GOT7 came back just right with ‘Just Right’. GOT7 who came back in 8 months said, “The reason why we look just right with this album is that we came up with what we can do best. We tried to enjoy as much as we could.” Like what they said, they seemed really enjoying on the stage. Their cheerful expressions and gestures are the result of their natural growth from one and a half year of time since their debut. GOT7 is going through change after change from ‘Girls Girls Girls’, ‘A’, ‘Stop stop it’ to ‘Just Right’, without missing own boyish charms. So they think seriously about ‘which direction they should take and what role each member should take charge of’ in the middle of their changes. In a year, we met GOT7 who are growing every day with their wise determination that ‘each member should improve on their performances in order to improve the team as a whole’. Our simple talk which started late in the night grew deeper in time and it was really fun, not boring at all.

Q. 8 months after last year’s regular album ‘Identity’, you came back with the album ‘Just Right.’ All of you seem to have lost some weight. Which member changed the most whether physically or psychologically?

Junior: Almost all of us are changed. It’s not the kind of change like ‘What’s wrong with him?’, but it’s about we became more like real men and doing our work much harder. Yugyeom became more outgoing.

BamBam: He became like a real man. (To Yugyeom) Now you are no more a ‘baby’.

JB: I don’t think you deserve saying that. (Laughter)

Q. BamBam and Yugyeom are both born in 1997. Aren’t they on the same age?

BamBam: That’s right, but I actually feel Yugyeom is older than me.

Junior: Although Yugyeom is big and tall, he was like an innocent child in the past. But it seems like he grew a lot after finishing ‘Stop stop it’ and preparing for this album.

BamBam: (Disappointed) I thought he was younger than me before…

JB: Well, we thought BamBam was younger than him.

BamBam: JB, you didn’t say like that before. You said “BamBam is cool. He is like a real man.”

JB: These days, Yugyeom is courageous enough to challenge something. It feels like he is lighting up the dark cave.

BamBam: Wow, what a nice expression.

Jackson: Then it’s like him saying “Hey, I came back” with confidence.

Everybody: (Big laughter)

Q. Haha. Views for music video ‘Just Right’ hit over 11 million (August 27th, 2015-about 16 million) only 3 weeks after it was released. It’s amazing.

Mark: It was one million only after 10 hours.

Youngjae: I knew it hit 10 million, but is it already over 11 million?

JB: We were also kind of surprised at first. Such huge number of views in short time would mean that our fans must have waited for us long. We liked our music video from when it was first edited roughly. And then we made some corrections in the final stage and we thought we made really good music video this time.

Youngjae: We really appreciate it.

Q. I remember ‘Stop stop it’ hit about 14 million and what about ‘A’?

BamBam: ‘A’ was like about 20 million.

Q. Yes. 22 million. But it has been over a year since the release of ‘A’.

Youngjae: Wow, that’s still a huge number. But how do you (BamBam) know so well about it?

BamBam: I check it every day. ‘Girls Girls Girls’ was about 17 million, I guess.

Junior: Are you a fan of GOT7? Haha.

Jackson: BamBam not only checks our music video, but also the number of views for his videos. He checks every number of views for the videos that comes up when you type ‘BamBam’ on YouTube.

BamBam: There is a video that I played the piano in ‘Simsimtapa’. The number of views was very high so I wondered why people would watch me playing the piano. I posted a thank message on the twitter.

Q. Are there other members who check like BamBam?

Youngjae: No, I don’t think so. Haha.

Junior: I think it’s his skill to communicate with fans and see what other people think about him.

BamBam: I also look at the comments, both the good and bad ones.

Jackson: I don’t look at them..

Yugyeom: Jackson is sensitive.

BamBam: At first, I also got hurt by the ‘malicious comments’. But good comments are much more out there than the ‘malicious comments’. So, it’s ok.

Q. I saw Jackson had an interview about his rap that comes out at the intro part of ‘Just Right’. He said he’s not satisfied with it.

Jackson: No I’m not. But I don’t regret it because it was cute.

Junior: If we are not satisfied this time, we can do better for the next time.

Jackson: It’s difficult to do rap in Korean but I think I could not fit what PD Park Jin-Young wanted me to do.

Youngjae: It is just because it was not our style that we used to do.

Q. I cannot help talking about dance. When you do ‘bumper car dance’, you had various expressions. What do you think when you dance?

Youngjae: I imagine that I fly in the sky.

Junior: By the way, we did not name the dance as ‘bumper car dance’.

