Nobody Understans Katseye Quite Like Katseye

Beautify Chaos is not on the Title of Katseye’s Sophomore Ep, But Perhaps A Perfect Way to Describe the Last Year in the Lives of the Girl Group.

In June 2024, Katseye-ForMed by K-Pop Giant Hybe and Geffen Records Through A Music Competition Series, Dream Academy – Released Their Aptly Named First Single, “Debut.” Now, A Year Later, The Global Girl Girl Group Has Returned with Their Follow-up Ep, Beautify ChaosLanding Their First Billboard 200 Top 10 (No. 4) and Two Spots on the Hot 100 Chart. They Also AnnounCed Their First Tour Tuesday Morning, With Stops Across North America.

It’s Been A Year of Growth for the Group – Comprsing Members Daniela, Lara, Manon, Megan, Sophia and Yoonchae – Who Ganed Early Recognition from A Netflix Documentary, Popstar Academythat chronicle their journey from pop hopefuls to global stars. IT’s Also Been A Year of Adjustment. “There’s Been Times WHERE I Just Went Out and Didn’t do my makeup, Didn’t do my hair, and i’m just like, no one’s going to recognize me,” Megan Tel. The Hollywood Reporter on a zoom.

“I Totally Forget that I have pink hair and you’re going to see [me]“Shee jokeingly adds.“ Those are just things that you realize Over Time and Just Figure Out. ”

Below, Katseye Speaks with Thr About their New Singles “Gnarly” and “Gabriella,” How Their Song “Mean Girls” Tells The Story You didn’t Get To See On TV and Wyyay’re Trying to Log Off.

“Gnarly” has been gaining a lot of traction, WHICH is Really Exciting. Were you expecting that? Do you think people got it immedialate?

Lara To be honest, I Feel Like WHEN WEARLY “GNARLY” … We Couldn’t Predict if People Wuld be Love It or Hate It. You Never Know and You Can Can Never Predict That, But I Think We Knew and Had A Feeling that It Wound Be Very Widespread and there Wuld be a Lot of Eyes and Ears on it. I THINK WE KNEW THAT IT WOURT MAKE Some SOME SORT OF MOVEments and Make Waves in A Way. The love that we’re receiving … you can never predict if people are real going to like someting, so i thinkk because they do, we’re so honored and so grateful for that. It’s Been Crazy to See How Much It’s Blown Up, and The New Eyes on Katseye and the Love That People Are Giving Us.

WHY WAS IMPORTANT FOR The FIRST TRACK TO RELEASED FROM This EP TO BE SO DIFFERENT THAN THE MUSIC YOU MUSIC YOU MADE BEFORE?

Sophia One of Our Goals as Katseye is to Constantly Evolve and Show Different Sides of Us, and We Never Want To Stick To One Thing. I Think The One Thing We Want To Stick To Is Our Unqueense. The Special Thing About Katseye Is Our Diversity, and It’s Not Just About Our Cultures, But It’s Also About Our Artistry and Our Personalities and Even Our Sound. We Want the Eyekons [KATSEYE’s fanbase] to expert diffenter Versions of Katseye, and Each Version Is Always Going to Be Very True to Ourselves, The Six of Us Individaly, WHICH is Wy Wy -W a Wih Part of US and You Just Haven’t Seen That Side of Us. Especialy because we’re so new.

Can You Tell Me A Bit About Beautify Chaos and How You’re Feeling About It?

Lara I would say Beautify Chaos is Darker than Sismelodically, visaally, [in its] Choreography, everything. It’s Just A Little Bit More Mature, I would Say. Every Single Song Is Very Different from One Another [but] we’re cohesive with Beautify Chaos World. There’s Kind of a Journy Through the ep, the order, everything about it. There’s a journey. The Lyrics Are Very Much Acknowledge WHERE WE’RE AT RIGHT NOW As Katseye, and How It Feels to Be Us, Our Perspective with The Fans. I THINK WE ALL SUPER, SUPER, SUPER EXCITED. It is Very Chaotic.

