It's MIN's Prime Time! Journey with JYP & Miss A | POP 101 [PART 1]

[00:00:00] Viewer discretion is advised. Your fave will be criticized. From bad girl to good girl, now she's that girl but baby she is not your idol. Introducing Min, formerly of Miss A. Hello! Hi! How are you guys? Welcome to CCTV. We're so excited that

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[00:00:32] Thank you so much and if you want to be a producer of CCTV you can join us at patreon.com slash cctvpups. Yeah. Yes. So the morning announcements are out of the way. Yes. So now we can talk to you. Oh yeah. Class is in session.

[00:00:53] As we said welcome in to CCTV. We are obviously excited to speak to you but tell us how are you feeling? How are you feeling today? How's everything going? Good. I am very excited.

[00:01:05] Thank you for having me and yeah let's have fun. Oh we're going to for sure. So we are so excited that you are now making a comeback as a solo artist. Yay! Prime time.

[00:01:20] Prime time! That's right it's available on all streaming platforms now so go check that out and support everyone. Please support it because it's freaking good all right you know it's good, we know it's good, it's good but before we discuss that any further this is a pop 101

[00:01:36] so let's take it back to the beginning. Memory lane. All right so you had a very interesting start in the industry right? So when you were really young not even before like becoming an

[00:01:50] idol you were doing like child star things right? Yes. So you appeared on Bow Bow Bow and you performed in a dance duo with Hyo Yeon. Oh some research. Girl let's do that here. Way back so when you were in your mother's womb were you dancing?

[00:02:08] But yes you had a lot of experience at a really young age right? So could you tell us more about those early experiences? Yeah so since I was like five like I with my grandma

[00:02:20] she's very supportive of me and she loves to dance and sing and like when she was at her younger age she wanted to become an actress and she got caught by her mother following the theater people and then she got caught so she got her shaved head.

[00:02:38] Yeah that's like way back so that wasn't like allowed to my grandma and yeah and I think I got that blood from my grandma so since I was very young I loved to dance and perform and

[00:02:52] you know so I was at school an elementary school and they give you like this newspapers at school and then there was this ad for Acting Academy and I knew one of the

[00:03:07] one of the actress like child actress that I used to like and I wanted to be on TV so I cut that little paper and I went back home and I like asked my grandma if I wanted like I have

[00:03:20] like I wanted to act and be on TV so I like backed her so she took me there and then that's how I got into Bbobbobbo. So Bbobbobbobbo is like Mickey Mouse Club and you know kind of

[00:03:32] like that in in Korea so yeah that's how I got into Bbobbobbo and then while I was doing Bbobbobbo and other TV programs I saw this girl doing like like this like like this

[00:03:47] the waving and like the popping and then when I saw that's like the first time I've seen someone like doing pop and lock so I was like I was very intrigued I was like oh my god like

[00:03:58] I want to learn like where did you go but somehow this girl's mother wouldn't tell my grandma like where she learned so my grandma just just like searched the whole soul to like oh

[00:04:10] like where is this academy and she found it. Good for grandma. She's a hustler. So she found the place and I went there that's when I was in like fourth grade and then I got like better at

[00:04:24] dancing and you know singing and then I was a big fan of Rain so I did like a self-tape of me singing and dancing and sent it to JYP. They liked me and they called me and they wanted

[00:04:39] me to audition for like an open audition that holds in Lotte World that's like Six Flags like Disneyland and then I joined the audition and I got the first place and that's girl yeah

[00:04:59] that's how I became a trainee of JYP and in fifth grade sixth grade. You were like a baby. I was a baby. And your parents like your family was supportive this whole time? They

[00:05:11] were very supportive yeah yeah my dad also used to play guitar when he was in high school so so the disapproval skipped a generation. Okay so you were relocated to the U.S. to train. Yes. So how long was it between kind of you

[00:05:31] initially auditioning and then doing that? So that was after I trained in Seoul for about a year okay yeah so I moved to America when I was in seventh grade by yourself yeah with JYP.

