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CORTIS speaking English for 8 minutes straight

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Transcript (English)

0:00 Say hello to Cortis.
0:02 >> Hi, we're Cordis. I'm the leader of the
0:04 group, Martin.
0:05 >> Hi, my name is Kono and I'm youngest of
0:07 the team.
0:08 >> Hi, I'm June.
0:09 >> Okay. [laughter]
0:10 >> Hi, I'm Um, pleasure to be here.
0:12 >> Hi, I'm James. Thank you for giving us
0:14 the time.
0:15 >> Thank you.
0:16 >> Thank you so much.
0:17 >> People got to know our names, you know.
0:19 >> We just got debuted. So,
0:21 >> they might don't know. So,
0:22 >> they might don't know.
0:23 >> How do you feel?
0:23 >> Yeah, we really had a great time in LA.
0:26 It was
0:28 uh it's our fifth time in LA, but um
0:32 this time we had a performance
0:36 >> and um yo, the crowd went crazy.
0:39 >> I I personally think after performing
0:42 like your energy is up.
0:45 >> Yeah.
0:45 >> Rather than like us like being down
0:48 after the performance like being tired
0:50 is like like everybody's hyped up. We're
0:53 hyped up also. Oh, so
0:54 >> by the way, James, happy birthday.
0:56 >> Oh,
0:57 >> yeah. It's 20. And uh
1:01 >> Yeah, it's the front number turns into
1:05 two.
1:05 >> You are Cordis.
1:06 >> Yeah. Yeah.
1:07 >> If I wear like black jeans, he's not
1:10 going to wear black jeans or something.
1:11 So,
1:12 >> at least I got to wear black jeans that
1:13 are whacked. We don't want the producer
1:16 Johnny Goldstein, he started to play the
1:19 key like
1:22 we
1:23 >> I think we just we all just like felt
1:25 it.
1:27 >> We thought we there was something about
1:29 the word go that just had the energy,
1:32 you know.
1:33 >> Um so we just wanted to repeat it like
1:35 go go go and then so
1:37 >> and let's just have fun and then like
1:41 >> that came out. Yeah. I just got to get
1:43 it. Watch me go go.
1:45 >> Can't like make a barrier for K-pop, you
1:47 know. You can try anything. You can try
1:49 different genres, different sounds or
1:51 anything like but we like do
1:53 choreographies or sing lyrics in Korean.
1:57 That is what makes really K-pop. You
1:59 know, a very like fortunate thing is
2:02 like we're in K-pop where there's not a
2:04 like label on like this is pop music,
2:07 this is hip-hop. So like K-pop like you
2:10 can try all types of different sounds
2:12 >> and like we had like songwriting camp in
2:15 LA for like 3 months in total to get
2:18 that title track what you want and like
2:22 >> it was just a process of finding who we
2:24 are. I think that song whole songwriting
2:27 camp was Yeah.
2:27 >> Yeah. You haven't really written any
2:29 songs about like girls or
2:30 >> Well, we were trainee and um we lived
2:35 together and we worked 24/7 together.
2:38 So, yeah, we don't really have much to
2:40 talk about girls actually. [laughter]
2:43 >> Sad, right?
2:44 >> It's kind of sad, but like
2:46 >> make some noise for the building
2:48 [cheering] right here.
2:50 >> Thank you for joining us live in the
2:52 building.
2:52 >> Thank you for having us.
2:53 >> So, yeah, we're Cordis. We just had our
2:55 roll out like two months ago with our
2:57 first album.
2:58 >> Yeah. Hi, I'm My name is Kono and I'm
3:00 I'm the youngest member of the team.
3:02 >> I'm Jun and it's an honor to be here.
3:05 I'm Yeah, happy to be here.
3:08 >> Yeah.
3:08 >> I'm James and actually I heard this is a
3:11 new studio.
3:12 >> You're right.
3:13 >> Oh, I think actually for us it's been an
3:17 ongoing process. So, it's it's just next
3:21 next.
3:22 >> You still listening to it?
3:24 >> Yeah. Yeah.
3:25 >> I mean, since since we came to LA, like
3:28 it kind of like has a throwback like
3:30 because we wrote the whole album in LA.
