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Reviewing Every UKISS Release: By Unpopular Demand ~ Tick Tack + Forever (For KISS Me) + Forbidden Love

So releases from this point onward until around ~2014/15ish are constant and hectic, so I've had to deviate from my original plan a bit. I think grouping the JP singles + KR digital singles in 3s helps keep things a little less...unwieldy, and less constrained by image limits on posts.

Tick Tack - 1st JP Single | 2011.12.14

This was the PV that got accidentally leaked, right? Like they posted the full version of this instead of the short version, and that's why it was so easy to watch it on YouTube or whatever, and it was super easy to get the full audio because of it lol. I think it only took me a day or two to find a 320kbps download of it. Anyway, another pivotal moment of my tween years.

Tick Tack (Audio) | YouTube Music 5.3M | Spotify 1.11M

God that clock sound is so good

Love the entire vocal line stuffed into the first verse

Vocal troika taking the chorus love that for them

Also love stuffing everyone into the second verse

I like that the parallel with the first and third verses where the former is all the vocalists and the latter is all the rappers

SooHoon + Dongho bridge? An odd combo but very much goated

Honestly super impressed at how much this song is a team effort

Obviously Soohyun, Kevin, and Hoon have the most lines since they do the chorus, but Dongho gets a good amount with his little extra rap, and while AJ, Eli, and Kiseop get a couple lines each

And yeah sure it's a couple of lines, but they are attention-grabbing

Always appreciate a good bookend with the clock returning

Love the dramatic music, love the dramatic lyrics, it's such a good follow-up to NEVERLAND, and an insane first JP release

So lyrically, is this a reluctant breakup song? Like is this a toxic relationship that they're ending even though they're still in love?

That's a new breakup theme for them

10/10 "the perfect Japanese debut for a Kpop group doesn't exi-" wrong

Tick Tack (MV) | Short ver. 3.9M | Official upload 733k

Oh buckle in buckaroos I got a legit copy of this on my laptop AND of every JP MV right up until 2016 babyyy

And I can't remember if it was they learnt the choreo in 3 days (while promoting) or if they both learnt it in 3 days while their choreographer was still working on it

Iconic and lol their positions

Kiseop, AJ, and Eli are just kinda comfortably posing

Soohyun on his knees, Dongho chilling on the floor, and Kevin making modern art with his body lol

Also the dramatic grasping hands

Abandoned Warehouse Set #1 with an amazingly large clock

Abandoned Warehouse Set #2 + group sadboy shot

I love the black/white look with red accents super chic, but is Soohyun the only one without white? I mean fair he is the real MC of UKISS

Not Hoon being the only in a full pose

Ew Kiseop don't touch the dust/ash that's dirty

Oh his hair....it's kinda pompadour-esque. I remember thinking it was super cool back in the day, but it's kinda...tragic now lol

Still looks good though, hard for his face card to ever decline

Love the fanning out of this part, it's super cool on stages for such a simple step

Also these grey suits are gorgeous and it's 2011, so of course it's paired with combat boots

Surprised that this dance has only resulted in one instance of ripped pants

Could be more, but Hoon ripping his pants during their Best Of tour promos is peak comedy

This part is also very cool, very fun to look at

I could've sworn they wore gloves during the dance, but I guess not? They're wearing them for the dramatic solo shots though

Dongho with yet again the bowliest bowlcut to ever bowl

Another personal favourite choreo bit

It's a bit difficult to explain, but the force and purpose Soohyun uses when he slides his hand down Kiseop's back is so cool

The way he pops up kills me every time

These are the worst outfits in the video

I hate the white sleeves so much they make them look juvenile

Like I get black sleeves probably wouldn't have worked with this set since they'd get lost in the dark edges of the frame

But a dark colour would've worked, or heck even no sleeves

On the topic of outfits, not much to say about their hair that hasn't been said already

This was filmed during NEVERLAND promos I think, so their hair is fine

Kevin, Soohyun, and AJ have great hairstyles; Hoon, Eli, and Dongho are fine; Kiseop's pompadour is meh, but I really like his hair when they're in the grey suits

The fluffy hair looks really good on him, much better than the sleek look he wore for NEVERLAND

The dance battle is cute, really helps give everyone a bit more spotlight

This part? Seared into my brain

What's falling down from the ceiling? Ashes? Dust? Snow? Asbestos? We may never know

Anyway, no story, just a banger dance and brooding shots in The Box and some abandoned spaces

Oh and this isn't in the MV, obviously, but remember how Hoon and Kiseop nearly knocked each other out while filming this? I don't remember the exact documentary, but it must have been that one they did during NEVERLAND

They were all so enamoured with the giant clock too lol

10/10 still gives an insane dopamine rush

Coincidence | YouTube Music 113k | Spotify N/A

It's so insane that this banger is just a random b-side for a single?

I'm trying to figure out who dominates this song, and while my initial instinct is to say it's a Kevin song, Eli is also a very constant presence? Soohyun and Hoon also have parts that are more memorable. All I can say is that this is definitely not a Kiseop (RIP) song

Love the first and last choruses are SooVin while the others are HoonVin

Soohyun's little "follow me!" is so cute omg

I really like AJ's rap here he always makes it so interesting

The cute little SooSeop verse

Dongho's rap was also nice, like the little break for AJ and AJ+Eli

The little bridge part with SooHoon and Eli+Dongho is really cool

I like the darker sound of this, very fitting to be Tick Tack's b-side

Not entirely sure what the song is about? I think it's about meeting an ex again, hence all the mentions of coincidences and fate?

The colourless world mentions sure make it sound depressing though

Also looking at the lyrics, I thought the song was a lot more complex than it is? It really is just like 5 choruses, 3 post-choruses, a couple of verses and a bridge

I think the constant switching of singers/rappers help make it sound more complex

9.5/10 super catchy. I can't believe I actually forgot about this song until I got back into this hellscape

0330 -Piano & Chorus ver.- | YouTube Music N/A | Spotify N/A

There's no official upload but the fan upload of it is sitting at 16k

I think they did this in their 2012 tour? Anyway, sounds a lot like the Christmas version which I really like

Love the stripped down sound, really turns it from crying in the club to crying in the tub

What can I say, I'm a sucker for them harmonizing in the background

Vocal troika really shines in sounding like kicked puppies in this version

9.25/10 higher than the original version because I love me some pathetic-sounding men (affectionate)

Forever (For KISS Me) - 1st Digital Single | 2011.12.22

I remember this coming out!!! Got home from school and did the good ol' YT video-mp3 converter to get it on my laptop. I remember distinctly loving it, then also never playing it lol. It's got a special place in my heart now though, like special as in it makes me a bit teary lol.

Forever (For KISS Me) | YouTube Music 419k | Spotify 13k

So if I'm remembering correctly, this is a song they reworked to be fanservice. The original singers were an older NH group, I think, like before Paran

Something Eli and AJ always having to do a spoken word opening in their songs from this time is so funny to me

"Parting was so hard 'cause you are my only passion" I always thought that it was "partying was so hard" which was super funny, but I see now that I was wrong

"Come visit here it's our lovely party mansion" that always gets a chortle from me like I love them, I actually wouldn't mind drinking with them, but I do not wanna party with them they're all insane

I think it's cute they all get whole verses to themselves, really gives them all enough time to shine during encores lol

So after the Dongho and Eli raps come my favourite part of the whole song - the sex kitten vocal trio building up to Soohyun

Kiseop > Hoon > Kevin > Soohyun is sooooo good and I love building from Kiseop's soft voice to Soohyun the Powerhouse

Also once again, validates my belief that what Kevin is to Soohyun vocally, is what Kiseop is to Hoon, and is why the four of them can be matched off with each other in any way and still sound good

Honestly, the song is mostly the vocal line, sans AJ. The rap line is just there to act as hype men

Music is cute, super upbeat and poppy, and the lyrics are equally mushy

7.75/10 not something I'd listen to on my own volition, but it's always fun watching lives of this, and I love how much the vocal line is allowed to shine (read: I love how many lines Kiseop gets)

Forbidden Love - 2nd JP Single | 2012.02.29

I remember obsessively watching the short MV on YouTube because now when I listen to the song, I can still pick out exactly where it ended lol. I also remember really wanting the shirts they wore for the single cover because it was so ~*~cool~*~ and lowkey edgy, which is perfect for a wangsty tween.

Forbidden Love (Audio) | YouTube Music 1.2M | Spotify 571k

Another song, another dance beat, and I'm absolutely not complaining lol

I really like Kevin's opening line, love the "...najitte mitari-i-i" bit

Plenty of gratuitous English, a very important staple for them from this point on

Again, the entire vocal line stuffed into the first verse, yeah AJ's not singing, but he was there

Love how Hoon drags out the "...datta kedo~" part right into Soohyun's line, and the slowdown in Soohyun's line to transition to Kiseop, and AJ's rap picks up the pace again into the chorus, super fun to listen to

Even though I know the start of the chorus is "I, my, me, mine", I always forget the "mine" because it's off-beat

And okay, the first chorus always kills me because of Soohyun

The "subete kakete Egaku ai no sign", is so funny to me because I just think about him doing the ahegao face while singing it during the MC break in their anniversary tour

Like his eyes were completely rolled back and the camera, bless their heart, did a great close up

And he did it like 3 times I love him so much

Back to the song, I really like how the second verse starts with Kiseop, and how Eli bridges the gap between him to Soohyun, and they do the same thing as verse 1, this time going from Soohyun > Hoon > Kiseop

HoonVin second chorus, once again, has me begging for more duets with them, they sound insanely sweet

Vocal troika taking the last chorus is soooo good

SooHoon back-to-back high notes? They were feeding us so good

Love the constant "love, love, love" and "you make me feel this love" in the background

Like it's almost too much with the music, but it oddly works?

The song is basically exactly what the title says - a forbidden relationship that's doomed to end, but they're like "no baby I love youuuu"

There's also an implication of class difference? First verse has what google tells me translates to "this relationship began with me overreaching myself/but I finally feel like I'm equal to you"

Could just be that girl is way out of their league, idk

10/10 I go back and forth between whether I prefer Tick Tack over this, but they're both like pure dopamine being injected in to my brain

Forbidden Love (MV) | Short ver. 604k | Official upload 462k

Once again, I was so obsessed with watching the short MV

Yes I did watch the full version but I mostly watched the official short one because I couldn't afford to materially support them

There's a lot happening in this first scene

First, Kiseop, take your damn shoes off that's dirty, but I'm happy you're like kind of the protagonist for the non-dance non-solo shot parts of this

Second, why is there a life preserver on the bed? Is it supposed to symbolize that this forbidden love is a life saver?

Why are the chairs tipped over? Why is there an Arizona 51 sign? Are the sirens like directly outside the window or what? What exactly is that next to the bed?

