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I love the relationship you have with your mom! It's so cuteee 😭. Who are your mom biases?
me too!! hehe that's very nice thank you :3 i will split the answer bc she has fave groups and then she has groups she knows of
stray kids: felix, then lino
ateez: mingi
enhypen: ni-ki, jake, heeseung
and then the groups she knows about enough to pick a favorite
the new six: hyunsoo aka the rutabaga
nmixx: lily
boynextdoor: leehan
p1harmony: soul
seventeen: woozi
nct: taeyong
riize: wonbin
I’ve become weirdly fixated on feet now because of how much u talk about footwork but the thing is that I understand dance about as much I understand a foreign language I’ve never been taught so I’m just like “👁️👁️ . I have no idea what I’m looking at!”
Don’t get me wrong though, I do still enjoy your comments/personal analysis on dance tho HAHA….it’s interesting how I both kinda and kinda don’t get what you mean sometimes and it’s super interesting
ahhhh footwork!! is so!!! important!!!! to me it's what separates a dancer from someone who dances you know??
part of the reason i think footwork is so important is because we as humans are much more used to using our hands in a variety of ways? so often people get upper body moves down quicker/easier/more exact. they also know that if someone's looking at them as idols, they're probably not looking at the feet, they're looking toward the face. so people are just really less likely to notice if your feet are not in the right position!
that said, footwork is actually central to all parts of dance, and often times you have no idea how badly it can mess you up if your feet aren't in the right position. in the behind for mayfly stage, lino goes over a move with innie that he keeps messing up, and the reason he keeps messing up is because his weight is held incorrectly. it's been a while since i watched so i can't remember if he was starting on the wrong foot or if he just had his weight on the wrong foot, but basically, in order to do complex/quick movements, you need momentum. if your feet are positioned incorrectly, you can stunt/lose your momentum at a pivotal moment and knock yourself out of rhythm altogether. ahhh it's hard to explain bc it's something you can feel easier than imagining it, but momentum needs to be coordinated throughout your entire body when performing a dance routine. each move is chosen carefully to flow from the last and into the next, not just visually but in the dancer's body!! footwork is also so so important for balance like it's soooo hard not to fall over unless you pay attention to your feet
if you look at lino's feet during maniac, he has them in fifth position for every single turn, switching which foot is forward as he spins. this keeps his spin stable even though his feet are tightly together and helps make sure he's not wobbling when he does the turn. the others who do this most consistently are changbin and felix, with hyunjin a little behind them, and these are also all the members who have stable turns consistently!
in chaconne, enhypen do some of the most complex and lovely footwork i've ever seen from kpop. there's multiple times where not only are they doing footwork, but that's all they do, and the footwork is the focal point of the move itself. i loooove that. they also do really precise step synchronization by wearing tap shoes during practice so they can hear when their feet fall and make sure they're in sync!! so if you watch them dance, their feet often look exactly the same, which is not something i can say for the majority of idol groups i watch.
the easy footwork is cool to me because it's fast and difficult, it should by all rights be choppy, but it ends up flowing smoothly... chaewon especially is just so good at making these moves look natural even though they're hard! but you need a lot of precise footwork for the song and with less members you can't exactly hide if someone messes up, so it's really cool to see them pull off the formations they used with that level of specificity, i really liked it!
https://twitter.com/skzphorias/status/1198559896318312456
the twt translation says "we'll work even harder to become a stry kds that we are not ashamed of". can you make out what word he uses in Korean for ashamed? ashamed seems like a strong word. is that a common, pat phrase (similar to 'you worked hard') that easily rolls off the tongue or did he choose that word specifically? I can't help but try to read more into it, that he felt like there was behaviour by a (very recently former) team member that stay knew about and he felt ashamed of. but maybe it's just a translation thing.
my auditory processing is pretty poor and he's crying, but from what i can tell, the syllables mostly match up with him saying 부끄럽지 않은 before stray kids which does actually mean without shame. i think you're right that it was about the scandal with their most recently absent member at that time, given what we know :(
pampering the pack omega… https://x.com/08to15/status/1714334284029255694?s=46
friend what do u think about the hybe boycott!!!
as it is, reading through it, i don't believe that some of the priorities are useful at this stage (aka you need room to escalate) and there's a lack of communication around what the boycott defines as zionist (like, has someone participated in false neutrality on the issue, or have they actively supported the apartheid ethnostate? and should we treat those things the same) so my focus is on the main BDS movement priorities until new information comes that may change my mind :)
do you like jake? 🤔
tbh u are the only person i know who can get away with saying "i'm just a little guy" literally everyone else is annoying and insufferable when they say that... your energy makes it sound sincere though 😭
felix has rambled a lot about his and yeni’s hand size difference LOL he’s cute… mayb hyunlix could indulge in some platonic fingerblasting ❤️
akshewally has seungmin ever tackle hugged felix
"when idol does something you like: so glad you're doing what you want baby so proud mwah
when idol does something you don't like: obviously the company is forcing this upon you baby i'll save you
rinse and repeat for stantwt every day"
this is a big reason why I think skz should renew with jype, at least for this first contract renewal. the fandom is too messy right now and they need that cover of being able to blame the company for decisions the fans don't like. if it was Chan in control of the company, he'd be taking constant hits from all sides. I could see them forming their own company in future, but like post enlistment era, when the fandom intensity has died down a little.
omg you know mcnd... back in 2020 they were pretty popular but they fell off after their 3rd comeback i think 😔 idk what happened but they're nugu now even tho their music is so good
and AWP felix’s ass https://x.com/nalyuk/status/1770948912591024622?s=46
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