NEW BOYBAND: Dear Alice Talk 'Ariana' & K-Pop Training Report by Mccallumj. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00I can't focus.
00:01We had such a great, uh, a great...
00:04Sometimes...
00:06Nah, it was, uh, the training camp was, it was definitely very intense.
00:10Um, I mean, I don't think any of us were expecting what training for three months in...
00:15under K-pop training was gonna be like.
00:17I think it took a toll on us, not only physically, but mentally, everything.
00:21It was just such a new experience, but we soaked it up in the most positive way possible.
00:26And I think we had such a great, uh, a great...
00:30Yeah, soaking it up, soaking it up, soaking it up.
00:33Just because they didn't get it through a visual demo.
00:35That's actually good. Can you visualize what I'm saying?
00:38Yeah, yeah, sure, sure, sure.
00:39So we had to soak up as much as we could, uh, when it came to, um, the K-pop experience.
00:44And, um, sometimes...
00:48Sometimes...
00:50I can't focus.
00:51Um...
00:53Oh...
00:54Um...
00:55And I think, I think, uh, I think for, I think for, I think for all of us, like I said,
01:00it wasn't what we were expecting.
01:02Um, and, um...
01:04But we had an amazing team around us, and I think that's what...
01:06And we had each other, and I think that's what made, uh, the experience...
01:10Yeah.
01:11Good.
01:11Well said.
01:12We actually got to meet loads of the idols, um, the SM idols.
01:17And we actually got to meet some from going to, like, Mnet and stuff like that.
01:20Um, everybody's super nice, super, super nice.
01:23And, um, it's just amazing to meet people with such a incredible, like,
01:28an incredible presence in Korea.
01:30And they're so...
01:31They're so humble and, uh, and...
01:35Nice.
01:35And nice, and just lovely.
01:37And just really down-to-earth people.
01:39Um, so it was really cool to actually speak to some of them for some, like, advice and stuff like that.
01:44And I think that's what, um...
01:46We took a lot away from that, so...
01:48Yeah.
01:49Yeah.
01:49Yeah.
01:49Yeah.
01:50Yeah!
01:52I was gonna say, we met loads who, obviously, we look up to.
01:54We've met R1SE, NCT...
01:56aespa.
01:57aespa.
01:57Ten.
01:58Ten.
01:59Seungho.
02:00Loads. Loads and loads.
02:01And, you know, we're hopefully gonna meet some outside of K-pop as well who we look up to.
02:06Um, bands, artists, solo artists, et cetera.
02:10So, yeah, we've been really lucky.
02:12When we first heard it, we're like, it was so kind of...
02:15Something like...
02:16It was hard to understand because it was so different from what it is now.
02:20And when we heard it, it was so new.
02:22And the production and the way it's written, it's quite forward and different.
02:26Um...
02:27So, we actually got to work quite closely with the producer and kind of...
02:31And with the team.
02:32And we have an amazing team around us, so...
02:34Um...
02:35To develop the sound into something that we could dance to as well as sing to was quite a challenge.
02:40But we got there in the end.
02:41And the amazing Seba...
02:43And I just wanna shout out Seba because he's an incredible producer.
02:46Um...
02:47He's so forward in the way he creates his music.
02:50And his production is just incredible.
02:52We got to see how he made it.
02:54Um...
02:54And we got to see behind the scenes of it.
02:56It's really cool.
02:57Yeah, really, really cool.
02:58It's like, um...
02:59It's the route. It's where we auditioned.
03:01It's where we all first met each other.
03:03It was in London.
03:04Although not all of us are from London.
03:06It's where we're...
03:07Where we're based and it's sort of the origin of Dear Alice.
03:11So, I feel like it's nice paying homage and respect to our origins.
03:17Yeah.
03:17Having it very London-based and like a tube and...
03:20Yeah, and like you said, we have a lot of, um...
03:23Cool thing about what we're doing is we have a lot of fans all around the world.
03:25Kind of scattered all around.
03:26So, it's really nice to kind of show them parts of where we're from and all of that.
03:30So, yeah, that's really cool.
03:31I think so far we've been really associated with K-pop and Korea in general.
03:35Obviously, we lived out there for a hundred odd days, so...
03:38We wanted to show where we come from before that, which is obviously UK.
03:43And, um...
03:44Show that balance between the two because we are a British boy band.