I could be wrong, but I feel this song is about the journey to where they are at that time. Bang Chan wrote the song. He was a trainee for 7 years. When you hear him talk about it, he watched friends and fellow trainees come and go, and never knew if he would be ask to leave next. This song premiered at the end of the survival show, Felix and LeeKnow were cut, then asked back. It was heartbreaking.
chan didnt write the song. have you never watched the survival show? chan created the track and changbin and han wrote the lyrics for it. do not spread misinformation
@@mireiaposias I just remember the scene when JYP asks who wrote the song, and Chan raised his hand, and JYP asked why is in was written with that high female note in it, and Chan looked like he was going to cry. Then Han went and practiced and practiced until he was able to hit it. That is how I remember it.
@@sglemon4 Jyp didnt ask who wrote it, he asked who made it which was chan. chan came up with the track and what key it would be in. han and changbin came up with the lyrics the melodies and flows
@@mireiaposias You didn’t have to be so aggressive about it, people can be confused, besides, not every detail was recorded and we know for a fact that Bang Chan is involved in everything. Especially during the survival show. He definitely had to proofread the lyrics, so by technicality he was involved in writing even if only a little.
People don't like to talk about Woojin much because he's better left in the past. He did not leave on the best terms. He basically abandoned the group right before a comeback and right before they were supposed to go on tour, which meant that they had to postpone it by a month in order to re-record and re-choreograph everything to fit eight members, and if you see clips from their first concerts after he left, the rest of the boys were absolutely devastated, literally crying on stage and begging fans not to leave them. Bang Chan issued a formal apology to the fans for "not being able as a leader to keep the team together" and he also apologized in a livestream, and you could tell he was absolutely heartbroken. Just the other day Woojin released a video where he apologized for leaving (years later!) by saying he was young and selfish - as if he wasn't literally the oldest of the group, even older than Chan. He doesn't deserve anything, and even this comment I'm writing is giving him more attention than he deserves.
It's not referred as the "Felix effect" for nothing. Dang straight he shocked a lot of people (if not everyone) when he opened his mouth & that voice came out. That was how I discovered Stray Kids 😊
When I first heard "Hellevator" back then, I immediately became a fan of SKZ (they didn't even have a fandom name at that time😂). A group of trainee kids could produce such an excellent song? It's truly amazing. Actually, we have an eight-member version of "Hellevator," included in the album "SKZ2020."
Hellevator, Grrr and Young Wings are all pre debut songs they made them during the survival show. As someone pointed out District 9 is their debut 😊 Definitely check out 3Racha by 3Racha or Runners High by 3Racha My cats always get in the way when I'm trying to dance or workout, just another reason to go to the gym instead, lol.
Thanks for this comment! And yes I am well informed now that “District 9” is the debut song! Cats do love interfering with what you do, got to love it though!
Bro I can’t wait until you start reacting to songs/videos that show their true duality.. Because YES Changbin has always been a sick rapper but by god if you heard him truly sing?? It’s so fuckin beautiful. Felix and his deep as voice but then you hear Deep End?? Crazy range. ALSO i NEED to see you react to Victory Song, The Tortoise and the Hare, and Side Effects! I think you’d really like all of them
It's actually their first pre-debut song and the first song they shot an mv for .They sang Hellevator and other songs in their survival show from before debuting,they even showed them filming the mv in that show. There's also an album with all the songs they sang on the survival show. Their debut song It's District 9.
Hellavator was a song off their PRE-debut album. It describes their struggle to make it… took Bang Chan 7 years and this song describes that struggle. He was just 13 when he joined JYP. …..District 9 was the title track off their debut album Go live. District 9 is 🔥!!!!! You need to do Maniac as well!!
Sure why not, this is how I got into SKZ. I was into GOT7 another group at JYP and my bias BamBam was on one of the episodes of their debut reality show, Stray Kids. They were performing out on the street with people from JYP judging them. What I saw in that one show intrigued me and I only noticed Felix because he made a mistake and I felt was judged really harshly for it, but the way that his team supported him really made me start to love them. Then Hellevator came out and I liked it. It stuck in my head, then a few more songs came out and they stayed on my playlist but they weren't in my top 5 groups or anything. Then I saw/heard Victory Song and that was it. Felix STARTS that song in his deepest tones. When you listen to that song in a car, the sound travels like a wave from the back of the car to the front. I listened so many times to Victory Song on Spotify that it was definitely in my top five played. And that was it, I was hooked. Felix reeled me in, Han's lyrics (especially his B-Sides kept me coming back), and then Hyunjin got canceled and went on "hiatus". I was furious. I almost stopped following SKZ cuz I was so mad at JYP (also the whole GOT7 messy divorce was happening) but I wanted to support the group even though JYP was flat WRONG for taking Hyunjin out like that. Every day posting on the app formerly known as Twitter for Hyunjin to come back and then he did with his self-choreographed F You to all the haters, Play With Fire, "Oh you thought I was gone, nope I'm taking over now." And I was all in. Hyunjin locked the door and threw away the key. STAY FOR LIFE. PS. Woojin and his mysterious withdrawal from the group is not discussed much. I personally never liked him, he always seemed a bit removed from the group and like he had an arrogance that just rubbed me the wrong way. And if Bang Chan, the kindest human, doesn't like him then neither do I. They certainly seemed to thrive without him being there.
