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#SF9 #Youngbin YT Live, 260425, "Goodbye Bin HaeRang." Part 1 of 2. He is so sweet--we haven't had an earnest, heartfelt Youngbin live like this in forever
There are two parts of the live (one cut off). I'll link as I go.
First live (3+ minutes): youtube.com/live/j6sLY4nCz…
He came on doing lip trills (vocal warm-ups) and said hello. He adjusted the look of the live--framing, lighting, etc. He just finished his last Secretly, Greatly performance, ate dinner, came to the company, and turned on the live.
Someone in the comments said, "It's dangerous to ski on Youngbin's nose bridge." (Meaning that his nose is steep and straight). He replied very seriously, "Beginners shouldn't come up here. This is a top-level section, so yes, please go down, beginners." Someone in the comments did a play on words that he read: It's a high level course "aju ko-gup kkosumnida." (ko is the way nose sounds in korean).
He said he was in a meeting room. He wasn't planning to turn on the air conditioner. Then he had some trouble with the reception and the live cut off.
Second live, 1 hr 15 min (I only did the first 35 min in this post) youtube.com/live/wroF_1pE0…
When he came back on, he said he turned off the wifi to try to fix the connection issues and cut himself off. He ended up turning on the overhead light because he thought it looked better.
He said it was nice to see everyone again. He said "I'm Youngbin who just finished the Secretly, Greatly performance. The last performance." He thought today was the day he should've had his best performance, but actually, he can't really remember it. He almost never remembers his performances. It's like magic, how he doesn't remember. There was an ad-lib in today's performance that was funny, though. (he explained it, but I haven't seen any clips so I'm not sure if this interpretation is correct--did Chayoung (sp?) hyung rap part of Youngbin's Love Race part? it sounded like maybe--YB said that the audience reaction was really good.) Anyway, YB says that when the performance is over, those kinds of audience reactions make the play feel more lively, they "make it more vivid and breathe life into it." Essentially, every time audience reactions are good, YB gets strength from it as he performs. He doesn't want to ask people to react--that seems forced--but he tries to make it so everyone can laugh on their own, laugh because it's fun. But today, the audience reactions were so good, so excited, that it really fueled his performance.
Q: What do you like about the new album?
He said that he'd save album talk for another live.
Q: What changed over time about your performance of Ri HaeRang, emotionally speaking?
He said there wasn't a big evolution of his interpretation of the character emotionally, but there were some parts where he changed a bit. He gave a detailed example of a section at the beginning of Act 2, where he first performed it with a lot of seriousness, but as he began to better understand the character, he changed it to be lighter. He felt like it was more true to the character, so his delivery of those lines gradually changed.
Q: What part of the character seeped into your personality?
He says that these days, he doesn't think that deeply. In the past, his thoughts would be very ordered, one after the other, very deep, and it was dificult for him to even speak sometimes, to just spontaneously say things. But these days, if he has trouble speaking, it's because he's so much more the opposite--just saying what he thinks. So it's not really that Ri Haerang is like that, per se, it's more that he's acquired the character's lightness, his freedom.
Q: Did you feel scared when Haerang falls at the end?
Yes, he did! It wasn't that high, and it wasn't danger either, but of course injuries are still possible (one in fact happened with another actor). But fortunately he didn't get injured, even though it could be dangerous. But he wasn't that scared.
Q: Was it hard to change to a musical-type vocal technique?
It wasn't a character where vocal technique was all that important. The character was very free, and since he's that kind of person, it's not that important to portray him through a specific kind of vocal style. He doesn't have to sing in just one way; he's not a fixed idea kind of character. That turned out to be fortunate for YB as his portrayer, because other characters (Haejin and Wonryuhan specifically) have a unique vocal style that has some weight. But YB thinks his performance was fine.
Q: If you get another opportunity, will you challenge yourself with a musical again?
Yes, of course he will. If the timing fits, or even if it has to overlap with promotions and he can do it without stretching himself too thin, then he will. He's the type who wants to do as much as possible. Plays, musicals, any are good, because each one is another big challenge. And now that he's done it once, he wants to "know it deeply." He wants to "dig deeper and understand more deeply." He liked it best when the three characters performed together. He mentioned two songs: Laundry and Pyeongpyeong.
Q: What was your first thought when you learned you got the part?
He was in the US when he found out, so he first told IS and JY, "I think I'm going to do a musical." But he hadn't started practice yet and so it all seemed a little vague, like he was pretty sure he could do it but had no real sense of it yet. But gradually, as he practiced and the time passed, he got deeply into it. YTY made a lot of time for him. They practiced together separately in the practice room.
Q: You turned that vagueness into reality?
that's right. Up to that point it didn't feel real. But somehow, he performed for three months without getting sick or hurt, not missing a single day. That's something he feels really proud of himself for doing. Now that it's done, he's not quite sure how he managed to do it.
Q: If you were told to go back and do it again, would you be scared?
"even if that were the case, I think I would take on the challenge."
Q: Favorite sport?
Basketball.
(There was another little question here about aegyo, but I didn't completely understand it; I'm not sure if it was about the play or something else).