[00:05:47] Oh but still yeah I lived in a dorm yeah with like all these other ESL students yeah that's intense. I'm gonna cry baby I would have been sobbing yeah but I was so excited you're just

[00:06:01] excited yeah I was excited yeah I think you're young enough at that point that you're just like new experience yeah I'm going for it yeah better than me I'm I cry when I went

[00:06:08] my first dance class I cried my first singing lesson I cried because I thought I sucked just you know that's awesome that you did that. Originally the plan was to have a solo debut in

[00:06:19] the U.S. yes right yeah and Lil Jon actually got involved yes in the project as well yes. Hey guys um welcome to my MySpace um this is my producer Lil Jon and we working on a song called

[00:06:32] Boyfriend. Tell us about that whole time for you because there are songs from then too there's dance like this yeah oh my god yeah I found you on MySpace when I was a kid

[00:06:43] and it was like a little Jon's protege yes and I was like holy oh she's Asian what oh my god wait at the time it wasn't like what k-pop is now oh yeah so I was like holy the banner said

[00:06:53] she is a star yeah yeah listen oh my god yeah but these songs have never been officially released obviously yeah but yeah so how was this whole time period of you training

[00:07:02] with Lil Jon oh my god it was it was crazy I went I went to Atlanta for a whole month for recording um to record and it was such a unique process because I've only recorded with JY and

[00:07:18] he's very like strict and he's very like um like detailed and perfectionist but like working with Lil Jon was very chill he like lit up like candles in the recording studio and

[00:07:29] like it was dark and like there were smoke oh well yeah it was dark and you know it was very very chill and I was that's the first time I experienced like atmosphere like like that

[00:07:41] like free and like yeah yeah I wasn't like scared the pressure wasn't there yeah yeah yeah have you heard Lil Jon speak before he's very gentle yeah it's the most interesting thing he's like okay I know on a record it's amazing what do you think of those songs

[00:07:56] looking back oh those songs are so good like I would love to release them snippet now release them I do I think and like yeah we gotta reach out Lil Jon come on dude

[00:08:08] come on hey it's time to get these out dude at this point come on you know revamp it revamp it okay so um so moving ahead a little bit more prior to you eventually joining to Miss A

[00:08:20] um now while you were there in America I'm sure you probably faced a lot of like hardship right now I remember about two years ago you had an interview with Esna where you mentioned

[00:08:30] that there was a lot of like weigh-ins and stuff right and I'm like weight in like the way in your way and you mentioned like kind of going to a sauna and going to the gym and

[00:08:40] what was your mindset during this time and like would you did you ever think like I'm gonna keep doing this because I'm going to debut like what was it what was happening

[00:08:47] what was the communication like for you at that time was it like okay if I do this I'm gonna debut next in the next six months or in a year from now like what was the timeline

[00:08:55] that they told you well the timeline they told me was when the boyfriend song came out not came out but like when I was recording and then like like the debut was like tomorrow

[00:09:06] but it never happened you know like so since then I it was just a lot of waiting and a lot of weighing in like oh that's what she said how old were you like

[00:09:17] I was in high school okay yeah a little bit older that's a lot of pressure yeah yeah a lot of pressure I did I did get a little you know like because the McDonald's and

[00:09:27] all the fast food you love McDonald's here I love McDonald's before I love McDonald's it is so good it's so hard to say no I used to sneak in McDonald's and I got caught oh you know as a

[00:09:39] former dancer they say we could see your lunch I'm like oh you could see it like yeah they're ballet ballet you know yeah so did you have any time you were like I'm gonna

[00:09:49] quit this f this I did oh yeah yeah so I told JYP I said I am not doing this I'm done and I went back to Korea oh shoot okay it was just like right before you joined in

[00:10:02] this day or well yeah because after a year I went back yeah obviously and I was like well basically I told him I wanted to practice again and then that's when he said and I had

[00:10:16] like three months of training in in Korean JYP company and then they held a meeting and they told me they were working on this group and they've already made a debut in China

[00:10:33] and they asked me if I wanted to join and it's like three months from now and they're gonna debut so yeah I was like hell yeah come on yeah no more waiting so prior to you eventually

[00:10:47] joining this day like you said they did have a few lineups without you um they had a trio of Faye, Gia and Suzy and they released a song for the Samsung commercial called Love Again

[00:10:55] oh my god yes yeah yeah that's awesome and then like you said you joined them like super last minute only the three months prior to the debut so obviously you wanted to be in it

[00:11:06] but what about that group was it like I want to do it because Wonder Girls had the retro concept but Miss A's concept was a little bit more mature right was that the determining factor for you

