It's so ripe. So ripe! Shall we dig in? Thank you~ Thank you! Thank you~ Hyunjin, do you wanna switch places? - Sweet~
- Can you eat that? - Yes!
- Yeah? That's great. Sweet~ I want to try that! It cuts like meat. You're very good at handling watermelon. - You mean this?
- Yeah. I don't have much experience. I want to go camping. It looks more like a murder scene than a fruit party. This watermelon~ HAN, come here. Such nice weather! Really! I rented this whole place to meet you guys. You are so awesome. It cost 4.7 million dollars to rent this place, but I negotiated it down to $4.8. HAN, Thank you. Of course - I'm going to sit asymmetrically.
- Two of us couldn't come here today. So we will leave those seats empty. The most troublesome two. They're here? - Those trouble makers.
- I thought they couldn't come. That's where we're sitting? - Yes, here.
- Over here! Fisherman and pig, come here! [(Fisherman)]
Why are we here? The pig's annoyed. Changbin, goodbye~ Bro! Bring some ice cream when you come! Are you going home~? Lee Know, we're both wearing stripes. Lee Know, come here~ Is he ok? Did he take his medicine? You're late! [Looking at his pants] You guys are wearing the same pants. [(Ripped jeans)] Their pants are different. Their teamwork... Our teamwork is very good. You look like a puppy. Who? - That.
- He called me "that." We gathered here today to resolve a misunderstanding between Lee Know and Seungmin~ That's why we're here. You guys are willing to talk it out, right? No? If it comes naturally. Are you willing? Willing to do what? Resolve the misunderstanding? What misunderstanding? Misunderstanding? - Why are we here, Seungmin?
- Yeah! We heard that each unit's songs are finished. We're not finished. Of course, some groups are still tuning, mixing, and editing. We're not even done recording!! Go ahead, it's okay. They'll edit this out. If we're not finished, shall we just leave? I can't hear you! Shall we go? Why aren't you guys taking this seriously? - Calm down, I'll talk some sense into him.
- Okay. - Wait, Yongbok's in your team, right?
- Right. Let's switch. It felt weird for some reason. Why are you neglecting your team member? Our team member wanted to be in the center position. I wanted him to be the center of this group. - Hey!
- Why are you being so mean to him? Okay, that's enough. Do you want to come here? No, it's okay. Wherever we are, we'll still get all the attention. Changbin's the center of this group. Of course, he is. Guy with the spine~! He fell down! I saw him listening to his unit's song as he took a shower. Why were you watching me take a shower? Why would you watch that? I didn't look. I just heard. I know this team. Cornea, right? Cornea! - Why not call us Drumheads? It was something he heard.
- It's Oblivion! Oblivion! It's Scolding. Scolding~? The title of our song is Strong Beat. What does it mean? Bang Chan and I wanted to try something sexy. You're going to do sexy without us? I'm going to go mad, seriously! Doesn't make any sense. We wanted to express something sexy. But instead of expressing someone else, we wanted to express ourselves. It's not all about sexiness. It's about compulsion and confusion of ego. Do you have many egos? He also has a tape measure. You didn't take your medicine, did you? He's old and feeling hot. He's old and feeling hot. - He ate too much.
- Please forgive us. When I'm practicing or being creative, I have a compulsion to do everything. There's a lot of confusion between my ego, compulsion, and stuff. That's what I was trying to express. I don't have any compulsions. You have one very strong compulsion. When you hold a water bottle wrong, he'd get upset. When he enters a room, he gets upset if a laptop's in the wrong position. The screen has to be at a perfect 90-degree angle. Or he goes like this. He bought four laptops already. If we're not sitting straight when he comes home, he'd be like, "why won't you sit straight?" "Sit straight!" I guess that's why that mirror was always broken. It's like you guys are living in a manner academy. You have to be perfect! That's what I was trying to express. It's a good topic, though. Very unique. It's very sexy. And you know that feeling the word "compulsion" brings? The whole song is very powerful. We wanted to do sexy as well. As soon as the three of us got together, we wanted to do sexy. Lee Know, can you go like this too? We wanted to do sexy. When we were all together before, I asked you guys. What will this unit do, and what will that unit do? I thought, what should our unit do? I wanted to do hip hop, but also some cool vibes for the summertime. So we chose a few beats and... You don't know my name? - With Lee Know.
