“Success is a strong word”

At the end of a stressful global tour, most of the teams will take a good break.

They are not rough children.

Within weeks of concluding its shows that dominate their record this summer – including two nights sold at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London – the Korean band released a new album, Karma.

The second album was in less than a year. During this time, they also released a new and 12 -track project called HOP, which includes individual tracks from both the eight members: Bang Chan, Lee Know, Changbin, Hyunjin, Han, Felix, Seungin and in

Not only that, but they first appeared in the world of Marvel Cinematic, with the appearance of the soundtrack in Deadpool & Wolverine. Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman Return Through Stray Kids, Chk Chk Boom.

All this activity made them The fifth largest sale in the world Last year, Taylor Swift and Drake succeeded.

Unlike many K-Pop groups, stray children write and produce their own materials. How can they keep this level of creativity while they are touring the largest places in the world, playing three hours every night, and providing time to visit local art galleries (Hyungin) And baked potato ports (Felix))?

“We have divided the parts as much as we could and we have spread to work among members,” said more than 170 years of rapper and singer Han, more than 170 production credits and writing on his name.

“Whenever we have some time to record experimental tracks, we would gather in the room together and work to finish songs as one team.”

If this seems to be a way to beautify the soul to make a record, you have reduced the stray children.

Since its first appearance in 2018, the band has approached the music with a mixture of curiosity and hunger, which constantly prompted its voice in new directions.

On the vine, this includes everything from the rhythms of the Brazilian party, to pop deviations in my head, which are released on Charlotte’s good voices and Efreel Lavin.

“I think this is a great song to listen to when you feel nervous or pass through a difficult time,” says V – the smallest member of the band.

The Bread Out is a path called Bleep, and it is the challenging Riposte of their critics – with a hook that uses a Korean colloquial term for “Beep” (삐처리) for censorship (삐처리)

“Failure, whistling / weakness, whistling / lighting, whistling / sensory, and yada, yada, noise cancellation.“

“This is my favorite,” says Hyungin.

“The words of bold and fresh songs feel, and there is a very satisfactory thing about the message you keep.”

The song carries an additional resonance when you learn that Felix – the band’s loud pariton – has won, with the permission of an American court, to uncover an unknown social media user regarding defamation cases.

According to the legal papers submitted in California, she accused many Australian music positions of treating employees “such as servants and acting” as if he was a prince.

Felix, who sues the user in Seoul, said the accusations caused “extreme mental distress, physical distress and insult.”

In the tribal world of K-POP, such cases are amazingly common, as excessive fans of overcoming their competitors.

However, for the largest part, stray children prefer not to focus on negativity.

He tells me that their new album is titled Karma to reflect the “good energy and communication” they built with fans over the past seven years.

“We felt that this is the time to tell this story, because we really feel all the positive vineyard that comes from our hard work,” said Changin.

Anyone who watched their YouTube series will know that he is more interested in friction – whether it is Wearing clothes as a grandmother; Changin Seungin immersion in a swimming pool; Or the ongoing joke on providing their registration designation Unprecedable birthday cakes.

On social media, the band repelled a strong relationship with Fan Army – known as Stay – with live tables late at night, questions and answers made from their hotel rooms.

It gives a special intimacy to their celebrities, and it is a quality that extends to their live shows.

In London this summer, I was shocked by the occasion Stray Kids at the distance between the theater and the public.

Amid the design of micro -dances and curtains, they held the challenges of dance and karaoke sessions; The names of the fans ran through the screens during the cinema of the poem.

Among the songs, Chengheen said he was honored to play at Tottenham because of his love for English football; His colleagues in the band began to repeat bouts in British dialects, as if they were testing to restart Harry Potter.

As for the appearance, they cleared the vicinity of the stadium floor and went to giant, overlapping platforms, late for inflatable personalities, as they were in the Messi Day procession. As a result, even fans in cheap seats have reached near their idols.

“It was a very happy time for us,” he recalls.

“I feel that we will look at such moments every day, and the tour really reminds us of the valuable extent to us.”

“During the tour, I realized the number of residency that supports us, everywhere we go,” added Han. “It really left a strong impression on me.”

In America and Europe, the Tour Control Tour of Stray Bookness nets and attendance records For K-POP, with 1.2 million tickets and receipts of $ 182 million (135 million pounds).

As a kind of victory bosom, Karma moved directly to the top of the American plans – which makes it the first division in history for the first time in the first place with each of its first seven albums.

But when you ask them about all this success, the sudden eight suddenly.

“Success is a truly strong word,” says Bang Chan, the group’s appointed leader.

“What I can say is that the lost children, including me, have reached a large extent, but we are still very hungry to achieve more prominent landmarks.”

The UK’s conquest is definitely on the list of bulldozers. They have already combined GRIME elements on the track of 2022, 3RACHA, and they say they want to cooperate with Coldplay and 1975.

“I love their music, and the way they put everything in their performance,” says Seungmin. “Listening to their music makes me always feel emotion and inspires me a lot.”

However, it is tight, about the largest job goals.

When they were asked if they wanted to play Glastonbury or Super Bowl (they literally have a song called the name of the event), Seungmin re -delivers the question.

“The short -term goals are great, of course, but our greatest goal is to be a group that stands to test time and remains in history one of the longest groups.”

It is an ambition that they explain in the first half, and it is the path of rap music that indicates the renewal of their contract with the Jyp Entertainment brand last year.

“This game is not over, it’s a very wide way,” Felix promised. “They do not know what will happen next.”

In other words, stray children only just started.