grateful.
Speaker 8 (07:31):
Yeah, it's just it's just to start. So definitely we're
gonna work harder to go up.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
And yeah, that's good to hear, because you guys already
mentioned that you're following.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Big, big footsteps.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
So you can either be someone a group that everyone
is like, yeah, we get behind them, or it's just
like oh no, comparing you guys to everyone else. But
the fact that you're getting so much love already, that
means that the hard work that you have been building
the whole time, Like you must feel so proud of that.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
Definitely. Yeah, like making this album wasn't really easy, you know,
like like it was our first album and like we
had to find our color in this album and like
all this process was not easy, but like all this
love makes us really feel proud, you.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Know, and actually in the process like during our some
song cam session. Actually it was our first time to
write songs like as a group together. Yeah, so it
was Yeah, it was kind of hard. But because we
got five.
Speaker 8 (08:37):
Heads, five heads like a lot of ideas ideas clash,
it's hard to narrow it down.
Speaker 7 (08:44):
Yeah, I mean it used to be like individuals and
like units when we work, but.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
They're trying to make it. You were just trying to
get it yourself by yourself.
Speaker 7 (08:53):
I feel like it was, you know, just five altogether
working on like even just one line altogether. It's like
the best way to like put all of our identities
into like one song.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Yeah, the best of each of you.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
And it's so cool that you guys were working together
because all of you guys have these cool strengths like choreographer.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
A writer, the vision, the design.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
So when you're working on that together, like what does
the vibe look like?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
But what does the room look like?
Speaker 2 (09:23):
What is the temperature? Are you guys fighting over the thermostats?
Are you guys like ordering different food?
Speaker 8 (09:28):
Like what is.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
What is the ideal session and camp look like? For
you guys?
Speaker 9 (09:36):
We're just ordering food and like having fun.
Speaker 8 (09:39):
The food is the hardest topic, Yeah, the food is
the hardest topic, and like.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
You always thinks you're always taking up the room.
Speaker 8 (09:49):
We always fight about food. Yeah, but like for other things,
I think we kind of fool around and it kind
of looks like we're playing, Yeah, fooling all over playing.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
Sometimes sometimes people say like, yo, you gotta lock in,
but actually yeah.
Speaker 8 (10:07):
And we're just throwing weird ideas until like something sticks.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
That could be really hard on five people like that
could be tough.
Speaker 7 (10:15):
Yeah, because there's like songwriters and producers and sessions and
then they'd be like looking at the camera.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
Like what are they doing?
Speaker 3 (10:22):
What are they doing? They are they okay? Are they
actually working?
Speaker 6 (10:26):
But personally, I think like best ideas come when we
like just around.
Speaker 8 (10:34):
An example of that, I think go is a great example,
especially like in the music video sixty Camp is a
great example of just them bites. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (10:49):
Yeah, just like every everywhere parking lot, parking Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Like runs around with it.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Yeah, that is so so cool.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
And we're talking about your creative process. Is there any
like standout moments from when you guys were working on
this project that you were like, Okay, that this was
crazy or that really happened a lot.
Speaker 8 (11:15):
Of great moments.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
Definitely, Yeah, definitely session with Tizo was one of the
biggest moments.
Speaker 8 (11:21):
Yeah, it was it was like like a ceremony, ceremony.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
It's like yeah, right, like what do you mean, it's.
Speaker 8 (11:30):
Really like surreal.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Yes, yeah.
Speaker 8 (11:34):
He at the time, he brought a balloon into the studio.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
And just like one balloon, he had like pack of.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Like unblown balloon.
Speaker 7 (11:47):
Okay, so he asked the room like what do you
guys want most in life?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Like what's your life goals?
Speaker 7 (11:53):
And like it was a drill that he did at
that time, like he like as one by one person
each like said their life goals. He kind of like
blew into the balloon. So it's like the balloon and
then and then we kept the balloon during the whole
session and at the end it was like yeah, yeah,
he popped it, so it's like on purpose or accident
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on purpose.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
And you were like, that's into the world now, but
that's that's heavy.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
Yeah, that was kind of like a there was ceremony
that became an inspiration for our title song Watch Awards.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:35):
Yeah, and we.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
Actually released the Watch one Fish version.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
Yeah, touchdown man.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
Working with that is so so cool.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Thank you for sharing that. I had never heard that
story before.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
And you have these goals that you guys are blowing
into the balloon. Are you speaking them into existence? Are
you keeping some for yourself? Have you shared some of those?
Speaker 6 (13:04):
For me?
Speaker 7 (13:04):
It was love, My life was just I mean he
said that it can be a keyword.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Or it would be like a sense.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
Yeah, for me it was peace.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Peace.
Speaker 9 (13:18):
Me was happiness.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
It's important.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
For me. It was money.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
It's coming from.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
It's important.
Speaker 8 (13:36):
Yeah, definitely for me, it's freedom.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (13:39):
Yeah, And those words kind of made it to the cut,
you know, it got into the song and the lyrics.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
The lyrics.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Yeah, yeah, that is really cool.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
And I feel like that exercise can keep developing with time,
like you'll end up getting more niche on the words
and such. Thank you for sharing that. Now, something really
interesting in your perspective. I mean, you guys have gained
millions followers so quickly, very I mean almost like zero
to one hundred. So what's the adjustment been?
Speaker 7 (14:06):
Like?
Speaker 8 (14:06):
Great question? Yes, great question?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Is what you expected because you always wanted this, but
now that it's here, you know, people people want this
and you're here, So how does that feel.
