If you want to listen to Changbin rap more you should check out “mirror mirror” by Milli and F.Hero ft. Changbin. milli is only 19 and she and f.hero are both Thai artists. It’s an insane song and changbins rap there is like 11.9 sps which is insane
Genuinely laughed when you said "you bitch" when Changbin's verse started on Easy 😂 He is quite an amazing artist... they all are. It's remarkable they're also responsible for so much of the music creation as well; makes them that much more impressive. I enjoy watching your reactions. I like the take you have on the different styles of music they put out. I look forward to the next one. My recommendation would be to listen to some of their solo stuff... Changbins Streetlight, or his collab with Milli + F.Hero in Mirror Mirror, Han's I Got It, or really and of their SKZ record or SKZ player items. They're great.
If you can't choose between Han or Changbin, why not both? Hehe. Lots of Stays are changing their bias every day based on who bias wreck them at the moment. :) And since you love raps, here are songs from 3racha you can listen to. Matryoshka 3Racha (predebut): Live: czcams.com/video/zhSkYc0pk7U/video.html&ab_channel=MnetTV Studio: czcams.com/video/vEwmc87yTpo/video.html&ab_channel=97kuroneko Runner's High 3Racha (predebut): Live: czcams.com/video/AiRRsQYiPFY/video.html&ab_channel=jaeminsuh Studio: czcams.com/video/a9OjdQDZD6A/video.html&ab_channel=97kuroneko Changbin - Cypher; Chan - Drive; Han - Scissors: Live: czcams.com/video/fUVcMWzJbw0/video.html&ab_channel=OnceuponatimeinaBlinkArea Studio (Cypher): czcams.com/video/pFQGNKw416w/video.html&ab_channel=ZatyFarhani Studio (Drive): czcams.com/video/3P-wT723kYs/video.html&ab_channel=StrayKids *Scissors don't have studio recorded version since Han performed unreleased track. 3Racha AAA2021 Performance: czcams.com/video/lvaOX1dsDFg/video.html&ab_channel=stayfor8ver 3Racha TMA2020 Intro (0:00 - 1:14): czcams.com/video/GRw9S2h3ENM/video.html&ab_channel=Aya 3Racha P.A.C.E: Live: czcams.com/video/WHlo_EJBxeM/video.html&ab_channel=MnetK-POP Studio: czcams.com/video/yg4HMpcVaw4/video.html&ab_channel=Sarah Maze of Memories 3racha: czcams.com/video/APEve7bn7EY/video.html&ab_channel=KCONofficial Carpe Diem 3Racha: Live: czcams.com/video/vNfkK15RC9w/video.html&ab_channel=BANG Vlive: czcams.com/video/YNkMeTgTqkk/video.html&ab_channel=chan%27sroom *3Racha always put special performance for their intro in their music award performance. The most iconic one is the AAA2021 performance since they just received a Daesang (Performance of The Year), and they use the trophy as their prop.
Yeah, I just accept that they'll all cycle through as biases at different times (sometimes in the same bloody song) and that's just how it's going to be. The more you see, the harder it becomes 😏
Red Lights is a work of art, for sure. One of my favorites off that album, along with Domino. I love Easy, its so good. The dance practice for both that and Domino are fire, and worth a watch. Have you seen Cheese yet? that and Silent Cry are both excellent.
Me hearing the intended reaction list of Easy, Red Lights, Levanter, and D9: "Well that's...an interesting combination." I mean, if you're gonna accidentally stumble across variety, you might as well go all in (STAYs see what I did there).
Your reaction to Changbin cracks me up every time because I feel it in my soul. Fun random fact: I saw a clip of Changbin's rap from District 9 and that's what made me check out Stray Kids and they became my ult group so quickly (just celebrated my 3 years with them!) so I TOTALLY get your reactions LOL. Other recommendations: Chronosaurus and Victory Song!
fun fact about district nine ( you were right it is their debut :) ) in the survival program skz did to make their debut, jyp criticised chan saying it was too high- in a female register. but chan just kept it the same in the end and made district nine even higher 🤭
@@SnowYkiona yes sorry! i meant that hellavator was critiqued about being too high, but district nine is in a higher key than hellavator, as far as i’m aware, correct me if i’m wrong tho-
@@monamoini it's all good, just not really clear from your comment if it's about Hellevator or D9 😅 and I'm not 100% sure but I do think D9 is higher 😊
Actually, in past video Stray Kids were divided into 3 units. Bang Chan + Hyunjin -> song *Red Lights* Changbin + Lee Know + Felix -> song *Surfin'* Han + Seungmin + I.N -> song *Gone Away* Basically 3racha got divided and the units had to make a song. They decided on the genres and everything themlselves. With 3racha members supporting each unit. Fully recommend reacting to the other 2 unit songs so you can see how totally different things they made.
District 9 (the movie) is indeed awesome. I've always assumed that Stray Kids' District 9 debut had to do not with the movie but with the (then) nine members introducing themselves and their work, basically saying this is us. Now of course they are eight (the ninth left for personal reasons) but that doesn't make it any less of an incredible song. Changbin is also a mighty fine singer. I think you'll like his solo STREETLIGHT czcams.com/video/_oCptmj2gIQ/video.html a song expressing his feelings during the pandemic's first months. It is very moving and speaks to many fans. The music video references the Blue Tree Project which raises awareness around mental wellbeing ("It's okay to have a blue day"). This theme pops up often in SKZ songs and is openly discussed between Stray Kids and STAY. The official STREETLIGHT MV does not have English subtitles but a good translation is here czcams.com/video/jc7P23nuIds/video.html
Anothe AMAZING songs without music video is *Silent Cry* . Fully recommended, that song is gem. BUT, make sure to react to *Secret Secret* (preferably first), too. Those two songs complement each other, they talk about the same thing from from opposite perspectives. Secret Secret is written by Han, he talks openly about his anxiety. Silent Cry is (theory by stays) an answer to Secret Secret, composed by Chan.
