Are Made in Korea's 'DEAR ALICE' The Next Big Boyband?

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00:00I'm Jodie, by the way. Nice to meet you.

00:02I love your accent, Jodie.

00:03Can I just say I love your glasses?

00:05They're very cool.

00:06My favourite colour, actually.

00:07See, I can see why you're all in the band now.

00:09I'm getting the charm of it.

00:10Coordination!

00:12I'm loving it, I'm loving it.

00:13Right, I want to do that thing that you just said earlier,

00:15where we go round and you say your name and introduce yourselves,

00:18tell us a bit about yourself.

00:19I feel like Simon Cowell right now on The X Factor.

00:21Hello, my name is Ollie, I'm 20 years old and I'm from Sunderland.

00:25I'm Dexter, I'm 22 and I'm from London.

00:28I'm James, I'm 23 and I'm from Huddersfield.

00:31Hiya, I'm Blaze, I'm 19 and I'm from London.

00:34I'm Rhys, I'm 20 and I'm from Wiltshire.

00:37And together we are...

00:38D-Rioters!

00:41I felt like that was just had to happen.

00:43Listen, this has been such a wild morning.

00:45I can't imagine how it's been for you guys.

00:47I mean, you've been thrown into this experience,

00:49people are now watching the experience back.

00:52It's a bit mad, I think, yeah.

00:54I think seeing it on the big screen definitely changed my perspective a little bit.

00:57I was like, wow, what is that?

00:59It's definitely wild to have our journey being documented

01:03and watching it back, it's so surreal.

01:06It's like replaying memories in your head.

01:08It's really strange, but it's super cool.

01:10Today's been a day that I think we've all been counting down the days for.

01:13For sure.

01:14It's feeling very surreal.

01:16We're feeling incredibly grateful and incredibly happy to be here

01:19because it's just like, it's what we've been waiting for.

01:22We're so excited for this.

01:24Is it starting to feel real now as well?

01:27A little bit.

01:28It's got a little bit more real.

01:30I think there's still a bit of a dream state going on

01:33and we're a bit of an out-of-body experience.

01:35A little bit unreal, actually, I would say.

01:37I'd say unreal is a good word.

01:39It's a good word, James.

01:40Well done, man.

01:41So what's this whole process been like?

01:43Because obviously you've auditioned for this band,

01:45you've auditioned for this show,

01:47and then the next minute you're on a flight to Korea.

01:49The training was intense, right?

01:52I mean, have you reflected on it yet?

01:54Have you had time to think about it?

01:56Yeah.

01:57The training was intense, but I have to say,

01:59I think all throughout the process we've always had a good time

02:01and had a lot of fun.

02:03And being there with these five, we're just always,

02:06no matter what we're doing, we're always having a good time,

02:08always smiling.

02:09I don't think there was a day that one of these lot didn't make me laugh.

02:12It was constant, constant laugh, and it was hilarious.

02:16But of course within that we worked hard

02:19and we put in a lot of work because we wanted to get a lot out.

02:22So that's why it may seem intense.

02:24So what would you say to people that don't really know about K-pop?

02:27What would you say to them in terms of tuning into this?

02:30I would say you've just got to see how many people love it already.

02:35Everyone loves it.

02:36And it's on a rise still.

02:38Pardon the pun.

02:42But yeah, it's huge.

02:44It's absolutely massive and it's reaching every scale.

02:47It's breaking all the records.

02:49And this is a nice little fusion between Britain and SM Entertainment in Korea.

02:54So if that takes your fancy, then tune in.

02:58And the most important question,

02:59are we looking at the next big boy band here?

03:02Fingers crossed.

03:03Fingers crossed.

03:04I think that's for you guys to decide.

03:06We're going to try.

03:07We're going to try.

03:08We're going to do our best.

03:09Obviously you were over there learning the ways of K-pop,

03:11but is that what you're wanting to do sound-wise?

03:14Can you tell me what the sound is going to be?