If you watch their Hellevator dance practice, you will see this is still a very good choreo. Pls react to their debut song which is District 9. I think you will like it. Hellevator is their pre debut song and first mv.
actually, stray kids and woojin had a fight when woojin decided to left stray kids back in 2019. bangchan said something like “ we are team, we are family, but now you betray us, and we all have to face the consequences for your actions “ refer to the woojin scandal. because of woojin, bangchan received a lot of hate comments. bangchan tell him to stay with them and tell him to made an apology but he didnt. when woojin left, bangchan decided to rerecord their album with 8 members version. Bangchan really wanted to vanish woojin name from stray kids. and now its been 5 years, none of the stray kids members get along with woojin anymore. ( bangchan love all his members, but when bangchan got betrayed, he cant handle it)
Thank you ❤. FYI Hellelavator is the pre-debut song. Created while they were on their survival elimination show called Stray Kids. All 9 made it through but not without some emotional hardships. District 9 mv (9 members) was their debut song.
your cat is gorgeous! you tell her we clicked her like button too! how did we feel the first time we heard felix? look up “the felix effect.” it’s a whole-ass phenomenon! 🤩
So even though it was pre-debut I consider it as a debut in my head because of the fact that it was the first time we were seeing them perform anything in a music video, first music video we ever got from them. I noticed it 15 days after it was released and since I was already into k-pop I already knew to expect many things in one video, so I listened to the mood first while watching the video and it gave me a sense about what they could be talking about then I went back and read the lyrics and I was very very impressed. Changbin stood out to me the most with this song so I was like I wonder if he's gonna be my bias, but then a little time passed and I sort of forgot about them a bit, all up until they released their next music video after Hellevator, their song Grrr and I was just impressed right away I didn't have to question it anymore, I was hooked, so I read the comments and I saw some people were talking about their reality show, so I went and I watched it and I've just been a Stay ever since then. I remember crying when I saw Minho was eliminated because he had definitely grown on me a lot and he was actually one of my other biases. I cried so hard man, and then Felix got eliminated and he was one of my favorites too oh man, not to mention seeing their reactions, and CHris' reaction...instant heart break moment. I cried literal tears of joy when I saw them being brought back on that last episode. UUUh so freaking powerful, meaningful and emotional moment. Where would stray kids be now without them? They'd still be Stray Kids but like, Minho and Felix just add their own extra flavors. Idk for me it was intense. I don't think I reacted the same way as everyone else did with Felix. It was such A LONG time ago that it's just normal for me. xD Nah, I guess I was just used to kpop having guys that have baby faces but super low voices I was still super impressed by Felix's voice because his face and voice are like the youngest face with the deepest voice in kpop that I have ever heard, but I wasn't reacting like how everyone else reacts everytime. Don't get me wrong I still thought it was super freaking cool and that he was awesome, still managed to bias wreck me for sure. xD Especially with the insane amount of plush toys that he owns. xD which was why my heart broke so badly when he was eliminated, because he's like the purest most innocent face and soul that I've ever seen and to see him like that...just no. Why would you do that to him man, I wanted to protect him so badly, I was angry at the world. But then he was brought back and everything was great again. xD Then they debuted with like the most perfect song EVER! At the time. I even got the albums right away, both pre-debut and debut albums, and every time after that they'd have a comeback and I would even pre-order the album because it's like I just straight up already knew that all the songs in the album would be freaking amazing. After seeing how far they've grown ever since I'm extremely proud of them and what they've accomplished and I only hope our fandom continues to grow bigger and bigger everyday. I don't have a problem sharing our boys with everyone as long as people are respectful and nice and supportive. If people are like that then I say, "Welcome" with huge open arms and, "I hope you're here to Stay". :) As a pre-debut Stay I would suggest re-watching every video they have in order from when it was released because basically everything they've released is connected to the next thing. Everything is like this continuous sequence. Even if they said that their sequence ends right before God's Menu, it's like everything afterwards is still somehow tied in back with the story line, they legit have some Avengers or X-Men shit going on. xD I'm sure a very lovely Stay out there can help you piece together everything in order, you want to read the lyrics as well, there are some fluent Korean speakers that can break down the lyrics because there are definitely A LOT of play with specific words and phrases and sentences with just about every song that they have released. Then you also want to check out theories about what story they could be telling with their music videos. I recommend the RUclips channel called Bookish Theories. Probably one of the best theories out there. Good Luck man, cuz there's a lot of content if you really want to get into them. xD You'll be as old as Dumbledore by the time you catch up. xD (Harry Potter reference).
It actually took them a long time to appeal to the masses. They weren't very popular in the first years after their debut. Their music was 'noisy' and different.