M.I.A, any and easy are autotune trio! All the songs are so different from each other, yet the use of autotune in all of them is so smart and enhancing and adds such a wonderful identity to the song. Thanks for your reaction!! For more changbin's rap you should definitely check out mirror mirror where he's a feature with milli and f.hero! His rap is badass in there!! Also I wish you'd check out there live performance in one take performances of scars and slump. Thank you for your reactions!!
Hyunjin's Studio Choom AOTM is great, I've seen a bunch of reactions to it, maybe reverse the image or reduce opacity, that seems to be enough, and I think I've seen some where they didn't even do that, but those might have been reactors with fewer viewers. I'll add my vote for Mirror Mirror by F Hero and Milli featuring Changbin. Also Han's I Got It, Changbin's Cypher, 3Racha's Matroyshyka (I always spell that one wrong, but there is at least one y in it....). For more Skz in the vein of Levanter and Lonely Street, check out the First Take series--Slump, Scars and Mixtape: Oh, recorded in one take live at a studio in Japan that specializes in that. Levanter the word means a strong Mediterranean wind. That video is the first one they released after their 9th member left for personal reasons. I can't help feeling that the sense of loss and grieving in both the song and video are partly related to the loss of that member. One thing I like about Stray Kids is their emotional range, and that they can express the "softer" feelings like loss, sadness, loneliness, without going all goopy, sentimental and cliche. Even when they talk about love or desire, they let it be complex and uncomfortable. Mostly they have a specificity, roughness, and emotional rawness, that makes you think they are writing and singing from experience. If you are interested in dance practices, the Levanter dance choreo is absolutely beautiful. So is the Side Effects choreo. If you want to see yet another side to Skz, the goofy side carefree side, check out OT8 Get Cool, and unit songs Surfin' and Up All Night. They have several more of the goofy ones from 9 member days, as well.
fun fact (maybe one of my favourites): the choreo of Levanter has parts of choreos from their pasts MVs, like Mirror, Side Effects, Mirroh and Spread My Wings, going with the lyrics of "saying goodbye" and starting something new
Levanter was an extremely emotional songs for Stays since it was their first comeback after losing a member. I feel like every Stay interprets the song and lyrics differently, but to me it seems as if they´re saying goodbye to the old Stray Kids and are ready to find who they are and what their sound is, and hell, they really succeeded considering their comeback after Levanter was God´s Menu which basically made them into who they are today. SKZ have so many good songs with incredible lyrics so here are some recs (Sorry if you already reacted to some I´ll list, I haven´t managed to watch all your SKZ reactions yet!): - Charmer - Muddy Water (Rap Line unit) - Secret Secret - Silent Cry - Winter Falls - Domino - TOP
They have actually released a summary video of the whole storyline! They released it prior to oddinary as that and maniac were supposed to tie it all together
Ooooh I'm gonna have to watch that. I'm trying to get a sense of the storyline just from the MVs but with all the parallel timelines and whatnot it gets pretty confusing lol
@@6TonGuppy it’s so confusing I gave up lol! I do like seeing the connections but it can be hard to keep up with all the crazy! The video gives a nice summary and is from the official channel so you know it’s right!
No relation between the movie and SKZ's District 9, as you figured out. Their D9 is the district the nine of them set up as their personal safe zone away from the mainstream (the institution/manufactured environment/whatever they escaped from) and the demands on them to conform -- it's their space outside the established system. Their district is still something they refer to on occasion as the place where all stray kids everywhere all around the world (this song is the origin of that phrase) are welcome to share the outsiders' space with Stray Kids. They tend to just refer to it as things like "our district" now, as opposed to District 9, since it was named D9 specifically because there were nine of them, and obviously now there aren't. Fwiw, it also turned out that their D9 wasn't quite the little utopian zone their teenage selves imagined, sustainable outside the mainstream, where they could simply hunker down and be themselves and everything would be perfect, with no outside challenges and no growth or movement beyond the boundaries needed. That's somewhat related to lore, but it's also the underlying theme of their discography and its evolution throughout every era/trilogy, so it's way more significant than just a video lore thing; it's the core of their musical journey over the last 4+ years. It's also worth mention that Chan, Binnie, and Han were 20, 18, and 17 when they wrote and released D9. Two teenage rappers came out swinging from day one. (With another two teenage rappers opening the song and setting the stage, Lee Know at 19 and Hyunjin at 17.) This is an insultingly good debut song. It's also the first song that really kicked their haters into high gear, as it's unabashed about being "noise music."
@@TiaTruly SAME. Of course, now I'm an anxious mess of an adult and basically using them and their music to maintain any level of functionality, so I suppose it all worked out.
@@RM_formerlyjustRMbutYTsucks Here I am.. a year late & a dollar fifty short (inflation) and also an Older anxious mess of an adult.. loving seeing the progress an year makes for these boys... "noise music" rocks the Megaverse..