Aww the little Kevin solo dance

I like the little circular bit they do while snapping to change formation

Soohyun bodying the hell out of this part

*Kevin voice* "Why are you so passionate during this part of the dance? Is there something you need to tell us?"

Or at least something like that god Teattari Shidai was so funny, and Kevin and Soohyun were constantly catfighting at that time

I think his explanation was about timing the body roll to it but idk he's just really good at it

I like this set by the way, a new version of The Box for them

Is...is that a tree? Why is there a tree growing in your apartment?

Ooh AJ was really hot in this era I think this is when he fully entered my crush category

Is he wearing winged liner? Goated love his eyes

Kiseop and AJ always make this part of the dance look so cool

Oh and the preceding part with the little shuffle into this

They just have that je ne sais quoi chill that makes look natural

Man I just love this dance, there's a bunch of shoulder shimmies and like at least 3 pelvic thrusts

Wait my guy why is mattress bare like that

Okay pause for a moment to talk about these costumes

Love the black-red suit combo, love the red laces on the boots

I'm a huge sucker for epaulettes so obviously AJ has my favourite suit

Love the rhinestoned lapels for Kiseop and Kevin

Like the glittery lapels for Soohyun and Dongho

Eli has epaulettes too, but because they're also black, they're practically invisible until the closeup shots

Hoon's suit is fine, just more subtle with glitter on the outside of his lapels

In terms of hair, Kiseop and AJ are on their A-game, love the fluffier hair for them

Soohyun, Hoon, and Eli all look fine, like those are pretty standard looks for them

Dongho still has his bowlcut, and while I don't hate Kevin's hair, I wish it had more texture to it?

The ironed hair with the sideswept bangs just aren't that great on him, especially not with the single-toned hair

WHY IS SOOHYUN SO GOOD AT THIS WHY IS HE SLIGHTLY CUPPING HIS HAND

Also like this set, very cool

These costumes are okay, the white-red is a nice combo, but the clothes themselves are less snazzy and more understated the other set

Most baffling choice is why Dongho has a belted coat on rather than a blazer

Also not a huge fan of the longer jackets Soohyun, Kiseop, and Kevin have on

It's not the worst, and I think I could like them in a different MV, but it's a bit too...floppy with this dance

Hairs are a downgrade from the first set of costumes, except for AJ whose hair is glorious at this time

Like I'm sorry to bring this up again but look at his winged linerrrr

He actually looks like a cat

Oooh slowmo shot during the dance break

They really love this move we'll be seeing this a lot in their JP dances

Well I mean they already did a variation of it in Shut Up!!

Also love this part it's so cool how Kiseop transitions back to the dance, very reminiscent of when he does this in NEVERLAND

I like how the choreo tones down for the double high notes so everyone's focusing on Hoon and Soohyun

Lowkey wish we got a dance version of this I would love a wide shot of this to see every bit of choreo

There's no shot of them in their casual outfits, but they all looked fine, very standard 2012 male idol fashion

So yeah, not really much of a story to this, lots of solo shots and dancing

9.5/10 I think I'd prefer a whole dance vid for this, and I really didn't like the white costumes, and they never answered why were the sirens going off at the apartment set???

Redial | YouTube Music 13k | Spotify N/A

I completely forgot about this song until recently

I do vaguely remember listening to it before, so I think I had it on my first laptop and for whatever reason either forgot to transfer it to my second one, or couldn't find another download of it

Is that...a synth harpsichord? It sounds like the harpsichord setting on electronic keyboards like I swear that's what the one at school sounded like

SooSeop sharing verses? Goated

I thought this song had a lot more Hoon and Kevin, but I guess not?

Vocal troika are kinda tied for lines, even though I think I remember Kevin's more because he does a title drop in the first chorus

Dongho gets a bulk of the raps, but Eli isn't too far behind, nor is AJ

Kiseop gets what amounts to nearly a whole verse, plus he's sharing with Soohyun so that's cool

Ooh just noticed it's a sex kitten trio leading in from the second half of the first verse to the pre-chorus and chorus

It feels like a weirdly paced song

I don't know if it's all the synth sounds and the heavy beat, or if it's the lengthier raps to a slower beat but it feels both oddly long and short at once, even though it's basically the same length as Forbidden Love

Maybe it's the shorter verses compared to the raps and choruses?

Or how the bridge comes out of the second rap chunk without really changing tempo as it goes to the last verse?

Lyrically, it's pining over an ex, very normal UKISS stuff

7.5/10 I do like it and it is in a lot of my playlists, but something about this song just makes me uneasy lol

I wish I had a fun fact for this little time, but unfortunately everything funny I know from 2012 is from after this. Anyway, crazy that this all happened within a year of 0330 and Hoon and AJ joining. Like they honestly fit in so seamlessly it's like they've always been there.

So yeah, we're fully entering what I guess we can call their 'peak' era in terms of popularity (lol, lmao even) and activities, and also approaching when I started being chronically online and had actively blogged about them on this good ol' hellsite. Yes, I did find all of my reblogs and tags from that time and dear lord, 2012-2014 for tweenies-turning-teens is very psyche-damaging in our current year.

#uwukiss #ukiss #*looks at a shared dream tracklist* haha i'm in danger #it's their only ot7-ot6 era jp album i don't own and don't have a 'legal' way of accessing #but i do still have their jp covers from it i'm just missing the rap line song but it's easy enough to find on yt #anyway have i spoken today about how much i love soohyun?

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btscontentenjoyer · 1 year ago

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hi love 💕

this week I’m here with one question only: how are you after Golden release?! ✨ is it everything you wanted? What are you favourites? DID YOU SURVIVE THE MV?!

I personally absolutely loved the suit with pins the most 💛 oh and I was in awe of the iheart radio performance! 🫶

hope this week was kind to you and the next one brings you little delight every day! 💐

Hi Julia 💕💕

Yessss Golden came out this week!! I can't really say it's everything I wanted, since a lot of the songs aren't really my taste, but I'm happy to see Jungkook being the pop superstar that he is! I personally really love standing next to you and other than that, yes or no and shot glass of tears are my favourites too.

The mv is so gorgeous and cool and so is he in it, I genuinely can't pick a favourite look from it. I'm so glad we get to see promos with performances of snty because the choreo and the vocals in it are amazing. I haven't stopped thinking about the iheart radio performance all day honestly. I'm so excited for all that's to come!

I also hope you had a good week and that this next one will be even better!! Sending you lots of love 💞💞💞

#seeing you in my notifs will never not make me smile 🥺🥺🥺#asks <3

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leatherbookmark · 1 year ago

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nnnngh i'm repeating myself but also

while musically this trilogy has been Alright -- not the best, hi maison, but definitely Solid especially in the b-side department -- conceptually... yeah. the "save the earth before it's too late" concept is a good and interesting one -- let alone making a whole trilogy centered around it, let alone as a girl group! the n/f/t thing sort of ruined it for everyone a bit, but honestly whoever sincerely believes kpop groups and kpop companies are going to be serious about activism is an idealist, to be polite. they're here to make money and also music. BUT. it just felt so... idk, disjointed? not fully there?

the dystopia trilogy at least had the "tree of language" bit, the thing that started a tiny little story and let the audience know what the comebacks are going to be about. and it tied scream and odd eye neatly! sure, they didn't achieve bts levels of sincerity in their lyrics (LET THEM WRITE LYRICSSSSS GOD), but the general meaning was there, and the story surprisingly ended badly. things are bad -> things shouldn't be bad -> well, we tried to find the ideal world where things wouldn't be bad but we failed. it was something!

but i feel like the apocalypse trilogy just... dropped the ball on more than one front. it doesn't even live up to its name! even if you don't associate the word "apocalypse" with darker, heavier and more guitarry sound, the first album literally had together, cherry and playground on it -- they're poppy and cheerful! come on! vision was a turn in the right direction -- once again the lyrics talk about mobilizing yourself and picking up the fight, hell yeah!, and fairytale was absolutely stellar, but on the other hand the rap quality and the number of actual songs on the album dropped, which only made the obligatory mellow piano ballad more irritating. but hey, onwards to the final part...! and the final part is. a love song.

don't get me wrong, i love bon voyage with all my heart in its gorgeous melancholic-yet-full-of-energy glory. but it's a love song. someone said it's a song about leaving the person you love for the greater good? to do your duties and save the world? but like, man, i don't get this from the lyrics. it's a love song from the point of view of someone who tries to leave because they have scars, faults, bad experiences under their belt, but despite everything they still can't, and keep on imagining the future they could share with their loved one.

this... would be something, definitely, if there was at least some sort of introduction, if the previous two title tracks weren't manifesto-type songs to Everyone. if the mvs showed deukae not just as cool warriors with superpowers fighting (?) some kind of enemy (?), but also real people with feelings and attachments -- for example to each other! everyone and their grandma is doing lore, but for example bts and currently ateez have those little diary things where members(' characters) write down their adventures. we're trying to change the past! overthrow the oppressive regime! while having our own problems, fears, people we worry about! holy shit, what happened to yeosang! and it would've really worked well with deukae! i don't really care about lore that much myself, but perhaps it could keep the fans occupied between comebacks and render references actually meaningful rather than "oh hey, this is the same dance move/similar (something) as in (mv title)!".

but it's just not there, and instead the trilogy is just a mess. sure, you've got a fucking. furry cell mascot out of absolutely nowhere, and yoohyeon is on a horse, and sua is jumping real high to... grab a pigeon mid-flight? but how does it actually connect to the story? what's going on? back in vision, dami was doing Something, was she a spy? in this mv, gahyeon is doing Something to the barrier, will she succeed? we just don't know! and it's irritating. the mv is just a slideshow of unfairly pretty shots, but they're pretty for the sake of being pretty and nothing else. we've gone a Long way since chase me, and while the budget sure is bigger... yeah, chase me and other older title track mvs actually kept you watching, because you were wondering where it would all lead. there's some guy! that's creepy! horror imagery! this is vaguely disturbing! where are they going with this? now it's just... oh she's pretty. oh she's pretty. oh she's pretty. that's it. and honestly, it's not like this is bon voyage's invention, deukae mvs have been steadily losing plot elements for a good while, but this mv is like... the epitome. yoohyeon's on a horse.

IF they're not breaking the... well, it's only two albums, so you can't call it a "tradition", but if they're not going to break the barely-there-tradition of special mini albums between the eras, their next comeback will be one and i'm already wondering what it's going to be. especially considering it's probably going to come out in like... november, and that's already fair into the Dark Part Of The Year, spooky season etc, so if they want to give us a darker sister of BEcause, i'm all ears, eyes etc.

#(this is a semi-rant about deukae so non-kp*p followers don't have to click read more lol)#shrimp thoughts

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jisungshotfirst · 3 years ago

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My top title tracks of 2021

I am back on my bullshit<3 here's my top 10 plus little rants about why I love them coz I'm a nerd!

