Ok, I DEF have to do a follow up to see more of both of these! Should we do it LIVE on Twitch???? Let me know! FULL live performance, Relay Dance & recording behind reactions (& other extra content): www.patreon.com/kpopwithkhadija
i can’t even begin to describe how MONUMENTAL this cb is, like i’m scared to finish the album cus i fear imma solely listen to it for the next couple months 😭😭 (also desperately need a recording behind the scenes for armageddon)
Same! My long time faves BTS and BLACKPINK have been on a small hiatus recently and that has made me really give more of my attention to other groups and I’m really starting to love other groups more than I have prior, it’s great!
People came for their lipysncing and they came back with raw vocals. People came for their dancing, and now here they are giving us dance breaks and showing us aespa doesn't have a weak dance link!
PERIODT!!!! Honestly, I forgot about how people used to criticize their dance cuz... please... they be DANCING these days! I actually never liked their choreo at first either hahahah. I forgot. AND, in the Patreon reaction, I was talking about how I never really noticed Ningning's dancing before but now she's EATING and I'm like... wait... was she always this good and I never knew? 😅
Karina describe Armageddon...."as a song about finding myself in the mutiverse...the song is also about finding infinite possibilities and it is about how only i can define myself". She said that in a RUclips livestream just before the MV dropped. So im not sure about lore. But what im sure of is the song HITS and the MV is beautiful. Its not a typical regular MV....youre actually watching a cinematic masterpiece !
Ohhhhh, I can see that in the MV. I like that take on it!! And the music video is just so massive and theatrical that I can totally see that multiple-selves-infinite-possibilities kind of vibe there. But OOF, the song!!!! 😍
Hahahaha I'm also glad you found me! And I really try not to pause during a video (unless I'm SUPER excited/overwhelmed) cuz the point of a song is that it's an experience!! Why interrupt your own listening experience?! haha But then I usually have to go back and listen again to pay attention to all the things haha
I‘m sorry but this year is over now for kpop. Aespa ended everything and everyone that is yet to come 2024, with this whole comeback (the mvs, the styling, the vocals, the whole album, the production, even the choreo). I honestly highly, highly doubt anything else will come out this year that’ll have this kind of impact that. And I’m not just talking about kpop: I feel, while there‘s still the kpop essence, their album could also be a hit in mainstream western music, if people were willing to give it a chance. It‘s so mature and dark & grungy at times and so cohesive! So I’m calling it: album of the year, song of the year, mv of the year, group of the year!!!! They outdid everyone and themselves.
Whooooooooo! Honestly, I believe you?? We're only in May but we may. be. donnnnnnnnnnnnne (I hope you read that the way I was singing it as I typed hahahaa)
The videos were a little overwhelming on first watch, but the songs have grown on me. The visuals almost give me the vibe of like early Gaga. Very unique, weird (in the best way), and of their own lane. Feels like Aespa has found what their stamp on the industry is.
Yes, that's why I had to re-watch Armageddon right away and I've watched it again a million times since filming this. A LOT going on, but in a very cool and interesting way! I love this era for aespa!
How tf could people misinterpret you saying you hate aespa when you say it with so much love. Literally me, I feel like a cat with them, I love them so much that i overload and just bite or it crosses to love them so much I hate it. 😂
Lmao my face really went on a whole journey... an epic quest, if you will... throughout this whole reaction. How does aespa manage to surprise us and keep us on our toes, but still be SO COHESIVE??? It's amazing!
Hahahaha so would you believe me if I said I have since done that exact same thing about a bajillion more times?? hahaha. IT'S JUST SO GOOD, on so many levels!!!
True. Some of the songs are a bit of a miss. But this is just their first album. With the way they're delivering this comeback, I'm hopeful for their future albums.
That's fair - I can't wait to listen to the full thing. I don't expect SM, and especially aespa, production or sound to ever miss. BUT, at the rate that k-pop companies be putting out music, I am not suprised if there are some songs on the album that aren't quite at that level. I am excited to hear some b-sides, though. SM groups usually win me over with the b-sides and with aespa's vocals? I feel like they probably did some fun stuff!
HONESTLY. aespa does it and I love it every time. No one else can pull it off quite as well as them!!! (Though, I will say 'DASH' is the only NMIXX song that I've actually liked the switch up haha That one is good!)
