#smtm 9

[thesquirrelqueer]

& Juliet 9/17/24 Notes

- michael!may, makai!francois, tiernan!anne, dan!romeo, kate!benvolio, phil!lord cap, alaina!lady cap, joe!richard

- makai holding a plushie when he’s asleep in the carrige

- michael and makai are being very cute tonight

- someone laughed at “what’s done is done” and drew kept pointing at them on all the other quote jokes as if to say “this guy gets it”

- bex smiled at me during LTL

- jas winked at me during SMTM

- drew like… running his thumb down joe’s bottom lip and chin during SMTM

- dan doing a bounce on THAT part of LMLYD

- watching a tear physically fall off of dan’s face at the end of OMT and then him being teary eyed into the end of the scene before TTWII

- dan’s mic didn’t go on at first during his verse of OMT

- phil and alaina, the first capulets where I can believably see the two of them actually being in love

- dan talking to kate during SUBG and saying like “dude i’m freaking out I don’t know what to do”

- makai “on the verge of an autistic meltdown” vibes before SOMH

- makai and michael almost kiss at the end of WWFM

- tiernan got huge applause in the gap between the ending of TTWII

- tiernan and drew doing probably one of my absolute favorite versions of the scene before IWITW (reprise) where they’re both like super emotional with it

- phil and alaina as the bouncers during the scene between francois and lance pointing at random names on the list and trying to figure out how to pronounce them

- dan spinning the dagger in his hand in a cool way before running off stage during problem

- joe doing a little hair flip upon learning he was playing friar laurence

- megan smiling at me when she did her pose during problem

[f-ngrl]

Under Seongsu Bridge

... is a Korean music crew. Their name refers to Seongsu bridge in Seongsu-dong, which is the neighborhood they’re from. They have 6 members, are part of FLOCC and have Paloalto (who also lives in the area) as their biggest supporter. They released a collab album in 2021 which is hiphop and r&b (song recs at the bottom of the post).

It is said that they met in middle school where 365lit was bullied by the other members and then they became friends (?) - however, the crew wasn’t founded until 2019.

From left to right: 356lit, BIRTHDAYCAKEiii, Jupiter Kim, Ray Shin, web., toigo

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They have a crew youtube channel where they post vlogs and MVs. If you spreak Korean, you can watch the vlogs and find out more about them.

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365LIT

김민성 (Kim Min-seong) | 1998.04.09 | ig, soundcloud

he is a rapper and his style is energetic rap/hiphop

he participated in smtm 9 and 10

he has many connections and friends in khh and features often with other rappers

jupiter kim is his older brother

song example

BIRTHDAYCAKEiii

이정빈 (Lee Jung-bin) | ig, soundcloud

his music style is indie pop and indie rock, example mv

he mostly works with the other crew members or alone

Jupiter Kim

김목성 (Kim Mok-sung) | 1996.07.10 | ig, soundcloud, youtube

(on the right in the photo - left is 365lit)

he is a rapper, singer (?) and producer

he recently changed his rap name. his old name was (just) jupiter

he does different styles, you could call it an experimental/artsy kind of hiphop?

he was briefly on smtm9

apart from the crew members, he often works with zene the zilla

he was in the military 2021-2022 and missed dearly esp. by 365lit

365lit is his younger brother

song example

Ray Shin

신준현 (Shin Joon-hyun) | 1998.12.14 | ig

he is a rapper

he is relatively new as a solo artist

he released his first EP “Denim Dream” 5 months ago and only collaborated with crew members on it

song example

web.

ig, (no info? :()

he is a singer and his songs are r&b and ballad style

he usually works with the other crew members only

he has quite a few MVs and visualizers on usb’s yt channel, example

toigo (토이고)

주병우 (Joo Byung-woo) | 1998.07.24 | ig, soundcloud, twitter

he is a rapper, his style is active & fast hiphop, example

it’s very hard to find him not wearing a hat

he’s a bit of a comedian and very active on twitter

he was on smtm9, 10, and 11 and like 365lit is relatively active in the khh scene

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The crew will release their new collab album “UNDER SEONGSU BRIDGE II” in May. The song “Seongsu Freestyle” by Jupiter Kim, toigo, 365lit was already pre-released recently.