10. What I Said - VICTON

It just slaps besties. The brass hook is so catchyyyyyy and the top line too there's a perfect balance between repetition and new material - plus extreme variety in vocal sounds from victon themselves and with effected vocals. And we love an intro and coda that connect. No song on this list makes you wanna dance more than this one!!

9. Moonshot - N.Flying

Yoo Hweseung ... he's the best vocalist around and I won't hear anything else. I LOVE SLIDEY HIGH NOTES SO MUCH (see in 7 too) it makes me feel so ecstatic. And the brass hits after it and then the addition of the 'on and on shot' for the last chorus. It feels SO GOOD because hweseung has so much soul. The arrangement makes me so happy, the brass, the organ. A slide note to a fucking key change besties ... besties it's over.

8. Hello Future - NCT DREAM

Moonshine my most beloved producers, I would die for them. This song, this mv, this album, this whole era just makes me so happy !!! This instantly became my favourite nct title. It's so filled with good and hope and happiness and funky bestie vibes. As much as I needed emo songs this year, I also needed hello future. And finally a long-ish title track!! Like besties the whole last minute is chorus and extended outro AS IT SHOULD BE.

7. HWAA - (G)I-DLE

It's really just a beautiful song in its simplicity. The melodies are simple and scarce, the choreo is calm and confident, everything is slow and careful and yet they're singing about anger. I really admire idle for getting emotions across so honestly and this does that so well. Minnie's slide high note raising up til the breakdown chorus ... its SO EMOTIONAL I literally replay it whenever it's on.

6. My Turn - CRAVITY

Was joking for months that this post was gonna end up being a bunch of songs that make me cry and then vroom vroom vroom skrrt .... and I'm not that wrong fjjd. But this song is just amazing?? Pitched percussion is god given. The attitude and tone is so cool and cheeky and so cravity!! And as you can tell from no. 1 + 7 on this list I love me some melismatic af choruses so the second half of the choruses have me levitating<333

5. Goosebumps - ONF

It is one of the craziest songs I've ever heard and I fell in love with it immediately. It's so ONF - the in-your-face harmonic changes, extreme sonic differences between sections, fuckin weird structure and insane samples just because. The fact the first chorus is just Different to the others?? Just to fit More in the song??? There is so much in this song and it's overwhelming, I literally started laughing after listening to it the first time because I was that shocked. Honestly believe this is the height of music<3 it's weird and fucking INCREDIBLE.

4. LO$ER=LOVER - TXT

Started it. Had a breakdown. Bon appetit<3 I was debating for a long while whether I was gonna put this or lovesong on this list, I still cannot separate them, but I ended up with this one because of the energy. It's so Angry. My breakdown over lovesong was different from loser=lover, and with loser=lover I smiled like an insane person while crying because it is art made of Anger and I felt it. I am an ex emo kid and this came at a time when I had more anger than I ever had when I was listening to emo stuff, it hit home with a sound I've loved since I was 10 but now with adult emotions, so it hit Hard. Also I'm a beomgyu stan and him saying fuck has added a good 15 years to my life<3

3. LUNA - ONEUS

This song is stunning. Full stop. I love traditional Korean sounds and oneus killed it with this style yet again. The prechorus is Gorgeous... and the chorus. I wanna give rbw producers a kiss for how good they are at percussion. Usually the beat changes for the last chorus to bring in sm different but they do EVERY CHORUS DIFFERENTLY and it allows the beautiful top line to be repeated but with different feel and you are Far from bored. The choreo with the fans and the hanboks and the stunning mv just add to the beauty of it.

2. Drunk-Dazed - ENHYPEN

Besties ... I don't even know what to say she was meant for me. Modal mixture right off the bat .. repeated baseline hiding underneath the track the whole time... the Darkness, the Edge. This is the youthful edgy punky darkness I want, rather than the dramatic dark. And with enhypen they Are the music, their voices are mixed so perfectly into the track they become as much a part of it. I feel a lot of artists stay away from this to have have their vocals stand out more and make their recorded music sound as if it's live, and I understand it but I appreciate enhypen not doing that So much. Enha are Recording artists and its just So So Good.

1. Cinema - CIX

Oh cinema ... I fell in love with this song hard and it shows since it was my most played this year fjfj. It's so perfect. It's so easy. I bawled my eyes out the first time I listened to it, I cry almost every time I listen in its full quality. I smile So wide every time I hear Byunggon singing, or Seunghun's and Jinyoung's 'oh's into the chorus. There are certain songs that don't need raps, and cix know and can do that. There are certain songs that don't need to be busy, and cix know and can do that !!!! They are just incredible and have one of my fav discogs in kpop and it's a rare moment when I love a groups whole discog and a Title is my fav but cinema wins by miles ... it's a perfect song.

Happy new year everyone! wishing you a nice one<3

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ecl1pse · 2 years ago

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omg speaking of gworls i forgot to share my thoughts on the album here bc i was so excited the whole weekend

anyways! i REALLY liked it. overall, the whole album isn’t as cohesive as savage ngl, but it’s still good. savage was such a tight, top tier album that it would be very hard to top. even in the whole of kpop, savage has to one of the most cohesive album to come, even in all my 10+ years of listening to kpop i don’t think ive come across an album that is so sonically cohesive as savage was so i understand why some mys are a bit let down in that regard. that being said, girls is still very fun!!! & i’m always here for a fun kpop album

however!! the song girls itself has to be aespa’s darkest sound. & yeah, i agree that it sounds like an nct song, but i mean it as compliment!!! because i actually think that despite so many trying to replicate nct’s sound, no one has come this close to actually doing it while still maintaining their own touch. winter & ningning adding those cute & fun adlibs makes it such an aespa song & nice contrast to the loud trumpets in the chorus i love it!! imo girls sounds to me like nice blend between turn back time by wayv & punch by nct 127, while the mv seems heavily informed by kick it (i see a bit of punch in some transitions shots too). but again, it’s still very aespa, especially in the fact that has a clearer storyline. back to the song, the production seems very influenced by turn back time & overall wayv’s use of guitars to build up momento with the added horns from punch to add grandioseness &, well, punch. it makes them sound like characters in a big fight about defeat their big baddie. which apparently they do because i’ve read this is the end of the black mamba storyline. the girls add so much sass to the song— to pretty much any song they touch. sm struck gold when they decided to put all four of them together, they cover every ground just by the four of them, it’s so gorgeous to hear them.

illusion is just. such a fucking good song. the choreo adds so much to the song too. from the strong opening w the alarms blaring in your ear & the slurping, winter’s opening line of “you’re so yummy, yummy, yummy in my tummy, tummy, tummy” 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 that…was crazy. insane. there’s no taking out the sexual connotations out of this whole song no matter how much they tried to make it fit into the aespa storyline. it’s so fun & sexy i love it. i loved that the choreo follows pretty closely to the formula the song follows in that it a slow build up that explodes by the second middle of the second verse than it takes its second wind. i think this might be one of their best b-sides & choreographies. it’s almost as good as i’ll make you cry, which i’m still hoping & begging to see performed live with a cool choreo 😭 i honestly think this album could have been a double feature with illusion being the second title track. this should have been the song to get an english version &/or an mv. sm, hear me out, we can still make this work. hear me out!!!! just make an illusion mv instead of leaving my girls jobless once the promotion period is over, you could even get a second boost in sells w this genius idea!!! (hmu for more input 😘).

lingo is so fun!!! i havent gotten into reading the translations yet but i can almost tell this is aespa saying you can make fun of all the made up words & stories their concept requires you to understand but that doesn’t make them any less cool. i see the country influences everyone has pointed out, it’s probably how the song started, but i insist!! this is not a country song!! this is nortec!!! look it up, look up nortec. i know this, this genre was literally birthed in my home city & the streets grew up in. idk who lixa, the producer, is, but they (accidentally??) made a nortec song. lingo is for las norteñas 🤠

life’s too short is cute but i agree it’s not their strongest song. that much i knew when they previewed at coachella. it’s very much elevated by their gorgeous voices & smart layering. the mv was so cute tho!! very dreamy & cute. i think it’s befitting they sing a song like this considering the amount of hate they have received since debut, much of unwarranted. i just hope the girls themselves actually believe as much because they do deserve to enjoy their hard work. they have achieved so much in such a short career & are such strong performers, enough to rival bigger groups. it’s no wonder they keep going viral, they work hard & are good at demonstrating it on stage.

icu…it’s a song. a song sung by aespa. this has to be their most forgettable song imo, i’m sorry. it’s pretty but…it’s just there. it’s the required sm ballad & they delivered. i don’t have much else to say other than they sound pretty.

i know a lot of fans disliked that this album included their previous singles but i’m actually really glad it did! i’m glad i can now have a physical copy of black mamba & dreams come true to play in my car that i dont drive. but if i ever did, i have it & i can cause a car crash while swinging my head to black mamba. plus, no offense to any icu fans out there, but ending the album in that when we had such a strong start with girls & illusion would have been such a snooze. ending it with dreams come true!!!!! feels more befitting ngl.

anyways, that’s all i have to say for now. but i’m sure i will continue to talk about this album because aespa has been one of the most exciting kpop acts to follow right now & i’m always excited to talk about their music to anyone who is willing to listen!!!

#aespa

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himbodemon · 4 years ago

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HC: The brothers as KPop Stans

I have an itch to scratch.

Purely self-indulgent headcanons that sprung from the thought of Asmo dancing to HyunA like yes king serve it up

DISCLAIMER: All are fully fluffy/SFW except for Satan’s which is mildly suggestive.

LUCIFER:

Not a fan AT ALL. Finds it too loud and flashy & cannot understand why so many humans are infatuated by it

Gets wee woo by pristin stuck in his head and is FURIOUS about it

You’ll be hanging around in his room while he works, scrolling through your D.D.D when you hear him breathe out a deep little “we are pristin...” followed by a painfully disgruntled groan of annoyance. You try so hard not to laugh and fail.

Might end up occasionally listening to acoustic / orchestral covers and arrangements of some of your favourite songs so he can try and connect with you / understand your interests.

If you forced him to pick, Fave singers / groups would be AKMU, IU and Hwasa (The instrumentals aren’t really his style but he finds her singing style / voice soothing and also she’s... gorgeous wow...)

MAMMON:

Yeah the music’s fine and all but people are paying $50 for Photocards!?!?!?