You know, it's taken me a few years since their debut to fully fall down the rabbit hole but... I think you might be right! Or they're up at the top of my list, for sure...
Aespa Armageddon is amazing and I'm really liking the song and vocal melodies with NingNing and Winter because it's so beautiful and Karina always has her presence and charisma Giselle attitude is always on point
I SAWWWWW!!!! I'm thinking of trying to do a Twitch stream maybe Thursday evening to watch ALL OF THIS. Fingers crossed - this week I'm so busy but I NEED to see these!!!
I have been an aespa fan since the beginning but honestly this comeback turned me into an official MY. I’ve gotten more interested in them since spicy (two comebacks ago) then they released drama a few months ago and then THIS. HELLO. I am now obsessed with them, I have enjoyed watching content of theirs apart from music videos. I have grown to love the girls even more and have watched interviews + variety shows they have been on individually recently
YESSSSS! I've always liked aespa but from the MY WORLD album, I started really, really getting into them. Honestly, they are one of my fave GGs now!! It's like... every part of what they do is soooo good! I can't help it! And I'm watching more behind-the-scenes & interviews and stuff, too. haha. I'm glad you're having the same journey 😁💚
I don't think aespa themselves have told any specifics about the lore, unlike the black mamba-naevis era. but they posted some shorts saying the iconic lines of "we're the aespa, there can't be two" and it's like out of nowhere and with Supernova backsound so it's definitely hinting something. so i've come out with my own possibe lore this time lol. first of all, i really think they won't be using too much of the naevis/black mamba stuff they did in the past. because ever since leesooman left, so much of their identity kinda changed, like they don't do the greetings "be my ae" anymore, never mention naevis at all, and the AI era pretty much ended in Girls. idk why, but maybe the whole universe was LSM's idea so maybe they didn't want to use too much of that universe since it can cause dispute. anyways, i think after Girls, we had Spicy which i think was the 'break' from the black mamba universe. And then Drama came. at first i didn't think Drama had any lore in it. but i guess i was wrong. in Armageddon, we see two versions of the girls. one is themselves with their normal attire, normal makeup, dancing and singing. the other is this goddess looking but kinda evil, with bats flying and surrounded by shadows. in many parts we can see that the girls is kinda being possessed by this goddess, like they are being defeated. we see ninging kinda possessed by this big entity on the bridge section, we see winter smashed on the table by this weird demon that was by the window. karina's head basically being captured by the demon's hand, and then giselle being swept by the sandstorm and having visions of the four 4 of them. here's my take. i think there's an evil entity that's trying to clone the girls, and trying to possess their power (which they've shown in Supernova). because after the bridge, we can see this entity re-birthing the members, emerging from ice and they became the goddess version of themselves, but we can see it's evil because goddess karina has all white eyes. so much scenes show their eyes changing. also they are dancing with the devil the entire time, because the dancers' faces are definitely not human. and we can see the dacing scenes with the wet look, they also took the long/far shot to showcase the entity behind them floating, kinda like a mermaid or something. they are definitely being haunted. so i think they are being cloned and now they have an evil version. Now, back to Drama, we can see that they are actually fighting each other and trying to kill each other by not pulling up the members when they fell off the building. and karina even burned the car where the members were inside after the accident. and then she was fighting the other members with her swords. but we couldn't see which one was the evil version and which one is good. also in the Drama teasers, all members had two sides of themselves that are kinda the opposite of each other. ningning with her good girl but wanting to go bad. giselle that's been gaslighted all her life but then wanting to stand up for herself. karina the part time celebrity part time assassin. and winter the grieving sister that suddenly go crazy for her brother's murderer. again, "we're the aespa, there can't be two", definitely there are two version of aespa now. and the girls are definitely trying to fight the bad version. kinda like Exo Obsession plot if you think about it 😂 but it still SLAPSSSSS. The End.
