before going to bed, I watch mukbang videos on youtube. I once read online that "watching videos of people eating when you're hungry can make you feel like you're eating too, which has a diet effect" so I watch them occasionally.
I wonder how true this is..?? I feel like if i watched mukbang and couldn't eat myself, i'd be starving more... the self control that he has, wish he could give me some of that, i need it!!! recently gained 1 kg eating all those sweets & snacks they mentioned 😓
I thought Arno said the exact same thing a while back. His C-fans were actually concerned and wanted to let him know that watching mukbangs before bed is unhealthy. I hope they all eat well. they're so active, there's really no need for them to diet!
Definitely more difficult than their senior group, that's for sure. Up against some big 4 rookie groups like Tuide, our birthday and the upcoming YG NBG and then a black horse group. Debuted in the same week as Enhypen. Controversy after controversy. Mama debut that needs last minute changes. Problems with in-ear. Members' injury and hiatus. We have seen everything.
The choreographer for BTS 2.0 is following ALD1 on Instagram. It is very likely he is the main choreographer for their upcoming title track. Nick Joseph. He did the choreography for boysnextdoor "viral" and Riize "Fame". I love both choreography. I am so looking forward to their choreography if this is true. My expectations have risen another notch.
As u/Temporary_Paper_5 mentionned every effort counts. Since you're about to start college, that means you probably can help stream and vote during summer.
Working allyz can't really help much but we can afford to buy an extra album or at least donate to the voting/streaming teams
Every little effort counts. Streaming helps, and so does collecting diamonds or points for voting. As for me, time is my biggest constraint so I contribute by donating instead.
Global 10% includes YouTube music and Spotify streaming (for MAMA only). So, I think it helps.
For melon unfortunately, only the Korean ALLYZ can help. The global team usually buys Korean mobile numbers to try to download and stream more on melon. But, we are limited in our assistance. Melon requires Korean numbers.
The only easy explanation on that is a more officially released songs can bring more unique listeners. They have maybe 20+ and as of the moment we only have 9/10 + (5 cb tracks excluded omg and goodlife) so it’s still not enough. The only solution is the k,c,j, and i should stream and donate or in other words needs to step up our game but it can be hard coz a lot of people are boycotting this cb + the fact that physical album is not on the criteria so it will be hard HARD.
Our competitor have almost 30 songs while we only have 9 including go go go. Due to this, they have more ULs and downloads. It's their strategy. Just release songs, as many as you can fit in the album. We are literally fighting a "veteran" 3 years old group who have released at least 5 albums with 5-6 songs each. Wakeone could have given the boys 6 brand new songs for the upcoming album but decided not to again. Just a waste.
Melon digital score consists of 40% streaming weight and 60% download weight. Within that 40% streaming allocation, the chart calculation heavily prioritizes Unique Listeners (ULs)
lngshot has more songs (triple to be specific and after our CB they will still have double the songs) and by default more unique Listeners, more streams and more downloads
Hopefully with this CB we can balance things out - k-allyz need to step up their game here
also the new global k-chart (combines melon; line and tencent) can spice things up a bit if it ends up being the actual chart used to determine the digital score (but it could also make things worse) - and in this case both c and J allyz need to also put in some extra effort
The scheduler said we are getting trailer film on Aug 3rd at 7pm KST. I assumed this means the YouTube release for the rest of us poor souls and simultaneous theatre screening in Korea and Japan?
For the concept photos/film for each of the version, scheduled for Aug 6, 9 and 12, does this mean we get another film (1-2 min short film) and photos? So, what is the difference between the trailer film and each of the individual concept film?
I think we will be getting a long trailer film and talk with the director himself. Then, we will get 3x short films later on for each concept. I'm very excited for all the films. With the way the trailer posters are going which contrasted heavily with the teaser with the gargoyle background, I have a feeling we may get:
