#era: skinz

[sehnisweet]

Millnine 🐭🦊

[onlyoneofsideblogtrashheep]

[220214]

[vampirebiter]

i love having a concert to look forward to on the horizon because it gives me an excuse to plan a slayful outfit <3

[omegaremix]

Omega Radio for May 19, 2021; #264.

Main Source ft. Nas + Akinyele + Large Professor: “Live At The BBQ”

Scarface: “Seen A Man Die”

EPMD: “So What Cha Sayin’”

PMD ft. Das EFX: “What Cha Gona’ Do”

Black Sheep: ”Strobelight Honey” (original)

Leaders Of The New School: “International Zone Coaster”

Live Squad: “Heartless” (YG’s RMX)

Beatnuts: “Props Over Here”

Big Daddy Kane: “Prince Of Darkness”

Trends Of Culture ft. Grand Puba: “Valley Of The Skinz”

Grand Puba ft. Mary J. Blige: “Check It Out”

Organized Konfusion: “Stress (Extra P)”

Ultramagnetic MCs: “Ego Trippin’”

Almighty RSO: Revenge Of Da Badd Boyz”

Tucka Da Huntaman: “Watch Your Back”

Diamond D: “Sally Got A One-Track Mind”

D-Nice: “Call Me D-Nice”

De La Soul: “Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey)”

Jungle Brothers: “Straight Out The Jungle”

Gang Starr ft. Nice & Smooth: “DWYCK”

Nice & Smooth: “Sometimes I Rhyme Slow”

Outkast: “Benz Or A Beamer”

Slick Rick ft. Warren G: “Behind Bars”

Disposable Heroes Of Hip-Hoprisy: “Television, The Drug Of The Nation”

Lost Boyz: “Renee”

Kurious Jorge: “Uptown Hit”

Cypress Hill: “How I Could Just Kill A Man”

Masta Ace: “Born To Roll”

Grand Daddy IU: “Sugar Free”

Craig Mack: “Get Down” (Q-Tip RMX)

Keith Murray: “The Most Beautifullest Thing In This World”

Kriss Kross ft. Supercat: “Alright”

LL Cool J: “I Shot Ya”

Goodie Mob: “Soul Food”

Arrested Development: “Tennessee”

Paris: “Outta’ My Life”

Intelligent Hoodlum: “Grand Groove”

Thug Life ft. 2Pac: “Pour Out A Little Liquor”

Naughty By Nature: “Written On Your Kitten” (QDIII RMX)

Bonus Omega; second hip-hop, rap, golden-era set.

[skinzchoerim]

Something I noticed in undergrOund idOl and seOul drift is that first meetings, and specifically first eye contact, seem to be very important, and it almost feels like they're recognising something familiar in each other. At first I thought that those longing looks and widened eyes were just a way to show that they're instantly attracted to each other, but some of those first interactions seem way too emotionally loaded for that, especially kyujung in seOul drift - it seems like they're seeing each other for the first time, but also like they were searching for each other, and once they see one another, they instantly know this is the person they've been driving/waiting for.

I was reading the lyrics to candy bOmb, and in the middle of a fun beat and lyrics about instant attraction there's the sudden, more thoughtful and distorted bridge and the line "I can't figure out who it is, I might've left you behind".

It seems like they're connected in every alternate universe, they know each other in libidO and skinz (we never see their first meetings there), so there's recognition when they first meet in the solos, and once again in seOul drift.

Here's where it gets really interesting. From savanna to asOiaf, none of the MVs feel like they're taking place in the real world. Starting from where the units first appear, libidO is the only MV that doesn't take place in Seoul but on an island, in a kind of summer paradise. skinz has both Seoul and the seaside. Since begin to seOul drift, we have been only in Seoul. With each era, we seem to come out of the metaphorical space of the subconscious and into the real world in which these stories have been taking place. To the surface, if you will.

The description says that "loneliness and wandering are sped up to the verge of hallucination and to their very limit, and raced to the extent that they can no longer keep up and get exhausted". I'm having a lot of trouble deciphering this, but considering how important driving vehicles is in their MVs, they've been trying to get to the verge of this hallucination since savanna. The hallucination keeps resetting and separating them, but they keep racing along their own path on instinct and eventually stumble across someone they feel they've been missing from their life, whose lack of presence by their side ignited their loneliness.