Hhaahha I love how they leave you speachless, I think we all, Stays, felt the same so many times, so we understand :D Indeed, I agree with what you said about auto-tune. I don't like how artist use it nowadays, I always hated it until I saw how Stray Kids introduce it in their songs. They just use it to add a cool effect in the song, I mean they don't have the need to show they can sing, cause we know they can. Another song where they use auto-tune is We Go (3 racha song). It doesn't have an mv, but I recommend it a lot. You should definitely react to Hyunjin's Artist of the Month video, there you will be able to see why he is part of the dance unit. I also recommend Scars (Japanese song) or Winter Falls if you want calm songs, and I also recommend Victory Song and TOP (Japanese song they made for an anime opening), amazing. They also did the ending for the same anime, the song is called SLUMP, you can listen to it live here: czcams.com/video/T7DY0FXJV18/video.html&ab_channel=THEFIRSTTAKE Thank you for your reactions ^^
Levanter!!! Omg, yes, it's super deep. The song's key inspiration is taken from (from what I've seen) the Latin word "levante," which refers to the eastern direction of the rising sun. Really meaningful, especially when connected with their other songs (see: the "I am" trilogy). Levanter is sort of a "we're letting go and moving on" song (to me, at least). I could talk about the meanings behind skz's earlier releases for hours, but I don't want to dump. I really enjoyed this, especially you including Levanter - I haven't seen many reactors approach it. Also, yeah. Changbin. He's insane. Edit: spelling oops
Go ahead and dump! I don't mind at all lol, or join the Discord and talk about it in there! I love hearing fan theories, especially when that's mostly what makes up the connections (i.e. with EXO's lore lol)
oh my god you're so right 😭 I LOVE District 9 SO MUCH and also My Pace. Those two have a special spot in my heart, they're so good and literally my taste😭
I’ve been watching reaction videos for a very long time, but yours is the first channel I subscribed to. Your love for music is so genuine, not exaggerated in any way but still unadulterated and apparent, that it’s really enjoyable to watch, feels like listening to all the quirks of songs I love (which, in Stray Kids’ case, is a lot) for the first time again. Also I really liked your cover of Muddy Water! Keep up the great work :)
You have to get into some of their “cute” songs…Get Cool, Awkward Silence, and Gone Days. I use to have a car with a hard core subwoofer and I would call Eazy the attack song. Everytime it came on the windows would shake on the chorus. To this day District 9 is my favorite Binnie rap. The on the beat rap during the heavy beats get me every time.
If you ever get curious about SKZ reality content, they have a series of videos on their CZcams channel called “howl in harmony” where they were split into units and wrote songs, designed the MV’s etc. Red Lights is ep3! (The first 2 episodes are Han, Seungmin & I.N’s ‘Gone Away’ and then Felix, Changbin & Lee Know’s ‘Surfin’. ) Then the rest of the episodes are them reacting to each other’s songs and deciding MV concepts etc!
Now it’s also time for you to check out some of the street versions of stray kids tracks like Insomnia, Boxer, (N/S), Question, Rock & more. It very much reveals stray kids chaotic side, so you will have fun reacting to it. can’t wait for more stray kids reactions !!!!!
You're right, District 9 is their debut song. Levanter is another really cool one, they also have an english version, but I think the original is way better. Yeah, Red Lights is really good. We were all screwed the moment we first heard it. Chan's low voice is also really good, they all sound really good when they use their lower register. If you haven't seen any clips, try seeing if you can find the OT8 Red Light's performance. It's really cool to hear them doing that genre together. Just the entire NOEASY album is really good(it's my favorite album so far), so I definetly recommend listening to the other songs in the album. It doesn't seem like a debut track, it really doesn't. They did such a good job with District 9, they came out of the gate with incredible energy, and they have easily maintained that amazing quality of music with every song they've put out since. And your reaction was perfect! There is no words that can describe how amazing they really did with it, and once again, they debuted with that song! Some of my favorties that I recommend: Victory Song(no mv) Cheese(mv) Ta(no mv) My Pace(mv) Go Live(no mv) SLUMP(no mv- do japanese ver) Any(mv) Wolfgang(watch the kingdom performance) Ssick(no mv) Grow Up(mv) (I am not sure how many of these you have listened to, if any, so just ignore the ones you've already heard)
@@6TonGuppy ssick is definitely reccomended even tho it doesn't have an mv it is an experimental track like the tortoise and the hare and maze of memories
@@6TonGuppy a few corrections for what's on this list: victory song does have a performance mv which is a mix between a dance video and a mv go live is basically part of the tortoise and the hare with visuals of them singing like it's an mv, they do a lot of unveil tracks before the album drops and sometimes songs without an mv will get some type of visual anyways with like parts from the song (which is the case for ttath, domino and b me) SLUMP doesn't have a mv but they sang it live in one take for the one take youtube channel if you're interested in seeing that for wolfgang I recommend you watch both the kingdom performance and the ot8 performance cause hyunjin was on hiatus during kingdom so he's not in that performance, but they did it again with him afterwards very excited to see what you'll react to next!
thanks for another reaction! It was a great combination of songs :) have you seen "get cool" yet? this is them been playful. I would also say cute, but cute in SKZ way! I think you would like "awaken", because it sounds very rock I guess, it doesn't have an MV. I am not a big fan of autotune, but SKZ are and they use it very well, I think. "any" has tones of autotune and it sounds gorgeous! I am sure you will like it :) it has an MV - it was your first recommendation by youtube when you listened to "easy" :) I love "district 9" as well! this 3racha combo in the second verse + chorus is killing me every time!
