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Code: Dusk (stylized as CØDE: DUSK) is the second studio album released by Error, the much anticipated release hitting the shelves on May 2, 2015. 

Tracklist

01. Heart Attack 02. Think Hole 03. Underwater 04. 아름다워 (Beautiful) 05. Lost in the Dream 06. Chronosaurus 07. Phobia 08. Moondance 09.  아름다워 (Beautiful), Acoustic Ver

Music Videos

아름다워 (Beautiful) released on the evening of May second, marking the second round of group promotions the nine members would go through as a whole. The dance practice was released three days following, and a week later, a choreography version of the music video landed on the group’s channel as a thank you to fans for accumilating a high number of views in such a short time. 

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Concept  ⤻ Virus 

Beautiful follows the storyline nestled with Virus, with lyrics that discuss one going crazy from interest in another, wanting to express their love for that person, despite knowing the metaphorical rose has thorns, and their admiration may end only in pain. 

Code ⤻ Story

[ Beautiful ] ‘ In a setting with contrasting shades of light and dark, we are given a new perspective through Jaebeom. While he is free to roam about the mysterious structure, lining the vast hallway is each a room containing a different scenery, and of course: a different member. While each of his members are trapped inside their respective rooms, Jaebeom, free, appears to do more than his simple ‘monitor’ role, and sneaks items to his members, each item matching up with the eight respective rooms lining the white hallway, a sign of strength for each of the members to be reunited, a glimpse of truth in order to leave the rooms they appear to be locked inside, concluding with each door opening, and each member stepping into the white hall, as if they had never been locked in at all. The hall becomes monochromatic as the eight follow Jaebeom deeper into the hall, into the unknown.

common pulled photocards from the album ! 

Promotions

A total of five performances throughout the month, Error was able to showcase their talent amongst seniors in the industry with title  아름다워 (Beautiful). While none of their b-sides on the album contained a song with intense choreography to match the title, the boys had the chance to sing Chronosaurus on their Show Champion stage as part of the era’s goodbye performance. 

07.05.15, M Countdown (winner - BTS’ I Need You)

08.05.15, Music Bank (winner - BTS’ I Need You)

15.05.15, Inkigayo (winner - EXID’s Ah Yeah)

23.05.15, Show! Music Core (winner - Kim Sungkyu’s The Answer)

27.05.15, Show Champion (winner - Shinee’s View)

Extra

𝄞 While the group had yet to recieve their first win, with this era, a steady flood of new fans came to support the rookies as ciphers. With the small boost in popularity, Error was able to do more extra-curricular activities, and an increase in the members’ confidence as well as number of v-lives was discovered. 

𝄞 The boys of Error used their time backstage to get to know their fellow artists, and as revealed in a live on the evening of the seventeenth, member Jin stated that he had begun speaking with the older BTS members after their showcases, and had thus become friends. It was also implied the younger members gained new friends as well.  

𝄞 Leishen saw a boost in popularity among fans, and this era was quoted to belong to either he, or Jaebeom. Both members started a friendly rivalry in relation to the happenings of the fandom, but nothing more than simply goofing off occurred. 

𝄞 May twenty-first saw Error’s first fansign event. The members described the experience as ‘eye-opening’ and ‘exciting’, and are altogether eager to reunite with the fans again. During it, fans were given a treat of members Kiha and Sol idly singing to Pretty U, and later on, View. Near the end, the members were to perform a ‘part-switch’ version of their new song, Beautiful, which as expected, ended in complete disaster, making the fan event a remarkable success. 

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Intro to: Error (stylized as Intro to: ERRØR) is the first studio album released on November 25, 2014. With a total of ten tracks, this album contains a variety of sounds blended into one album to showcase the group’s talent as well as to delve into what may suit each member best.

Tracklist

01. FERMATA 02. 태풍 (The Eye) 03. Stealer 04. Ribbon in the Sky 05. Bad  06. KILLER 07. Boxer 08. Pretty U (예쁘다) 09. I GUESS I NEED U 10. Ghost

Music Videos

태풍 (The Eye) was released on November 25, 2014 at noon, marking it as the group’s official debut. The album was released the following day, and the dance practice was released on the twenty-ninth.