3:34 Hey, yo, the weather is really nice, you
3:36 know? Like it's always sunny and like
3:39 >> it it really is an good inspiration, you
3:42 know. I mean joy riding good mellow vibe
3:45 of LA
3:46 >> and like you know riding along the
3:49 Malibu beach like
3:50 >> we met a lot of great people writers and
3:54 producers the session that we made go
3:57 worked with Johnny Goldstein such a
4:00 great producer
4:01 >> that came from a very organic space
4:04 >> and like everybody was like crazy in the
4:06 studio so
4:07 >> yeah this session was crazy
4:08 >> one of the we just like to have fun
4:10 doing music and like anything like craft
4:12 Like it it could be videos, it could be
4:13 like photography.
4:14 >> Your job is to be creative.
4:17 >> Like not just music,
4:18 >> anything.
4:19 >> Yeah. We love to take photos like take
4:21 videos, everything, you know.
4:22 >> I think personally the hard part is we
4:25 have five heads.
4:27 >> A lot of ideas. We kind of throw our
4:30 ideas onto the wall and see what sticks.
4:32 >> We have different influences. We watch
4:35 different movies. We watch different
4:36 films.
4:37 >> You have different tastes.
4:38 >> Something that really inspires you that
4:39 defines your taste. studying with you.
4:41 >> I think anime anime definitely uh is a
4:45 big inspiration. The proportions and
4:47 like the drawing style and the music
4:50 that matches the anime.
4:52 >> Let's talk about your taste and what you
4:53 love.
4:54 >> Um for me, I think I don't know like the
4:58 weather.
4:58 >> Yeah.
4:59 >> When I come to LA, like weather is too
5:01 good. So like
5:03 >> I love being outside and you know like
5:06 with like vanilla latte. [laughter]
5:10 Also, I'm such a chill person and like I
5:14 really like to listen to some peaceful
5:17 music. I recently bought a vinyl of Chad
5:21 Baker and Chad Baker scene. That was
5:24 >> I bought it too.
5:25 >> It was crazy.
5:26 >> My guy. [laughter]
5:27 >> What about you, man?
5:28 >> Yeah, I think um not just music. I think
5:31 for me like going to like new cities is
5:36 like the most um inspiration to me.
5:39 We've actually been to New Zealand for a
5:42 music video.
5:43 >> Talk about you, bro.
5:44 >> I grew up listening to a lot of rock
5:46 music. So my dad used to play me like
5:47 Elliot Smith. Um I don't know like so
5:50 many artists like Damon Pala sometime it
5:52 was like Foo Fighters like I kind of
5:54 like Memphis music a lot of funk and
5:56 like a lot of Memphis so like Freddy
5:58 Dread all those like you know funk
6:00 artists. Korea is a great place to you
6:02 know like maybe start a franchise.
6:04 >> There are like great great adults who
6:07 can just help us give us great advice.
6:10 Our some names are seniors like BTS and
6:14 TXT they all they all gave us great
6:16 advice. It's really a big family and
6:18 like they really opened and paved the
6:21 way for us so we can like really fool
6:23 around and have fun with our music and
6:25 like
6:25 >> especially um JH Hope Senim and um
6:28 Junguk Senim did like the challenge for
6:30 both of the songs.
6:31 >> It's crazy.
6:33 >> I mean it's it's such an honor and such
6:35 a blessing to see them do the challenge.
6:37 It is a capture of our um lifestyle and
6:41 a capture of our um ourselves. We like
6:44 treat our music like a diary and a like
6:46 journal.
6:47 >> So like we have five songs and it sounds
6:50 very different like it starts from go
6:52 something is like really energetic and
6:54 it fashion like it gets even energetic.
6:57 Watch one like it blows up and like you
6:59 know like Jo and Love is kind of chill.
7:01 These five songs can show like five

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