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STRAY KIDS 'THE SOUND' ALBUM REVIEW

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Sound is MOST DEF an underrated song. Still is Jan 2025!!

Melanie

DLMLU is acc my favourite songgg 🫶🏾

rochelleee 💛

I was laughing even more because it's true 😭😭 we datin' 8 gorgeous men at the same time 😂😂

Dwaekki_At_Heart

The sound is a really good album. Battleground grew on me…you have to listen to it more than once

Elqueeen44

Battle Ground is what made me a Stay lol

Sheri Webster

I love this OT8 version of DLMLU, but knowing that Hyunjin originally wrote it for danceracha, there is a not insignificant part of myself that wants to hear that version so badly.

Kaiwren

FIRST VIDEO I'M WATCHING ON PATRON AFTER PAYING!! i'm so excited to watch these videos omg

yourfavleeknowstan

Hi, no problem. I understand the confusion and it is quite difficult to get the info to everyone. Please bear with me it's going to be long as hell. So ChPu message was made regarding October 7th, an attack on Israel, even though several attacks even the day before were launched to Palestine. Palestine which has been colonized for 76y and where Palestinians are still fighting against colonization. His message came in a time where several celebrities showed INCONDITIONAL support to Israel, this mediatic concencious made it more simple for Israel to enter the final stage of the Palestinian genocide. However, even though it ables Zionism to pick and choose who to support it would have been a stretch to call him a zionist. It was until our stays find out (not only them of course but they also found the info) that ChPu liked, after October 7th, Noah Shappman 's post about standing inconditionnelly with Israel (Noah Shappman is a proud Zionist that made shirts saying that Zionism is sexy) and that he ALSO liked with his now deleted account islamophobic and zionist posts. We also found out that he was a bad person overall regarding his reaction about an artist's r*PE case where he said that the case was "distracting from the music" in the sense that people should brush that off (litteral r*pe mind you) Coming back to the zionist issues, he also decided to work on lmb with Johnny Goldstein, a former IDF soldier that served in the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. Of course it is mandatory to be a soldier but he did not show any compassion for Palestinians staying completely silent about it but WAS LOUD about Israel right to "defend themselves" (reminder that he killed civilians way prior to October 7th). These two people are the most credited on the track, 3racha coming last I'm the credits so they own like 70-80% more royalties than each 3racha members at each stream. We decided to set our boundary to not support this song even though skz could benefit a bit from it and focused on streaming other straykids songs alongside Palestinian artists', pro Palestinian artists, and artists that would use the revenue of their songs to give money to Palestine including Hind's Hall by Macklemore (listening parties on sh, special playlists...) The thing in the meantime, Palestine entered in the very final stage of genocide during the lmb promotion and we (pro pelestine activists) needed all the public attention on Rafah to help people escape NOW. We wanted artists to be vocal about it but, since we knew how censoring K-Pop can be, we wanted JYPE to make a statement saying that they would be more careful in the future to 1. Respect Palestinian stays that died in the genocide and 2. Bring other stays' attention to what is happening to use their Stan power for Palestine. We thus started trending tags for JYPE to make a statement. It was until Taeyong from NCT took the brave decision, during the release of NCT collab with Starbuck (boycotted brand), to ask people to boycott the collab. He provoked a chain reaction where several idols used code messages to call for boycott and show information about what is happening right now in Rafah. After that, every. Single. Fandom started to ask their idols to speak out and several followed. We thus ask skz do the same (with codes of course) and we found out this morning that both Chan and Felix used the watermelon symbolism which is the most well known Palestinian symbolism (that was btw banned from FANS) Unfortunately that is not a call to action so it will not help as much as we wanted to but at least we know they are on our side (I didn't doubt that much that they were anyway ahah). Maybe some idols under JYPE might follow so let's not say it's useless right !