- Lee Know. I chose the beat with him and Yongbok. We asked ourselves, what should we do? We all wanted to make a summer song. The weather's very hot. We're doing cool sexy. We're doing sexy? It's somewhere in there. There are many kinds of sexy. That's right! [(Nope)]
He takes off his clothes. I will take off my shirt. You know I've been working out, right? I don't know how you're doing it. I don't wanna know. You know how you swell up when you go in the water? That's how I'm doing it. Oh, so it's like that porchetta I made? It must be like that. [(Shout)]
I'll float really well! Ah! That's it~ It wasn't oily. More like moist. Moist! Surely! You guys go well with summer. It'll be good. - We have such diversity in our voices.
- Right. Husky voice. Husky and sexy. Low and sexy. High and sexy, I guess? He's always like "Argh!" But when he sings, it's like "Nyah~" Nyah~ sexy. Nyah~ sexy. We're moody sexy too, right? Yeah, of course. Our original concept was sexy. Look how revealing his legs are. My knees are revealed too. Porchetta! Speak! Seungmin! Our leader, Seungmin. I tried to express the sexiness inside three of us. What kind of sexy? Kinda desperate. Desperate sexy! Desperate sexy. We're in the middle of a break-up. Break-up sexy! Just add sexy to everything! To everything! We were talking about the topic. Ah, topic sexy. We already did something like "Ex". I wanted to do something more youthful but desperate this time. Do you have a title? It's a secret. The title is Secret? Maybe it's Unspoken Secret! It's called "Gone Away". I don't know the title of this team's song! Borchetta! Porchetta! Maybe it's "I don't know?" I don't know. We had a crush on someone, but it came to the point where we felt like we had to let go of that someone It was time to let go. So we decided to let go, but it's not easy. You can't control your feelings. It's painful and desperate. We wanted to sing together, too. I'm glad that our voices sound like one voice in this song. Your voices are really good. All three of us have different vocal styles, - It's very unique.
- It was fun. I think it'll be so good. Is it very sad? If you listen to it for the first time, you'll feel that wave of emotion. Did you give up on that love? Or was it a love that failed? Just gave up. [(Too focused)]
Why did you give up? [(Too focused!)]
Why did you give up! Why did you give up? I'm so curious. Right when you give up, that's when the other person notices. Is that coming from your personal experience? He wrote the lyrics to "Ex". The legendary second verse! I'm contemplating whether to leave the music video as an open ending or not. Shall we talk about our music videos then? or I think we have some monitoring files, Maybe it'll be better to take a look at that first. Shall we listen to them? - Why do only three of us have this?
- So cute! [SKZ looking for SKZOO] Hello, Jiniret! First, let's listen to Surfin' Team [Listening to the songs in order]
I'm so anxious! Can you hear that? I feel like we need to turn up the AC already. It's turned up already. His wink is really hip. What? They're making small talk. Are you here alone? By myself. [Repeating the hook] This is the first time I heard Felix's voice like this. What's up with Yongbok's verse? Wow~ the hook is very memorable. [Addicted to the hook already] I want to listen to it too! [Monitoring Surfin's song] Why are you guys fighting? We're fighting? This sounds so refreshing. You're right below the AC. Oh, it's right there. The AC's right there. I think a snow crab is coming out. - Snow crab?
