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BOYNEXTDOOR WOONHAK expressed confidence in the success of the title track 'VIRAL.'

 

BOYNEXTDOOR met with Hanteo News at a cafe in Seoul on the 5th and talked about its new album. On this day, when asked, “Can you bet your copyright that 'VIRAL' will do well?” WOONHAK confidently answered, “I can.”

 

The lyrics of the title track 'VIRAL' contain witty expressions. MYUNG JAEHYUN explained, “It is about saying to an ex-lover, ‘We are going to become so famous that you will hear this song and cry alone in secret without anyone knowing. I’ll bet my copyright on that,’” adding, “We wanted to tell the story of hoping this song would linger in the ears of people around the world and continue to go viral and spread, by comparing it to love, the most universal emotion.” He continued, “Copyright is something truly precious, and I wanted to say that I am confident enough to bet even that.” The lyric was reportedly gifted to WOONHAK by ZICO, who produces BOYNEXTDOOR, because he thought it would suit him well. Following WOONHAK, MYUNG JAEHYUN also chimed in, “I will bet mine too.”

 

Regarding the evaluation that ‘VIRAL’ is classic K-POP while still carrying BOYNEXTDOOR’s own individuality, MYUNG JAEHYUN said, “While preparing this album, we talked about what it would be like if we reinterpreted the music we watched, listened to, and really loved while growing up,” adding, “There is a dance break, synchronized choreography, then a lyrical melody in the bridge before starting the dance break with high notes. That kind of structural progression and build-up was what we felt K-POP was.” He continued, “If you look at the lyrics, there are many fun parts, like saying we will bet our copyright, and the lyrics themselves are very lively, so I think people will feel that this is very BOYNEXTDOOR-like and that this is how BOYNEXTDOOR interpreted K-POP.”

 

There was a reason behind their change from their existing friendly and bright concept. WOONHAK said, “It is true that we wanted to make a change as BOYNEXTDOOR,” adding, “We thought doing something new would actually be the most BOYNEXTDOOR-like thing, and we thought it would be good to show a newer BOYNEXTDOOR in Chapter 2 through a full-length album.” He continued, “There are also B-side tracks with an innocent atmosphere that may remind people of the previous BOYNEXTDOOR, but since the overall album is serious and sincere, we thought it was right for the title track to carry a unified mood.”

 

LEEHAN said, “We are a team that always tries to transfer the emotions we feel at the time into our songs when we work,” adding, “We started making the album with the thought that, at this point in time, if we showed our honest and human sides, people might be able to love us more deeply.” MYUNG JAEHYUN said, “While preparing this album, I felt a lot that youth itself is something that cannot be expressed in a superficial form,” adding, “The anxiety we felt, the pain we went through, and the happiness we felt because of something all actually felt like they took the form of youth. So, as we naturally thought about wanting to tell this kind of story through the title track and what kind of music could express it most effectively, I think this kind of music came out.” WOONHAK added, “We thought it was time to bring out the emotions we had set aside.”

 

The reason they included autobiographical stories in the album was also clear. SUNGHO explained, “Over the past three years, as the members have grown, I thought we had accumulated a lot of things we wanted to say,” adding, “We talked about using this full-length album to express our inner stories and more honest words, and then move forward.” He continued, “We were able to naturally unfold stories about our parents, as well as the emotions we felt from before debut through the period after debut.”

 

BOYNEXTDOOR’s 1st full-length album 'HOME' will be released today at 6 PM. Attention is focused on what record BOYNEXTDOOR, which achieved two consecutive initial chodong million-seller albums by recording initial chodong sales of 1,041,802 copies with its previous work ‘The Action,’ will write this time.