If you don’t know where to start, here 2 song recs:

[khiphop-discussions]

2023 Khiphop-Discussions Awards Nomination Form is now OPEN!!!

You'll have until December 22nd, 11:59 PM PST to send in you nominations. I will then put out the Voting Form at some point during that weekend!

List of people who can't be nominated for Achievement Award: Tablo, Epik High, Jay Park, Simon D, Paloalto, Giriboy, The Quiett

Changes for 2023: "Best Live Performance", "Best Music Video", and "Best Producer" have been added this year to replace the SMTM related awards. Can't believe it took this long to think to put a "Best Music Video" category but oh well, better late than never.

You'll have to log in to a gmail account to vote but that's because I only want people to be able to nominate once. I don't have access to or collect any personal data!

EDIT: This page might be helpful, especially for the Best New Artist nomination. That one is always the hardest tbh.

[theharrowing]

Now I just watch too much SMTM and see Code Kunst’s cats on Instagram all the time. Spiraling into Khiphop is such a time, really 😂😂 and now all the hiphop and Kpop collabs are wild. TXT putting out a remix with Woodie and pH-1 plus SKZ and Tiger JK? That’s crazy, really. And Changbin making it passed the first round of SMTM 9 when being judged by Justhis? It’s such a strange time to be in Kpop 😂😂

the collabs are super cool! i was very excited to see Tiger JK with Stray Kids! i haven't been watching any of the shows, but that's awesome news for Changbin. i believe it was a clip from SMTM that i watched with Youngji and she was incredible, but i am not 100% sure.

i'm more into the like......dreamy, indie side of the tangential-to-kpop side of things (like miso, maddox, jiwoo, bibi, woodz, etc.) but i definitely appreciate hip hop and will look into some of these artists that you have mentioned!!! i always need more music in my life.

[dutchannanas]

I am so incredibly distracted, somehow I ended up looking back into SMTM 9 and oh my god the memories 😂 what a season lol

[krinndnz]

A year and change after the long post about the potassium experiment, I reached my weight-loss goal. This is a quick, minimally-structured thought-dump about it. As before, this is part of a wider conversation that starts with A Chemical Hunger.

Methodology: I mostly kept doing what I'd been doing. Turned up the exercise dial a bit, turned down the potassium dial a bit. Both still, AIUI, quite high compared to American baseline. Some bad news — in addition to whatever confounding factors were present last time, there's a few extra ones now from my life in general going very poorly. As before, here's the data, Creative Commons Zero, good luck with whatever you try on it. After making it to one year of being fairly diligent, I decided to let things vary and see what happened — on the one hand, I'd gotten far enough towards my personal goal that I wasn't too fussed about the last 10%, and on the other hand, if this works in general and even work when you're kinda half-assing it, that too is great news.

Interpretations: There's multiple ways this could go. Here are a few that were easy to think of.

Potassium or potassium-plus-exercise caused me to lose weight

Exercise caused me to lose weight and potassium was irrelevant

Something else caused me to lose weight

I would prefer to believe that potassium-plus-exercise caused me to lose weight. The data I have and my experience of gathering/being that data, to some extent support that conclusion. Flipping that around, if I ask "does that data rule out this conclusion?" no it absolutely does not. But it's important to note that the exercise-only conclusion is only slightly less-well-supported and the none-of-the-above explanation is much-less-well-supported but certainly not ruled out. I have a preferred explanation, but all three of these explanations are live.