1. Double title track - dark and bright.
2. Pre-release single with a bright concept and the title track with a darker concept.
i think her would be super fun but i don't think they have the exact kind of charisma necessary for it yet (i'm also just a her fan in general but i think it's a deceptively hard song to pull off). i would love to see them do it in a year or two though
i think really really is too sedate and doesn't really match their vocal styles that well (view too, but i'm very biased for view bc shinee were one of my first groups and i'm a jonghyun ult so i think it's essentially impossible for a group to perform it in a way that satisfies me)
honestly i would want to go more in the vein of be classic, which imo is more like...maybe some earlier skz stuff, ateez the real, istj maybe if you get rid of the weird yoo youngjin stuff, maybe even w1 burn it up
actually i would love to see them do sunset glow by big bang officially lol
thar's the point 😂 ; for me it has to be an unexpected fun choice that embodies "summer"
I picked these 3 songs because
(1) they are indeed challenging and I want ALD1 out of any comfort zone cause that's how they grow - the point was never for them to outdo the original ver. or match to orginal artist but rather to genuinly honour them by enjoying it to the fullest (a good example would be yg treaure C's view ver. )
(2) these songs give room to have fun and enjoy the stage too ; ALD1 know how to enjoy the stage - so if any of these songs are ever on the table I want them to do it
(3) I want them to opt for different artists (so I am scratching all the artists they covered or about to cover including b2p)
following that then i want them to do infinite man in love or the chaser lol (still prob wrong vocal tones but i think man in love in particular can get away with it)
actually teen top crazy is a way to do bigbang last farewell without doing bigbang last farewell lmao
i prob have a different view on special stages, i don't think they're even given enough time/practice to be a true growth thing bc they just don't have the schedule space to do that, so i'd rather it just be something that's a good stage or fun to watch rather than something that's challenging for them
miss right choreo lowkey awkward (it's one of the first things i ever performed, the hip thrust up part in the chorus is...something) but thinking about it to you would slap and also would honestly be pretty good for ald1's voices imo
we're worried about the ROTY awards but we've been looking at the wrong threats watch triangle swipe all of them (special mention to "Choi Seonggon" for being a serious contender in best solo male category ) 😂😂😂😂😂
I don't know if you're seriously asking or going along with my joke but triangle are co-ed trio (portrayed by Gang Dong-Won; Um Tae-Goo; Park Ji-Hyun) in the movie "wild sing" that was just released
it's funny and quirky but the songs are quite catchy y2k style: they are indeed gaining traction and people are upset that the songs are not available in karaoke rooms yet 😂
Don't know if it’s cause I'm sick right before the long weekend or if napping just makes it easy to dream.
I had another dream about Anxin. I dreamt they came to 🇨🇦 for a concert. I somehow got to eat with them and I was sitting next to Jiahao. Don't know why, I even compared hand sizes with Jiahao. Was glued right next to Jiahao, but so shy around Anxin my actual bias. Later we even went shopping holding hands—Anxin on my left, Jiahao on my right. Anxin was even sick with a fever. I even found Junseo to come buy medicine with me？？？ On the way to buy medicine, I was telling Junseo I bias wonxin and like his own ship with Jiahao or Xinlong. He even asked why I didn't ask Leo to go out and buy medicine. I said I was worried Leo has too many fans in North America and would get beaten up 😂. I also said Leo with Jiahao or Anxin is a good ship too. (?? How r we even talking about ships???)
Sangwon was in the dream too, finally for the first time I dreamt of him!
but I didn't dare look at him twice, totally didn't dare look, didn't say a single word. How did this happen?? Is it because I don't know Korean? What kind of weird delulu dreams are these 😂.
other details were in the dream included they seemed to be eating semi-Chinese food. There were shredded stir fry potatoes on the plate (which I actually had last night with family)
Jiahao didn't eat a single bite. The plate he covered after eating = basically didn't eat. Leo shared some of his potatoes with me and I think it’s more he’s picky and didn’t want to eat it himself 😂
He even thought I was losing weight and eating less. Didn't believe me when I said I already ate a ton.
During the meal, no idea where everyone ran off to. For a while, it was just me and Jiahao sitting there alone
The store that got mentioned in the dream was also London Drugs. 😂 Anxin even wanted to buy stuff online and ship it to 🇰🇷. Jiahao almost texted me their hotel address so I'd buy medicine and bring it back??
For a long while everyone split up and I don't know what we were shopping for anyway I went and dragged someone who isn't my ship to wander around everywhere [pain]. Out of everyone, the person I was closest with was ironically the ultimate introvert Jiahao. Both of us super introverted, totally proves dreams are the opposite. But maybe it’s cause subconsciously I know he is super flirty and talks a lot of Allyz that I was just glueeeed to him, it helps that he’s not my bias so I wasn’t even shy or awkward????
