![]() Watched back to back, from their fresh-faced debut with “Adore U” to their latest, “Ready to Love”, it’s not the precision of their performances that’s changed – they’ve been renown for their immaculate synchronicity since day one – but the ease of their presence. M Countdown, a weekly South Korean TV music show, recently released a compilation of SEVENTEEN’s many appearances promoting their lead singles. “I think all of us, except Woozi, are really confident when it comes to confessing love to each other,” he finishes, grinning, leaving SEVENTEEN’s main songwriter speechless. ![]() Sometimes, once in a blue moon, when he says he loves us, it’s really emotional and moving.” Woozi, whose head perked up on hearing his name, laughs rather helplessly, but Hoshi isn’t quite done yet. “We say ‘I love you’ to each other in the group chat,” says Hoshi, “but I think Woozi is the only one who’s really reluctant to say he loves us. “In the beginning we fought and argued a lot but we got to know each other and accept and embrace our differences, and we learned that nothing’s wrong and nobody’s wrong, it’s just that everyone’s different.” The key to SEVENTEEN’s ongoing love and friendship, says Mingyu, is empathy and tolerance. No longer teenagers, the group’s leader and oldest member, S.Coups, turns 26 in August while the youngest, Dino, is now 22. Nothing is sacred in a relationship that’s seen everything from teenage squabbles to award-winning highs, but SEVENTEEN’s remarkable bond is inestimable and, indeed, not one to be trifled with. They roast each other mercilessly, high-five their punchlines, and hands will reach over to grab at shoulder blades and knees in an effort to both distract and reassure. ![]() This decade of shared history has created an easygoing, voluble dynamic, one that grows increasingly loud and funny, the longer you spend with them. Though they’ve been releasing records for six years (they celebrated the milestone on May 26), SEVENTEEN have been a team since 2013, with some members of the group going back as far as school. Not just for their constant sonic experiments but for their emotional intelligence and enviable camaraderie, which may or may not be the first thing you notice when sitting opposite them, but it will invariably be what lingers most after meeting S.Coups, Woozi, DK, Hoshi, Vernon, The8, Dino, Joshua, Jun, Seungkwan, Jeonghan, Wonwoo, and Mingyu. SEVENTEEN, with 13 members, intricate choreography formations, and a sound that pulls as much from brassy musical theatre as it does cinematic synthpop, have slowly but surely become one of K-pop’s most interesting groups.
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