EXO 'XOXO-Kiss & Growl' (Repackaged) (Korean) | NSD ALBUM REVIEW

Kevin you are not alone I also love peter pan! lol That was actually my first tattoo I got :)

paige bloomer

Growl is honestly considered the unofficial anthem for South Korea. There's a long-running joke that if you're in South Korea and don't know the song, you're a spy from North Korea. The lyrics for Growl are hilarious and kind of makes more sense when you realize those "suits" they're wearing in Growl are actually high school uniforms. It's like high school bad boys trying to protect /guard their girl. LOL

hockeywitch

David calling Kevin 'babe', ahh the Devin ship has sailed hard XD

Maisha Supritee Chowdhury

You absolutely must do the debut EP. It contains EXO's origin story :)

BTW, aside from the minor technical glitches, the set-up totally works even if you guys are worlds apart. Still had fun watching your reaction! XD

Klyonne Dela Cruz

Exo debuted with the MAMA EP. It is quite common for groups to debut with an EP instead of full length albums. I recommend you check that out if you want to do this chronologically... Before their Debut they released these two songs as pre-release singles with MVs: 1. What is Love 2. History Both songs are in MAMA EP, and then you can check out MAMA mv and the rest of the album. Once you listen to that, you can jump to the following order of releases: (I’ve noted down relevant videos too under each album) 2013 1. Miracles of December EP (released after XOXO) * Miracles of December MV **EXO Performances FULL @MAMA 2013** 2014 2. Overdose EP * Overdose MV **Recommend you watch to the Exoplanet #1: The Lost Planet Concert at this point, if you guys plan to react the full concert** 2.5 December, 2014 (The Winter’s Tale) Single -- no MV but has a live performance in Music Bank **EXO-Black Pearl + Tell Me What is Love +중독(Overdose) at 2014 MAMA** 2015 3. Exodus / Love Me Right Repack * Pathcode Teasers (These are teasers for the album and have a hidden message on each video..Might be fun to try and decode these yourselves) * Call Me Baby MV * Love Me Right MV * EXO | 엑소 - Promise | 약속 (EXO 2014) [FMV] (This is a song especially written by Lay, Chen and Chanyeol for EXO-Ls as 2014 was a tough time for everyone, with dating “scandals” reported for a couple of members and 3 members leaving the group (Kris, Luhan, Tao.) The members feel like they broke the “we are one” promise and so this song serves as an apology.) 4. Lightsaber MV **EXO MAMA 2015 FULL PERFORAMNCE** 4.5. Love Me Right JPN Single Album (Just 2 songs) * Love me right JPN MV + Drop That as an extra song in the album ** can skip this and pass until item #12 **Exoplanet #2: The Exo’luxion concert in Japan** 5. Sing For You EP (Winter album) * Sing for you MV * Unfair (no MV but has live performances on music shows) 2016 6. Ex’act / Lotto Repack * Monster MV, Performance MV + Dance Practice * Lotto MV 7. Dancing King MV (SM Station collab single with Yoo Jae Suk) 8. Coming Over (Japanese Single Album) - 3 songs * Coming Over MV + Dance Practice ** can skip this and pass until item #12 **Exoplanet #3: The Exo’rdium in Japan** **[MAMA 2015] EXO Performance (Eng Sub)** 9. For Life EP * For Life MV 2017 10. The War / The War: Power of Music Repack * Ko Ko Bop MV * Power MV * The Eve music show performances + dance practice **Exoplanet #4: The ElyXiOn in Seoul/Japan -- both are pretty good** 11. Universe EP * Universe MV 2018 12. Countdown (Japanese Studio album) * Electric Kiss MV + Dance practice * Coming Over MV + Dance Practice * Love Me Right JPN version MV 13. Don’t Mess Up by Tempo / Love Shot Repack * Tempo MV * Love Shot MV **SBS Gayo 2018 - Love Shot & Tempo** **Exoplanet #5: EXplOration in Japan** 2019 14. Obsession * Obsession MV + Dance Practice, X-EXO & EXO Live stages or the mix

Also, Kyungsoo’s always had shor hair because he played as a soldier in Along With the Gods 1&2 and completely shaved his hair for Swing Kids where he played a North Korean soldier. He acts and promotes as EXO simultaneously, so you see that he has shaved hair in some of their promotions...

strangely, this is my favorite album of theirs and ive listened to ALL their albums, i just love the sweet songs they have. Btw, baby dont cry live is 100% amazing.

