Instead of the nervous looks, we want to portray a more relaxed and cool performance. WENDY: For me, I would like to be able to change how we looked like on stage.

Q: If you can re-do your debut stage, would you want to change anything? We wondered and hoped that people would love this song as much, mixed with anticipation and nervousness. SEULGI: The feeling is the same as when we debuted, especially the first comeback stage. Do you feel as nervous as your debut stage?

Q: It has been a few months since Red Velvet’s debut stage and you are back with a second song, Be Natural. We managed to sit down and have a chat with the girls. Their first single Happiness was a motivating, happy song, and they came back to the music scene with a follow up hit, Be Natural. This is because 3 of them were in the group SM Rookies and their popularity continued on in Red Velvet. Bloom, their first Japanese studio album, appeared in 2022, followed closely by the EPs The ReVe Festival 2022: Feel My Rhythm and Reve Festival 2022: Birthday.SM Entertainment did it again! With big groups such as Girls’ Generation and SUPER JUNIOR, another group has taken over the K-pop world, and it is Red Velvet! Made up of 4 girls, WENDY, SEULGI, IRENE and JOY, the group was already well known before they debuted as Red Velvet. In 2021, they returned with their sixth EP, Queendom. Sidelined from promotional touring in 2020, Red Velvet kept busy with contributions to Trolls World Tour ('Russian Roulette') and an anniversary project for pop predecessor BoA (a cover of 'Milky Way'). Both sets topped the Korean charts and rose into the Top Ten on the U.S. The Summer Magic EP arrived in 2018, and included the single 'Power Up,' as well as an English version of 'Bad Boy.' In 2019 the group issued the mini-album The ReVe Festival: Day 1, which was followed a month later with ReVe Festival: Day 2. Buoyed by the single 'Peek-a-Boo,' the set topped the Billboard World Albums chart. Several months later, Red Velvet delivered their sophomore album, the aptly titled Perfect Velvet: The 2nd Album. Another chart-topper, Rookie: The 4th Mini Album, was issued in January 2017. The album topped both the Billboard World Albums and the Korean Albums charts atop the success of the single 'Dumb Dumb.' An R&B-influenced follow-up, The Velvet, arrived in 2016, with EP number three, Russian Roulette, released just months later. Their debut full-length, The Red, arrived in September 2015. In March 2015, Red Velvet issued their first EP, Ice Cream Cake, which included the single 'Automatic' and hit number two on Billboard's World Albums chart.

The group's two initial singles, 2014's 'Happiness' and 'Natural,' fared well with audiences and became two of South Korea's most watched online videos during the month of their release. Rookies Seulgi ( Kang Seul-gi), Irene (Bae Joo-hyun), and Wendy ( Son Seung-wan), as well as Joy ( Park Soo-young) and Yeri (Kim Ye-rim). Entertainment in Seoul in 2014, Red Velvet feature the talents of former S.M. The group returned in 2021 with their sixth EP, Queendom, followed in 2022 by two more ReVe Festival EPs and the Japanese studio album Bloom.įormed by music management giant S.M. with efforts such as their official debut full-length, 2015's The Red, 2017's Rookie and Red Summer EPs, and 2019's two-part ReVe Festival sets. After the release of their first mini-album, Ice Cream Cake, they began their rise as one of K-pop's more popular international acts, topping charts in both Korea and the U.S. Inspired by artists like En Vogue, Destiny's Child, and Gwen Stefani, South Korea's Red Velvet are a five-member, all-female vocal group who make dance-oriented contemporary R&B and rap-infused pop.

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