1 – NCT U - The 7th Sense

We're back! And there's no better way to kick off season 2 than with the MOST confusing of boy bands, NCT! Watch the Korean music video, the performance MV, or the live stage performance then hop back and join us. Onward to notes:

• Lee Soo-man, 2016: Neo Culture Technology, the business presentation that was also one of the places where this new group was announced?
• That meeting also includes snippets from a pre-debut version of The 7th Sense, with some notable changes like the overall mix, aesthetic, Haechan in the vocals, and the inclusion of Hansol, who quit SM before NCT's official debut.
• The NCT member timeline chart so confusing it got removed from Wikipedia for violating accessibility guidelines. Here's its Venn diagram version (courtesy Twitter) which is no less unreadable.
• English-subtitled video of Baekhyun and Sehun (EXO), and Taeyong and Jaehyun (NCT)'s stories of being street-cast. (MBS, KBS and SBS are three of the biggest TV networks in South Korea.)
• And here's a video of NCT 127 desperately trying to explain NCT.
• And as I was digging for those videos, it turns out that as late as the Superhuman promotions (2019, three years after NCT debuted) they're still wearing nametags on the talk shows.
• How good are NCT? Well. Here's the Produce 101 trainees covering it.
• Here's a clip from the actual show itself with the trainees' reactions to their fate.
• Shotaro covering Taeyong's part in The 7th Sense, a last-minute sub for him after Taeyong was injured.
• On that final note (justice for Winwin), here's the RainbowV special project choreo for Billie Eilish x Khalid's Lovely.
• The s**t kingz official site link to their choreography (as the collective group).
• I'm fairly certain this is the exact moment in Make A Wish's choreo that regs is talking about - let it run for about 15 seconds.
• The other NCT songs we love: Touch (2018, NCT U), Superhuman (2019, NCT 127), Make A Wish (2020, NCT U), Cherry Bomb (2017, NCT 127)
• Both NCT 2020's Resonance pt. 1 and pt. 2 (which was the repack) sold a certified million copies!
• The not very good 23-member dance roundups: 2020's Resonance and 2018's Black on Black.

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