Angie

I can't wait for you to see their performances for these songs haha. Please don't miss out on Don't Go, and the concert set with Peter Pan+Lucky+XOXO+3.6.5. Let Out the Beast and Lucky have also been part of their club sets (with significant arrangement changes), while My Lady is part of the Acoustic Medley! Baby Don't Cry and Wolf (must watch!) have amazing performances too.

BPF

Their early music had a lot more R&B, and since they were split into EXO-K and M, Baekhyun used to do the high notes and D.O. did the R&B runs for EXO-K. I loved this album when it released because of my music listening behavior. I mostly listen to music while studying, while resting, or when I'm in a relaxed mood. Many EXO-Ls are probably the same. I also believe their albums are structured to really be turned into a concert setlist. Heart Attack was perfect for a VCR, even if it's too chill for an actual performance. Lucky, Peter Pan, XOXO, Don't Go are very repeatable (for the yearly concerts) because they're songs meant for fans. So as EXO and the fandom grow older, there are more shared memories and the nostalgia in these songs grow. If they perform them in their 20th anniversary, pretty sure EXO-Ls would be crying just thinking about our youth.

BPF

1st Mini Album: MAMA (2012) (DEBUT) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKecntVeFNgsfkeD82a3_ArTZWArPNTsK 1st FULL Album: XOXO (2013) 1st Repackage Album: Growl (2013) Winter Special Album: Miracle In December (2013) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL26LoJ_SolnxHUIW9QQmsJJdxURDuDKxN 2nd Mini Album: Overdose (2014) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7jBT3RcEMFIqUNYQJ9iRSuhLCUWPoHh- 2nd FULL Album: EXODUS (2015) 2nd Repackage Album: Love Me Right (2015) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqKlApNsUCgyGsJWgzpwd_CKbGDstv3x8 Winter Special Album: Sing For You (2015) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL26LoJ_SolnxEJCTclvyNP4yvQH9T6_WI 3rd FULL Album: EX’ACT (2016) 3rd Repackage Album: Lotto (2016) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfn7cX65cbcAxoyq1pIuy97Ka2zzlAwtn Winter Special Album: For Life (2016) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL26LoJ_Solnzb6ab8sEf8liB2rEWtcdE6 4th FULL Album: The War (2017) 4th Repackage Album: The War: The Power Of Music (2017) Winter Special Album: Universe (2017) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcZLcu4IU-n-rl0tXoMOgLwOOoRGqmNrG 1st Japan Album: Countdown (2018) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWaqqck5ch2cYVpvjmgq6gig5ewPnlki1 5th FULL Album: Don't Mess Up My Tempo (2018) 5th Repackage Album: Love Shot (2018) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcHKdsGvkVBfeZkFy-ScOGOZwE81uVd1W 6th FULL Album: Obsession (2019) I hope you guys helped~

cant wait for your reaction to Countdown album. its my favorite album.. in this one, i love Peterpan. i truly relate to the song and peterpan is my all time favorite fictional character. probably bec this is their first album and they were so tiny then, that's why their songs are like, cutesy type of songs.. please see the love stages. its a lot lot better live.. thank you for what you do.. be safe.

Vanessa Ilagan

You guys forgot to react to their pre-debut mini-album called "Mama" which is where you can find their debut MAMA MV, History MV and What Is Love MV

Fred João

You mean Winter Albums ;D

Fred João

There is a VCR for the song Heart Attack. Please is a Must watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgwWzmP1Kyo

Fred João

You guys should check out their Christmas album ahahaha it’s my fave

moistmermaids

LET OUT THE BEAST live performance in here https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x68ifxp If you not busy please check out EXO CONCERT too😊 EXO PLANET #2 The EXO'luxion in Japan https://youtu.be/OaHhmf3KAxU

You guys should react to this section of EXO Planet #3: Mama + Monster + Wolf (remix) at the EXO´rDIUM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNVClseaDTY

Fred João

You guys should definitely check out their debut EP (which has MAMA, History and What Is Love as MVs), I think it has about 5 or 6 songs but it has the most important songs about their concept. You can definitely see some references here and there in the song lyrics from each song and I think it'd be really interesting to see you guys react to it!

The arrangement works well. You guys are funny and have a good chemi any way that you do it.

