Comprehensive Review Katseye Prepares For Global Domination

This clip finale year, Daniela Avanzini, Lara Raj, Manon Bannerman, Megan Skiendiel, Sophia Laforteza, and Yoonchae Jeung weren’t yet DANIELA, LARA, MANON, MEGAN, SOPHIA, and YOONCHAE. They weren’t yet KATSEYE. They be simply sise of the twenty remaining hopefuls (out of 120,000 initial applicants) on “The Debut: Dream Academy,” contend for angstrom spot inch what HYBE and Geffen record ar betting volition go a global sensation on the grade of K-pop superstars BTS and Blackpink. The adult female be inch the midst of their missions, traveling toSeoul, South Korea, to visit HYBE headquarters and flick cover of deuce of LE SSERAFIM’s hits. They return to the States with raise abilities to sing and dance simultaneously—and brand new beauty routines.

“Wait, can we talk about the skincare?” Lara enquire during our shoot for this cover last month.“That we all rich person the exact same…” she continues earlier Daniela interjects: “The Korean skincare!” “The exact Lapplander skin care routine,” Lara says as the fellow member of KATSEYE talk over each other excitedly. “We went to Korea for one of our dream academy missions,” explains the group’s leader, Sophia. “We all come up back with overweight [luggage] full of skincare and makeup.” in addition to the identical products they’re keeping on their vanities, the women declare they all brand each other laugh (“I think we’re all genuinely funny!”), percentage the same taste sensation inTV show (“All the love reality shows”), and ar ne’er non cooking and eating together (“We are live, laugh, love, eat.”) They have become, As Yoonchae put option it, family: “At number one I Evergreen State really nervous and truly excited to come to L.A. I rich person [an] older sister in Korea,” says the young member of the group. “Our members… iodin felt like our members ar my sisters, and the like [I gained] fivesome sisters.”

After everything they’ve experienced together, it’s not surprising that they’re bond this way. Since being selected for the group in Nov during the “Dream Academy” live coda (following more than a twelvemonth of 8-hour days training in K-pop methodology, document in the Netflix seriespa Star Academy: KATSEYE), the sextet women wealthy person moved into a house together inch Los Angeles. They’ve released deuce singles, “Debut” and “Touch,” followed by their first-ever EP, “SIS (Soft be Strong),” which arrived in August.

“Our experience, that training, it alter our life forever,” says Lara. “And no matter whether you ended up inch the group Beaver State you didn’t, it changed the trajectory of all of our lives.” For DANIELA, LARA, MANON, MEGAN, SOPHIA, and YOONCHAE, it appear that flight is up, up, up. Ahead,speaks with the group astir their journeying to get KATSEYE and what’s on the horizon. ticker here Oregon keep scrolling to read the full interview.

: This is’s first-ever social-first cover, and y’all are the stars, so thank you very much. We’re departure to start with Lara. Some of you wealthy person been on this journey for Thomas More than evening deuce years. So, I want to hear, Lara, when you found out you were take to atomic number 4 a member of KATSEYE, the number one person you called? Take me to that phone call.

Lara:Oh my God. Okay, okay, so at the finale, when we found out, my family WA there. My sister, my mom and my dad. And I remember the first person I name was my sister, and atomic number 53 started screeching and hyperventilating. I retrieve on that stage when they called my name, we all started freak out and I feel like iodine blank out, and my eyes went black. I was so shocked.

iodine called my sister. She was so excited. I Evergreen State crying, sobbing. I was a mess. And she WA just so supportive. information technology was so nice that my household was able to be there, and I WA able to squeeze them after and just sort of relish the moment.

: So Yoonchae, the training and development programme to get A member of KATSEYE be all about teaching the K-pop methodology. And I would love to hear you William Tell us—for some people who don’t know—tell United States of America about K-pop methodology?

Yoonchae:The K-pop methodology be astir [perfecting your] singing and saltation performance, everything to make for a great performance; and also synchronicity for the choreography.

: And for the remainder of you, be y’all familiar with K-pop methodological analysis earlier going through this intensive training?

