[🫧] 260807 Hongjoong - ‘👋👋’, TOKTOQ pop live, p.3:
🐿 But I also have thoughts like this. I can’t tell you exactly when the next music will come out, but when that time comes, won’t we have to prepare fiercely all over again? I… actually don’t really expect anything from this. Rather than expecting that there’ll be the same kind of effect, I think a lot - with the members too - about how we can properly show things that have our own charm, differently from this, and then how, while also incorporating this kind of feeling, we can gradually expand the way we show our own charm. But actually… well… I’ll tell you about things one by one whenever our schedules are revealed, but… this isn’t exactly a deep conversation to be having in broad daylight, and it’s something everyone already knows but we don’t necessarily talk about, but anyway, we planned a lot for this year and next year, and we’ve been preparing a lot. We’re still doing that now.
🐿️ (his phone slipped/fell a little) Aigoo, I’m talking about something important and my phone isn’t cooperating.
🐿️ Actually, because I haven’t been able to do pop (live) very much lately, there were a lot of things I wanted to say. But anyway, we’ve been preparing an enormous amount, and we’ve also made a huge number of plans. We’ve recorded a lot of songs too. So… I think the overall feeling among the members is that we don’t have the leeway to go through the things we’ve prepared one by one and revise them while following our plans, and we don’t want to do that either. Even though “BAD” became successful this summer, we’ve never gone, “Since ‘BAD’ did well, should we try something like this next time?” while changing, one by one, all the things we had already planned. We’ve never done that. And I don’t think we will either.
🐿️ Instead, as for something we can do… thanks to all of you making “BAD” widely known, perhaps there can be more promotional opportunities we can do, or more places that seek us out? If a new album comes out? I do actually have that kind of expectation. Other than things like that… yeah, that’s basically it. Among our plans for this year, it’s actually a little hard to find things that aren’t going according to what we planned last year, and this year too… Or is it? A lot actually did change (laughs). Now that I think about it.
🐿️ But the album plans haven’t changed. The albums came out when they were supposed to come out, and we’re going to try to make the album plans for this year and next year happen according to what we planned as well. And I think… that’s basically it. So actually… maybe the extent to which our plans change would just be reducing our rest time, if we reduce anything? And aside from the bigger periods of rest we’ve already scheduled or the members’ individual schedules that were arranged in advance, there really isn’t anything (else/free), so… yeah.