JB: Actually, it does not have a name.

Junior: It should have been named like ‘above the clouds dance’..

Yugyeom: Clouds dance!

Youngjae: Heaven dance! Heaven dance! Hahaha.

Q. All of you look so confident on the stage.

Junior: Yes, we are so confident. (Laughter) ‘Just Right’ was just right concept for our age. Our age is not that young and not that old, so we are in the middle of it that we can fit in to it. It would have seemed that we were just right for this concept, because we came up with what we can do best.

JB: ‘A’ was actually more like teasing rather than cute. And I thought that ‘Just Right’ was not just a cute song. It has been one year and a half since our debut as GOT7. We don’t have much experience compared to senior groups, but we kind of are used to the stage so we could perform better. We tried to enjoy on the stage.

BamBam: It was just like when we played together!

Q. Recently, I saw the dance battle at ‘Kcon’ and it was really different from the dance of ‘Just Right.’ What 3 of you danced was impressive too.

Youngjae: Yugyeom, Jin-Young(Junior’s real name), BamBam first danced.

BamBam: That’s what we feel most confident and can do best. When we were preparing for the debut, we practiced such style. But that’s what we can do later. Concept like ‘Just Right’ is what we can only do at our age, so we need to do this first.

Yugyeom: It would be really cool when all 7 of us dance in such style later.

Junior: We made the dance style.

BamBam: It took 2 hours!

Yugyeom: It did not take much time when we made the style for ourselves. It is because we know what we can do well.

Youngjae: We know well what can make each member’s strong points stand out.

JB: I think we change by our mood. We look confident because it’s the concept of ‘Just Right’ and we fit into it.

Yugyeom: It’s best if we can do well on everything.

Q. Like JB said, it has been a little over one and a half year after your debut. I saw at SBS MTV ‘The Show Behind’ that BamBam and Youngjae saying “We appreciate that we can have this big waiting room although we are newbie.”

BamBam: Oh! It was the first time we had such a big waiting room.

Youngjae: It was really big. Actually we were used to share the room with other groups so that was what we expected, but they gave us too big room, so I thought ‘Can we use this room? We are just newbie yet..’

Q. That must be what you felt as one of the changes.

JB: But it was only for that day. Haha.

Youngjae: Anyway, I appreciated it. I was happy. Hahaha.

BamBam: What I felt is that we got more fans. In the past, the max number of fans who came to the music show was 180.

Q. BamBam, you are really good at math.

BamBam: Yes, haha.

Youngjae: You counted that too? Hahaha.

BamBam: This time it was 360. I thought that we really have more fans now.

Yugyeom: We really appreciated it.

Q. Yes. I saw the music show and the cheers from the fans were really loud.

Youngjae: In the past, they were only at the standing corner.

BamBam: These days, they fill up the back seats too.

Youngjae: We were really happy. We love you, ‘Agasae’! [Agasae is the name of the GOT7 official fan club (it was named after the short term for GOT7)]

JB: Even when there are only a few fans, they do their best in cheering us up. We know where those sounds come from even when we are on the stage. Even when we see that there are not that many fans, we really appreciate when the fans cheer us up loudly. We thought that’s already a ‘game over’.

Yugyeom: We can feel their energy telling us ‘Cheer up!’ It makes us feel good.

Q. Then it would also change how you dance.

Youngjae: (in a small voice) ‘Makes My Body Move’ Haha.

BamBam: Sometimes we are tired because we record performances from early in the morning. But cheering up from the fans wakes us up. All of the members become cheerful. We get so much energy from the fans.

Q. I saw how you drew your brain structures. Nobody left out ‘Agasae.’ That would mean that ‘Agasae’ is very precious to all of you.

Youngjae: (speaking fast) I have something to say! I saw from the fan site that the fans misunderstood my intention. I wrote ‘Agasae and Big Hit’ but fans think that I wrote ‘Big Hit’ first and I almost forgot to write ‘Agasae’ and wrote it later. But that was not the case. I just wrote ‘Agasae and Big Hit’. It was just like that I wrote ‘Big Hit’ bigger.. Hahaha.

Q. I will not forget what you just said. (laughter) In ‘The Show Behind’, BamBam said “We are not newbie any more.”

Youngjae: Actually, I’m not sure about what it is to be a newbie or not. Haha.

Yugyeom: It’s not a newbie after 3 years in our company.

JB: We are in our 2nd year…

Yugyeom: So it means that we are still newbie.