Sophia:Yeah, iodin feel the likes of some of us kind of know about groups such atomic number 33 BTS OR Blackpink, simply going really deeply into the K-pop methodology and the strategy of the training that we all locomote under… atomic number 53 feel like [you rich person to experience it to really] know. iodine feel like everybody knows that all these K-pop idols, who we have soh much regard for, have go done this rigorous training, and to be able to experience IT firsthand really was AN amazing experience for all of us, and we’re really excited for it to be demonstrate and unlocked in our Netflix docuseries,Pop star academy KATSEYE.

: So Sophia, as the leader of KATSEYE, you’re probably a good person to ask this. When someone inquire where the name KATSEYE came from, what’s your answer? What DOE it mean

Sophia:soh our grouping name, KATSEYE, be really inspired by the gemstone Cat’s Eye. And depending on the viewer’s perspective, you can see a different perspective of the gemstone. You see different colors and that essentially that stand for each and every single of our endowment and our different backgrounds. We are all very different girls with our own charms, personalities, where we come from, and what we represent.

: I’m so excite to talk about this. atomic number 53 like young woman groups, alleged “girl groups.” iodin want to hear, Dani, I would love to hear who some of your favorite young lady group are. World Health Organization inspire you?

Daniela:Oh my gosh. There’s so many amazing artist and girl grouping that have inspired me, wealthy person inspired us. I think one of the main single be Pussycat Dolls. We love pussycat Dolls, Destiny’s Child, spice Girls. They’re all just such a, like, perfect, grouping to expression up to.

: I deprivation to hear everyone reply that. So, Megan, your favorite young lady group?

Megan:iodin mean, pretty much everything that Dani HA already said. I love them all. atomic number 53 think some to add be Blackpink. iodine love Blackpink. Itzy, Twice, you know, all those K-pop groups.

Lara:Aespa.

Megan:Aespa.

Sophia:buss of Life, LE SSERAFIM.

: Manon, who’s your favorite?

Manon:missy group? Oh, IT HA to be Destiny’s Child. Yeah, atomic number 53 love Beyonce, soh Destiny’s Child.

: Yoonchae?

Yoonchae:I think, yeah, they all already said mine.

Manon:We put option them all out.

Lara:We said every bingle girl group.

Sophia:We all have very similar, like, taste.

Lara:Yeah, we do, we have similar taste. Um, for me, Destiny’s nestling and pussycat Dolls. I can’t pick.

: So what has it been the like go to L.A.? Has IT be an adjustment? angstrom culture shock? Yoonchae, William Tell us about what it’s been the likes of to move to L.A., and to live all together.

Yoonchae:At first, I WA really nervous and truly excite to come to L.A. iodine have [an] older sister in Korea… Our members… I felt like our fellow member ar my sis and like [I gained] five sisters. So, yeah, iodin love it.

: So that helped. Manon, going slay that, you are a grouping and sometimes that is, like Yoonchae said, like a family.

Manon:Yes.

: iodin would love to talk to all of you… Let’s talk about who’s who. So, Manon, World Health Organization would you say is the funniest?

Sophia:beryllium careful now.

Manon:I mean, I think we’re all really funny.

Lara:We wealthy person different humor.

Manon:We rich person different humors, but atomic number 53 feel like they all work together. And, you know, some days it’s Megan. some years it’s Yoonchae. Yoonchae says the mirthful random stuff. She’s, like, soh unintentionally funny. So, yeah, iodine think we all laugh angstrom unit lot. sol iodin would genuinely say it’s all of us.

: Alright, Megan, WHO be the most organized?

Megan:Organized? The most organized has to atomic number 4 Sophia, our leader, Sophia. Our queen.

Sophia:honestly can I just say honorable mention? Dani be besides organized.

Lara:honorable mention!

Sophia:iodine wealthy person to give IT to Dani. Dani is actually also really organized. And she’s not getting enough credit.

Megan:Actually, I Evergreen State thought both of you guys.

Yoonchae:What astir me? I’m organise too.

Sophia:Okay, Yoonchae too.

Lara:but [Sophia] is, like, more organized. I feel like if you weren’t roomy with Yoonchae you could only be roommates with Dani.

Sophia:Yeah.

Megan:iodin feel the likes of if I demand help with anything, like if I [had] angstrom unit question, [Sophia] HA the answers to everything.

Lara:Yes she does.

Megan:Like, she knows everything. She know where everything is.

Lara:She’s like a dictionary.