- Yes Mr. Crab Felix~ Different? DJ Felix Lix, Lix I love your rapping tone Lee Know's voice at the bridge - Lee Know's falsetto is crazy
- So refreshing What's that, Lee Know? Seeing Changbin sing for the first time in a while Right That's amazing So catchy Stop it! Catchy for the summer. It's like something that will blow up in TikTok. Right. But we won't. We said we won't do it. Music, music video and nothing else! What song would you like to listen to next? 'Obsession'! I'm confident that this one will blow up Speak with your earphones on Speak with your earphones on if you don't speak with your earphones...! I see it he must see the music [Not on yet]
I'll play it breathing From the beginning? It's so sexy already So nervous - I know
- Somehow.. It's like a pop song? Right. [curious] Curious Curious See the eyes widening Why, is it itchy? No, I got burnt Huh? I love it, for real Hyunjin's great at singing I'm curious What can't you leave alone? I'm curious I can hear that sexiness It's something you can dance to. Really? What kind of dance? Can you show me? For example.. - From standing up
- No! No! [Creating the dance]
You start by sitting, start Begin to stand up Hey, stop. Something like this. I can see that stickiness Here we go. This is so nerve-wracking - It's so nerve-wracking, why though?
- You're nervous? I don't know what kind of reactions will come out. I shouldn't have reacted I know [At least now] [Oh!] Look at HAN [Quokka's embarrassed with the sexy song] (singing) You're only listening to the sexy words. What would STAY think? A bit of rock? - All night long?
- The guitar Oh, why won't you keep it still? Why is it so sexy? - Why can't you keep it still?
- They can't keep it still? Know what? [Margarine bread can't stay still]
What can't it be kept still? Why, why can't you keep it still? I think it should have an age rating system What do we do? It's embarrassing It's embarrassing My ears are red, oh no I didn't even hear the humming before This was my first time hearing it I never knew it has so many genres mixed up I'm excited that this is what STAY hasn't seen before - Right
- and we can show them now and I'm very excited about it. Why are they all so good~ If we do it at a concert later like the performance with the two together Together [Let's get together]
And at the end one.. You can't tell everything Can't stay still You have to add my name to the choreography credits If you look for the meaning behind sexy with this combination Sexy? These two? So you're leaving me out? Let's hear that desperate sexy. It's so nerve-wracking. I told you. What is this! I think it's because of Seungmin's voice Seungmin's start is great Changbin's crying A duck now I can't focus with his face - Hey, I want to hear it again
- Okay Wow this might really make people cry Changbin's too into it now Changbin. How is it? I like it? You..! I like the structure. Someone starts off and there's the buildup Felix is listening to something else? It's a ballad but with a more solemn feel I want to listen to it quickly I'm going crazy - I got into the voice
- It's good. It doesn't need any comments. Changbin even said that... Relatable? So relatable. The recording's great too. Great work. I'm so excited. Songs with the melody as the main thing It's hard for a melody to stick the first time you hear it Right, right Unless it's a hook song But the hook's very memorable - It just gets in
- Right I just keep listening without getting out Right I think it'll stay in my head. - Hey! Hey!
- Listen to it Let's share! Anything left? I want to listen as well [Continues to listen to 'Gone Away']
The structure is amazing when I.N gets into the verse you can feel the youth Who's this? Right, this is how everyone ends up reacting Focusing on the music Bang Chan's getting that kindergarten mode on Red nose Love it Tear dropping. The first verse just ended it for me. That was it From the beginning it all came out. It's not like you slowly get into it but from that 'collapsed' part, I could relate to that Did you hear the lyrics or the melody first? Lyrics first that 'Collapsed' as the beginning is so I agree, the word is 'collapsing' which is an action of falling the top line is like this the opposite so the listener gets to focus collapsed↘ collapsed↘ like.. I'm collapsing too↘ I want this song out now. I'll stream it. [Touched]
Thank you. We did unit songs for our concert too. We had Team WOW, Team WE GO "Amazing Universe" "Amazing Universe" too, "My Amazing Universe" "Amazing Universe." If we get to do another concert with our new unit songs, it would be fun as well I thought it'd be all different but not by this much we have a lot of songs too in this album, right? Right. With a lot of genres too, and with the unit songs,
we can show many things as well with different members at a unit we can show more things so doing things in units with changing members would be great too. Right. STAY would be so curious since we're just talking about it like this. It's like eating a single noodle from a bowl of noodles [Oh]
Not the soup yet. [From the release date]
We have around a month for this to be released how would STAY wait? I don't think I can. Any directions for your MV? We thought about, East West North and South. What about your team? It's a summer song, so something that everyone can enjoy Just by looking at it - I can picture the color
- Right, the color but I don't want it to be - too obvious and too much like
- black and white! Black and white Too hot too stuffy Black and white? Wow, I feel like I'm wearing a knit sweater. - The MV director is actually here.
