![]() ![]() An Soyoung, head of the artist protocol team, who has been working with SEVENTEEN since before their debut, explained that the group had a history of experience with putting on performances since the beginning. Although WOOZI became a trainee in 2011, he said he “worked past midnight the first day I showed up at the label, and from the first day until the day just before our debut, I practiced like I was about to debut a month later.” The members gathered together in a room on the roof of their home, made a song using only a MacBook and choreographed a dance to accompany the song, experiences that allowed the group to debut with a self-produced album. As they planned out their own performances, the members were strengthening their teamwork and improving their skillsets. From theme parks to hospitals, they began to perform in more and more unique places on LIKE SEVENTEEN, a series of concerts that aired on SEVENTEEN TV each season. As they worked on their performance, they were hyperaware that they were one team working toward their debut, not a group of competitors, and the units came about as everyone looked for ways to contribute to the team effort. “Ever since we were trainees, we felt strongly that we were a team working together toward a performance, not facing each other as competitors,” WONWOO said, reflecting how SEVENTEEN’s unique three-unit structure-vocals, hip hop and performance-came about naturally in the process. It shows the fresh-faced young boys huddled together in teams in the honeydew melon-colored practice studio and drawing up their own plans for the performances, practicing the choreography as they go and putting on passionate shows on a small stage. “At the time there wasn’t really any way to get the word out about new artists who debuted at medium-sized agencies, let alone small ones,” he said, revealing that the purpose for making the show was “to get fans familiar with SEVENTEEN through the Internet before they debuted.” Performance was at the center of SEVENTEEN’s pre-debut broadcasts, which presented the members as trainees in a reality show format as they went through their training and various related activities. In a previous interview with ize, PLEDIS Entertainment president Han Sung Soo explained the reality of their situation. The world was first introduced to SEVENTEEN through SEVENTEEN TV, streamed live on Ustream from December 2012 for a total of five seasons spanning two years. I’ve got 12 pacesetters right next to me.” But I can keep going because there are others with me who are ready to keep going and run. ![]() “If it were just me, I might’ve gotten worn out and just stopped. SEVENTEEN’s leader, S.COUPS, says it was all made possible by the members sticking together. ![]() The group faced some backlash at first just because of their headcount but simultaneously proved both their success and their friendships when they all renewed their contracts ahead of time earlier in July. Now, seven years of being singers are behind them, having carved out a space for themselves as “self-producing idols” from the time they debuted with a song they handcrafted and as a group made of three smaller units and 13 members, and launched by a relatively small agency-hence the name SEVENTEEN. We only had each other to rely on.” That’s how SEUNGKWAN remembers May of 2015, when SEVENTEEN debuted. ![]() “There were so many members when we first debuted, so some people had a pessimistic outlook, saying, Can they really make it? We banded together because of that. ![]()
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