Shokojoh Jonh

Actually.. if you could explain the chpu boycott I’d be very grateful! I’ve seen a few posts that just show him saying ro be kind to those not involved in the war. I’d really like to see what happened that made him a Zionist. I’m not trying to argue.. I know it comes across that way in messages.. I’m just really curious??? Thank you for the information you provide 🙂

Melissa Clark

I feel that back commentary. Not that you want to know but.. I’ve always been the “skinny” sister. My older sister and I probably weigh the same but she’s like a foot shorter. My younger sister is just big but anyways. I always appreciated that I looked kinda not fit but not fat if that makes sense.. until my niece sent me photos of me and my older sister on the beach.. they were back photos. And when I say you can’t tell who’s who from the back… now am I going to do anything about it??? No it’s been over a year now.. I’ve just learned that my back profile isn’t as good as my front profile.. you learn something new everyday 😂

Melissa Clark

The Sound is one of my favorite skz albums. I literally love every song on there!

Lauren

Battle ground was my favorite lol

stayalexa

Omg "I feel like a ho" Had me choking 🤣

Chrissy

Ohh I saw it😂 I really thought they dropped a full MV for the song🥲

Claire Ada

I unfortunately haven't really, but I'm currently watching Nigel's Kingdom reactions which are helping ❤️ I'm with you tho, he's the only one who makes me laugh my ass off and like talk at my screen as if he could hear me

Rhea Rhapsodos

I hope you’ve been having better days since then! 😊🫂 Nigel is the only reactor that has me laughing so ridiculously out loud with his quips that I’m sure neighbors two houses down can hear me! 😂🤣

Bombdiggityyo

The mv for the sound is GOLDDD, the editors did their thing 🙏🙏

Itzel 🫧

-The sound is such a good song but the Japanese promotion is always shitty -You need to watch the live version of battle ground ! 😭 Changes everything -I understand you don't get why we're boycotting so I can't expect for you to not mention Lmb, but rubbing ChPu in our faces was soo unnecessary 😮‍💨 -I think "There" had the "Your eyes" after effect. We were more busy cringing over the MV than actually listening. It's the first time I hear the lyric version and it's actually Soooo good 😭 I slept on it

Shokojoh Jonh

„There“ is one of my absolute favorites, there is not a single night I’m not falling asleep to this song

Josi Amaechi

I’m so so happy that you enjoyed The Sound album. This was released as I was becoming a STAY, so while it wasn’t my first comeback as a STAY, it is the first album release I witnessed. It is definitely under appreciated sadly. I think it’s because A- Japanese release, which meant no subtitles on the MVs (and most folks don’t take the time to watch Lyric videos- their loss!) B- It was released so soon after both Maxident and SKZ-Replay. C- The promotion wasn’t there leading up to it like we get for the big Korean album releases. D- Han’s ‘Volcano’ was released and blew our minds. Trust me- it was a single release, no MV, but it is amazing!! Don’t miss it. I ADORE The Sound and it will always be one of my favorite albums. I agree that Battleground isn’t a fave, but I still don’t Skip it. That makes it equal to the Rock Star album for me, NO SKIP!

Kellyann German

This album will always be special to me, it was my first as a Stay ❤️

Edna Wall

watch battleground live it will change your mind

Roq West

They upload mistakes on “The First take” Chan made a mistake during case 143

Tyrielle

38:44 istg i thought this man was about to play TOP. I am paranoid he gonna play it outa nowhere from when he used start off every vid playing and dancing to TOP when the obsession was still fresh LMAOOOO

_.moogsie_

nooo because i agree completely with Battle Ground. The chorus is SO good i love it but the rest of it is kinda overstimulating for me... the guys were sliding on that shi fr though but all the sounds mixed in together was just too much for my little brain to handle ://// they all sounded AMAZING though, i loved how Leeknow and I.N sounded on the chorus

_.moogsie_

BRO THE SOUND IS I.N'S SHI FRRRRRR LIKE THATS HIS SONGGGGG (SHORT HAIR HYUNJIN APPRECIATION AS WELLLLL!!!!! IT KILLS MEEE)

_.moogsie_

YESSS THE SOUND ALBUM APPRECIATION!!!!!! WHEN I FIRST GOT INTO SKZ THE SOUND AND SCARS WAS ONE OF MY FAVE SONGS I LOVED THE MVS SM (all the songs on the album need to be talked about more because how tf did we normalise sleeping on this masterpiece?)