Speaker 7 (14:17):
I mean, it's like a you know, it's a dream
come true, but at the same time, we never knew
that it would be this fast. It's so surreal and
so surreal and like we never expected it.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
It was like just it all felt like a dream
and blurry.
Speaker 6 (14:30):
But now it's like months ago, like we were just
just trainees.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
But like I.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
Mean, like yeah, before before our debut, I kind of
worried about like audiences like reaction.
Speaker 6 (14:45):
Right, like since it's too fresh and it might seem
strange too, like like existing fans. But yeah, because like
in our perspective, it was like, you know, we might
be like I mean, we're saying that we're coloring outside
the lines, but is it too much?
Speaker 7 (15:06):
Maybe?
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Sometimes it felt like that. So it was like we
were worried about the reaction a lot.
Speaker 7 (15:12):
But really luckily, luckily, yeah, the fans really love our
stuff and our craft.
Speaker 8 (15:18):
So but I think like for the adjustment is like
I'm still adjusting to it, and I think like ten
years I would still answer as yeah, it's still surreal.
Speaker 6 (15:31):
Yeah, because never going to get used to this.
Speaker 8 (15:33):
Yeah, I think I never get used to it, but
it takes time to adjust and just got to take
it like always, like just got to be grateful always.
Speaker 7 (15:45):
But for me, it's like more than adjusting to it.
I feel like just I'm just trying to be myself
as the way I was before too.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Just the mindset.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Mostly keep your roots, keep you are keeping.
Speaker 7 (15:58):
Roots, and like, like I'm just a teenager at the
end of the day.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
So like, and I just love.
Speaker 7 (16:04):
Doing music, you know, doing making stuff. I feel like
the whole crew will be sharing the same thoughts, so like, yes,
definitely that that is always the mindset.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
And it's cool that you guys have each other to
rely on and help each other out, especially when you're
trying to be your best in your creative sense. So
how do you guys like hold each other accountable? How
do you guys help each other lock in when maybe
one person is like in a mood today, one person's angry,
one person like misses home, Like, how do you guys
help each other out in those moments?
Speaker 6 (16:33):
Wow, that's that's yeah, thank you. I've never thought about that.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Or do you guys poke at each other like you know,
maybe kind of just.
Speaker 8 (16:43):
Push through maybe?
Speaker 7 (16:45):
Yeah, like that that is more like I mean as
a group two, it's like important to like others, Like, yeah,
all involved, but at the same time, it's like individually too,
you should also like try your best to you know,
get in group more like get involved. So I think
it's like we all try our best, like to we
try to like gather around and like anyways, at the
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end of.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
The day, we're looking at the same goal.
Speaker 7 (17:10):
Like right now, we were in La working on our
second album, so like our goal is to finish the
second album.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
So it's like we're all focused on that.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Wow, Like while you're performing every war too.
Speaker 7 (17:22):
Dan, like it doesn't matter you're moody or like you're
sad and you're down, Like we're anyways looking at one thing.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
So yeah, at that moment, I think we're all locked in.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
I mean, any emotions can be the topic of these songs.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
So yeah, you guys have all talked about wanting to
defy your expectations and like get those out there.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
So I want to go down the line.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Is there anything that's happened recently that you're most proud
of when it comes to expectations you set and what's
actually happening. What are you most proud of recently that
you guys have been able to accomplish.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Great questions, some good questions today.
Speaker 9 (18:05):
So far?
Speaker 1 (18:05):
What are you most proud of song?
Speaker 10 (18:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (18:08):
Being in New York that's crazy. That's like when we
were like discuss about like gold music video.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
Yeah, oh, we actually wanted to.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Shoot ship music in New York.
Speaker 9 (18:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
The vibe and like the like Fats Fast City. Yeah, yeah,
it's beautiful.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
What about you, Chi human the prodest moments?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Yeah, so far?
Speaker 6 (18:36):
I think it will be our release party like we
had in yea we had back in Korea. Like it
was like, so it was a day we were releasing
our album and like there were like you know, like
only our fans in the like in the stadium, and
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like it was crazy to see them like jumping around
and like singing, singing along our songs and like yeah,
it was just like overwhelming.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
Yeah, it was crazy because it was the day that
the song the whole album released.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
They knew the worst, they got up.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
What about you, Mario? Has been your proudest moment so far?
Speaker 3 (19:24):
You think proudest moment?
Speaker 7 (19:25):
I mean, first of all, I mean I think you
already said it, but like being in New York first
of all, because like me as a kid, that grew
up listening to like ASM Mob and like Ou Tang Clan,
I mean, like a lot of East Coast East Coast rap.
Like it is like truly a dream come true to
actually be in New York and just like you know,
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feel the vice it like, HiT's different when you're listening
to the same music in here. And besides that, I think,
you know, just uh, it wasn't a goal, but I
think we we were celebrating the when we hit the
Billboard charts. We were definitely celebrating that. And I mean
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there were so many grateful stuff that. I mean that
that still feels surreal. I really wanted to talk about
the release party too, but it's one of the biggest
things that I will never forget.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Go on, what about you me for me?
Speaker 5 (20:30):
I'll never forget the moment our first overseas show in
l A. I heard radio. Yeah, yeah, there was wow.
That was crazy, Like all the people like were jumping
around first.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Time, like everybody up.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Yeah, it was the first time in a performance that
you've seen the whole crowd.
