"Baby" – Let’s look back to when you were babies. What is your fondest childhood memory?
Dojoon: Not staying at home. Going out and doing something. I just went to the playground and hung out with friends or played soccer games and sports. I was more of an outgoing child. Just not staying at home is my memory.
Woosung: I went to sea world with my mom when I was a baby. That’s one of the things I remember. I saw the whale show!
Jaehyeong: It’s not my real memory, but three years ago I saw a video of my first anniversary and [in the video] I had a toy and I hit my father with it.
Woosung: He was a rude baby!
Dojoon: He was rude. And he still is rude.
Jaehyeong: Sorry, Dad!
Hajoon: When lived on a small island, I went to the sea a lot.
Dojoon: And swimmed?
Hajoon: No, I can’t swim. I collected shells and clams with my mother.
Dojoon: He was really a country boy.
"Sorry" – If you could steal something from another bandmate, what would you take?
Dojoon: Like...Jaehyeong’s face?
Woosung: I want Leo’s computer. It’s a nice computer...the best! So expensive.
Dojoon: It’s the best computer out in the world right now.
Jaehyeong: I want Leo’s driving license! I can’t drive.
Dojoon: Everybody’s wanting my stuff!
Hajoon: I want Leo and Sammy’s english!
Jaehyeong: Me too!
Dojoon: I want Hajoon’s amount of happiness. He’s just a happy person and has happiness inside of his whole life and brain. He doesn’t bother too much with objects and situations out there. He’s just going “hahahaha” all the time.
"Like We Used To" – What is something you miss having before you made your debut?
Hajoon: Oh...All of it!
Woosung: Time. We had more time together. We could go on a trip whenever we wanted to and now we can’t really do that.
Dojoon: We are clinged to something else right now. The thing we really want but can’t have is the freedom. Like 100% freedom. We are still free but not [as much as before].
Other than your upcoming second mini-album, Dawn, what can we expect from The Rose in the future?
Woosung: We have a Japan showcase at the end of October. Our Europe tour is in a month from the end of November to December, and we have a Korea show for two days, the 29th and 30th of December.
Dojoon: And Australia!
Woosung: After we’re gonna come back to Korea and work on other songs and albums maybe.
Do you have a message for your Black Roses?
Woosung: We love you. So much. We wore black today for you guys!
Now back with their second mini-album Dawn, The Rose offers four new tracks join their repertoire. Their title song “She’s In The Rain” features an introduction of soft vocals building up into an explosion of feelings that only few can create through their music. A song for lonely hearts, these sweet, emotional lyrics are a declaration that we're never alone even in the darkest of times. With a band like The Rose who loves and supports their fans through their music, Black Roses worldwide can be assured that they are never truly alone.
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Special thanks to All That Korea, The Rose and J&Star Company for this opportunity!