_.moogsie_

nigel finally went on date number 2 😂

Mal

Thank you for posting this because I really needed it. I've had a really rough day mentally and my anxiety was bad for no reason and you made me genuinely laugh and smile for the first time today. This was the best possible way to end my day. Thank you for being one of comfort channels. ❤️ PS: When you actually sing seriously you have a wonderful voice ❤️

Rhea Rhapsodos

Yeah this album is one of favs all time. It’s a masterpiece and it didn’t get enough love when it came out. I’m so glad you liked it, I’ve been waiting for your review for months 😭

skzgoblin

I will give it to you this time Nigel, The Sound is indeed slept on. I love this EP so much. It’s one of their best bodies of work imo

skzgoblin

Nigel come save me and drop a video

Swelix

The Sound is another TOP for me.

mandasue

I love this album

Monica

I’m SO EXCITED for 5 star. I will be sat the second you upload

Karley

He hasn’t reacted to 5 star yet??? OMG, he’s really gonna like that one, fav album for sure

Alice

Nigel your singing really wrecks my brain to every brain cell😭

Alice

FINALLY NIGEL LETS GOOO

Ari

yes im so exciteddddd

Strawbinnii

yes "the sound" wasn't promoted as much either, it was hyped for the first 3 days and then everyone kinda moved on which is very sad lol some of my fav songs are on that album. ANYWAYSSS LET ME TELL YOU 5 STAR IS SOMETHING ELSEEEE

Strawbinnii

novel being a seungmin song is just so true to his character like that is just truly a beautiful song there's nothing else to it

ellie

guys omg 5 STAR IS NEXT

✨mingi•on•anesthesia✨

my favorite short king uploaded!!

grecutie

Nigel's top 5 is up to 25 at this point 😂

Layah

Ugh I love scars there and novel so much ❤️❤️

Sophia

I just went on a date with 8 men😭 one after the other

Mia❣️

The hoe comment is so true XD Sound is one of my favorites with scars. You should watch the first take of scars, there you can see who sings which part. I loved the reaction as always.

klen24

Nigel I agree with you about Battleground. I love everything else about the album. I was waiting on you to get to this album now that I see what you like it's cool to see the reactions. And just think there is more to come. Can't wait! Hope you have a great week and know you are a great person and a real one.

gg2all

One of my fav jap. album and I can't wait to 5star album 😍👏🏽👏🏽

soz

"yeah, we're definitely hoes" nigel has never said a more true statement

Cat Morales

DLMLU is a Hyunjin song. The way he expresses himself and the lyrics always just hit a little differently for me.

DM Wilson

Love the vid but when are you gonna do season 2 Alice in Borderland?

Victoria Bailey

Can not wait to 5 star reaction ahhhahamskdndksks

marianaa

Nigel lost me is actually a bit different from the first take version were you still going to listen to the original?

Reyna

you should listen to battleground live it’s awesome

Jaydin

I felt the same way about battleground at first but they made battleground the opening song of their dome tours in Japan and it really gave me a new perspective of it… also the sound is definitely an underrated album bc it was a japanese comeback instead of a korean one

Liyah

The Sound is such a great album, banger after banger and no song is alike. It shows their range so well and so many of the stray kids shined and wrote songs for it. Top 3 albums for sure

C

its not really an mv but a special video for white day with the osng in the background, i am sure you have seen it. but since nigel loves the pov mvs so much i thought he might like it haha https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=399VtwNb2YA

Betty Eder

Really? It's on YouTube?

Claire Ada

they also made a little cute special mv for novel if you wanna check it out

Betty Eder

you should react to ATEEZ soon you'll love them

✮ℕ𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕆𝕨𝕝✮

This album has my two faveroute sStray kids song on it. I love this album.

