Meet Super Rookie K-Pop Group ATEEZ

Hey guys, it's Tracy here in the Young Hollywood studio and I'm so excited to be hanging with these boys, ATEEZ!

Yeah!

Hey, it's the ATEEZ!

Yeah! All right, I'm Mingi, Everything Genius. Thank you.

Yeah! Hello, I'm Yeosang, I'm Everything too. Yeah.

Yeah. Oh! Hi everyone, I'm Jongho. I'm main vocalist and youngest in ATEEZ. It's nice to see you all.

Wow.

Yeah. Hello, my name is Yunho. My position is performance and vocalist of ATEEZ. Nice to meet you.

Wow.

Yeah. Hello, I'm Hongjoong, and I'm the leader of ATEEZ, and also thank you for inviting us to Young Hollywood. Thank you.

Woo!

Hi everyone, my name is Seonghwa, it's nice to meet you.

Yeah, yeah.

Hello, it's me. Hello, my name is San. I'm a vocalist of ATEEZ. Nice to meet you.

Ah! Oh.

Hello, my name is Wooyoung. My position is Stage Genius. Thank you.

Oh. Stage Genius, I love that. That's a good motto right there, right?

Yeah. Stage Genius, like ATEEZ.

Yeah. I'm excited that you guys are here, and I know your fans are really excited 'cause a lot of them are tweeting me, saying we really want you to interview ATEEZ, and you guys are here.

Yeah. Yeah. Thank you.

It's so impressive that you guys launched, I mean you debuted as a group last October, which hasn't even been a year yet, and within such a short time, I mean you already have three EPs, you did a worldwide tour that was completely sold out.

Yeah. Woo! Yeah.

Just like that whole feeling was just crazy that you guys gained such huge popularity amongst, you know, fans all over the world in such a short time.

It's because of ATEEZ that we were able to achieve all of this and come this far, and I think we still have a long way to go, but we will always make you happy with our progress.

I love that. Well, speaking of ATINY, 'cause we have to talk about your amazing fandom.

Yeah.

How did you guys come up with that name, ATINY, 'cause I know it has a relation to your name. So can you explain it?

ATEEZ is meaning of A Teenager, and also A To Z, like everything, we have that everything teenager-like something. So we have everything about that, and one another meaning is All About A Teenager. And also, ATINY name is ATEEZ and destiny combined.

Oh!

So ATEEZ and ATINY are destiny like that.

You were meant to be.

Meant to be together. Yeah.

Meant to find each other. Yeah. Um, but what was it like kind of meeting all your fans from all over the world on your tour? Was that like one of the big highlights, just getting to meet everybody?

They are all so passionate, and their love for us is so great. So, we have different language, but they also love us. So, we're very grateful. Everything is same, but one difference is just language. So we just playing and enjoying together are the same. So that's the point. I like, I like all the ATINY. That's the point. All around the world.

Yeah. Yeah.

Your songs just really are very, you know, they're very unique, expressive, you guys have your own, you know, kind of thing going on. And I know you also have like a good storytelling throughout the entire, you know, the narrative. So it's something to do with treasure, right? So I know that kind of is the narrative around all the songs. So how would you explain, you know, the treasure theme?

Everybody has their own treasure, and we will find that someday. But we want to find that with our fans and and we also hope to they will find their own treasure with us. So that's the message, our message, and that's the why we use treasure for the theme. Yeah.

I love that. And so if you had to pick something that you guys each treasure the most, what would it be?

ATINY! ATINY, of course. ATINY.

Yeah. But, I think so, Yeosang's treasure is bald, right? And chicken. And drone.

Yeah. My dream, my what is it, my treasure is myself.

Oh my god! We treasure you too. We all treasure you. We treasure all of you.

My my treasure is little brother.

Aw! Aw. He's a little brother. So sweet. Sweetheart. So sweet.

Me too, my my treasure is my parents and all the brother and little brother.

Oh yeah. Oh, that's so cute. And Jongho's treasure?

Oh, my treasure is apple.

Yeah! Yes! Can't live without apple.

I'll agree with that. Yeah, yeah, I'll agree.

That's a precious things for Jongho. Oh, and my treasure is apple. Yeah.

Oh, okay. He can break apple.

Yeah. He he have, he is very good at break apple. Yeah.

And Seonghwa, what are you? Apples?

Yeah. Yeah. I don't believe it. Oh! We might have to have him. Yeah, yeah, someday. Yeah.

How is that even possible? How, how do you do that? You break it in half, literally in half? So.

Yeah. Yeah. So, so if you're

How strong are you to do? I feel like you would need to be kinda strong to do that.

So if you're curious, you can search in SNS. Yeah. Apple breaker.

Apple breaker right there.

There is many video. My nickname.

Do you eat a lot of apples? Is that your favorite food? Or not really? Do you eat them once you break them?