Since you really seem to love their more experimental stuff like tortoise and the hare and maze of memories then you definitely will like 3rd eye! Please check that one out it's incredible, especially since it's in their literal debut album! Like how do rookies think of a song like that haha
Yeah that hyunjin AOTM is phenomenal, also he has another choreography that he actually made himself in which he is dancing to "play with fire". Both are so good. Also please react to Han's songs especially " I got it " since he is my bias. ☹️
Thank you so much for another Stray Kids reaction! I really enjoy listening to your thoughts (and pauses haha) in the background of whatever else I'm doing :)
I love your reactions and really respect your opinions!! Subscribing rn lol😙 I was similar to you with District 9: I had known stray kids for about 2 months and finally decided to listen to their debut song. Let’s just say I was PLEASANTLY surprised. It’s so good. If I could recommend a few: Charmer, Muddy Water, TA, and ALL IN are good hip hop-pop songs. Domino and Cheese are also fairly hip hop with some rock elements(I LOVE these with my whole heart). Surfin’, Haven, Get Cool, and Awkward Silence are good if you want an upbeat happy song. Based on your reactions I’ve seen, you might enjoy: Awaken My Pace Victory Song Cheese (I think I saw a comment saying you were going to do this in the next one, so if you do, try to see what the lyrics mean)👀
I think you need to watch their music video/performance video for GRRR (Beware), Changbin slayed that track. Edited: This is one of their pre-debut tracks by the way.
i think you'd really like the domino dance practice video, im still gonna insist on cheese because its really fun, and silent cry is a really beautiful song featuring a lot of singing from han! also we go is really good and chill, as well as slump
no one's recommended this yet so I'm gonna, you need to watch the boxer performance video, it's one of their weirder songs and also one of their oldest (the performance video was made a year or two after it came out) but it's so good!!
I wanna recommend 3rd eye it's still one of my fav songs ever , Awaken too both are on their debut album with district 9 . Changbin and han are an iconic rap duo , you should watch one of their live performance they almost always write new songs or rap verses for award shows performances
You should react to the TA dance practice, phobia lyrics, and the astronaut and hello stranger music videos. They're all very different songs but all very good in their own way.
If you like district 9 MV, you must try their district 9 LIVE performance. I recommend this one below which is their JAPAN 'Hi-STAY'concert ,and they perform in OT8. Hi-STAY JAPAN District 9 czcams.com/video/yTlTnSpemr0/video.html （they upload other performance in Stray Kids Japan CZcams Channel, but this one we dont have official one） In fact, many LIVE performances in 'Hi-STAY' is incredibly awesome, both their conditions and video quality. I really enjoyed your reactions in every Straykids videos, thanks so much for your reaction.
I would also love it if you would check out some of skz record. it’s where stray kids drop their self produced non official tracks or covers. I would want you to react to han I got it, alien, wish you back and happy. Changbin cypher and street light and also piece or 조각 which is by changbin and seungmin.
You still haven’t done Ssick. One of their best, but no video. It was considered experimental like The Tortoise and the Hare as well as Maze of Memories. PLEASE react to it. ❤️🙏😇
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If you want to listen to Changbin rap more you should check out “mirror mirror” by Milli and F.Hero ft. Changbin. milli is only 19 and she and f.hero are both Thai artists. It’s an insane song and changbins rap there is like 11.9 sps which is insane
Also streetlight.
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Genuinely laughed when you said "you bitch" when Changbin's verse started on Easy 😂 He is quite an amazing artist... they all are. It's remarkable they're also responsible for so much of the music creation as well; makes them that much more impressive.
I enjoy watching your reactions. I like the take you have on the different styles of music they put out. I look forward to the next one. My recommendation would be to listen to some of their solo stuff... Changbins Streetlight, or his collab with Milli + F.Hero in Mirror Mirror, Han's I Got It, or really and of their SKZ record or SKZ player items. They're great.
If you can't choose between Han or Changbin, why not both? Hehe. Lots of Stays are changing their bias every day based on who bias wreck them at the moment. :)
And since you love raps, here are songs from 3racha you can listen to.
Matryoshka 3Racha (predebut):
Live: czcams.com/video/zhSkYc0pk7U/video.html&ab_channel=MnetTV
Studio: czcams.com/video/vEwmc87yTpo/video.html&ab_channel=97kuroneko
Runner's High 3Racha (predebut):
Live: czcams.com/video/AiRRsQYiPFY/video.html&ab_channel=jaeminsuh
Studio: czcams.com/video/a9OjdQDZD6A/video.html&ab_channel=97kuroneko
Changbin - Cypher; Chan - Drive; Han - Scissors:
Live: czcams.com/video/fUVcMWzJbw0/video.html&ab_channel=OnceuponatimeinaBlinkArea
Studio (Cypher): czcams.com/video/pFQGNKw416w/video.html&ab_channel=ZatyFarhani
Studio (Drive): czcams.com/video/3P-wT723kYs/video.html&ab_channel=StrayKids
*Scissors don't have studio recorded version since Han performed unreleased track.
3Racha AAA2021 Performance:
czcams.com/video/lvaOX1dsDFg/video.html&ab_channel=stayfor8ver
3Racha TMA2020 Intro (0:00 - 1:14):
czcams.com/video/GRw9S2h3ENM/video.html&ab_channel=Aya
3Racha P.A.C.E:
Live: czcams.com/video/WHlo_EJBxeM/video.html&ab_channel=MnetK-POP
Studio: czcams.com/video/yg4HMpcVaw4/video.html&ab_channel=Sarah
Maze of Memories 3racha:
czcams.com/video/APEve7bn7EY/video.html&ab_channel=KCONofficial
Carpe Diem 3Racha:
Live: czcams.com/video/vNfkK15RC9w/video.html&ab_channel=BANG
Vlive: czcams.com/video/YNkMeTgTqkk/video.html&ab_channel=chan%27sroom
*3Racha always put special performance for their intro in their music award performance. The most iconic one is the AAA2021 performance since they just received a Daesang (Performance of The Year), and they use the trophy as their prop.
