Russell Dean Stone: Have your parents changed their mind about you making music professionally now that things are going so great?
Oh Hyuk: Yes, they totally support me now.

RDS: Were you surprised at the success of Hyukoh?
OH: I knew it would happen. I had a thing in my mind that one day it would be successful but I never expected it to be so soon.

RDS: Did the speed of your success put a lot of pressure on you? Was it a big lifestyle adjustment to go from being anonymous to a nationally famous band almost overnight?
OH: There was a lot of pressure. The people that listen to our music changed from this particular, specific audience to unspecific masses. I needed to process and try to understand and accept that fact in my mind. My lifestyle became more simple, a little bit more boring perhaps. I cannot go to places with lots of people freely like I used to and things that were so ordinary before aren’t ordinary anymore. However, I was never much of a fan for crowded places to begin with and I do like to focus on only a few things, so it isn’t too inconvenient for me.

RDS: What has success changed?
OH: Musically, it hasn’t changed anything. Back in the day there would be limitations, especially when making music, but now, since we have that budget or that money, we get to explore more options. We get to do what we want to now.

RDS: What’s it like having such a fierce fanbase?
OH: It feels great to have fans. We’re in an almost symbiotic relationship, I give them the best performance or the best music I can do in the moment and the fans love us back and they basically make it possible for us to do the music.

RDS: Why did you gravitate to playing the style of music that you do?
OH: Of course there would be some inspirations I got or influences I got from the music I listened to growing up. It’s not so much that I chose a certain style of music or a certain path of music that I do, it’s more like I wanted to talk about my story and I wrote something about what I feel like or wanted to say and it just naturally came out like that. The music style that we do comes naturally.

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