[00:11:17] or was just like oh it was just uh it was just that like I get to debut in like so soon so sincere yeah yeah and we didn't have concept before yeah oh well we didn't know

[00:11:29] like they don't they don't present you like so we're like making this concept and would you like to join it's not like that you know like all these trainees like waiting to debut and like

[00:11:39] whatever it is they're just you know like happy to take it you know what I mean oh my gosh so it could have been like some it's not like oh maybe not this concept it's not like that

[00:11:49] can you imagine that so we're going to be a group of clowns oh my god I love that would be a group of we've talked about this before because we also review k-pop on our show

[00:11:57] and sometimes I'll hear a debut song and I'm like if I was put in that group and that was I'd be yeah not happy so yeah well before we get to the music I'm very curious because Miss A had

[00:12:08] an interesting dynamic because it was two Korean members yes two Chinese members and you did not have a leader no we didn't so what was the group dynamic like when you joined well I mean

[00:12:20] Sooji was 16 and Fei and Jiah were Chinese they've lived in Korea for about three four years and they're Korean I mean obviously it's not like fluent fluent they're very good

[00:12:35] but so I mean I just turned 20 in Korean age so I mean I feel like I was the I was the person to like like when we were at interviews or like um stuff like that I was the I was the

[00:12:49] one who speak so that was I feel like that was kind of like my role as like a speaker I don't know oh yeah yeah yeah yeah spokesperson like yeah and I was young too I didn't even know what the

[00:13:04] hell I was doing was it a conscious decision from JYP to not appoint a leader yeah because after I joined they were like we're not gonna have a leader because Fei was the leader

[00:13:17] because she's the oldest and somehow I don't know I don't know why but they were like we're no more leader in this group we're like okay interesting yeah but they were happy that you

[00:13:28] joined or was there they were happy okay yeah of course good yeah one more person no valid because you know it could go the other way quite easily though like Beyonce and Farrah Franklin from Destiny's Child you know I don't know their drama oh yeah so Destiny's Child

[00:13:42] they start out with four childhood friends and then like right you know and they got another girl in Michelle no Michelle and Farrah exactly you remember Michelle she was only there for

[00:13:52] two songs exactly oh that's why yeah yeah girl so we're glad you did not have that moment that being said Miss A officially debuted on July 1st 2010 with the single bad girl good

[00:14:08] yes the EP was bad but good and the song was a major hit which is amazing because it's a debut song hello and it became one of the biggest k-pop songs of the year and it won a ton of awards

[00:14:26] so looking back on that time what do you think made it so successful for you all I think um because back then 2010 there are there weren't that many girl groups who's representing like strong independent lady like concept and we were we and we I think it was

[00:15:14] very new to people like girl groups coming out like very strong it's not like holding candy it's not like holding candy and like you know like it's not like opposite it's like the opposite of that concept so I think people found it very um intriguing

[00:15:33] intriguing yeah and it was a good song with a good concept and we were I think we were very talented um yeah I think and you know like it was a good company yeah yeah you

[00:15:48] know successful company putting out a new project yes new group and yeah we've all really worked hard for it and uh yeah I remember the step up movies being really popular so seeing the whole dance studio concept and you girls wearing the leotards and I remember

[00:16:04] you in your hoodie yes and your dance move everyone gets a pose yes and I see you did you that is the best part absolutely I was feeling myself I was like yeah literally

[00:16:17] your outfits were so cute I was like who's the little one she's heating it up like literally star yeah absolutely star and I was like I like her and you had short hair I was like I did

[00:16:27] yeah like the trademark bob yeah and then the pink hair oh nobody nobody had pink hair before at the time that's right yeah you girls were setting like trends for sure with the fashion

[00:16:38] the look the dancing getting on the floor and talking like it's hot and also I think um even though we were we had sexy concept it wasn't like how do I put this like too trashy wasn't

[00:16:52] like yes yeah yeah can I say that oh yeah sure sure it wasn't like oh like I'm cheap I'm like sexy it's not like that you know yeah we still had class absolutely that's the key point yes

[00:17:02] like we still oh no totally like even with the leotards you still had tights on yes you had the heels on it was never like skin your boobs yeah all that like your outfits are so cute and speaking of outfits today's episode

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[00:17:49] their website A-LandUSA.com okay moving on yes so you had a very successful debut single and you very quickly moved on to your second single which was breathe yes from the step up