One of those people that buys like, 200 albums to get into a fansign, only to sell off the fansign ticket for an extortionate price

I fully believe that Mammon would like to visit MC’s room whenever he’s stressed out or overwhelmed, and they’d just sit and listen to music together - maybe subtly dancing along with their shoulders or tapping their feet but mostly just silently enjoying each other’s presence

You’re doing that one day when he tells you to play “That one song he likes”. You immediately know it’s ‘HYLT’ by Blackpink

Probably in love with the flashy MV’s, every time he sees a new model of car in the background he wants to buy one for himself

Fave groups would be BLACKPINK, BTS and EXO

LEVIATHAN:

100% in love with cutesy girlgroups

Will listen to Twice’s ‘candy pop’ on a loop for 12 hours straight because it’s so precious and bubbly and the girls are so cute??? plus he can pretend they’re still 2D waifus that way

Walks into your room to show you the new lightstick he just ordered, only to see you practicing the choreography to ‘cheer up’. Immediately flares up in a blush and BOLTS out at record speed

Please don’t dance around him his little weeb heart can’t take it

Every time he gets into a new group, it only takes him about a week before he’s fully memorised their online profiles and knows every single fanchant

Might get a little upset if you compliment an idols looks/visuals/talents because he’ll start comparing himself to them, says things like “W-Why would you be interested in me?? I’m not exactly Jungkook now am I???”. He knows it’s hypocritical with how overly invested he gets in idols but he is the avatar of envy after all, it can’t really be helped

Fave groups would be TWICE, K/DA (not his music style but pretty 2D catgirl makes his brain go brrrr) and Weeekly

SATAN:

You’re sat in the living room watching KPop MV’s, he walks past you and just so happens to see the AOA ‘Like a Cat’ MV on your D.D.D

You’ve successfully piqued his interest

Would ask you lots of questions about the industry, different groups, what you like about it etc..

Would do a lot of research into significant figures of the genre and probably knows every single detail about KPop Slave Contracts, if he’s feeling argumentative might ask how you can enjoy a form of media that treats its artists so badly

Any group with a jazz / sultry aspect is immediately going in his playlist. I know a lot of people put Satan down as a metal-lover and while I fully agree, I could also see him appreciating some nice brass music now and then.

Will never stop pestering you to dance to ‘Like A Cat’. From the first glance all he could imagine was you dancing to it in their stage outfits and... wow.

Fave groups would be AOA, Mamamoo and EXID

ASMODEUS:

Absolutely 100% a KPop stan. He finds the experimental fashion, showy choreography and grandeur aesthetics so enticing and it’s 100% his style.

I HC Asmo as a big big dance fan, I think he’d adore how it can be dainty, strong or elusive fully depending on the way you perform it. He probably already knows tango, salsa, pole dancing and ballet and spends a bunch of his free time learning his favourite choreographies (the main ones being Chungha’s ‘gotta go’, EXO’s ‘Love shot’, Red Velvet’s ‘bad boy’ and HyunA’s ‘how’s this’ or ‘Lip & Hip’)

Diavolo decides to hold a Devildom talent show at the end of the semester to celebrate the exchange program going well. Asmo IMMEDIATELY calls you asking you to perform ‘Naughty’ by Irene & Seulgi with him. You both rehearse it in secret and fully tear up the stage when the talent show rolls around. You win, which he fully expected, and leave the brothers in a mix of confusion, adoration and embarrassment.

Thirsts over the idols as if his life depends on it. The prettiest idols for him to look at and fantasize about are BTS’ V, Weki Meki’s Doyeon (Only in the stuff she performed as an adult post-IOI), EXO’s Suho, (G)I-DLE’S Soojin and SNSD’s Tiffany

Fave groups would be: Every Single SM Group he’s such a whipped SM Stan

Red Velvet are all beautiful, SHINee’s vocals are delicious, EXO’s discography is... the perfect level of lewd for him, F(x)’s unique style is beautiful and WOW Luna’s solo work is just his style, but his most most loved SM group is Girl’s Generation and he will NOT hesitate to bust into a fully rehearsed performance as soon as he hears ‘the boys’ on your playlist.

BEELZEBUB:

Has never heard of KPop before you introduce it to him. You were both cuddling together in his room while he snacked on the gummies you’d bought him, listening to you excitedly ramble about this new KPop group that you thought he’d like!

A die-hard metalhead, can’t enjoy any music that doesn’t hurt his ears a little bit, so he’s already mentally preparing how he’ll pretend to like it and is just grateful that you were thinking of him, when suddenly his eyes are met with Dreamcatcher’s ‘Chase Me’ MV

And wow. Wow. This isn’t what he was expecting at all. Electric guitar? drums?... NOT bubblegum pop?

Doesn’t become a major fan but definitely adds a lot of the heavier songs from their discography to his gym playlist, still happily listens to your excited ramblings and talks about other groups, but will probably pay a bit more attention if you mention a Dreamcatcher comeback.

Fave groups: Exclusively Dreamcatcher, but also likes ‘Clap’ by seventeen as an exception since he finds the guitar riff mixed into the instrumental cool.

BELPHEGOR:

Not interested. Similarly to Lucifer finds it too loud, too bright and too in-your-face

Not a huge music lover in general, but can tolerate some easy-on-the-ears gentle songs. Has a soft spot for Melanie Martinez & Lo-Fi.

You can try all you want to convince him to enjoy it, show him whatever cutesy MV’s you want, as many live stages or variety shows as possible, even the sweetest most gentle kdrama OST, he’s not interested.

You send him ‘ZZZ’ by LimeSoda jokingly and tell him it’s his theme-song, he’s not amused.

Fave groups: None.

Songs he’ll tolerate if you’re listening to them: Pporappippam - Sunmi, Why So Lonely - Wonder Girls, Butterfly - LOONA, Night Rather Than Day - EXID, Kazino - BiBi

#obey me #obeyme #obey me shall we date #swd #obey me mammon #obey me lucifer #obey me leviathan #obey me stan #obey me beelzebub #obey me asmodeus #obey me belphegor #obey me headcanons #kpop #KittyPosts

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swiftgronmasterpost · 4 years ago

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Late Stage Swiftgron Part 1

Update from November 2021 - I really don’t believe much of this is meaningful at all. I don’t think they’re sitting around referencing one another on social media or anything but some of Dianna’s interactions with Karlie are interesting Dianna shows up explicitly in Taylor’s life a couple more times so I’m leaving these sections here.;

From here on out everything but the 2014 AMAs and Dianna’s somewhat shocking appearance at Taylor’s 2019 SNL performance are just odd social media shenanigans (or subtweets) between the two, and Taylor appearing to release at least one more song about Dianna (Babe in 2018) (and let’s be honest you can make a strong argument for The 1 being about Dianna as well other post 1989 songs.)

Some of this might be complete crack or coincidence but as you all know I want this to be the most thorough Swiftgron document possible.

If anything it proves they both certainly still have similar interests and they really do seem to be in touch.

There are some interactions claimed by others to be Swiftgron related that I’m not going to include because they’re just a bit too reachy for me (though I completely support the theorizing!) but in general, if I personally can see the hint of a Swiftgron connection, I’m going to include it here. Draw your own conclusions and take everything, particularly the alleged subtweets/social media shenanigans, with a grain of salt.

And yes there’s tons of Kaylor and other Gaylor/Gaygron content that will be left out of this segment because this masterpost is focused on Swiftgron. Someday it would be cool to make a giant masterpost/timeline that documents all of it, but for now it’s just going to be Swiftgron stuff. August 26, 2014 - Dianna tweets, and then deletes “Withdrawals, clearly…we had fun.”

There’s no screen shot of this tweet but some retweets/responses of it remain:

If Dianna is indeed referencing the song Clean (in which their relationship is compared to an addiction hence, “withdrawals” from it) then Taylor would have had to give her advanced knowledge of the song since 1989 did not come out until October 2014.

Taylor did claim she ran 1989 by the muse that inspired it and they were both in LA in late August 2014. Maybe this is when.

November 1, 2014 - Taylor posts about Clean

November 19, 2014 - The 2014 AMAs Kaylorgron Explosion Extravaganza:

Taylor, Karlie, and Dianna are at the event. Taylor and Karlie are clearly on a date and Dianna is there to present Sam Smith’s performance of I’m not the only one. Dianna seems a bit out of her element/gloomy when interviewed on the red carpet and Taylor flexes Karlie hard, dancing with her throughout the night and even sitting on her lap during an interview.

Click here for photos, video, gifs, and a live L chat reaction to the night.

December 28, 2014 - The writer for the tv show The Originals, Carina Mackenzie, tweeted that 1989 was about Dianna:

It’s of course notable that someone in the industry is “confirming” Swiftgron on main (particularly before gaylor went mainstream with Kaylor being so obvious in 2015/2016) however what’s even more interesting and notable about this tweet is that an actor named Michael Trevino was on the show The Originals and he dated Jenna Ushkowitz from 2011-2014.

Not only that but Michael was at Dianna’s 26th birthday when Taylor was in attendance as well.

It’s possible that Michael witnessed Swiftgron in real life and spilled a bit to the writer of the TV show he was on.

January 5, 2015 - Taylor likes a Swiftgron related post on Tumblr of Dianna saying she’d go on the road with Taylor and carry her bags at the Giffoni Film Festival in 2012:

February 9, 2015 - Style is released as a single

February 13, 2015 - The Kaylor “Best Friends” on a road trip Vogue Spread comes out. You’re probably familiar with it but if you aren’t google it. It’s incredibly romantic and pda filled.

The Style music video is released on this day as well.

We don’t have to go through the whole video but one egg I just have to note is the cave pictured in the MV is in Morocco the same country Dianna seemed to flee to after Swiftgron was outed:

February 14, 2015 - Dianna tweets 143 remember those days (for some reason it has not been deleted) seemingly in response to the Kaylor vogue shoot:

143 is a code that means “I love you” that originated from Mister Rogers. Both Taylor and Dianna have publicly shown that they are fans of his. Taylor has even made certain songs 3 minutes and 41 seconds long seemingly referring to this number and wore a Mister Rogers pin on a jacket for a photoshoot once.

Here’s a bit more in depth analysis on the significance of the 143 post.

This tweet is how we know that it is 100% in Dianna’s character to occasionally subtweet Taylor and why a lot of this social media analysis has been done.

February 16, 2015 - Just two days later Dianna attends a fashion show in which Karlie walks and is noted to “have kept a smirk on her face” during. Dianna doesn’t clap at the end of the show and looks miserable in photos of the event:

February 17, 2015 - Taylor releases Wonderland

I’m going to pause here and discuss the song Wonderland for a brief moment because it is some of the most incredibly airtight evidence for Swiftgron available.

Dianna’s favorite book of all time is Alice in Wonderland. She brought it up in interviews all the time, tweeted about it, auctioned off a signed copy of it for charity, her private Tumblr and instagram account are called whosirmesir which is a reference to it, her private Tumblr is filled with reblogs about Alice, and her public Tumblr was called fell down the rabbit hole.

So the fact that Taylor writes an entire song describing a relationship through the lens of and packing full of references to Alice in Wonderland is incredibly interesting.