Mark: I am not sure about what it is like in other companies.

Q. Haha. I asked because I was not sure too.

Younhjae: We are not sure too.

Junior: I think it is about how we think.

Youngjae: We are becoming more and more serious.. Hahahaha.

Junior: I just want to be like a newbie forever.

Jackson: We will be like newbie to the end! Skills and everything!

Junior: Skills too?

BamBam: No, except skills, hahaha.

Q. I think it’s time to think about ranking the first place.

BamBam: It would be a lie if we say we don’t.

Junior: We don’t start like ‘we will rank the 2nd’.

Yugyeom: I think there’s time for it. (First Junior and all the other members give applaud for this comment.) We should always be ready because there could be opportunity for sure. When Jackson went out for TV shows, it became an issue and I think he deserved to receive the newbie awards because he was ready for it. We don’t know when we can show it and when we would rank the first place, but we need to be ready for it.

Jackson: (making quotation mark) ‘Quote’ these words please.

Junior: “Only the one who are ready can get opportunity” by Yugyeom. Like this? Haha.

Q. Junior and BamBam are the MCs of Mnet ‘MCountdown.’ Jackson is the MC of SBS ‘Inkigayo.’

Yugyeom: (amazed) Yeah, I feel so proud when our members do MCs on the show. It makes me smile when I watch them.

Q. (Laughter) Junior’s acting at JTBC ‘I Love You, Eundong’ was really impressive too. I thought that each of the members is consolidating on what they want to do, whether it is doing MC or acting.

Yugyeom: We also talk about what direction we should take and what position and role we should take charge of. Team is the most priority, but each member’s color is also important.

Junior: In order to improve the team, each of us needs to improve first.

Q. Could you tell me what each of the member wants to do in the future?

Mark: I would say GOT7 for now..

Youngjae: Each of us is doing best for GOT7. We also do other things too. I asked the PD to use the song that I composed as the song for GOT7. But after he discusses about my song, he says “You should work harder, I think it’s not time for it.” So, I keep challenging on it. I am showing my will to make the song for our team. Haha. If I do well, maybe my song can be the song for GOT7, right?

BamBam: GOT7 is my first priority. But thanks to ‘MCountdown’ I became more famous. So I want to be like Leeteuk in the future. He is doing MC in many shows. I like to talk so I enjoy doing MC. It would be fun doing MC not only in ‘MCountdown’ but also in other programs. These days, I don’t want to stay at home. I feel empty when I am at home. I want to do something new every day. (coughing) I have cold now but still I don’t want to stay at home. I can do everything. (On this day, BamBam was coughing because he had a cold. But he was enthusiastic at the interview and taking pictures as usual.)

Q. What about other members? I think Junior would more like to go on acting.

Junior: It’s not only about acting, but I want to try everything. I want to do many things when people look for me.

JB: I want to do art. I want to try drawing pictures, taking photos, acting, and so on. But for now, it’s music. I am all interested in composing, singing, editing, and playing instruments. I want to do music until I can say that I know something about it. I will work on music for now.

Jackson: First, GOT7 is my priority. And I want to continue doing MC.

Yugyeom: Jackson really cares about our team. We do care too, but he really works hard to promote our team.

Q. Yugyeom makes me think of ‘Real GOT7 3’ when Jackson said that he could get out of slump because of the members. I think you guys mean a lot to each other.

Jackson: Yes, it’s just like what you said.

Junior: Jackson talks straightforwardly..

Jackson: It’s not like business partners but ‘somebody’ of my life. Well, there’s something like that… in life, a friend who are next to me when I am 80 years old, saying “Hey, what’s up? What are you going to eat today”, like this kind of friend.

Q. I think each of you should have had slump for some time. When was it?

Jackson: It was when I prepared for the debut. And it is always here.

Junior: I have one time in a week. Haha.

BamBam: I feel like in slump when I have nothing to do after I had time busy doing many things. It’s like when I think ‘what am I doing, I should be doing something, why am I doing nothing.’

Q. By the way, Mark did not talk much today..

Yugyeom: I think he talked quite a lot. Haha.

Q. What does Coco-name of a puppy mean for Mark?

Yugyeom: A daughter.

Mark: ‘Baby.’

Q. It seems like Mark and Youngjae especially like Coco.

Yugyeom: It’s because those two brought her.

Mark: I’m her father. I scorn Coco every day.

Youngjae: When she gets scorned by you, she keeps following me every day. Hahaha.