[00:18:01] ep which was a very different sound i think from bad girl good girl kind of the more signature jyp sound oh yeah totally yeah what did you think of that song um i was i was too busy then when i got the song yeah

[00:18:34] like the memory is a little bit like blur because i just remember for that music video shoot we just came back from thailand we got like two hours of sleep not like we slept on

[00:18:46] in our car and then just shooting that video for like over 48 hours oh man like kind of all i remember oh my gosh yeah i mean i like the song we love the song and then we love i mean

[00:18:58] the breathe choreography is like the most it is the most energetic yeah it's like we have no time to like actually breathe yeah literally yeah so yeah i mean the choreography is very like

[00:19:17] yes and the handstands oh yeah oh my gosh can i tell you when i watched that i was like how are they doing that like i would be the dance is so long and the handstands are at the

[00:19:26] end of the dance like did you ever during performance think i'm not gonna make this i'm not gonna hit this mark and i wasn't the one who did the hand oh that's right that's right

[00:19:37] you know you're lucky yeah you're lucky because i was like i made my own luck so they didn't say oh men do it no you got that's crazy yeah my wrist hurt you heard it here first

[00:19:50] oh yeah it's crazy how you all were like doing these i guess stunts in a way yeah like acrobatics yeah because it's because jyp loves oh my god yes yeah i used to like go to acrobatic classes

[00:20:03] in new york oh and chelsea yeah and chelsea specifically oh man i think it would be great if you do the backflip on the stage you know what it would be sick it was a nice moment

[00:20:14] but she could do a split you could do a whole split sit in it and sing in it yes go go to afro classes y'all all right so the next singles were love alone for unikim's ice show and goodbye baby

[00:20:31] the lead single from miss a's first full album a class are there any memories of this era and the songs uh memories yeah it's too busy it was oh for goodbye baby yeah when we were

[00:21:03] promoting the whole month was raining get out of here the whole month yes what is that's all remember because we would always be in the car like moving and like getting out and perform

[00:21:15] and waiting there were a lot of waiting you know you know it's valid but can you imagine just raining all the time it was raining the whole for the whole promoting month oh you know

[00:21:26] the song is this crazy because like you would think with the rain it's like bad luck you know but it's so good yeah yeah that song is so good it's still one of my favorite yeah no it's

[00:21:35] good for sure and i love the video too oh yeah so sassy that yes i remember my friend was showing me dubstep and i was like no no i have something better and i showed you

[00:21:46] i showed her the video it's just who's all with the ponytail oh it's like oh my god the hair colors the hair concepts like you had like the averted bob or um good girl bad girl

[00:21:56] bad girl good girl sorry yeah and then you had the little ponytail it was strange but not like weird too weird you know so it was cute it was very like i love the concept it was black and

[00:22:07] classy yeah oh and then we had the the garters the garters and we wore the mic the mic um what do you call it the mic pack the mic pack yeah so we made this mic pack on our

[00:22:20] thighs and we wore it that's right on our thighs little moments like that yeah iconic yeah absolutely iconic oh my god that was that was hot yes it was super sexy yeah yeah we only

[00:22:31] had pussy at dolls over here really yeah so you guys are the hot ones yeah wait so during this period did you have any creative control at all or was it pretty much just like these are

[00:22:40] the songs on the album this is the music video concept yeah that's it that's it yeah yeah yeah oh i mean i had no problem with it it was doing well and you liked the songs i loved

[00:22:51] the song that's good yeah i mean i wanted to like you know do more like because i i loved like um hip-hop rmb so i mean i thought like i thought because when i was preparing for my solo

[00:23:07] project i feel like that those type of music were like more for me right so i you know like i had a little bit little moments like oh like why do i have to sing this song i

[00:23:17] want to do like i want to sing something like this yeah you know but yeah that's normal that's so normal yeah normal for sure well lil john we're waiting still release those songs

[00:23:27] yes okay so later in 2011 miss a also made its official debut in china so you actually had to record the singles in chinese too so how was doing that how were the chinese promotions

[00:23:38] yeah how was that for you it was it was hard i mean i do i mean i i learned chinese with uh sunye from the wonder girls we used to um tutor together because originally her me

[00:23:56] and the other girl were gonna be three trio group before i moved to america so i knew a little bit of chinese and then um before my debut we me and suzy learned chinese so we knew a