Let’s take a look at some of these lyrics:

Flashing lights and we, took a wrong turn and we Fell down the rabbit hole (literally Dianna’s tumblr name and url)

Didn't you flash your green eyes at me (Dianna is famous for her beautiful almost hypnotic green eyes and yes they are green)

Haven't you heard what becomes of curious minds (queer coded)

Too in love to think straight (queer coded)

But there were strangers watching And whispers turned to talking And talking turned to screams (seems to reference when they were outed) You searched the world for something else (Dianna very publicly went travelling around the world right after April 2013 when they seem to break up)

Taylor literally put Dianna’s Tumblr URL in the song. Frankly I’m kind of shocked she released this song at all it is so obviously and clearly about Dianna. Truly a Swiftgron anthem!

Back to the timeline...

March 8, 2015 - Taylor posts Flamingos for her dad’s birthday:

The caption was “Happy Birthday, Dad. Thanks for all the unconditional love, sarcastic comments, and interesting Christmas presents.”

May 1, 2015 - Dianna posts a flamingo for her birthday (post is now deleted):

The caption was “This is 29. Spoiled rotten. Funny enough, at work they were painting the hallways white and the roses (hallway doors) red, then I actually went to Wonderland (@AliceUnderLdn) and came home to a surprise flamingo. Here we go. Another year around the sun…feeling lucky and loved and loved and lucky.”

Taylor also gave Emily, another rumored ex, a flamingo bandana for her birthday. i also think it’s odd that Dianna mentions Wonderland specifically in the post.

January 15, 2016 - Dianna’s engagement to Winston is announced and Kaylors notice Taylor is liking sad posts on Tumblr including several posts related to Clean:

November 7, 2016 - Lorde’s birthday party where Kaylor is together in public for the last time for 20 months.

January 5, 2017 - Claire (who is still very close with Taylor) comments on one of Dianna’s Instagram posts):

March 2, 2017 - Dianna posts her James Dean inStyle UK photo to Instagram:

This is actually the second time she has posted this as a throwback photo. She also posted it on February 4, 2016 with simply the caption “TBT” and did not include the “rebel without a clue” bit which is a reference to James Dean (Rebel Without a Cause). She’s never posted the same TBT photo twice before or after this (as of the writing of this post in October 2020).

It I may be permitted to go real far out on a limb here it’s almost as if she wanted people to connect that photo of her in the UK InStyle magazine to James Dean. James Dean is of course the way Taylor describes her lover in the song Style.

At any rate it’s very odd that it’s the only photo she’s posted twice whether it’s related to Taylor or not.

April 25, 2017 - Fans notice Dianna is having her script tattoo removed:

This is significant because a part of the tattoo was dedicated to Alice in Wonderland - it said “We’re all mad here”

Tattoo removal is a years long process:

So it’s possible she started getting it removed around the time that Wonderland came out.

It’s also possible part of the tattoo was dedicated to Lea (the part that said “here I am”) so this whole removal situation is very interesting.

In 2019 she was still getting it removed and commented this at a Cafe Carlyle session:

"i was like i don't know i wanna explain all my tattoos or the one that i'm getting removed on my side...you know you're like...WHATEVER we're stopping we're moving on"

February 13, 2018 - Dianna attends the Carolina Herrera fashion show, so does Karlie. Dianna is introduced to Karlie by Derek Blasberg and very audibly calls Karlie “gorgeoouusss” as they meet.

Kayda play “Gorgeous” by Taylor Swift.

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commajade · 3 years ago

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hi amber! not to interrupt kibum lockdown but have you listened to purple kiss at all? they just had a comeback that was really nice just classic fun pop but thier previous releases had some really cool stuff like intro: crown and can we talk (i like thier first tt pozona A LOT too but ik some ppl liked their recent comeback much more) I feel like they have a lot of potential n im excited to see what they do going forward tbh

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their debut was great wow!! their center is gorgeous the 2 vocalists r excellent and their main dancer is so charismatic wow! the dance break is so good!! this video is so interesting too because it doesn't feel at all like a debut girl group (something i also say about aespa's debut) and the mv was actually shot and edited like a boy group mv

#asks #purple kiss

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kingdomtual · 3 years ago

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Cinematic mvs

share music videos you like either because of the way they were shot, the story they tell or the cinematography/visuals. Was tagged by @lmallmine !!!!!

And you know I’m all about that narrative!!!! <3 Thanks for tagging me, friend!

1. Karma / Kingdom (I’m not gonna stop talking about them :) best narrative in a long time)

2. Close / AB6IX (red string of fate? I’m in)

3. Deja Vu / Dreamcatcher (just watch it. Watch the queens point swords at each other.)

4. Save ME / BTS (this has always been my fave mv by them. No idea why, it just *in a mark voice* resonates)

5. Twilight / Oneus (have I talked about this mv enough? Probably)

6. Fantasy / VIXX (listen vixx walked so ya’ll could run, ok. Kings of the spooky concepts, I don’t care what anyone says LOL)

7. Thunder / Verivery (and of course vixx’s little brothers had to be here too)

8. Jungle / CIX (this mv makes you feel like you’re suffocating, much like the lyrics. It’s actually a fantastic portrayal in my opinion)

9. Boom Boom / Seventeen (seventeen failing to commit and heist of some sort is always going to be in my top ten. and maybe I’m putting it here to spite anyone who hates this song LOL)

10. Lit / Lay (it’s just a gorgeous mv, honestly. It’s iconic. And I love this song...)

Honorable mentions (bc I could have put so many more mvs tbh): Astro: All Night, Everglow: La Di Da, Oneus: Come Back Home/ To Be Or Not To Be, Onewe: Parting, Lucy: Jogging, Seventeen: Fallin Flower, Wayv: Turn Back Time. Is that it??? Probably not LOL but that’s all I’ll put. :)

Okay I’ll tag some folks if you want to share your fave mvs <3 and if not, cool! Enjoy looking at mine, I guess LOL @kingleedo @my-woozi-happiness @younqjo

#tag game #man this was fun #but it took me forever because I ended up watching all the mvs while getting the links LOL #I literally can't control myself #I'm like OOOH THIS ONE IS SO GOOD #and just watch it #LOL

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insomnihan · 4 years ago

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han’s Entire Thoughts and Feelings on Dreamcatcher’s “Boca”

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HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

there are no read mores here so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

ALRIGHT SO-

THE SONG HAD THE F UCKING NERVE THE AUDACITY THE GUMPTION AND THE GALL TO BE AS BOMB AS IT IS literally the moment i heard that rain and thunder i was f cukity F CIKED the way that they just know how to work with more gentle verse parts and theN PUNCH YOU IN THE FACE WITH THE CHORUS ITSELF SPEAKING OF THE CHORUS ITS F UCKING CRAZY??????????? THAT????????? GODDAMN GUITAR????????????? OWNS MY ASS??????????? OH MY F UCKING GOD JUST THE WAY GAHYEON STARTS IT OFF TO EASE US INTO IT HMMMMMMMMMM- THE ABSOLUTE POWER IN DAMIS FIRST RAP........... SHES SICK™ FOR THAT!!!!!! ‘HOLD UP’ YEAH HOLD UP I WASNT READY DAMN IT!!!!!!!!!!!! THEN DAMIS AND GAHYEONS RAPS IN THE SECOND VERSE YOU CANT EXPECT TO BE OKAY AFTER THAT™ ARE YOU SERIOUS- just all of their voices............ the way theyre just so powerful and emotional and you can tell............. siyeon pls your high notes holy f uck-

WHAT IM SAYING Is this song was such a good follow up to scream like F UCK i literally ask after every comeback ‘will they top this’ and tHEN THEY DO

i was so boo boo the fool like i really thought since diamond and breaking out fell into the same genre that it wouldnt be intense like This im 🤡

SO I WILL BE USING THE COMEBACK SHOWCASE TO TALK ABOUT THE DANCE BC OH MY GOD- so they all said that this song was their hardest dance yet................. queens of dance I F UCJUNG SWEAR

FIRST OF ALL THE BEGINNING POSE IS EVERYTHING™

THE PART AFTER THAT WITH DAMI PULLING YOOHYEON INTO HER SINGING PART....................... i just like it a lot

HONESTLY DAMIS ENTIRE PART

YOOHYEONS PART BEFORE THE CHORUS

THE ACTUAL CHORUS

both the upside down triangle hand symbol AND then for ‘boca’ where they make their hands like a mouth................... Iconic™

GAHYEON WITH THE FLAGS?????????? HELLO????????

and then dami................................. i-

the flags............... sua and jiu and yoohyeon.......... Thinking A Lot™

this part with jius bridge lives rent free in my brain

sua sitting on the dancers shoulders and singing the most hard hitting lyrics in the song thats it thats the bullet point

just................. the WHOLE ENDING

shouldve really just put the entire damn video here but i already wrote it out

THEY NEVER PLAY AROUND WITH THE VISUALS EVER!!!!!!!!!!! THE COLORS ARE ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS AND VIBRANT THE SETS ARE SO DREAMLIKE???????? I WISH I CAN FULLY EXPLAIN IT BUT ALL I COULD REALLY DO IS DESCRIBE THEM AS THEY ARE- THE PINK SET THEY DANCE IN IS SO COOL TO ME THE PLACE WITH THE TREES AND GRASS AND THEYRE DANCING IN THE F UCKING WATER AND WHERE GAHYEON HURTED US WITH HER RAP AND WHEN THEYRE ALL JUST STANDING AROUND LIKE BEAUTIFUL PRINCESSES AND WHERE YOOHYEON SAT AMAZINGLY- AND WHERE SIYEON STANDS WITH ALL THE BUSTS WITH TAPE OVER THEIR MOUTHS THE SYMBOLISM™!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THEN WHEREVER DAMI WAS IN GENERAL.................. [REST]

TIME TO SHOW WHICH SCENES I LIKED

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THE WHOLE F UCKING THING MOVING ON-

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okay................................ everyone who follows me KNOWS that im just so whipped for all these women if i was a Brave Bicth™ id tell them they were all beautiful every day to their faces but if this is your first time seeing this CHAOTIC AS F UCK series of posts then-

LOOKATTHEMBEINGBEAUTIFULANDETHEREALPRINCESSESINONESCENETHENBADBITCHESINTHENEXTAREYOUKIDDINGMEICANTBELIEVETHEYREALLYOUTHERELOOKINGLIKETHIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

JIU

BELLE????????????? BELLE IS THAT YOU???????????? why does Miss JiU over here just got to be one of the most beautiful women in the GODDAMN UNIVERSE I CANT STAND THIS LOOK AT THIS PICTURE!!!!!! i wont lie to yall but it was gonna be this one or the one kinda at the beginning where shes wearing red..................... and....................... her neck- THE RED IS FIRE BY THE WAY AND THE SAME OUTFIT BUT IN LIKE R.o.S.E BLUE WITH THE CHAIN STEP ON ME- and the black one that we dont really see a lot of.................. the sheer of it............ bicth-

