[TRANS] 120701 EXO-M @ Pop Magazine (Part 2)

Time to know about EXO-M (2)
Q. The SMP performance that left the deepest impression?Chen: H.O.T “I Yah”
Kris: Super Junior “Don’t Don”
Lay: Super Junior “Don’t Don”
Xiumin: DBSK “Rising Sun”
Lu Han: H.O.T “I Yah”
Tao:  DBSK “O-Jung Ban Hap”
Q. Your favourite song within this mini album?
Chen: Machine
Kris: What is Love
Lay: Two Moons
Xiumin: MAMA
Lu Han: Angel (Into Your World)
Tao: History
Q. Your best song when singing karaoke?
Members: (regretful face) We haven’t been to karaoke for a long long time.
Da Zui: (not giving up) Then the last time you went do you remember what song did you sang?
Kris: We haven’t had the chance to go karaoke together. If we can go, I really want to sing all the songs I can again.

Q. When was the last time you’ve cried? Why?
Chen: For the recent two years, I haven’t had any memories of crying.
Kris: Three years ago, seeing the years of practicing and hard work, I really missed home, and I just cried when I called them.
Lay: During my birthday last year, everyone was here, it was after going to Korea
Xiumin: I haven’t cried in a long time so I really can’t remember.
Lu Han: During the Beijing showcase, when all of us was on stage, I almost cried.
Tao: On the 2nd May this year in Korea, when everyone held a birthday party for me in the company. Because all the twelve members were present, I felt exceptionally happy then so I cried.
Q. The dishes you are good at?
Chen: Kimchi fried rice.
Kris: Crab roe fried egg, enoki mushroom & sausage fried egg, black bean noodles mixed with raw egg is also not bad. I prefer to try new dishes and methods of eating.
Lay: I’m good at home-cooked dishes, as long as you give me basic ingredients, I’d be able to whip up something.
Lu Han: I like Lay’s ham & sausage fried rice.
Tao: I like Lay-ge’s cucumber fried egg. Even with kimchi, he’d be able to whip up something new for us.
Xiumin: Actually the members all like the spaghetti, I’m actually good at it.
Lu Han & Lay: (unexpectedly+looking forward to it) oh! (Xiu Min confidently nodded showing “I really can, you guys wait and see~”)
Lu Han: Actually I can only boil ramen (pot noodles), at most at the level of adding an egg. (rubbing hands)
Tao: I can still make egg fried rice. Making it myself, without any one else’s help.
Da Zui: To conclude as long as you have Lay then you guys won’t starve.
Members: Right!
Q. The recent Chinese song on repeat?
Chen: Recently I’ve listened to Xiao Jingteng senior’s album, and Show Luo senior’s  (爱不单行 (Love does not travel alone))
Kris: MAMA
Lay: MAMA
Xiumin: 当你孤单你会想起谁 (When you’re lonely, who will you think of?)
Lu Han: 你的世界 (Your World/Angel) in our album.
Tao: MAMA

A grand heavenly beauty, he has the responsibility, the degrees of advancing and retreating, a good brain, a clear line of thought. Appropriate styles of conversation, and a very fast reaction. With a mid-low voice, once he releases his voice a group becomes drunk.
The pains of growing upKris: “The trainee period was very long, especially perhaps to me it was even longer (2007-2012). If I say that there weren’t times when I was delirius, I’d be lying, there’d be often periods of time when I felt useless, you can say that overcoming the negative thoughts were the most difficult, because they kept reappearing at different times.”
Leader
During the entire process of the shoot, apart from the manager, Kris and Da Zui’s photographer conversed a lot. He was the first to change into this clothes and touch up on his make up, the first to stand in front of the lenses to verify everyone’s best shooting angle; never hesitating to point out the problems where problems arise; the segments that involve the other members are also taken care of well. Kris gives everyone the stability of a professional artist, which is rather rare as a rookie. When standing on this seat as a ‘leader’, he is the most suitable.
Rapper
Kris: “The content of the rapping segments require the listeners’ resonance, and every language’s way of expression and the direction of feelings expression is different. I’m regretful that I didn’t have many chances to interact with Chinese rap previously. I listened to more English rap. When I was a trainee in Korea, I interacted more with the Korean style of rapping, but in the future I’ll have to trouble everyone to recommend me good songs, I will continue to work hard.”
Lover
To a normal person, because of his face Kris is already too proper, and it causes people to be unable to look at him directly. Scorpio men’s control of desire and manipulation of powers are also proportional, so the person is the invading style and leading style. His charisma causes normal people to be unable to withstand it. When he’s not smiling, he’s “a walking weapon of mass destruction”, the atmosphere is serious (when he smiles he brings out a laser), his long body causes the wind to sway along when he walks; Wherever he walks to, he’ll be the main focus of everyones’ eyes. However, when he gets happy while playing with the other members, he’ll also be smiling until you can’t see his eyes, just like a child.