Thank you so much for all the stray kids reactions! Since you now consider yourself Stay you should really react to other stray kids content not just the MVs, so you can really get to know the boys, they are truly amazing people and you can really appreciate their music more when you get to know them❤❤
Hi^^ As always, I loved your reaction! As someone says, District 9 is the real debut song ; Hellevator is pre-debut, made during the survival show... but it still is the first Stray Kids song^^ I think about the survival every single time I heard this song! The Kidz were so babies!!! And about Woojin, nobody knows the reasons of his departure. It was hard time for everyone (and he don't deserve the hate he received and receive still)
Your cat is amazing hahahaha mine always wants her appearance on my covers as well! She gets on the videos AND meows in my singing covers hahahahaha most of times I let it there cause she deserves her shining spot This is not exactly their debut song, they recorded it pre-debut. Their debut song is called District 9! Hellevator talks about the hell they've been through to rise the "elevator" till debuting. Yes, they are babies there hahaha most of them are around their 17 yo
8:58 this lee know part. This is first time ever we heard him rapping. Actually he dont know how to rap, but jyp push him and made him as a rapper at the first place. So since then, lee know is one of skz sub rapper, thanks to jyp. their debut song, District 9 also lee know started the song with his rap
Omg such a typical cat!! She's beautiful by the way 😂😽 Oh and there are actually video compilations of reactors first reactions to Felix's voice....and they are quite funny 😊
I think this song is actually what got me hooked on Stray Kids’ music. I got to know the members because my sister liked them and I wanted to know who she was talking about. But I was only casually listening to their music. Then I heard this song and I played it over and over again and I got hooked. It’s so good and really impressive considering the pressure they were under to create it. It still amazes me what these boys went through just to debut but I’m so glad they did and I was able to find them years later and enjoy their music
This is their pre debut… their debut song is District 9 😊… I love the fact that its in a female key and that jyp recommended to change the key and Bang Chan didnt and even made District 9 in a female key 😂😂😂…
This song echoes early BTS. Woojin is making a solo career come back this year , Incidentally . Woojin was accused of some pretty dirty deeds, when it was outed that he had no involvement in such a thing, it was too late, his reputation & career were already destroyed . I can only wish him success & positivity on the new path he is embarking upon. I will support this young man in his future artistic & creative endeavors.
I believe that they were not very popular until the song God's Menu came out. Their music was referred to as Noise Music, and thus came the Album No Easy a play on the word Noisy. I love all the songs they make! Yes, Woojin did leave and became a solo artist. You may want to check out some of his songs too. There you get to experience his voice, and his reflections on things.
There is a whole huge multiverse of Stray kids. Almost all of their clips (especially titles) are combined into one story. All it started with "Hellevator (it’s their 1st song before even debuting, you can see how they made it threw the survival show “Stray kids”). The whole story is about them trying to find their place and themselves. Also that's why they are called STRAY KIDS. The Hellevator is the first mv where we can see their alter universe and the inverted city. Their first album “I Am Not” tells us the story from the beginning. The debut song "District 9" (this song is SICK) shows their escape from the programmed society. All "I AM" series (3 albums) tell us about the identity crisis. Like everyone says that people are born unique and individual but society forces everyone to adjust to the standards, and those who different immediately become superfluous. The first album “I am not” is about the fact that they understand that they are not like everyone else, that’s their protest to the who;e world. In “I Am Who” they try to figure out who they really are and what should they do as they don't fit into the framework. In the final album of the series “I am you” they realize that they cannot find the answer to their question, so they turn to others and find themselves in them, in their like-minded people, who are also different. So all together they are trying to find their place out from the laboratory from District 9 but they got into the maze and they see that outside it’s all the same. Crowd still remains led, people go where they told to (this is exactly what "Miroh" is about), they want to get away from it. “miroh” mv is the title for the first album for a Cle series ("cle" is French for "key", if you continue to watch their clips, you will notice a lot of images of keys in this series as they are trying to find the escape). They got out from the miroh and choose to go for road no taken (also their song from Cle 2 with "Side effects" mv) they go to parallel world (you will see two moons in some mv that's the big thing in skzverse). They are fixated on finding the key to open the lock (and make two moons unite), until at the very end they realize that this idea trapped them. The answer is not the key, it' themselves ("Levanter" the last mv of cle series is about it. And that's the most calm and sad title of all, it breaks my heart). So, only when they gave up the idea of searching for an answer, they find their real selves (And that's when "Go live" series starts with the "God's menu" as the title) but they already messed the universe and the confusion with parallel worlds continues. You can see it in Noesey album (Thanderous) and especially in Maniac (where the inverted world appears again). Megaverse mv shows how messed up all gone. The rest of the albums continue to develop the metaverse as well as brain-blowing stay. In general, this whole story is very interesting and confusing, there are many theories among Stays, if you dive into it, the brain really boils but I'm sure you would like it. Hope I got you at list a little bit interested to start looking at their earliest works in order to build a complete picture for yourself!