My subjective experience of the thing was that there was an easy part and a hard part. In the easy part I lost weight at a pretty rapid and consistent pace. In the hard part, my weight changed less and went back and forth more than it went down. If you buy into SMTM's "something is screwing up people's lipostats" theory, this is very consistent with that theory: potassium reduced or removed the something, my weight briskly dropped back to a healthy range (the first 9 months of the graphs) and then stabilized. However, the competing theory of "Krinn was super out of shape and then she started exercising" is also supported by the graphs (not shown on the graphs: my fairly poor 2022 exercise habits — my long-term exercise habits have had some good stretches, but the plague years did not do good things for me there!). I'm not sure whether it matters that I shifted from mostly treadmill time to having a couple of walks around the neighborhood that I can do pretty much on autopilot (shout-out to Mike Duncan's Revolutions, this show is the first time podcast as a medium has clicked for me and it's a great show). I do think, though, that exercise is a bit more complicated than I was really grasping. That, in turn, makes me glad that I'm tracking three exercise metrics rather than just one — if I was going to track only one, it'd be exertion, but exertion, exercise minutes, and step count, together make it possible to at least take a guess at what qualities a day's exercise had.

Regarding my own questions from the first post: • How safe is this? When I made the first post I was antsy about "adding this much potassium to your diet is probably safe for people in generally good health" but now I'm pretty sure it's true. Some health problems can take a long time to present themselves, but adding this much of something to your diet for two years and having it be fine, is pretty persuasive evidence that the thing is probably fine. It could still easily turn out to have negative health impacts that are important, but a huge swath of the things you'd be worried about, are vanishingly unlikely once you've hit the point of "I've been taking this for two years and I'm fine."

• Does this replicate? Well, it's self-consistent for me, and I don't want to gain 50 pounds and try again. I did not like the shape of my body at +50 pounds from where I am now! So this is a question for others.

• How much do other nutrients matter? I don't know. Mostly not equipped to rigorously check.

• Does HRT matter? I'll let you know if I can get back on HRT. I would definitely like to investigate this.

• Does dieting matter? Probably: my diet changed involuntarily over the course of two years and that certainly matters to some extent, but one of my ground rules is that I'm focusing on controlling exercise and potassium, the things I can control. Diet is far more complex and also in my life particularly, more susceptible to unplanned, involuntary change, so I'm writing it off as a factor.

• Does this help with cannabis-induced hunger? I think I was off-base/over-optimistic with this one and it either doesn't matter or matters a small amount.

• Is there a point where I get really hungry/tired or start accidentally starving? I did not reach such a point. I felt basically fine the whole time.

I was cooking with this though:

If you tell someone you want to lose weight and would like their advice, it is overwhelmingly likely that the advice will involve exercising more. Everyone has heard this advice. And yet, as Michael Hobbes observes in a searing piece for Highline, “many ‘failed’ obesity interventions are successful eat-healthier-and-exercise-more interventions” that simply didn’t result in weight loss. Even if we as a society choose to believe “more exercise always leads to weight loss, most people just fuck up at it,” that immediately confronts us with the important question, why do they fuck up at it? and its equally urgent sibling, what can we learn from those who succeed at it to give a hand up to those who have not yet succeeded?

Conclusion: I'm gonna keep writing things down in my spreadsheet for the same reasons as last time. I'm not sure what exactly I'm going to do as far as twiddling the factors, because now my main goal is somewhere between "don't gain weight again" and "see what happens," but I do know that writing down what happens is Good Actually, so I'm going to keep doing that.

[khhsh-t]

MV] 릴보이(lIlBOI) X 원슈타인(Wonstein) X 미란이(Mirani) - HEAT

[glittermork]

prayer circle that changbin and jisung do a gay little duet on smtm in true Mino/Zico fashion

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[thesquirrelqueer]

& Juliet 9/8/24 Notes

- michael!may was the only understudy on and this was the first time I got to see bex

- bex batting her eyelashes and pouting at shakespeare at the end of IWITW when the players are trying to convince him to listen to anne

- philippe did a very funny monotoned “hahaha.” after “I feel like doing it once shouldn’t count”

- philippe crossed his hands over each other when he pointed at the ground on “cause this is my ground”

