Stray Kids "바람 (Levanter)" Dance Practice Video + MV
Added 2024-05-11 01:47:40 +0000 UTC
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This is some great thinking and perspective Gail! I feel that we could never know if Woojin sticking around would give us the SKZ we have today, but I am one who is always striving to accept circumstances as they happen, for I wouldn't be who I am today without them. I think some perspectives that SKZ are able to truly feel and empathize come from these hard experiences , which sucks, but I understand.
Jessica Holyfield
2024-07-11 03:40:06 +0000 UTCNow that I am slightly past being a baby Stay, while going through your reactions so far but still being very familiar with today’s Stray Kids sound, I have often wondered if the vocal cohesiveness of today would have happened with Woojin still being involved as a lead singer. I think being forced into new vocal roles ( terrifying for them, I would imagine) so urgently to revise, rewrite and reimagine everything that was already finished has produced a sound that compliments and blends so well. I find it fun now that their “ sound” is so identifiable that we are seeing more of the individual differences in vocals being explored singly and also in the group music. Fascinating.
Gail Palmer
2024-07-07 19:23:16 +0000 UTCI can see that this one feels like a new start especially because the poster in BangChan's producing space is the Lavanter poster. And when I say that Seungmin has GROWN as a vocalist, complete understatement and the more recent work I listen to , the more he sticks out in a great way in tone and vibrato!
Jessica Holyfield
2024-05-28 02:53:56 +0000 UTCI love Levanter, it s such an apt song for what they were going through at the time. This era is SKZ shedding the past and stepping into their future as 8. I think they view it as their true start (and a couple of members have said as much) since Woojin’s departure caused them to reevaluate their own roles within the group, forcing growth since they had to fill the gap of a main vocalist. They had to weather the storm of that controversy by sticking together even more and I think that really did a lot to reinforce the bond between the whole group.
Pandasnopunk
2024-05-26 12:53:53 +0000 UTCCould not agree with you more with this... Sometimes we end up preparing for something and events happen and that something turns into a more impactful and meaningful experience than we realize. I am so sorry for the loss of your father, and I'm so thankful music was able to be such a fitting way to remember him through. Music hits different when it is abnormally similar to our circumstances... Especially on a more neurotic note.. Hated how deep they must have felt this, but oh the lives impacted were probably greater than they realize.
Jessica Holyfield
2024-05-20 21:58:46 +0000 UTCI think Woojin's departure was fateful in a very sad way. I prefer not to go the OT9/OT8 debacle for a member leaving this way, especially when there is no discernible outside reason to glean for it and that all we know is that it happened and it put everything into disarray for a time. I still call it fateful because 1) if someone wants to leave, I wouldn't want them to force themselves to stay in it anyway as it wouldn't be fair to anyone that way specifically in the long run, 2) I don't believe all the hard work, camaraderie and friendship that had carried these kids together so far become obsolete just because their friendships and partnership ended when it did, and 3) it coincidentally does tie into Levanter (it'd be funny if it wasn't sad!). The Intro for the album release (a little interview and behind-the-scenes compilation they do where members talk about each song's production and performance preparations) described how Levanter is about unwillingly letting go of something and it working out for the best. (I always interpret it is so because it lets you grow and move on from the person you were when you were clinging to it, but that's my add-on to that sentiment from Changbin's description specifically.) It fits MIROH-Side Effects-Double Knot-Astronaut storyline of entering a new, confusing place to survive it (MIROH), getting confused and overwhelmed along the way with all the freedom and choice (Side Effects), but doubling down on what you know (Double Knot) and going forward anyway (Astronaut). Of course, running fast and going ahead would mean leaving things behind too (Levanter). Considering how Levanter was written before all this happened, I wouldn't be surprised if it ended up hitting them harder to perform it when it was eventually released. (I mean, I can't imagine it not affecting the artists themselves when even for listeners a change in circumstances can transform a song! I still remember how much I loved Within Temptation's Supernova for what it is and being soft about it because I knew one of the composers and lyricists, Sharon den Adel, wrote it after the death of her father about wishing for a sign of him from the afterlife as a "final goodbye" that could put her grieving at ease (it is such a dance-your-heart-out hype song despite this heavy theme lmao). Now imagine me, only a few months after its release, losing my own father. Of course listening to that song completely changed for me - it became so much more impactful and cathartic. 😅)
Eafiu
2024-05-18 20:55:20 +0000 UTCThey had to push back the Astronaut single, this mini album comeback, and the tour they were about to do because he left right after Double Knot was released. They had to re-record all the songs for this comeback, which is why you see Han taking more of a vocal role and. If you're curious, they released a video called Stray Kids: Prequel (Highlight Reel) right before their God's Menu comeback where they kind of showed the storyline connecting the MVs in a broad lens
Le Petit Loup-Garou
2024-05-11 04:08:22 +0000 UTCI think they were able to grow more them being 8. There is a lot of mystery revolving around exactly why he left but I do know they were very hurt by this and they have never really mentioned him again and kind of avoid talking about those times. They have said once they were kind of angry around the levanter time and that kind of the only time they mention how they were feeling around levanter timeframe.
Samantha Rivero
2024-05-11 03:23:42 +0000 UTC
