This fun article by Taylor Glasby for NME Blogs catches up with ATEEZ while they were in New York for KCON NY 2019. The guys talk about the breakneck speed at which they are growing and putting out content, what it was like to win M Countdown for the first time, the secret message in Utopia for the haters, and so much more.
Also on this EP is ‘AURORA’, its delicate early verses building into abrupt strings and snare rolls that melt and expand into a falsetto-lead chorus. It’s Hong Joong’s first composition on an ATEEZ record, his reply to feeling a disconnect with his new reality. “We’ve experienced so much love but haven’t been able to feel it properly yet and I wanted to express that,” Hong Joong muses. “We don’t know how to describe it, but the meaning behind the lyrics is that we’re just going to continue to do us.”
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“Aboard the rollercoaster that’s become their life, Hong Joong says the advice he’s taken to heart is “to be more thankful and more receiving.” San has turned some of his focus inwards: “Each day I try really hard to accept myself as I am, and when I get positive feedback from fans, that helps me to do that.” But he also agrees with Hong Joong. “Whether you have 1,000 fans or 10,000 fans,” San adds, “always act the same way you did when you started out and give the same love, no matter what.””