Carien Daffue

NIGEL SAN!! You need to watch the performance to get Battleground, fr. Especially the Dome Tour intro

Maria Shoe

the sound and the album IS SO UNDERRATED. its so hypnotizing with a rock vibe

gplebbs

Please listen to "why?"

Micka Ajd

Changbin wrote lost me btw

Jadaaa12

You really need to see the performances of battle ground

Jadaaa12

Nigel, you can’t have 50 damn songs as your top 5💀

Mia❣️

Nigel, You gotta react to Seungmin's cover for 'You were beautiful' by Day6. It is so good I swear. Like if you react to it one day, you cant say that I was gatekeeping this cover

Jia Xuan Ko

Felix and Innie shined so much on this album!! So happy you thought the same thing! And The Sound is DEFINITELY Innie’s song!!! So many good songs on this album! And this might be an unpopular opinion, but I feel like Felix and Innie are so often underrated and under appreciated!! All of SKZ are so impressive and amazing and talented ofc, but I just feel like so many people so often don’t see how insanely talented they both are! And I also just need to say that I love that you don’t find the pov MVs cringe like so many people do, I actually think they’re very sweet!!

Harley

Seungmin escribió Novel y es una de mis favoritas del álbum 🤍 y tuvimos su presentación en el fanmeeting de japon 🤍🤍

Miriam

Battleground live will absolutely change your mind about this song!

Marissa Clary

Listen to butterflies

Ali

yeah leegooo

Swelix

Nigel! Watch the relay dance for The Sound!! You love relay dances and you love the song!! The choreo is the best!!

WooStayTiny

he has !! check the your eyes album reactionnn

Jessie

The sound is such a banger. I really like it!

Azaly🩷

THE SOUND IS THE BEST I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS REACTION FOR MONTHS

skzgoblin

MORPHINE?????😭

DUBI

YESSSS 5-STAR NEXT you have got to watch the live performance of battleground, it’s insane

Lia Roslyn

Some of my favourite songs are on this album 😍 thank you for the review 🤍

Amy Kane

Every song Nigel says is slept on really isn’t….a lot of skz songs are certified bangers ONE STEP CLOSER TO 5STAR

redvelvetnerd

Nigel, you HAVE to watch the live performance of Battle Ground because is so good! I love that song 😭

Azaly🩷

“Yozorani” in Novel lowkey sounds like “you’re all I need”

Eli

There are first takes out there with small errors so I do think you just get the one. Maybe if you really like mess up to the point where the take is ruined you’d do it again but it’s supposed to be just one. After a ton of rehearsal I’m sure. And, just for clarification, this is their first full Japanese album but not their debut Japanese album. (I think I saw that somewhere in the comments.)

Lauren_001

I beeeeen saying the sound is slept on😭 top 5 idc

sanni

I BECAME I STAY DURING THIS ALBUM

Eli

Im just claiming Item and HoF as my songs before Nigel snatches them from me.

Suhaila Reigns

NIGEL DONT CALL ME OUT ABOUT MY BIG BACK!! FAMILY IS SUPPOSED TO IGNORE THAT 😭 Everyone in The Sound was going absolutely insane but Han, Seungmin, and I.N were popping off. Like holy shit. I think this was the album where I.N went from baby bread to toast

Makayla Hall

still waiting for Nigel to react to the solo stage performance (5 star dome tour)

Eli

omg the 5star reaction is comming <3

Isabella Oliveira

Loved the Album The Sound one of my favourites and so underrated with IN at long last coming into his own with that beautiful voice

Jennifer Hearn

OMG FINALLY ALMOST 5 STAR IM SO FREAKIN EXCITED

dahllllll

Seungmin’s smile got me crying 😭 IT’S SO BEAUTIFUL 😍 🫠

N day

5 STARRRR IS NEXTTTT UR IN FOR ITTT

Vee_2194

I can’t even try to be mad at Nigel roasting me no more because at this point it’s funny asf 😭😭

N day

I love how much Nigel eats up the POV mvs, like... 😭😂🫶

Chrissyy89

I swear whenever I will go to Japan I will go to that place where Chan autograph that sign it’s still there until this day people go there to take a picture with it I’m so jealous I need to go to the Japan

🦔

You may not like Battleground’s audio… but imagine those guitar sounds in a concert while screaming ready for the battle ground. Now… you’ve only got one more Korean album and a Japanese EP, and then outside of skz players, you’re ready for the next comeback!