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Bad made its release on December 12, 2014, a full music video much like The Eye, as a continuance of the cinematic storyline brought along by previous releases. Despite having choreography of its own, Bad was only performed once during the group’s promotional period, as companion to The Eye’s goodbye stage.

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Pretty U (예쁘다) was released after the promotional period made its conclusion, on December 30th, with three following dance practices serving as gifts to the fans of the blooming group all labeled ‘love ver’, ‘letter ver’, and ‘dear cipher ver’.

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Concept ⤻ Virus

While Pretty U has a vibe that matches along with Vision, the title track and Bad are nestled within the Virus concept. In both songs, the lyrics suggest chasing after a bad girl, and in the other, finding the courage to leave a poor relationship despite having lovelorn feelings. 

Code  ⤻ Story

[ The Eye ] ‘ We are met again with Kiha, the previous last man standing in the Error music video. His body is whole, so it assumed the ending of the prior music video was instead a deconstruction on something unseen by the human eye. While standing alone, Kiha appears to be in reflection of a night previous, where he’d been unwillingly dragged across a dirt path, kicking and screaming until being left abandoned amongst nothing but rubble and a packaged box, his clothes grimy and bloody from an unseen ordeal. He pulls a paper bag over his head and returns to the ground, falling unconscious.

In the next few scenes, we see an abandoned structure, in great detail—filled with furniture, though ragged, a sign of life. The package is brought into focus, and the members are found together at a table as the lyrics bring up forgetting about someone, letting go of their memory. The lyrics suggest that thinking of the memories with this unseen loved one brings them great agony, with Ezra seeking to cover Jin’s eyes in one shot, and Jaebeom fighting with Leishen in another, showing that with one duo, they want to hide from these painful memories and run from them, and Jaebeom seeks to fight against them. Realizing that he is instead hurting his fellows by fighting it, Jaebeom backs away, fear chilling at him, as he is pulled into a closet labeled as such by another member, Ace, who has already succumbed to this fear. From there, they watch Kiha stagger from where he had been attacked, as if he was the source of this terror.

The following scenes show each member in small groups going separate directions, always wanting to stay together, but going their separate ways regardless. We’re brought back to Kiha alone, the loss of his members a terrible shock to him, leaving him isolated in the large structure, looking back on the events that unfolded and only being able to shed tears when thinking of their departure. As much as he would like to, he can not to stand on his own and move forward by himself. He’s alone, and he feels trapped. 

We find the other members elsewhere, together, yet still in the same building. Jin is at the forefront, holding a device that appears akin to a light. The members are all huddled together, as if they cannot meet up with Kiha. The light switches on, and from outside the stone building, in the midst of a storm, we see the floor from where the golden glow was unleashed. At the very same time, we return to the Kiha who lay unconscious. As soon as the light-switch is sounded, awakens, face to face with a street-light overhead. He pulls the paper bag off his head, as if he’s dumbfounded by the ‘dream’ he’d awoken from. Near his body, the final shot is a wallet, assuming to belong to him, with a picture jutting out with nine boys present in the picture.

[ Bad ] ‘ From the start of the MV, we see Jin sprinting from an unseen individual. In some shots, they appear to be gaining on him, but with each step, we only see colored fog, and no person behind him, hinting that the one chasing him cannot be seen by the naked eye, or possibly, that they are shrouded in the fog and darkness of the scenery around him. We’re then cut to a shot of a blonde woman, standing alone in a colored room, a clue that this may be who Jin runs from. 

Each of the other members appear to be alone in a room including a mirror. One of which room we see is mostly made up of tiles, including a sink and the mirror is shattered but we still eye their reflection. The room is dirty, and the members have a hand wrapped up as if each one of them had tried to punch through the mirror and shatter it completely. The first difference in each mirrored room is with Jem, sitting in a purple-colored room on a chair, surrounded sparsely by plants and mirrors in different sizes, sitting in front of a mirror where he is staring at his own reflection. The next different scene we find Sol sitting in a bedroom under swinging lights, again, in front of a mirror. He looks to his right into his reflection, and the member looking back at him is Leishen. 