Speaker 6 (20:56):
Just jumping around.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Oh my god, we're kind of doing something.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
They were like singing along together.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
They were excited. But we were excited too, so it
was crazy energy.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
In New York. I hurt radio again with you. I mean, yeah,
it's biggest radio shows.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
What about you, James, thank you. I appreciate that you guys. James.
Speaker 8 (21:26):
Mine is actually also being in New York because like
my mom was a New York.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
New York girl, so we would tell me about it.
Speaker 8 (21:36):
So she talked about She talked to me a lot
of stories about her studying in New York.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Do you know where she went?
Speaker 8 (21:47):
I think I forgot. She actually like recommended a lot
of great food plays and great spots to eat. So
later I think I will find time to go to
eat this. Yeah in Chinatown, Yes, yeah, definitely. And also
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it's a big fashion city, so yes, Westwood the Store
and I would be looking for coach later.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Yes, yeah, you already hit. Some of your inspirations are
here from New York. But you guys have been looking
up to well we've heard Michael Jackson, three six Mafia,
Fred Again, Tyler, the creator Nirvana, Justin Bieber, which.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Is so cool.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Are you guys excited to like meet some of these
people who's on your bucket.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
List to meet in the industry?
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Starting with you songh yeah all that.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
But for me, I think who's your number one to meet?
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Number one?
Speaker 9 (22:48):
This hard question, yeah, hard to choose one, but I
think Justin Bieber Yeah yeah yeah, like when when we
were like Cheney, Like I've watched his like performance videos
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and that so everyone's idol was Yeah yeah, yeah, me too.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
I'm still waiting and.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
Like last week, like we saw like JB's story, like
he posted like cold if you want to and if
you're in l A and we were in l A,
we can.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Make it happen Tony like it happened.
Speaker 6 (23:42):
Please please Martin?
Speaker 2 (23:45):
What about you?
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Is your just to be sorry to?
Speaker 6 (23:47):
Oh me?
Speaker 9 (23:48):
Oh wow?
Speaker 6 (23:50):
Number one recently Daniel Caesar. Yeah, it's my old time
favorite and like I love what he's doing. You know,
it's like chill stuff that matches my vibe too, So yeah,
it's great.
Speaker 7 (24:06):
Marian Oh, this is a really hard question. I have
so many, but if I have to really just choose one,
it would definitely be a set Rocky.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
I mean, I just grew up. Listen. My first rap song.
Speaker 7 (24:23):
To hear was his mixtape, so I was influenced by
that a lot. And if I can choose a number two,
it gotta be Tame and Paula because I grew up
listening to him. Yes, my dad used to plain me
a lot of Tam and Paula.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Yes, do you have one?
Speaker 6 (24:39):
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 9 (24:42):
For me.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
Told me York Radiohead. Yeah, yeah, I mean radio Head
is my favorite rock band. And I really liked the
album The Bands and Key Day, and I just like
the way he's singing where he's singing like yeah, yeah,
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told me.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Radio James.
Speaker 6 (25:10):
Question.
Speaker 8 (25:15):
Oh for me, Oh my god, this is hard.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
It is hard.
Speaker 8 (25:23):
It is hard. Mm hmmm. I think it would be.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
M hm.
Speaker 8 (25:32):
Lancy Foe one of my role models as an artist
and future.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Right, Yes, the Kings.
Speaker 8 (25:47):
Yeah, he has great musickes on like leveling up somehow,
he's grown up.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
He's grown up, He's growing up.
Speaker 6 (25:55):
He is amazing.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
His music is so amazing.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
And it's also cool to know that now with your guys' music,
you are now a group and individually artists that younger
people look up to, or even in the industry you
look up to with your like crazy debut.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
So that's really an awesome thing to note.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
I just want you guys to know that too, that
now you guys are, of course, of course, now with
a lot of work, there has to come some downtime.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
So are you guys like really.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Locked in with just work or do you guys actually
have time to work on like maybe hobbies, video games
or death scrolling on TikTok? What are some of those
things to like get you out of work mode?
Speaker 3 (26:36):
For me, it's like, I think we all love shops.
Speaker 8 (26:41):
Yeah, yeah, you.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Shop some most who always like has the longest receipt.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
I mean I think recently it's.
Speaker 11 (26:46):
Yeah crazy, he's going crazy like us in Korea, like
at our dorm, Like it's like.
Speaker 9 (26:58):
Yeah, every the door.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Yeah yourself, it's not that bad.
Speaker 8 (27:07):
But it's the season, yeah, kind of end of the year,
you know, like Halloween, Thanksgiving and coming. Yeah, it's the
season to kind of treat yourself at times.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Who is the money saver? Who is not spending a
dollar and wow, yeah you'll cash out all this big ball.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
I would rather not eat than not Yeah, I mean
I'm that I'm a fashion logan everything.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Yeah all about Okay, So you guys just are online
shopping or are you in the stores.
Speaker 8 (27:41):
Or both both?
Speaker 7 (27:43):
Yeah, but I think it's mostly in the store, like, yeah,
because it's much easier to just like you know, you
can like rather than scrolling and TikTok may be death
scrolling shop. Like we have this one app Cold Fruits
family that we really love to use and we buy
all our like vintage.
Speaker 6 (28:04):
It's like grailed.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
It's like grailed in career.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Now when it comes to you guys as a group,
like if you guys are all somewhere, who's like the
dad of the group that's like cleaning up.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
After like finding stuff, who's the one in the group
that's like.
