Billie Discusses Collaborating With Megan Thee Stallion On KPOPPED

Apple TV+’s KPOPPED is a celebration of the style, and after performing with the legendary Patii LaBelle and Megan Thee Stallion on the sequence, iconic k-pop group Billie shared what their experiences had been like on the present. As viewers have gotten the prospect to see more from KPOPPED this season, it is grow to be clear that the enduring collaborations are one of the best a part of the sequence.

Whereas watching western artists perceive extra about k-pop as a style is attention-grabbing, seeing the east-meets-west mix of traditional songs flip into performances like no different is the lifeblood of KPOPPED to this point. Figuring out that artists like LaBelle are taking steps to repeatedly discover new artists to collaborate with is heartwarming, and the spirit of collaboration makes the present much more enjoyable.

After their time working with iconic western artists, Billie chatted with Display Rant about what their experiences on KPOPPED had been like.

Display Rant: How did you are feeling whenever you came upon the group could be performing alongside each Megan Thee Stallion and Patti LaBelle on KPOPPED?

Billie: We had been very honored once we bought the information that we bought to carry out with these wonderful artists. So we had been very honored to be a part of the present. And we had been simply so decided to make an awesome stage with them and carry out nicely alongside to them. So yeah, it was a really pleasing and but very honorable expertise on the identical time.

Billie & Megan Thee Stallion Collaborated On KPOPPED

Display Rant: It was such an attention-grabbing combine and it was so nice to see. How did you put together for the rap verses of Megan Thee Stallion’s “Savage“?

Billie: We undoubtedly needed to create one thing very completely different as a result of often she performs by herself as a solo artist. So as a result of we’re becoming a member of the stage along with her, we needed to be sure that it is a group efficiency with all of us featured. So we undoubtedly needed to attempt one thing new and completely different. So we appeared up quite a lot of references, together with her performances as a solo artist for the tune as nicely.

So we realized quite a bit about her power and the stage manners as nicely. So we needed to incorporate our personal power and the stage manners to create one thing very new along with her and much more highly effective stage. So we talked quite a bit amongst ourselves as nicely with the intention to create one thing very distinctive by collaborating on this Linux model of Savage.

Display Rant: What was an important factor about sharing the spirit of Okay-pop with U.S. artists and viewers?

Billie: In relation to Okay-pop, an important factor is to have the ability to really feel the identical feelings no matter language or tradition. So we paid quite a lot of consideration to that. Additionally, we labored onerous to incorporate Okay-pop’s distinctive storytelling, teamwork, and detailed efficiency and stage manners.

One of many issues we needed to concentrate on was to ship the sincerity and the power by way of our efficiency. As a result of we actually imagine any music and efficiency goes past the border of language and tradition throughout any legions all over the world. So we nonetheless needed to maintain that distinctive storytelling and the teamwork and really delicate and complicated efficiency manners that each one the Okay-pop artists are proving. So we nonetheless needed to maintain that, however on the identical time, we needed to hold our personal storytelling and the charms and the individuality to our levels as nicely.

Display Rant: What was it like working with Megan Thee Stallion? Simply typically past efficiency, in rehearsals, how did it really feel?

Billie: We had quite a lot of enjoyable working with Megan. She was excellent at listening to our tales once we talked concerning the stage and she or he was in a position to embrace our model and Megan’s model. We had quite a lot of enjoyable, even from the preparation stage, as a result of she listened to all of our concepts very overtly and really nicely so we actually appreciated that and we had been in a position to work collectively very nicely to include like every of our types harmoniously for the stage so and we simply had quite a lot of enjoyable you understand interacting along with her and making ready for the stage so total we create nice recollections along with her.

Display Rant: Talking of your model, in making ready for KPOPPED, how did you stability retaining your distinctive model and id whereas adapting to the present’s format of blending cultures and performances?

Billie: We needed to speak extra than simply sing and dance. The primary focus of the tune was storytelling so we did not simply present the stage, however reinterpreted it. So we actually needed to be sure that we’re telling the story by way of our stage that goes past simply the music and the dancing and the efficiency so we targeted closely on telling the storyline by way of our distinctive collaboration levels on this present and we additionally needed to be sure that we are able to interpret the prevailing songs in Billie’s very personal distinctive model so we additionally needed to include quite a lot of the power and the efficiency manners all through the entire collaboration course of.

Display Rant: Now that KPOPPED is out, has this expertise opened up new concepts or desires for future collaborations for you?

Billie: Yeah, undoubtedly. We gained quite a lot of confidence by becoming a member of the worldwide artists on a worldwide stage as nicely, so it actually motivated us to maneuver ahead. with collaborating with much more international artists sooner or later and rising the vary of or the musical spectrum of Billie sooner or later as nicely.

KPOPPED is obtainable to stream on Apple TV+.

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