Yeah, I just accept that they'll all cycle through as biases at different times (sometimes in the same bloody song) and that's just how it's going to be. The more you see, the harder it becomes 😏
Yesss Scissors need to be released! So fire, 3racha are musical Geniuses NO DOUBT!!
@31:35 "the man was too stunned to speak" same tho SKZ had no right to go that crazy on their debut track💀💀💀💀
Red Lights is a work of art, for sure. One of my favorites off that album, along with Domino. I love Easy, its so good. The dance practice for both that and Domino are fire, and worth a watch. Have you seen Cheese yet? that and Silent Cry are both excellent.
I haven't seen Cheese yet, that one will probably be in the next part. I keep seeing it pop up in my recommendations lol
Me hearing the intended reaction list of Easy, Red Lights, Levanter, and D9: "Well that's...an interesting combination."
I mean, if you're gonna accidentally stumble across variety, you might as well go all in (STAYs see what I did there).
Your reaction to Changbin cracks me up every time because I feel it in my soul. Fun random fact: I saw a clip of Changbin's rap from District 9 and that's what made me check out Stray Kids and they became my ult group so quickly (just celebrated my 3 years with them!) so I TOTALLY get your reactions LOL.
Other recommendations: Chronosaurus and Victory Song!
I'm so excited for Chronosaurus, y'all have been hyping that one up for a while now haha.
@@6TonGuppy haha hopefully you’ll like it then!! 🫣
fun fact about district nine ( you were right it is their debut :) ) in the survival program skz did to make their debut, jyp criticised chan saying it was too high- in a female register. but chan just kept it the same in the end and made district nine even higher 🤭
Uhhh wasn't it Hellevator tho? They didn't do District 9 on the survival show
@@SnowYkiona yes sorry! i meant that hellavator was critiqued about being too high, but district nine is in a higher key than hellavator, as far as i’m aware, correct me if i’m wrong tho-
@@monamoini it's all good, just not really clear from your comment if it's about Hellevator or D9 😅 and I'm not 100% sure but I do think D9 is higher 😊
Actually, in past video Stray Kids were divided into 3 units.
Bang Chan + Hyunjin -> song *Red Lights*
Changbin + Lee Know + Felix -> song *Surfin'*
Han + Seungmin + I.N -> song *Gone Away*
Basically 3racha got divided and the units had to make a song. They decided on the genres and everything themlselves. With 3racha members supporting each unit. Fully recommend reacting to the other 2 unit songs so you can see how totally different things they made.
In short, stray kids are perfect🔥👍🔥...........!!!!!!!!!!!.
District 9 (the movie) is indeed awesome. I've always assumed that Stray Kids' District 9 debut had to do not with the movie but with the (then) nine members introducing themselves and their work, basically saying this is us. Now of course they are eight (the ninth left for personal reasons) but that doesn't make it any less of an incredible song. Changbin is also a mighty fine singer. I think you'll like his solo STREETLIGHT czcams.com/video/_oCptmj2gIQ/video.html a song expressing his feelings during the pandemic's first months. It is very moving and speaks to many fans. The music video references the Blue Tree Project which raises awareness around mental wellbeing ("It's okay to have a blue day"). This theme pops up often in SKZ songs and is openly discussed between Stray Kids and STAY. The official STREETLIGHT MV does not have English subtitles but a good translation is here czcams.com/video/jc7P23nuIds/video.html
Anothe AMAZING songs without music video is *Silent Cry* . Fully recommended, that song is gem. BUT, make sure to react to *Secret Secret* (preferably first), too. Those two songs complement each other, they talk about the same thing from from opposite perspectives.
Secret Secret is written by Han, he talks openly about his anxiety.
Silent Cry is (theory by stays) an answer to Secret Secret, composed by Chan.
Oh wow, that's awesome! I will definitely check those out!
M.I.A, any and easy are autotune trio! All the songs are so different from each other, yet the use of autotune in all of them is so smart and enhancing and adds such a wonderful identity to the song. Thanks for your reaction!! For more changbin's rap you should definitely check out mirror mirror where he's a feature with milli and f.hero! His rap is badass in there!! Also I wish you'd check out there live performance in one take performances of scars and slump. Thank you for your reactions!!
Hyunjin's Studio Choom AOTM is great, I've seen a bunch of reactions to it, maybe reverse the image or reduce opacity, that seems to be enough, and I think I've seen some where they didn't even do that, but those might have been reactors with fewer viewers.
I'll add my vote for Mirror Mirror by F Hero and Milli featuring Changbin. Also Han's I Got It, Changbin's Cypher, 3Racha's Matroyshyka (I always spell that one wrong, but there is at least one y in it....). For more Skz in the vein of Levanter and Lonely Street, check out the First Take series--Slump, Scars and Mixtape: Oh, recorded in one take live at a studio in Japan that specializes in that.
