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Halazia

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one of my fav san habits has got to be the one where he clings to the others like a baby koala and becomes as tiny as possible

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Pre-debut Joong suffering through his surprise mission.

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betraying someone who trusts them deeply is one of the sexiest things a character can do its unparalleled. cause either the relationship is irrevocably changed and said character is completely at fault (guilt complex, hot) or it isnt and then both sides have to deal with the fact that they care about each other enough to overlook the betrayal (unceasing devotion, also hot)

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I've never seen this clip in its entirety; only the kiss/not kiss and San backing away in shock. It's REALLY something. And the aftermath! Wooyoung wiggling from the audacity of what he just pulled off on stage at a fanmeeting; San buffering; Yunho the Yaoi God holding back a smile.

I want to study this like an ancient text because THIS is the moment many WooSan shippers point to as the turning point...apparently Bouncy-era WooSan flew too close to the fan-service sun and haven't been paired up as a unit since (unless you count an OT3 with Yeosang for It's You).

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okay Jongho!!

He looks like Hongjoong's bodyguard in this pic

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Getting into fandoms is so scary .if I characterize this guy wrong everyone is going to kill me I can sense it

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in this house we love and support yeosang!

first off, huge plug for catchingteez on youtube's excellent vocal analyses of yeosang. a lot of what i have to say about him musically is borrowed from their observations.

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oh, the plight of lower voice parts in an ensemble. as a choir alto, i am well-accustomed to the experience of being relegated to singing backup/harmony like 80% of the time. i ALSO understand that the lower voice parts are soooo important for giving the choir its full, rich sound and if we WEREN'T there you'd fucking know, and we are special and amazing and god's bravest soldiers and our parts are the hardest and our tits are huge and--anyways. (what's the definition of an alto? -a soprano who can sightread ok i'll shut up). and ALSO, when lower parts DO get given the melody (approximately once every 47 business days) it's a fucking huge moment. it'll blow your tits clean off. and everyone clapped.

all this to say, not that it's necessarily right that yeo has been stuck in the backup parts of so much of ateez's repertoire (though if you are not personally involved in the production side of any group, you probably don't have enough information to know why lines are distributed the way they are and i think people should exercise caution before crying mistreatment. maybe some people just wanna dance.), but just because he hasn't always had the most prominent parts doesn't mean he's superfluous or treated that way.

i have been trying to save the in-depth vocal analyses for another post(s) but since part of yeo's core mythos among fans has been "guy who doesn't get lines" i want to do a little bit more here than i have elsewhere.

the tricky thing about idols debuting at 18 (or younger 😱) is that singing voices are usually not completely done changing by that time. voices continue to develop and settle into their true ranges into and sometimes beyond someone's early twenties. in the early days i think yeo's voice was not only untrained but also just had not settled to the point where he would be able to produce the best sound in that part of his range, and also ateez's discography just didn't really have many parts down there either. in general, his voice is quite soft and his intonation pretty dark, so when singing lower notes his voice just did not really have the power to cut through a lot of their heavier backing tracks or stand up against other vocalists with punchier voices. he ended up just getting a few lines in an awkward placement for him and when he does sing lower notes, it's often to double another singer down the octave or fill out group vocals--often to great effect! hear him doubling seonghwa in mist, and in the say my name prechorus. that said he was also always a really important part of atz's sound in all tracks, just not in the flashiest way.

also now that i've learned more about the way the writing team has members audition for who gets what part, i have other guesses as to what was going on, namely just that it may have been an issue of confidence in addition to/because of the other factors.

now part of the reason why the whole The World era is so fucking GOATed in my esteem is that is around when they finally truly started to lean on their bass section! there were some boom boom title tracks that dipped into that before but mostly just to add to the effect of being Loud. but from imo deja vu onward, i feel like the production really started to play with the deeper voices and especially yeosang's, on their own and in contrast with the higher/brighter/lighter vocals for some really cool kinda chiaroscuro effects. this both narratively serves the darker moods of the World era albums and also musically propels the group into a more sophisticated sound that is sooo satisfying.

and it paid off big time for yeo. his "five star michelin moment" (as described by catchingteez) in the halazia prechorus, fucking DUNE,

pls listen to the dune chorus while looking at this picture. you won't regret it.

you can tell yeosang really started to come into his own around that time--as did almost everyone else to an extent, but yeo's case is particularly striking and heartwarming--and he's only continued to do more and more cool stuff musically as we've entered the golden hour era. i'm super looking forward to doing more vocal and musical analysis so i can really dig into these topics more. this also happened with other members to less dramatic degrees, but this is a post about ys so shhhh. he's just really in his element right now and i'm living for it.

let's talk about DANCING now. yeosang is just mesmerizing to watch perform. whenever he is centered i find myself so compelled to watch, just can't look away, and he often steals the show even from the background tbh. so many of my absolute favorite dance moves among ateez's repertoire involve yeosang in some way (immediately coming to mind include the smn prechoruses, his center part in deja vu, halazia ofc, everything about cyberpunk, the way he kills the bouncy limbo move, the shuffle from iomt, etc). and his choreo always matches his vocals (when he has them 🥲) extremely well? next time you watch ateez perform anything, PLEASE pay attention to yeosang, wherever on stage he may be!

