FIRST TIME REACTING TO MORE STRAY KIDS (K-POP)

[@GolyenHighway]

A breakdown of the LALALALA MV for you. I think the giant figures represent Fear & stage fright. (They also seem to be based on Japanese spirits of drowned sailors called Umibozu) They dissipate when the words of the emotions in the children's heads disappear. I believe the floating characters are the words Joy, Anger, Sorrow, and Happiness/pleasure. (This is what I have been told. It seems to be a mix of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, and I can read none of those.) There are four factions for four groups of the members. Since the four factions represented emotions, the locations were different. Anger was at the bottom of the ocean. It's a dense emotion that we try to smother & it thrives under pressure.The members who represent this emotion are pirates. Joy was a bank. It's an emotion that we store & take out for special things. The members that represent this emotion are in denim, but surrounded by clowns who look like the ones from the Dark Knight. Sorrow was a stark place of floating ash and monuments that were like graves. The members who represent this emotion are in pale & washed out colors mixed with white. Happiness/Pleasure was in a fort of musical instruments. It's an emotion that's loud & messy. We hear it before we see it. The members who represent this emotion look a lot like people from Mad Max mixed with military. Now. Anger attacked Joy first. They bypassed Sorrow altogether. (You can see this in the map they showed.) But it didn't turn out. Anger was defeated & captured. That was the first word to dissipate. The next to fall was Joy. Happiness/Pleasure snuck in disguised as clowns & planted a bomb. (We saw I.N talking on a communicator & one of the clowns also had one. He later takes off the mask as he leaves revealing it's Han, yet you can also see pirate Han still tied on the floor behind him.) The bomb went off. Since the bus was in both Joy & Sorrows' realms (Back half in Joy, front in Sorrow. We can't have one of those emotions without having felt the other.) we see the explosion as the camera pans to Sorrow, and the word for Joy dissipates as well. Sorrow falls & we see that Happiness/Pleasure is all that remains. They have gathered parts of the other emotions & folded them into their own. Happiness/Pleasure is very nuanced. It can contain elements of the other emotions and still be the same. Also. I think Lee Know said (In the video with them reacting to the music video) that the children are them when they were young. And over the years these emotions that they felt at varying times have been "defeated" and all that's left is pleasure in their music. The sequence of emotions & dissipation of said emotions seems to mirror their own journey. When they first started, everything was pretty evenly balanced. They hit a few hard times & anger kinda made an appearance, but then they started enjoying things more....Then Woojin left & sorrow took hold for a while. But they came out of that better balanced, and are taking pleasure in their work once again. Currently, while they take pleasure in their work, it's tempered with the other emotions, but the dominating drive they have is happiness & pleasure. The lyrics of the song are about locking away your stress & meeting the world with fun & music. The bus is an interesting thing. As well as being between the the factions of Joy & Sorrow (The back part was fully in Joy's section....But the front was in Sadness. Almost as if it had crashed into it.) , it's actually a call back to their beginning. And it's not the one from District 9, it's the one from Grow Up that was heading to District 9. I do think the District number being 325 is significant. Since that is the debut date, it has now become the beginning district. It WAS district 9 for the 9 of them, but that has changed over the years. And it is no longer just them. They invited ALL of us in in Back Door. At the beginning, it was small & sheltered. They were very careful of their district. But as they grew in confidence, they threw the notice out to everyone who wants to enter...All we have to do is knock. And Felix didn't swear. Felix is saying the Korean word for Shh. I believe it's Swit? So it's a work around on the no swearing rule. Stray Kids love homophones. I mean, look at the title for the album & this song. It means happiness/pleasure in Chinese. But it sounds like the English word "rock". So the album is Rock Star, and it's all about emotions. Every song on this album is designed to touch our emotions in different ways. You should definitely listen to the entire Rock Star album. S-Class is them flexing their talents. They throw references to their older songs in a lot of the scenes. And when they say they are like S-Class, they are driving a tricked out garbage truck. Since trucks like that are about on par with a luxury car, price-wise, they are kinda relating that they work hard at what they do & are worth as much. The scene with them inside a room with flying garbage is supposed to be inside the truck. They are turning the trash into engines. (You can see the engines coming off the conveyor belts to the side of them & the trash falling into the machine that's cranking out them.)