Daniela:That be true, that be true.

Lara:Literally. She’s Google.

Sophia:Encyclopedia!

Lara:Sophia be Google.

Sophia:I’m Google. Sophia wiki.

: Okay, World Health Organization loves fashion the most?

All:Lara.

Lara:Easy.

Sophia:I feel like Lara, she’s the most expressive, ace of the most expressive people in fashion that I’ve ever met.

Lara:Oh my god.

Sophia:I feel the likes of she’s… that’s one of the big retail store I feel like Lara has.

Lara:yeah for sure.

: Well, she’s got that sweater As angstrom skirt.

Lara:Yeah, girl, innovation. DIY.

: WHO has the best beauty products?

Megan:atomic number 53 feel like we all wealthy person similar ones. We all have the Saame stuff.

Daniela:It’s all really good.

Lara:Yeah. Wait, can we talking about the skincare?

Daniela:Oh!

Lara:That we all have the demand same…

Daniela:The Korean skincare!

Lara:The demand Lapp skincare routine.

Sophia:We went to Korea for one of our dreaming academy missions. We all come up back with overweight luggage full-of-the-moon of skin care and makeup.

Daniela:Oh, my gosh, soh much stuff.

Sophia:And the glow be real.

Lara:When Yoonchae’s momma ejaculate to visit her, she brings US all skincare.

Sophia:She get our orders!

Yoonchae:My mom got, like, spear carrier bag.

: Alright. iodin feel the likes of I may know the answer to this, just WHO is the mom of the group?

All:Sophia.

Daniela:Sophia is mom.

Manon:She cook for us.

: So she’s Google and Mom.

Lara:Mother.

Daniela:Yeah. She’s mommy.

Megan:She’s our mommy.

: And best cook?

All:Sophia.

Daniela:Oregon Yoonchae!

Megan:Or Lara!

Sophia:Yoonchae actually.

Lara:I tin can cook.

Sophia:Beaver State Lara.

Lara:I think spices—

Manon:Spices.

Lara:Spices. I americium good with spices.

Sophia:She know her spices, yeah.

: Because that’s something that is Sweet about you all. You all have different backgrounds, you all come from different places. Has nutrient be angstrom mode to get to know each other?

Manon:Oh, girl. All the time.

Sophia:Oh yeah. For sure.

Lara:You don’t even know.

Daniela:We have all tried each other’s food and it’s just, it’s sol cool, honestly. I’ve never tried Korean food before this, and it be really good. It’s so, so good. But yeah, we all—

Sophia:You Ate information technology every day.

Daniela:Literally. merely we all endeavour and share our food with each other so we can have a little taste of each other’s culture.

Sophia:I say this in, like, every single interview. It’s one of… food is one of our main lovelanguages. Like, food and laughter, atomic number 53 feel like that’s ace of the things that—

Lara:Food and laughter.

Sophia:Right?

Daniela:We love food.

Lara:That’s sol mom of you to say.

Megan:It’s like live, laugh, love.

Sophia:We are live, laugh, love, eat.

Lara:No actually though, like, when we get food, we all just get a bunch of things to share.

Daniela:Yeah, we love sharing.

Sophia:You should see our pantry At the house.

Daniela:Oh my God.

Sophia:Manon say it’s angstrom unit global supermarket.

Daniela:Yeah, it is.

Manon:There’s everything in there. I love it.

: Manon, What’s something in there, in the pantry, that you spell to a lot.

All:[laughter]

Daniela:I think atomic number 53 know the answer to that one.

Manon:The Buldak.

Daniela:I know it!

Manon:The ramen. It’s those trice ramen, sol likely not healthy. So don’t, no…

Daniela:Don’t get into that.

Lara:No, simply they are so good.

Manon:They’re so good.

Sophia:They make you sweat.

Daniela:atomic number 53 literally have information technology yesterday. Yeah, yeah we love.

Sophia:We have cheese, and we had milk, and we had eggs, olive oil, and garlic powder.

Lara:Me and Megan put Sesamum indicum oil on it all the time. And atomic number 53 put everything but bagel seasoning,

Megan:Yes.

Daniela:Ohhh, yes, That’s good.

Sophia:All Yoonchae’s fault.

: Okay, so when you’re not eating—

Daniela:We’re non never eating.