I’M ON A HELLEVATOR!!!! The vocals The rap 🔥🔥 You should check out the video of Han and Changbin Rap battle from when they were younger JYP vs YG Battle] STRAY KIDS - Matryoshka (Changbin & Jisung) CUT
Woojin is such an underrated artist! He left the group for unknown reasons but I think the most sensible answer was he just wasn’t in line with the direction that’s Skz music was going. He became a soloist and has much lighthearted music! I got to go to one of his concerts and meet him!! He’s super sweet and has seriously improved his skills
Thank you for sharing your perspective! I am not one to judge who is good or bad, especially when I don’t know any information about someone. That’s really cool you got to meet him, I am sure the concert was fun🕺🏼
I think it’s time to react to a guide to straykids, I recommend the complete guide to straykids by chandora’s world, it’s an updated version to the one everybody else recommends and it’s a bit lengthy but it’s worth it It doesn’t matter how long the video is, stays will be here to watch it
I see hellevator and yes i see the preview from TxT and can´t wait for monday wehn the album will be release, but hellevator is a very good. Its not the debut song, its the pre-debut song and was produced in the survival show. Inside the survival show minho and than felix are eliminated, but they come back and now are a part of the group thanks god. They are really young there, i think in this felix and han must be 15 because theire birthday is in september one day apart. Hellevator describe the journey. That you have to work from the hell to the heaven. That you have to fight to be one top. That the way is hard and sometimes you have the feeling to break because of the pressure. The way to be the best is never easy. The message of this song is very deep. The survival show is a fucking rollercoaster and i always cry when i see felix and minhos elimination. So yeah. That is what i can say. See you, i watch now the preview from TxT for the i think 6th time XD Make stray kids stay and see you in the next reaction. Greetings from germany Your Angel
This was my very first SKZ song I ever heard and it was this song that made me fall in love with them. This was also the song where Felix became one of my biases in this group I just fell in love with his deep voice and rapping style. The MV is amazing and so are the lyrics as you can clearly feel the emotio they put into them. Also this song was their pre debut song and it was BangChan that came up and produced the beat to this song and its amazing for a pre debut song
Although EVeRYoNe who reacts to Straykids are shocked by Felix's voice, when I watched them for the first time I wasn't. Because I had heard a waaay deeper one I guess I didn't see it as something special. Felix's voice and range are still crazy tho don't get me wrong. (The voice I mean is from a gamer called corpsehusband its unreal deep) Btw at the mention of Felix's range, "Deep end" is his solo. Just saying maybe you could react to it.
5:26 If i remember right IN was about 17 when they debuted so thats a roughly 18 year old hyunjin right there. I believe the ages were something like: IN-17 Seungmin-18 Felix- 18 Hyunjin-18 Han-18 Changbin-19 Lee Know-20 Bang Chan- 21 Woojon-21
You pronounce Woojin correctly. By the way - to everyone: don't tell that he's an evil... it's a difficult matter and he is also a victim in all of this
I could be wrong, but I feel this song is about the journey to where they are at that time. Bang Chan wrote the song. He was a trainee for 7 years. When you hear him talk about it, he watched friends and fellow trainees come and go, and never knew if he would be ask to leave next. This song premiered at the end of the survival show, Felix and LeeKnow were cut, then asked back. It was heartbreaking.
Dang, I had no clue! Thanks for sharing this!🙌🏼
chan didnt write the song. have you never watched the survival show? chan created the track and changbin and han wrote the lyrics for it. do not spread misinformation
@@mireiaposias I just remember the scene when JYP asks who wrote the song, and Chan raised his hand, and JYP asked why is in was written with that high female note in it, and Chan looked like he was going to cry. Then Han went and practiced and practiced until he was able to hit it. That is how I remember it.
@@sglemon4 Jyp didnt ask who wrote it, he asked who made it which was chan. chan came up with the track and what key it would be in. han and changbin came up with the lyrics the melodies and flows
@@mireiaposias You didn’t have to be so aggressive about it, people can be confused, besides, not every detail was recorded and we know for a fact that Bang Chan is involved in everything. Especially during the survival show. He definitely had to proofread the lyrics, so by technicality he was involved in writing even if only a little.
'Hellavator' was technically 'pre-debut'. Their official debut song was 'District 9'
JYP was scolding Bangchan at why he composed Hellevator in womans key. But Bangchan did it his way - and it worked.
People don't like to talk about Woojin much because he's better left in the past. He did not leave on the best terms. He basically abandoned the group right before a comeback and right before they were supposed to go on tour, which meant that they had to postpone it by a month in order to re-record and re-choreograph everything to fit eight members, and if you see clips from their first concerts after he left, the rest of the boys were absolutely devastated, literally crying on stage and begging fans not to leave them.
Bang Chan issued a formal apology to the fans for "not being able as a leader to keep the team together" and he also apologized in a livestream, and you could tell he was absolutely heartbroken.
Just the other day Woojin released a video where he apologized for leaving (years later!) by saying he was young and selfish - as if he wasn't literally the oldest of the group, even older than Chan.
He doesn't deserve anything, and even this comment I'm writing is giving him more attention than he deserves.
It's not referred as the "Felix effect" for nothing. Dang straight he shocked a lot of people (if not everyone) when he opened his mouth & that voice came out. That was how I discovered Stray Kids 😊
Felix for sure caught me by surprise! Still crazy to this day!
