[Interview] 4Minute, “We will not go far in the war of the girlgroups? We will prove otherwise”

Newcomer group 4Minute has recently been rising up rapidly in the Kpop scene. All young and born in the 1990s, the 5 members have already gotten the grasp on the advertising area and also on various music charts.

They were asked to model for products just right after their debut, their songs are up strong against strong groups like So Nyeo Shi Dae on music shows and charts. And also initially with all the spotlight focused on HyunA, it is now more evenly spread amongst the 5 members in the group.

“Time flies so fast. With a blink of an eye, a day is just ‘hwik’ gone. Being on stage is such an amazing and happy thing.”

It may be a stereotypet for them to say that they become stars in the morning, but for the girls it is different. It gets to them bad to hear that they are young stars shot-to-fame. This is because they are 4Minute, the group with the lowest average age of all existing girlgroups and the group with one of the most promising career.

# Teenage girls who wants to go to school

Leader Nam JiHyun (20) is a professional dancer on a 2-year study break, and member Kim HyunA (18) is known to have started training from elementary year 1 and was part of girlgroup WonderGirls.

Kwon SoHyun (16) is known to have started her acting career from elementary 3rd year and was part of the group Orange in 2005. Jeon JiYoon (20) and Heo GaYoon (20) have been training since their middle school time and are known for their talents. This is also the reason why these girls can put up great performance despite their tender age.

But after they got off the stage, they are the same bunch of teenage girls who enjoy rice cakes. They are the group of girls who would stop and stare at pretty products and would not stop laughing at the smallest things. It is a shame that these girls do not have much of their schooling memories debuting so young as singers.

Currently schooling as 2nd year at a high school, HyunA say, “I wish to go out with my friends on the road to eat rice cakes and play around secretly during lessons…” While year 3 highschooler SoHyun, “It is a shame that I cannot take graduation photo with the rest.”

It is the same case even for JiHyun who has graduated from highschool and is currently an undergrad. She revealed that she found it a shame that she had to stop school just to go ahead with her singer debut. But they all had come down with the conclusion of ‘We have no regrets’.

“Debuting as 4Minute, we get such a chance once in a lifetime. You will need bravery and to make a decision, but when you look at life as a whole this seems right.”

# As compared to bashing, no comment is more scary

Not only matured in their capabilities but also in their mentality, these girls revealed that their motivation is the affirmative support they give each other. Promoting in the time when it is said to be the war of the girlgroups, although these girls receive much love, they are also easily placed on the cutting in the mercy of the masses and the media. In a matter of between a few days, girl groups get wound up in endless reports for their naked faces-scolding vulgarities-bullying-plagiarism. But 4Minute knows how to handle such criticisms.

“Truthfull, we felt hurt after hearing bad things about ourselves. If we get the chance to meet these people in person, we wanted to say our stand of ‘I’m actually an alright person’. It is a shame that people are saying these after just seeing a side of us on TV. We just encourages each other on.”

HyunA, who would monitor the situation on the internet often, said, “There are many times when people’s advice on our weaknesses can be a way for us to improve. We think of it as giving ourselves a second thought about it and improve on ourselves on that.” and the 5 members go, “As compared to bashing, no comments is even scaried.”

The girls’ 1st minialbum, consisting of 6 songs, will be released soon and they are currently doing their promotions on the title song ‘Hot Issue’.

“We hope to show more sides of us, unique to us, with our future projects. There are all the talk about how we will not go far with this girlgroup war·jealousy. We will show that this is not true. We will hold on to each other’s baby (not sure why they say so), and be the longest lasting girlgroup on stage.”

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