Throughout, we see Jin running away in darkness, and the woman making chase by way of going through the mirrors, making the allusion that these reflectors are actually portals, or doorways, to different areas. There is a pink hallway full of them however, covered up by paper, thus she cannot seem to gain access. Ezra and Ace appear in two matching rooms, with the looking glass all over the walls, ceiling and floors, to which they sit, trapped, and hiding from the woman who tries to enter. 

Jin finally stops running, and the person chasing him catches up with him. He turns to face them, but he is not met with the blonde woman seen before, but instead, a vision of himself. Turns out, what had been behind him the entire time, was a mirror, and looking back at him was his own face. He takes slow strides from the object to which he had run from, finally braving the courage to face this truth, and closed the gap between himself and the mirror. The Jin looking back at him smiles, we see a glitch, and it’s suddenly Kiha looking back at him, and stepping away, out of focus. The other members inch closer to their own mirrors, as if to check their reflection for its’ audacity, and disappear from where they had been sitting or standing, being pulled inside, and through the mirror to an unknown place. The video ends with Jin, staring into an empty doorway, reflecting everything around him but himself.

[ Pretty U ] ‘ Welcome to Vision! A dark, very sizeable brick building is met with light as Leishen and Eli pull open the doors allowing sunlight to stream through the brick building, and immediately upon the light reaching the ground, a packed vehicle spills inside, driven by Jin. Immediately, Jem and Ezra are found inside a building similar to that of a school with spray paint and posters. While Jin, Leishen and Eli unpack the car and prep the dark building, Ace, Kiha, Jaebeom and Sol are found at a restaurant, eating lunch. This shows each member in a lighter setting than previous MVs, so it stands to reason, they are in a similar world to that of Adore U, untouched by the pain and misery of the Virus. 

A food fight is brought on by Jem between his group and Ace’s, and the members engage in a very messy battle, unbothered by the other residents of the restaurant—and of course, why would they be, when this is a world where anything goes, and any broken rules from joy and well-good fun are not to be looked upon with disgrace. Noting the mess they started, Ezra and Jem make a run for it, and their members coated with table condiments give chase. Chaos ensues throughout the city, with Ezra and Kiha spray-painting an abandoned structure, and the others of the two groups going to a bowling alley and playing in the absence of all over-head lights. 

The following morning, the members continue their train of chaos by vandalizing public properties with their own made stickers, even taking a mostly empty bus around town while the other half of the group decorates the brick building in preparation for a great party. Another day well-wasted, the boys can be seen running and jumping in joy and glee under a night of celebration with fireworks lighting up the sky. Finally, the party starts with Jaebeom and Sol running through the sliding wooden door of the brick building with their car, and the members hold their party all in good fun, blissfully ignorant of their Virus side and what terror may come with the truth of it.

Promotions

Starting on the evening of November 27th, stages can be seen throughout three weeks of the following month, complete with three presences on stage, once each week. Unfortunately, through three weeks and three stages, Error has not recieved their first win with The Eye.

Stage Outfits 

11.27, M Countdown

12.7, SBS Inkigayo

12.13, Show! Music Core

Trivia

𝄞 For this era, each member stayed with their natural hair-color and style, though Sol was the first to mention in a VLive after their official debut that he wouldn’t mind dyeing his hair next time around, curious about what color would fit him the best.

𝄞 Pretty U was originally filmed in the late summer, shortly after the release of Adore U, but its release was initially delayed until December because Jin and Sol agreed it would make a precious gift to fans during the cold holiday season.

𝄞 Ribbon in the Sky saw the birth of song-writer Jaebeom. Working closely with Sol, Kiha and the company’s staff, Jaebeom wanted to bring forth a song calling out corruption in day to day life with the relation of the social system and media.

𝄞 Boxer was originally talked about to be the group’s title track, but after much discussion, The Eye ended up being chosen.

𝄞 There weren’t very many solo lives during this era, however, members Kiha and Sol often had duo lives, talking about working on the music videos and the interpretations of the lyrics and storyline. Starting out as awkward as one would expect, the two grew very confident in front of the camera that separated them from fans very quickly over time, showcasing bright and giddy personalities on screen as the direct result of finally debuting. 

𝄞 Unexpectedly, Jin was the member with the most solo lives through the group’s promotional period, and after the goodbye stage. Often joined for a short time by Jaebeom and Leishen, the oldest member of Error spent a lot of time talking with fans about working towards their debut and everything in between.