Yep, clear cut case of the voice doesn't match the face 😄
When I first heard "Hellevator" back then, I immediately became a fan of SKZ (they didn't even have a fandom name at that time😂).
A group of trainee kids could produce such an excellent song? It's truly amazing.
Actually, we have an eight-member version of "Hellevator," included in the album "SKZ2020."
Hellevator, Grrr and Young Wings are all pre debut songs they made them during the survival show. As someone pointed out District 9 is their debut 😊
Definitely check out 3Racha by 3Racha or Runners High by 3Racha
My cats always get in the way when I'm trying to dance or workout, just another reason to go to the gym instead, lol.
Thanks for this comment! And yes I am well informed now that “District 9” is the debut song!
Cats do love interfering with what you do, got to love it though!
Bro I can’t wait until you start reacting to songs/videos that show their true duality.. Because YES Changbin has always been a sick rapper but by god if you heard him truly sing?? It’s so fuckin beautiful. Felix and his deep as voice but then you hear Deep End?? Crazy range.
ALSO i NEED to see you react to Victory Song, The Tortoise and the Hare, and Side Effects! I think you’d really like all of them
Also, that’s like the main reaction people have to Felix, the Felix effect literally brought me to Stray Kids..
Can’t wait to get into other songs as well! I appreciate this comment, thank you!😎
It's actually their first pre-debut song and the first song they shot an mv for .They sang Hellevator and other songs in their survival show from before debuting,they even showed them filming the mv in that show. There's also an album with all the songs they sang on the survival show. Their debut song It's District 9.
Hellavator was a song off their PRE-debut album. It describes their struggle to make it… took Bang Chan 7 years and this song describes that struggle. He was just 13 when he joined JYP. …..District 9 was the title track off their debut album Go live. District 9 is 🔥!!!!!
You need to do Maniac as well!!
I actually have reacted to “Maniac” feel free to check it out on my channel!😎
Their first album is not "Go live" but "I Am Not", District 9 is part of I Am Not
their debut album is I Am Not. Go Live was their first full album released in 2020 with God's Menu being the title track.
@@Laliper_01 thank you! I stand corrected!
Sure why not, this is how I got into SKZ. I was into GOT7 another group at JYP and my bias BamBam was on one of the episodes of their debut reality show, Stray Kids. They were performing out on the street with people from JYP judging them.
What I saw in that one show intrigued me and I only noticed Felix because he made a mistake and I felt was judged really harshly for it, but the way that his team supported him really made me start to love them. Then Hellevator came out and I liked it. It stuck in my head, then a few more songs came out and they stayed on my playlist but they weren't in my top 5 groups or anything.
Then I saw/heard Victory Song and that was it. Felix STARTS that song in his deepest tones. When you listen to that song in a car, the sound travels like a wave from the back of the car to the front. I listened so many times to Victory Song on Spotify that it was definitely in my top five played. And that was it, I was hooked. Felix reeled me in, Han's lyrics (especially his B-Sides kept me coming back), and then Hyunjin got canceled and went on "hiatus".
I was furious. I almost stopped following SKZ cuz I was so mad at JYP (also the whole GOT7 messy divorce was happening) but I wanted to support the group even though JYP was flat WRONG for taking Hyunjin out like that. Every day posting on the app formerly known as Twitter for Hyunjin to come back and then he did with his self-choreographed F You to all the haters, Play With Fire, "Oh you thought I was gone, nope I'm taking over now." And I was all in. Hyunjin locked the door and threw away the key. STAY FOR LIFE.
PS. Woojin and his mysterious withdrawal from the group is not discussed much. I personally never liked him, he always seemed a bit removed from the group and like he had an arrogance that just rubbed me the wrong way. And if Bang Chan, the kindest human, doesn't like him then neither do I. They certainly seemed to thrive without him being there.
Wow! Thank you for sharing your story, I always love hearing how people got into Stray Kids!
If you watch their Hellevator dance practice, you will see this is still a very good choreo. Pls react to their debut song which is District 9. I think you will like it. Hellevator is their pre debut song and first mv.
actually, stray kids and woojin had a fight when woojin decided to left stray kids back in 2019. bangchan said something like “ we are team, we are family, but now you betray us, and we all have to face the consequences for your actions “ refer to the woojin scandal. because of woojin, bangchan received a lot of hate comments. bangchan tell him to stay with them and tell him to made an apology but he didnt. when woojin left, bangchan decided to rerecord their album with 8 members version. Bangchan really wanted to vanish woojin name from stray kids. and now its been 5 years, none of the stray kids members get along with woojin anymore.
( bangchan love all his members, but when bangchan got betrayed, he cant handle it)
Thank you ❤. FYI Hellelavator is the pre-debut song. Created while they were on their survival elimination show called Stray Kids. All 9 made it through but not without some emotional hardships. District 9 mv (9 members) was their debut song.
I got you! Thank you!
The Felix-Effect still hits every single time even if you know how deep his voice is. Still in every song i keep thinking "this can't be real"😂
your cat is gorgeous! you tell her we clicked her like button too!
how did we feel the first time we heard felix? look up “the felix effect.” it’s a whole-ass phenomenon! 🤩
My cat loves the spotlight 😫🤣 and yes, I remember when I first heard Felix! Crazy!
