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Almost one yr after the discharge of their fourth mini-album ‘Us within the Summer season,’ cignature is again with one other recent, charming album excellent to take heed to throughout summer time getaways. ‘Sweetie however Saltie‘ is their fifth mini-album and it comprises their very first English single, making this album much more particular.
The album boasts the title monitor “Poongddung (“Splash” in Korean),” “I like I like” and its English model, and “Melody.” “This album is exclusive and particular to us as a result of we’re discussing a extra mature love story of cignature,” mentioned CHAESOL through the group’s interview with allkpop.
Debuting in 2020, cignature shall be commemorating its fifth anniversary subsequent yr. When requested how they really feel about this, JEEWON shared that it nonetheless seems like they’re nonetheless of their first years. On a constructive be aware, she believes that this milestone proves how exhausting they’ve labored for the previous years. “Typically it feels unbelievable that we’re going in direction of our fifth anniversary,” she mentioned.
allkpop as soon as once more caught up with JEEWON, SEMI, CHAESOL, SELINE, CHLOE, and DOHEE following our interview with them last year for ‘My Little Aurora.’ Learn our full unique interview with the gifted group under!
Shout-out from cignature to allkpop readers!
allkpop: Congratulations in your new album! To begin, how has your 2024 been up to now? What are you as much as lately?
Seline: Beginning in 2024, we actually wished to deal with growing ourselves and bettering our private expertise, that’s why we’ve been taking many classes to construct our wants individually. On prime of that, we began making ready for this album beginning this March, round springtime. This album took plenty of re-recordings within the studio. Additionally, we labored instantly with the choreographer to work with modifications and updates on the choreography to essentially make it our greatest work but. We have been actually busy and are protecting ourselves busy up to now this yr. And now we’re selling the brand new album.
allkpop: Might you please introduce ‘Sweetie however Saltie’ to us? What’s one thing distinctive about it in comparison with your earlier mini-albums?
Chaesol: This album is exclusive and particular to us as a result of we’re discussing a extra mature love story of cignature. Our title monitor, “Poongddung,” is an ideal track for summer time. It is splashy, very bubbly, and refreshing and is ideal for the season. After which now we have “I like I like” the place we’re speaking extra about girlish love and the emotion of very pure love. Lastly, now we have “Melody”’ that delivers our real emotions, our hearts, and our sincerity about music and ourselves. I feel, together, they actually full a really particular album for us. This album additionally options “I like I like”’s English model. It’s truly our first official English monitor so I feel that additionally provides one other uniqueness in addition to that specialty for all of the worldwide listeners who do not converse Korean, to allow them to all simply take pleasure in it in a common language.
allkpop: For the reason that album title is “Sweetie however Saltie,” I used to be questioning which one you favor: candy or salty meals?
Semi: For me, I’ll select candy meals as a result of they actually carry up our vitality, get you going, and hype you up. It additionally elevates your temper on the whole. To actually inspire myself and my emotions, I want candy meals!
Jeewon: Today, I feel I am extra inclined to eat salty meals. We are inclined to probably not get correct meals as a result of we’re so busy throughout our promotions, so now we have to rapidly seize one thing, like snacks, every time we’re shifting to the following schedule. Today, I’m craving Kimchi Jjiggae (Kimchi Stew) or Budae Jjiggae (Military Stew). They are surely spicy and salty.
allkpop: And since you got here again with a summer time album. I wished to ask what you normally love to do through the summer time season.
Dohee: There are explicit actions and sports activities you may take pleasure in solely in summer time. Each time now we have trip time, I wish to exit and take a look at these thrilling water sports activities and summer time actions to essentially benefit from the full season.
Semi: For me, I wish to go to the pool and journey on the water slides. That is my favourite exercise. I additionally like to eat the Watermelon Hwachae and Shaved Ice or Bingsu.
allkpop: What was your expertise like recording the songs? There’s additionally an English model of “I like I like”! Your first one. How was it and did you may have difficulties recording that model?