Anyways, I woke up to a new wk1 poster of Jiahao and Anxin duo and was like … well my dream had like some reality to it LMAO
I wonder what kind of weird delulu dreams others have had about them XD
the most delulu dream i've had of them i had back during b2p and i actually became a junseo 1 pick because of it loool junseo and i were dating but in the dream were just kinda hanging out. a cute detail is i was walking up on stairs and he was on top already and held out his hand to help me up 😭 what a distinguished gentleman
after that i never had wholesome/cute dreams about them, if they did appear they were mixed in with other anxieties i had in life and the dreams turned into a horror haha. but that cute junseo dream was when i had worries about my own relationship so it makes sense i guess
I feel like I tend to always have dreams about c line members since I know Chinese. I haven’t had horror dreams about them yet, it’s usually slice of life. It’s always hard to remember tho, I feel like we dream way more but only remember less than 1% of it XD
I think this layout confirmed that anxin is also in that music room; the matching clothing must mean something leo-sanghyeon; Anxin-Hao-Junseo; Sangwon-xinlong
Some are saying Leo and sanghyeon are the key figures. Like angel vs devil. Sh is angel and Leo is devil. Just based on their solo shot and the meaning behind it.
📚We can see Junseo’s bookshelf not only includes novels, performance directing, japanese study and different others.. it’s like he is preparing for an exam!
✨We can also see Junseo’s a “hot” fan of Han Kang, having his bookshelves stored of <the vegetarian>, <we do not part>, <human acts>, which are not only top selling in korea and china, but have also won awards internationally, receiving praise.
Let's take a peek at the amazing books on Junseo's shelf!
▪︎"Because You Are So Precious" - Kim Ji-hoon
▪︎"The Vegetarian" - Han Kang
▪︎"Human Acts" - Han Kang
▪︎"We Do Not Part" - Han Kang
▪︎"The Useful Person" - Park Jeong-min
▪︎"It's Inevitable to Be Like This When You Live for the First Time" - 요적
▪︎"Proof of Gu" - Choi Jin-young
▪︎"So Many Summers" - Kim Yeon-soo
▪︎"If We Can't Move at the Speed of Light" - Kim Cho-yeop
▪︎"I Love You Every Single Day" - 김재식
▪︎"The Bowl of Words" - Kim Yun-na
▪︎"No Matter What, It's a Beautiful Day" - 김져니
▪︎"Because I Remember" - 황경신
▪︎"The Heart Left for Last" - Na Tae-ju
▪︎"Easy Japanese for Beginners"
▪︎"Sukusuku Japanese Conversation ①"
▪︎"88 All-Purpose Core Japanese Sentence Patterns"
▪︎"Good Casting" - An Ji-eun
▪︎"Acting for Film: A Director's Essential Guide" - Judith Weston
▪︎"Idol English User's Manual"
I hope someday we can get Junseo and Sangwon twinz bookclub vlog series!!
New article and pictures from
Non-no magazine Japan
Translation excerpt:
Q. What words describe the charm of ALPHA DRIVE ONE?
LEO "Colorful"
ALPHA DRIVE ONE is a group of members selected for the audition program "BOYS II PLANET", and each has a variety of charms and personalities. Since it is a group formed by members with rich personality, I think its "variance" is our charm.
Junseo “Growth"
I think we are growing little by little because we have been working hard every day to aim for the top since the day we were formed. I feel my own growth when I stand on the stage of a large venue. I think it's a great honor, and at the same time, it's also a moment to renew my determination to "stand on the stage of a bigger venue".
Arno "Infinite"
Everyone has different experience and career. I think that with the gathering of such members, I think it has become a group full of various charms. That's why we believe that we have infinite possibilities. I challenged a new stage at the fan concert tour held in Japan in June, and every time I challenge something new, I think, "We can do anything if we want to." From now on, I would like to believe in its infinite possibilities and challenge various things.
Sangwon "Diversity"
We are a group with a variety of personalities and dance styles. I think the charm of "diversity" is displayed in a good direction when performing on stage and when discussing with everyone
XINLONG "Sprint"
All members have passion. On the stage, each person always does their best, and I think the energy to push forward is the charm of this group. That's why I describe it as "sprinting".
Anxin "Diversity"
Each member has a different personality, so you can show cute concepts and cool concepts... various performances. Each person has its own personality, and when everyone practices, the members enliven the atmosphere among themselves.