Hellavator is their predebut song. Their debut song is District 9.
District 9 is their debut song, released on 25th March 2018 😊
So even though it was pre-debut I consider it as a debut in my head because of the fact that it was the first time we were seeing them perform anything in a music video, first music video we ever got from them. I noticed it 15 days after it was released and since I was already into k-pop I already knew to expect many things in one video, so I listened to the mood first while watching the video and it gave me a sense about what they could be talking about then I went back and read the lyrics and I was very very impressed. Changbin stood out to me the most with this song so I was like I wonder if he's gonna be my bias, but then a little time passed and I sort of forgot about them a bit, all up until they released their next music video after Hellevator, their song Grrr and I was just impressed right away I didn't have to question it anymore, I was hooked, so I read the comments and I saw some people were talking about their reality show, so I went and I watched it and I've just been a Stay ever since then. I remember crying when I saw Minho was eliminated because he had definitely grown on me a lot and he was actually one of my other biases. I cried so hard man, and then Felix got eliminated and he was one of my favorites too oh man, not to mention seeing their reactions, and CHris' reaction...instant heart break moment. I cried literal tears of joy when I saw them being brought back on that last episode. UUUh so freaking powerful, meaningful and emotional moment. Where would stray kids be now without them? They'd still be Stray Kids but like, Minho and Felix just add their own extra flavors. Idk for me it was intense. I don't think I reacted the same way as everyone else did with Felix. It was such A LONG time ago that it's just normal for me. xD Nah, I guess I was just used to kpop having guys that have baby faces but super low voices I was still super impressed by Felix's voice because his face and voice are like the youngest face with the deepest voice in kpop that I have ever heard, but I wasn't reacting like how everyone else reacts everytime. Don't get me wrong I still thought it was super freaking cool and that he was awesome, still managed to bias wreck me for sure. xD Especially with the insane amount of plush toys that he owns. xD which was why my heart broke so badly when he was eliminated, because he's like the purest most innocent face and soul that I've ever seen and to see him like that...just no. Why would you do that to him man, I wanted to protect him so badly, I was angry at the world. But then he was brought back and everything was great again. xD Then they debuted with like the most perfect song EVER! At the time. I even got the albums right away, both pre-debut and debut albums, and every time after that they'd have a comeback and I would even pre-order the album because it's like I just straight up already knew that all the songs in the album would be freaking amazing. After seeing how far they've grown ever since I'm extremely proud of them and what they've accomplished and I only hope our fandom continues to grow bigger and bigger everyday. I don't have a problem sharing our boys with everyone as long as people are respectful and nice and supportive. If people are like that then I say, "Welcome" with huge open arms and, "I hope you're here to Stay". :) As a pre-debut Stay I would suggest re-watching every video they have in order from when it was released because basically everything they've released is connected to the next thing. Everything is like this continuous sequence. Even if they said that their sequence ends right before God's Menu, it's like everything afterwards is still somehow tied in back with the story line, they legit have some Avengers or X-Men shit going on. xD I'm sure a very lovely Stay out there can help you piece together everything in order, you want to read the lyrics as well, there are some fluent Korean speakers that can break down the lyrics because there are definitely A LOT of play with specific words and phrases and sentences with just about every song that they have released. Then you also want to check out theories about what story they could be telling with their music videos. I recommend the RUclips channel called Bookish Theories. Probably one of the best theories out there. Good Luck man, cuz there's a lot of content if you really want to get into them. xD You'll be as old as Dumbledore by the time you catch up. xD (Harry Potter reference).
It actually took them a long time to appeal to the masses. They weren't very popular in the first years after their debut. Their music was 'noisy' and different.
Thank you so much for all the stray kids reactions! Since you now consider yourself Stay you should really react to other stray kids content not just the MVs, so you can really get to know the boys, they are truly amazing people and you can really appreciate their music more when you get to know them❤❤
Will do! Thank you!
Thank you for reaction. It was funny like always. But this song isn't their debut song, this one is pre- debut. District 9 is SKZ debut song.
Yes, thank you for the information!
Thanks for SKZ! Bro, Han is ace. You must see I GOT IT from him.
Thank you for the recommendation!
Hi^^ As always, I loved your reaction!
As someone says, District 9 is the real debut song ; Hellevator is pre-debut, made during the survival show... but it still is the first Stray Kids song^^ I think about the survival every single time I heard this song!
The Kidz were so babies!!!
And about Woojin, nobody knows the reasons of his departure. It was hard time for everyone (and he don't deserve the hate he received and receive still)
Love your positive energy! Thank you for the kind words. I guess I will have to check out “District 9” now!😎
Your cat is amazing hahahaha mine always wants her appearance on my covers as well! She gets on the videos AND meows in my singing covers hahahahaha most of times I let it there cause she deserves her shining spot
This is not exactly their debut song, they recorded it pre-debut. Their debut song is called District 9!
Hellevator talks about the hell they've been through to rise the "elevator" till debuting.