- Director Kim Hyunjae? Yes, we can talk about the unit songs and organize some things Sounds great Tonight, on with the director~ [MV director is here] - Hi
- Hello [NOVV Kim Hyunjae director]
Our "Up All Night" "Up All Night", "Drive" [A lot of SKZ-PLAYER done by him]
- He's in charge of almost all our SKZ-PLAYER
- Right, right Doing it with him is very... - It's awkward to see him here
- It feels weird [Can't do it] Looking at your outfit today you fit perfectly with our team right now - The blue
- Sure Have you heard of our songs? Oh, yes I loved them. Which was your favorite? My taste is the Sexy Team - Let's go
- That's it Thank you For me, Vocal Team and Summer Team [Didn't hear it] No, I only heard Vocal Only Vocal. [Each team talking about the MV]
- So..
- Start with the least interesting, which is us He also talked about Summer No Let's go Dwaekki! Do it like a college presentation College presentation? I haven't been to one yet What year are you? I started in '18 We... [Awkward] [Let's go] When we write our lyrics and songs we usually draw a mind map so let's start from there Okay Spell Surfin' wrong It's been a while to hear that word - Don't people usually say 'alphabet', right?
- Spelling~ [Oh]
- Spelling
- Spelling That's right I want the mood to be refreshing so we'll go to Cheongryang-ri Okay Refreshing, and I want the location to be either around the beach or the pool Even the river sounds good. So we need a place where there's water. and I don't want things to be serious. In the beginning, the tiring daily life we're struggling through is shown and as the location changes, we have fun and relax around the beach I want that kind of healing point Location It's like listening to a very boring lecture Professor, this is boring I haven't done anything like this so I'm just writing down what I'm saying - Cute.
- Any other idea? Professor, tell us about your first love! For the shooting, you need props on the pool - Props?
- Right Like a mountain bike, or something that doesn't fit the pool maybe a funny aspect like that. Props that don't suit the location Right The assistant casts! They could do an easy dance we could all follow - A question, professor
- Yes? What's the story? I told you. Were you sleeping? I'm sorry I told you, you need to have some relaxation in the middle of a
hot, repetitive and tiring daily life. So first show those things, and then as the location changes more from there and then as the location changes more from there and show more aspects of healing here is what I said earlier. Choreo! We'll try to do it now. The point choreo! What do you think? I think it should be cute. So everyone can follow! Oh something easy. Choreo! Easy! I want to go home. My tummy hurts. Can I go to the bathroom The bell rang. Something memorable! I think that's it for the MV. Yeah, I think that's it. They want this to end. - I think the MV is already made.
- What a deep meaning! Make it more colorful Let's make a mark with the blue one! My eyes hurt. I chose the wrong lecture. I should have chosen something else. I want to take a semester off Now on the intro and ending we need a fairy We usually have an ending fairy but we also need one for the intro! We chose. Who do you think it is? I think it's Changbin~ We'll switch to Changbin We'll go with the director I'm joking We did a game The director wanted it to be me but Yongbok got to be both fairies. I think he is happy about it. Yes! He likes it Yongbok! With Changbin in the back. So he shows a bit of himself too. OK! That's it for today. Thank you. With the choreo It's a different teacher now. [(spill)] Don't be mad. I'll explain the choreo. We'll do something cute and easy. [(red ears)]
We made something simple we need to spice it up for the MV, so we're going to completely re-do it. Again! That's it for class. Yay How short. What's the point? It's that we're starting over. What was the original? Actually, I dislike summer but after listening to the song the atmosphere felt chill. Director seems to dislike summer Yeah. You just understood our main point. I thought we could all feel cooler with this song what a great compliment. And I really hope there's cute choreo to go with it. The professor is late. That's bad. [time for Sexy Team Bekkawang's PR]
We'll start. Clap! What are you saying~ What are you doing! I didn't sign up for English lessons. Compulsion. [compulsion!!] We have a few keywords. We can't see it well. Why are you writing that. Write it in Korean please. In Korean please. Black and white! Oh you want black and white? Yeah. For the styling? Oh the choreography? What's wrong with his tongue? Choreography oh yeah~ Why is there a red light with black and white. That makes no sense. How can you see red when it's black and white. These are the keywords. Well done! Nice and simple. We'll go all the way with black and white filters for the MV It'll create a deeper and moody atmosphere Black and white. Why is he writing everything. He's stubborn. Now for the styling. Nude! - Nude?