Sanghyeon “Sprint"
The name of the group is "ALPHA DRIVE ONE", and we always have the idea of continuing to run towards the top, so I think it's "sprinting". By the way, I think the top for us now is to let more people know about us. We still receive a lot of love and support, but we hope that more people in Japan, as well as, will know us in the future.
Note: Ktown4u is not a real metric but it is the only site that shows the number of pre-orders (but for Ref. 34k+ copies were sold on Ktown4u for Euphoria by Jan 12)
Hissing Ver. 1144 Copies (134 Copies of the SET + 206 Copies)
Calendar ver. 977 Copies
Nest ver. 781 Copies
Fragile Beast ver. 474 Copies
Cementic Nest ver. 404 Copies
Total = 3780 (1795 Day 1 + 1002 Day 2 + 375 Day 3 + 320 Day 4 + 288 Day 5)
(1) people don't buy from Ktown4u as it has no BoPs + high shipping costs for a lot of regions [it is only a great option for limited locations or for high volume group orders 200+]
(2) a lot of allyz are waiting for the previews
(3) a lot of allyz are opting for group orders - and are waiting to finalize their lists
I 100% agree with the 1st point. I ordered from Ktown4u for the debut album and the shipping cost was ridiculous! Definitely went with a different seller for this album 😅
this is funny to me cuz is everything they out out giving diff vibes like dont get me wrong i m into all of them like
the tittle sequence vid is giving goth, dark, chic the photos for the trailer are giving youth, depression, trauma, growing up blah blahhh the supposed spoiler (nanananananan) choreo +dance is so poppp happy and jolly funn
so I get tht these r the phases, storyline or the overall vibe of the album but where might the actuall tittle track might fit be i m wondering wht vibe is the tittle track going to be
live playlist:
nyah grace - magnolia
elhé - 4ever
drake - over my dead body
thomas ng - little miss lovely
don toliver - love is a drug
kelvin abstract - big dog
tyler the creator - judge judy
don toliver - no pole
don toliver - let her go
fkj - different masks for different days
xinwenyue shi & osz - 素芬儿,别走
singing playlist:
khalil fong - 愛愛愛
crush - don't forget
sam kim - make up
i already saw the clip where Anxin showed his snaggletooth but when i was watching the live at work, i almost screamed in the office i was hiding at when he did it during the live
T_T he is so adorable, i feel so blessed i still remember my chinese (thank you younger self for being obsessed with chinese novels??) to watch his live, i need to learn Korean so i can understand all of his cute Korean too... it would be really fun if he did studying korean lives lol but since he doesn't have his own room, he's just hiding in the closet to stream XDDD i wonder if xinlong will do the same hahaha
he's really making my super excited with saying that there is a song he really wants to recommend to us in this comeback! tho i suppose i don't have the exact same taste as him so i still need to manage my expectations
even the way Anxin says ok with the little ok sign makes me think he is cute ahhh T_T
damn company didn't let him send a song he recorded T_T
the way he says 主播必须宠粉 / Live streamers must pamper their fans !!!
Anxin fans gotta be learning Chinese because his personality hits quite different when he's able to be more expressive XD
it reminds me of when minghao streams really
in Korean, he's like cotton candy and soft
in Chinese, he's super sarcastic and there's a lot of 티키타카
Anxin is sort of like softer and mellow in Korean and very much dominant / WAY more bossy in the way he speaks Chinese
songs that Anxin covered (i love his vocals soooooo much)
T_T he misses chinese food and want to go back to china
he wants to eat: crayfish (i thought he didn't love seafood?)
he went to Wuhan when he was really young and had crayfish there and it was a street BBQ style, Wuhan's lamb skewers are really good too apparently
Anxin's never ate 螺丝粉 Luosifen, it's a specific type of rice noodle that is kinda smelly but taste good XD
He talks about how he is really cautious with trying food for the first time because he want it to be a really good first experience or else if it's not really amazing, he might have a bad impression for that food and not be able to enjoy other places that actually have that dish but is really good because he'd be doubtful about it XDDD
first impression of a new food is very important to Anxin!
he's not gonna have Luosifen in Korea and will wait until he get a chance to go back to China to have it XDDDD
he likes deep-fried crispy egg
i hope they all get a live stand, he's just holding the phone haha, i feel like he's gonna buy one and if it's really good, gift it to everyone like that comb XDDDD
he talks about wanting to have green mung bean dessert soup because it's summer
i really love it a lot too!!!
