#hello cix

[lee-byounggon]

SEUNGHUN on twitter But if the world was ending, you'd come over, right?

[k-seunghun]

seunghun · cixtory 108

[atiny-for-life]

CIX’s Full Storyline Explained - Masterlist

Ateez's Full Storyline Explained - Masterlist

Xikers' Full Storyline Explained Masterlist

For those who are new to the fandom or have simply never followed the story, here's a full timeline of events and all the symbolism behind the past music videos and short films. Enjoy!

Part 1: Butterfly Effect

Part 2: Bystander, Self Slaughter, Abrupt Absence

Part 3: Broken Family, Numb MV

Part 4: Epilogue 01 - 05

Part 5: Concept Video 1 - 5

Part 6: 정글 (Jungle) M/V

Part 7: Cinema MV

Part 8: Animated Trailer, Visual Teasers

Part 9: 458 MV

Part 10: I’m OK- Animated Trailer

Part 11: Save me, Kill me M/V) , FORGIVENESS OF ENLIGHTMENT

Part 12: SORROWFUL FORGIVENESS

Part 13: FORGIVENESS OF SALVATION

Part 14: THE SAVED ONE

Part 15: Puro e disposto a salire a le stelle

[seunghunies]

I truly have no clue if anyone even uses this site anymore but I just wanted to say, icymi, Seunghun and Woong are now participants in Mnet's new vocal boy group survival show called Build Up so if you have a minute of your day to vote for these two, that'd be highly appreciated! Link to vote

[oceanshines]

i've just started stanning cix not that long ago WHAT DO YOU MEAN THIS IS THE END OF THE HELLO STRANGE PLACE SERIES AND WE'RE PROBABLY NOT GETTING ANY STORY FILMS EVER . like what . i actually hoped yonghee would wake up and we'll get a happy ending or something :((

[restlessmaknae]

@dat-town

YONGHEE Show Champion / 230607

[fallinwoozi]

Hello and welcome to @sluttywoozi's sideblog!

Here you'll find fic recs and general screaming about various kpop groups, including but not limited to: Seventeen, Ateez, Stray Kids, Monsta X, and CIX

Due to the nature of the fics I'll be rec'ing, this is an 18+ only space! Minors please do not interact!

✨em’s svt favs✨

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If you have been blocked on @sluttywoozi, it's likely because your blog was blank and/or ageless. You can send me an ask here and I'll let you know how to get unblocked.

[wellthisissomething]

Whumpy Moments in Music Videos Master List

A.C.E.

Cactus

ATEEZ

Halazia

BAE173

Fifty-Fifty

B.A.P

One Shot (Japanese Version)

BTOB

I'll Be Your Man

Movie

Bus

Liar

CIX

Jungle

Cross Gene

Black or White

DKB

What The Hell

DPR IAN

Seraph | 1 Shot | Mood | Ribbon

E'LAST

Dark Dream

EXO

Monster

GOT7

Flyl/Never Ever

Hard Carry

HuhGak

Hello/I Can Only Say I Want to Die

Infinite

The Eye

INX

Alright

Jeff Satur

Ghost

LimJi

So Bad

MONSTA X

All In

MYTEEN

She Bad

ONER

Rebellious

ONEUS

Come Back Home

Park Jihoon

Nitro

Pentagon

Basquiat

Dr. Bebe

PROJECT JASP.ER

Sadistic

Stray Kids

Freeze

Venom

Taemin

Press Your Number

TRENDZ

New Dayz

TVXQ!

Mirotic

TXT

Puma

VERIVERY

Get Away

VIXX

Fantasy

VooDoo Doll

WINNER

SOSO

[blossomwritesthings]

❦― 𝐧𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

❦― hello there beautiful human!

🥀 and welcome to my little comforting hollow that i call home here in this weird world of ours... i hope you enjoy your stay here.

