fix on~

H: Yeah...sure!!!

"This is the first time I show my bare face. I hope you like it. If you don't like it...there's no way. This is me!"

Ateez + Kylie Minogue + J Balvin

Even before Arlington, there had already been members saying they wanted to come up on stage with me. And then on Mingi’s birthday, when we brought him up, the feeling was good.

So I asked the members, and a few of them were up for it. We rehearsed together, and after rehearsal we thought, “If we’re going to do this, then why not have everyone come up? That would be even more fun.” The DJ booth is actually small, so it’s not easy for everyone to hide behind it - but they all squeezed in back there, and the plan was to have them all pop up together.

When I arrived and looked, the seven of them were huddled underneath, hiding together - it was so cute. Honestly, when we first decided, some members were like, “Well, if everyone’s doing it, then sure.” But once they actually got on stage, each one of them was so sincere about it. Watching them, I couldn’t help but think, “Why are they all being so genuine? Haha.”

Videoed this at the Arlington show