Please welcome to the stream, Josh,
Pablo, Stell, Ken and
Justin, SB19.
You've all really had an interesting
journey to get where you are
currently, and I'm
wondering where it all started and
what are your beginning memories
for each of you with music?
If I'm not mistaken.
When I was a kid about
9 years old or 10,
my parents and my grandparents used
to oh, they always
pushed me to sing
in our home because we have this
family karaoke in our
house. And they always pushed
me to... Can you sing the song for
us? When we have family
events, birthdays, or...
Can you sing a song for us?
No, it's too early,
right?
It's never too early, Stell.
Never too early to hear from you.
Oh really?
I'm not really sure what's going to happen
if I focus full time on music.
We train for 3 years.
We have allowances, but it's not
enough to, you know, to
eat three times a day.
Sometimes we would just sleep
in our studio so that
we wouldn't waste the money
for transportation.
It was really, really hard.
And people around me tell me
that you should stop now
because it's already been 3 years
and nothing has been happening in
your career. All of us were about
to, like, really give up that
time, but Go Up happened.
That's our second single.
That's when we blew up and
people started to recognize our
group. And I'm really, really,
really thankful to these guys
and to myself that I didn't give
up. I'm just really, really
grateful, blessed and thankful to
all the people who supported us from
the very beginning.
In 2018 you also released
Tilaluah before
Go Up. And what was that time
period like? You said you were
really trying to
make your music and trying to take
one last kind of shot at making
music.
I risked my life just to
join this group and
that time we thought
like there's
going to be our last shot and then I
thought to myself, like,
what? What am I going to do after
this?
So I was really nervous.
And then one day
the dance practice was
discovered by someone and posted
it on Twitter. So I was really
shocked. Oh, my God, we've been
given one last chance to prove
ourselves.
Do you remember how you first met
and what your thoughts were on each
other when you first met?
I was the one who introduced them to
my company and told them, like,
I actually come to.
Your company,
yeah.
I ask their dreams, their visions
in life. So I've always
been curious about how people think
about life and how people think
about, you know, performing
and everything.
And then they answered me.
Actually, they got me like
they they really touched my
heart and, you know, my beliefs.
So I told myself I
think they're the right person to
audition for...
You know, the other
spot for our group.
We met Pablo in
the company after we auditioned
together with Stell.
And yeah, we
then afterward, that was history.
At first they they thought of
me as a weird person.
Until now.
But
I realized that he was just so
hard working.
When it comes to the dancing, he's
not really good at memorizing
the choreography.
So I often see
him dance
solo in front of the
in front of our studio.
So yeah.
I feel like that's how we created
that term.
The Zone.
Yeah. Because he's always in the
zone. He's always practicing, he's
always into the zone of this craft.
So yeah, basically
that's it.
What really inspires the
choreography of the music videos
and live performances for you guys?
Actually, honestly speaking,
I'm not a professional
choreographer.
I'm just, you know, creating
the craft or creating choreography
from what I from what I know
when I'm you know, I'm having
a hard time to think to create,
I can ask Ken, do you have any
idea and then Ken suddenly can
insert some of his choreography
and others will also
suggest. But sometimes
we have this clash
of ideas. Some of them might,
you know, punch someone in
the face.
Honestly, it's not sometimes
we like every day, every day
we argue of what's going
to happen with our
our piece or our project.
We have different tastes in
creativity. So that's why we
yeah, we fought with each other
sometimes.
But we always try to find a middle
ground so that everyone will be
satisfied with what we're going to
rehearse.
And I think we have really improved
a lot.
Our chemistry has improved so much.
You have had so many achievements
in the past few years, especially
a lot of firsts when it comes to
music from the Philippines or
Filipino music, especially
on Billboard.
I'm wondering what those
achievements mean to you and
kind of being one of the first
groups from the Philippines to
achieve something like that.
We're really thankful that a lot of
groups have been following us.
And like
they said, that we are one of the
inspirations and pushing
this industry.
And we're very glad that
we are one of the instruments that
have, that could
make these kinds of
opportunities possible.
Because one of our main goals is
really to promote
the culture of the Philippines, the
talents of the Filipinos
all over the world.
So, yeah, we're getting there slowly
and I think we're doing great.
I just want to add that
these achievement
gives pressure to us, but not...
It's a good pressure that pushes us
to strive harder to do better
because we're seeing a result
from our hard work.
So this
achievements pushes us
to to show more
for ourselves or for other people
and to do better.
So this is a segment we like to call
Dream Mixtape over here on Rolling
Stone on Twitch. And basically
what it's going to be is we like to
get a sense of what music you love
to listen to, all five of you.
So I'm going to give you guys
different props and you're just
going to give me the first song that
comes to your head based on that
prompt. We're just going to make a
playlist of all the songs that you
give us, and then we're going to
give them out to the chat to all the
fans watching.
A song that makes you want to
instantly dance
Go Crazy by Chris Brown.
Oh.
I don't know the title, but it
sounds like I feel
good.
Oh, James Brown,
Rock star by Post Malone.
Michael Jackson, Billie Jean.
Run away, baby.
A song that's in your head
constantly.
Goosebumps by Travis Scott.
I think the title of it is Chosen.
MCR! My chemical Romance.
Welcometo the Black Parade!
One Oliva song Happier.
Sunday Morning or Rolling in the Deep.
Oh, yes.
A song you think more people
need to know about.
One of Ed Sheeran's songs, Save
Myself.
We are the world.
Yes.
Oh yeah.
Fight Back by Neffex.
It's You by Sezairi.
I don't know that song.
Yeah, that's a good one.
Your go to karaoke song.
Oh I can say
the karaoke number like
0034831 Grenade by Bruno
Mars.
Oh yeah.
Whenever I go to karaoke I always
sing like a boy
band from the 90s.
Songs like Drowning Keep
Me Drowning.
Beautiful Scars by Maximilian.
OPM songs like Let
Me Be the One,
Make Out.
Locals.
We always sing Bohemian Rhapsody.
Oh, that's a great
one.
Close to you by The Carpenters.
I go for Breaking Free.
I wish I was the one who wrote
Baby by Justin Bieber
because...yeah.
We're going to move to I think the
last one we have. A song
you'd play for someone who's never
heard music before.
What's the first song you would play
for them?
SB19 songs of course.
No brainer.
Holy by Chance the Rapper.
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.
Oh, that's a classic.
Yeah.
Now, we're entering musicals.
I want to thank you for all your answers,
because we're just putting those in
a playlist right now and we're going
to shoot them out to your fans
during the stream.
Oh my God! Is that for real?
That's for real. Well, guys, I
wanted to thank you so much for
coming to the stream today.
I know we're running out of time,
but is there any final message
you have for your fans out there who
are watching today?
As we are talking right now
Pagsibol
EP has been released
and it's available on Spotify.
So you can stream now.
We've worked a lot
for this music.
And yeah, I'm
pretty sure that you'll enjoy it as
much as we did.
I had a great time with all of you.
Thank you so much for coming.
We'd have you back any time.
It's been such a pleasure.
Thank you so much!
Bye guys!