Seline: Each time we’re recording a track or album, now we have a extremely good environment. We wish to share suggestions, cheer one another on, and simply share plenty of concepts and discuss amongst ourselves. Particularly for this album as a result of we had the English model of “I like I like.” The pronunciation was the largest problem for us. We wished to essentially deal with the pronunciation and making it sound as right as potential. And that’s the place our fluent English speaker Chloe got here in. She truly took on the route of that recording. Even the director shared one thing along with her, saying, “Hey Chloe, you need to simply handle this, you need to be in cost.” She had an ideal duty for the entire staff. It was a really pleasurable and thrilling second.
allkpop: The track “Melody” has a extremely nice message as I’ve learn the English translation of the lyrics. I additionally just like the strains “Although I’m small and insignificant On the stage known as life I’ll sing my very own track.” What does that track imply to you personally? In what means does it resonate with you?
Chaesol: signfan, our fandom, is basically our all. They’re our true loves. We at all times give our all and all the pieces to them. There’s a line in “Melody” that goes, “Incomplete life, we’re filling it collectively.” That references our message for our signfans, saying we’re on this collectively and we’re going to full our incomplete lives collectively. We’re going to step ahead collectively. We actually wished to ship this message throughout to our followers with these emotional lyrics. The entire intention was to essentially ship our real and honest hearts to our followers and listeners.
allkpop: Subsequent yr, you’ll be celebrating your fifth anniversary! How does it really feel that you just’re nearly midway by means of a decade? Your tenth yr remains to be form of far however celebrating your fifth anniversary subsequent yr additionally means you’ve come up to now now! Does it really feel like 4 years for you already?
Jeewon: Considering again, I actually really feel like I’m nonetheless a beginner like we’re nonetheless in our first couple of years. However now we’re our fifth yr. That’s after I actually really feel like, “Wow, time is basically like water. It flows rapidly.” Typically it feels unbelievable that we’re going in direction of our fifth anniversary, however wanting again, I feel it actually proves that now we have been working exhausting and now we have been tremendous busy for the previous 4 years now. It makes us actually proud but additionally feels slightly sentimental waiting for the fifth anniversary. As for our fourth debut anniversary, we’d like to host our solo live performance in entrance of our signfans, so we are able to have a particular occasion with our followers. I feel that might be actually enjoyable.
allkpop: You’ve come up to now already, you need to be pleased with yourselves! Trying again, what’s one factor you achieved that you’ll at all times be pleased with?
Chloe: For me, personally, I wish to say that after we acquired our first “Rising Star Award” and “Blooming Star Award.” We acquired three awards for the “Rising Star Award.” I wish to thank all of the signfans who supported us. I feel that is our proudest second!
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allkpop: I used to be questioning if in case you have any phrases or items of recommendation that you’ve heard from possibly your colleagues, followers, or your seniors, that imply quite a bit to you?
Jeewon: Personally, I’m the kind of one that worries quite a bit I’ve plenty of issues and ideas in my head earlier than doing something. This recommendation got here from plenty of completely different seniors within the trade, together with our firm senior Younha, they had been all saying like, “Don’t fear, simply give your finest every time you may.” That’s the piece of recommendation I acquired from plenty of seniors. It actually motivated me and due to that, I’ve been reminding myself that I do not should be nervous about all the pieces. I simply want to present my all and my finest for each alternative that I’m given, in order that’s one thing that is actually engraved into my coronary heart. I attempt to observe it each second.
Semi: One factor I heard from our followers that actually caught out to me was them saying, “You’re doing nice” and “I am actually pleased with you.” These phrases actually gave me plenty of braveness and motivation to maneuver ahead. Each time I’m feeling down, I can look again and be inspired by these phrases. That is the memorable piece of phrases I heard from my followers.
allkpop: Lastly, to wrap this interview up, please share some ultimate phrases for allkpop readers and your followers!
Chloe: Hiya to allkpop readers and our signfans, thanks for ready for our fifth mini-album ‘Sweetie however Saltie.’ We labored actually exhausting so please stay up for our actions and examine our comeback out. We’re going to do our greatest for the promotions. We love you!
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