SUA

yes it was absolutely necessary for me to use this shot

OFC MY BICTH ASS NEARLY FELL OFF HIS F CUKING BED WHEN SHE SHOWED UP IN THE TEASER JUST COVERED IN WATER I SWEAR I COULDNT BREATHE FOR LIKE TEN MINUTES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! first of all the red and blue ones just one sleeve and those shorts and all those belts I DUNNO JUST THIS WOMAN AND CROP TOPS OKAY IM LOSING IT IM THIS 👌 CLOSE and then the white dress i cant stand her i really cant-

SIYEON

HOOOOOOOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHO MISS LEE SIYEON OUT FOR MY NECK I SEE- i just wanna point out first that i love her love for pants like the rest of the outfits are gonna be worn for performing and they all have those baggy pants she loves so much pls shes everything im 🥺🥺🥺 tho the braids and the high ponytail without and yknow what WITH BANGS TOO im........................ i cant stop staring at this picture-

YOOHYEON

SHE IS NOW A LARGE AND SCARY DOG-

this specific hairstyle in the screenshot........ the braids the safety pins with the brown and pink or whatever it was like three different colors just the Serve™ she is serving in that with that outfit and the back of her skirt is long than the front im weak in the knees for you maam- oH THAT F UCKING RED ONE GRABBED MY NECK NAILS INTO MY SKIN AND ALL AND ENDED ME HONESTLY and that chain necklace.......................... keeping words to myself-

DAMI

SHES SO HOT AND FOR WHAT my god this blue hair she is WORKING IT- i had such a difficult time even finding a good screenshot of her and i know the moment i just decided with this one that i was just gonna keep getting distracted by it and i am rn as i type this GOD- the all black outfit she shows up in the very first time in the mv..................... [REST] the blue one with the thing on her thigh with the low ponytail................. [REST x2] herself....................... [D*AD]

GAHYEON

POPULAR OPINION: THIS IS HER ERA

THE MOMENT SHE JUST SHOWS UP RIGHT AT THE START SHE GRABBED US BY THE NECKS AND LET US KNOW SHES KILLING IT LIKE THIS this pink hair is doing her like two million favors like the space bun look right here???????? STUNNING just left long and straight??????? BEAUTIFUL the fit with the beige(?) sweater and skirt and that black outfit during her rap verse the pink dress iM D*AD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BONUS TIME: B-SIDE TRACKS (short thoughts and parts i liked)

Intro

A SLAPPER WE LOVE TO HEAR IT-

Break the Wall

oH BICTH the way this song took me back to my edgy middle school years listening to music like this MY GOD THEIR VOICES SOUND SO COOL ON IT like they were using megaphones and s hit THE CHORUS IS SO GOOD IM GOING FERAL™ I FEEL LIKE I CAN CONQUER THE WORLD WITH THIS-

Can’t Get You Out Of My Mind

ALL ENGLISH SONG BICTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! its all about the yearning its so catchy and good i was literally already singing it randomly right after the highlight medley like honestly this and break the wall are so nostalgic highkey- their pronunciation is so so SO good!!!!

Dear

JIUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😭😭😭 IM SO SOFT DONT LOOK AT ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! she wrote this herself and its just so full of love and thankfulness and gratefulness and appreciation for insomnias SOMEONE PROTECT HER- and then the rest of the members singing so gently and beautifully there are real tears in my eyes...............

LIKE im just gonna say it every comeback now i guess THEY👏NEVER👏DISAPPOINT👏EVER👏 i love being an insomnia so much yknow??? love them as people love them for always providing content and always showing that they love and appreciate their fans and how they always make me laugh and feel better and most importantly of all is THEIR MUSIC not implying anything with capitalizing and bolding that............... unless they are so incredibly talented and show how versatile they are in so many different genres AND THEYVE GROWN SO MUCH IN POPULARITY THIS YEAR AND ARE NOW BEATING THEIR OWN GOALS im so happy to be their fan 😊😊😊 this just became a paragraph of me and how much i love them ANYWAY-

IN CONCLUSION: WHERE IS THE LOVE?????????? ITS BEING DIRECTED AT THIS ALBUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and AS TRADITION:

#time to listen to this and the album until i cant hear s hit no more <3<3<3 #all i wanna do is watch the video but i must get Thoughts™ out #dreamcatcher #han.txt #han's mv afterthoughts

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aquietchild · 4 years ago

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So I just watched Dreamcatcher’s new comeback

Here are my thoughts

I absolutely loved the first verse

Dami’s rap and her just being hot in general fuehjesk

But I was worried that they abandoned their classic rock style

Then the chorus came and I was shooketh

They really pulled another Breaking Free on us didn’t they

Siyeon’s high note is what heaven sounds like

GAYHEON YALL GAYHEON

She’s improved so much from the last comeback and that’s saying something since she absolutely slayed it

But seriously her visuals, her singing, her RAP, everything is just Gayheon it’s really her era huh

The music video is soooo gorgeous

I love the city at night aesthetic with all of the lights. It reminds me of What era

And I also love the elegant garden aesthetic as well

I’m not really sure how they mix into the story yet but it looks so cool

And that scene where (I forget who, I only watched the MV once,) she shoots and arrow to the sky and the bow glows in the city

And then there’s a beautiful shot of Yoohyeon in the garden surrounded by what I think is a ring of water (I only watched it once,) and then something seems to slash her and it’s dramatic and awesome jdbdjsfu

Did I mention that Dami’s hot? I freaking love her hair. Long hair Dami is something I never realized I missed

Also her raps are fire but that’s just a given at this point

Also the choreography is amazing from what I saw

Can’t wait to see their live stages

So yeah stan Dreamcatcher and stream BOCA

https://youtu.be/MZ4JGye4dQU

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#k pop #kpop #kpop girls #dreamcatcher #kpop comeback #dreamcatcher jiu #dreamcatcher yoohyeon #dreamcatcher sua #dreamcatcher siyeon #dreamcatcher dami #dreamcatcher gahyeon #dreamcatcher handong

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choerrypuffs · 6 years ago

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and stupidly, us.

pairing: vigilante!sicheng x nurse!reader

genre: angst, fluff, it gets a little hot and heavy but no smut

word count: 5.5k

synopsis: your boring, routine life takes a turn when you find a man bleeding to death by your apartment.

author’s note: this was originally going to be written for another member but then the take off teaser was released, so here we are (update: the mv was released halfway through me writing this so everyone go stream it!!!)

additional: read the yuta spinoff here

A wave of humidity hits you as you leave the air conditioned convenience store. Cringing, you ignore the disgusting feeling of your t-shirt clinging to your sweaty back and begin your trudge back to the apartment. The dark sky is riddled with bright stars, and it would genuinely a gorgeous night if it weren’t for the atrocious weather. The plastic bag you’re carrying keeps brushing against your leg and sticking to your skin. Annoyed, you swing it over your shoulder and let it hang from your fingers.

You easily dodge a couple of drunken college girls who are stumbling down the street, in search of another night club to get even more drunk at. You wonder if they’re going to the one your co-worker, Chaeyeon, is at. All of the ER nurses (that weren’t on-call) were out partying tonight. It’s been a hectic week, so Chaeyeon suggested that everyone come out for shots tonight. Of course, you declined because downing shots of tequila in a loud, smelly night club is not exactly your thing. You’re more of a curling-under-a-warm-blanket-with-some-cheap-bottles-of-soju-and-a-pint-of-ice-cream-while-crying-over-cheesy-movies-on-Netflix kind of girl.

By the time you arrive back at your apartment complex, you are debating on taking another shower. It’s so hot outside that your three minute walk to the convenience store has you soaked with sweat. Fishing your keys out of your back pocket, you begin to unlock the door until you hear a soft groan. You freeze mid-lock turn and slowly turn your head in the direction of the noise. It sounds like it’s coming from the small gap that separates your apartment building from the next one.

Every rational part of your entity is screaming at you to run inside and lock the door, but the nurse in you can’t help but notice that it sounds like the person is in pain. You mentally argue with yourself for another couple of seconds before you inhale, taking a small step toward the direction of the noise.

“H-Hello?”

There’s no response, but you’re close enough to hear someone panting. Exhaling the breath you took in, you peek down the narrow space. It takes your eyes a few moments to adjust to the darkness, but you finally see it. See him.

There’s a guy, who didn’t look much older than you, crumpled over on the ground. His back is against the side of the apartment building, his hand clutching at his side. You can see the rapid rising and falling of his chest as he drifts in and out of consciousness. Without blinking, you squeeze yourself through the small space and make your way towards him.

“Sir, are you alright?” you ask, awkwardly trying to kneel. The space is so narrow that you end up nearly toppling onto him.

Once again, he doesn’t say anything. His eyelids are fluttering, which is a good sign. You place your hand against his cheek; his skin pallor with a sheen to it and he’s cool to the touch. You furrow your brows, lowering your gaze to where his hand is. Pushing aside the bomber jacket he’s wearing, you gasp out loud when you see the amount of blood pooling through his shirt.

“Sir,” you say, a little louder this time, “you’re losing too much blood. I’m going to call an ambulance, okay?”

You begin dialing emergency services, but before you can even enter the first number, the stranger grabs your wrist and yanks it to the side. Nearly dropping your phone, you shoot a bewildered glance at him.

“Don’t,” he says, voice hoarse.

“Sir,” you say slowly, “if you aren’t transferred to a hospital, you will die of blood loss.”

“Don’t,” he says again, shaking his head.

You bite your lip. It’s clear that he’s growing weaker by the second, yet he used the remaining strength he had to stop you. There’s obviously a reason, and a very serious one at that, why he’s refusing medical care, but you don’t have the time to question him about it. Without another word, you stand up and haul him out from the gap. Dragging him to your doorstep, you shakily unlock your door and pull him inside. With a considerable amount of effort, you manage to get him on your couch. You try not to look too depressed as you watch his blood seep through the white suede.

“I’m a nurse,” you explain, slightly out of breath, “I’ll help you stop the bleeding.”

The stranger looks up at you warily and nods, and you’re struck with how handsome he is even when bruised and battered. His dyed hair is disheveled and slightly matted with dried blood, and his luminous skin glows even with scratches all over it. His plush lips are perfectly kissable, despite the cut on it.

Get it together, you chide yourself, are you seriously ogling a dying man?

You grab the first-aid kit in your bathroom and a couple of clean dish rags from the kitchen after you wash your hands, before sitting down beside him on the couch. His eyes are closed but he opens them again when he feels the couch dip with your weight. Without looking at him, you grab the hem of his shirt and yank it up until you see the wound. There’s a long gash marring his pale skin, but luckily, it’s a shallow one. For the most part, the edges of it has already been caked with dried blood, but you can see fresh blood glisten through the gash whenever he breathes.

Wetting one of the rags with warm water, you try your best to clean up his wound. You frown when you notice that the gash is starting to bleed a little more profusely without the barrier of the dried blood stopping it. You quickly grab another rag and firmly press it against the gash.

“What’s your name, by the way?” you ask, feeling a little awkward in the tense silence.