- Hey! - Bang Chan is taking off his clothes!
- Nude? I thought of mixing something elegant that's also tough. For example a full tux with tattoos and wet hair. I think the choreo could be done in pairs since there are parts in the song about facing oneself. So we could face each other in pairs and think about a mirror performance I don't think that can be done.. Something like that! That's what I came up with. We could stage it at a hotel something that gives off a grand vibe. With curtains but instead of curtains there could be chains That's too sexy. The mismatching stands for the clashing of the 2 opposites. That sounds cool And the most important sexy. To explain, We'd like the MV to be difficult to understand. - Something...
- Complicated. Rather than being complicated, something more like... when you try to crack the meaning of the MV it has more to it. So the more you crack it the more sexy it becomes. I want to show a lot of things that we haven't done before through this music video. - They'll rewatch what they just saw
- Something grand. And watch it again The inspo was from 'Venom' The 2 selves are different but they are also one. So myself suffering from compulsion and my normal self are combined into one Bang Chan and I are 2 So in one frame, one looks ordinary but the scene overlapping behind is the other side of me The melody of the song is sexy so it'll be fun to make it visually pleasing becuase it's also about oneself What I thought of is since it starts with you two, dancing in pairs as well one could follow the other and act somewhat like twins. Two divided people that are actually one I think it'd be cool if we wore the same outfits. When we go to a hotel the director doesn't like summer and we don't like being in the heat so we need strong a/c! Sounds great. Indoors! Thank you. Hello! We're Quokka! Bbang! No I say bbang. We're 'Quokka's bum' [(official) Margarine Bread changed their name to Quokka's Bum] What! That's cute. We want to film a MV with a story that tells drama with us 3 as the main characters We wanted symbols. [(writing it down)]
In the beginning and end it could be a flower or anything prop, really I.N is good at writing. - How cool.
- Go! [(falling)] It keeps falling. No it depends on how you look at it There's a flower symbolizing love that never could be. I.N found the 'begonia' It means one-sided love. So we thought it could appear in the MV every now and then and the 3 of us are liking the same person but the places and timing they each meet are different in different spaces. We also want a flashback scene that shows the memories of one place after a lot of time passed Something that can make you feel like it was a heartbreaking memory. You're all liking the same person? Yeah. We want the color to to feel overall watery and slightly dark as if it's raining For styling, for example since school uniforms can show a teenage love kind of vibe, we want to convey these emotions. You're not teenagers anymore. I mean, yes we're in our 20s. The flashback will happen when we're all old. What did you think of when you listened to our song? As soon as I heard it, it was sad To be honest, my bucket list this year was to make a romance ballad MV I'm really looking forward to this song. What if the person you like gets married at the end and the 3 of you are singing at that person's wedding. Singing 'Fallen~' That would be a disaster. It'll be fun. I only like fun things. There's a movie called 'Classic'. I love the color scheme of that movie. That's a great idea. All three teams have presented What did you think? I think it'll be fun since all of them are different genres. I'm excited for team Summer Thank you It's the right combination of sexy, fresh, ballad so we're able to try out new things I'm excited. Will it be okay for your health? It's okay. We'll have to take swimming lessons together. Yeah. We want the director in our MV too. Where? When we dance. Then I can't monitor... We can always play it back and see the sync. I'll think about it. It'll be so fun. Thank you for your time and thank you for sitting through this messy PR session. Thank you. We had a talk with each unit and we're preparing new things. It's the 2nd album Already Let's keep practicing Yeah. And make something great. Do you each have a name for your team? 'Summer Prince' Stray Kids. I wanted to do something. What? The name of the song camp is 'Howl in Harmony' [Cheer for the song camp]
Okay! Let's cheer. - Ready?