It Seemed Like You All Were Really Excited About “Gabriela” Coming Out. Can You Tell Me About the Song?

Daniela We’re Super Excited. I ESPECIALLY AM BECAUSE I GET toinginging IN THE TOuch with My Latin American People, But It’s Just Something We’ve Never Done Before. IT’s A Different Vibe. I A Different Style of Dance Too Thatople Haven’t Seen. I Definitely Sexier, Sassier thanning We’ve Ever Done, and I Think People Will Love It. Sonically and the Choreography. I’m hoping people will like it.

Megan Especial with it being a Longer Song Too. People have been asking for that for a while, so finally we’re giving them a longer song.

“Mean Girls ”Might Be My Favorite Song on the Ep. I KNOW YOU’RE YOU’RE ALL PRETTTY Online, and there Were Many Conversations About Your Relationship Popstar Academy CAME OUT. Can You Tell Me About the Song? How does “mean Girls” fit into that?

Sophia I’d say this song is what you said, it’s almost Our Respense to the Journy that We’ve Had So Far, Especlamally with Being in the Public Eye, an Having a WHOLE DOCUMENTARY is a glimpse of what we went thROUGH. Emphasis on Glimpi. As Much As It Is A Whole Storytelling Experience, It Isn’t Everything. That led to a lot of people Thinking that Saw Everything and Having All These Misconings and [there was] SO Much Chatter on Social Media and [people were] Just Saying All of these Things Withouse Actual Knowing Who We Are. As Much as they do know such a big part of US, is still not everything. You Literally Just Saw Eight Hours of a Whole Three-Year-Long Journey. That’s One Night’s Sleep. You Can’T Say You Know Everything About US. [The song] Is Kind of US Just Saying, Whover You Think of Us, WHATEVER YOU THINK OF AnyBODY, IT IS JUST LIKE, GIRL, BLESS You. Just Letting It Be and Knowing How We Are And Almost Acknowledge Everything, But Kind of Acknowledge It WitH Grace and Kindness. Just Being Like, Well, If That’s What You Think, Thatn That’s What You Think. But that’s the beauty of that song and all of the Our of Other Songs in the Ep is that it can be interpreted in the Any Way That You Want.

Manon What I Think Is So Beautify About “Mean Girls” is that is a song that Uplifts and Supports Girls in Every Version of Themselves. Being A Girl or A Woman Can Be Really Tough at Times. We’re constantly navigating expectations, Judgments and Double Standards. There’s so much pressure to fit into boxes that were nver Made for us in the first place, so creating a song like “mean girls” felt important beekause it the alas. Choosing Kindness Over Competition. It’s about building each Other Up and not Tearing Each Other Down.

Last Time We Spoke, It Was The Day the Documentary Came Out, So Things Were Fresh. In the year since, do you feel you’ve been to put somes Are you able to close that chapter of your life or to you still feel that it fits into your yorney as a group now?

Lara I Feel We Have Understood How to Handle Things Like That Much Better. This Year – As We Grow As Katseye, We’re Doing More and More and More Things Together – I Think We Have Started To Become One. We Act The Same Way. We Handle Things the Same Way. I Feel Like We Have Started to Lean On Each Other A Lot More When We’re in Situations Like That. Nobody Else Understans US The SIX OF US WILL [understand] Each Other. I Feel Like We Have Trly Become Each Other’s Support System, 100 Percent, WHEN IT MANDING THINGS LIKE THAT AND EMOTIES LIKE THAT AND WHAT PEOPLE SAY ONLINE. Something that i’ve personally learned recently, there have so Much Chatter Online that I Need to Create More and Not Consume so Much of It.

I’ve Learned What Those People Say – A, It’s Not Real. B, It’s Not for My Eyes, and It’s Not for Me to See. It’s not normal to have so many people having so many crazy opinions about you. I Feel Like All Six of US Have ExperienCed that in Our Own Way. THEN AS A GROUP, WE’VE ExperienCed A Lot of Chatter and A Lot of Hate, SO We’re Learning How To Take A Step Back and Not Consume It As Much and Let Them Talkst Themselves. THEN WE [can] Create Everything in the Way that We Want to do It, and People Can Think Whatever They Want to Think.

