EVERGLOW Is Cementing Their Status as Beauty Queens: K-Pop Interview

The yr is 2020. Particularly, March 13, 2020. EVERGLOW simply wrapped up the penultimate cease of their Eternal Tour in Newark, New Jersey. The day earlier than, they introduced that the ultimate present in Los Angeles was to be canceled in gentle of…. properly, you already know. Quick ahead to now. As our interview begins and I am sitting in entrance of the six-member lady group, I am taken again to 4 years prior and the remorse I felt about not with the ability to attend their Newark live performance (which I inform them as an icebreaker of types).

When EVERGLOW debuted in March 2019, they took the Ok-pop world by storm. The teaser for “Bon Bon Chocolat,” their debut single, racked up 5 million views in simply two days and the official music video surpassed three million views in simply in the future. Their sophomore single “Adios” reached over seven-and-a-half million in the identical interval and “Dun Dun,” which was launched simply earlier than the tour, skyrocketed to over 16 million views on the finish of day one. For context, whenever you’re not signed to a “huge 4” company, these numbers (and trajectory) are particularly spectacular.

Realizing that, and taking into consideration that they had been within the midst of their first-ever worldwide tour, makes the truth that EVERGLOW’s pandemic-free profession has been shorter than the time spent, properly, dwelling via a pandemic, reasonably poignant. (Each the US and South Korea marked the end of COVID-19 categorized as a public well being emergency on Might 11, 2023, following the World Well being Group’s announcement).

“The pandemic was a tragic and miserable time for everybody however I feel it was alternative to look again in your family members and spend extra time with your loved ones, associates, and pets,” Sihyeon, the chief of the group, displays. Ok-pop idols (“아이돌” or “aidol” in Korean, a time period largely referring to somebody who has debuted within the Korean pop trade) spend an excessive amount of time coaching earlier than their debut; coupled with their usually demanding schedules, the pandemic gave the EVERGLOW members some much-needed restorative time away from the limelight.