Might be helpful to know that the Korean name for this song is Compulsion. They wrote it about their tendency to be workaholics, but, of course, they left it open to interpretation. Bang Chan is the one with the deeper voice and the backless suit. The red lights in question are the lights in the recording studio.

To the best of my knowledge, from comments by OG Stays (who are better at catching all the tidbits SKZ drop in their interviews): Red Lights, the Korean word they use for the title is 'obsession'. [and could also refer to the studio 'red light' for recording] The black & white concepts may very well indicate the two sides of an individual. The struggle we all have; to balance a "passion" (ambition / creative outlet / personal relationships) with a "healthy" lifestyle is universal. For Stray Kids this could easily reference their extreme dedication to music and stage schedules. It is obvious that they have chosen to pursue their dreams and ambitions - at the cost of sleep, relaxation, and time with family & friends. For me, the music is so compelling. It has a "give & take" to it, and there is just the perfect tinge of unease, something beautiful that has been twisted ever so slightly. And (trademark Stray Kids) the music, lyrics, & the artistry of the video each support and elevate the others so very well.

@prmtv

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My favorite Skz song everything about it is a masterpiece

You could interpret this song however you want that’s what’s beautiful about it. It could be about toxic love, being a workaholic, having an addiction and so on. Anyone who’s struggling with some kind of obsession could relate

I am so glad you appreciated Bang Chans (Chris) voice. He deserves it and both of them are amazing!

The English translation of the Korean title for this song is Compulsion. I believe they are talking about their relationship with music. How they love it but they also sacrifice a lot for it. The red lights referring to the light of the recording studio. It is, of course, up for each person's interpretation.

I don't know if you noticed, but they mimic each other's movements, as if one were the reflection of the other, which means it's a battle against themselves and their red lights.

From the explanation Christopher gave during an interview the song is about when you love something such as work a relationship so on so forth but that love turns toxic and keeps pulling you back and you cant stop or walk away.

My favorite song by Stray Kids ❤️‍🔥

@prmtv

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Mine as well, it was also my first Skz song 😂

@MattheusSantos-sf3zb

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@@prmtv Haha, this music is really awesome

The "hy" in Hyunjin is pronounced like the "hu" in human. And the "u" is more like a "uh" sounds, not an "oo" sound. "hyun" is one syllable and "jin" is another ("jin" is pronounced like the English name). So "Hyun-jin."

So this song is really interesting in that they had an intention for the lyrics, and then left the rest open for interpretation (this is from the song writing camp episode about this song). Hyunjin and Bangchan are pretty regularly burning the midnight oil in the studio, obsessing over their respective areas of the group, and this song does reference both red lights as in the recording lights in a studio, red lights like when you close your eyes and still see red that keeps you from sleeping and red strings refer to the concept of the red string of fate. One of the key lyrics that make this song about Bangchan’s recording is in the second verse when he says ‘set the mic up.’

Красивейшая, чувственная песня и видео, песня в моем ❤ навсегда. Огромная благодарность Хенджину и Банчану за эту потрясающую, невероятную работу, огромное количество раз уже пересмотрела это видео Red Lights 🔥🔥🔥

This is the music video that introduced me to Stray Kids 😂 it's still my favorite Skz song... Taste is another sexy song they have by Hyunjin, Felix and Lee Know. Lyric video and performance video only tho. Great song.

The Korean translation for the song is Compulsion. When Hyunjin and Chan wrote the song they stated how obsessed they were with their respective crafts, Bang Chan with producing music and Hyunjin with his dancing. They can't sleep at night and all they think and dream about is their craft and the "red light" in the recording studio. But because this song they wrote sounded so "s3xy" they wanted it to be relatable and up for interpretation. 😉

