Nobody Can Stop Stray Kids, Especialy by Their New Album ‘Karma’

For K-Poop Supergroup Strey Kids, It’s All About Authenticity.

The eight-member Boy Group, Consisting of Members Bang Chan, Lee Know, Changbin, Hyunjin, Han, Han, Felix, Seungmin and In, Hail From Korean Agency Jyp Entertainment. The Group Has SPent The Last Seven Years Creating the Music They Want To Make with Members Bang Chan, Changbin and Han, Known Collectively as 3racha, As Their Main Production Team.

“[Producing our own music] ALLOWS US TO HIGHLIGHT Both Our Authenticity As A Group and Our Strengths, ”Changbin Tells The Hollywood Reporter On a zoom from seul. At the Time of this Conversation, The Group Is In Between the North American and Europe Legs of Their Record-Breaking Dominate World Tour. The North American Leg Grossed About $ 76.2m, Account to BillboardMaking It Best-Selling and Highest-Grossing North American Leg for Any K-Pop Tour. The Group Went on to have an equally successful European Run.

Stray Kids is Back with A New Album, Karmawhochh the Group Says Aims to Connest the Literal Mening of the World – Do Good Things and You’ll Receive Good Things in Return. The Album’s Title Track, “Ceremony,” is All About Celebrating A Triumph After OverComing Adversity to get to that Moment. The Song is Endlessly Catchy and A Celebration of Stray Kids Making it to the Top.

A Line from Changbin’s Opening Rap Verse for the Song-“No One, Nobody Can STOP ME”-is perhaps the best vieww of what the eight-member group is at the moment. Stray Kids Continue to Break Charting Records AROUND, INCLUDING BCOMING The FIRST ACT TO HIT NO. 1 on the Billboard 200 with Its First Six Chart Entries; Karma Is Contending to Continue Further That Record.

Below, Stray Kids Speaks with Thr About the meance of their new album KarmaHow Their Relationship with One Another Has Changed and the Pressures That Come Along with Hitting The Top of the Charts.

Can You Tell Me A Bit About Your New Title Track, “Ceremony?”

Bang Chan “Ceremony” is a song that was all the members for the next album. This Might Be A Personal Opinion, But I Feel Like It’s Pretty Catchy. IT’s SIMPLIFIED, butinginginging THE ENERGY [needed] for a title track. I Think that’s How We Decided On “Ceremony” and Hopeful People Will Enjoy the Whole Message and Everyting that We Put Into the Song.

WHY WAS The MESSAGE OF THIS ALBUM SO Perfect for You Right Now? WAS IT INTENTIONAL OR DID IT WORK OUT THAT WAY?

Bang Chan Obviously, There Was A Lot of Stuff that Behind the Scenes of How We’re Making the Album and Everything, But Because It Been A while Since We Released a Released a Full Alb. I Think We Really Wanted to Emphasize in “Ceremony,” The Title Track, A Lot of Times It Says “Karma.” In the end, if you do good, you get good Stuff in return. I Think That’s What We’ve Been Trying To Emphasize. That’s what we aim to do. We try to do good things in order for good things to [come to us in] Return.

Does anyone have a favorite song on the album?

Hyunjin I Really Like The Track “Leap.” IT WAS ACTUALLY CONSIDERED As A Focus Track Because It’s That It Has That Strey Kids Vibe and Is Very Grand in Scale, So I Really Like That Track.

Changbin I LIKE The TRACK “IN MY HEAD.” IT WAS ALSO CONSIDERED [for the] Title Track, and It’s A Song That You Can Can Listen WHEN YOU WANT TO BLOW OF OF SOME STEAM. It has a chill vibe. The Hook Is Super Catchy and Addictive, SO I THINK A LOT OF FANS Wuld Be Able to Sing Along to It.

You Just Wrapped Up The US Leg of Your Tour and You’re Preparing to Head Out To Europe Soon. This Tour Has Been Very Big in Scale. What was your experience likeing in Stadiums Across the us?