Speaker 9 (28:17):
I think it's our manager? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 8 (28:22):
I think for us, Yeah, it's yeah, I know who's
the dirtiest, Like you.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Unorganized, it's not messy, it's organized.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (28:39):
To be honest, I know what who they're talking about
is me.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
They gotta know that I'm the one that cleans up
the whole house.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Time to time, I'd be like cleaning.
Speaker 5 (28:52):
Up the whole like he's random, like like three in
the morning, our house suddenly like.
Speaker 7 (28:59):
I mean, I mean sometimes it's like out of hand,
like it's out of pocket, like oh my goodness, like
this is so unorganized, Like I mean I'm so unorganized too,
but like I know where my stuff are at but like.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Sometimes I just got to clean it up.
Speaker 7 (29:15):
And especially when there's like some like photo shoots or
like some video shoots in our dorm, like I gotta
clean it up.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
That's fair.
Speaker 8 (29:22):
I don't wonder, but the maintenance is not not good.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Yeah, we can work on that.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
I mean we're working on it.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Twenty twenty five, six, twenty six resolution.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Yeah, as a group, we're still adjusting to living together.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Yes, I mean there's there's so much and there's so
much to look forward to as well, and I do
want to send it back to this present moment right now.
How does it feel to be Cordis.
Speaker 6 (29:51):
That's a great question.
Speaker 8 (29:54):
Yeah, I mean yes, I mean I landed in New York,
so that it's good.
Speaker 9 (30:00):
Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
Yeah, and whoa wow, Like I mean, yeah, we're just grateful,
you know, like been here in New York. Like, I mean,
we work hard, but like like everyone, like our fans,
like our staff, like.
Speaker 7 (30:19):
Like shout out to team courts, were like some names
like yeah everyone.
Speaker 6 (30:23):
Yeah, if it weren't for damn, like, we wouldn't be here.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
So like that's all I think. I think we're just
five teenagers fooling around.
Speaker 9 (30:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (30:31):
Still, I mean I think that's what we are really, like,
you know, just focused on like just having fun about
our music and like craft, and you know, it's just
such a blessing to like make it like to New York,
to l A, like so overseas.
Speaker 8 (30:51):
You just the best thing you can do is just
soak it all in and really just be grateful to
every single person that you need and like, yeah, just
really be grateful.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Definitely, the song he what do you want to say
to the fans that are there from the first day
to now?
Speaker 1 (31:09):
What do you want to say to them?
Speaker 8 (31:12):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (31:14):
Then chun check out everything comes Uh that wills many
kissing your pimp there.
Speaker 10 (31:31):
Oh oh, they're so grateful to hear that from you
and all of you.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Thank you so much for making time for us. We
know you're so busy.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
It is such an honor and we cannot wait to
see your show and to see the rest of the
world enjoy the music.
Welcome, Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I'm krys Otlesas This is our Z one hundred artist
interview lounge for that of by Celsius Energy. Today, they're
really writing what it means to be a K pop group,
self driven, genre blending and unapologetically original.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
The five member.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Crew they don't just perform, they create it all, from
songwriting to choreography to visuals. Every move they make is
instinctive and unscripted. Their debut EP Color Outside the Lines
just landed number fifteen on Billboard two hundred, making them
the only K pop act this year to debut on
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the chart and the first rookie boy group in four
years to break into the top twenty. In just a month,
they've sold over six hundred thousand cumulative sales, racked up
millions of followers on socials, and built one of the
fastest growing fan bases of twenty twenty five. Fearlessly pushing boundaries,
they are redefining what the next generation of K pop
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looks like.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Sounds like please Welcome.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Is I was getting the chows like reading that.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Great compliments, That's very cool.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Intro of course song he Juhunjun Yes, Martin going on
and James welcome in New York City for the first time.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
The Big Apple. How does it feel?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Oh my gosh, it's crazy.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
I mean like every like building I say, it's like
so tall and big, and Martin looks so small.
Speaker 6 (01:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (01:41):
Yeah, it's like every building is so big.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Like when I first landed, and then on the way
here in the van.
Speaker 7 (01:51):
Like I saw bridges that are so big, like helicopters,
and it's like like cars fast, and like it's so
different from La since we just came from La.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
It's I feel the contrast.
Speaker 8 (02:04):
I mean, like the hotel that we're in, like that
has like forty four floors.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
Yeah, crazy, that's insane.
Speaker 8 (02:11):
Crazy.
Speaker 7 (02:11):
Yeah, I felt like it feels very more like Korea. Okay,
It's like it feels a little.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Bit more familiar than La.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (02:22):
Yeah, so it's like more apartments more so it's like
it feels familiar, but at the same time, it's so big.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
So now you understand why people say that the New
York energy is just unmatched, Like it's just different, right,
it's still different differently. Well, how cool is it that
the first time you're in New York, you guys are performing,
You'll be performing in Brooklyn, Yeah, and all the fans
are so excited. How is preparation for this show different
than anything you've done before?
Speaker 6 (02:51):
Wow? I mean I heard that, Like there will be
like the three three thousand people coming to the festival
just to see us, and like, you know, like it's
such an honor to like performing this city, you know,
like it's such a legendary city. And like you know,
like we had one show in La our Heart radio show.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
The way like they're overseas.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
Yeah, like there were like four hundred people and it
was still a great energy. Already, I can't imagine how
this show will be you know.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Yes, right, and we just hit a little bit. But
you guys are the first boy band in six years
to debut under big Hit Music.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yeah, and everyone's been awaiting. They're like what are the gain?
So what does it mean to you personally to be
part of that?
