130621 COSMOPOLITAN KOREA JULY 2013

COSMO: I thought we wouldn't be able to meet today since Baro injured his leg. How did you get injured?
Baro: I went on stage for pre-recording and twisted it. I thought I sprained a ligament but after an MRI scan they said it was torn. I don't know if the torn ligament can heal but with all the moving around I think I will have to go for surgery. Looking back, it seems like our members are like a general hospital. Haha.
Sandeul: We are in charge of the legs (T/N: Sandeul has had knee surgery.) Jinyoung hyung has many minor ailments, and Gongchan has had kidney surgery. Oh, now that I see it, CNU hyung is not sick anywhere.
Baro: CNU hyung has very strong self-love. So he cherishes his body well. Haha. But that is a good thing. In our occupation, body management is very important. If I had exercised regularly, I would be able to cope with such a situation well. I used to play soccer and back then I never got injured so badly.

COSMO: We've heard that you'll be holding your concert over 5 days from 7 August till 11 August. Your leg needs to hurry heal then.
Baro. You're right. There are many things I'd like to show this concert, so there are really many things to prepare for. I'm so excited to be able to hold a concert with a live band, something we've always wanted to do. Our first concert was MR, but we're intending to edit all the songs into acoustic versions. It will be on a smaller scale compared to our first concert so I think we'll be able to communicate in a closer way with our fans. 
COSMO: Is there a reason why you wanted to do it with a band?
CNU: Maybe it's because I performed in a band when I was in high school, so there's such a dream. I was the vocalist then, and it was the first of such in our high school. So I've always insisted on it ever since I was a trainee. The members all have a strong dream to stand on stage with a band, making real sound.

COSMO: The members all seem to have a greed towards music that is very unlike others. Isn't it sensitive when it comes to distribution of parts?
Sandeul: Now that we are familiar with each other's voices, it helps us realize which parts are suitable for which member. Even though individual opinions are important, we're not sensitive about it. 
Jinyoung: I think I have to adjust it well. I need to make music that is able to show off the members' voices.

COSMO: We heard that Jinyoung has 13 songs under his name in the copyright association. Where do you get the inspiration for your songs?
Jinyoung: I try hard to read people's thoughts. I look on at people around me with interest. So I am able to tell what a person likes, and what is the trend nowadays. When I observe the members, they all have their own issues regarding music. I think a lot about how I can show those issues off in my music. 

COSMO: We listened to all of B1A4's music. There is really a great variety.
Jinyoung: Even though we have not released many albums, we do try out different genres. We make numerous songs of different genres, and when the time comes we select those that are suitable and recompose it. I don't like to do the same things over, that's cliched. 

COSMO: The lyrics of the songs Jinyoung makes are very relatable. Are they written from experience?
Jinyoung: Some of it is from experience, but to some extent it's my imagination. I think of one song as an episode from a drama. Only so can we express it better on stage. We also make our music video in a style fitting to the lyrics.
Sandeul: The way Jinyoung trained us benefited me very much when I did a musical. When you learn to do a musical, it is important to communicate with the audience the songs and the script. But when I thought about it, it was something I'd been doing all along. So I could understand at a faster pace.
CNU: We all went to watch Sandeul's musical together, and I cried a lot - because I knew how hard he prepared for it. 
Baro: He worked really hard despite the bad condition of his knee. He did really well for a first time, sprouting with energy. 

COSMO: It was about time that you won first place with "What's Happening". You guys cried a lot that day, right?
Baro: That day we went to a fansign event and asked for a favor from the fans to record videos of us saying our acceptance speech. We really wanted to say the names of the people we were thankful for, if we got first place. The members were all in a daze all day long.

COSMO: Did you not expect to get first place?
Baro: We didn't. That day we were really happy just to be nominated, regardless of whether we won or not. Moreover, we were nominated alongside senior Lee Hyori - of course we thought we couldn't win. In the past we were also second place next to senior Psy. For this time to be senior Lee Hyori, we actually thought "why us?". But our name was called out. That was so unexpected that we thought they called someone else. 
Sandeul: I've always had such a yearning to be on an encore stage ever since I was young. And I was finally standing on that stage, it felt so surreal. I found out then, that we have to do our encore stage right after the announcement - and it was so embarrassing because it was a performance we had never done before. The artists who had been first before thanked their fans and threw flowers to them, but we didn't know what to do. We also thought we had to sing the song till the end so despite crying and our voices not coming out, we sang the entire song. Apparently it wasn't necessary.

COSMO: The song this time is like an outfit that fits B1A4 really well. How did you feel when you listened to the song for the first time?
CNU: Everyone agreed that this would be our title song, the moment we listened to it. Jinyoung is well aware of our strengths so he wrote a song that shows them off. We felt that this song would allow us to play on stage. It was a song that was most like us. 

COSMO: Is there anything that has changed since getting first place?
Baro: I felt that this is only the start, and I made a goal to do even better. 

COSMO: Is there anything you want to do when you get even bigger awards?
Baro: In future, I want to say a famous line from my memory. There are a few I have in mind, and I'm going to say them the next chance I have. But I think when our name is called, I won't be able to recall them. Just like how you feel when you shoot a goal during the World Cup. 

COSMO: Could it be because you chose a good group name that you have been doing so well? B1A4 is the abbreviation for ‘Be the one, All for one’ - meaning that 5 members need to come together as 1 to be the best. Did you form the name together?
Baro: As many people know, this name is from how we have 1 member with blood type B and 4 members with blood type A. There were several other nominations - Phoenix, Legend, Ace etc. Amongst all of them, B1A4 seemed to represent us the best. We wanted to find out what people thought of these names, so we wrote them big on the board in the practice room. We wrote 'B1A4' and saw how it looked - it was really pretty.
CNU: Initially A4 was in the front. But pronouncing A4B1 is harder than pronouncing B1A4, so we swopped them around.
Baro: At that time, Jinyoung hyung opened the door of the practice room and went out about 50m - to hear how B1A4 sounds when it's said far away. And then he went 100m further and made us shout. It was alright.
Gongchan: We thought of several situations to hear how people will take to B1A4.

Source: Cosmopolitan Korea

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