Trivia / TWICE

• Breakthrough Hit: "Like OOH-AHH" was a Sleeper Hit that crawled up to the top ten of the Korean digital chart despite some bumps in the road, but the song that really blew them up was "Cheer Up", their first of nine consecutive number ones in Korea. Their first original English single, "The Feels", was their first Hot 100 hit and their Western breakthrough.
• Creator Backlash:
  • The girls cringed while listening to their song, "I'm Gonna Be A Star", on Tei's Dreaming Radio.
    • Averted with Dahyun. She danced in her seat during most of the song, including mouthing her rap lines. But even she couldn't take the chorus.
  • Jeongyeon said that she hated doing the TT emoticon pose for "TT", because she was already a young adult at the time and found it childish.
    • Jeongyeon hates overly-cutesy stuff in general and often grimaces or pretends to throw up whenever Nayeon goes into "Cute (aegyo) Mode".
  • Sana's JYP audition where she covered SNSD's "Mr. Taxi". The other members tease her for this from time to time, much to her chagrin.
  • Jihyo revealed she does not like the Japanese version of "Like OOH-AHH", mostly because it was their very first Japanese song and she had no idea how to properly perform it. She then went on to say she really wishes Twice could rerecord it.
    • Later, she told Lee Mujin that she regretted "What Is Love?" but when asked to give details only discussed its very cute choreography, which even thinking about made her visibly cringe.
  • Jeongyeon seems to consider her Boyish Short Hair "Girl-Crush" days this, since that aesthetic is at odds with her personality. Recall she had to have her name legally changed as a child because other kids made fun of her for her original name sounding "too masculine". Speaking of, don't call her "Kyungwan".
• Creator's Favorite Episode: "Feel Special" is a favorite to the majority of the members due to it being one of the most personal songs to them and their True Companions bond. According to this interview, Dahyun's favorite song is "The Feels" and Jihyo's is "Dance the Night Away".
• Contractual Purity: Nayeon went on the record saying that the group was not allowed to date within the first three years of their debut. The ban was lifted on October 25th, 2018 and, as of this edit, two members have since been spotted dating (Momo and Jihyo).
• Dye Hard: This is a thing with K-pop stars in general, including every single member of Twice at some point, but probably best applies to Sana and Jeongyeon, who are rarely seen with their natural colors. Jeongyeon in particular is known for her forays into silver, pink, purple, and (at least two times) cotton-candy blue.
  • Up until 2020, Dahyun colored her hair a lot – like, she literally did every single color in the rainbow and every shade of blonde. Nayeon even joked that if Dahyun had a new hairstyle it meant a comeback was imminent. Since 2020, she keeps her hair its natural jet black, and doesn't seem to want to dye her hair again.
  • Nayeon herself rarely shows her natural black hair, preferring chestnut-like shades. Unfortunately for her, after she went full-blonde for the first time to promote POP!, some months later she was nearly in tears at how thin her hair had become in comparison to an older photo of her.
  • Chaeyoung went a little too hard on the bleaching. She said in an early-2022 video that she would need to stop dyeing her hair for at least a year because of the cumulative damage to her scalp. Fast forward to September, where she dyed her hair blonde yet again. As of 2021, she has a habit of wearing hair extensions, probably because at this point her hair is too damaged to grow really long on its own. In August 2023 she let her hair go black and managed to NOT bleach it for at least six months.
• Fan Community Nicknames: Their official fandom name is ONCE, because ONCE comes before TWICE. Or, as stated here:
  "A lot of fans liked 'Once,' 'Once and TWICE.' Once then TWICE. They seem to go together. If you love us even once, we'll repay you with TWICE our love. It's difficult to connect with people, and getting people to love is the most difficult of all. We'll work hard so that you can look at us once, and fall in love with us TWICE. Be with us until the end. We love you. <3."
  • Although they don't really call themselves this a lot nowadays, the Korean and international TWICE fans have alternative names called "Candy" and "Jelly" respectively.