Levanter the word means a strong Mediterranean wind. That video is the first one they released after their 9th member left for personal reasons. I can't help feeling that the sense of loss and grieving in both the song and video are partly related to the loss of that member. One thing I like about Stray Kids is their emotional range, and that they can express the "softer" feelings like loss, sadness, loneliness, without going all goopy, sentimental and cliche. Even when they talk about love or desire, they let it be complex and uncomfortable. Mostly they have a specificity, roughness, and emotional rawness, that makes you think they are writing and singing from experience.
If you are interested in dance practices, the Levanter dance choreo is absolutely beautiful. So is the Side Effects choreo. If you want to see yet another side to Skz, the goofy side carefree side, check out OT8 Get Cool, and unit songs Surfin' and Up All Night. They have several more of the goofy ones from 9 member days, as well.
fun fact (maybe one of my favourites): the choreo of Levanter has parts of choreos from their pasts MVs, like Mirror, Side Effects, Mirroh and Spread My Wings, going with the lyrics of "saying goodbye" and starting something new
"stfu changbin” EHHDDHDH it makes me so extremely happy when people praise him. him and han are my fav rappers ever fr
I love that you are going deep into the rabbit hole of SKZ ! We are going along with you. Very cool
Levanter was an extremely emotional songs for Stays since it was their first comeback after losing a member. I feel like every Stay interprets the song and lyrics differently, but to me it seems as if they´re saying goodbye to the old Stray Kids and are ready to find who they are and what their sound is, and hell, they really succeeded considering their comeback after Levanter was God´s Menu which basically made them into who they are today.
SKZ have so many good songs with incredible lyrics so here are some recs (Sorry if you already reacted to some I´ll list, I haven´t managed to watch all your SKZ reactions yet!):
- Charmer
- Muddy Water (Rap Line unit)
- Secret Secret
- Silent Cry
- Winter Falls
- Domino
- TOP
They have actually released a summary video of the whole storyline! They released it prior to oddinary as that and maniac were supposed to tie it all together
Ooooh I'm gonna have to watch that. I'm trying to get a sense of the storyline just from the MVs but with all the parallel timelines and whatnot it gets pretty confusing lol
@@6TonGuppy it’s so confusing I gave up lol! I do like seeing the connections but it can be hard to keep up with all the crazy! The video gives a nice summary and is from the official channel so you know it’s right!
Easy will always be one my favorite songs by them. Tortoise and the Hare as well. Course, I don't think there is a bad song.
No relation between the movie and SKZ's District 9, as you figured out. Their D9 is the district the nine of them set up as their personal safe zone away from the mainstream (the institution/manufactured environment/whatever they escaped from) and the demands on them to conform -- it's their space outside the established system. Their district is still something they refer to on occasion as the place where all stray kids everywhere all around the world (this song is the origin of that phrase) are welcome to share the outsiders' space with Stray Kids. They tend to just refer to it as things like "our district" now, as opposed to District 9, since it was named D9 specifically because there were nine of them, and obviously now there aren't.
Fwiw, it also turned out that their D9 wasn't quite the little utopian zone their teenage selves imagined, sustainable outside the mainstream, where they could simply hunker down and be themselves and everything would be perfect, with no outside challenges and no growth or movement beyond the boundaries needed. That's somewhat related to lore, but it's also the underlying theme of their discography and its evolution throughout every era/trilogy, so it's way more significant than just a video lore thing; it's the core of their musical journey over the last 4+ years.
It's also worth mention that Chan, Binnie, and Han were 20, 18, and 17 when they wrote and released D9. Two teenage rappers came out swinging from day one. (With another two teenage rappers opening the song and setting the stage, Lee Know at 19 and Hyunjin at 17.) This is an insultingly good debut song. It's also the first song that really kicked their haters into high gear, as it's unabashed about being "noise music."
I cannot stress how much I wish I had their music way way back when I was an anxious mess of a teenager 😭
@@TiaTruly SAME. Of course, now I'm an anxious mess of an adult and basically using them and their music to maintain any level of functionality, so I suppose it all worked out.
@@RM_formerlyjustRMbutYTsucks Here I am.. a year late & a dollar fifty short (inflation) and also an Older anxious mess of an adult.. loving seeing the progress an year makes for these boys... "noise music" rocks the Megaverse..
@@Resistance_Is_Futile1of3 Right? The obviousness of their growth every year continues to surprise me every time.
No need to apologise for the happy bird sounds, friend! They are joyous 🥰
Changbin is my bias..he had me on God's Menu which was also my first time seeing Stray kids! District 9 rap flows are insane ❤️🔥
Hhaahha I love how they leave you speachless, I think we all, Stays, felt the same so many times, so we understand :D
Indeed, I agree with what you said about auto-tune. I don't like how artist use it nowadays, I always hated it until I saw how Stray Kids introduce it in their songs. They just use it to add a cool effect in the song, I mean they don't have the need to show they can sing, cause we know they can. Another song where they use auto-tune is We Go (3 racha song). It doesn't have an mv, but I recommend it a lot.
You should definitely react to Hyunjin's Artist of the Month video, there you will be able to see why he is part of the dance unit.
I also recommend Scars (Japanese song) or Winter Falls if you want calm songs, and I also recommend Victory Song and TOP (Japanese song they made for an anime opening), amazing. They also did the ending for the same anime, the song is called SLUMP, you can listen to it live here: czcams.com/video/T7DY0FXJV18/video.html&ab_channel=THEFIRSTTAKE
Thank you for your reactions ^^
Levanter!!! Omg, yes, it's super deep. The song's key inspiration is taken from (from what I've seen) the Latin word "levante," which refers to the eastern direction of the rising sun. Really meaningful, especially when connected with their other songs (see: the "I am" trilogy). Levanter is sort of a "we're letting go and moving on" song (to me, at least). I could talk about the meanings behind skz's earlier releases for hours, but I don't want to dump. I really enjoyed this, especially you including Levanter - I haven't seen many reactors approach it.
