Is the Rose Band Doing Anything Ever Again
Seoul-based popular-rockers The Rose have been going strong since their outset single "Sorry" in 2017 (when it was named ane of Billboard's best K-popular songs of the year) with steady, albeit boring, growth. Only 2019 saw a major upswing for the quartet afterward they appeared on the South Korean band contest proveSuper Band, and the year has proven an eventful one for the act.
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With their presence ascension through televised performances and solo music from lead vocalist Woo Sung (also known as Sammy), The Rose didn't go to put out a planned album this year but did share their inspiring unmarried "Blood-red" and its B-side "California" in August. They besides launched their second globe tour the aforementioned month.
While in New York City earlier this year to bring their We Rose You lot concert to The Boondocks Hall, the members of The Rose — Woo Sung (guitar), Do Joon (guitar), Ha Joon (drums) and Jae Hyeong (bass)– saturday downwardly with Billboard to talk over their recent release, touring and upcoming music. Read what they had to say beneath.
How did your bear witness go last night? I wasn't able to make it, but heard from friends that there were some technical difficulties.
Practice Joon: Aye, the show couldn't motion on for about 20 minutes.
Woo Sung: I was really frustrated, to be honest, but it went well.
Do Joon: We just went with the flow.
Woo Sung: It was then bad that I couldn't hear myself, I couldn't hear anything actually, so I had to hear the fans voices to run into what key we were on. That's how bad it was. But it fabricated information technology then special, and I think it was really cool 'cause I didn't accept annihilation in my ears and usually I accept in-ears [monitors]. Information technology sounded like we were just singing with our fans, literally. We were making music [together]. It was cool, yeah.
Do Joon: Information technology was like, 'I'll play guitar and you sing dorsum.'
Kinda similar busking and the crowd joining in?
Do Joon: Yeah! A huge busking.
It sounds like y'all enjoyed the experience even though it must accept been really stressful.
Woo Sung: At kickoff, the two songs we were like —
Do Joon: Just confused. Confused.
Woo Sung: We couldn't hear anything.
Practice Joon: There were like twenty thoughts coming through in every second. 'What'southward going on? What's this?' Then we heard that there were technical difficulties.
Woo Sung: We were supposed to do four songs and and then talk, but we did two and then stopped. It could have been a really bad experience because the kickoff of the show, start like that, it could actually just [have] ruined the whole bear witness. Merely nosotros know the fans are at that place to scout united states, and it would have been bad if we ruined it for them too, and we didn't desire to do that. They were amazing. They were there to have fun and savor, and we did the aforementioned.
Do Joon: They rooted for us. They danced even to ballad songs.
Woo Sung: I love it, they're crazy.
You lot guys have been decorated lately, since along with touring y'all released your "Ruby-red" unmarried. How does it experience?
Do Joon: Crazy. We don't fifty-fifty recall what we did 3 days ago. We only live today.
Woo Sung: That'south how information technology is, nosotros live for today. My motto is 'Live for today.' Because there might not be a tomorrow, and so I dear it.
Jae Hyeong: Information technology has been so busy but nice considering we met our [fans] Black Roses. When nosotros play on phase, we see them smile and listening to their screaming, singing our songs. Then information technology's a nice feel for me.
"Red" was your first release this yr, how does it feel to brand your return?
Do Joon: It was long, aye. Last Oct [with Dawn]. But nosotros have a lot of songs waiting.
Woo Sung: With Super Band —we were on a [telly] program — that pushed all the schedules back.
Do Joon: Information technology took a lot to become dorsum on the road, like this bout, stuff similar that.
What was the Super Band feel like for The Rose?
Woo Sung: It was definitely a step forwards. We needed that. We needed to experience that, perform more with other bands, other musicians. We needed to get out of our comfort zone, so it was good for united states. And we loved it.
Practice Joon: Because of the evidence, our fandom'south age has become more various.
Woo Sung: The age of our fans.
Do Joon: There are a lot of [people in their] 30s and 40s who are loving our songs.