Speaker 3 (03:45):
First of all, it's a grateful honor.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
You know.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
It's like like.
Speaker 7 (03:51):
Our senior artists in our label like t xd bts YO.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
And it's us Like I can't believe it, first of all.
Speaker 7 (04:01):
And it's like I feel like it it has a
certain amount of responsibility, like because it's like they're amazing
artists and they're like, you know, so big in the
scene and we're just getting started. So it's just like
we got we have some some how should I put
it at this?
Speaker 8 (04:22):
They really yeah, open like paved the way and yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
I mean if it wasn't then we won't be here.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
So and I want to take it back to the
roots of Cortis color outside the Lines.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Yes, let's talk about that.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Let's let's lets you one to know where that came from.
Speaker 7 (04:40):
So I feel like the phrase color outside the lines
just best represented our group. Yes, so it became the
first title of our first DP and we took five
six random alphabets from it and made it.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Into a name, Cortis.
Speaker 9 (04:59):
Yes.
Speaker 7 (05:00):
So I feel like it really has a unique and
authentic meaning to it because like since it's not just initial,
it's like six random ofphibits from it. So yeah, it's
like it's really cool.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Yeah, like describing you guys in your own right, Yeah, art.
I also want to talk about your debut project, your
debut album, because it it was so musically what we
need at this time, but also bold and personal, like
you still were able to give your fans or people
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that never heard your music before something really deeply personal.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
So how would you describe the message behind that.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
We in this album. We didn't really have a fixed concept,
you know.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Or like a certain genre.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
Yeah, like we just wanted to express who we were
when we were making this album last year in so
and La and like we won. We wanted this album
to be as authentic as possible and as raw as possible,
because I think that's who we are, you know, like
we're not like perfect, you know, like we all have
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like raw like we were teenagers, so like we all
have different Yeah, we're just growing up. We're looking for
like what we want, and I think we just wanted
to put our like true emotions into it.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
And the fact that your guys' first album of your
debut already hit number fifteen on the charts, that's crazy.
Speaker 8 (06:31):
It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
I mean we didn't notice it until.
Speaker 7 (06:34):
I mean we were not taking the charts first of all,
I mean any charts, and we noticed like I mean,
my mama, But like it's crazy because like first it
was like Apple Music on Apple Music charts, and then
it was like now we see it on Billboard charts.
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Like our manager woke us up, like Yo, we're on
the fifteenth.
Speaker 8 (07:05):
Like for us, like the goal wasn't too like to
have great scores on charge. It's definitely the main goal
is to share.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
Our story, introduce ourselves.
Speaker 8 (07:16):
Yeah, introduce ourselves, but like to have fans reciprocate that
feeling and like just give us tons of love.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
I think it's an honor and it's just so grateful.
Speaker 8 (07:31):
Yeah, it's just it's just to start. So definitely we're
gonna work harder to go up.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
And yeah, that's good to hear, because you guys already
mentioned that you're following.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Big, big footsteps.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
So you can either be someone a group that everyone
is like, yeah, we get behind them, or it's just
like oh no, comparing you guys to everyone else. But
the fact that you're getting so much love already, that
means that the hard work that you have been building
the whole time, Like you must feel so proud of that.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
Definitely. Yeah, like making this album wasn't really easy, you know,
like like it was our first album and like we
had to find our color in this album and like
all this process was not easy, but like all this
love makes us really feel proud, you.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Know, and actually in the process like during our some
song cam session. Actually it was our first time to
write songs like as a group together. Yeah, so it
was Yeah, it was kind of hard. But because we
got five.
Speaker 8 (08:37):
Heads, five heads like a lot of ideas ideas clash,
it's hard to narrow it down.
Speaker 7 (08:44):
Yeah, I mean it used to be like individuals and
like units when we work, but.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
They're trying to make it. You were just trying to
get it yourself by yourself.
Speaker 7 (08:53):
I feel like it was, you know, just five altogether
working on like even just one line altogether. It's like
the best way to like put all of our identities
into like one song.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Yeah, the best of each of you.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
And it's so cool that you guys were working together
because all of you guys have these cool strengths like choreographer.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
A writer, the vision, the design.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
So when you're working on that together, like what does
the vibe look like?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
But what does the room look like?
Speaker 2 (09:23):
What is the temperature? Are you guys fighting over the thermostats?
Are you guys like ordering different food?
Speaker 8 (09:28):
Like what is.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
What is the ideal session and camp look like? For
you guys?
Speaker 9 (09:36):
We're just ordering food and like having fun.
Speaker 8 (09:39):
The food is the hardest topic, Yeah, the food is
the hardest topic, and like.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
You always thinks you're always taking up the room.
Speaker 8 (09:49):
We always fight about food. Yeah, but like for other things,
I think we kind of fool around and it kind
of looks like we're playing, Yeah, fooling all over playing.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
Sometimes sometimes people say like, yo, you gotta lock in,
but actually yeah.
Speaker 8 (10:07):
And we're just throwing weird ideas until like something sticks.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
That could be really hard on five people like that
could be tough.
Speaker 7 (10:15):
Yeah, because there's like songwriters and producers and sessions and
then they'd be like looking at the camera.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
Like what are they doing?
Speaker 3 (10:22):
What are they doing? They are they okay? Are they
actually working?
Speaker 6 (10:26):
But personally, I think like best ideas come when we
like just around.