Also, yeah. Changbin. He's insane.
Edit: spelling oops
Go ahead and dump! I don't mind at all lol, or join the Discord and talk about it in there! I love hearing fan theories, especially when that's mostly what makes up the connections (i.e. with EXO's lore lol)
I assume if you love District 9 that much, you might also love My Pace. The lyrics also motivates alot
love my pace lyrics so muchㅠ
oh my god you're so right 😭 I LOVE District 9 SO MUCH and also My Pace. Those two have a special spot in my heart, they're so good and literally my taste😭
I’ve been watching reaction videos for a very long time, but yours is the first channel I subscribed to. Your love for music is so genuine, not exaggerated in any way but still unadulterated and apparent, that it’s really enjoyable to watch, feels like listening to all the quirks of songs I love (which, in Stray Kids’ case, is a lot) for the first time again. Also I really liked your cover of Muddy Water! Keep up the great work :)
Thank you! That’s awesome to hear 😁
How can someone pick a favorite from skz?? Bc i love them all EQUALLY they ALL crazy talented
Easy is definitely top three for me, love it! Great selection today, enjoying these reactions
You have to get into some of their “cute” songs…Get Cool, Awkward Silence, and Gone Days. I use to have a car with a hard core subwoofer and I would call Eazy the attack song. Everytime it came on the windows would shake on the chorus. To this day District 9 is my favorite Binnie rap. The on the beat rap during the heavy beats get me every time.
If you ever get curious about SKZ reality content, they have a series of videos on their CZcams channel called “howl in harmony” where they were split into units and wrote songs, designed the MV’s etc. Red Lights is ep3!
(The first 2 episodes are Han, Seungmin & I.N’s ‘Gone Away’ and then Felix, Changbin & Lee Know’s ‘Surfin’. )
Then the rest of the episodes are them reacting to each other’s songs and deciding MV concepts etc!
Ooh that sounds awesome! I'll definitely have to start diving into some of their solo/subunit stuff!
Oh yeah, that was brilliant! I really enjoyed seeing their process.
yup Changbin is my bias for a reason
I like to see others go crazy as much as I do, every time Changbin opens his mouth. Thanks for reactions 😌
Now it’s also time for you to check out some of the street versions of stray kids tracks like Insomnia, Boxer, (N/S), Question, Rock & more. It very much reveals stray kids chaotic side, so you will have fun reacting to it. can’t wait for more stray kids reactions !!!!!
SHUT THE FUCK UP CHANGBINNNNNNNNN hahahaha i love your reactions to him 😂😂 also love the way you break down the beats, it’s super interesting
Omg Levanter is the Queen
I love this song with my entire heart
DISTRICT 9 IS THE BEST KPOP DEBUT SONG EVER!!!
I'm waiting until you react to "Grrr" and "mirror" since changbin was killing it in these two songs
You're right, District 9 is their debut song.
Levanter is another really cool one, they also have an english version, but I think the original is way better.
Yeah, Red Lights is really good. We were all screwed the moment we first heard it. Chan's low voice is also really good, they all sound really good when they use their lower register. If you haven't seen any clips, try seeing if you can find the OT8 Red Light's performance. It's really cool to hear them doing that genre together. Just the entire NOEASY album is really good(it's my favorite album so far), so I definetly recommend listening to the other songs in the album.
It doesn't seem like a debut track, it really doesn't. They did such a good job with District 9, they came out of the gate with incredible energy, and they have easily maintained that amazing quality of music with every song they've put out since. And your reaction was perfect! There is no words that can describe how amazing they really did with it, and once again, they debuted with that song!
Some of my favorties that I recommend:
Victory Song(no mv)
Cheese(mv)
Ta(no mv)
My Pace(mv)
Go Live(no mv)
SLUMP(no mv- do japanese ver)
Any(mv)
Wolfgang(watch the kingdom performance)
Ssick(no mv)
Grow Up(mv)
(I am not sure how many of these you have listened to, if any, so just ignore the ones you've already heard)
I haven't heard any of those lol, so the ones that have MVs will definitely get added to my "soon" list.
@@6TonGuppy ssick is definitely reccomended even tho it doesn't have an mv it is an experimental track like the tortoise and the hare and maze of memories
@@6TonGuppy a few corrections for what's on this list:
victory song does have a performance mv which is a mix between a dance video and a mv
go live is basically part of the tortoise and the hare with visuals of them singing like it's an mv, they do a lot of unveil tracks before the album drops and sometimes songs without an mv will get some type of visual anyways with like parts from the song (which is the case for ttath, domino and b me)
SLUMP doesn't have a mv but they sang it live in one take for the one take youtube channel if you're interested in seeing that
for wolfgang I recommend you watch both the kingdom performance and the ot8 performance cause hyunjin was on hiatus during kingdom so he's not in that performance, but they did it again with him afterwards
very excited to see what you'll react to next!
thanks for another reaction! It was a great combination of songs :)
have you seen "get cool" yet? this is them been playful. I would also say cute, but cute in SKZ way!
I think you would like "awaken", because it sounds very rock I guess, it doesn't have an MV.