This lord is all-rounded, has a babyface, has exquisite features and he gives off a “cute virus”. He’s the reliable older brother that “you’ll have me no matter what”, and you definitely need him in this group.
Pains of growing up
“When being a trainee, the toughness and body’s self-adaptability has a huge relationship, however, no matter how tough or happy it was, it was a pushing force, I maintained the strength to work hard of always looking ahead.”
PresenceEvery time, Xiumin hears a Chinese phrase that he doesn’t understand, you’d have to repeat it loudly. “Bling bling”ly looking at the person who spoke, he requests for the correct pronunciation. Xiumin’s the oldest member in EXO-M, but he has the face of a cute maknae, his nickname “bao zi (steamed bun)” is deserving. When he musters up the bao zi face he kills (t/n: kills as in to defeat, to strike down (females)) a lot, when he stupidly winks he kills even more. Then, when Xiumin doesn’t speak nor smile, he gives off stability, and when he steadily pats the members’ shoulder to comfort them, he is also very reliable. be it singing or dancing, Xiumin, who has very high standards for both of them, even when the twelve of them are on stage, he still holds an undeniable sense of presence.
All-roundedness“I’m really honoured that everyone gives us recognition and support on the front. Be it singing or dancing, I really like them both, in the future, together with the members, I will work even harder in order to present a more handsome stage to everyone.”
Handsomeness
Xiumin didn’t continue to protectively walk down the road of “cute” with his “baozi” nickname. If you’re talking about the so-called “idol burden”, there is a segment that is called “controlling of expressings”, then for Xiumin, this segment is completely needs no hesitation. Even when “screaming” the high notes, his expression is overly fierce, yet has no feelings of euphemism. At the same time, even though he meets situations where it’d make him look bad, he can release the tension within only a second, Xiumin’s vitality overflows, a modest attitude, actually, he’s someone who advances and retreats with a degree, he’s a handsome kid who has the appearance of an adult.

This lord is sensitive, his appearance is mature, and his inner heart is child-like; Innocent and romantic, he loves to act cute; occasionally stubborn, he deserves the title to be the youngest.

The Pain of Growth

I spent even more time trying to catch up with everybody’s steps. Because I was born by practicing Kungfu, my bones needed to be coordinated; In order for my body to soften, I did a huge amount of yoga practice. Because I’m tall, when I finished started yoga, that period was simply unbearable to look back upon, it was too painful… Now that I think about it now, it hurts.”

Kongfu

The first time you see the group EXO-M, you will first notice Kris and Tao because of their tall heights. Tao with the tall height has a history of 11 years of Wushu practice, his kongfu skills are fantastic. In EXO’s MVs and dance stages to date, Tao’s swordsmanship and stick technique was able to be fully demonstrated. People involved in the martial arts pay particular attention to the word “diligence”, the young aged Tao is a child who continuously and diligently practices, for even when he injured his back, he continued to practice dancing.

Panda

The persisting dark eye circles gave Tao the nickname “panda”, although he insists they are just his wo tan. His “kongfu panda” designation, even though there’s a difference in figure, he doesn’t lose out in likeability. The care Tao has for all of his brothers is dependable. In this 12 member group, this type of dependence received everybody’s contentment, hence, the honourable situation of him crying because he was touched by his brothers will always be memorable.

The Youngest

Tao has a mature appearance, giving people a cold first impression, completely unlike the youngest, but the second he opens his mouth, this impression shatters.  With a soft voice, polite and shy, curious towards things that he doesn’t know, what overflows is innocent stubbornness. He managed to maintain his innocent and softness in spite of the tough practice life, and it has become a precious trait today. We hope that he’d be able to maintain his innocence softness, because it’s extremely rare, if he was a bit more confident, then it’d be even better.

This lord is shy and pure, silent as water; his voice is unique and his charisma is great; His internal strength is thick, a small man show; only the tip of the iceberg has been revealed, awaiting for it to be shown.

The Pain of Growth

During the preparation for our debut, comparing myself to the effort put out by the other members, I was always afraid I was not good enough. Therefore, I pushed myself to work even harder.

The Best in the Group

Although it hasn’t been long since debut, because of Chen’s exquisite character, he became acknowledged by the entire group as the member best at fanservice, and he was also recognized by the group as the member who could find the camera lens most easily. However, Chen says that this is all due to instincts and his sensitivity.

Main Vocal

Chen with the unexpected winning voice thinks that Chinese is very difficult, the hardest being the articulation, every time he comes across the “Z, C, S” type of pronunciations in the song lyrics, he will subconsciously uses more effort,  however, the more thought he puts into it, the easier it is for him to make a mistake, so he to this day, he is attempting to correct his pronunciation.  The Chinese song he is currently learning is Show Luo senior’s <Love Does Not Travel Alone>, because of it’s a slow love song with a touching melody, which Chen really likes.  In addition, Chen performed a collaboration stage with seniors Ryeowook and Eunhyuk, performing <Love Does Not Travel Alone> at SM family tour in Taipei, which received cheers from the entire audience.

The Method of Speech

When this lord smiles, the corner of his eyes will become like scissors and his laugh lines become huge, his eye lines also show off a unique impact; As a virgo whose personality is small anal-retentive chattering, “Chen’s technique with words is amazing” is not a groundless rumor. His MC skills at Tao’s birthday party is only the tip of the iceberg. In situations where each group member’s special characteristics are particularly outstanding, Chen’s sense of skill explodes under pressure, as if it were instinctive. Bystanders will always be able to see the situation even more thoroughly. Under the peaceful Chen is hidden the power of observation and control, the meaning in which fans must not miss.

(Credit: belong2uexo’s weibo / Trans by: xuan + hyerin @exom-trans)

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