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oh I agree about their songs being very one note even though I have completely different taste than you😭 tbh I’ve found the songs with more people worse than when it’s 3racha and someone else, maybe working with new producers would be better. I think taking their time with the albums and not releasing stuff constantly works cause they took their time with ccb and i think ate is one of their most cohesive albums and I don’t hate any of the songs.
you can see the difference with oddinary/maxident and 5-star/rockstar cause I personally find maxident to be their worst (I only like 2 songs and the others I can’t stand😭) and rockstar was soo underwhelming and forgettable, I think comflex is a crime from a production standpoint which is not a problem I ever have with 3racha even if I don’t vibe with some songs. in 5 star a lot of the songs are underproduced and the album is all over the place.
I wish they stopped with so much english cause it only makes their songwriting weaker (very mean: they all suck at it and i wish chan stopped giving us his chanlix english songs or pls translate them to korean)
I don’t think we’re getting anything close to noeasy until they take a long break and live their lives idk it used to feel like they had fun creating their songs before🤷♀️ personally see their newest songs as one note bc they’re very impersonal and the we’re family! You can do this! we’re great! we’re unique! has been stretched too thin so when they’re singing 9/10 that and their production is forgettable there’s nothing that sticks.
Definitely taking time would help but that will never happen especially at the pace they're charting now, not until Minho has to go to the military anyway. I really really want for 3racha to pull a Kun and just go to different song camps and work with different producers because that man was EVERYWHERE for like a whole year and yeah it's because his group was on forced hiatus but!!! i think collaboration with people outside the company would really help them :/
I agree I liked ATE more than I've liked their previous releases but even then it felt kind of a letdown idk why.. I genuinely dislike 5star so much as a full album and I can't speak to the production at all because i'm not too familiar with that but the album sounds like a MESS to me. and it was only like ?? 5 months after maxident too??
oh my god YES i hate the english which is so baffling given 2 english speakers in their group you'd THINK the lyrics would be better... i'd rather not understand a word they were saying please stop making me listen to it. yeah i agree, i don't think they're going to get the time to create anything different until enlistment era rolls around and then who knows what's going to happen. they're pushing with this exact song/album formula because it hasn't failed them yet and they're following bts' trajectory so closely it makes me want to scream... if we get old navy commercial music out of them to break into the U.S imkilling myself istg.
I think skz have gotten a bit thematically trapped. i’m not sure if that’s on their writing or if it’s just the songs that end up selected for albums, they’ve mentioned having a huge pool of demos. but i think skz have gotten a little too honed in on trying to continue what they’ve done and big “we’re on top” themed title tracks, and it would maybe help them to step back and get a little more weird with it topic wise so they don’t play to a formula. Maybe an album with a heavier concept lean? also they need to catch a break and not be worked to the bone, if your world is just schedules then practices then writing sessions then airports endlessly, there’s not much new to synthesize from
oh this is a really good point, I agree!! I think they have shoehorned themselves into that "we're giants" role but ALSO my dudes how hard can it be to write something else??? I do like the songs jisung makes a little more, i really liked the sax on Collision for ex and I wonder if its the company and their image of "noise idols" that is driving them to keep on creating these repetitive sounding songs.
also you're so right a concept would help but no one does CONCEPTS anymore in kpop!! bring back undead vampires !!! boy crush concept!!! i want to see some variety!! and YEAH that's my point with noeasy being their best album because they had a YEAR off and yeah they were rerecording old albums and were on kingdom but the break so clearly made them put out some of their best work... will we ever get that again.
i think it’s so funny how many just thoughts and comments retros you get with no question in them. does it bother you?
nah i like talking to people and hearing their thoughts!
have u ever seen speedbag bard videos? because like imagine changbin doing this:
https://youtu.be/IFYQzscsOvI?feature=shared
this is. genuinely the most attractive thing i’ve seen )?????????? if changbin did this my nose would start spontaneously bleeding like an anime girl
¯_(ツ)_/¯ my oven isn’t super great and maybe didn’t totally get up to heat? but also cherry tomatoes specifically can take a lot of heat, they might just be one of the few safe toppings for the recipe
hmm interesting i might have to play around with recipes
GOD FR
it’s funny how omegaverse is Life or Death serious on sfw twitter and not on nsfw twitter🧍🏻
like if you think jillix are alpha on sfw twt then you get jinja kill*d.
my dude 😭 i’m not sure exactly what you want me to say to this but im sorry for your pain
the day chngbn fucks him on stage (!!) https://x.com/spearhyunnie/status/1857015993458979263
i will be in the front row with a camera mounted on my shoulder i’m so serious
changjin meal https://x.com/havenfiIm/status/1857015011266142430?s=19
sex tape when changjin . SEX TAPE WHENNNNNN
no because . because . . he’s showing off his doll—
” yeah i’ve stopped expecting a lot from them music wise,, idk why it’s always disappointing me these days. CCB was a breath of fresh air tbh.. maybe the album will improve my thoughts on it.”
what are your fav songs from them? like from noeasy until now.
noeasy is genuinely my Favourite album of theirs, like no competition whatsoever that album is incredible... and it came AFTER like almost a year break and working with different idols in between.. eyes skz intensely. let's just say noeasy is out of the competition because i think that album is top tier, after that my favourite songs would be winter falls, venom, lonely st, DLMLU and maybe mountains.
” yeah i’ve stopped expecting a lot from them music wise,, idk why it’s always disappointing me these days. CCB was a breath of fresh air tbh.. maybe the album will improve my thoughts on it.”
i’m so ambivalent in this, because i really Enjoy CCB because that was fun. and before that, i liked LA4 (the instrumental was very nice too because it was kinda phonk inspired) and then i usually enjoy B-sides more.
But i’m more like.. idk what i want?
i like their noise music but i think i want The Whole thing to be more interesting, like even concept wise i think they have the potential to do soooooooo much more fun stuff but it’s always very just.. similar? like even concept photos are the same these days. how do you feel? idk if you share opinions in stayville you get witchhunted but maybe here in this retrospring it’s ok😭
exactly!! like.. i think my true opinions on skz music would actually get me roasted over an open flame so i will keep those thoughts to myself but idk... their music just feels so one note to me these days and even the recent songs i like i feel like i do so Only because ive listened to them so many times. i truly did love the maniac album and every album prior to that but since then... even the bsides have been struggling to spark some emotion in me. i just really think they need to involve Other people in their writing process but the "self produced idols" narrative is where kpop lives and dies so.. that'll never happen.
i completely agree with your point I really don't have a problem with noise music at all (i ADORE nct 127 for gods sake) I think it could be so much more interesting though TT
periodic reminder of hyunjin bird of paradise mating dance for changbin
ANON GHE WAY YOU PHRASED THIS IS ABSOLUTLEY HYSTERICAL TO MEEEEE
omfg you're checking out p1h i can't wait for you to get to scared its their noisiest title imo
oh i was listening to all their mvs in a row and i don’t think i liked this one 😭 but i will check their bsides out next!!
didn’t like giant at all either. was excited by it cause the instrumental was so fun but the only parts where I was like it’s ok? was in a hyunjin part and changbin’s 2nd rap I think? not enough to listen again tbh but I don’t like their japanese tt in general, I enjoy their bsides much more
yeah i’ve stopped expecting a lot from them music wise,, idk why it’s always disappointing me these days. CCB was a breath of fresh air tbh.. maybe the album will improve my thoughts on it.
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