[00:24:09] little bit of chinese but then it was like a whole another level of singing in chinese it was like oh it's hard because you know and then going to china and staying there for

[00:24:23] a long time that was definitely challenging but and also i i had a really bad disc at that time like my fifth and sixth were like a little bit in your back yeah my lower back i had a

[00:24:39] i had a really bad back problem so yeah oh my gosh so because in china when we're doing like a variety show i my back was hurting too much so i came into my green room and then i just

[00:24:54] um laid down on the floor and i cried so much i was like oh my god my back because if your back hurts like whatever you do it's very depressing you know like whatever you do it's

[00:25:05] like so depressing you are a beast girl oh my god yeah man that's intense i mean you know but yeah um on a positive side the song did really well and you know it's like jia and

[00:25:19] fe's hometown yes so they would introduce me to like all this food and like like it was it was fun you know like we went to eat hot pot a lot it was so good the best absolutely the best

[00:25:31] you girls are definitely on a roll for sure because in february 2012 miss a made its korean comeback with touch oh yeah which again was a massive hit it's like hit after hit after hit

[00:25:42] they're all so good crazy the run was crazy um and this song was a lot more sexier and it was more mature than the previous singles did you like the song i love the song okay yeah so what were your thoughts about like the era of

[00:26:12] the music video like the video was just so cool with the glitching it was yeah i felt a little like ahead of its time because again no one was going for like the gothic sexy thing and

[00:26:20] you ladies were so yeah give us some insight about that i loved um our mummy outfit yeah that's iconic yeah i don't know who came up with that idea but yeah that was i thought it

[00:26:34] was genius and the choreo uh john tay the choreographer yes oh my gosh he's one of the choreographer for iconic yeah yeah he actually came to korea and we hung out and he made this

[00:26:49] choreo and yeah i love the choreography it's very in control and like you know so yes for those who don't know john tay moaning is choreographer single ladies or be my baby for

[00:27:01] wonder girls and of course miss a um so this album do you have any like b-sides that you like from this album because we've been talking about the singles but there were more vocal

[00:27:11] performances on this album for sure you girls were definitely just giving you girls could really sing like thank you like we can play a little bit now we're like oh where's the vocals

[00:27:21] you are all the mics are on oh yeah it was 100 on yeah so do you have a favorite b-side from this album b-side from touch yes i loved rock and roll yes yes and lips i actually made a video

[00:27:37] like on my own yeah but i never released it we're all release it we love amber's in the video we love lost media the model oh we need to get this out too girl i don't know why i didn't

[00:27:50] put it out i should have started youtube back then like you know what i mean yeah i mean i made the video we all feel like that we love lost media though so bring it out and the fans love it yes

[00:28:02] we do absolutely okay so moving on to the end of 2012 you had independent women part three and its lead single was i don't need a man yeah so this one was a great one we loved the

[00:28:11] references to other western girl groups too right there's destiny's child there's pussycat oh yes so yeah love that you were kind of putting yourself kind of in the same lane as them

[00:28:46] it's definitely like uh you know like a lot of women love yeah this track because it's like i don't need a man you know so i think it but i need a man

[00:29:02] we need a man yes that is so funny because i was thinking to the song i used to go not knowing that when i got older i was like

[00:29:14] it's talking about like oh i pay my own rent yeah i pay my own like bills i make my own money yeah but sometimes i don't want to you know maybe sometimes i need a man to take care

[00:29:25] of everything but it's you know it's so interesting because again like you were the first to really sing like this now you have groups like um like triple s i think they sing like girls

[00:29:37] capitalism where they talk about oh your money you have um kiss of life that have videos about like they're beating up guys on a subway train you know i'm saying like yeah yeah

[00:29:45] you girls had like this really fun concept and the video was very simple yeah it wasn't like this huge stage you're wearing all these crazy dresses it was just chill out with the flag independent independent ladies yeah yeah independent women yeah yeah just a year

[00:30:03] after this song i don't need a man yeah hush came out that's my favorite song okay Kiss, kiss, kiss baby Hush, hush, hush baby Hot, hot, hot, hot Let me go, let me go Give it to me, give it to me Oh, come to me, come to me

[00:30:37] Oh, give it to me, give it to me What do you think of that track and your album? I considered the La Mian Mo Geu Le album because you guys were getting kind of sexy on the album. You were like talking about come over

[00:30:49] like you have a B-side that was like really kind of sexy too. Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah, that was like, oh this is very hot. So what do you think about the whole concept? Like, do you feel like you as a group were ready to do that?