He says nothing, just watching you. Though you suppose you should be, you’re not really that bothered by it. There is no malicious intent in his gaze. He’s analyzing, looking at you with a curiosity and perhaps even a little fascination.

“Well, mine is Y/N,” you answer yourself, huffing at his rudeness.

“It’s...better if you don’t know,” the stranger says quietly, low voice rumbling deep within his chest. Now you’re really curious, but you know better than to pry.

“Well, you could at least give me a fake one or something. I’m saving your life, you know,” you point out.

He’s silent for just another moment before, “Winwin.”

You raise an eyebrow. “Winwin. Out of all the names you could’ve given me, that’s the one?”

“It’s an old nickname of mine,” Winwin explains, a small smile on his face. “In fact, you’re the only one I’ve told about it in a very, very long time.”

“Well, I guess I’m honored,” you tease.

Winwin gives you a full-fledged smile, and suddenly, all the moisture disappears in your mouth and you find yourself at a loss for words. His eyes trail down to the floor, where your stuff from the convenience store lay. Most of it is spilling out of the bag due to being haphazardly tossed, including a lone bottle of soju that had rolled away completely.

“Do you mind if I drink that?” Winwin asks, pointing at the bottle. “As you can probably tell, I’ve had a rough night.”

You snort. “Let me finish bandaging you up, and we can both help ourselves.”

He gives you another grin, and you wish he’d stop (not really).

Once the bleeding is under control and the gash is disinfected, wrapping Winwin’s injury is a piece of cake. After that’s finished, you toss him the bottle of soju and he catches it with one hand.

“I still strongly suggest you go to a hospital and get it checked though,” you advise as you clean up everything.

Winwin shrugs noncommittally, cracking open the soju and drinking straight from the bottle. You’re slightly concerned and yet impressed all at the same time. By the time you have everything cleaned up, the bottle is empty and he’s up in search of your trash can.

“Damn,” you note, pointing him in the direction of it. “That was quick.”

“I needed it,” he says, tossing it in your trash can smoothly. “Anyways, I’ll get going.”

You nod, feeling just a little sad that he’s leaving. Though you aren’t really sure why. This guy screams trouble with a capital T, no matter how attractive he is. You follow him to the door and nearly jump out of your skin when he turns to face you, the space between you dangerously close.

“Thank you,” Winwin says sincerely. “For everything. Also, I’m sorry for ruining your couch.”

“It’s an old couch,” you say dumbly, unable to form intelligent phrases due to his proximity.

You’re mentally beating yourself up for your stupidity as he steps outside. Just as you’re about to close the door, he turns again.

“Next time,” he says in a quiet tone, “don’t blindly bring strangers into your house. They could be dangerous, including me.”

The weekend passes by in a flash, mainly consisting of you watching terrible romcoms nonstop in an attempt to take your mind off Winwin. Spoiler alert: it doesn’t work.

Your alarm goes off at 5:45 AM, and you jolt awake. You’re laying on your back, arm slung across your eyes, and trying to make sense of your surroundings. The alarm continues to angrily beep until you find the energy to roll onto your side and switch it off. Lethargically sitting up, you aggressively rub your eyes before finally climbing out of bed. Your room is pitch black due to the lack of sun, and you nearly trip over a pile of dirty clothes as you stumble into the bathroom.

After you brush your teeth, you tug on a pair of semi-clean scrubs and pull your wild bedhead out of your face. You don’t look too hard at yourself in the mirror, because you know you look terrible. Though you would love to be able to get up at five o’clock sharp, take a nice shower, and maybe even put on a little makeup, you value that extra 45 minutes of sleep much more than your appearance.

It occurs to you that this is probably why you don’t have a boyfriend.

One long, drowsy subway ride later, you finally arrive at the hospital. There’s barely anyone here, but you do notice two shadowy figures near the double doors that lead to the ER. You furrow your eyebrows and begin to approach them. One of them turns when he hears your footsteps, and you recognize him as Dr. Nakamoto Yuta, a general surgeon. You’ve never spoken to him, but you’ve heard plenty about him from the giggly nurses in the ER. The figure behind him leans to the side to look at you as well, and you stop in your tracks.

It’s Winwin.

“Good morning,” Yuta greets politely, but there’s a bit of an edge to it.

You drag your eyes away from Winwin and nod. “Good morning, Dr. Nakamoto. Do you two have business in the ER?”

He shakes his head. “No, we’re just chatting. Sorry if we alarmed you.”

You turn your gaze back to Winwin. He’s looking at you with a hardened, cold expression, one that he didn’t have last time. Tilting your head, you wait for him to acknowledge you, but he doesn’t. It’s like he’s looking right past you, and it hurts more than it should.

“Alright then,” you say softly, “have a nice day.”

“You as well,” Yuta replies.

They’re silent as you walk past them and into the ER. You want to turn back and snoop on them, but something in your gut is telling you not to look back.

“Y/N! Wanna go for drinks?” Chaeyeon asks, throwing an arm around your shoulders as the two of you walk out of the hospital.

“We have work tomorrow, Chae,” you say sternly.

“Just for a little bit. I promise you’ll be home by midnight, Cinderella,” she teases.

You want to say no, but it’s not like you have anything to do at home either (other than mope about Winwin ignoring you this morning). Sighing, you relent. “Fine, but just for a little while.”

Chaeyeon is surprised at how easily you give in this time but nevertheless erupts into a loud squeal. Pulling you into a rib-crushing hug, she jumps up and down in happiness. “I can’t believe I’ve finally worn you down enough to say yes! And the other girls said I wouldn’t be able to do it!”

You wheeze in response and she finally releases you.

“Go home, get dressed in something hot, and we’ll pick you up in an hour, okay?” she orders excitedly.

You nod, slightly overwhelmed. Chaeyeon lets out another happy squeal before waving you goodbye.

Just what have I gotten myself into?

When you arrive home, it dawns on you that you only have one “partying” dress, gifted to you by Chaeyeon actually. You’ve worn it a total of zero times, and you’re pretty sure it’s too small for you now since you’ve taken up the rather bad habit of snacking whenever you have nothing to do (which is all the time).

It’s a maroon velvet cocktail dress that stops just above your upper thighs. The dress has spaghetti straps, but they’re so thin that they really serve no purpose other than for aesthetics. When you wriggle into it, it’s a bit snug but not as bad as you thought. Even though you’re slightly uncomfortable, you admit that the dress does wonders for your curves. You do your makeup as best as you can without looking like a raccoon and swipe on a dark red lipstick that you had bought on impulse once when you were drunk.

As if on cue, you hear Chaeyeon honk her car horn outside your apartment. Grabbing your clutch and slipping on a pair of strappy heels, you quickly go outside. You see the other nurses in the backseat waving at you and quickly beckoning you to join them, so you do. Chaeyeon’s jeep is stuffed, and you’re basically all sitting on top of each other.

“You look hot,” a nurse, Joohyun, comments.

“Thanks. You too,” you say awkwardly.

“Alright, ladies! Operation: Get Y/N Some Dick has started!” Chaeyeon announces loudly. The rest of the girls cheer, and you feel yourself blush.

“Guys, that really isn’t―”

“Hush,” Chaeyeon shushes, “I know for a fact that you haven’t had a fling in an extremely long time, or maybe ever. So it’s our duty to get you one.”

You want to defend yourself, but it’s true.

“Don’t worry, girl. All you have to do is have fun, and we’ll take care of the rest,” Chaeyeon reassures you.

“That makes me worry more,” you mumble.

They all laugh, but you’re already beginning to plot an elaborate escape plan in your head.

Your stomach erupts into butterflies when Chaeyeon parks the car and everyone starts to get out. Luckily, Joohyun is leading you by the arm and basically drags you out of the car. The music from the club is so loud that you can hear it before you even arrive at the entrance. The bouncer takes one look at Chaeyeon and lets you all pass without a single word. You give a confused look to Joohyun and she just winks at you.

Once you walk in, you nearly go deaf from the volume of the music. Chaeyeon turns and says something to you but you don’t hear a single word of it. You’re not sure how anyone communicates with each other in this sort of environment. Luckily, she doesn’t seem to be expecting a response and makes a beeline toward the bar. The other nurses start to disperse, and you’re not really sure where to go so you continue to follow Chaeyeon.

She says something to the bartender and she gets to work, plopping a drink in front of you within minutes.

“A personal favorite of mine,” she yells over the music. You’re only barely able to hear her.

You warily pick up the drink, the strong scent burning your nostrils. Holding your breath, you down it in one shot and nearly cough up a lung doing it. It burns all the way down and lingers in your throat. Chaeyeon laughs, patting your back.

“Atta girl,” she says proudly.

The bartender makes you another one, and you lightly sip at it this time. When you turn to say something to Chaeyeon, you realize she’s not next to you anymore. She’s on the dance floor, pressed up against a random guy. Rolling your eyes, you finish your drink.

“Abandoned that quickly, huh?” the bartender asks.

You shrug, sliding your empty glass to her. “Another, please.”

You’ve always been a lightweight, so you already start to feel the buzz. You know your third or fourth one will be your limit, but the alcohol is dulling your rationality and you can’t bring yourself to care. After a couple more, you’re drunk. Your cheeks are ablaze, and everything around you is spinning. No longer having the energy to stay upright, you lay your head down on your arms.

Go home, the coherent part of your brain tells you, but your limbs don’t listen.

Suddenly, there’s a cool hand on your back, and you hear someone say your name. It’s a soft voice, but yet you hear it so clearly over the thumping bass. The hand has moved to your shoulder, shaking you gently. Letting out a whine, you try to move away.

“Y/N.”

You hum in response, finally lifting your head and opening one eye. Winwin’s gorgeous face finally comes into focus, and you giggle. You grab his cheeks and squish them together, making his lips jut out like a fish.

“Well, look who decided to show up!” you slur, swaying from side to side. “Are you suddenly talking to me again?”

Winwin clasps your wrists and removes your hands from his face. “You need to leave now, Y/N.”

“But I don’t wanna,” you say, pouting.

“You’re drunk. Go home,” he says firmly.

“Are you gonna take me?” you ask boldly.

Liquid courage, indeed.

Winwin looks almost embarrassed. “I’ll call a cab for you.”

For someone so mysterious and brooding, he can be quite cute, drunk you muses to yourself.

“I want a piggyback ride, like in the movies,” you say, crossing your arms.

He gives you an incredulous look, and you stare back at him. When he realizes you mean it, he sighs and scratches the back of his head. There’s a little pink dusting his cheeks, but he nods. Smiling cheekily, you put your arms out in front of you and wait expectantly.

Winwin looks around and sighs, turning his back to you and lowering himself to match your height. You throw yourself on him, wrapping your arms around his neck. His hands catch your thighs, and he adjusts you a little further up his back. Burying your face into his shoulder, you can’t help but notice how good he smells. You expected him to smell like tobacco and stale smoke, but he just smells like soap and fabric softener.