⇾ ˚ ༘♡ latest pieces:

let everyone know (mark lee smut drabble)

a fist full of pills, and rivers in my eyes (minlix angst & smut series)

weathering your shades of blue (felix x reader angst & smut series)

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masterlist ⇾ ˚ ༘♡ skz ⋆｡˚

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fic recs ⇾ ...[nsfw]◌ೄ skz recs m.list *ೃ༄ ...[sfw]◌ೄ skz recs m.list

my carrd :: ao3

❦― about me

《 blossom

《 proud girlie (afab)

《 monkey ♥ enfj ♥ taurus, sagittarius rising

《 may '04

《 sex-positive christian

《 i've lived all over the world (including south korea)

《 swedish + irish/scottish

《 full-time junior in uni w/a major in creative writing & full-time canine sales specialist

《 saw superm live: 2019 ♥ saw sf9 live: 2022 ♥ saw woodz live: 2023

♫― ults

《 exo (since 2015) ♥ jongin, baekhyun

《 shinee (since 2015) ♥ kibum, taemin

《 vixx (since 2015) ♥ taekwoon, jaehwan

《 nct (since 2016) ♥ mark, doyoung, xiaojun, haechan, renjun, hendery (fuck bro lit ALL of them 👹)

《 stray kids (since 2019) ♥ ot8

《 sf9 (since 2020) ♥ taeyang, zuho

《 the boyz (since 2020) ♥ sunwoo, kevin, eric

✬― casual listener ⇾ enhypen, day6, superm, txt, p1harmony, ateez, onlyoneof, cix, twice, snsd, red velvet, newjeans, le serrafim, viction, infinite, golden child, sunmi, woodz

ツ― other interests ⇾ baking/cooking delicious food, reading and writing filthy smut, youtube gamers (markiplier, daz, etc.), korean r&b/indie music (namely: colde, rad museum, jooyoung, hyukoh, thornapple, jukjae, oceanfromtheblue), taking pics of sunsets, the folk of the air, working out, cats & horses, atla/lok, niche perfumes, horror games/tv shows, kdramas/kmovies

❦― goodbye!

thank you for taking some time out of your day to look over my blog's navigation. i appreciate your support very much! have a wonderful day/night ahead of you~

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[restlessmaknae]

@dat-town

행복했습니다 사랑해 픽스😍

[lee-byounggon]

230412

[atiny-for-life]

Full CIX Storyline Explained - Masterlist

Ateez's Full Storyline Explained - Masterlist

Xikers' Full Storyline Explained Masterlist

A years long journey has recently come to an end and looking back, I'm so very proud of everything CIX have achieved over these years. For those who are new to the fandom or have simply never followed the story, here's a full timeline of events and all the symbolism behind the past music videos and short films. Enjoy!

'HELLO' Chapter 2. Hello, Strange Place - The Story Films

Episode 01. Butterfly Effect

Episode 02. Bystander, Episode 03. Self Slaughter, Episode 04. Abrupt Absence

Episode 05. Broken Family, Numb MV

Epilogue 01 - 05

'HELLO' Chapter 3. Hello, Strange Time

Concept Video 1 - 5

정글 (Jungle) M/V

4th EP Album ‘HELLO’ Chapter Ø. Hello, Strange Dream

Cinema MV

5th EP Album 'OK' Episode 1 : OK Not

Animated Trailer, Visual Teasers

458 MV

6th EP Album 'OK' Episode 2 : I’m OK

Episode 2 : I’m OK- Animated Trailer

(CIX(씨아이엑스) - Save me, Kill me M/V) / Episode 06. FORGIVENESS OF ENLIGHTMENT

Episode 07. SORROWFUL FORGIVENESS

Episode 08. FORGIVENESS OF SALVATION

Episode 09. THE SAVED ONE

Episode 10. Puro e disposto a salire a le stelle

Conclusion

[restlessmaknae]

@dat-town

yonghee · lovers or enemies · 240209

[officialcreepypastareheated]

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Its rude to eavesdrop.