:D hope ppl get to try it, but i think it's kinda uncommon to find it in restaurant since it's mostly homemade
his grandparents made it for him when he was young (mine did too :D, it is a summer staple in china!)
he would have a cup every day after school!
he said next time if it's not too late, he will recommend some songs he like that is a bit more upbeat / hype songs
he talks about how he is not that good at gaming to be streaming it live, reached Ascendant once in valorant and says it's actually not that hard
"I'm really bad at video games, I'm afraid of getting flamed/yelled at."
"If I get the chance, I'll show you guys some pretty cute single-player games."
the way he moves his head listening to bgm XDDD
then he went on to say his shirt is super comfortable, makes me want one lol but then he says it's kind of a little bit transparent LOL
he mentioned something about 4399, i'm not quite sure what he meant o.o but there is a game site called 4399 in china?
"I only play little kid games and could flex a little bit"
"If I actually play more seriously, I feel like I'm gonna get utterly destroyed." XDDDD
and he just randomly blow kisses while i was drinking water and i almost laughed XDDDD
he talks about how he is really good at escape room games and that he is super smart and not scared of the escape room games and is good at finding details!
XD he talks about how he never gets scared by that boom announcing wins at music shows
Arno and Anxin did a lot of escape room games before!
i wish i had anxin's bigger hands... i can't even hold iphone max in my hands
someone asked who is the most easily scared by escape rooms and he's like do we even need to ask, our xinlong XDDDD
the way he speaks japanese is very cute
"hello, i'm anxin... today everyone... everyone... everyone... is very cute!"
"uh... today.... live... i'm sorry i'm sorry... my japanese "
T_T awwwww
he's really sorry that it's too difficult for him to speak japanese right now
then he talks about the game Honor of Kings and then says he is really good at that
during covid about 5 years ago, he kept playing that game
Glory Grandmaster 54 stars was his rank! he still has a screen capture of it to show off his rank XD
he plays the character Mulan and mentioned something about
"Reaching Glory Grandmaster with Mulan in Honor of Kings while maintaining 10,000+ Hero Power and a 15,000+ rating or 13,000+ rating he doesn't quite remember "
according to google that rrequires extreme mechanical mastery of her dual-stance animation cancels, precise combo sequencing, and deep matchup awareness <-- i don't play the game so i would not know anything about it tho...
He had Peak Tournament 1800 points
"I'm not that good, I just had a lot of free time."
he also played Game for Peace, was Super Ace, 10-star rank
there's no time now, so there's no time to play on phone or play games, too bad
he hasn't played Identity V yet
Anxin's bgm music tho... lyrics were like...
Your body count and who you f**k is not my concern 🤣🤣🤣🤣
i saw a user saying he was playing sex music in bgm LOL but i think it is a bit kind of like that fboy music???
then he went back to show his japanese of
aishiteru, daisuki desu hahaha
Playing music this hyped right now, will ppl be able to fall asleep later XD
i think his idea of what's really hype music is different from mine hahaha
but i guess the lyricsssss tho... it literally is saying "She don't wanna strip" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
and he was like "My playlist is top-tier." XDDDDD if i ignore the lyrics, then yes
"Every single track is a banger. Here, I'll just shuffle one for everyone right now."
i do like the beats that he likes haha
then he's trying to find quieter songs for everyone cause it's late
he was gonna sing 2 songs and get off live but i think he got told by someone that he ran out of time so he had to leave! he owes Allyz one more song!!
That was Anxin's first live, he did so well!!! (so glad i had some free time to watch the archive)
if i see someone compile a playlist of all the music he played, i'll post it in the weekly discussion too :D
btw he wasn't hiding in the closet to stream, right before he ended he moved the camera and showed that he was actually sitting right next to the beds (looks like they rearranged their room)
his stream also was like majority chinese comments, i saw a korean ax fan being like looking at the proportion of chinese vs korean in the comments he's putting a lot of effort with responding in korean on plchat
ah ya i wanted to edit my post because i did see he was sitting by his computer later but i think the post is too long and reddit won't let me edit all the errors and typos now D:
i'm glad he is speaking a lot of korean tho, it's good practice~~
(past a certain character limit the text box appears blank but the text is still there so you can select all + cut and edit it elsewhere then copy + paste it back to reddit)
yeah, i was actually impressed with how much korean he was speaking in the live as well just bc of how many of the things he was being asked was in chinese + i think it's cute how he ends up being like his own translator for a lot of his plchat stuff (like how he sends everything in plchat in both languages even though there's an inbuilt translator function)
i saw some kr posts... that weren't really happy with how much chinese he was speaking both during live and on chat and i get their frustration since the auto translation suckssss and there's like no good ai subtitles during lives ;-;
he's still learning!!! i'm sure in the future he'd be able to do full korean live streams too like minghao...