Kacey Miller

NOVEL is Seungmin's song he made this song. Novel is underrated I love this song. You need to watch Battle ground live performance you will love it.

TAMI

When The Sound MV started you asked if it was the Japanese version, but the song itself is a Japanese song, along with the rest in the album as it was their Japanese debut album !

Liannie

NIGEL!! If you haven’t seen butterflies 🦋🦋🦋 yet, you should check it out one day, PLEASE!!

N day

seungmin wrote & composed novel ! i’m so glad you liked it <3

desi

I feel like Changbin is bias wrecking you this album, Nigel... 🤔 Fair.

Vanessa D

"The Sound" was my first SKZ japanese release after becoming a stay during Maxident era. These songs definitely helped me see a different side of stray kids and learn about how talented they are. Scars, There, and Novel are definitely regulars in my playlist

Em

Yay!!! Now 5 STAR!!! 5 Star is packed with certified bangers prepare yourself

Tiffany Hall

Hyunjin with another masterpiece with DLMLU! This boy can write some lyrics!! And The Sound?? Han in the MV? 🔥 Great music period.

WooStayTiny

Finally!!! So excited! 5 Star next and then enjoy the comeback with us! Then you can dip your toes into the ocean of ATEEZ! Lol ❤️

WooStayTiny

Finally someone says it!! The sound is so slept on even when it dropped they only talked about it for 2 days and that’s it

Strawbinnii

Fan fact changbin wrote lost me for himself but when he presented to the company the company said we should keep it And let it to be ot8 song on the next album which was the sound

🦔

I THOUGHT NIGEL THOUGHT BATTLEGROUND WAS SO BAD HE WANTED TO LEAVE FOR A SEC😭😭😭

N day

"The Sound" is one of my favorite songs and the m/v is maybe my all-time favorite m/v's ever. The special effects are so quick and kinda simple (the lights) but hit so hard.

Vanessa D

Nah fr I better start running to the gym I’m starting to look like Felonious Gru from minions

Strawbinnii

5 STAR IS WAITING NIGEL.

leeknowbias

Damn Nigel, how many top (GO UP) 5 songs do you have??😭🤣

N day

LMAOAOAOAOA NIGEL

Manii

DLMLU is my favorite HYUNJIN our hopeless romantic boy

🦔

Yay!! Can’t wait to hear your thoughts. This is one of my favorite SKZ albums. ❤️💙

Jenna

this is in my top 3 from the stray kids. I’m so excited

Kas

THE WAY MY JAW DROPPED WHEN YOU SAID DONATELLO😭😭

N day

FINALLY NIGEL😭 OMG I can't wait to watch this, my fave songs off this album are Novel and DLMLU🖤 Edit: I forgot Scars❤️‍🩹 was on this album(the way I love that song🥹🩷), also rewatching/relistening to the songs I remember how much I loved 'the sound' mv and the song too🤘🙂‍↕️

Claire Ada

LETS GO NEXT IS 5 STAR

🦔

I love The Sound album omg 🔥

Coco

💙HEY NIGEL AND DOZENS💜 This album, then the ★★★★★ Album!!!

N day

I usually am not that much of a fan of their japanese stuff for some reason but this album is full of bangers and lost me is a fucking master piece

Betty Eder

AMAHGDKALAGSA excited 😌🤲💪 there are def a few songs on here I'm sure you'll love I promise Battleground is a grower. I HIGHLY recommend watching a choreo video (fancam from concerts) because it adds to it. This is a potential OST song. (But it's totally OK if you don't vibe with it lol)

Chrissyy89

This is the era i became stay and it’s so special to me 🤭

ℓєιԃувυց (ℓєι)