[00:30:59] Did you feel ready to do it? We were totally ready. Yeah, it was. I mean, I just love the whole curtain. Oh yes. The bong. The shower pole. Yeah, the shower pole. The bong. Can I tell you, because I was like stick.

[00:31:17] Every time I even see a shower like that, I think of Hush and I just want to, yeah, I want to do it. I'll break a curtain for you all. Get on the subway? Yes. You know, I'm not sure if you remember

[00:31:31] but I actually came to that workshop. I had blonde hair at the time. You came to my workshop? Yeah, I did. I had like blonde hair at the time though and I danced like in the select group. I danced after Chris was dancing.

[00:31:40] I danced in that group after Chris. You came too? Yeah, I was there, yeah. Oh my god guys! What are you saying? I was. I was going to ask a question. That's what he said. But yeah, no, you know what, kiyokana yo. You don't remember?

[00:31:54] We didn't stand out enough. No, no it's okay. We failed our audition. For M.I.N. Entertainment. But yeah, no, listen to the word for it. We went to that because we were like we have to go. We have to learn Hush. We have to.

[00:32:11] I've seen so many people do it. Honey. There was even a girl group, I remember an award show where you and another girl group switched songs. Yes! Oh yes! Sister! Yes, yes. No team, no shade. But your songs were so perfect for you all

[00:32:28] that when I saw Sister I was like, oh, oh, I love y'all. But it's Miss A's song. It's just you girls were so perfect for that. It was perfect timing, the outfits, the latents. It's definitely one of our prime time songs. Prime time. Hashtag prime time.

[00:32:48] Drop it in the comments. Oh yeah, by the way, if you guys have made it this far be sure to subscribe to both Min and CCTV. Of course, yay! Don't forget, drop a comment by the way. Let us know what your favorite Miss A song is. Alright?

[00:33:01] Don't forget that. Yes. So like I said, I'm a huge fan, he's a huge fan but like I used to sit down and do absolutely nothing except watch you. It's not creepy at all. So in a non-creepy way. But yes, so there was a performance, I think,

[00:33:22] at a K.O. day too. Sorry. Oh, I got hit. Yes! I remember. I remember too because I was like no he did not just hit her. He was a very very passionate dancer. And it was for your big note. Yes. Yeah, it was my high note. Yeah.

[00:33:46] And then I like walk and like go He looks pissed. But then I got hit. I got slapped. No, you Because he was like he wasn't supposed to do that but he started whacking. Yes! His body, he's got two pasts and he had to start whacking. Yes.

[00:34:02] I literally, I was like during the lockdown I was like, Chris, you're watching this a bunch of videos. I want to find that clip. Can we find it? Oh yeah. Really? We were watching it. You're watching it. Oh my god, can you send me the link?

[00:34:15] Yes, you can. Because literally I was like you all, because when we started our show we were like, we have to talk about Miss A and Missography one day. Yes, yes, yes. So we were going through we were talking about oh they're so good, they're so good

[00:34:24] and I was like, Chris there's this performance she was eating it up and this man slapped her. And he hadn't seen it at the time, right? Yeah. So I said, he goes oh my god. We were like, but she kept singing though yeah, you did a cover.

[00:34:37] She kept singing girl. I did, I did. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And she made the note twice so I was like, yo she's a beast. Respect to you, respect to the Queen. Thank you, thank you. So these few comebacks were actually kind of far apart from each other

[00:34:49] because individually you all actually had a lot going on, right? So you had a lot of variety shows like you did Oh My School you also acted in a Korean film, Countdown Fei and Jia spent a lot more time in China building their own personal branch

[00:35:02] and then Suzy was doing the K-drama thing and getting really popular on her own there. So how was this whole period for you kind of doing the individual activities but then also how are you prioritizing the group as well? I think I was prioritizing the group and then

[00:35:20] I mean singing and dancing was just my passion I mean my number one passion I mean I still you know I wanna do films again I wanna be acting again but I mean this is you know this was my number one passion so I think yeah my prioritizing

[00:35:44] was Miss A was focused on like yeah so when everyone was doing their side projects did you like were you at home like okay ready to go back to the studio or were you more like I'm training, I'm singing are you making connections what was your life like

