It hits different when you know SY's struggle and her name meaning "Beautiful/Graceful" when the lyrics of Allergy say "Curse my name!"

@SylverReacts

11 күн бұрын

oooh yeah that's quite the play on words there in the lyrics

I believe Soyeon said she wanted to give those 2000's comedy movie vibes. I love QC, but idk, Allergy hits harder for me and when I first heard the song, it made me want to cry because it hit home. I love this song. I swear to me (G)I-DLE does not create an album with any skip songs. They are all so good. I feel like people who don't really get into Idle based on their title tracks should listen to their b-sides. There is always a message in each of their songs and I love that about Idle.

@SylverReacts

11 күн бұрын

I think it is a 2000’s comedy, I think it’s specifically in the vein of things like 10 things I hate about you or She’s all that lol Allergy slaps and has a good message, I love it! Their B-Sides are an absolute treasure trove of good music 😊

@Dacre1000

10 күн бұрын

They really work very well as a pair. I dont really prefer neither: they kinda complement and enrich each other in my book. Still, you are not alone. A very well known korean music critic chose Allergy as the best kpop song of 2023 precisely for the same reasons you prefer it. I never really considered the b-side concept to work with Idle. They make albums. Perfectly well balanced and organized, thematecally cohesive albums. I agree there too.

What you were looking for in Paradise was "A very Minnie vibe to it" lol.

@SylverReacts

11 күн бұрын

lol you are so very right

Minnie produced 'Lucid' and 'Paradise'. Yuqi produced 'All Night's and 'Peter pan'. And there are behind the scenes when Minnie composed both songs and Minnie and Minnie Recording Behind too. And 'Queencard' recording behind by Soyeon. Paradise, the song for Neverland and Peter Pan is them ( IDLE ), they performed it at the last song on their World Tour 2023 in Seoul and the audience sang this song by themselves, it's so impressive moment 💓 This song, Minnie also sang 'Sorry' in Thai 'Kho Tod Na Kha' .and she likes this song the most 😂.

it doesnt matter what people say, queencard remains a banger

@SylverReacts

11 күн бұрын

I absolutely adore that song 😂

I see "Queencard" as a cautionary tale from Soyeon. Before her debut, Soyeon auditioned for at least four different companies and was rejected each time, being told she wasn't pretty enough to be an idol. After finally getting accepted by Cube Entertainment, she faced constant criticism and ridicule from netizens who said she was too ugly to debut. This led to Soyeon undergoing plastic surgery, which is the focus of the "Queencard" video. While "Nxde" critiques the idol industry for exploiting young girls' insecurities and still scrutinizing them after they conform, "Queencard" is Soyeon's personal message to those girls, telling them not to follow her path and to embrace their natural beauty, telling them that they’re all Queencards. FYI 퀸카 (Kueenca) is apparently old Korean slang meaning popular or it girl - the Korean title of Mean Girls was "how to be a 퀸카" and the Queencard lyric is supposed to be a play on that, tying in to their whole mean girls y2k theme.

@dramaaddict25

10 күн бұрын

What Soyeon had plastic surgery! I thought she never had it

@neviyah6311

10 күн бұрын

@@dramaaddict25she has some pretty obvious lip filler, something done to her jaw(i think she got it shaved) probably a double eyelid surgery in there somewhere too but literally everyone in the industry has double eyelid surgery. it’s extremely popular in Korea, especially in the entertainment industry. Almost every idol undergoes some form of plastic surgery. The idol industry exploits insecurities that it instills in you, pays for mostly underage girls to have surgery, and then shames them for having plastic surgery in the first place. It’s an extremely messed-up system. i always say try not to blame or insult idols who got plastic surgery, because usually they were groomed into it by their company😭😭😞 the plastic surgery industry is terrible in america, but it’s BAD in korea, and extremely normalized which is scary ☹️

YUQI shines in songs like All night where she can showcase her voice.

@yorubademon6353

11 күн бұрын

I just checked. Yuqi wrote it. lol.

@SylverReacts

11 күн бұрын

Her deep register just lands so good on the ears ❤️

For 'I Feel' album. You should see their series 'Up to (G)I-DLE (There are 8 episodes).