Why did you determine to return with "Red" every bit a unmarried? Practise Joon said there is a lot you lot've been working on.
Woo Sung: 'Cause we only felt like this moment, right at present, was a practiced one to do a happy vocal for once. 'Cause we e'er do really emo distressing songs, right? [Laughs] But information technology felt right to just release a happy song, a summer song, that had a message of being who are yous are.
Do Joon: Happy and uplifting and [a] simple song would exist good. That was our thought.
Is that how you're feeling right now?
Do Joon: Yeah, pretty unproblematic.
Woo Sung: I mean, how are we feeling these days? We're simply going through our days.
Exercise Joon: We're but liking today.
Woo Sung: The basic bulletin for "Red" was just love yourself, be who you want to be and don't permit other [people's] judgments hibernate that. That was the biggest message we wanted to requite out, and we wanted to give it out through a really happy, uplifting song.
Yous take a bigger audience now than prior releases. Did this positivity accept annihilation to do approaching a wider audition?
Woo Sung: Definitely not [laughs]. "Red" was already written earlier Super Band. Basically, that was planned to come dorsum similar in June or May. But it got pushed. Information technology was supposed to exist a mini album, too. It'southward why we're and so distressing. We had plans to tape a mini EP.
Exercise Joon: We had plans to record five or six songs, originally.
Woo Sung: Even if nosotros do get bigger audiences in life, I don't think that will impact us in what we desire to put out. Hopefully they will like it, and if they don't I gauge we'll have to alter some things after we put it out. Merely nosotros would love to try out different genres of music.
Do Joon: And hopefully they like it.
Woo Sung: It depends on if we similar it. If we like the music, we'll simply put it out.
Why did y'all cull to pair "Cherry-red" with "California" of all songs, if y'all had other songs prepped for the EP?
Woo Sung: Oooh. That was our little greed. 'Cause the visitor wanted u.s.a. just to do a single. Only "California" was supposed to be in the EP, but nosotros had that song for almost two, three years now. And we really wanted to put information technology out. And then that was a must.
Why did you desire to release a song in English language, similar "California"?
Woo Sung: Because the song was nigh California. We tin can't say "grizzly bear" in Korean and arrive sound right.
Do Joon: Yea, we can't actually say that, "Love is a good thing to share" in Korean, because when you lot put it in Korean and sing it, it'due south kind of actually cheesy. And it would be really awkward to sing it in Korean, but if you put information technology into English it's okay. I don't know why.
Woo Sung, you released Confront recently. What was it like to release your own album and get to pursue your own artistry?
Woo Sung: I guess it was harder considering I didn't take anyone else writing with me. Information technology was me, myself and I. In that fashion information technology was harder. But I was showing more than of myself and singing, not in a band way but my vocal characteristic were coming out versus how in The Rose we attempt to mix things upwardly with [Practise Joon'south] voice and my vocalisation. I really wanted to put out tracks like that, that had always been the goal. Before doing the ring, I wanted to be a solo R&B artist. So that was fun.
Do other members want to do solo projects?
Do Joon: Later on, yep, if we accept whatsoever opportunities to practise it. If we have whatsoever time. All four of u.s.a. have our own thing that matches us well, so peradventure 1 day.
Woo Sung was saying he's into R&B. And then what well-nigh the remainder of you lot? Is information technology simply rock?
Practice Joon: Rock's a good one, but we're doing it as a band so maybe we'd do something else.
Woo Sung: Ballads for [Practise Joon].
Woo Sung, you said that you have a different voice singing for yourself versus the band. What's that like?
Woo Sung: The band songs are much college, so harder. Higher cardinal.
Do Joon: Higher pitch. Our songs are so loftier. I don't know why, but it sounds better.
Woo Sung: We make information technology so high, it'southward why my voice is always gone.
Do Joon: Information technology may audio like information technology's an easy vocal to sing, only it's really actually difficult.
