As a senior artist, Girls’ Generation’s Taeyeon reveals she wants to be “like a friend” to her juniors

Taeyeonleader of Girls’ Generation, opened her heart about being a senior artist in the Korean music industry and revealed that she wants to be “like a friend” to her juniors in an interview with Harper’s Bazaar published last Monday, 17, and reverberated by the South Korean portal Soompi.

I don’t think age matters much,” argued the idol. “We are colleagues. As we are people doing the same kind of work there is no need for the elderly to be particularly difficult to approach and as long as there is respect for each other I think that is enough.”

Taeyeon He went on to explain how he wants to help new artists that emerge: “Of course, there can be a difference in the internal skills accumulated in a field, but I’m just someone with a little more experience. For my juniors, I want to be a colleague who is like a friend.”

please note that Taeyeon is part of the list of second-generation k-pop artists, that is, those who debuted between the first half of the 2000s and the end of the same decade, since she emerged leading Girls’ Generation in 2007 after the group was Formed by SM Entertainment.

With more than 15 years of career, Taeyeon debuted as a soloist in 2015, with the release of the mini-album “I”. In addition, the idol is part of the debut unit of Girls On Top, a project by SM Entertainment that promises to unite all the female idols of the company in several different formations.

Finally, it is worth noting that she is also a member of the Got the Beat unit as leader, a group that features female idols from four different generations of k-pop as a soloist. Good, hyoyeon by Girls’ Generation, wendy It is seulgi by Red Velvet, and Karina It is Winter from aespa.