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[boysplanetrecaps]

Build Up Episode 1: Don’t Go

Hello and welcome back to my Build Up recaps! In the last one, we covered the first two “Pre-4” Mission performances -- If You and Every Moment of You. In this post, we’ll cover Don’t Go (Kajima) and wrap up episode 1, finally!

I found some decent links to watch the episodes. 

Episode 1

Episode 2

I’m deliberately hiding them behind a read more since I’m not sure if MNET knows about them and/or if they’ll be there forever, so watch while you can! 

Just a little note before we dive in -- I noticed after I had posted the previous one that Seunghun from CIX has braces! 

I’m just really surprised, because I would have guessed that his agency would have made him take them off for this show, or something. I’m glad he has them if he needs them, for sure -- it’s just a surprise. Knowing this helps explain why he smiles so strangely sometimes. 

Anyway! 

Don’t Go

The next performance is Kajima, Kajima (Don’t Go, Don’t Go). 

A little about the song before we get to the performance. It was originally performed by a singing duo called Brown Eyes, which, per Wikipedia, is “considered one of South Korea's most important R&B groups, given their immense commercial success.” The duo consists of Yoon Gun and Naul, both of whom have gone on to do other stuff. Naul recently did a duo with Sung Sikyung, the guy who first sang Every Moment of You (the previous song on this show). The song Kajima, Kajima won the Best Ballad/R&B Performance award at the 2008 MNET Asian Music awards.

Kajima, Kajima is the miserable wail of a deserted lover begging their partner to come back. Some of the lyrics, per a blog I found: “Stupidly / I still live for you / Where are you? / I need you so much / Oh baby, my only one / Please stop and come back now / Just tell me this is a joke / Simply return to me.” 

Mini Korean lesson: You might recognize the -jima ending from the GOT7 song Stop It, when they say “hajima, hajima” over and over (“hajima” means “don’t). And you heard the “ka” verb at the beginning of the Oneus song Lit, when they say, “Kaja!” (let’s go!) So ka is for go, and -jima is a negative command, so kajima is “don’t go”. Woot! 

Kajima, Kajima is known for a really high note -- a high G#5. I would have to warm up to hit that note at all -- and I’m not confident I could hit it with much resonance. And I’m a mezzo-soprano -- it would be insane to hit that note as a tenor!  Like the other ballads on this show, it’s known for being particularly emotional, but in this case it’s also tricky to sing. That’s why the other guys call it a “hell song.”

So, who would want to take this song on? Why, mister high notes himself, Park Jeup.

Park Jeup was second to choose and chose this song right off, but it took a while for anyone else to join him, to the point that he started to get nervous. But after a bit, 16th ranked Detective Donghun from A.C.E. chose it while there were still spots open in every song. It turns out that Donghun really wanted to sing Breath but chose this song so that he could work with Jeup. Aww! They were on I Can See Your Voice 4 together, so Donghun may have admired Jeup’s voice for a while. They’re “chingus” in the sense that they were born in the same year, 1993, and in Korean culture having someone around who is the same age as you is sort of meaningful, almost like when you meet someone from your home country when you’re abroad.

“Will I be able to sing this song well?” … “I’m sure you’ll do well.”

Also, Donghun proved he’s not scared to tackle tough material when he did an EXO song for his teaser performance. 

By the time Neon chose the song, Ditto, Tomboy, and Shall I Love You Again  were closed, but he seems to choose this song without hesitation. By the time 36th place Hyukjin choose it, the only songs open were this song, Every Moment Of You (the one we just saw), or Breath, but I think he might have really wanted this song anyway. Based on his teaser performance -- that wild metal performance -- he also likes to tackle tough material. (Hyukjin was also born in 1993, making him also a chingu to Jeup and Donghun. Neon is a little younger, about 28 years old.)

In my original assessment of Jeup, I noted that I loved his technique but wasn’t sure about his timbre, but that I’d give him a chance to grow on me. For Hyukjin, I recognized the ambition of what he tried to do and again decided to reserve judgment. About Neon, I said that he has nice, clean vocals, with good technique and a lot of power. And I said that Donghun has an appealing warm vocal color with good breath support, but strains his throat a bit. If I had to pick a favorite voice of the four based on their teaser song, I’d choose Neon, but Donghun wouldn’t be too far behind. This is a group of powerful vocalists, regardless of the category they chose, and I am hopeful that it will turn out well.

