FT Island is now a bone fide hallyu band. The band debuted in 2007, and since has taken everything one step at a time to become hallyu stars loved not only in Asian countries such as Japan and China, but also in Europe. We met with the five members of FT Island, who are busy promoting the single Severely from their new album Grown-Up.
You must be busy these days.
Lee Hong Ki: Yes we’re so busy. These days we get up early in the morning every day. We have to prepare early in the morning on the days we have music show schedules, but these days we have music shows every day.
You probably don’t even notice you’re busy because your album is a success. ‘Severely’ is being received pretty well.
Lee Hongki: It’s quickly becoming popular similar to how Love Love Love, which we released in 2010, became popular. I knew [Severely] would be popular. It’s a song I’ve been keeping. This song was supposed to come out before Like the Birds last year, but I kept it and had it released early this year. The lyrics and the melody were great matches. I like the strong nuance of Severely. The song is difficult to sing, but the lyrics are difficult, too.
The lyrics are about a person severely in love; do you have any similar experiences?
Lee Hongki: Show business is severe. (Laugh) Whenever I sing love songs or songs about breaking up, I try to act it out. I try to think what I would feel like if I was in that situation.
It wouldn’t have been easy to play the instruments for this song, also.
Choi Min Hwan: I tried to play it with a lot of power and as if the notes were stretching forward. Hongki is good at expressing the emotions in the song. He does it well; it’s deep and sad.
Hongki’s voice has changed since his debut.
Lee Hongki: I like how it is now. It’s a voice that’s great in letting me sing the music I want to sing.
It’s always been like that, but it feels like FT Island has matured through this album.
Lee Jae Jin: It doesn’t make sense for us to stand still. Even the world of K-Pop is changing. Because there are many bands now, we have to continue to work hard. We get to show more when we become better at playing our instruments. We can even be better at jamming with other teams. Now we’ve been stabilizing, too.
You all must like different styles of music, but this time you didn’t go for those styles and produced an album in FT Island’s style again.
Lee Hongki: Ever since we released Love Love Love, our agency kept asking us what kind of music we would like to perform. But this time, we agreed we should aim for popularity just once more. In our next album, we’ll put in as many of our own songs as possible.
Do you disagree on anything related to music?
Lee Hongki: Of course we do a lot. We all like different styles of music, so we clash. But up until now, we’ve come to good compromises for our albums.
Are you thinking of working on the music you want separately?
Lee Hongki: Ever since we released Love Love Love, our agency kept asking us what kind of music we would like to perform. But this time, we agreed we should aim for popularity just once more. In our next album, we’ll put in as many of our own songs as possible.
dlm mnet wide yg jonghoon ngn seunghyun jd mc tu.. girl tgh2 tu pendek, nmpak giler mamat 2 org ni tinggi lampai time ngn minhwan, jaejin, hongki tu x pasan sgt
Lee Hongki: We want to be a band that lasts long. A band that’s together even after we get married. We promised the head of our company yesterday that we would work like dogs. We’ll work hard so that we’re not forgotten. We’re even thinking of entering the army at the same time.
dlm mnet wide yg jonghoon ngn seunghyun jd mc tu.. girl tgh2 tu pendek, nmpak giler mamat 2 org ni t ...
muun Post at 24-2-2012 22:03
mmg tinggi..antara dorg berlima, mmg ketara la seunghyun dgn jonghun tinggi
nampak depan2 pun dorg tinggi
seunghyun me rasa dh makin tinggi..mau 182/183 cm sekarang
jaejin x berapa tinggi tapi sebab dia langsing nampak tinggi..yg lg dua tu mmg kiut rendang jerr
Post time 24-2-2012 09:54 PM
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time ngn minhwan, jaejin, hongki tu x pasan sgt 
