LOOKING GLASS is the first English-language album by fictional idol band NEON NIGHTS. It was released on FEBRUARY 12, 2024. The album’s release was preceded by the lead single, JABBERWOCK, released towards the end of last year, and followed by a short tour across the continental United States. Production of the album was led by EDEN for the first time, though most of the tracks continued to be written and composed primarily by HWAJUNG. Looking Glass takes most of its inspiration from Lewis Carroll’s 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. Like the majority of their previous releases, its main themes concern appearances, dreams, reality, illusions, and deception.
TRACK LIST
01. LIKE A VILLAIN
Written by Eden, Go Hwajung, Choi Eunbyul
Composed by Go Hwajung, Choi Eunbyul, Eden
02. JABBERWOCK
Written by Eden, Go Hwajung, Choi Eunbyul
Composed by Go Hwajung, Choi Eunbyul, Eden
03. MONSTERS
Written by Eden, Choi Eunbyul, Andrew Han
Composed by Go Hwajung, Eden, Andrew Han
04. I THOUGHT I SAW
Written by Eden, Go Hwajung, Choi Eunbyul, Yumi
Composed by Go Hwajung, Yumi, Choi Eunbyul, Eden
05. PERFECT
Written by Eden, Go Hwajung, Qiuyun
Composed by Eden, Yumi, Go Hwajung
06. WONDERLAND
Written by Eden, Choi Eunbyul, Go Hwajung, Andrew Han
Composed by Choi Eunbyul, Eden, Andrew Han
07. RUNNING OUT OF TIME
Written by Eden, Choi Eunbyul, Andrew Han
Composed by Choi Eunbyul, Eden, Andrew Han
ERA HIGHLIGHTS
Their pop rock era. For real this time. Altogether the album was a little less thematically cohesive than their usual work, but it’s also their first release in about a year. It’s a small miracle it was released at all.
Also for real this time was their first independent, solo variety show! It only took five and a half years. Moonlight Mysteries, a spin-off of their sporadic series of music production vlogs, Moonlight Melodies, followed the band members as they explored various major American cities.
The episodes were filmed throughout their first US tour. Each city had a different scavenger hunt in which the girls found clues to a hit song by a band from that city. The great reveal of each episode was that they covered the song at their concert in the city, complete with a short preview of the cover itself.
It was all very obviously extremely scripted, but it passed the extremely low bar of the band finally having their own show.
The covers were initially locked behind a paywall on their fancafe, but a few were leaked almost immediately. The rest of them were leaked by Hwajung, and then publicly uploaded to YouTube after that.
In what could possibly be a completely unrelated event, Hwajung’s Instagram mysteriously vanished following the leaks.
In other news, the album saw Qiuyun’s writing debut. The production was, in Eden's words “a long and arduous experience” and in Qiuyun’s “could have been worse.”
dc is missing out on so much comedic potential by not giving Tim one of his parents back and my personal pick is Dana because she is simply the best parent he's ever had
and then you can have stuff like
Tim crawling in through the living room window:You are not gonna believe what Bruce just did I mean seriously Dana this is low even for him
Dana: Is he being violent again? also i got you snacks they're on the counter
Tim: HE'S BEING VIOLENT AGAIN thanks for the snacks and do you know what he said???
Dana:What'd he say Tim?
Tim:He said he would arrest me if i tried to stop him
Dana:No
Tim:yes and then that bitch-
Dana:No cursing Tim
Tim:sorry Dana anyway-
(basically they should force Bruce to co-parent cause god knows he can't do it himself)
feeble scholar? not with that PHYSIQUE on god. i want him to punch me so hard that i black out & wake up on the way to helgen
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THIS SHIT TOOK ME OUT I STG 😭😭
Im simultaneously in shock someone noticed this dynamic ive been pushing, and am so fucking estatic u made a meme abt it <333
The reader/MCs may or may not display this behavior bc this is how i feel abt alhaitham all the fucking time in game 💀
Sumeru quest was just constantly me screaming at the screen: "u cant "im a little nerd guy" ur way out of this one, u literally starting a coup against the government alhaitham???!!!!"
Its the body builder arms that simply put his argument at a disadvantage immediately
ANYWAY TYSM FOR MEMES SPECIFICALLY FOR MY BS THIS MEANS MORE THAN U KNOW LIKE ITS PERFECT IN EVERY WAY POSSIBLE 😭💖💖💝💝💝
Ida’s old creature concept from 2020, before i decided to make her a werewolf.
Her design was inspired by the common gliding lizards (Draco sumatranus) and colugos. I’m still very proud of this design and have been debating on bringing it back :]