He easily weaves through the crowds, even with you on his back, and you realize just how stuffy it was in there when the fresh air hits you. You cling onto him some more, the warmth of his back nearly lulling you to sleep.

“Has anyone ever told you that you give really mixed signals?” you whisper into his shirt.

His shoulders shake as he chuckles. “No, because I usually don’t give signals at all.”

“Well, you’re giving them to me. Really mixed ones. Unless they’re all in my head,” you say, “that would be super embarrassing.”

“They’re not,” he says faintly, “though I really shouldn’t be giving them to you.”

“Well, why not?” you demand.

“I can’t tell you.”

“How do you know Dr. Nakamoto?”

“I can’t tell you that either.”

You sigh, blowing a lock of hair out of your face. “Of course not. You won’t even tell me your damn name.”

Winwin doesn’t respond and the rest of the walk back to your apartment is silent. When the two of you finally reach your doorstep, he puts you down. Your legs wobble and you would’ve fallen over if it weren’t for Winwin grabbing your arm. You look up at him in your drunken haze. The glow of the moon cascades over his face, and your breath is taken away by his beauty.

Once he makes sure you’re stable, he lets go of your arm. Clearing his throat, he says, “I should go.”

“You should,” you agree softly.

He nods but makes no move to leave, his warm brown eyes training their gaze on you. The weight of his stare is so intense that you have to remind yourself to breathe. You feel him reach out and curl a finger under your chin, tilting it up. Once you meet his eyes, his thumb quickly swipes at the corner of your lips, where your lipstick had been smeared.

“How much of this are you going to remember?” Winwin asks.

You shrug and he looks down at your shoulder. One of the straps on your dress has fallen down, and he says nothing as he hooks his finger on it and lifts it back up. His knuckle brushes against your skin the entire time. You shiver, letting your eyes flutter shut. He pulls you closer, hands resting on your waist and forehead against yours. He lets out a shaky breath.

“Sicheng,” he whispers, “my name is Sicheng.”

You open your eyes, reaching up to cup his face. He leans into your touch. “I don’t think you were supposed to tell me that, Sicheng.”

“I know,” he says, “I just wanted to hear you say it. Good night, Y/N.”

Sicheng steps away from you, his hands lingering slightly on your waist before his touch is gone completely, and he leaves.

You head into work the next day with an atrocious hangover and a few choice words for Chaeyeon. Though you don’t stay too mad at her because of what happened after. You can still hear his voice in your head like he’s speaking to you.

My name is Sicheng.

The rational part of your brain is scolding you for being so fixated on a guy that you’ve literally only talked to twice and is definitely hiding something serious from you, but you can’t help but be drawn to him. The way he looks at you makes you so―

“Y/N?”

You snap out of your daze, nearly dropping the files in your arms. Nakamoto Yuta is standing in front of you, hands tucked into his coat pockets. He’s smiling at you, but it doesn’t quite reach his eyes. You smile back nervously. Something about him unsettles you.

“Yes, Doctor?” you respond.

“Would you mind joining me for lunch? I want to talk to you,” he asks, tilting his head. His eyes are daring you to say no.

“Sure,” you say slowly, nodding. “Lead the way.”

Yuta makes small talk with you during the walk to the cafeteria, but you can’t shake the weird feeling in your gut. He pays for both of your meals and sits at a table in the corner of the room. The moment you get situated, his face drops.

“So,” he starts, “what’s your relationship with him?”

You try to keep your expression neutral. “Who?”

“Sicheng’s never been good at lying, and I guess you aren’t that skilled at it either,” Yuta muses.

You don’t respond.

“I’m just going to get straight to the point. He’s smitten with you, not enough to be stupid about it yet, but it’ll happen very soon if this continues. We have a lot of enemies, and they won’t hesitate to use you against him. I’m sure you’re a very nice girl and you’d be good with him under any other circumstances. But not this one. So, stay away from him. For your own good and his,” he says harshly.

“I―I don’t understand. What on Earth are you talking about? What enemies?” you ask. “Are― are you guys in a gang or something?”

Yuta sighs, leaning back in his seat. “Let’s just say he leads a very different, dangerous lifestyle from yours.”

You begin to ask more questions, but he cuts you off. “Don’t ask anything else. The less you know, the better.”

“But―”

“If you value his life at all, you’ll stay away.”

Yuta doesn’t wait for your response, simply picking up his tray and leaving.

You don’t see Yuta or Sicheng for the next two weeks. Chaeyeon attempts to get you to go out with her again, but you strongly refuse each time. You’ve been spending the majority of your free time doing what you’ve always done, curling under a blanket and watching movies while snacking. But for some reason, it feels so empty.

It’s storming tonight, and a loud clap of thunder makes you flinch. You turn off the movie you’re watching and prepare for bed when you hear a loud rapping on your door. At first, fear washes over you but then a small glimmer of hope blooms in your chest. You quickly pad over to the door, looking through the peephole. When you see Sicheng, you immediately open the door.

“Hey,” he greets.

“Jesus, Sicheng,” you breathe, stepping aside to let him in.

He’s sopping wet, once again battered and bruised. His cheek is swollen, and there’s a nasty cut across his forehead. The skin on his knuckles has been scraped off, and he’s limping. For the most part, he’s in better condition than he was when you first saw him. You realize he’s shivering and you quickly grab your fluffiest towels from the bathroom, swaddling him in them.

“Thanks,” he mumbles, plopping down on your couch. Right on the spot with his blood stain. “So you remember.”

“Remember what?” you ask, drying his hair with a smaller towel.

“My name.”

You stop, looking down at him. “How could I not?”

Sicheng shrugs. “Yuta told me he talked to you. He’s right, you know.”

“Yet you’re here,” you say wryly.

“Strange, isn’t it? I had every intention of going to Yuta’s, but I found myself here,” he says quietly.

You give up on drying his hair, slapping the towel over his head, before leaning back against the couch and sighing. “Stop saying stuff like that.”

Sicheng watches you, reaching over and sliding his hand into yours. His hand is wet and cold, but it somehow warms you. You let your intertwined hands stay like that for a only a few moments before you pull away. “Are you ever going to tell me who you are?”

“I can’t,” he says again, shaking his head.

“Are you a criminal?” you ask. “Murderer? Drug dealer?”

He doesn’t answer.

“I can’t keep doing this, Sicheng. You’re the one who told me not to blindly let strangers into my house, including you, but you came to me. You’re the one who said it’s better if I don’t know your name, but you told me anyways. I don’t want your breadcrumbs anymore. If you have no intention of telling me who you are, then get out. I don’t want to see you,” you say, pointing to the door.

You’re met with another round of silence.

“Criminal,” he says after a long pause. “I guess you could call me a criminal.”

“You guess?” you ask, raising an eyebrow.

“We serve justice to higher-ups that are corrupt,” Sicheng explains, “just not in the most lawful way. We don’t kill though, we just simply hit them where it hurts: their bank accounts.”

“So you’re a vigilante,” you say, “a modern day Robin Hood.”

He smiles. “That sounds much better.”

“Oh,” is all you can reply with. You’re glad he’s not a murderer or anything like that, but you’re not sure what to do with this information now.

“So, you can imagine the amount of enemies that I’ve made,” Sicheng continues, “and how they’ll tear you apart if they find out that I care for you.”

“Which means you should probably go,” you finish for him, nodding and looking down at your hands.

“Yes, I probably should,” he agrees, tilting his head and waiting for you to meet his eyes.

There’s another brief pause before you do, and it’s all over from there.

Sicheng’s arms are suddenly wrapped around your waist, hauling you onto his lap. You grab his face and kiss him with a fervor that you never knew you had in you before. His hands are clutching your hips tightly as he yanks you forward, pressing you flush against him. You let out a mewl in his mouth at the friction, and he groans in response. He removes a hand from your hip and places it against the back of your head, deepening the kiss. His tongue draws out another moan from you, and you feel your lungs crying out for air.

“Tell me to stop,” he whispers as you pull apart to breathe. His lips are glossy and slightly tinted from the lip balm you had on. “Tell me this is wrong.”

You shake your head, throwing your arms around his neck and bringing him in for another kiss. Sicheng doesn’t protest and kisses you back even harder. His fingers begin fiddling with the hem of your shirt, and you can tell he wants to take it off but is waiting for your approval. Breaking the kiss, you take off your shirt and toss it over your shoulder. He’s surprised at first, but his gaze quickly softens as he leans in to press feather light kisses against your skin.

“You’re beautiful,” he mumbles, sucking purple bruises onto your collarbone.

You crane your neck, clutching his head to your chest. Once he dots hickeys across your chest and neck like constellations in the sky, he pulls away to look at you. His lips are swollen and his eyes are lidded.

“Stay,” you whisper, placing your forehead against his.

“I shouldn’t,” Sicheng says it like it’s physically hurting him.

“You shouldn’t,” you echo.

But he does.

When you wake up, you see Sicheng with his back turned to you as he tugs his shirt back on. It’s so early that the sun hasn’t even risen yet, and you groggily call out to him. He stiffens like you caught him doing something he wasn’t supposed to, slowly looking back at you.

“What are you doing?” you ask, rubbing your eyes and sitting up. You don’t even have the energy to be embarrassed when the blanket falls from your bare chest.

He eases himself on the edge of your bed, brushing your messy hair out of your face. “I have to go.”

“Why?” You wrap your fingers around his wrist as he cradles your cheek.

“Last night was...a mistake,” he says softly, “a wonderful, amazing mistake, but a mistake.”

You knew he was going to say that. Though it doesn’t hurt any less.

“The more I’m around you, the more I like you, and that terrifies me,” Sicheng says, brushing his thumb across your cheekbone.

“What are you so afraid of?” you whisper, leaning into his touch.

“That you’ll get hurt. That this feeling will turn into love. That, one day, I’m going to have to choose between what I’m doing and you―”

He closes his eyes.

“―and that I’ll make the wrong decision.”

You’re silent, watching him. Sicheng opens his eyes again and looks at you, his expression a conflicting mix of longing and frustration. Wrapping your arms around him, you place your cheek on the top of his head and he buries his face in your chest.

“Come back to bed,” you finally say, after the two of you stay like that for a while.

“I―”

“Don’t worry about the what ifs,” you shush him, “worry about right here, right now. And right now, you’re here with me. We’re safe. No one is going to come through that door and try to kill us―”

“You don’t know that,” he mumbles.

“Shut up, you’re ruining my grand speech,” you snap.

“Sorry.”

“Well, now I’ve forgotten it,” you sigh, “anyways, just cuddle with me. Geez.”

Sicheng smiles against your skin and falls onto the bed, taking you down with him. Rolling on top of you, his arms cage your head as he leans down to press a small kiss on your lips.

“Should I?”

You roll your eyes, grabbing a fistful of his shirt and bringing him back down to you.

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