I also eat apples. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, also he can broke watermelon only use one finger. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Really? Oh.

Yeah. watermelon and, ah! I this lie. And this lie, oh, I'm watermelon this year. I'm, you know, Takbam? I'll tell you about it. Korean heating. Okay. It's Takbam. Bam! So it's like. Yeah. That's right.

I I just saw that in your music videos. You know you should put that in there.

I used to be strong and liked working out, but at some point someone asked me to break an apple, and I think I easily found my talent.

That's really impressive. Hey Jongho, this apple for you. What? Will this happen? Did you get it on the first try? One, two, three. Oh! Yes. Lucky. Does anyone else have any weird hidden talents? Are you good at this? Oh, okay. Can we see? Can we hear it? Oh. Oh, how do you do it? Oh, how do you do it? Oh, how do you do it? Oh. Amazing! That was amazing.

And he has also, yeah, special talent. He has, he had a very long tongue. Yeah! Yes. Okay. Long tongue.

No one else can do that?

Yeah, we can't. Yeah. ATEEZ have superpowers. Superpower! That's true. That's a superpower. Yeah.

If you had to have a superpower, what would it be?

Doctor Strange. Iron Man. Iron Man. Yeah. And he is Hulk. That was good. I'm Hulk. Yeah, you're Hulk. Already already Hulk. Oh. Okay, okay, okay. Already superpower.

This is a lot of new stuff I was learning. I mean, who knew you were multi-talented? We knew you could dance, we knew you could sing, but who knew all these other things that these guys can do? Yes. That's impressive. Also, I saw that recently you guys won your first trophy in the M COUNTDOWN.

Oh yeah. Yeah. Thank you.

music show, which you guys. First win! Yes, you guys first on, amazing.

Thank you.

And you guys got very emotional. And I think, you know, is it because a lot of people might not realize how, how much work you guys actually do before your debut? I mean, you go through this very intense training and what was that whole experience like?

When we won first place, all of a sudden, all the memories from when we first gathered together as members and from when we started practicing until we received first place flashed through my mind.

It's really well deserved.

It's so hard to debut in Korea, and that's so hard to make a first win in Korea. So that's that's why we're crying and we will be just hugging like this. Yeah.

Congrats on all the success you guys have had. Are there any concepts that you guys haven't tried yet that you really, really want to try that, just any sneak peeks of what you can tell ATINY of what's to come?

Personally, ATEEZ has tried many concepts, such as sexy, kitsch, and many others, but I wonder what it would be like if we did something cute.

I think you can pull that off.

Let me show you. I'm pretty sure. Yeah. Let me show you. Let me show you. Okay. One, two, three. Cute guy. Hey. Sorry.

Wow! What, what?

Cute guy. Very cute. Yeah, he makes, he makes song now. Yeah, that's next our tighter, Cute Guy. Yeah. Yeah. Hulk Hulk, please. Cute. Sorry. Sorry, sorry. Oh, sorry.

That was actually gonna be my next question, 'cause I had a couple quick rapid-fire questions to to wrap it up. But, um, you just did it. I was gonna say who does the best, is it Aegyo? Aegyo? Yeah. Wow. One, two, three.

Yeah, thank you.

Can we see? I don't know, I don't know. Okay. Okay. One, two, three. That was good.

Yeah, thank you.

Next question, what is your favorite dance move from any of the choreography in any of your music videos?

This name is is Driving Dance. Yeah. Yeah. Korean Driving Dance. You know, you know, you know. Okay. Five, six, seven, eight. My name is, my name is, A to Z. My name is, my name is, A to Z. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Driving Dance. Yes. Oh, what was that? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm the worst, I'm so bad. No, no, no. That's your bit. Yeah.

Okay. And then lastly, who eats the most? How about Jongho?

Oh me?

Yeah. We know he likes fruit.

I like food. Yeah. Yeah. I like food. Yeah.

You're a foodie. What's your favorite American food?

In my case, hamburger. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Good, very good.

Have you been to In-N-Out?

Yeah. Yeah. Every time we, we've been LA, we ate in in and out. Yeah. Must. Yeah. And chicken box. Oh, yeah. Chicken box. We're second town LA. Yeah. Yeah. Our hometown. Yeah. Our second hometown.

Oh, it is?

Yeah. LA LA. Yeah. Yeah. 'Cause we've been here one month to training. Oh! Wow. Always we ate in and out. Yeah. That's right. When we pre-debut. Yeah, yeah.

Well, we're gonna have to have you guys back here then since you guys come to LA so often. Yeah. Yeah. Well, thank you guys so much for coming. It was so much fun.

Thank you so much.

Stay tuned, you'll be seeing a lot more of ATEEZ. For sure. Yeah.

Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you.

Are you nervous? Are you excited?

Yeah. We're a little bit nervous. Oh. Oh. Forever. Yeah.