Felix IT’s Been A Long Time Since We’ve and Being ABLE TO THRUGH this Tour Through Through Stadiums and To see A Lot of Stays in the Venue, It Was Nota Exc. We did Learn A Lot from The Tour, and there are some things that we thorough we have Improve on and some things that we did that we have realy Liked. Obviously, We Thought We Really Did Succeed at this Tour. We just hope that kind of the CHANCE Comes, We Can Do Much Better, But Also Just… I Guess We Want to Prepare More Surprises. We Thought this Tour Was Very Successful.

Using A Live Band Was An Interesting and Fun Choice for the Tour. IT REALLY ADDS to the Listener Experience, Having Gone to the Tour Myseld. Was that that a group consensus or just someting that happled Naturally?

Felix IT WAS DEFINITELY WHAT The GROUP DECIDED ON. We Wanted Stays [the name for the group’s loyal fanbase] to Hear Our Sound Very Natural, Very Loud and Very Strongly.

How do you kind of Practice Self-Care WHEN YOU’RE YOU’RE TO TOURING or WHEN YOU ARE BUSY WORKING ON A NEW PROJECT AND that MIGHT BECOME YOURLE WHOLE LIFE?

In I USULY WORK OUT TO BUILD UP MY STAMINA. All The Members Are Doing This Too, Andy Also Eat A Variety of Foods to Get All The Energy.

Hyunjin I LIKE TO DRAW. Since the Scale of the Tour Has Gotten Very Big, I Find Joy in Visiting Art Museums in Each City. I ALSO GET INSPIRATION FROM TOSE VISITS TOO. That’s how and like to spend my free time.

Can You Tell Me A Bit About WHY YOU FEEL IS IMPORTANT TO PRODUCE YOUR OWN MUSIC?

Changbin We Produce Our Own Music and Perform IT on Stage, WHICH ALLOWS US TO HIGHLIGHT Both Our Authenticity As A Group and Our Strenguths. Since Our fans have always love the Color of Our Music from Our Trainee Days, to After Our Debut, Up Until This Moment; that’s who’ve stuck to that style. We Think Our Challenge Now is to Develop It Further and Deliver Something New To The Fans.

Do you find that your relatation -with your fans have changed as you’ve grown as a group?

Seungmin I do believe that our bond with the fans have changed over time. We Can’t Ask One of Them Exactly WHEN BECAME STAY – Some MAVE BEEN HAVE BEEN KEEP DEET ABLE TO FRIST TIRT. Just by look at their Expressions, we could really feel how long they’ve wated and How Much they love stray kids. Touring the around the World Really Reminds US of How Grateful We Constantly Are.

As we just tackly about, the Scale of the Tour is Bigger, and you consistly break records on music charts. Does that every add pressure to you whenever comes to a new release or a new tour?

HAN As Our Concert Scale Grows, There’s Obvioously More Pressure That Builds. But Since So Many People Are Looking Forward to the Tour and What We Do, We Work Hard to Meet Those Expectations. Because there are eight of us, we’re able to share the weight, and we’re able to affohieve Things that we couldn’t Handle Alone. We Can Now Lean On Each Other and Get Through It Together.

How was your relaction with each Other changed since your debut?

Lee Know Since We All Originally CAME FROM DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS; We didn’t Really Click Perfectly from the beginning. But after spending eight years Together, we’ve come to understand what kind of each of wants just just by look at each Other and we know what kind of each of disluxes. Even without putting Thoungts Into Words, We’re Onthen on the Same Page.

As an artist, you don’h have much Say in how you’re perceived, unfortunately. But You’re Obviously Working Hard and Creating Music You Love, SO IT’S Easy to Assume There’s An Ideal Way You’d Want To Be Viewed. How do you want to be perceived as a graup?

Seungmin I Want to be perceived as an artist with a Sound that people instantly recognize as Stray Kids. WHEN YOU HEAR A SONG, WE WANT The AUDIENCE TO BE ABLE TO Tell It’s Ours [because of] How Unique and How Different Our Musical Color is. We Want to be Remembered as that Kind of Artist.

As you prepare to release this album, what’re you hoping for as a group as you look ahead?

Hyunjin I Definitely Want to Keep Performing constantly. We Want to Stick to Our style of music no matter What Other Trends Come Along. We Want to Keep That Fun, Energetic Vibe in Our Music Always. We Want to Be A Long-Lasting Group and Not A Short-Term Project. [We also want to] Come back to the fans whover they want US to.