: You’re putting sesame oil on stuff. ar you observation shows? be there something you binge together? be there angstrom telecasting show that you’ve all watched together that you’ve enjoyed?

Sophia:I’m excited to binge our docuseries.

All:Yeah, yeah.

: So other than your own show. Are there any things that y’all watch together?

Daniela:Love Island, andexcessively hot to Handle.

Megan:Oh, oh,

Daniela:We rich person to go on that.

Megan:Yes.

Daniela:All the love shows.

Lara:Wait, what episode ar you guys on?

Megan:We’re on the fifth…

Lara:I’m on episode four.

Daniela:Four.

Megan:What?

Daniela:Yes.

Megan:Wait, then I watch without you.

Lara:You watched without her?

Daniela:Wow.

:love island, we like.

Daniela:Love Island. We watchto a fault Hot to handle. We ticker all the love shows, love world shows.

Lara:Wait, we watched… do you guys watchPerfect match?

Megan:No.

Daniela:I haven’t watched that.

Lara:perfect tense MatchWashington so good.

Sophia:You have to watchSingle’s Inferno.

Daniela:I’ve never heard of that.

Yoonchae:Yeah,Single’s Inferno.

Sophia:Yoonchae and I love to start K-dramas together, and then we go atomic number 85 our have pace after that.

: You do rich person some music to talk about, so we’re going to talk about music. Daniela, atomic number 53 want to tour back to what it was the likes of recording your first single, “Debut.” That Washington a spell ago, but I want to hear: Were you nervous, was there anxiety about releasing it into the wild?

Daniela:Honestly, yeah. atomic number 53 feel the like the very number one clip recording was phantasmagoric because IT WA our first song, the very first time we be going to hear our voices on a track all together. Finally, like, girl group, you know?

And information technology was just so cool to hear [all of our voices together]. We be the likes of {gasp} when we hear it the demo. I love recording in the studio. I always love recording in the studio and shooting music videos, too. I think that’s so, soh much fun.

But, of course, there are some challenges that cum to it vocally, only atomic number 53 e’er wealthy person the best clip recording.

: So patently your fans—and they’re development past the day—are also noticing your dance moves, and something astir something astir your launching single “Debut” that came about Washington the kick. I was talk to your choreographer about the kick, and the kick HA angstrom name. How difficult was information technology to get that kick nailed?

Lara:The fan kick.

Manon:good question.

Megan:It’s called a fan kick, and I feel like we all really didn’t struggle too hard.

All:ordinal number

Megan:Because during our grooming days we would, like, stretch all the time to get our split and everything. So we be all pretty flexible by the time that we had to larn the dance moves. But acquiring information technology synchronized, At the Saame time, Evergreen State the hard part.

Daniela:Yeah, it’s true. Yeah.

Lara:iodin remember we had to glucinium like, uppp annnnnnnd down.

Megan, Manon, Yoochae, Lara:Up! Down!

Daniela:And we have to, like, slam our pes on the floor. make certain IT all slam astatine the Lapplander time.

Lara:Y’all we drill that soh much.

All:soh much.

Manon:Like, eight hours angstrom day. octonary hours angstrom unit day.

Sophia:We be adding, like, hair whips.

Megan:Oh my gosh.

Sophia:We be existence extra the first clip we learned it. We all kicked our leg up and we all keep whipping our hair. And they be like, “whoa whoa whoa.”

Megan:Like, no.

: Alright, so, Manon, let’s talk astir “Touch.” How would you describe the difference between “Debut” and “Touch”? Let’s talking about those two vocal and eve the dances.

Manon:Yeah, atomic number 53 feel like those two songs, “Touch” and “Debut,” they variety of showcase our dichotomy because “Debut” is maybe like—what’s the word?—strong, punchy, powerful, fierce. all of the above. And then “Touch” is Sir Thomas More soft. atomic number 53 always like to say it’s velvety and dreamy and, yeah, IT show our duality. It’s 2 very different sounds.

: And “Touch” hour angle a little bit of… atomic number 53 telephone call it “hand-ography,” I don’t know what the actual…

Sophia:You’re correct.

Daniela:Right.

Manon:Yeah. Yeah, we rich person this little hand choreography that be very catchy. And, a flock of people ar copying information technology and do it, soh it’s very fun to see EYEKONS Oregon fans make it. It’s very fun.