Q: Before going onstage, what do you do to lower tension (nervousness / stress)?
He thoroughly warms up his voice, loosens up as much as possible. Matinees are particularly difficult. Today his condition was quite good, but he used propolis (throat spray) and it went down wrong. He pointed to his diaphragm and said "this part feels a bit blocked still." He says he must've gone too deep or too much, because he was coughing all day.
He said someone bought the coffee he was drinking for him.
Q: SF9 concert vs. one performance of Secretly, Greatly?
There's no comparison. An SF9 concert is much bigger for him. For this musical, it wouldn't have happened if he hadn't been in SF9 in the first place. If he had to choose, he'd do an SF9 performance; that's much more fun. Because musicals are "a fight on your own," it gets quite lonely. But in SF9, he has the members with him, so he feels more at ease.
Q: Did you take good care of your ensemble friends?
He said, "Me?!? I never took care of them; they took care of me."
Q: SF9 concert vs. one musical performance question was about which was more difficult to do.
Musicals are harder. Physically more difficult, since you're fighting by yourself.
Q: I watched Secretly, Greatly twice and cried both times.
"Thank you. It seems like you were immersed."
Q: more on the ensemble friends?
He thinks they must've spoken well again. He put his fingertips just a few centimeters apart and said he only had that much space in his heart to take care of others. The ensemble friends covered it (his heart) like "this," and he widened his fingers to a few inches, the size of his heart. They're younger than him, but they're actor seniors, so he learned a lot from them.
He'd like to keep doing musicals continuously, if he gets the chance to audition
Q: Did you really take a selfie onstage?
No, the phone didn't turn on.
Q: Is the Yakult real? (Yakult is a probiotic drink; I'm assuming his character drinks it onstage).
He did actually drink it. But it's not exactly smooth; his vocal cords "get a bit sticky." It's like it doesn't fully go down, feels like it's kind of caught in his throat, and he has to sing right after drinking it. It feels like that gets in his way, so he doesn't really want to drink it, but his performance calls for it, so he has no choice. Still, he liked the sound it made through the mic when he finished it, so he forced himself to drink it all.
At that point he stepped away for a minute. He said his voice was a bit hoarse and it's a bit disappointing, but he still had to do the performance anyway.
He quit caffeine, alcohol, and spicy food during the musical run, almost completely. He might have one drink or coffee after a performance, or if there was a long break between performances. He really wanted to eat spicy food, but it's bad for his throat, along with alcohol and caffeine. He wanted them, but he held back. Now that the musical is over, he's not planning to go overboard. While he's adjusted to not having them, he's going to be moderate and control himself. In the end, he felt it was good to become more healthy.
Q: Other than Haerang, is there a character you'd want to play?
For this musical, he'd like to play the part of the youngest, Haejin. He sang a bit from a line from one of the songs (he couldn't remember all the lyrics). But He wanted to try playing that, the youngest-member moment. When he watches the other actors play that part, he thinks about how he might reinterpret the character for himself. There's a part at the end he thought of specifically, and he explained how he'd try to portray it as if he's holding down emotions, and he's kind of disappointed that he didn't have the chance to do it.
He thinks it would be fun if he could do a musical with the SF9 members too, like him, Jaeyoon, and Inseong together. He talked about seeing Hweseung and Jaejin doing a musical together as brothers, and thought it was fun. (I don't know who these people are, so the spelling might be off). He decided not to talk about that anymore because he didn't want Fantasy to fall for them haha
Q: Does life as Youngbin feel ordinary now?
No, his life is absolutely not ordinary. His life is very special and sparkling. He always says, when he stands onstage he sometimes feels the pressure from the audience, because he feels such a weight on himself to do well. But in the end, it's really something incredible. Standing alone in the middle of the stage, in front of so many people, the audience giving their time and their focus to you, the lighting, the staging, getting all that attention and love, even applause at the end--that life can never be ordinary.
Later, when he gets much older, when it comes time to die, because we all do eventually, he thinks he'll have a lingering attachment to this job, the lingering thought and feeling that "I wanted to shine a bit more, just a bit more." He thinks that feeling will stay with him because it was that special, that precious.
Someone said, "Don't die," and he said he won't die now. But humans eventually--and then he cut himself off.
He said all the actors tried to be strength for him. They didn't focus on teaching him, but they tried to help him empathize, and beyond this, how to develop the right mindset as an actor, to understand what's necessary to do when you're acting. A lot of them offered advice, and many cheered him on openly, especially Seong Jaeyong and Niel. There were times when YB felt that practice had gone so poorly that he felt apologetic; he couldn't find his direction. He'd get critical of himself, saying "Why am I so bad at this?" But then Seong Jaeyoung and Niel came at just the right time and told him, "You're doing well. Where is it wrong? You're doing really good." They were straightforward like that, and he was so thankful to all of them and the other actors, too. He thanked some of the other actors and crew by name as well. YB ended this section by saying, even if he can't repay it fully, he'll also become a good senior someday, and pass on that kind of positive influence to his juniors, too.
I'm going to pause here and come back later to finish the rest. I stopped at about ; a bit under halfway through.
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