- Yeah! 1 2 3! Stray Kids awoo~ Okay! Great! [Bang Chan, Hyunjin <Compulsion>] [Lee Know, Changbin, Felix <Surfin'>] [HAN, Seungmin, I.N <Gone Away>]
Ok I’m only halfway through but Changbin is hilarious 😂
‘Topic Sexy’
‘Any ideas on music video directions?’ ‘Yeah we thought about east west north and south’
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Wow this was such a fun episode. We've seen them several times working on songs, coming up with concepts but this is my first time seeing them come up with how the mv exactly goes. I'm honored to see them in their creative space. I'm also grateful to the directors for bringing out the best in their concepts and for bringing them alive.
They spoiled that its gonna be released in August so I think its safe to assume that its gonna be in the album. Though the videos might get released a week after their cb release so we could expect it on September?
I'm very looking forward to sexyracha and desperate sexyracha(?) Lmao I'm a sucker for push and pull beats and heartbreaking songs so its perfect for me. Though I'm also curious how catchy would be the pre-hook in summer prince's song. For the music videos I'm all excited for the three because they're very different and the directors worked on some of their SKZ-Players so it would be a high quality video as usual lol.
Plus Hyunchan? Wet hair? In tux? Chains? Tattos? Mirroring choreo? Sign me up.
Someone wake me up when August 23 comes.
Wait....don't tell me this entire song camp thing is basically just an extended teaser (complete with 'behind the scenes' footage) for the three unit songs (and M/Vs) that will come out on the release of their next album...
Edit: added spoiler
help I cannot get seungmin’s wink out of my mind??
the part with the director was so refreshing to watch, I love how they weaved their brainstorming process into this episode!
God this was an absolute joy to sit through from the beginning to the end. SKZ have such unmatchable chemistry that they're pretty much effortlessly funny in their group content.
I really liked Hyunjin's explanation of their song/MV concept here. You can tell that he really thought about the meaning of it and cares a lot about portraying it well. I personally love those kinds of deep meanings in songs and the concept they came up with is super fascinating to me so I'm unbelievably hype for it. Also, the way Hyunjin cited some movie aesthetics is really cool, the dude clearly has such a passion and drive for creativity.
+ Anytime I think Lee Know can't think of something more ridiculous to say, he always surprises me lol. I'm still crying over him telling Hyunchan to do their MV nude 😭
Edit: Forgot to mention that I really was not expecting those songs to be in the album and the wait is going to be absolutely torturous after hearing all those little previews (and those insane lyrics to Hyunchan's song courtesy of Jisung lmao).
I’m excited for all the unit songs and am very curious about what Felix sounded like, they seemed impressed. The ballad will for sure make me emotional, seeing their reactions. And the sexy song, tux’, tattoos and wet hair while doing a mirror dance... yeah, that’s going to be stunning visually. Can’t wait to hear them all, they gave so many spoilers though!
I put things from the episode as a spoiler just because not everyone has seen it yet ☺️
Edit: added some more thoughts
Chan saying “it looks more like a murder scene than a fruit party”. Them clowning Chan over the “Ex” lyrics. Lee Know and Changbin being in sync yelling at Chan to write in Korean. Lee Know saying “what is that” when Seungmin started singing. Han yelling out the “sexy” words/sentences he was hearing in Chan and Hyunjin’s song. The words/sentences being control/deeper/hold me tight/all night long/can’t stay still. This was exactly how I want my SKZ content
Their chemistry and synergy are so great. Not a dull moment while they are together, one witty/silly banter after another. Changbin’s jokes take center part of this ep. I love how he describe Lee Know’s Nya sexy voice. He even asked their MV director to dance with them in the MV haha
Everything about this video is perfection but my brain is just stuck on Hyunjin putting his head on Chan's shoulder with the biggest smile on his face.
It's so cool they got to discuss with the MV directors the direction each of their respective MVs will take.