🧡 3racha split the boys into 3 units & help them produce their own songs. The other unit songs are totally different genre from this one. "Surfin'" by Changbin, Lee Know & Felix is a fun summer rock vibe, and "Gone Away" by Han, Seungmin & I.N is a heartbreaking ache ballad. These are the other 2 unit songs you should react to. Seeing how 3racha (Bang Chan, Changbin and Han) handle their units was really interesting. If interested, you could react to these other 2 unit songs. I love watching how these boys all worked together and produce great music. 💚 If you are interested, here is a playlist for the full series of SKZ Song Camp: Howl in Harmony on the Stray Kids channel [kzread.info/head/PL2HLJ87twWI2G7OkCCQfOI6Dr-02JBbMN]. No need to react to it but if you do, Stay will watch with you 😄... We love to go to the Stayville Theater to see our "Fine Art" performers. 🖖🏽

React to Hyunjin "Artis Of The Month" Hyunjin "Play With Fire" Hyunjin "When The Party Over"

Her? It's about THEIR relationship in the band.

@kunikuzushis

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they didn't even mention a gender in the lyrics either lol

Red lines is the fate their culture.

SB19 - 'I WANT YOU', 'MAPA', 'WHAT?', 'WYAT', 'MANA' and 'TILALUHA' Live Bus.

We need Stray kids and Xdinary Heroes please

Venom by Stray Kids, please

Seventeen - 'Spell', please.

Enhypen song fatal trouble live performance plz

Ateez: Work

react to ATEEZ's crazy form!!!!

The director (an openly gay man in conservative Korea) knew exactly what he was doing with this video. And as both a queer person and a person with OCD, this MV means a lot to me because of what it's _really_ talking about. The sensual/s3xualized imagery is a metaphor. Just as Chris and Lee Know's "Drive" uses driving as a metaphor for s3x, "Red Lights" uses s3x as a metaphor for obsession/compulsion (which is basically what the Korean title translates to). While they left the lyrics open to interpretation so people can relate to the song on their own wavelength, we watched these two during the creation of this song and heard its origin and inspiration. The actual meaning, first and foremost, is rooted in their well-known tendency to overwork, to drain themselves in overinvestment in their jobs and go without sleep in favor of working all night. There are a couple hints in the lyrics, like the reference to "set the mic up" and "I'm staying up all night." Red lights are presumably the lights on studio equipment. This song was inspired by both Chris's and Hyunjin's tendency to be obsessive about their work, often to the point of harm. Chris and Hyunjin are portraying two sides of the same person or two entities within one being (as Hyunjin referred to it, it's kind of a Venom [the character, not the SKZ song] idea). One (Chris, who starts out looking fairly orderly, with mostly yellow lighting) is the "normal" one, the one fighting against being controlled by his obsession. The other (Hyunjin, who pretty much always has red lighting and is given a more wild and disorderly presentation) is the obsession or obsessed side, fighting to be free of restraint, taunting the controlled side with reminders along the lines of "tell me you hate me, but I know you can't live without me." Notice how much of their movement is mirroring. As for the lyrics being a "him/her" thing, I'm going to take this opening to mention something of note because you're listening to enough SKZ to warrant being made aware: There's no gender mentioned in this song. There's no gender mentioned for another person in almost any song SKZ has done. Barring two songs among closing in on 200 in the discography (plus one throwaway "girl" in the new Charlie Puth collab that's tailored to the western mainstream pop audience), their songs deliberately avoid assigning a specific gender to an object of affection. Polls have made it clear for years that STAY is pretty much the queerest fandom; the majority are queer, not white, and not teenagers, and the percentage of male STAYs is unusually high (generally numbers say 1/4 to 1/3 of the fandom). SKZ are aware of all this _and_ they've explicitly made it a point, multiple times, to underline that they want their music and their group itself to be inclusive and relatable to as many people as possible, which is difficult if the lyrics are gendered. They've embraced this inclusivity to the point that they've not just directly mentioned it more than once, but have even removed gendered language from songs they've covered, changing songs that were explicitly addressed to a woman into songs with no specified gender. So while they might eventually give in to heteronormative expectation/pressure as they pursue the global audience (which would break my heart, but I'm a realist), songs made up until now (June 2024) can be assumed to be deliberately gender-unspecified. (The three exceptions you will hear among nearly 200 songs in more than 6.5 years: an almost ad-lib-esque "girl" in "Airplane," "There," and "Lose My Breath.")

A she and him thing? Oh you must be new here 😅🏳️‍🌈