love your theory, but I heard some fans say that in Supernova all 4 girls are their clones bc they all look a bit off. Winter has elf ears, Karina a vampire fang, Ningning two eyecolors and idk about Giselle. But all 4 have powers and unless they are supposed to be new, aespa usually doesn't have these specific powers. Plus the lyrics show "My lookalike who are you" when Karina has the Car Mirror in her hand. Also they all seem to wreak havoc in the real world, which kinda supports that in Supernova it might be the clones. NOW i love your theory though so I am confused now 😂😂 (cr: supernova mv comments)
Ooooooh, I love this take!!! So I definitely think you're right about the black mamba/naevis era - maybe it does have to do with LSM leaving, so that makes sense. Or maybe it was just time to introduce something new. With 'Welcome To MY World' we saw Naevis come into real life and I thought there would be some continuation of that but we haven't explicitly seen anything of her since then so... maybe that's it! 🤷🏾♀️ Buuuuuut, now I really don't know what the new lore is since 'Drama'. This breakdown you shared totally makes sense to me. The two versions, good and evil, I dunno what's gonna happen or where it's going to go! But I love it!!! Also yesssssss, it's very much giving EXO/X-EXO and I love that! I was OBSESSED (pun intended 🤪) that with whole era! haha
My favorite voice in aespa is Karina just because of how her tone sounds, I love her rapping and singing. She gives me the same feeling as Jennie from BLACKPINK in the sense that I enjoy her rap a bit more than singing even tho they both kill the rap and vocals. Of course ningning and winter have those crazy vocals and range, I just personally love Karina’s voice more but that is simply personal preference. All the girls sound incredible on these tracks and add so much to them
Karina has wrecked me over the last year! From Spicy to now, every time I see them, I love her more and more!!!! Her vocal tone, her dance & performance, even her presence on camera (though they ALL are amazing at that - models!) 💚
Ok, I DEF have to do a follow up to see more of both of these! Should we do it LIVE on Twitch???? Let me know!
FULL live performance, Relay Dance & recording behind reactions (& other extra content): www.patreon.com/kpopwithkhadija
yes to twitch!! need to experience this with you so badly lmao
i can’t even begin to describe how MONUMENTAL this cb is, like i’m scared to finish the album cus i fear imma solely listen to it for the next couple months 😭😭 (also desperately need a recording behind the scenes for armageddon)
I'm gonna try to do a follow up tonight on Twitch!!!! Hopefully the full album, but DEFINITELY the behind-the-scenes!!! I'm obsessedddddd.
Aespa has me the most excited I’ve felt about Kpop in a little bit. SOOOOO DAMN GOOD.
I stay excited about k-pop if I'm being honest... but this latest comeback has me on ANOTHER LEVEL!
Same! My long time faves BTS and BLACKPINK have been on a small hiatus recently and that has made me really give more of my attention to other groups and I’m really starting to love other groups more than I have prior, it’s great!
Literally this is quality on a level no one is giving, visual, sound, production, vocals, like everything and literally im still shock
Dreamcatcher - 'MAISON' but for sure this one hits harder
@@OoMASEoO that too is a amazing song
@@OoMASEoO you're so right
THEY. ARE. SO. GOOD. AT. WHAT. THEY. DO!!!! And I mean also, to be fair, SM invests so much into them! As they should.
People came for their lipysncing and they came back with raw vocals. People came for their dancing, and now here they are giving us dance breaks and showing us aespa doesn't have a weak dance link!
PERIODT!!!! Honestly, I forgot about how people used to criticize their dance cuz... please... they be DANCING these days! I actually never liked their choreo at first either hahahah. I forgot. AND, in the Patreon reaction, I was talking about how I never really noticed Ningning's dancing before but now she's EATING and I'm like... wait... was she always this good and I never knew? 😅
MV AND SONG OF THE YEAR IMO
aespa make MOVIES not music videos😆im so impressed and OBSESSED !!
PERIOD!
This era is so fun
I LOVE IT!!! (Also, my brain read that as "no fun" the first time and I was like... okay, you're entitled to your opinion but you're wrong! hahahah)
Idk how they did it but Spicy and Supernova definitely sound like they were birthed by the same mother, just like with Drama and Armageddon.
Omg you're soooooo right!!! I don't know why this makes sense, but it makes total sense.
Album of the Year! Already manifesting because their album is a banger. Aespa always setting the Kpop standards 🔥🤘🏻
Ahhh! I am gonna do a follow up on Twitch tonight - hope I can listen to the full album cuz I keep hearing it's AMAZING!