Hi Nigel 👋🏽

JJ

Fuck yes Nigel. I'm glad to see that you didn't lie to us this time. I do have a big back. I definitely need to work out 😩. See, I feel like you haven't listened to the songs in a long time, so you should still re-listen to the ones that you've already listened to. Stop talking about my feet Nigel! I smell good? thank you. It's a perfume that's supposed to smell like what someone thinks han jisung would smell like that I got from a place on Etsy called scent embrace. I love it. Yo THE SOUND both the album and the song itself is impeccable. It's amazing. And everybody likes to say that we moved on from this song/ album too quickly, but honestly we didn't move on from it. It's just because stray kids likes to put out a lot of fucking content and we try to keep up. But everybody loves the sound and rightfully so because this shit is top tier gold Platinum diamond. Everything amazing. When you watch the video Nigel you are going to be blown away because they all look so fucking fantastic in it. Wait Nigel are you actually loving this beat drop? Cuz I know how picky you are with beat drops. Not your vibing to that lyric outro music 🤣. I feel you tho. Oh you're doing a music videos immediately after I forgot. That's how you do that. You ain't have an album reaction in so long I done forgot. Nigel ain't nobody sleeping on the sound. The only people who don't know about this song are the new stays who haven't listened to like their Japanese songs yet because you literally have to go to a Japanese YouTube account to find them. I don't know why it isn't on their regular jyp or stray kids YouTube account, but their Japanese tracks go so fucking hard. And the only people who don't hype them up are the people who don't know about them. But once the new baby stays here these songs they fuck with them so heavy because literally how could you not? I have a question Nigel. Do you watch anime? Because I feel like the chaoticness of the song are very much like anime type moments. Lol of course, that's okay Nigel. If you don't like a song, you don't like a song. Lost me is SUCH a beautiful song. Nigel, it's a reaction video you're supposed to talk. Thank you Nigel. I was about to say since when do you not like talking. I don't know how big the studio actually is, but if everything that you see is white it makes the room look so much larger than it could possibly be. But it could also be a large ass studio so. They all look so unbelievably soft in this video and I just want to hug and squeeze and kiss and pinch every single last one of them. No they still put it out to my knowledge. Because a bang Chan messed up on case 143. I don't know if you ever watched that but he did and it is adorable and it just makes it so much more real. I fuck with dlmlu so much but I really don't know how you're going to feel about this one. Nigel, you're so smart. Oh wow the messages are pretty much exactly the same. And Nigel those vocals was giving. Miley Cyrus also has a song that's talking about this. It's so emotional and it's a great song. Okay back to Stray kids. I love DLMLU so much. I can understand the Coldplay Vibes to this. I can't remember if sunman wrote this song or fairy tale, but it's such a beautiful song. Nigel not Bella swan what the fuck! We love vocal Binnie so much. Scars is so stunning. You need to watch all of the live performances of this song. They're all so stunning. Yes, all you can do at the end of scars is exhale a sigh of just like wow that was amazing. I would love to listen to it with you. Nigel. The way You laughed after top five is so cute. Jesus, I can't wait for you to get through these last few albums. Nigel. You are going to be so ridiculously impressed I swear. We're not gatekeeping, we just want you to experience it fully for the first time. WE AIN'T SLEEPING ON NOTHING NIGEL! I wonder how long it's going to take you before you realize this is literally just the Japanese version of your eyes. Oh that didn't take long at all. Okay yes pretty much. Yeah I can't share earphones because for some reason my ears are super waxy. The way lino looks so soft in this music video makes my heart race so quickly. Like why is he so fucking handsome. Nigel what the fuck are you doing? I mean I'll take it. If I'm a hoe for going on a date with all the stray kids I'mma be a hoe 🤷🏾‍♀️. I need to see how you're going to react to the ending of this song. YEEEESSSS NIGEL!! i loved your reaction to Seungmin asking for a kiss. 🤗. Oh I was close. I thought you would give it an eight and you gave it an 8.5 nice.

Kwestleo

I WAITED SO LONG FOR THIS🤍🤍

aizen

YESSSSS🎉

KitKat Kera


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