This makes more sense if you watched the part of my theory about the role of technology in their MVs and the meaning of delusion in skinz. Delusion and hallucination can easily be used interchangeably in this metaphor, which, in the case of my interpretation, means that societal norms create our reality and distort it to be something untrue to our nature.

Societal pressure forces them apart, but their instincts are stronger, so in the end, they always find their way back to each other. Just like no matter how hard societal norms try to suppress queerness, it always comes up to the surface, whether within an individual or in society at large.

[staurora]

Skinz: One Year Later

It doesn’t matter who you are

It doesn’t matter whether you are black, white, Hispanic, Asian, male, or female.

I’m saying that your mere skin doesn’t matter.

All that matters is you.

Instinct Part.2 was released a little over a year ago, to a mixed reception. On the heels of a controversial Instinct Part.1 era, a steep climb in popularity, and then the sad and mysterious exit of leader and main vocalist Love, many fans were in a sensitive spot. The harsh, unforgiving soundscape of “Skinz” provoked mixed responses.

I’ll save my analysis of the Instinct albums for another day. For now, I want to analyze Skinz as a stand-alone entity.

The music video of Skinz tells a tale of obsession and delusion. A desperate and crude yet unapologetic kind of love and desire. Lyrically, it refers love as something parasitic, describing the intense desire to be as close to a loved one as possible, expressed in the lyrics:

“Face off. Show me what’s behind the mask, under skin”

“I can’t take it anymore

Dig deeper into my skin”

The music video seems to directly, purposefully contrast to the Libido video. Where Libido had a clear narrative with the members playing characters inside the story, Skinz steps out of it, going from a dreamlike fiction to something very close to reality. The members become more themselves. Idols, in their practice room, their van, their beach trip. Even the aspect ratio of the videos enforces this. Libido is cinematic, wide with black bars on the top and bottom. Skinz is full screen and opened up, a broader more lifelike perspective.

Additionally, the watcher is now given a perspective. You play a fan of OnlyOneOf. You watch their van. Your hands tweet about them.

The dark sound of the music video really struck me when I first watched. The English words like “parasite” and “delusion” and “underneath the skin” really popped out.

My immediate thought was a critique of obsessive fan culture, and I think that’s a large, important part of it for sure. The fan is watching OnlyOneOf from afar and desires to become closer, to know more, to see every little thing about their idols. It grows to a point of delusion, as referenced in the lyrics “Delusion in my head spread like a parasite”. The fan can barely tell reality from fiction, taking their joy from imagining themself being closer to OnlyOneOf, catching intimate moments they never would have seen before. Member A feeding member B! Member C being shirtless! And then they turn to the fan and pull them in to join the fun!

And the fan blinks back to reality, the bridge between these worlds always represented by the glitching of the music video and their phone screen. And they can feel satisfied having enjoyed time with the ones they love, as much as possible even if it’s only in their imagination.

Now, I use harsh language like delusion and obsession, but is it so severe? That’s… hard to say. I mean it must be right? How can you refer to this love as parasitic and delusional if it’s not a bad thing? But the description of the track, which I wrote at the top of the post, is so kind. The group is saying they love you, the fans, regardless of superficial things. Additionally, though the music is grating and dark, the moments imagined by the fan are not especially evil or invasive. It’s a vacation. Grilling outside and then walking and playing on the beach. The fan is watching OnlyOneOfs van in the beginning, but were they stalking it or did they happen across it?

I believe the morality of the fan is left intentionally vague because there are so many different fans with different beliefs and boundaries. There are fans who truly have problems with delusions or obsessiveness, and there are those who indulge a bit too much, and those who have the mental state to maintain well-drawn boundaries, and casual fans who would never think to cross any lines.

OnlyOneOf is acknowledging the state of Kpop fan culture, with little further commentary. Their clearest message is their description which I put at the very beginning of this analysis. To summarize it, “I love you, your mere skin doesn’t matter.”

That’s exactly what idols are for isn’t it? When someone is lonely, lacking friends or family or other relationships, when a kid needs someone to look up to, when someone’s life is stressful and their dreams seem unattainable, idols are meant to fill that gap.

(Well, they’re meant to make money for their company. But they wouldn’t make that money if they weren’t doing something beneficial for their fans.)

For me personally, idols have held many different roles. An inspiration to work hard, a muse, a companion when I’ve had no friends, a depiction of healthy masculinity… there is something very meaningful hiding beneath the scary fan culture and the money hungry companies.