Karina describe Armageddon...."as a song about finding myself in the mutiverse...the song is also about finding infinite possibilities and it is about how only i can define myself". She said that in a RUclips livestream just before the MV dropped. So im not sure about lore. But what im sure of is the song HITS and the MV is beautiful. Its not a typical regular MV....youre actually watching a cinematic masterpiece !
Ohhhhh, I can see that in the MV. I like that take on it!! And the music video is just so massive and theatrical that I can totally see that multiple-selves-infinite-possibilities kind of vibe there. But OOF, the song!!!! 😍
i"m so so so glad that i found you. a kpop reactor that watches music videos without pausing & rewinding on the first watch.
Hahahaha I'm also glad you found me! And I really try not to pause during a video (unless I'm SUPER excited/overwhelmed) cuz the point of a song is that it's an experience!! Why interrupt your own listening experience?! haha But then I usually have to go back and listen again to pay attention to all the things haha
when people say aespa are in their own lane they really mean it cuz who in kpop is doing this😭
The rock version would be DREAMCATCHER - MAISON but yeah this one hits harder
not kpop but xg
Putting this on my list!!! 👀
You are right about this.
I‘m sorry but this year is over now for kpop. Aespa ended everything and everyone that is yet to come 2024, with this whole comeback (the mvs, the styling, the vocals, the whole album, the production, even the choreo). I honestly highly, highly doubt anything else will come out this year that’ll have this kind of impact that.
And I’m not just talking about kpop: I feel, while there‘s still the kpop essence, their album could also be a hit in mainstream western music, if people were willing to give it a chance. It‘s so mature and dark & grungy at times and so cohesive!
So I’m calling it: album of the year, song of the year, mv of the year, group of the year!!!! They outdid everyone and themselves.
Whooooooooo! Honestly, I believe you?? We're only in May but we may. be. donnnnnnnnnnnnne (I hope you read that the way I was singing it as I typed hahahaa)
I've been waiting for your reaction to "Supernova" really out of this world 💀💀💀
LITERALLY!!!!! 🌎👽
Dance practice is out! Can't wait for more aespa reactions
I SAW!!!! I think maybe I'll do a Twitch stream Thursday evening and watch allllllll the things. Cuz I need to see it!!!!
This is ia the best K-pop Song
The videos were a little overwhelming on first watch, but the songs have grown on me. The visuals almost give me the vibe of like early Gaga. Very unique, weird (in the best way), and of their own lane. Feels like Aespa has found what their stamp on the industry is.
Yes, that's why I had to re-watch Armageddon right away and I've watched it again a million times since filming this. A LOT going on, but in a very cool and interesting way! I love this era for aespa!
Aespa saving kpop when it needed them the most
Heroes we didn't know we needed.
Dance practice dropped just now!!
I knoowwwwwwwwww!!!! I think I might try to do a Twitch stream tomorrow evening to watch ALL THE THINGS.
yesssssssssssss! love this comeback
How tf could people misinterpret you saying you hate aespa when you say it with so much love. Literally me, I feel like a cat with them, I love them so much that i overload and just bite or it crosses to love them so much I hate it. 😂
Welcome back my fave reactor!! miss RiverseLive full team!
Awww, hi! 👋🏾 Thanks for watching, I'm glad you're here!
That face change at 16:57 had me on the floor laughing
Lmao my face really went on a whole journey... an epic quest, if you will... throughout this whole reaction. How does aespa manage to surprise us and keep us on our toes, but still be SO COHESIVE??? It's amazing!
I love the breakdown :) ... I did the same when I first heard this song bcoz I was literally overwhelmed, so i had to hear each part several times :D
Hahahaha so would you believe me if I said I have since done that exact same thing about a bajillion more times?? hahaha. IT'S JUST SO GOOD, on so many levels!!!
@@KPopwithKhadija I'd definitely believe you... I'm know I'm badly addicted to a song when i binge a 100 reactions in a single day :D
Finally you react to soty!!!!!
Now i can sleep well, thankyou Khadija😘
Haha thank you for watching. IT IS SO GOOODDDDDD!!!
Hot take but I guess best AOTY so far it's a battle between Aespa & IVE. They killed it!
Now that I've heard 'Accendio'... I gotta listen to both albums but I see what you're saying!!!!
Even though I don’t like some songs on the album sonically and production wise it’s pretty solid album
True. Some of the songs are a bit of a miss. But this is just their first album. With the way they're delivering this comeback, I'm hopeful for their future albums.