- michael said “I will leave verona I will go on vacation” instead of “I will leave verona and go on vacation”

- drew absolutely vibing in the back during blow, he was dancing and drinking and dj-ing, he was having a great time

- makai standing in first position during SMTM

- bex does a sort of ballet step on her toes as she moves the clothing rack off stage as opposed to bobby who used to do like a vogueing thing

- najah playing with her hair on “there are plenty of other girls here you could dance with

- michael leaning forward to let philippe fix their crown

- bex and megan next to each other during SMTM was a really cool visual because their costumes kinda of match and they both have vibrant red hair

- najah’s heels were soooo loud as she was walking away during TTWII

- michael dropping the word “so” from “so you’re going through with the wedding”

- getting to watch maya connect herself to the chandelier then give a thumbs up to the wings to show that she was ready to go

- ben going “I have been… uh… romantic with other people”

- philippe made an “eugh” noise after “but it ended pretty badly”

- drew did a thing where he went “come brothers” then he slapped the bottom of his shoe and continued “let’s go rehearse!”

- joomin gave khailah a little hug during the preshow and it was very cute

- daniel doing stretches on the side during preshow

- the person next to me was taking photos during SML

[f-ngrl]

ah i still have to come up with a poll.

taking suggestions, esp. with answering categories! i have some ideas and suggestions already but idk which categories are good. i thought about fav idol rappers and producers but i can only put 9 + 1(others) and i haven’t been following kpop at all and don’t want to discredit new groups just bc i don’t know them.

i don’t want to make it abt smtm and hsr bc i try to focus on what’s not on there.

i don’t even know hiphop sub-genres lol.

i want to make it about underground artists but then nobody will vote bc it’s too much to look up, right? like “which of these random songs is most underrated” but i wouldn’t go through the trouble of listening to all of them either.

so yeah if you have a good idea don’t hesitate and let me know :D

[khiphop-discussions]

Long story short, I went on a long ass youtube hiatus mostly because I was struggling with my mental health a lot *last year and this year* but it hit me HARD this year. I did a lot of work on myself (still am, not even close to done tbh). I'm doing better over the last few months though so I got back into editing the rest of the SMTM stuff.

I'm still gonna be SLOW AS HELL to upload (still haven't fully worked through that procrastination habit) but hopefully not 9 months - 1 year slow LOL. I'm just happy to engage in one of my hobbies again (even though there's still things I dislike about youtubing cause everything has cons) so for people who watch I'm thankful!

*mostly work issues (im in a different job now and its going good so far) but some school and personal life stuff as well. I decided not to get into it. Maybe some other time.

[jssicamandy]

For every night there’s a brighter day It’ll be ok

Lil Boi, Tomorrow

[cold-bay]

[311020] Cold Bay’s Instagram Story 아시다시피 저는 쇼미너머니9 2차 팀결정전에서 탈락했습니다. 준비기간이 짧아 제대로 보여주지못한것같아서 아쉬움이 남네요. 앞으로 가야할 길이 더 멀기에 저처럼 떨어지신 분들은 용기를 잃지말고 더 큰 이유를 찾았으면 좋겠습니다. 방송에는 나오지않았지만 그동안 응원해주신 분들께 진심으로 감사드려요! Translation: Picture:  “Bankers debate about art during dinner and artists debate about money during dinner” Post: As you know I was eliminated on the 2nd episode of Show Me The Money 9 during the team selection. Because of the short preparation time it seems I couldn’t show it properly, which is a pity. I hope that on the long way ahead people who fell like me, won’t loose their courage but find a bigger reason. Even though I'm not on the show, I thank everyone with all my heart for cheering on me!

[freyja-333]

ENG SUB) G+Jus Freestyle (Prod. GroovyRoom) - JUSTHIS

[i-huskyhus]

CALLING ALL THE KHH FANS !!

CODE KUNST WILL JOIN SMTM9 AS A PRODUCER !!! GO PACK YOUR SELF AND ENJOY HIS SONG !!!