3:40...Hype Boy is a trending song of New jeans (girl group) You should check all of their Queencard encores.... absolutely hilarious!😂🤣 Soyeon said in an interview that if you look closely to Queencard lyrics, it's actually her talking to the mirror...such as...I wanna kiss you, I wanna hug you In Queencard Soyeon transformed into every member except Shuhua. Miyeon: 20:33 Minnie: 19:02, 20:03, 20:46, 20:50, 20:54 Yuqi: 19:07 I really don't know the reason and myself wanna know it....if anyone knows please tell me In 20:58 and 21:00... Soyeon is in both groups Yuqi Shuhua and Miyeon Minnie... I didn't understand that also... someone please break it down for me

I'm glad you reacted and liked Paradise video I suggested :D Idk if you know, but Minnie and Yuqi write decent amount of Gidle songs, there are 1-2 songs from each of them in every album since I NEVER DIE, a bit less before that. Some songs written by Minnie: Change, Already, Escape by Yuqi: Polaroid, Liar, Peter Pan, All night and much more but that's on top of my head 😁

@codyking643

11 күн бұрын

Hwaa kinda started the trend I reckon!

@SylverReacts

11 күн бұрын

The Paradise video was fantastic! Thanks for the heads up on that one 😊 Yeah I think I’m starting to get pretty good at picking out the Yuqi tracks, still learning Minnie’s style of production though lol

@Santia5a

11 күн бұрын

​@@SylverReactsYuqi's style more like EDM, rock sound. Party with friends, jump, sometimes happy, sometimes angry Minnie's more like "soft", ballad style. Cold weather outside, snow or rain. And you in warm house, with lyrical mood.

@Dacre1000

10 күн бұрын

@@SylverReacts Pure love songs are going to be mostly Minnie. Yuqi is gonna be more swag and agressive, but they both can be very emotional and sincere. You can easily get a Yuqi/Polaroid Minnie/Escape double punch in the gut or a Sculpture/MInnie Yuqi/Dark punch in the face. If anything, Minnie seems more reflective in her more emotional songs and Yuqi more purely sentimental, but those are just broad generalizations. Musically Minnie seems to favour complex and persuasive bass and rhytmic harmonies, while Yuqi tends more for clear bass lines that support the melody, with a heavier texture. But, again: generalizations are risky. In the end their style is more than the sum of their parts. Like a signature, its just shaped like them. Like faces: you can analyze why you recognize a friend in the streets until kingdom come observing every detail of their fisonomy, but in the end you just smile when you meet him at first sight without thinking about it.

I like their performance in the University festival in 2022, 2023 and especially in this year 2024. Jingle ball performance in IDLE original program Recommend you see 'Up to (G) I-DLE' 8 episodes and 4 special ep. and

Shushua was sounding great in the live performance of paradise. Personally think allergy qc and paradise have the most replayability for me on this album. I still love the album as a whole though. Qc isn't a song I would normally put on my self, but always catch my self singing along to it when it comes on lol

@SylverReacts

11 күн бұрын

Yeah Shuhua's growth has been fantastic to watch, she sounds incredible! Before starting the channel QC isn't something I probably would've gravitated towards on my own, but it's fire lol.

