Chicken :cqlgusu:
@ojou
I listened to a lot of kpop already, thanks to my kid who has been deep in the kpop trenches for about ten years
(They're mostly into girl groups, and their first love is BTS, which is why I'm forbidden from perceiving BTS too closely, even though I like their music a lot.)
I started listening to more K-pop when kiddo showed me some things they suspected I'd like (namely, Taemin, BIGBANG, Vixx). Then Spotify suggested other things it thought I might like.
Chicken :cqlgusu:
@ojou started noticing stray kids music in 2019, thanks to Spotify suggesting more of their tracks.
Asked kiddo about them, and was told they were put together by an agency on a survival show.
I wasn't especially interested in their backstories cos I hadn't watched the survival show.
I kept noticing more of their songs and gradually realised that most of my fave kpop tracks were by stray kids.
Made a mental note to find out who wrote & produced their songs, so I could find more like them
Chicken :cqlgusu:
@ojou but like most mental notes, I didn't do anything about it
Occasionally kiddo shows me kpop videos, funny interviews & suchlike. They showed me a few compilations of the 2 Aussies in skz being Aussies, and I thought they were cute & funny.
Finally, early this year, I got around to investigating who writes & produces most of their songs. And ... it's them. And they write and produce a LOT of songs.
Chicken :cqlgusu:
@ojou So then I had to know more about them as people.
I watched a bunch more videos.
I watched EXchange Island, which is a reality show they did where they all pretended to be each other's ex-boyfriends looking for a new love, or possibly rekindle the past love.
I went WHAT THE FUCK, THIS IS A BIT GAY ACTUALLY, WHAT IS GOING ON
I found a fansubbed version of the original survival show. It was nothing like I expected.
Chicken :cqlgusu:
@ojou it wasn't a survival show where 100 hopefuls compete for public votes to make it into a group.
Instead, an agency had given one of their trainees (Bang Chan) permission to form his own group from the trainees currently at the agency.
Then they would have to demonstrate to their boss that they were all good enough to debut as a group. And if he thought any one of them wasn't good enough, the boss eliminated them.
It was ... fucked up.
They all became my sons at that point.
お嬢ちゃん
@lookitmychicken it's very cool that you and kiddo can share this!! even if they banned you from BTS :P
お嬢ちゃん
> here they all pretended to be each other's ex-boyfriends looking for a new love, or possibly rekindle the past love.
THIS is when I did a double take while reading this. WHAT?! lmao this is real???!! absolutely wild! what?! haha
お嬢ちゃん
@lookitmychicken thank you so much for sharing! I really do love hearing stuff like this. it sounds like a super interesting group! excited to dive into these videos! will def share impressions :D
Chicken :cqlgusu:
@ojou i also did all the double takes when I first watched it. I knew that there was fanservice in kpop, but I didn't know it had reached that level.
Not expecting you to actually watch it, but if you have time and curiosity, here's the first of 2 40-minute episodes:
:youtube: https://youtu.be/IE6DvqpzLAg
Chicken :cqlgusu:
@ojou it wasn't all bad. I got them to pay me in the form of this animation of a #WangYibo dance move from EOEO
(They made it years ago, before I had any idea who Yibo was. They're not even particularly into Yibo. They just thought it was a cool move to try animating.)
Anyway I promised to stop thirsting over Yoongi from BTS if they'd send me the animation.
(I've kinda failed to stick to my end of the deal entirely, but I try not to do it too much where they can see.)
Chicken :cqlgusu:
@ojou oh and here's a link to the #UNIQ dance practice for EOEO, featuring smol baby Yibo as lead dancer. He's the one in white pants.
:youtube: https://youtu.be/cS-ODworpaI
お嬢ちゃん
@lookitmychicken omg he was tiny but already such a great dancer ahhhhh love him. God I hope there are videos of LWJ busting a move lol
お嬢ちゃん
@lookitmychicken lol as long as they're not on blorbo thirst away ;) that animation is awesome!
お嬢ちゃん
@lookitmychicken god this is some seriously galaxy brain stuff. Yeah I had no idea that this was a thing, that groups catered to this...holy crap!!!
Chicken :cqlgusu:
@ojou technically they have an account on blorbo but they almost never use it ;)
お嬢ちゃん
@lookitmychicken it's exclusively there to make sure you don't perceive BTS too much!!!
Chicken :cqlgusu:
@ojou there are few behind-the-scenes clips of Yibo in LWJ costume doing some moves.
One where he's helping Xiao Zhan (in WWX costume) learn a dance routine for a show they'll both be on in a few days.
Another where he's doing the finger guns from Blackpink's Ddu-du Ddu-du.
But he's clearly Yibo in LWJ costume, he's not in LWJ mode.
I'll dig them up for you in a bit.
Chicken :cqlgusu:
@ojou okay it looks like the clips themselves are *really* short.
But you might like this fanvid??
It starts off with showing how all the boys love Yibo. Some of the clips are of him dancing, some not.
Then the end part is how Yibo loves Xiao Zhan, and includes the super-short clips of Yibo in LWJ costume while dancing.
:youtube: https://youtu.be/5AFHBuOCZ5Q
お嬢ちゃん
@lookitmychicken he is such a good dancer! and ahh seeing the two of them is giving me feels, reminding me how long it's been since I watched the untamed...
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