Really really enjoyed your reactions, and judging by the songs you guys liked I believe you will enjoy the rest of the albums even more. glad you guys are back and can't wait til you guys start reacting to EXO's live stuff

Reem OA

Btob's Peniel also has a shaved head :)

Verlie Jean

Chogiwa 😳

Dave

Love your reaction, you’re both funny! Never a dull moment 😄 I would really recommend to check their MAMA ep (track listing: MAMA, What is Love, History, Angel, Two Moons and Machine) since it’s really their debut album. 🙏 And please don’t forget to react to their live performance of Wolf Remix in Exordium Japan, super lit! 🔥

Heddie

And Chanyeol's iconic Chogiwa in the beginning of Wolf

Gigi Lai

Also haha you guys got to final react to Chanyeol's 3 minute and 1 second appearance in the Growl music video

Gigi Lai

What I mean is EXO-K members used to only sing with EXO-K and EXO-M with EXO-M, but later all 12 members appeared in music videos together and they all sang together so they just combined them all into one Spotify page instead of 2. But they already released some on the separate pages. Sorry if any of this is confusing

Gigi Lai

Also here is the link for the Wolf Remix which is amazing and I prefer it over the original. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8UeSVgiXmI

Gigi Lai

It was mentioned before but you guys missed History and What is Love which were predebut songs and you also missed their debut song and album. Along with that you missed their 2nd mini album which had the music video Overdose in it. If you search Exo albums on Spotify the first album is XOXO, but they used to be EXO-K and EXO-M before they just put all the Korean and Chinese albums for just EXO, so you have to search EXO-K to get their first 2 albums that they released. I hope that makes sense

Gigi Lai

Also (I'm p sure???)Kevin was right! 'Cold laughter' does mean fake laughter. The prince is saying that he'd rather see the mermaid fake a smile than to cry as he wants her to forget about him

Anna

Oh it's a shame no one explained baby don't cry to you guys!! It's based off of the original little mermaid tale where she must kill the prince with a knife while he is asleep, or when the sun rises she will dissolve into foam. In exo's song, the prince (exo members) wakes up and convinces the mermaid to kill them (the prince). The chorus lyrics [Baby don’t cry tonight. When the dawn lights the skies, it will be as if nothing ever happened. You will never dissolve into foam, for my love is with you forever. So baby don’t cry cry] show a basic idea of what the story is but if you have time I really recommend reading the lyrics again with this story in mind :D

Anna

I thought you guys will react to these version of baby don't cry hahah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ0gpUfs97o

amber

Great reaction! 'My lady', 'It's my turn to cry', 'Hurt', and 'Exodus' are some of my favorite songs. I feel they are underrated and need more exposure...

Kshithi Mutalikdesai

Hey, great reaction. Glad to see you enjoying yourselves and things (mostly) working for you. Your energy was good. The EP is worth checking out, as are their pre-debut singles. May I suggest if you do those though that you check out the EXO-M version, at least for the MAMA MV (they've the same concept but are quite different) also it would be nice to see Lay, Xiumin and Chen a bit more in your reactions, and apart from the Growl, and Wolf MVs, you don't see then except in the EXO-M versions. The Wolf & Growl MVs and concepts are definitely tied, Wolf tells a bit of a Beauty & the Beast-esque love story from the perspective of a werewolf which carries through a bit in the lyrics of Growl. There's also a two part mini-film that they did to promote the album that follows the story of a werewolf (played by Luhan, a former member). The outfits worn in the Growl MV seem to be reminiscent of their school uniforms in that. Anyway, great job, and good luck with your future reactions.

Lysandr Skavada

Sorry guys I was wrong to not include MAMA album in the list. You can check this link to watch the live stage of the WOLF https://youtu.be/a8UeSVgiXmI GROWL live Elyxion in japan https://youtu.be/24EuA_Kx8BI DON'T GO live exo'rdium https://youtu.be/euiEnc1L6VE HEART ATTACK vcr https://youtu.be/CgwWzmP1Kyo 사랑해 & 파이팅.....

XOXO and Baby are my faves from this album but Angel really is what made me fall hard for Exo and that's on their Mama EP. Their next release is Overdose mini album. Maybe combine a EP with the mini album together?

Shaina EXO-L

Wolf is an acquired taste for me too. But Wolf live is something else!!!The Remix version in Exordium in Japan is GOLD! Some of the songs might be so cringy for you guys lol. But please understand this was released in 2013 when EXO are like babies. lol...

yane

I just finished watching the Growl MV reaction and you were talking about the sequence...but you missed the whole Debut stuff~ Their debut song is MAMA. They had 2 pre-debut releases - History and What is love - which also had music videos. That came out first before this XOXO album. These are all in the MAMA EP. Okay, now back to your album review :)

Klyonne Dela Cruz

Thank you!!! I've missed you guys!!!

Shaina EXO-L