The group seems pretty happy to all be working together, and they view each other as talented colleagues, which might make it tricky to divvy up the parts. They’re all really good, so who should sing what? 

Look at how shiny Hyukjin’s suit is! Those gray lines are just lights reflecting off of creases in the material. 

They begin singing the song a bit to test out the waters, and Jeup’s strong clear tenor fills the studio. Over in team Beautiful, Lim Sang Hyun wonders out loud, “Is that the original song playing?” 

LTR: Lim Sanghyun, Taewoo, Jeong Yunseo, Kim Minseo 

They take turns singing a bit and they all sound fantastic. They’re not really sure what to do, because Jeup doesn’t want to take the verse, which he thinks is too low for him, and so he wants to do the chorus, which is a long part. Donghun also wants to do that long part, but decides that it suits Jeup more and decides to do a different part that is more emotional, even if it’s shorter. The rest of the part distribution goes well.

Then we go into a mini montage of Donghun’s struggles in his life. He’s always wanted to sing, and went on various shows to make that happen, but though he made top 10 of Superstar K5 that wasn’t quite good enough, and then he made the debut lineup of that shitshow that was MIXNINE but of course that group didn’t debut. He thought that debuting (in A.C.E.) would make it ok, but it didn’t. I beg to differ, sir! People really like A.C.E.! But I guess it’s not like A.C.E. have hit the highs of BTS and Seventeen, so I understand what he’s saying. “Actually the survival program itself was a bit of a trauma for me,” he adds, and I feel that. These shows seriously should gift each contestant at least 20 hours of a post-show mental health counseling. 

The guys are meeting in some sort of staff room, probably at one of their agencies. Looks like three of them were drinking something cool, but smart Jeup is drinking something hot. Cold stuff is bad for your throat, my friends. Jeup knows where it’s at.

Left to right: Hyukjin, Neon, Donghun, and Jeup

Also, I think Jeup looks so much nicer with his hair this way, sort of parted and brushed back, instead of down over his face like bangs.

Anyway, at this meeting, Donghun is saying, “I want us to decide what kind of thoughts we’ll have when we sing this song, so that we have a unified approach. The song title is Don’t Go, Don’t Go. We can make it about our dreams. I haven’t seen my dream lately, and I hope it comes to me now.”    

The editors play some sad piano music as Donghun’s words sink in. All four of them know what he’s talking about. Honestly, Hyukjin and Jeup know what he means even more than he does -- A.C.E. is about 100x more popular than Jeup’s group was, and about 100,000x more popular than Hyukjin’s current group. 

Hyukjin, partly quoting from the song, says, “Living like a fool is heartbreaking. But we keep living like fools.” Then he smiles incredulously, as if he almost can’t believe that he’s made that connection. Donghun has really hit a nerve here. 

Donghun agrees with Hyukjin, and says, “yes, we keep singing like fools.” He interviews that he wants to reclaim his dream and get it back. 

As the lights go down on performance day, Donghun voiceovers, I want to sing my heart out with no regrets. 

Here’s the full version, no reactions. 

My thoughts:

Damn, that was good. 

Let me nitpick for just a few seconds. Yes, Hyukjin’s voice is a little thin and he strained on the highest notes, and Jeup’s voice is a bit too high in timbre to be my favorite, and Donghun’s voice still sounds strained, like he must be hurting his throat. 

But it all ended up working. I don’t know, man, this was good. For one thing, all the voices are really good individually, and then they also are a great mix. You’ve got the slightly tart Jeup, like a strawberry. You’ve got the bright voice of Hyukjin, like a raspberry. You’ve got the slightly challenging voice of Donghun, a pineapple. And then the smoothest voice, Neon, as a slice of banana mixed in to smooth the whole thing down. It fucking works. I don’t even like this song and I liked listening to their performance. I mean, this is going on my playlist, you guys. This is good shit.