Speaker 8 (10:34):
An example of that, I think go is a great example,
especially like in the music video sixty Camp is a
great example of just them bites. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (10:49):
Yeah, just like every everywhere parking lot, parking Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Like runs around with it.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Yeah, that is so so cool.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
And we're talking about your creative process. Is there any
like standout moments from when you guys were working on
this project that you were like, Okay, that this was
crazy or that really happened a lot.
Speaker 8 (11:15):
Of great moments.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
Definitely, Yeah, definitely session with Tizo was one of the
biggest moments.
Speaker 8 (11:21):
Yeah, it was it was like like a ceremony, ceremony.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
It's like yeah, right, like what do you mean, it's.
Speaker 8 (11:30):
Really like surreal.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Yes, yeah.
Speaker 8 (11:34):
He at the time, he brought a balloon into the studio.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
And just like one balloon, he had like pack of.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Like unblown balloon.
Speaker 7 (11:47):
Okay, so he asked the room like what do you
guys want most in life?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Like what's your life goals?
Speaker 7 (11:53):
And like it was a drill that he did at
that time, like he like as one by one person
each like said their life goals. He kind of like
blew into the balloon. So it's like the balloon and
then and then we kept the balloon during the whole
session and at the end it was like yeah, yeah,
he popped it, so it's like on purpose or accident
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on purpose.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
And you were like, that's into the world now, but
that's that's heavy.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
Yeah, that was kind of like a there was ceremony
that became an inspiration for our title song Watch Awards.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:35):
Yeah, and we.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
Actually released the Watch one Fish version.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
Yeah, touchdown man.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
Working with that is so so cool.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Thank you for sharing that. I had never heard that
story before.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
And you have these goals that you guys are blowing
into the balloon. Are you speaking them into existence? Are
you keeping some for yourself? Have you shared some of those?
Speaker 6 (13:04):
For me?
Speaker 7 (13:04):
It was love, My life was just I mean he
said that it can be a keyword.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Or it would be like a sense.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
Yeah, for me it was peace.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Peace.
Speaker 9 (13:18):
Me was happiness.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
It's important.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
For me. It was money.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
It's coming from.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
It's important.
Speaker 8 (13:36):
Yeah, definitely for me, it's freedom.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (13:39):
Yeah, And those words kind of made it to the cut,
you know, it got into the song and the lyrics.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
The lyrics.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Yeah, yeah, that is really cool.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
And I feel like that exercise can keep developing with time,
like you'll end up getting more niche on the words
and such. Thank you for sharing that. Now, something really
interesting in your perspective. I mean, you guys have gained
millions followers so quickly, very I mean almost like zero
to one hundred. So what's the adjustment been?
Speaker 7 (14:06):
Like?
Speaker 8 (14:06):
Great question? Yes, great question?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Is what you expected because you always wanted this, but
now that it's here, you know, people people want this
and you're here, So how does that feel.
Speaker 7 (14:17):
I mean, it's like a you know, it's a dream
come true, but at the same time, we never knew
that it would be this fast. It's so surreal and
so surreal and like we never expected it.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
It was like just it all felt like a dream
and blurry.
Speaker 6 (14:30):
But now it's like months ago, like we were just
just trainees.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
But like I.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
Mean, like yeah, before before our debut, I kind of
worried about like audiences like reaction.
Speaker 6 (14:45):
Right, like since it's too fresh and it might seem
strange too, like like existing fans. But yeah, because like
in our perspective, it was like, you know, we might
be like I mean, we're saying that we're coloring outside
the lines, but is it too much?
Speaker 7 (15:06):
Maybe?
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Sometimes it felt like that. So it was like we
were worried about the reaction a lot.
Speaker 7 (15:12):
But really luckily, luckily, yeah, the fans really love our
stuff and our craft.
Speaker 8 (15:18):
So but I think like for the adjustment is like
I'm still adjusting to it, and I think like ten
years I would still answer as yeah, it's still surreal.
Speaker 6 (15:31):
Yeah, because never going to get used to this.
Speaker 8 (15:33):
Yeah, I think I never get used to it, but
it takes time to adjust and just got to take
it like always, like just got to be grateful always.
Speaker 7 (15:45):
But for me, it's like more than adjusting to it.
I feel like just I'm just trying to be myself
as the way I was before too.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Just the mindset.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Mostly keep your roots, keep you are keeping.
Speaker 7 (15:58):
Roots, and like, like I'm just a teenager at the
end of the day.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
So like, and I just love.
Speaker 7 (16:04):
Doing music, you know, doing making stuff. I feel like
the whole crew will be sharing the same thoughts, so like, yes,
definitely that that is always the mindset.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
And it's cool that you guys have each other to
rely on and help each other out, especially when you're
trying to be your best in your creative sense. So
how do you guys like hold each other accountable? How
do you guys help each other lock in when maybe
one person is like in a mood today, one person's angry,
one person like misses home, Like, how do you guys
help each other out in those moments?
Speaker 6 (16:33):
Wow, that's that's yeah, thank you. I've never thought about that.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Or do you guys poke at each other like you know,
maybe kind of just.
Speaker 8 (16:43):
Push through maybe?
Speaker 7 (16:45):
Yeah, like that that is more like I mean as
a group two, it's like important to like others, Like, yeah,
all involved, but at the same time, it's like individually too,
you should also like try your best to you know,
get in group more like get involved. So I think
it's like we all try our best, like to we
try to like gather around and like anyways, at the
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end of.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
The day, we're looking at the same goal.
Speaker 7 (17:10):
Like right now, we were in La working on our
second album, so like our goal is to finish the
second album.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
So it's like we're all focused on that.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Wow, Like while you're performing every war too.