Yes, they are babies there hahaha most of them are around their 17 yo
Love love love watching your SKZ react videos!! Welcome to Stayville man!!! We hope you enjoy your residency 💜
Yo I appreciate this, thank you😫🙌🏼
8:58 this lee know part. This is first time ever we heard him rapping. Actually he dont know how to rap, but jyp push him and made him as a rapper at the first place. So since then, lee know is one of skz sub rapper, thanks to jyp. their debut song, District 9 also lee know started the song with his rap
I love your cat😺😻 That was hilarious 😹😹
🤣🤣 thank you!
Awwww baby Stay! Welcome to the fam. ❤
Omg such a typical cat!! She's beautiful by the way 😂😽
Oh and there are actually video compilations of reactors first reactions to Felix's voice....and they are quite funny 😊
Thanks for the compliment about my cat, she’s a diva! 🐈🤣
I think this song is actually what got me hooked on Stray Kids’ music. I got to know the members because my sister liked them and I wanted to know who she was talking about. But I was only casually listening to their music. Then I heard this song and I played it over and over again and I got hooked. It’s so good and really impressive considering the pressure they were under to create it. It still amazes me what these boys went through just to debut but I’m so glad they did and I was able to find them years later and enjoy their music
Awesome, thank you for sharing this! Love hearing other people’s story’s on how they were introduced!😎
This is their pre debut… their debut song is District 9 😊… I love the fact that its in a female key and that jyp recommended to change the key and Bang Chan didnt and even made District 9 in a female key 😂😂😂…
This song echoes early BTS. Woojin is making a solo career come back this year , Incidentally . Woojin was accused of some pretty dirty deeds, when it was outed that he had no involvement in such a thing, it was too late, his reputation & career were already destroyed .
I can only wish him success & positivity on the new path he is embarking upon.
I will support this young man in his future artistic & creative endeavors.
I believe that they were not very popular until the song God's Menu came out. Their music was referred to as Noise Music, and thus came the Album No Easy a play on the word Noisy. I love all the songs they make! Yes, Woojin did leave and became a solo artist. You may want to check out some of his songs too. There you get to experience his voice, and his reflections on things.
There is a whole huge multiverse of Stray kids. Almost all of their clips (especially titles) are combined into one story. All it started with "Hellevator (it’s their 1st song before even debuting, you can see how they made it threw the survival show “Stray kids”). The whole story is about them trying to find their place and themselves. Also that's why they are called STRAY KIDS.
The Hellevator is the first mv where we can see their alter universe and the inverted city. Their first album “I Am Not” tells us the story from the beginning. The debut song "District 9" (this song is SICK) shows their escape from the programmed society. All "I AM" series (3 albums) tell us about the identity crisis. Like everyone says that people are born unique and individual but society forces everyone to adjust to the standards, and those who different immediately become superfluous. The first album “I am not” is about the fact that they understand that they are not like everyone else, that’s their protest to the who;e world. In “I Am Who” they try to figure out who they really are and what should they do as they don't fit into the framework. In the final album of the series “I am you” they realize that they cannot find the answer to their question, so they turn to others and find themselves in them, in their like-minded people, who are also different.
So all together they are trying to find their place out from the laboratory from District 9 but they got into the maze and they see that outside it’s all the same. Crowd still remains led, people go where they told to (this is exactly what "Miroh" is about), they want to get away from it. “miroh” mv is the title for the first album for a Cle series ("cle" is French for "key", if you continue to watch their clips, you will notice a lot of images of keys in this series as they are trying to find the escape).
They got out from the miroh and choose to go for road no taken (also their song from Cle 2 with "Side effects" mv) they go to parallel world (you will see two moons in some mv that's the big thing in skzverse). They are fixated on finding the key to open the lock (and make two moons unite), until at the very end they realize that this idea trapped them.
The answer is not the key, it' themselves ("Levanter" the last mv of cle series is about it. And that's the most calm and sad title of all, it breaks my heart). So, only when they gave up the idea of searching for an answer, they find their real selves (And that's when "Go live" series starts with the "God's menu" as the title) but they already messed the universe and the confusion with parallel worlds continues. You can see it in Noesey album (Thanderous) and especially in Maniac (where the inverted world appears again).
Megaverse mv shows how messed up all gone. The rest of the albums continue to develop the metaverse as well as brain-blowing stay. In general, this whole story is very interesting and confusing, there are many theories among Stays, if you dive into it, the brain really boils but I'm sure you would like it. Hope I got you at list a little bit interested to start looking at their earliest works in order to build a complete picture for yourself!
You should watch a skz guide!! Or maybe more vids of their personality to really get to know them! Love ur reactions keep it up :)
Beautiful cat though you can't get mad at that beautiful being 💕
I was waiting for this one!! Can’t wait for the next one!
Hellevator was pre debute. District 9 is their depute Song.
Such a beautiful cat! Love her 😻
I’M ON A HELLEVATOR!!!!