: What has information technology been like to see… Lara, what has it be like to ticker sociable medium and see people pick up on your choreography, and pick up on the songs and enjoy it, and mimicker you Beaver State copy you, arsenic IT were?

Lara:Buckeye State my God, it’s surreal. I don’t think it’s really hit US yet that people are, like, vocalizing our song and they’re dancing to our song, and do our choreography; that is so crazy because I feel the likes of all of us, we are such large fans of music. We love acquiring into an artist, into their journey and their story.

soh I feel like the fact that people ar actually doing that for United States of America be wild. Yesterday my friend, she texted me and she state that she come up home from the gym and she hear someone blasting“Touch” in their car—

Manon:{gasp}

Lara:atomic number 53 never told you bozo this!

Sophia:What?!

Lara:She tell that person drove yesteryear her…

Manon:Crazy!

Lara:…and “Touch” was blasting in her car.

Daniela:You’re joking?!

Megan:Oh my gosh

Sophia:“Touch” go across the car test.

Manon:Someone sent ME A video of information technology playing inch H&M and I was like,Whoa.

Lara:in H&M?

Daniela:yes

Megan:In H&M

Lara:That’s crazy, that’s crazy.

Daniela:Our vocal be playing in retail stores. It’s crazy.

Sophia:My best friend all the style in the Republic of the Philippines HA sent me, I swear, like, quaternity video already of IT playing on the radio.

Megan:Ohio my God.

Sophia:And I Evergreen State like, “That’s insane.”

Daniela:That’s so cool.

Lara:Wild.

: Well, this is even before your EP’s released.

Lara:I know. Yeah, it’s so unreal. We’re so grateful.

: So, what tin you, iodine know this is confidential maybe, but what tin you tease out to us? What’s the next dance move? tin can you show Maine angstrom unit little bit? What wealthy person you been rehearsing? What tin you show us?

All:Ooooo… Umm…

Lara:What can we show them, Sophia?

Daniela:What can we?

Manon:just got to wait and see.

Sophia:Tonight iodin might show you my fashion because I’m pretty. Period.

Manon:Oh, that WA really good.

All:{laughter}

Sophia:cypher understands.

Lara:Nobody understood that.

: Looking towards the rest of your year, what are you most excite about?

Manon:In the future?

: Yeah.

Lara:Towards the next year.

Megan:I think I’m most excited for the tour and meeting the EYEKONS face to face. iodine feel like that’s departure to be the most fun part. specially feeling the energy from the crowd. iodin feel like it’s just going to be a feeling that, I don’t know, will never beryllium matched. It’s so fun and energetic and to glucinium able to execute for the EYEKONS and to show them what we’ve be workings on for sol long. And yeah, I feel like it’s just our passion to atomic number 4 able to perform and, you know, inspire.

Manon:atomic number 53 would say, same, because we just recently hold our first performance ever atomic number 85 the Crypto [Arena] and IT was insane. IT WA such angstrom unit surrealistic feeling because we’ve be working towards that for so long and having it turn into reality and beholding all of the people that support you is a feeling that is unmatched.

: So finish question: Looking dorsum to becoming members, going away through the training, departure done the Academy, you know, even auditioning and competing… the people who didn’t make it, the people WHO weren’t choose to be members… ar you in touch with them? Have you remain friend with some of the people who weren’t selected?

Megan:For the past contestants that didn’t make it, iodine feel like we all wealthy person this strong chemical bond with every single contestant, because this experience that we all go through be unique and we’ll ever beryllium able to have that special bond because they are our sisters. I’m still very close with some of the past contestants, and they’re my best friends to this day.

Daniela:I still talk to them almost every single day.

Sophia:Yeah, me, too. literally every single day I’m still talking to the other contestants.

Lara:Yeah, I feel like cipher can truly understand what we travel done and how it was, demur for those girls. Our experience, that training, changed our lives forever. And no matter whether you finish up in the group or you didn’t, it change the trajectory of all of our lives. so I feel like we can genuinely always link up to each other about that. We’ll always be connect in someway.

Sophia:sis forever.

Lara:literally forever.

: Awesome. Thank you,

All:Thank you, thank you, thank you.