Speaker 7 (17:22):
Dan, like it doesn't matter you're moody or like you're
sad and you're down, Like we're anyways looking at one thing.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
So yeah, at that moment, I think we're all locked in.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
I mean, any emotions can be the topic of these songs.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
So yeah, you guys have all talked about wanting to
defy your expectations and like get those out there.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
So I want to go down the line.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Is there anything that's happened recently that you're most proud
of when it comes to expectations you set and what's
actually happening. What are you most proud of recently that
you guys have been able to accomplish.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Great questions, some good questions today.
Speaker 9 (18:05):
So far?
Speaker 1 (18:05):
What are you most proud of song?
Speaker 10 (18:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (18:08):
Being in New York that's crazy. That's like when we
were like discuss about like gold music video.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
Yeah, oh, we actually wanted to.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Shoot ship music in New York.
Speaker 9 (18:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
The vibe and like the like Fats Fast City. Yeah, yeah,
it's beautiful.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
What about you, Chi human the prodest moments?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Yeah, so far?
Speaker 6 (18:36):
I think it will be our release party like we
had in yea we had back in Korea. Like it
was like, so it was a day we were releasing
our album and like there were like you know, like
only our fans in the like in the stadium, and
(18:56):
like it was crazy to see them like jumping around
and like singing, singing along our songs and like yeah,
it was just like overwhelming.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
Yeah, it was crazy because it was the day that
the song the whole album released.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
They knew the worst, they got up.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
What about you, Mario? Has been your proudest moment so far?
Speaker 3 (19:24):
You think proudest moment?
Speaker 7 (19:25):
I mean, first of all, I mean I think you
already said it, but like being in New York first
of all, because like me as a kid, that grew
up listening to like ASM Mob and like Ou Tang Clan,
I mean, like a lot of East Coast East Coast rap.
Like it is like truly a dream come true to
actually be in New York and just like you know,
(19:45):
feel the vice it like, HiT's different when you're listening
to the same music in here. And besides that, I think,
you know, just uh, it wasn't a goal, but I
think we we were celebrating the when we hit the
Billboard charts. We were definitely celebrating that. And I mean
(20:08):
there were so many grateful stuff that. I mean that
that still feels surreal. I really wanted to talk about
the release party too, but it's one of the biggest
things that I will never forget.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Go on, what about you me for me?
Speaker 5 (20:30):
I'll never forget the moment our first overseas show in
l A. I heard radio. Yeah, yeah, there was wow.
That was crazy, Like all the people like were jumping
around first.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Time, like everybody up.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Yeah, it was the first time in a performance that
you've seen the whole crowd.
Speaker 6 (20:56):
Just jumping around.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Oh my god, we're kind of doing something.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
They were like singing along together.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
They were excited. But we were excited too, so it
was crazy energy.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
In New York. I hurt radio again with you. I mean, yeah,
it's biggest radio shows.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
What about you, James, thank you. I appreciate that you guys. James.
Speaker 8 (21:26):
Mine is actually also being in New York because like
my mom was a New York.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
New York girl, so we would tell me about it.
Speaker 8 (21:36):
So she talked about She talked to me a lot
of stories about her studying in New York.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Do you know where she went?
Speaker 8 (21:47):
I think I forgot. She actually like recommended a lot
of great food plays and great spots to eat. So
later I think I will find time to go to
eat this. Yeah in Chinatown, Yes, yeah, definitely. And also
(22:08):
it's a big fashion city, so yes, Westwood the Store
and I would be looking for coach later.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Yes, yeah, you already hit. Some of your inspirations are
here from New York. But you guys have been looking
up to well we've heard Michael Jackson, three six Mafia,
Fred Again, Tyler, the creator Nirvana, Justin Bieber, which.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Is so cool.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Are you guys excited to like meet some of these
people who's on your bucket.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
List to meet in the industry?
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Starting with you songh yeah all that.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
But for me, I think who's your number one to meet?
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Number one?
Speaker 9 (22:48):
This hard question, yeah, hard to choose one, but I
think Justin Bieber Yeah yeah yeah, like when when we
were like Cheney, Like I've watched his like performance videos
(23:10):
and that so everyone's idol was Yeah yeah, yeah, me too.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
I'm still waiting and.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
Like last week, like we saw like JB's story, like
he posted like cold if you want to and if
you're in l A and we were in l A,
we can.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Make it happen Tony like it happened.
Speaker 6 (23:42):
Please please Martin?
Speaker 2 (23:45):
What about you?
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Is your just to be sorry to?
Speaker 6 (23:47):
Oh me?
Speaker 9 (23:48):
Oh wow?
Speaker 6 (23:50):
Number one recently Daniel Caesar. Yeah, it's my old time
favorite and like I love what he's doing. You know,
it's like chill stuff that matches my vibe too, So yeah,
it's great.
Speaker 7 (24:06):
Marian Oh, this is a really hard question. I have
so many, but if I have to really just choose one,
it would definitely be a set Rocky.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
I mean, I just grew up. Listen. My first rap song.
Speaker 7 (24:23):
To hear was his mixtape, so I was influenced by
that a lot. And if I can choose a number two,
it gotta be Tame and Paula because I grew up
listening to him. Yes, my dad used to plain me
a lot of Tam and Paula.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Yes, do you have one?