I particularly like Neon’s voice, even though I recognize that it’s not quite as powerful or well trained as the others’. To me, he sounds just a little like Do Kyungsoo and that’s just about the highest compliment I can give to a singer. 

Also, damn, I don’t normally talk about this kind of thing exactly but Park Jeup, in addition to being a real sweetheart, is a really good looking dude. I’m not made of steel, you guys. 

Those cheekbones! Those shoulders! Am I alone on this…? 

The MNET edit, like all the edits so far, is pretty restrained. I guess they told their editors to not do a whole bag of coke before they sat down to their editing control panel. There are a few instant replays of high notes, but they’re blended in to the background mix so it’s not so jarring to listen to. 

All the reaction shots are positive. We see the judges just loving all of them. Vocal Coach Guy even asks, “wait, is this live or playback?” The love seems slightly more focused on Jeup and Donghun, less so on Neon and even less so on Hyukjin, but all four of them get some love, which is nice. 

Solar likes it. I think. I guess? Not sure.

She’s excited Jeup hit that one high note! She tries to hit it too and kind of can’t! 

Backstage, the guys all kind of fall over hearing Jeup’s high note. They almost can’t believe it. Hwanhee kind of hits his own knees with his hands involuntarily. 

When they’re done, the judges give them a standing ovation!

They lavish praise on all of them, again focusing a little less on Hyukjin and a little more on Donghun. They think that the four of them could just debut as a group the way they are. Basically, the judges agree with me, so that’s good.

Vocal Coach Guy points out that Jeup doesn’t just hit high notes -- he sings with emotions. Then he adds that Jeup has nice shoulders, so that was funny. Wendy asks about Jeup’s range, and he says that he can sing any male song, that they’re all in his range. 

Dahee says that it was nothing but compliments, so the question is, who could win? Backstage, the boys aren’t sure either. No one floats Hyukjin’s name as top tier, but the other three get named, and the boys think that all four were excellent. 

So, who wins…?

Baekho, Solar, and Vocal Coach Guy all vote for Donghun from A.C.E. 

Eunkwang and Jaehwan vote for Neon, and Wendy votes for Park Jeup. 

So, Donghun wins! Vocal Coach Guy lavishes a bit more praise on him, saying that it was an easy choice to pick Donghun because his voice is so good. 

And then, oh guys, it’s so sad. Donghun starts to cry, saying it’s the first time he’s been recognized like this. 

The judges are a little uncomfortable because the “win” is kind of a minor one, and they’re surprised at his reaction. It’s like this is what Donghun has been waiting his whole life to hear. 

Donghun adds that he didn’t expect to win, that he was focusing on working well with his team.

Backstage, the guys are like, oof, wouldn’t want to have to follow that! 

So who is up next? Team Breath. The editors do that thing like they’re trying to trick you into thinking that the performance is starting, but the episode is almost over and this obviously just a teaser. Thanks, editors. Theditors. 

Since we’re at the end of the episode, I’ll end the post here. Woo! Finally to the end of the first episode! I'm only two full episodes behind... great! Anyway, I'll see you in the next one, and thanks as always for reading. <3

[kpopmakesmequestionmylifechoices]

Songs you shouldn't sleep on in 2024 (January - June)

This gotta be my personal worst year in terms of kpop releases. There are too many songs that sound the same? So the only ones I actually liked are these:

January

♡ CIX | Lovers or Enemies

♡ MATZ | Hongjoong & Seonghwa from ATEEZ

February

♡ P1Harmony | Killin' It

♡ LE SSERAFIM | Easy

♡ from20 | Demon

March

♡ HELLO GLOOM | Mamacita

April

♡ TXT | Deja Vu, The Killa

♡ YUQI | Freak

May

♡ ATEEZ | WORK, Blind, Siren

♡ A.C.E | Supernatural

June

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