#smtm 9

[thesquirrelqueer]

& Juliet 2/9/25 Notes

Mat

- gabe!may, mack!juliet, nicki!gregory, romy!lady cap, ava!rosaline, and alaina!rumour

- alison mimicking romeo's kick on "I hope youre very impressed with yourself"

- after the map bit, alaina still went the wrong way and then looked at the map again and then went the right way

- alaina pointing at nicki and going "gregory..." on "about being in love with a young man"

- alaina does a spin in her rumour solo

- gabe started walking towards the ladies room when the bathroom attendant points it out as a "toilette for mademoiselles"

- mack singing the word "fourteen" on "and on my birthday im gonna be fourteen"

- absolutely chaotic line flub from joey of "or when I conquered the bedroom on the honeymoon with your wife may- WITH YOUR MOTHER may she rest in peace"

- gabe clutching the crown to their chest on the first chorus of NAG

- alaina and joomin still play rock paper scissors during SML

- jeannette mouthing “what am I doing" over and over as she's sneaking around before TD

- jeannette’s mic wasn’t on for “that’s my girl”

- cassie SCREECHING the line "oh my god I'm obsessed with you shakespeare"

- makai doing a little wave to the audience when he finds out he's playing the friar

- joey going "thank YOU" when nathan handed him the gameboy

- gabe making a very small but uncomfortable laugh in response to people laughing in the audience at "bien sir"

- gabe really emphasising the "yet" on the last "not yet a woman”

- joey going "happy nights to happy days to me too hahaha yeah!"

- liam doing a small laugh after the end of the second chorus of IML

- mack doing an opt up on “I just wanna be with you”

- joey wasn’t wearing the codpiece during the scene before TTWII in either show that day

- gabe still has the original da bois band jacket design

- liam very clearly going "you know, I will say it" after juliet sings "there's nothing you can do or say, baby"

- drew making an "I don't know" noise before "it can be whatever you want"

Eve

- romy!imogen debut! also nicki!gregory, alaina!rumour, and ava!rosaline

- romy still gets lifted during blow

- half the time there are no thoughts in romy!imogen's head and I love that for her

- both of the aussies doing the SML couple's dance!

- the players pretending to play football during the preshow (it was superbowl sunday)

- nicki winking at me during their final everybody pose

- drew dragging his hand down liam's face on "you're back from the dead"

- alaina getting in liam’s face during her roar freestyle

- drew skipping off stage after "come on brother let’s go rehearse"

- drew touching nathan’s face the same way he did with liam before "come on brother let’s go rehearse"

- maya doing a goofy dance the second she was out of sight after leaving the stage during TTWII

- drew quietly going “me, I wrote that” after “is that something you always say”

- I have absolutely no idea what accent/voice romy did for "he said did my heart love til now"

- romy giving daah a shoulder massage during SUBG

- drew singsongy going "if there's something for me at some point"

- nathan and daah both had cheering sections of people who knew them it was really cute

- maya doing a peace sigh on "dope" during overprotected

- shoutout to all swing romeo fan club

- maya making a referee touchdown pose on "refuse his game" (this is made funnier by it being superbowl sunday)

- romy playing with her braids in cassie's face during gay gossip table

- romy playing with her braids during the romeo's exes cluster during SMTM

- romy listening very intently to shakespeare at the beginning of SMTM

- nathan going "okay :)" after "do I still play the virginal" "yes"

- drew accidentally skipping over alison's line after "the poison romeo drank was actually a sleeping potion"

- drew doing a☝️on "I will... shakespeare"

- liam forgetting to say the line "what has happened?" during SUBG

- joey saying "I want to make it very clear that it's my son's happiness that is in there for me, son's happiness, that’s it" instead of "I want to make it clear that my son's happiness is of course my primary concern"

- daah wiping away his tears with a piece of confetti during ALAYLM

[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.

