Thread by @puppycatpilot, some things from the "our stage will continue" book interview with moonbin [...]

some things from the "our stage will continue" book interview with moonbin that made me very emo at 4am last night, a thread:

(**i& #39;m reading chinese translations from @/WoooooH98 on wb so these are just rough summaries)

start of his career:
- binnie was actually really shy and introverted as a kid so he didn& #39;t know how to deal with fame that came from being a child star
- because of this ppl in his school often misunderstood him and thought he was rude and doesn& #39;t want to talk to ppl

- his first company wasn& #39;t fantagio it was sidus! the person in charge of him at sidus founded NOA ent. (fantagio& #39;s old name) so he followed
- fantagio treats their artists well but doesn& #39;t give out a lot of praises to trainees... bin really wanted to be praised as a trainee

- as a trainee binnie actually enjoyed rap the most
- rocky was a really important part of his trainee life; he kinda started a type of rivalry with him lol rocky joining the company raised bin& #39;s standards for himself and he was comparing himself to rocky a lot

- bin thought rocky was a try-hard lol they had weekly tests where they film 1 vid per week for evaluations (singing, dancing, even acting); but rocky would submit 10+ dancing vids per week
- bin got annoyed because rocky made everyone look lazy

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- eventually bin went to ask rocky how to do it like him and they started exchanging ideas/helping each other and submitting videos together; and they ended up learning a lot from each other

binnie talked about his hiatus

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- the feelings of being unable to deliver started from all night era and eventually got too much during bf
- vocal was his biggest struggle; he visited a bunch of teachers and tried a lot of things but somehow just wasn& #39;t able to move forward

- but when prepping for knock things just came together
- he was relieved that the time passed wasnt wasted; even time spent looking at the ceiling in his room was meaningful in some way
- rather than feeling hurt cuz he couldnt be on stage, he felt most sorry towards the members

- the company actually asked if he wants to try just performing for the year-end stages, he struggled but said no eventually
- he didn& #39;t want to ruin things in case he couldn& #39;t do well, and there was no way to know
- instead he decided there was still next year and the year after

on the knock cb!
- binnie& #39;s favorite stages were 1st week& #39;s music bank and 2nd week& #39;s inkigayo
- they actually were deciding between "knock" and "we still" for the title track; binhyuk were team "knock" and everyone else "we still"

- it was supposed to be decided by voting but bin cheated (because eunwoo is too good at convincing ppl) and performed knock beforehand to the head of A&R, and they were convinced

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https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😂" title="Gesicht mit Freudentränen" aria-label="Emoji: Gesicht mit Freudentränen"> they did have to make a lot of changes tho

there was a section on not being limited by gender where he talked about doing gg covers !!!
- he thought a lot about how to perform 24hrs as a man without ruining the original; how to deliver it well but in his own way; how to balance between femininity and masculinity

- there is a difference in dance lines between men & women; if he can& #39;t digest the dance well in his own way it might look like he is mocking gg dance
- he has no problem w/ doing the original choreo but he wants to add his own feelings when covering it

interviewer brought up wannabe cover saying that bin doesn& #39;t limit himself to genre or gender
- gender isn& #39;t a problem for him because he just covers it in his own style
- but in terms of learning speed, rocky is much faster. if it takes him 30mins it will only take rocky 5.

ok i think im gonna stop here for now this is a super long interview and i hope someone translates it into english in full soon

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https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🥺" title="Pleading face" aria-label="Emoji: Pleading face"> i dont feel comfortable translating word by word when its not from the original source so ;;

jk there r a few more things
- binnie talked A LOT about his dance style and how it differs from rocky& #39;s, how they learned from each other & found their own styles, how they have changed throughout the years etc.

- the most tiring type of dance is "old school" which what hide & seek choreo is. ppl often think its a cute dance but its actually super tiring and no rest for 3 mins straight
- but other dancers will watch it and say wow they can be in dance teams

- hide & seek promos was super tiring; at the end of promos when mj sang the lyrics "hide carefully" (?) his mouth was smiling but his eyes were crying, and they could all hear it

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- csc era was a big turn for their concepts
- sutis concept in csc was an idea they brought up to the company!
- csc& #39;s original title was "easy to love you"; all night& #39;s was "gucci"; knock& #39;s was "you"

(i& #39;m guessing he means the title when they got the sample track)

ok a lot of ppl are asking so yes

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https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😂" title="Gesicht mit Freudentränen" aria-label="Emoji: Gesicht mit Freudentränen"> apparently the "ganjil ganjil ganjil" part in all night originally had "gucci" in the lyrics instead

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adding this for anyone else interested in the original titles for other tracks on all light

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https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😂" title="Gesicht mit Freudentränen" aria-label="Emoji: Gesicht mit Freudentränen"> it& #39;s not the first time they mentioned that all night was gucci !! https://twitter.com/CassieAROHA/status/1283059338261737480?s=20">https://twitter.com/CassieARO...

https://twitter.com/CassieAROHA/status/1283059338261737480?s=20

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