minghao telling a story from their gym trainer 😭
🎱 he said you don’t get warmed up until around the 40 minute mark. and when you use a machine, you keep adjusting your feet and start only after everything is perfectly aligned
🐻❄️ that’s true. even i don’t understand myself
V8 talking about when they got casted
🐻❄️ you were studying at an arts school, and working on your breakdancing. i didn’t have anything like that
🎱 so you just got in because you were good-looking..
🐻❄️ i suppose so
minghao wanting vernon to show more of his potential ❤️
🎱 you go really deep with music. you just love it and keep doing it. but before V8, you weren’t really putting that out there. you have this visual appeal and this deep musical world inside you. not sharing that felt like such a waste. that’s also one of the reasons i wanted to do this with you.
🐸: but u go really deep with music, it's not even that u work at it, u just love it and keep doing it. but before v8 u werent really putting it out there, i felt like that was such a waste... thats also one of the reasons i wanted to do this with u.
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THE8’s casting story 🥹
🐸after three months at the beijing school, i got cast by pledis. they just saw me dancing the way i normally do and picked me. my voice was going through puberty then so i said i didn’t want to sing. so they didn’t record my singing just my dancing, and i forgot about it for a week. then they suddenly called and said i made it. the ceo wanted to meet me in beijing
🐻❄️the ceo came all the way to your school to see you?
🐸yeah. we met there and everything went well. then they asked me to come to korea. so i talked to my parents. my dad was against it, and my mom as well, but she said if i wanted it, i should do it
🐻❄️did you want to?
🐸at the time, that school had all the best dancers from across china. but even watching them, i felt like they still couldn’t make a lot of money. even though they were the best in china, the were genuinely living the life they wanted. but i just wanted to make my parents happy. my family was just an ordinary family. i figured even if things didn’t work out in korea, i’d still have studied abroad. and if i came back, my value would go up. that was my mindset going in. just in case
so cute minghao sauna thoughts ㅠㅠ endlessly proud of you hao :”)
“out of the 1.4 billion people in china, only a few dozen has jumped into kpop. and fewer than 10 have reached where we are now. i’m one of those 1.4B ppl that’s wild”
minghao said dokyeom works out fast, while according to their trainer, vernon takes a slower pace. 40 minutes warm up and on gym equipments, he only starts once everything is perfectly aligned.
🐻❄️: i have a habit of that. even i don’t understand myself.
minghao is so fond of him 😆
🐻❄️ i kinda wanna try cooking for myself. i’m getting tired of ordering delivery every time
🎱 with your personality it’d probably take you hours to cook
🐻❄️ that’s why i’ll only make really simple things
🎱 you don’t want to just cook faster?
🐻❄️ i’ll probably get faster as i go, right?
🐸 so when i was in school, we would have school festivals... after i breakdanced at one, i got really popular with both guys and girls
🐻❄️ i bet
of course bub of course you will 😭😭😭
🐻❄️ V8 really means a lot to me. because this is the first time i’ve had the freedom to do music at this scale, and shape the planning and production more on my own terms. i learned so much through this project
👤 is there a huge difference before and after the8 meditates?
🐻❄ i think that he himself is the only one relieved. like only his stress has eased up a bit
🎱 honestly, he doesn’t know much about me because he’s not a perceptive friend
👤 how was your unit decided?
🎱 i wanted to suggest it first so [i said] “let’s do it together”
👤 wasn’t there a member like, “hyung, count me in!”
🐻❄ there was an instance where seungkwan said he wanted to be in a unit with me, but..
🎱 both of you don’t suit each other!