That's fair - I can't wait to listen to the full thing. I don't expect SM, and especially aespa, production or sound to ever miss. BUT, at the rate that k-pop companies be putting out music, I am not suprised if there are some songs on the album that aren't quite at that level. I am excited to hear some b-sides, though. SM groups usually win me over with the b-sides and with aespa's vocals? I feel like they probably did some fun stuff!
Only Aespa can switch songs up and make it work lol
HONESTLY. aespa does it and I love it every time. No one else can pull it off quite as well as them!!! (Though, I will say 'DASH' is the only NMIXX song that I've actually liked the switch up haha That one is good!)
The MVs 💯
The songs 💯
Aespa just so good
Best 4th gen group
You know, it's taken me a few years since their debut to fully fall down the rabbit hole but... I think you might be right! Or they're up at the top of my list, for sure...
Aespa Armageddon is amazing and I'm really liking the song and vocal melodies with NingNing and Winter because it's so beautiful and Karina always has her presence and charisma Giselle attitude is always on point
PERFECT BREAKDOWN!! Yes, exactly this!!!
How can Aespa improve from Drama ? Like Drama is BOP and this cb, more more BOP
Right?? From bop to boppier to even boppier?!?!?! HOW!?
They ate 🔥
guess what the recording behind and dance practise is out. the first promo performance will be starting at may 30...
I SAWWWWW!!!! I'm thinking of trying to do a Twitch stream maybe Thursday evening to watch ALL OF THIS. Fingers crossed - this week I'm so busy but I NEED to see these!!!
In case u haven’t noticed, every member has different pupil shapes!
Karina - Heart
Ningning - butterfly
Winter - star
Giselle - crescent (?)
I didn't even see that before!!
I have been an aespa fan since the beginning but honestly this comeback turned me into an official MY. I’ve gotten more interested in them since spicy (two comebacks ago) then they released drama a few months ago and then THIS. HELLO. I am now obsessed with them, I have enjoyed watching content of theirs apart from music videos. I have grown to love the girls even more and have watched interviews + variety shows they have been on individually recently
YESSSSS! I've always liked aespa but from the MY WORLD album, I started really, really getting into them. Honestly, they are one of my fave GGs now!! It's like... every part of what they do is soooo good! I can't help it! And I'm watching more behind-the-scenes & interviews and stuff, too. haha. I'm glad you're having the same journey 😁💚
I don't think aespa themselves have told any specifics about the lore, unlike the black mamba-naevis era. but they posted some shorts saying the iconic lines of "we're the aespa, there can't be two" and it's like out of nowhere and with Supernova backsound so it's definitely hinting something. so i've come out with my own possibe lore this time lol.
first of all, i really think they won't be using too much of the naevis/black mamba stuff they did in the past. because ever since leesooman left, so much of their identity kinda changed, like they don't do the greetings "be my ae" anymore, never mention naevis at all, and the AI era pretty much ended in Girls. idk why, but maybe the whole universe was LSM's idea so maybe they didn't want to use too much of that universe since it can cause dispute. anyways, i think after Girls, we had Spicy which i think was the 'break' from the black mamba universe. And then Drama came.
at first i didn't think Drama had any lore in it. but i guess i was wrong.
in Armageddon, we see two versions of the girls. one is themselves with their normal attire, normal makeup, dancing and singing. the other is this goddess looking but kinda evil, with bats flying and surrounded by shadows. in many parts we can see that the girls is kinda being possessed by this goddess, like they are being defeated. we see ninging kinda possessed by this big entity on the bridge section, we see winter smashed on the table by this weird demon that was by the window. karina's head basically being captured by the demon's hand, and then giselle being swept by the sandstorm and having visions of the four 4 of them. here's my take. i think there's an evil entity that's trying to clone the girls, and trying to possess their power (which they've shown in Supernova). because after the bridge, we can see this entity re-birthing the members, emerging from ice and they became the goddess version of themselves, but we can see it's evil because goddess karina has all white eyes. so much scenes show their eyes changing. also they are dancing with the devil the entire time, because the dancers' faces are definitely not human. and we can see the dacing scenes with the wet look, they also took the long/far shot to showcase the entity behind them floating, kinda like a mermaid or something. they are definitely being haunted.
so i think they are being cloned and now they have an evil version.
