- We decided to call the album 'Heal'
because that was our main message
when we created The Rose together.
We believe that music is healing itself,
no matter if you're just listening to it,
writing it, or playing it.
We also believe that it's a universal language.
Just our main message of doing music is healing,
so that's why we decided to call it 'Heal,'
go back to our very first message for The Rose.
At the end of the day, it was what we felt
and we felt like we needed healing too.
And generally, people always,
no matter what time, they always have something to heal from.
So, we're just making a tool to heal with.
Hey, MTV News! We're The Rose
and these are our Top 5 things we've learned
about ourselves during our careers.
Something I learned about myself
is that I am lazy and that I want to be lazy.
And why?
Because my biggest hobby is sitting down
and doing nothing and not having any schedules.
So, I think that's where I find myself wanting to be lazy
and like being lazy.
That's what I've realized over the years.
Any working environment, if you're have a 9-to-5 job
or if you're working from home,
you just can't be lazy.
This life doesn't - It's not -
It doesn't make you able to be lazy, which is so sad.
Why can't we all just be lazy?
Like, I just wanna sit down and not have to worry
about what I have to do or think about it,
and just I could do it as I feel.
If I want to lay down for 10 hours, I could do that.
Recently, I actually slept for, like, 10 hours straight
for 2 days and it feels great.
Yeah.
- The one thing I learned - - Yeah.
- About myself.
Change the purpose.
- Purpose. - Yeah.
I mean, why I started music and why I'm doing music
because - [Laughs]
- To meet?
Because - [Laughs]
Because good looking and for some girls.
[Laughs]
- Yeah. [Laughs]
- Everybody starts music because, yeah.
- But now,
I want to give someone good -
Influence.
- Good influence.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
And then, good emotion and healing. Heal each other.
- Yeah. - Like that.
- The one thing I learned about myself
is gratifying small things
rather than searching for something big.
And, well, it's a really great quote every time,
but I never got to actually feel it or learn it.
But, over 5 years
and, like, when we were writing this album,
we learned a lot and yeah.
That's the one thing I learned.
We're getting older, we're getting old,
and - [Laughs]
I think definitely age helped me learn that.
- Maybe time helped.
- Time, yes. - Not age.
- OK. That's a way better way.
- We like being older. - No, no, yeah.
We love being old.
I mean - - Older.
- Yeah, we're aging and I like it.
You know how it's, it's getting better, you know?
OK, I don't wanna say it,
but, like, you know, cheese or milk or,
you know, every time you age.
- Like, wine too?
- Yeah, wine or something.
Kimchi. OK. [Laughs]
- One thing I learned about myself is I'm not perfect.
- Mm. - Yeah.
Especially these days.
- Mm.
I feel like if anyone's
[not] beside me,
like my parents, friends, my members,
and our partners, everyone,
I cannot do the music again.
[Laughs]
So, yeah, I realized that.
So, I'm not perfect.
I need people, I need good people.
So, yeah,
that's the one thing I learned.
- Ooh. [Laughs]
- The last thing we learned as a group throughout our career
is that each of us, individually,
we are the main characters of our own life.
However, in other people's lives,
that we are not the main characters.
And understanding that really puts into perspective
of how things shouldn't be so serious.
It can be serious within us, and that's OK,
but to other people,
it doesn't - We don't have to be everything.
And other people don't care as much,
and other people will forget whatever it is that they were,
they had - They were judging or whatever.
So, we just really decided
and want to enjoy our life
the way we want to, personally, because it doesn't matter
what other people are gonna think.
As long as we're not harming anyone, right?
That's what we've realized.
So, we are the main character of our own life,
but not yours. - Yes.
- We started with "Childhood"
because we felt like it was a great intro to the album.
It was a song that anybody could relate to.
We all have childhoods, good or bad. [Laughs]
And the early childhood traumas
are the longest one that carries within your life
and kind of shapes who you are.
And sonically, as well, it was very
in par with The Rose's sound
and what we wanted to present as, kind of, this new chapter.
For the idea of the "Childhood" music video,
we got pitches with the idea
of it being "We're all born naked."
We just wanted to present and show the idea
of how we're all born equal.
We're not born with clothes, we're not born, you know -
When we - Actually, when I wanted to do
that idea of being naked, not everybody agreed.
- Well, yeah.
It's unexpected to somebody, so.
- Yeah, yeah. - Maybe they wanted
to be careful. - To somebody.
[Laughs]
To somebody like Jaehyeong.
- Being careful is not a bad thing.
So, well. - Yeah, yeah.
- So, that's why we talked about it.
- Yeah.
- And he finally gave his mind, actually shooting
for, like, to that idea actually.
- Yeah. It was supposed to be more naked.
- Not very Age-19 content.
- Yeah, yeah.
It was supposed to be way more.
The first initial idea, right,
was supposed to be way more that.
[Laughs]
We had to make some compromises,
and I think I'm kind of glad we did.
[Laughs]