[00:35:57] without like the Miss A stuff? at that time I was on variety shows yeah so it was more about personality we saw you dancing with your bad back I remember you doing the hoot dance oh yeah that was really popular yeah it was

[00:36:13] a good way to actually show who you were outside the group and I think that's what made me and a lot of other people like you a lot more because at the time K-pop wasn't as accessible like we can't go on Twitter

[00:36:22] we couldn't go on Twitter back then and if we wanted to watch you all we would have to watch these really bad translations on YouTube like part one, part two, part five there was no three or four we would have to kind of find it like this

[00:36:34] so I think it was good that we got a chance to actually see you in person unfiltered and also you were super adorable super personable any memories you have from that time? it was just long hours of shooting you know like yeah it would go for like 12 hours

[00:36:57] get out of here it looks so short I know oh my goodness it's so far that you can't even really hear the host but the camera is on us so we have to like keep reacting and like it's just a lot of long hours it was very tiring

[00:37:15] yeah, I can imagine but it was fun yeah sometimes it was fun were you frustrated that the group was kind of on pause while everyone was doing their own thing though? yeah I mean I wanted to do more music stuff and I wanted to have my solo

[00:37:30] you know like that was always my goal but it never happened and yeah I mean I shot lips love lips in the Han River yeah release it okay release it I'm gonna look for the clip you should while all of this was going on

[00:37:53] everyone can see that you guys are getting really popular can see your personality can see that you're very talented were there any conversations about you going solo during this time? no no conversations so Hush has passed the solo time has passed everyone's back together

[00:38:12] and Miss A released its final project Colors Only You yeah exactly so that was released in March 2015 and the song was also successful I want you now please stop you'll be my baby baby you don't look at other guys you me

[00:38:47] there were also rumors floating around about the breakup of the group's relationship right so fans started dissecting and looking at everything and reading into the situations and the interactions on social media yeah what was that promotional period like for you all? it just I was very

[00:39:03] every day was just so hard for me back then you know every day was just a struggle for me I mean I was young everyone was young right? so we were just very like hit in a we were just thrown in a situation yeah everyone's just like

[00:39:21] pointing at us and pointing at me and I just I think I was just too young to handle it or I didn't even know how to process it and I like the feelings that I felt I I never expressed it to anyone oh

[00:39:39] because I was very self conscious I just thought everyone was looking at me in a certain way so I couldn't even defend myself I just got hit right that's how I feel I don't know no that makes sense a lot of companies weren't really defending idols

[00:39:56] even like now it's a little bit more like you can report this yes we have committees to help with the attack of our idols but back then it was like like you said it was like a zoo and if people said something it was like

[00:40:10] this is who you are so it's not fair yeah it's not fair I will say looking back because we were watching all the performances and stuff in preparation for this you did a good job still like you are acting happy yes for this song

[00:40:22] I mean I tried my best the chemistry between the group felt genuine so before you actually officially left JYP you did actually participate in the SM Station single Born To Be Wild in August 2016 with Girls' Generation's Hyoyeon and Jo Kwon under the name Triple T

[00:40:36] and it did feature JYP as well so oh yeah girl you didn't hear him in the beginning oh yeah oh yeah that counts as a feature yeah no it does he's credited oh yeah yes of course tell us more about this project how did that come together

[00:41:13] so SMTOWN was doing like a weekly something SM Station releases SM Station release and we were the part of one week did Hyoyeon ask you though or like how did it happen oh the company get out of here see they saw that you were Star Ra 2

[00:41:30] they saw it if they did I would have had my solo that's the same we're the same I was like girl no same anyways I had so much fun doing the Born To Be Wild and a lot of people kind of like love it yeah you know what

[00:41:49] there's a K-pop idol now her name is Alexa I know her I don't know her personally but I know her I do know her yeah she actually when she started doing like K-pop and such she was doing cover dances and then she got signed but her first like

[00:42:01] win for the competition I think was by Soompi was to Born To Be Wild and she dressed like you oh my god the bun and the coat and everything oh my god I need to see the video yeah so if you ever get a chance to like Alexa

[00:42:16] did you ever get a chance to kind of talk to her or contact her in terms of that she legit dressed up like you oh my god I have to see the video it's so cute and I was like what a niche song