That’s a very healthy Approach. In a way that many grapes don’t get to, you’ve been about to take a Truly Global Approach. In addition to your American promotions, you’ve performed on Korean Music Shows and in the Philippines. You’ve Really Been Able to Highlight Your Individual Cultures in A Special Way. What has that experience been like?

Sophia I would say that we’re trly grateful that we get to beefit from the World Pretty Much, Being ABLE TO PROMOTE EVERYWHERE. I THINK The MOST BEAUTIFUL THING ABOUT IT IS THAT – Based on What We’ve Done So Far and The Places That We’ve Been To, Because We All Have Different Pieces of User. A Very Special Way. Just Like You SAID, WE PROMOTE HERE IN AMERICA. A Lot of US HAVE OUR LIVES HERE IN AMERICA, AND SO WE GET TO Connect with Them. WHEN WET to the Philippines, I Got to Connect with My Hometown and All of the People there. WHEN WE go to korea. …… Each person person has a connection to anyWhere we’re going to Touch in the World, and I THINK THAT CREATES A SPECIAL BOND BETWEEN US AND The FANS, WHICH MACES IT EVEN MOT FUN: I Think That’s Something that’s So Beautify. That’s Literaly the whol point of this.

We wanted to make a group that was so passionate about music, and at the Same Time, You Get To See Yourself in Us in the Group. I Not Just About That, It’s Also About How We Connect With The Fans. I Think that’s the best part about it, and that’s WHY We Want to Touch Different Areas of the World Throughout Our Career. We Want to Promote Everywhere, and We’re So Grateful To Have Promotted in So Many Places Already. I Literally Just Saw… Do You Know That Trend On Tiktok That’s Like, “Dun, Dun, Dun, Dun, Dun, Dun?” I See People [saying] Katseye come to Europe. Katseye come to… i Literally saw that, it was just on my ‘for you’ page. People are like, come here, come here. Who are you not coming here?

Lara And we will.

Sophia We will, trust me. We will, we have to. Manon is from Europe. We have to go, and we will. I THINK THAT’S SOMETING THAT MAKES US REALLY Excited For A Lot of Things.

You’ve spent so much time together and have been work so close -beed. How was the Last Year Been for You in Terms of Building Teamwork with One Another and Finding Your Groove as the Six of You?

Daniela I DEFINITELY THAT WE HAVE GOTTEN MUCH, MUCH, MUCH CLOSER THRUGHOUT The YEAR. The Years Actual. We Live with Each Other, SO we’ve learned a Lot About Each Other and How to Communicate and Just Work with Each Other. We’re all so, SO Different. But we’re sisters and we love each of. We’ll Bicker here and there, but we figure it out of because we know that we have to because we’re one team. WHETHER IS WORK-RELATED OR NOT WORK-RELATED, WE ALWAYS FIGURE THINGS OUTS AND ALWAYS SUPER HONEST AND OPEN WITH EACH Other Because We Love Each Other. But I Think Our Dynamic Is Super, Super Strong, and It Just Keeps Getting Stronger Throughout the Years. We Keep Finding Outs About Each Other.

Sophia To add to that too, one of the biggest [pieces of] Advice that we get from almost all artists that have been in groups is communication. As Simple As It Is, It Actual is a Complex Thing. It’s Something We Are Are Constantly Trying to Figure Out. We Figured Out How to Communicate with Each Other, But We’re Also Constantly Trying to Find Better Ways to Communicate. That’s Our Main Goal. IT’s The Perfect Solution to Anything. Every Single Time We’re Like, Uh, You Know What? Let’s Just Not Acknowledge [it]Sweep It Under the Rug. We’re Always Going to Encouroage Each Other to Communicate Because We Always Feel So Much Better After that. I THINK THAT REALLY IS The BEST ADVICE, AND THE BEST THING THAT YOU CAN DO FOR A Team, Any Team.