Frontmen in bands are ofttimes prominent in media, and Woo Sung's the first one to release a solo, and so how do the other members of The Rose feel most that?
Practice Joon: We call up it's funny, the idea of a 'frontman.' Cause and then Ha Joon would be our backman. [All laugh.] It was actually natural [for Woo Sung] to release a solo anthology, it was a good period.
Woo Sung: We talked about it when we made the band. I was like, 'Even if I start doing ring music, I'm notwithstanding going to practice solo music every bit well,' and they were and so cool nearly it.
Jae Hyeong: It was a really skillful menstruation with the program and his album release, so information technology was proficient timing.
Yous were talking nearly earlier how your fanbase has grown but yous desire to notwithstanding remain yourselves and do the music that you lot want to exercise, just practise you really feel at that place is no pressure level to make your music to appeal to new listeners?
Woo Sung: That's what the company would desire simply nosotros're kinda simply doing our own thing. But since there are older fans now, one thing I was considering for my solo was that I cussed. They were coming upwardly to me saying, 'I was showing my kid how great of an creative person y'all were and so you came up with your solo stuff saying all these things.' So mayhap that'southward something I should wait out for. Not that I'm not going to cuss in the future [laughs]. But it wasn't the title vocal, so you lot know…
Do Joon: When nosotros expect at the crowds, there are a lot of girls. Simply we like more if there are guys.
Woo sung: What? We like it more if at that place are guys? We would like more than guys, I call up that's what he's saying.
Practice Joon: Yeah, in the fandom. Guys, if they are here they really like our music.
Woo Sung: So practise the girls. What?
Do Joon: Yes, they do, but…
Woo Sung, in Korean: It sounds kinda weird explaining it in English.
[The pair accept a few minutes to talk over the nuances of linguistic communication and culture betwixt themselves.]
Exercise Joon: It's a different culture here. I just experience that… Nosotros want more than guy fans. It'southward good.
Exercise you feel that female fans are just there because of your looks?
Do Joon: No, no, no.
Woo Sung: Encounter? It's kind of weird explaining it in English.
Do Joon: It's not that but I recollect it's getting weird here… Basically, I was trying to say…
You lot want a diverse audience?
Do Joon: Yeah! There nosotros go.
"Ruby" is a happier shift for yous than your earlier releases, do y'all think you're going to pursue that direction moving forward?
Woo Sung: When we prepare an album, it'due south like the feelings we feel at that time, so I desire to say we want to go back to our sadder, emo "Distressing," a little darker side.
You want to?
Woo Sung: Yes, 'cause we showed the audience a little chip of a happy side, so now possibly we want to evidence our audition a trivial darker vibe.
Does that hateful you lot're in a sadder, darker place?
Woo Sung: When we write songs, it doesn't necessarily hateful that we're in that place. Actually, we are in that place. Merely nosotros get healed past writing it and showing information technology to the globe. And we're not in a night identify right at present. But everybody has that dark place in their mind. Nobody is 100% happy. [Ha Joon nods forth.] Everybody has depression. It's an emotion everybody cares. And I think we like to bear on up on each one. "Crimson" was happy and be yourself.
Do Joon: Maybe the next song, we might talk well-nigh anger, maybe.
What are y'all working on now?
Do Joon: Maybe a great time period of producing songs would be good. Since we're on the route, peradventure it'd be a skilful time for us to go back into the studio, in the room of naught where we just write music. It'south a good thing to have as a musician, so maybe that's going to exist ane of the things nosotros want to do.
Woo Sung: Nosotros don't know what we desire to do next or put out side by side. We don't know until the day we write. We still haven't made upwards our heed what to do with those songs [that were meant to be released on the canceled EP]. We really wanted to put them out, like, in May. Like in the summertime. The whole album concept was perfect and a reset for us. So since we couldn't do that, maybe we won't put them out.
Do Joon: Or perhaps next year!
This interview has been edited for clarity.
Source: https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/the-rose-interview-2019-future-8547135/
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