According to interviews during promo times, the idea for this was to create an album that reflected being a young twenty something woman in south korea. So you get the pressures of social media and societal success expectations, self love in a modern setting, a song about a nightly encounter that feels more like a lucid dream than reality, sizing the moment, a song about shamelesly partying all night, proud of yourself, a springfull love song that bathes in the most positive naivete and a relf reflecting song about their status as a growing up person that has to face the responsabilities and expectations of their age without really feeling that they have yet reached that state yet, unsure that they ever will. The whole album really has a festive, defiant, youthful charm to it, filled with the pros and cons of its theme. It truly is a rollescoster of modern youth. The genius to me of Queencard is indeed that it could easily just have been a simple, reasonable answer to Allergy, a realization, even a dreaded life lesson of sorts. Instead, Soyeon very wisely decided to reflect its themes in a more direct manner, showing off absolute self love as an answer to self loathing. And knowing that loving yourself to the point of wanting to kiss your own reflecion in the mirror is silly, she went of pure comedy. And it works. Instead of empty messaging she makes you FEEL the self loathe and the self love. The album order, starting withy Queencard and following with Allergy is also very interesting, as it makes you feel like Queencard is a bit too silly, until you listen to Allergy and suddenly you realize that Queencar was what the doctor prescribed. SHowing you the consecuence first and then flashbaking to the possible cause hits differently, and after the surprise of Queencard, it clarifies the importance and true meaning of that song greatly. IT is also interesting to end the album with Peter Pan (already a clever play on words with the group and their fandom name). Peter Pan is a quieter, more reasonable answer to both Queencard and Allergy. IT is neither self hating nor sel loving, but trying to assume one´s own faults and one´s own virtues, hopes and fears objectively. A supposed grown up with grown up expectations and responsabilities that feels like they haven actually left childhood behind, a Peter pan that doesnt want to grow up but that is growing up. They can be hard on themselves, but also hopeful and kind, supportive of each other, an understanding that they are neither perfect nor terrible, a still work in progress that probably will die of old age still being one, but thats ok. We all feel like that very couple of years untill we are grey. Both songs carry a deep message about a general perspective of life, but like Peter pan seems to suggest, we all have a Queencard and a mirror allergy inside of us, taking turns leading our mind or sometimes even acting at the same time. That is just life. And Peter pan seems to assure us that it is all ok. A wonderful way not just to wrap uf those two songs, but an entire album about being a youth in a specific time and place that feels like every time and every place that ever was since the begining of time. The structure of the albums is again very precise. IT almost has a three act structure, with Soyeons 2 self love/hate songs, the most up beat danceable songs in the middle and the two sweeter more melodic songs ending the whole affair, with Queencard and Peter Pan again opposing and complementing each other. The pure self love song pitted against a more balanced, objective self evaluation. The concept was indeed a Netflix series. Filled with references to classic 2000s teenage movies. In fact the movie Mean Girls, which was referenced in the mv, was translated in Korea as How to survive as a Queenca. She insisted tough that, while her inspiration were 2000s teen ovies, the women in the mv were not teens, but grown up into their 20 beacuse that was the concept. One of the major influences cited by Soyeon was the movie I Feel Pretty, a 2018 Amy Schummer film about a non beauty standards conforming woman (yes, I know we all have our own, that is one of the points of the film, but you know what I mean) that after suffering a head injury, suddenly starts to believe that she looks like a hot model and starts acting like one. Nice message at the end about beauty being in the eye of the beholder, your confidence is what matters and you are as beautiful as you believe you are etc... You know the drill. That idea about a woman being pretty because she felt pretty and not beacuse of how others saw her was apparently a main inspiration for the whole come back, and also, I guess, for calling the tour I Am Free-ty, playing with the words pretty and free, free of the beauty standards of others. As Neil Hannon once sang: "Don't let them sell you impossible dreams. Don't be a slave to the beauty regime. Look again in the mirror and see exactly how perfect you are." It is a shame that you choose fan cams of a concert that you can find on youtube in hd, taken from the blu ray/dvd. All NIght and Lucid both have profesionally recorded version and they are all over youtube. Just in case you didnt know. Unless you prefer fan cams for whatever reason, which is completely respectable. They do have their charms too. You can easily find the set list of the blu ray on google and as I said, until yesterday at least they were all in youtube. But if you are interested in the professional recordin, looking for Freety and seoul will probably do the job well enough.

@dramaaddict25

10 күн бұрын

Can you please explain the Peter Pan wordplay... I don't get it

@Dacre1000

9 күн бұрын

@@dramaaddict25 oh, I just meant that idle means children in Korean. Thus the Fandom being called neverland, the land of Peter Pan were children never grow up, in reference to the group and the fans being eternal children that never grow, but in a positive way. So writing a self reflecting song about growing up and still feeling like an eternal child that doesn't really wants to called Peter Pan feels very meta, a clever wordplay about the name of the group, the Fandom and the song itself that makes it's preoccupations inclusive. It makes you feel like it's both very personal and very universal in a very knowing way.

@dramaaddict25

9 күн бұрын

@@Dacre1000 hmmm... got it! Thanks!

(G)I-DLE 🌹😍🫶❤️‍🔥 Great reaction 😁👍

If you want to see (G)i-del have recording behind to queencard, paradis, peter-pen and more.

Pls do check out the unreleased scenes of Idol Room ep 41😊

@SylverReacts

8 күн бұрын

Thanks for the suggestion!

Queendom instead of Queecard 😂