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anyways the mood he brings to ateez is just soo ooey and gooey and rich and delicious. like the fudge swirl in a pint of ben and jerry's

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finally, any discussion of kang yeosang cannot go without a mention of how he is subtly the funniest member of ateez. there is one (1) other member who is a serious contender for the title but the others try but simply can't compete. it's the quiet ones as they say. his comedic timing is unparalleled and he has this deadpan way of delivering lines that is SO FUCKING FUNNY (skip to around 1:00 in that video to see a great example). i love when he narrates vlogs. you can tell he's really smart even though he plays up being a space case. member who gets teased a lot? no. the other members are fortunate to be permitted to tease him. anyways he's such an entertaining addition to side content. i also think he is maybe the member i would best get along with irl. overall he seems pretty quiet and low-drama (i keep hearing stuff abt relationship drama but idk man i think the dude's just vibing)

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i don't think i need to mention how gorgeous he is? but i do need to note that he's absolutely fucking ripped. if you didn't know he's BUILT: he's built. and also a deadshot archer apparently?

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anyways. he is such a lovely part the team and i am always and forever rooting for him sooo hard.

in summary: ilysm (i love yeosang so much)

next up: the one, the only, choi san!

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i love how the wooyoung-mingi rivalry is still talked abt to this day by wooyoung when it lasted all of... 2 weeks? lol

and mingi said wooyoung is the first member of ateez he opened his heart to

which is not surprising because mingi and feelings go 🤝 but also hello?? yunho was right there????

(i noticed this abt mingi: he loves yunho but he also told jongho that in all of ateez he is his favorite, and this thing with woo... i've seen some comments talking abt how we underestimate how much control mingi has in his relationship with yunho, how he is not a defenseless victim and i can't stop thinking abt it)

like woo, mingi was in another company before kq, do u think that contributed to his initial aloofness? maybe he was used to seeing trainees come and go and didn't want to get close to anyone?

he auditioned for kq with yunho, but while yunho joined straight away it took some convincing (from yunho) to get mingi to join as well

meanwhile woo "escaped" from his old agency and was determined to make it work with kq, he was gonna fight tooth and nail to be part of ateez and make friends with them

but mingi will not "make friends" just bc the company tells him to. "friend" for him means something very specific, and woo had to fit this specific definition to be accepted

the fact that it took just 2 weeks says a lot about mingi's heart AND woo's ability to just smash walls down with his genuine personality

and also yeosang's prediction of "give him 2 weeks" was so damn accurate?????

but tbh i feel like yeosang's behavior was a huge contributor to woo finding those first 2 weeks hard and traumatizing and mingi just gets used as a scapegoat (as usual)

like woo, mingi was in another company before kq, do u think that contributed to his initial aloofness? maybe he was used to seeing trainees come and go and didn't want to get close to anyone?

I haven't seen this about Mingi - that he was in a different company in the way Woo and Yeosang were - on the korean internet. They said he went to the same dance school as Yunho (and that Mingi's father had a career as a backup dancer, for a Gen1 kpop group!)

To answer your question above with a source I can back up - Mingi has said that he is not someone who is at ease with or good at ambiguity. Uncertainty, grey area, either-or are all things that make him uneasy, and he wants to decide one way or the other. The relationship between kids who want to be in show biz and are good enough and good looking enough to be finalists in an Idol pre-launch group is nothing if not ambiguous - they are going to be potential teammates and coworkers at an intensely intimate level (including cohabitation) that rarely occurs in other professions, they have to project liking and getting along with each other while competing for airtime, center stage, extra-curricular contracts, and public attention. If I were to write my usual Ateez Is a Highly Political Workplace RPF (because that's where I live, obvy) I would say Mingi chose to behave as a rival and competitor before debut to those he saw as (accurately) as being rivals and competitors, and once they were all on the same (pirate, heehee) boat so to speak post launch, he switched over to We are Teammates mentality.

And I would say Wooyoung never entirely forgave him for this line drawing, whereas Yeosang, with his subtlety and capacity for character assessment, understood.

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hongjoong said welcome home cheater

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Yunho birthday month! Day 18!

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I'm going to share his random pic/gif/clip until his birthday ❤️ He's so special and he must to know how loved and appreciated he is ❤️

I'm the biggest fan 🫠🫠

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It seems the "princess" rescue didn't go according to plan.

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ATEEZ real subtitles: Wooyoung (pt. 1/?)

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Wooyoung

cr. jwydiaries

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Happy *late* Joong & Hwa Monday =)