[glittermork]

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

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[jssicamandy]

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

Lil Boi, Tomorrow

[thesquirrelqueer]

& Juliet NA Tour 9/25/24 Notes

- if I say an actor’s name that’s an acting choice if I say a character’s name that’s a tour change/tour track thing (afaik)

- confident is flipped, frankie does his verse on stage left instead of right

- lord and lady cap swap during SMTM (lady cap on stage right of lord cap instead of left but they both still enter from stage right). also since there’s no lift they don’t sit on the coffin they just sort of walk off stage left

- they roll the coffin on stage for SMTM

- shakespeare walks behind the juliet sign and enters that way for LTL

- completely different romeo blocking during BOMT, he enters farther back, goes sits on the tomb like usual then gets off the tomb, walks in a circle with the set being spun, then walks out the back

- dion track is a mix of rumour and imogen

- different music for rumour solo

- mateus is the most autistic frankie ever

- nick takes off their crown before may bumps into frankie then mateus puts it back on their head

- maycois slow dancing during KAG, at some point after the second kiss they do that thing people do when they slow dance back to front with their arms around each other

- gregory spins the carriage manually but it’s barely noticeable unless you’re looking for it

- the bed doesn’t spin so the domino choreo spacing is different

- richard and eleanor do the SML couple dance in front of the carriage and end on stage left instead of right

- dion does the imogen line “did my heart love til now”

- frankie hopping over the dj station to get to the virginal

- mateus does a lot of crossing over his arms while playing the virginal

- a small crowd appears to watch frankie and juliet jam together

- no coffin during IML

- michael does the running in place thing

- michael peaking out behind the set during the IML juliet and anne part and doing a gay little wave to her

- lucy is the sign girl now instead of richard

- augustine does the mist for soliloquy but it’s like a full on fog machine

- different harmony stacking a lot of places (LTL, SMTM, SUBG, and problem were the most noticeable ones)

- lucy is no longer in the middle during the “he used to come to my balcony all the time” part of SMTM she’s on stage left

- mateus and nick is a lethal combination

- no doors for the curtain so people just walk off into the wings

- may, anne, and angelique going “girl” after juliet says she’s gonna be 14

- corey is a lot more antagonistic of a shakespeare

- mateus mimicing rachel gesturing for “frankie da boi” on “no!”

- mateus insane riff on “oh yeah”

- virginal gets scooted on on wheels (then off the same way)

- juliet hands frankie a drink before confident, I have no idea where it came from it just sort of appeared

- teal is such a mom

- angelique hides behind the bed at one point before lance wakes up

- choreo and blocking for the second half of KAG is completely different

- lance enters from stage right before blow

- dion does the rumour dance during blow

- dion does the map feature

- set design for the dubois house is a flat projection with a ladder but the mini one is placed next to it

- halfway through the soliloquy the choreo gets flipped

- michael ballet leap turn thing on “I don’t care” during LMLYD

- there’s a bench that frankie and lance sit on before WWFM

- also the tree is replaced by a lamppost

- all the players stop dancing and singing after “am I sexual” and it’s very funny

- the ferris wheel has been replaced by a moon and it was very shaky and unstable looking, it gave me so much anxiety

- rip gay gossip table (lucy dances with benvolio and dion dances with augustine)

- romeo doesn’t take off his jacket before “ello brothers”

- the roar scaffolding appears during the blackout

- michael romeo it is his first day on earth I won’t elaborate

- ALAYM beginning is a lot more “a cappella group” sounding

- nick and mateus hug into SOMH

- angelique enters farther back before OMT

- problem blocking and partial choreo is different (lucy is stage right now)

- shakespeare not being onstage before “the carrige driver told us everything” like he and anne ran back onstage to deliver his line then ran back off

- rip the wedding balls they’re all just kinda standing there

- augustine does a one finger raise instead of a full hand during SMTM

- the moon is hovering a few feet off the ground during the dialogue after OMT then lowers down after “I can’t love you romeo”

- IWITW instrumental playing under the shakespeare and anne convo before teenage dream

- “I didn’t know he had a wife” was giving “I slept with him but I swear to god I didn’t know he was married i’m sowwy” it’s like shelby was confessing it

- no lift for romeo out of SUBG so anne just like pushes him off stage on the stage right

- teal struggling slightly to get the quill out on “if only there was a way, oh wait there is”

- nick says mantua like matt does

- different lance choreo on the first “you make me feel like i’m living a teenage dream”

[f-ngrl]

SMTM 9 producer teams

[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.

[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 !!!

[khhsh-t]

"We can do anything, whatever it is" - Ra Mi Ran, Mirani

[fxnxychxld]

@ stray kids fans, don’t baby the man or get upset about certain things b/c smtm is a whole different playing field and Changbin KNOWS what he’s getting himself into