I am not a big fan of autotune, but SKZ are and they use it very well, I think. "any" has tones of autotune and it sounds gorgeous! I am sure you will like it :) it has an MV - it was your first recommendation by youtube when you listened to "easy" :)
I love "district 9" as well! this 3racha combo in the second verse + chorus is killing me every time!
Since you really seem to love their more experimental stuff like tortoise and the hare and maze of memories then you definitely will like 3rd eye! Please check that one out it's incredible, especially since it's in their literal debut album! Like how do rookies think of a song like that haha
Yeah that hyunjin AOTM is phenomenal, also he has another choreography that he actually made himself in which he is dancing to "play with fire". Both are so good.
Also please react to Han's songs especially " I got it " since he is my bias. ☹️
I second the reaction to “i got it”!!!
hey if you haven't, please do secret secret and silent cry back to back, and pay attention to the lyrics 👀
I really enjoy your reactions to stray kids exited to play this when I can
Stray Kids are literally.. 'music to my ears'. Their dynamic voices and sound production are soooo cool!!
Biigest flex as a STAY, stanning a self-producing group with a diversed Discography. 💪🔥💯
Love them all.. can’t pick a favorite haha
there's so many good songs to discover from skz still. I'm so excited to see your reactions to all of them!!
Thank you so much for another Stray Kids reaction! I really enjoy listening to your thoughts (and pauses haha) in the background of whatever else I'm doing :)
Your voice is very relaxing
Thanks!
Lol yeeeppp. District 9 is that great debut. OG SKZ sound.
I love your reactions and really respect your opinions!! Subscribing rn lol😙 I was similar to you with District 9: I had known stray kids for about 2 months and finally decided to listen to their debut song. Let’s just say I was PLEASANTLY surprised. It’s so good.
If I could recommend a few:
Charmer, Muddy Water, TA, and ALL IN are good hip hop-pop songs.
Domino and Cheese are also fairly hip hop with some rock elements(I LOVE these with my whole heart).
Surfin’, Haven, Get Cool, and Awkward Silence are good if you want an upbeat happy song.
Based on your reactions I’ve seen, you might enjoy:
Awaken
My Pace
Victory Song
Cheese (I think I saw a comment saying you were going to do this in the next one, so if you do, try to see what the lyrics mean)👀
I think you need to watch their music video/performance video for GRRR (Beware), Changbin slayed that track.
Edited: This is one of their pre-debut tracks by the way.
To this day (as in, literally about four hours ago), I still have to do Changbin's claw movement at the end every time I listen to Grrrr. 😂
@@RM_formerlyjustRMbutYTsucks it's hard not to 😆
dont be hard on urself u can always have multiple biases😔😂😂also han s i got it and changbin s mirror mirror 🔥
Wait u react Straykids “street Ver” is amazing
i think you'd really like the domino dance practice video, im still gonna insist on cheese because its really fun, and silent cry is a really beautiful song featuring a lot of singing from han! also we go is really good and chill, as well as slump
"Shut the fuck up Changbin" is now what I lok forward to in these videos LOL. Although I will say that "you bitch" came close this time :)
ahahaha that man is a problem for sure
no one's recommended this yet so I'm gonna, you need to watch the boxer performance video, it's one of their weirder songs and also one of their oldest (the performance video was made a year or two after it came out) but it's so good!!
Welcome to the blow your mind club. Every song does this, but dam their debut track.
You should check out their performances on kingdom!
I wanna recommend 3rd eye it's still one of my fav songs ever , Awaken too both are on their debut album with district 9 .
Changbin and han are an iconic rap duo , you should watch one of their live performance they almost always write new songs or rap verses for award shows performances
pls react to han solo track called I got it and mirror mirror from changbin milli and f hero their rap * chef kiss * and awaken for rock type
Ay.. Let's go Nick our new Stay😍❤️waiting patiently for ur StrayKids series😂 let's go Part5... more STRAY KIDS 👊🔥🔥🔥🔥
easy literally sounds easy and i cant explain it and thats why it SLAPS
YEP. It's so smooth and it just rides without any effort.
You should react to the TA dance practice, phobia lyrics, and the astronaut and hello stranger music videos. They're all very different songs but all very good in their own way.
If you like district 9 MV, you must try their district 9 LIVE performance. I recommend this one below which is their JAPAN 'Hi-STAY'concert ,and they perform in OT8.
Hi-STAY JAPAN District 9
czcams.com/video/yTlTnSpemr0/video.html
（they upload other performance in Stray Kids Japan CZcams Channel, but this one we dont have official one）
In fact, many LIVE performances in 'Hi-STAY' is incredibly awesome, both their conditions and video quality.
I really enjoyed your reactions in every Straykids videos, thanks so much for your reaction.
I would also love it if you would check out some of skz record. it’s where stray kids drop their self produced non official tracks or covers. I would want you to react to han I got it, alien, wish you back and happy. Changbin cypher and street light and also piece or 조각 which is by changbin and seungmin.
Yeah I'm definitely going to be getting to their solo stuff pretty soon I think!
AHHHHH YES
REACT TO AWAKEN!!
You still haven’t done Ssick. One of their best, but no video. It was considered experimental like The Tortoise and the Hare as well as Maze of Memories. PLEASE react to it. ❤️🙏😇
Will get there! I'm gonna get to everything eventually lol, just been a bit slow recently.
@@6TonGuppy Thank you. Just a reminder. I’ll try to be more patient. If I didn’t enjoy your reactions so much it’d be easier! lol ❤️🙏😇
@@angelasuttles Thanks for watching! 😎