Now, back to Drama, we can see that they are actually fighting each other and trying to kill each other by not pulling up the members when they fell off the building. and karina even burned the car where the members were inside after the accident. and then she was fighting the other members with her swords. but we couldn't see which one was the evil version and which one is good. also in the Drama teasers, all members had two sides of themselves that are kinda the opposite of each other. ningning with her good girl but wanting to go bad. giselle that's been gaslighted all her life but then wanting to stand up for herself. karina the part time celebrity part time assassin. and winter the grieving sister that suddenly go crazy for her brother's murderer.
again, "we're the aespa, there can't be two", definitely there are two version of aespa now. and the girls are definitely trying to fight the bad version.
kinda like Exo Obsession plot if you think about it 😂 but it still SLAPSSSSS.
The End.
love your theory, but I heard some fans say that in Supernova all 4 girls are their clones bc they all look a bit off. Winter has elf ears, Karina a vampire fang, Ningning two eyecolors and idk about Giselle. But all 4 have powers and unless they are supposed to be new, aespa usually doesn't have these specific powers. Plus the lyrics show "My lookalike who are you" when Karina has the Car Mirror in her hand. Also they all seem to wreak havoc in the real world, which kinda supports that in Supernova it might be the clones. NOW i love your theory though so I am confused now 😂😂 (cr: supernova mv comments)
Ooooooh, I love this take!!! So I definitely think you're right about the black mamba/naevis era - maybe it does have to do with LSM leaving, so that makes sense. Or maybe it was just time to introduce something new. With 'Welcome To MY World' we saw Naevis come into real life and I thought there would be some continuation of that but we haven't explicitly seen anything of her since then so... maybe that's it! 🤷🏾♀️
Buuuuuut, now I really don't know what the new lore is since 'Drama'. This breakdown you shared totally makes sense to me. The two versions, good and evil, I dunno what's gonna happen or where it's going to go! But I love it!!! Also yesssssss, it's very much giving EXO/X-EXO and I love that! I was OBSESSED (pun intended 🤪) that with whole era! haha
Dance practice is already posted!!
I am going to try to watch it live on Twitch tomorrow!!! I appreciate them for not making us wait too long haha
Loved your reaction! It was so mee LOL i can’t with these girls. Amazing
I always remember how Riverse loves Aespa since debut. I wonder what will be their reaction watching all of their latest MVs and their growth 🥹🥹
Love your reactions so much, i am really enjoyed
aespa cooked, served and ate without leaving any crumbs on the table with these tracks.
DEVOURED. The entire buffet is empty after these!
❤❤❤
My favorite voice in aespa is Karina just because of how her tone sounds, I love her rapping and singing. She gives me the same feeling as Jennie from BLACKPINK in the sense that I enjoy her rap a bit more than singing even tho they both kill the rap and vocals. Of course ningning and winter have those crazy vocals and range, I just personally love Karina’s voice more but that is simply personal preference. All the girls sound incredible on these tracks and add so much to them
Karina has wrecked me over the last year! From Spicy to now, every time I see them, I love her more and more!!!! Her vocal tone, her dance & performance, even her presence on camera (though they ALL are amazing at that - models!) 💚
long time no see !!
I love how many people are finding this channel from this reaction! Hiiiii! 💚
React supernova at university festival
Gonna do follow up reactions on Twitch tonight!! I'll check this one out!
Don't fight it just let it happen 😅
Hahaha oohhhhhh, it's happening!
Watch smcu ep 1-3 so u can understand their lore better
love your reacts!
please react to IVE's new song "HEYA"and "Accendio"
Thank you for watching! IVE reactions are up!
I want to see your group reaction to EXO lotto love me right let me in heart attck and hear me out please i'll wait for you guys full reaction
Do you mean RiVerse? Cuz... we don't do reactions anymore. haha. But I have heard most of these already because I LOVE EXO!!
@@KPopwithKhadijaYeah ik but
i want riverse full members reaction to EXO so can you guys reaction to more of exo songs pls?
Heyy what happened to the group?
RiVerse? We're still making music!! Just not doing reactions... but we'll have a new RUclips series coming out soon!
뮤직 비디오 말고 나머지 리액션 감사합니다
XG WOKE UP IM WAITING FOR
It's coming!!