Mark: (like if telling a secret) Was it the day before yesterday? When I was watching TV holding Coco, Jin-Young was next to me. And he suddenly asked, “Can I hold Coco for a while? I want to hold her”. So I gave her to him. Actually Jin-Young hated Coco. He never let her to come to his room.

Junior: I like animals very much..

Youngjae: I don’t think that you like them.

Junior: I cannot even control myself so I cannot care of animals. It’s difficult to care somebody. But these days, Coco is really cute. She even licks my unwashed foot.

Youngjae: Hahahahahahaha.

Junior: When I came home and lied on the sofa with my socks taken off, Coco suddenly came and licked my toes.

BamBam: (joking) That’s why Coco is sick.

Youngjae: Coco was sick a few days ago.. Hahaha.

Q. Hahaha. It’s kind of awkward, but please say “I like you ‘just right’ because you are blah-blah” to each other.

(everyone sighing and laughing)

Junior: To each of the members?

Q. No, just to the person next to you.

Jackson: Then, I will start first.

Mark: Can we just select the person we want?

JB: No, Jackson will start and we will go like clockwise.

Q. Jackson to Youngjae, Youngjae to JB, like this. (the order they are sitting during the interview: clockwise, Jackson-Youngjae-JB-BamBam-Mark-Yugyeom-Junior)

Jackson: Youngjae, I like you because you always shout on my left side. I like your loud and cool voice. When I feel down, I get energy from your laughter and shouting.

Mark: Can I say something to Yugyeom now?

JB: Go by the order.

Youngjae: I like Jaebum because he is the leader of our team. At least he balances our team.

JB: (joking) Oh, ‘at least’?

Youngjae: Hahahaha. No, no. I did not mean that. I meant that you balance our team well.

Jackson: You chose the wrong words.

Youngjae: Oh, I was wrong. Hahaha.

JB: Haha. Then I.. (laughing) like BamBam because he is a ‘legend’. (During an interview, to a question “How would you want to be called?”, BamBam answered, “I want to be called as a ‘legend’.) He is very interested in fashion, does his part very well, got the most compliments from the PD while preparing for ‘Just Right’, so he is a real legend. Haha. Actually, I like him just right because he is BamBam.

BamBam: Maybe he doesn’t have anything to compliment me. That can happen.

JB: BamBam, I was joking. (laughter)

BamBam: Mark, it’s really awkward. Haha.

Mark: (not waiting for his turn) Yugyeom is anyway just right because he became outgoing these days.

BamBam: I will do it again. Mark, I will finish short.

Youngjae: Oh, you want him to be quiet?

BamBam: No, no. He does not talk about unnecessary things like us. He only talks about what’s really in need. I think that’s ‘Just Right’. It’s straightforward and cool. It’s how he balances our team. The leader balances our team because we are talkative and unorganized. But Mark finishes up the job.

Jackson: So Mark eventually balances out team, right?

BamBam: Yes.. Hahahaha.

JB: ‘At least’ I balance the team. Hahaha.

Jackson: To me, Jaebum is the best leader!!!

Yugyeom: Me too!!!

BamBam: Hey, it’s same for me too!

Youngjae: Hahahahahahaha.

Q. Hahaha. Now it’s turn for Yugyeom to Junior.

Yugyeom: I like Jin-Young because he is straightforward. Sometimes, I get hurt by him but I like him because he is honest and does not lie.

Mark: (suddenly looking at Yugyeom’s open shirt) I like Yugyeom ‘Just Right’ because he became a real man.

Yugyeom: Haha. It’s now time for Jin-Young to Jackson. They are close friends.

Q. We can finish up with Junior.

Jackson: (with charismatic eyes and kind voice) Do not be stressed out.

Junior: I like Jackson because he does not deviate from what he is doing. He concentrates just on what he is doing. When he is in the team, he cares about the team. When he does his work, he does his best. If he has something he likes, he only concentrates on it.

Yugyeom: Hahahaha. Look at Jackson.

JB: He expected more than this.

Junior: If I say more, it would be exaggerating.

Jackson: No, I like his words ‘just right’. Actually I expected less than that.

JB: I think there would be no less than that for Jackson.

Everyone: Oh!

Jackson: This is why I like Jaebum.

Junior: (hurried) Jackson! Jackson! I just talked about you.

After this talk, Jackson stood up and gave Junior a hug as reconciliation (?).

Everyone: (big laughter)

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