[@HaideonReacts]

Thanks for all the lore & info! 😯☺️

[@kellyanngerman3587]

For more of their goofy side, I recommend Cheese, Get Cool, Super Board, Give Me Your TMI, and all of their older Street Videos- N/S, Question, Boxer, Rock, Insomnia 😂 Even Thunderous has some cheeky moments. I love the chaotic, comedic side of Stray Kids.

[@HaideonReacts]

Ohhh yeah! I have heard their older stuff but not everything. I’ll check it out thanks! I actually did a reaction to thunderous in my previous stray kids reaction video! ☺️

[@robbinsnest6163]

One I just found recently, of course it's older, but Awkward Silence is pretty goofy and I loves it😊

[@HaideonReacts]

Yeah 😄

[@prmtv]

Case143.... basically Heart Skz vs Brain Skz... the brain aka the police are trying to figure out why they are feeling the way they are feelings. The heart monsters are infecting one group of Skz members. Lalalala... so long story short the song is about overcoming negative emotions like sorrow, grief, fear.. until there is nothing left but joy. The monsters represent the negative emotions so they each disappear one by one.

[@HaideonReacts]

Ohhh that makes sense now thanks! 😄

[@melody1953]

Many STAYs are so good at explaining music videos, so I will let their comments thrive and answer your questions ^^ ❤

[@HaideonReacts]

hahaha thank you 😆❤

[@melody1953]

Welcome back to stayville Aiden! It's good to see you react to them again, I'm happy because Stray, Kids (skz) is my favorite band 💙 I'm looking forward to see them in concert too, I hope they'll come to France! I'd like to watch this skz marathon live I think, it would be fun, like really fun, I am excited!

[@HaideonReacts]

Thank you so much for the warm welcome back Melody! Maybe I will try to vlog the concert for you all, I think that would make for an interesting video since i've never done something like that before haha! Oooo a live stray kids marathon, 😲 That could be fun! I might stream it & then turn it into a KZbin video too so that nobody is left out but thats a good idea thanks! 💙

[@imayushi]

Also check out the fanchant for lalalala if you're gonna see them live

[@HaideonReacts]

Will check it out thanks!

[@hanberry143]

4:58 yay more praise for seungminnn!!

[@HaideonReacts]

Seungmin in the buildinggg! 😋 (I hope you know where that reference is from) 😆

[@ambermullins6930]

So I watched Stray Kids themselves react to this music video (LaLaLaLa) So basically they did take scene inspiration from Pirates of the Caribbean, Dark Knight (clowns) and Mad Max (ChangBin’s main stage) And the kids are basically performing and the “alien creatures” are like their anxiety and the video shows the Korean writing disappear every time the chorus is about to hit so anger and so on and then they’re just left with pleasure So the kids eventually face their anxiety and remember the pleasure they get out of performing The last symbol that shows when Felix does his solo translates to rak (pleasure) which sounds like rock So the chorus “feel the rock” plays on that word so basically feel the pleasure 🤷‍♀️ That’s how I understood it 😅 sorry for the rant 🫣

[@HaideonReacts]

Ohhh that kind of makes sense! It’s a cool concept & play on words! Thanks! 🫶

[@nehamohamed1544]

FELIX AMAZING VOICE 🔥 IS JUST THE BEST 🤍

[@HaideonReacts]

He's so coooool!

[@_Anemi]

Felix 🛐🛐🛐

[@HaideonReacts]

FELIXXXX

[@jigb9975]

Thank you

[@HaideonReacts]

You’re welcome! 🫶

[@YoaBlue3Racha]

ChangBIN start a song its a BINTRO

[@HaideonReacts]

Hahaha I love that 😆

[@totydely-br5014]

It was the biggest lack of respect towards artists I've ever seen, the racism towards STRAY KIDS, cruel and unprecedented, seeing the boys trapped without being able to do anything, and hearing the idiot photographers telling them to jump and laughing, and offending, as if they were clowns in a circus, it was shameful, a lot of humiliation in front of thousands of other artists, these photographers have to be punished for such a lack of professionalism and racist disrespect in the middle of 2024. I cried at the sad scene, I'm glad the leader They quickly removed it from that place, as you could see the discomfort on the boys' faces. WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT MET GALA.🤬😭

[@HaideonReacts]

Yeah I saw what happened at the Met Gala. It was very disrespectful

[@cholitocholito]

Stray Kids esto me interesa 🎸🎸

[@maay23brazil93]

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