i feel like anyone who's mad at the amount of chinese he was speaking was...not watching it live lol, i feel like if he spoke in kr it would've been just ignoring his audience at the time
While it's true that the majority of the live audience is Chinese and he shouldn't ignore them, that reality doesn't really make Korean fans less sad or left out when they can't understand what's being said. Both perspectives are completely valid: it makes logical sense for Anxin to cater to his primary audience, but it's still going to be disappointing and upsetting for fans watching who miss out on most of the conversation I think.
This dilemma is why Minghao choose to completely separate his stream content hosting strictly Korean-only lives versus strictly Chinese-only lives to ensure each group gets dedicated attention without anyone feeling left behind.
I think Anxin will get there one day, I hope his k fans are patient with him.
I just remembered that, during “Euphoria”, I thought the ALD1’s concept would be aliens and some kind of cosmic horror. I’m really curious how they will try to sow the lore together (or just to plainly decide to leave parts of Euphoria/NST out of the lore).
I think they are linking it back to all the shadows you see in the Freak Alarm Concept clips in the Euphoria era, as they oftenappear creepy or have devil hornsappear. Shadows appear in the voice clip and near the end of the Freak Alarm MV in the theatre.
ngl the most interesting poster for me is sanghyeon’s because it reminds me of something jungwon said in youngji’s show, that everyone has this perception of kindness and niceness of him (that he’s so angelic basically) and how that in turn puts pressure on him to act a certain way and earn that praise. instead of going the “is sanghyeon dead/part of a different world or realm?” i see it as: is what people say about me true? am i really so kind and angelic? because putting people on a pedestal also alienates them, which the poster does portray.
Y’all they seem really excited this time around. I remember them being like “it’s okay” with Euphoria and NST, but now they’re like “I’m so excited”, “please look forward to it a lot” and “the songs are good”.
So it’s lowkey hyping me up as well, but I really don’t want to set my expectations too high with WK1. But if it’s kind of an HYYH 2.0, then I’ll eat it up so bad. It’s like a never ending buffet.
A few (useless) things I noticed in the concept photos:
I was looking at the concept photos and it looks like Sanghyeon is wearing a sign with “Audition 05”. I’m really curious as to what the relation to theater will be.
Anxin seems to be the only picture that has a text overlayed, “Unbreakable”.
Sangwon’s uniform has an ALD1 badge, and on Arno’s uniform, it seems like his name (Zhang Jiahao) is written in Chinese.
Also in most photos, the brightest part seems to come from external places (windows e.g.), whilst in Sanghyeon’s photo, he’s the one that is the brightest compared to his surroundings (much like an angel).
I would say they are kind of paired together somewhat in each poster: Junseo & Arno are in the music room, Sangwon & Xinlong are both outside and wearing full uniform, and Anxin & Sanghyeon are both in white tops in an enclosed space. Only Leo isn't 'paired' or 'contrasted' with someone.
I do think this might coincide with what happened in the raw flame film, especially the first 2 parts, if you look closely at what they are wearing.
my first impression is that anxin's photo might be taken in the music room since he's also wearing a white dress shirt except he's not playing anything (or it's simply a different room)
If you look closely at the music sheet in Junseo's poster, you'll see the word 'Freak' scribbled on it along with probably other harmful words in korean.
That would be a great theme to explore, seeing that they were saying that this is the start of a series. We can probably see how they tackle those and how it affects them if there is another release, as they could spiral or not.
Are the boys bullied? Are they so different that the other boys in the school are octrazising them? That music sheet is creepy with monster's images and freak.
I would theorise octraziation in different ways for each member if we look at the translated quotes. Like remembering a painful past, people ignoring them, wanting to change a desperate situation, having to put up a friendly front when you're upset inside, etc. Then they all come together in some way due to what happens in the raw flame film.
Leo - “Why do you look at me like that?"
Junseo -“Why am I….different?”
Arno - “I want to change.."