It’s the relationship between fan and artist. A relationship which I feel is so perfectly captured in this video. Honestly, I’m so impressed looking at it after so much thought. The fan can be read as completely respectful and innocent, or someone as deeply bad and unhealthy as a sasaeng with serious problems.

In fact, I don’t think it needs to be one or the other. I think many fans engage in many different kinds of fan culture of varying degrees of respectfulness. It’s all based upon personal values and the depths of obsessiveness. I think that’s what’s really at the core of this video. That’s why this was truly a fear of artistry once again from the creative team.

I would love to hear any disagreements or additional points from other fans though if anyone would like to add on! I think there’s plenty more that could be analyzed here down to the smallest details!

I mean I’ve been holding these thoughts for… well, since the music video released. OnlyOneOf really has so much depth to their releases. Maybe next I’ll over analyze seoul collection or the underground idol universe or something.

[qazastra]

Going with the obvious for kpop group ask: OnlyOneOf?

✦ my first bias: junji! i really liked the way he danced (i always like the dancers) and then i saw his face and it was over ✦ my current bias(es): alllll of them but mostly dance line (junji rie and yoojung) ✦ my album and/or era ranking (or favorite of each): oooh i have only been around since 2021 so i don't think i can properly rank eras but my fav promotion eras styling-wise include produced by pt 1 (the looks for designer are so interesting to me) and instinct pt 1. honestly the no-eyes look was kind of legendary. certainly made junji's dance skills even more impressive but i hope he never has to do it again lmao poor guy! albums.... hm i really like the instinct duology because of the instrumental interludes (which are unfortunately not on spotify but i've found them on youtube), it really impresses upon the listener that they're telling a story and i think that's so neat. ✦ how i got into them: an internet acquaintance got me interested in kpop in 2020, they made me an 89-video-long playlist and i think the savanna music video was on there? and other people in the discord server saw i was getting into kpop so i got a lot of song recs. eventually i found dora maar on spotify. i can pinpoint the exact moment when i start talking about ooo online lol. it was may 2021! ✦ which member would be my best friend: i like to joke that nine is my bff :-) idk he seems really fun to hang out with and easy for me to get along with and i'd love to talk to him about music production! i'm rlly interested in it, in high school i thought i wanted it to be my career for a minute and i ended up taking a class in college so i have a tiny bit of experience, and the production choices he makes in several of his covers remind me of stuff i would do. plus our birthdays are only hours apart which is wild. and we are both perfectionists oops ✦ something i associate with them (or with a bias/any member): i actually happened upon a shirt at a thrift store over the summer that is just a different colorway of a shirt junji wore for skinz promos, so i guess that! and paper cranes because of begin :-)

thank u for the ask etienne! <3

[yuliangs]

skinz era junji was something else

[my3dartblog]

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[onlyoneofupdates]

[220115] OnlyOneOf members twitter

[#준지] skinz💕

[binniesoob]

it's just me and you, and you and me... and your friend steve nine

[skinzchoerim]

sometimes I doubt whether I experience hyperfixations but then onlyoneof release new music and suddenly I have to constantly rewatch their mvs, their songs play on a loop in my head and I obsessively read and analyse their lyrics and mvs which makes it hard to fall asleep and when I inevitably wake up in the middle of the night their songs are my first thought

[binniesoob]

or when the crack video is the original video itself

skinz mv behind pt. 1

[anoodleyqueer]

impulse bought an onlyoneof album at the kpop store by me and the cashier gave me an extra poster?????

[emeraldbabygirl]

Love the behind for skinz especially that part where lil yoojung says ‘the wind was so strong it blew my snot out’ and Nine’s like ‘I thought that was beach wind’ like ewww yoojung sweetie :( oh but it was so cute watching them and hearing the way they talk about each other it’s so cute I love how sweet and intimate they are with each other it’s so wholesome and sexy at the same time uwu

[xumoonhao]

hi maddie! I hope this is okay to ask, but could you rec a few onlyoneof songs? Their latest comeback with the waist dance part really caught my attention! I’ve heard libido and sage and enjoyed both of them

yaaaaas its so okay to ask~ 💖💖💖 i would definitely recommend all of their solos, but in particular begin by yoojung, be free by kyubin, and beyond by nine are my favs from that era of theirs :3 outside of that id say fragile, savanna, dora maar (this one especially is sooooo good), a song of ice and fire, and like…all songs off instinct pt. 2!!! that whole mini is SO GOOD (skinz is def a bit weird sounding but that’s just the onlyoneof flavour) but suit dance and gaslighting are my favourites <<<333