[00:42:27] because nobody was really doing that everyone was really I felt it was popular at the time but it wasn't this SM station song so yeah shout out to her shout out to you shout out to Alexa oh by the way what's triple T triple threat ooh okay see

[00:42:41] I figured that one out but who came up with that name I don't remember oh okay was there any talk of doing more like as a trio I don't recall any of any of doing it like for long term okay so yeah just like a one off

[00:43:00] it's just like one of the stations yeah they jump in and jump out yeah yeah oh also for people who do not know or didn't actually look it up what does the A in Miss A stand for oh it's Miss Asia yeah

[00:43:17] I mean if you listen to the debut track as JYP is whispering through the whole intro he does say it oh he does he goes made in Asia made in Asia Miss A yeah wait hang on your cadence was perfect by the way you did

[00:43:33] since you mentioned like not having a leader not having positions did you ever like wanted to do like one of those JYP raps dun dun dun dun did I ever what like did you ever want to do those raps or oh my god I did I rapped for

[00:43:49] I Don't Need A Man you did but did you like did I like did you like rapping his style or did you no I didn't sorry sorry I love I respect him so much yeah you know he's my he's been like my dad my mentor

[00:44:05] for a long time yeah he's rapping I don't know you remember the rap of course so and so so so I mean his artists still kind of do that they do yeah I mean that's his style yeah yeah but like when he's when he's giving you a lesson

[00:44:24] you understand what is where it's coming from totally yeah he like he explains it so that's why you have to like emphasize this word yeah yeah it made it more emotive also the half air half sound singing yeah yeah so how do you feel about that concept

[00:44:42] and do you feel like it's it's true oh yeah he does he's been giving us lessons like like which is half air half sound and yeah that's like how most JYP artists sing do you still sing that way I do oh nice it's just ingrained in you now

[00:45:01] it's ingrained in me like I you know that's where I learn how to sing right yeah no respect I have a lot of air when I sing so ooh okay so with all the memories of JYP and SA yes coming to a close

[00:45:16] you did mention that you noticed that things weren't going to be renewed yeah so in 2017 all the members contracts including yours were expiring and the official except Faye I think Faye I think she signed for three years okay or something but anyways she's not with JYP anymore

[00:45:33] you're so right she did because she had her own solo debut yeah yeah okay and the official disbandment was announced December 27th 2017 do you feel like there was still room for you to grow in that company or like if you wanted to stay would they keep you

[00:45:50] how did you feel about that what was the conversation I knew that they didn't have any plan for my solo so that's when I decided it's not going forward mm-hmm going forward mm-hmm yeah I didn't have energy to stand up for myself and like how like how come

[00:46:13] I'm not having solo I didn't have any energy and I was too scared yeah why were you scared I was just scared of the world oh yeah I couldn't express my feelings or my needs or like this is how I should be treated

[00:46:31] and I want to do this I just felt very like doubtful of myself and I thought like if people said one thing I thought I have to believe that so it was just like a lot to a lot for me that time yeah so

[00:46:49] I just didn't leave my room for like the next two years oh no I was looking for you you were I know I wasn't on social I wasn't on like anything so before we leave the Miss A era fully looking back on it now

[00:47:03] how do you feel about the group's legacy your legacy and the influence on the current K-pop landscape oh wow I think we definitely left a mark in K-pop legacy because just like I said like the whole independence concept like as a woman and as you know

[00:47:27] a girl group and a girl group girl band that was I think that was very powerful and empowering for me as well just like singing that song up on the stage and just expressing the empowerment of women I think I'm sure that influenced a lot of young women

[00:47:49] and also for me as well like I just feel like so powerful like I just felt so like hmm you know I'm like I am powerful like I'm independent you know so in that way I feel very proud proud of I'm very proud of it and

[00:48:09] now that K-pop has become like the world trend I'm very proud to be part of part of it yeah I would be too yeah I mean you are still often regarded as one of the best dancers of that entire oh yeah I mean that entire generation oh yeah

[00:48:31] especially your little popping glitter performance I again oh yeah that's sick yeah you were that was good honey you still are yes yeah absolutely I still got it oh yeah alright so all that being said with everything that has happened do you think that Miss A will ever

[00:48:50] have a reunion? time for a recess break for the answer to that reunion question and a deep dive into all of men's solo activity and a deep dive into all of men's solo activities from onion to kpop on Broadway to of course primetime tune in to part 2

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