Lara I Feel Like It’s Having A Built-in Community. I Feel Like A Lot of People Are Not Lucky Enough to have that and a lot of people search for that and long for it. Like A Friend Group or Some Sort of Community and Team AROUND THEM THAT MAKES THEM FEEL SAFE, AND WE JEST Kind of Automatical Have that. I Think We Got Really Lucky That We Genuinely Vibe With Each Other, and We’re Actual Friends and Each Other. I’ve also noticed recently, every little Thing that happles in my life outtside of katseye, [in my] Personal Life, These Girls Are The FIRST PEOPLE I HAVE TO Tell. I’m always blooming up the group chat [sharing] Just Every Little Thing That Happy, Every Detail. They’re the people that have to KNOW AND TRULY My BESTESTEST FRIENers. This Year We’ve Really, Really Developed That.

How do you find time for self-car amidst Busy scredules? What does that look like for you?

Megan Durying Our Personal Time, or at Least for Me Personally, I love surrounding myself with people that bring me up and bring positivity Into My Life. I Always Surround Myself with Friends and Even US, As Each Other. We All Hang Out and Have Nothing to Do with Work, Just Fun. Or if we have personal time and we’ve just worked so Much, Long Hours, I TRY to Sleep as Much as i can. I do a face mask or take a long shower and just take the day for myseld. I Feel Like Those Are The Best Days, and then the Next Day and Feel So Rejuvenated and Fresh and Have Energy.

Yoonchae WHEN WE HAVE OFF DAY, I TURN EVERY LIGHT OFF, [pull the] Curtains Closed and Just Sleep in the Dark.

Sophia She hibernates. (Laughs).

Yoonchae I Wake up Really Late, Eat Really Good Food and Watch Netflix Shows. That’s perfect.

Do you guys find it hard to Turnn work off whohn you’re with one Another or SPEENDING TIME IN NON-Work Hours?

All YES!

Lara IT Feels Impossible SomeTimes.

Sophia IT’s Actual Impossible. I Think with this job that we have, it’s Literaly Our Lifestyle. I THINK THAT JUST EXPLAINS IT. I a job that you can’t just come home and just be able to turn off. This is actualally our life and every single part of this is related to what we do. Literally in My DownTime, What Yoonchae Said, We Love To Be In Bed and Watch Shows, But At The Same Time I’M Talking to Fans on Weverse. IT’s Just A Lifestyle.

Megan Or even who we go out, i can’t just go out looking ugly. (Laughs). I Want to Be Cute … a Lot of the Times We Get Recognized, and I Want to Be Cute for The Pictures. (Laughs). IT ACTUALLY TAKES TIME.

There’s Definitely a Level of Anonymity You Lose Where You’re in the Public Eye. Have you found that hard to adjust to?

Manon Adjusting to Fame Has Definitely Had Its Challenges. As a black woman, I do feel like i’m held to a Different Standard at Times, Like There’s this Pressure to be perfect or to carry More fine my Own Story. On Top of that, I’M Still Learning How Much of My Life I Want to Keep Private and Howch I’M Comfortable Sharing with The World, Wich Has Been A Tricky Balance To Figure Out. But Even with All of that, The Love and Receive Makes It So Werth It. WHEN FANS Come Up to Me in Public and Say The Kindest Things… It Really Hits Me. I have so Much Deep Love for the People Who Support Me and the Girls. They Don’t Even Realize How’s They Give Me Back.

How do you want the world to see Katseye?

Lara Iconic and Legendary. But WHEN I SAY THAT, I DON’T MEAN TO BE VAGUE. I Feel Like We Just Want People To See US As A Group That Has A Very, Very Strong Impact and [who] ACTUALLY MADE WAWES WITHIN POP CULTURE, MUSIC, FASHION, Everything. We Want To Be The One. The One.

Sophia She Literally Said the Word What Came to My Head: Impact. I THINK THAT’S WHAT WANT TO DO. We Really Want To Make A Mark.