Speaker 6 (24:39):
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 9 (24:42):
For me.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
Told me York Radiohead. Yeah, yeah, I mean radio Head
is my favorite rock band. And I really liked the
album The Bands and Key Day, and I just like
the way he's singing where he's singing like yeah, yeah,
(25:05):
told me.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Radio James.
Speaker 6 (25:10):
Question.
Speaker 8 (25:15):
Oh for me, Oh my god, this is hard.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
It is hard.
Speaker 8 (25:23):
It is hard. Mm hmmm. I think it would be.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
M hm.
Speaker 8 (25:32):
Lancy Foe one of my role models as an artist
and future.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Right, Yes, the Kings.
Speaker 8 (25:47):
Yeah, he has great musickes on like leveling up somehow,
he's grown up.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
He's grown up, He's growing up.
Speaker 6 (25:55):
He is amazing.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
His music is so amazing.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
And it's also cool to know that now with your guys' music,
you are now a group and individually artists that younger
people look up to, or even in the industry you
look up to with your like crazy debut.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
So that's really an awesome thing to note.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
I just want you guys to know that too, that
now you guys are, of course, of course, now with
a lot of work, there has to come some downtime.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
So are you guys like really.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Locked in with just work or do you guys actually
have time to work on like maybe hobbies, video games
or death scrolling on TikTok? What are some of those
things to like get you out of work mode?
Speaker 3 (26:36):
For me, it's like, I think we all love shops.
Speaker 8 (26:41):
Yeah, yeah, you.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Shop some most who always like has the longest receipt.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
I mean I think recently it's.
Speaker 11 (26:46):
Yeah crazy, he's going crazy like us in Korea, like
at our dorm, Like it's like.
Speaker 9 (26:58):
Yeah, every the door.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Yeah yourself, it's not that bad.
Speaker 8 (27:07):
But it's the season, yeah, kind of end of the year,
you know, like Halloween, Thanksgiving and coming. Yeah, it's the
season to kind of treat yourself at times.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Who is the money saver? Who is not spending a
dollar and wow, yeah you'll cash out all this big ball.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
I would rather not eat than not Yeah, I mean
I'm that I'm a fashion logan everything.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Yeah all about Okay, So you guys just are online
shopping or are you in the stores.
Speaker 8 (27:41):
Or both both?
Speaker 7 (27:43):
Yeah, but I think it's mostly in the store, like, yeah,
because it's much easier to just like you know, you
can like rather than scrolling and TikTok may be death
scrolling shop. Like we have this one app Cold Fruits
family that we really love to use and we buy
all our like vintage.
Speaker 6 (28:04):
It's like grailed.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
It's like grailed in career.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Now when it comes to you guys as a group,
like if you guys are all somewhere, who's like the
dad of the group that's like cleaning up.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
After like finding stuff, who's the one in the group
that's like.
Speaker 9 (28:17):
I think it's our manager? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 8 (28:22):
I think for us, Yeah, it's yeah, I know who's
the dirtiest, Like you.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Unorganized, it's not messy, it's organized.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (28:39):
To be honest, I know what who they're talking about
is me.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
They gotta know that I'm the one that cleans up
the whole house.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Time to time, I'd be like cleaning.
Speaker 5 (28:52):
Up the whole like he's random, like like three in
the morning, our house suddenly like.
Speaker 7 (28:59):
I mean, I mean sometimes it's like out of hand,
like it's out of pocket, like oh my goodness, like
this is so unorganized, Like I mean I'm so unorganized too,
but like I know where my stuff are at but like.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Sometimes I just got to clean it up.
Speaker 7 (29:15):
And especially when there's like some like photo shoots or
like some video shoots in our dorm, like I gotta
clean it up.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
That's fair.
Speaker 8 (29:22):
I don't wonder, but the maintenance is not not good.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Yeah, we can work on that.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
I mean we're working on it.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Twenty twenty five, six, twenty six resolution.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Yeah, as a group, we're still adjusting to living together.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Yes, I mean there's there's so much and there's so
much to look forward to as well, and I do
want to send it back to this present moment right now.
How does it feel to be Cordis.
Speaker 6 (29:51):
That's a great question.
Speaker 8 (29:54):
Yeah, I mean yes, I mean I landed in New York,
so that it's good.
Speaker 9 (30:00):
Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
Yeah, and whoa wow, Like I mean, yeah, we're just grateful,
you know, like been here in New York. Like, I mean,
we work hard, but like like everyone, like our fans,
like our staff, like.
Speaker 7 (30:19):
Like shout out to team courts, were like some names
like yeah everyone.
Speaker 6 (30:23):
Yeah, if it weren't for damn, like, we wouldn't be here.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
So like that's all I think. I think we're just
five teenagers fooling around.
Speaker 9 (30:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (30:31):
Still, I mean I think that's what we are really, like,
you know, just focused on like just having fun about
our music and like craft, and you know, it's just
such a blessing to like make it like to New York,
to l A, like so overseas.
Speaker 8 (30:51):
You just the best thing you can do is just
soak it all in and really just be grateful to
every single person that you need and like, yeah, just
really be grateful.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Definitely, the song he what do you want to say
to the fans that are there from the first day
to now?
Speaker 1 (31:09):
What do you want to say to them?
Speaker 8 (31:12):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (31:14):
Then chun check out everything comes Uh that wills many
kissing your pimp there.
Speaker 10 (31:31):
Oh oh, they're so grateful to hear that from you
and all of you.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Thank you so much for making time for us. We
know you're so busy.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
It is such an honor and we cannot wait to
see your show and to see the rest of the
world enjoy the music.
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