The vocals
The rap
🔥🔥
You should check out the video of Han and Changbin Rap battle from when they were younger
JYP vs YG Battle] STRAY KIDS - Matryoshka (Changbin & Jisung) CUT
Thanks for the recommendation!😄
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You are welcome 😁😁
Woojin is such an underrated artist! He left the group for unknown reasons but I think the most sensible answer was he just wasn’t in line with the direction that’s Skz music was going. He became a soloist and has much lighthearted music! I got to go to one of his concerts and meet him!! He’s super sweet and has seriously improved his skills
Thank you for sharing your perspective! I am not one to judge who is good or bad, especially when I don’t know any information about someone. That’s really cool you got to meet him, I am sure the concert was fun🕺🏼
I think it’s time to react to a guide to straykids, I recommend the complete guide to straykids by chandora’s world, it’s an updated version to the one everybody else recommends and it’s a bit lengthy but it’s worth it
It doesn’t matter how long the video is, stays will be here to watch it
Hello baby Stay... 😊❤
I see hellevator and yes i see the preview from TxT and can´t wait for monday wehn the album will be release,
but hellevator is a very good.
Its not the debut song, its the pre-debut song and was produced in the survival show. Inside the survival show minho and than felix are eliminated, but they come back and now are a part of the group thanks god.
They are really young there, i think in this felix and han must be 15 because theire birthday is in september one day apart.
Hellevator describe the journey. That you have to work from the hell to the heaven. That you have to fight to be one top. That the way is hard and sometimes you have the feeling to break because of the pressure. The way to be the best is never easy. The message of this song is very deep.
The survival show is a fucking rollercoaster and i always cry when i see felix and minhos elimination.
So yeah.
That is what i can say.
See you, i watch now the preview from TxT for the i think 6th time XD
Make stray kids stay and see you in the next reaction.
Greetings from germany
Your Angel
Love this comment! Thank you for sharing this!😎🙌🏼
This was my very first SKZ song I ever heard and it was this song that made me fall in love with them.
This was also the song where Felix became one of my biases in this group I just fell in love with his deep voice and rapping style.
The MV is amazing and so are the lyrics as you can clearly feel the emotio they put into them.
Also this song was their pre debut song and it was BangChan that came up and produced the beat to this song and its amazing for a pre debut song
The "elevator " is also referenced in Megaverse as well.
I’m a “Go Live” stay (2020, so Gods menu), and when I heard Felix voice I thought I was crazy, I will never forgot my concern!
Second here ! Nice song abou stray kids.
Still stands as one of my favourite songs from SKZ...loved it first listen then even more so after watching the survival show!
Although EVeRYoNe who reacts to Straykids are shocked by Felix's voice, when I watched them for the first time I wasn't.
Because I had heard a waaay deeper one I guess I didn't see it as something special.
Felix's voice and range are still crazy tho don't get me wrong.
(The voice I mean is from a gamer called corpsehusband its unreal deep)
Btw at the mention of Felix's range, "Deep end" is his solo.
Just saying maybe you could react to it.
YOU MOVED THE TOTES , IT LOOKS BEAUTIFUL!! CANT WAIT TO SEE YOU DANCE
u should check Victory Song | Stary kids
Привет! Хорошего дня! Посмотрите выступление Hyunjin с Yeji и его изначальное соло Play with Fire, если хотите ещё танец Хёнджина. Спасибо!❤
Woojin is now a soloist... Guess he showed up recently ig... U must try him
I'm always waiting for NCT all units to react to you okay first we have nct 127, nct dream, nct u, way v, and more, i hope you will like it😊
Seeing your cat hogging the spotlight was funny.
@@ccgrey8731 she’s the loves the spotlight!🤣🤣
the cat stole my attention 😆💕
This song actually wasn't my fav, but the meaning is biiiiiig!
Leeknow approves of Eva’s performance. 🤣 💕💕💕
absolutely !!! 😂
Did Lee Know send one of his cat minions to mess with you?! LOL
J-Hope (of BTS) is releasing his album 'Hope On the Street' on March 29th, 2024. We would love to watch your reaction to it! 💜
5:26 If i remember right IN was about 17 when they debuted so thats a roughly 18 year old hyunjin right there. I believe the ages were something like:
IN-17
Seungmin-18
Felix- 18
Hyunjin-18
Han-18
Changbin-19
Lee Know-20
Bang Chan- 21
Woojon-21
they grew so fast. Now all of them is 23-27
You should watch the survival show, to really see where they come from. ❤
Hyunjin was 17
react to District 9 pls
this is their real debut song
You pronounce Woojin correctly. By the way - to everyone: don't tell that he's an evil... it's a difficult matter and he is also a victim in all of this
I bet 5 bucks you won't be able to handle Red lights by Stray kids 😎
Ooo 5 bucks!😏
If you like dancing why don’t you check out Kai from Exo he’s great dancer checkout he’s song called Mr Rover I know you going to like it.🙏🇬🇧❤️
I commented on many of your videos to try DISTRICT 9 by SKZ & NO MORE DREAMS by BTS (Their debut songs) but u didn't reply 🥲
Cats are narcissists.
Woojin did bad things, a bad memory.
no
No one actually know what happened
@@susannanurk2973 That's right, but we can't avoid disappointment
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therefore it is not our business to take a stand
@@caselea_none 100% agree