03:17It's going to be a sound that we all love,

03:19and we're going to bring that to, hopefully, fans' ears,

03:24and they're going to love it too.

03:26Something we're still working on and we're figuring out,

03:29because finding us as a band, really.

03:31We all have very individual styles and likes, dislikes,

03:35when it comes to music even.

03:37So I think it's great because we've got so many different genres.

03:41We've got K-pop as well as a British boy band.

03:44It's amazing.

03:45We've got so many different things which are going to influence us.

03:47So we'll see, and it's going to be good.

03:50We're trying stuff out.

03:51We're not afraid to maybe try out the wrong thing,

03:54because that's what might lead to the right thing.

03:57Yeah.

03:58Although you went over and learned the K-pop training,

04:00it's not necessarily that that's going to be your sound.

04:02But how grateful are you to have went through that training?

04:05Because I don't think there's anything as intense as that here.

04:09We're so grateful.

04:11It's such an amazing experience.

04:13We are five lucky guys to have gotten this opportunity.

04:16Constantly pinching yourself every day.

04:19Yeah, definitely.

04:20What's it been like meeting fans?

04:22Because I know you were meeting some out there already.

04:24How's that experience?

04:25Why are you getting nervous?

04:27It feels strange.

04:29It doesn't feel like real life.

04:30It's crazy.

04:32We bumped into a few after we saw the amazing SM Town in Tokyo Dome,

04:37which just blew our minds, by the way.

04:39It was a very long concert, and it was very, very good.

04:43It was everything in one.

04:45It really set the standard, I think.

04:48Definitely.

04:49We could see what the K-pop standard is

04:51and really what we need to try to achieve.

04:53And we didn't fully know that until after the first assessment.

04:56But I think we do now, and we're going to give it a good shot.

05:00One thing I love to see is the welfare in this,

05:03because obviously in shows in the past, that's been missing.

05:06So how important was it having that check-in?

05:08Because what you were going through, I would have cried and walked out.

05:11I think our welfare team was just so incredible,

05:14and we're so very thankful.

05:16But like we said, we just had such a great time out there.

05:20It was such an amazing experience, honestly.

05:23We were very well looked after.

05:26The welfare team came not just from our actual welfare team,

05:29but it came from many other places as well,

05:31from the production crew to SM Entertainment

05:34to our actual management,

05:36and even just to the people you walk past in the street in Korea in Seoul.

05:39They brighten my day.

05:41I think there was one instance, for example,

05:43where me and Blaze were walking down the street,

05:45and a young lady came up to us and said,

05:47can I just say you're perfect?

05:49Oh, this was so cute.

05:51And she's not wrong.

05:53Aww!

05:55You stop it now. That's it.

05:59They're genuinely so lovely.

06:01The nicest thing someone's ever said to me in my life.

06:04I was shocked for a solid week.

06:07He was all giddy.

06:09I'm loving this bond.

06:11You feel like you've just become brothers in a way.

06:13We have to.

06:15We're like a family now.

06:17Like a unit.

06:19Have you figured out who the rebel is,

06:21who the Gary Barlow is?

06:23Who the Robbie is?

06:25That's a good question.

06:27Who's who's who?

06:29I think that's for everyone else to decide.

06:31I'm excited to see what people think.

06:33We're all very individual people.

06:35We all have our own characters.

06:37So then, last question, biggest question.

06:39What's next? What can we expect?

06:41What would you say to anyone that might want to tune in?

06:43Any potential fans?

06:45Dear Alove, I can't explain.

06:47We would love you to tune in,

06:49because our show's pretty decent,

06:51and our songs are good too.

06:53We're just five boys who love to have fun,

06:56and we're on this ride,

06:58so join us!

07:00If that's the case, then join us.

07:03Such eloquent speech.

07:05Eloquently spoken.

07:07Beautiful speech.

07:09Hiya.

07:11Mum.

07:13OK, well, just don't forget about me

07:15when you make it big time.

07:17Thank you so much, boys. Lovely to meet you all.

07:19Thank you.

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