• Funny Character, Boring Actor: Dahyun is noted to be this by the other members when not on screen or with the group. She tends to be more restrained, serious, and reserved in her day to day life, and mostly plays up the fun persona for the fans, her groupmates, or for the media. She also maintains a strict boundary between herself and her fans, to the point where nobody knows much about her personal life or even basic interests other than the few things she's allowed herself or her groupmates to reveal.
• Milestone Celebration: Celebrate released on July 27, 2022, to commemorate fifth debut anniversary in Japan (#TWICE was released on June 28, 2017). It also almost coincides with TWICE's contract renewal on July 12, which makes the release Heartwarming in Hindsight.
• Newbie Boom: The New '20s saw them starting to make appearances on American TV, starting (appropriately enough) with The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and releasing English versions of their 2020 Korean singles. This set the stage for their "official" English debut with "The Feels". This, combined with a full album being released shortly after, gained them enough new fans to put them on a successful US tour at the start of the following year, complete with a pair of "encore" shows at a stadium in Los Angeles.
• Prop Recycling: For most Twice music videos this functions more like a Call-Back than as any sort of cost cutting normally associated with the trope:
  • Nayeon's cordless landline phone from "Knock Knock" is clearly the same one from her Scream homage in "Cheer Up".
  • One of the Dahyun clones in "Signal" is holding up the paper fan she previously had as part of her period costume in "Cheer Up".
  • The bus stop shelter behind Nayeon in "Fanfare" has a series of posters that were first seen in the video for the group's cover of "I Want You Back".
  • Several of the tools, devices, and push carts seen on set in the video for "Talk That Talk" are reused (with some updated colors) from "Scientist".
• Throw It In!: Twice recorded an alternate music video of "I Want You Back" with the cast of Sensei Kunshu. Ryoma Takeuchi (who plays the main character) didn't really know what his ending pose should be, so Sana suggested on the spot that he should do finger guns and shoot at the camera. He did it perfectly on one take and it ended up on the final version of the video.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Sana wanted to debut with J-pop group E-Girls. In fact, she actually trained with EXPG in Osaka for 2 years before becoming a trainee at JYP, but she wasn't chosen for the final lineup. She is still on good terms with the members though, often covering their songs in TV appearances, and Kaede of E-girls even did Sana's "Sha Sha Sha" in one of their videos.
  • Before TWICE, JYP intended to debut a six-member Girl Group tentatively called 6MIX. The group went through many lineups before being scrapped entirely, but you can see TWICE taking shape there. Jihyo, Nayeon, and Jeongyeon were there from the very first lineup, Sana joined slightly later to substitute a member who left. The original lineup also included SIXTEEN's finalist Minyoung, and the rapper for Sunmi's "Full Moon", Lena (who, according to former JYP trainee Mone, had to leave because she "did something bad").
    • In Twice's Youtube documentary, Seize The Light, Jihyo said she was initially very upset that Minyoung failed to make the cut for Twice, as they had been friends for years by that point. Minyoung is also the only girl from SIXTEEN to make it to the final round of the show but ultimately not debut. Minyoung's failure also had the unfortunate side-effect of NO Twice members being English-fluent (Mina will be the first to tell you she isn't, despite having been born in Texas), which hampered their expansion into the West. The girl-group void there ended up being filled by Blackpink.
  • Before 6MIX, a Girl Group consisting of four Japanese trainees (two of whom were Sana and Momo) were supposed to debut in Japan in 2012, but the idea was shelved after Korean-Japanese relations soured from the Liancourt Rocks dispute happening around that time, which also led to a decline of interest in Korean media in Japan. JYP would attempt the concept again a few years later, this time successfully, with NiziU.
  • In late 2015, JYPE fully intended to market Twice in Taiwan and there was obvious interest on both sides for them to perform there considering their Taiwanese "visual". After the Flag Incident, however, any possible plans fell through and, as of 2022, Twice still has not performed on the island. They have not performed in Mainland China either. They did make an appearance at an 2018 awards show in Hong Kong. That, Singapore, and Malaysia are really the only places where Tzuyu has gotten to show off that, yes, her mother tongue is Mandarin.

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