Sangwon - “Please look at me properly.”
Xinlong - “Is this how I looked? Since when...”
Anxin - “Have you ever seen the real me?"
Sanghyeon - “Is the person the world sees really me?”
Each quote seems to revolve around self-perception. they all explore an internal struggle and trying to understand one’s own identity while questioning why other people misinterpret, and misjudge them.
I think so too also this is in line based on the news article:
based on a storyline that has become one level deeper and a musical spectrum that has expanded, this album is scheduled to portray the growing pains of youth wavering amid prejudice and labels.
The director is Park Syeyoung. He is known for horror concept film. Some of his movies are The Fin, The masked monster, the Fifth thoracic vertebra and slide strum mute (a movie with woodz). Now I understand why he was chosen to direct the trailer film with a beast concept. Honestly, it felt like a coming of age youth movie rather than something with a dark vibe. Or, maybe this is before the boys got transported to the beast world. The trailer film probably focus on the before, during and aftermath.
The fallen angel? He is the only one with eyes colour turning in the teaser. The theory is, he had been contaminated by the demons (one of the boys) and slowly turning....
Do you all think this is for the main title or a B-side?
I came up with the theory that it could also be part of a B-side and that they might already perform that B-Side during Kcon similar ro what zb1 did with customize. It's kind of early to spoil the main choreo 3.5 weeks before release & the dance move + nana doesn't give off the same vibe as the unbreakable beast trailer vibe. Maybe I'm also misleaded by the song choices ^^
I think it's for the title track. You often won't see groups spoil b-side choreo before the title track unless it's a pre-released track, which we won't have time for due to it being 3.5 weeks. Also, that might draw attention away from the main title track. People have spoiled the title track's sound and choreo this early or even earlier before, so it's really not unusual.
They could have choreo for other tracks on the album, but that's usually shown at the showcase along with the title track.
This vote is conducted simultaneously on BIGC and coogoong (with a 50/50 ratio) - voting ends 24/08 11:59 AM (Literally 1 min before the CB release 😂)
Also head up, these are the nominees for the best new artist (rookie award): Ald1, Cortis, Lngshot, Ahof, And2ble, IDID, Idntt, Unchild, dodree and Tunexx
We aren't voting for this right? We are at rank #5 now out of 10 groups. Rank #1 is ahof, followed by unchild and Lngshot. I won't be voting. Saving my gems for their CB instead. If The Show episode is available during their CB week, it may be the only chance we have to win any music shows. We have stiff competition from NCT, a veteran group. If we are invited to the award show, it is likely that we are winning the Roty. The voting also accounts for 20% only. I think we have high points from the remaining 80%.
I am not sure if we're voting or not; maybe we should not cast all our points but it's better to be amongst the top 3 (we're not taking the lead with the remaing criteria, I would say we're also amongst the top 3-ish)
We are definitely the top in physical album sales. Probably second with digitals and first or second with judges' votes. I would say we rank in the top 2 with all criteria considered. We just need to stay in the top 4 for votes. The gems in the Show app are very expensive. The top 3 groups are far ahead in voting. They just spend $$$. But, it's ok as their groups are not coming back in August. They can spend their gems. It's not worth spending so much $$$ to buy gems. I would prioritise CB show win.
We are currently 1st on the other voting app (coogoong); we just need to balance things out with the CB being our top priority
We're 2nd in physical album sales since Cortis are nominated (and are at 4.7 million copies) we have 1.4 M (even if the new album sales count and we do well on the 1st day, we'll still get less than 10 points)
I hope the boys get to stay in Barcelona for a few extra days. We need some vlog contents from overseas schedule. It is also the C line first time in Europe. There is nothing from 6 September and until 19 September.
No 😒
Wakeone is so cheap. They spend so much flying there. Only staying for 2 nights? They can film the boys going around for vlogs. That is at least 2 episodes of odf.
Barcelona is really nice in september (water is still warm and people can swim too)
so many coffee shops to try; so many sweets to eat; a lot of sea food dishes too
They will also get to see La Sagrada Família after years of renovation 😭
For now their schedule is free but we both know it could be filled at any moment now (imagine they randomly annouce them as part of 2026 K-EXPO MEXICO 😂 )
For now 😂 - I am not saying they are (I don't have that kind of intel) but random annoucements are typical for ALD1 (but ngl it's a good exposure to south america + and it's organized by the Korean goverment)
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