#ikon text posts

[neomujinjja]

More to know before you request!

what you need to know

- i will always try to be extremely vague about the reader's race to be inclusive to everyone

- i will archive and/or delete my works if an idol says they feel uncomfortable about fan writing (i will make a post and comment before doing so; also hold me accountable as i might forget or not know)

- i won't write for idols in relationships (dating or married) out of respect, about minors in romantic scenarios, or ones that i don't know as well

- to join/leave a taglist: 1. comment under this post stating which one you'd like to join/leave, or under their masterlist 2. if i can't tag you, then ill try to message you so you can still be notified

- this list will be updated later on as i write more and figure out what im comfortable writing

What I will write

- pretty much any genre; fluff, angst, song fic, drabble, au's, social media/text imagines

- you can request for mature scenes that hint to more

- unless specified, i will write the reader as gender neutral and an vague-ish age

What I won't write

- as for the moment, i won't be writing social media au series

- explicit scenes/smut as i don't feel comfortable writing like that yet (and maybe never will)

- staking or yandere themes

Who I'll write for

A.C.E

Astro

Ateez

BoyNextDoor

Enhypen

EXO

Got7

iKon

Monsta X

NCT (excluding New Team)

Pentagon

RIIZE

Seventeen

SHINee

Stray Kids

The Boyz

Treasure

TXT

Xdinary Heroes

[mpsiteweb]

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[unit6isgeneric]

Ikon Gallery Trip/Foka Wolf Exhibition

During week 4 of Make Art Be Happy, we visited the Ikon gallery, although we only went to look at a specific exhibition, there were a fair amount of other exhibitions there that I found quite interesting.

I took pictures of some of them to document them and possibly use them for research.

The main thing we went to see was the Fokawolf exhibition, for me it didn’t interest me as much as some of the other featured exhibitions. The reason being, I’ve followed Fokawolf’s instagram page for a while now, and based off of visuals, i prefer his other works that he has posted, whereas the exhibition piece didn’t visually captivate me, although it did carry a sad message that really made you think.

Below I'm going to show off some of the other featured exhibitions, along with the Fokawolf one.

Here is the Fokawolf piece. In my opinion, a lot more could have been done with the space he had. I found it quite interesting that when the lights were turned off the piece differed from what it was when the lights were on. However i didn't like the sort of slime looking text that it had. I felt it wasn't a relevant choice of typography to the words that it had. "I'm so far away from my mum" is an extremely powerful sentence, however the text takes away from that all too much in my personal opinion.

This piece I found quite interesting while visiting the ikon gallery. At first when I entered the room, it was just a bunch of metal boards that seemingly represented cheese slices, which I found quite odd. However, after being told to turn the flash on my phone on, these boards lit up and the space around the room became enveloped in darkness. I'm not sure what the message of this piece was as there wasn't much information on it that I could find, but I found it to be quite interesting nonetheless.

This piece really caught my attention, which I think is quite funny thinking about all of the bigger pieces surrounding it that were much more vibrant, whereas this piece was just a line of small framed pictures that went around the room featuring powerful poetry about real struggle. I also found it quite interesting that all of the images on these pictures are parts of different destroyed buildings that pushed the message they were trying to convey with the "horror in the modernist block" idea.

[hinusamav]

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[rigged]

[4 ONLY] LIVE PERFORMANCE ‘SAVIOR 구원자’ — LEEHI (feat. B.I)

[maxsix]

*me, an ikonic, loving any attention that they receive since they deserve it* do it

I’m going to say something controversial but truly madly deeply accurate: when he was active in IKON, Kim Hanbin was the most complete 3rd generation idol composer/producer. Amongst his peers at the time, there was no idol who produced this many good tracks (he participated in 100% of their title tracks and 99% of all their releases) with this much range. He doesn’t have the most credits with KOMCA but that is more to do with opportunity rather than lack of talent or material. 

I was going to write a whole essay about how great he and IKON are but I don’t even need their entire discography as examples. I can do it with one song and I’m not even going to cheat and use a famous title track. I’m going to go for a B-Side. Live version. In their second language (Japanese). 

Just Go, was released in 2018 with the Return album. Hanbin is the sole lyricist and I believe he wrote majority of the music himself but there is one other person co-credited with him. He was 21 years old when this was released. 

The studio version is flawless of course. The song is deceptively basic and simple. The repetition of those few piano chords sets the perfect foundation for each member’s unique performance to stand out. The production on this is so clean and minimalist bro, there’s nowhere to hide if any of the parts are terrible. 

This song is my favourite from them (yes, really) because the chords are so familiar in their major and minor keys. Even if you haven’t experienced love before, the familiarity of the song does provide something that sounds like either bittersweet nostalgia or resigned comfort (depending on how you feel about love haha). 

Secondly, every single part of this song went to the right member. One of the reasons IKON were brilliant was because Hanbin knew their strengths and wrote parts specifically with a member in mind. It’s not just a members tone of voice or their personality, it’s even as specific as how they deliver certain words. He spoke about this when he wrote their debut song (he also wrote on the debut songs for both Winner and Blackpink. You know, in his spare time.)

I’m sure you all know Leonard Cohen/Jeff Buckley’s ‘Hallelujah’? The line about the minor fall and the major lift? Just Go does this over and over and it is so satisfying to listen to the back and forth between Donghyuk’s sweet clean falsetto and Bobby’s deep dirty rasp, then all the sudden BOOM! You’re hit with the bomb that is June’s powerhouse vocals. I don’t think he even needs a mic most of the time. The arrangement of this song is so effortlessly good that you almost think it’s by accident but no, it’s got Hanbin’s signature all over it.

Performing live is a litmus test for many kpop groups, especially ones that want to be taken seriously. Some groups struggle and some groups excel. IKON though? They are a live performance group. I’ve come to understand why YG insisted they tour so much; they absolutely shine live on stage. When you start preferring live versions to the studio version, that’s when you really know you have a legit music group. And yes, I absolutely prefer the live version of Just Go to the official studio audio because you do not get this kind of raw energy and emotion and it’s all these random ad libs and idiosyncrasies that makes a good group great. 

Apart from Taemin (who is a whole other level), I’m not really into that many Japanese releases that Kpop does. Just Go lost nothing in translation. The members perform it like it’s their actual first language and it’s not startlingly awkward enough for you to really notice that it’s not immediately korean. I used to be obsessed with how Bobby delivers his line, ‘He’s still in your heart’ in the korean version but it’s still just as good in Japanese. It lost absolutely nothing.

IKON have Bobby. Just Go is a vocal focused ballad and this dude is a rapper but his presence is so astronomical that it makes it impossible to ignore him. He hard carries when he doesn’t even need to hard carry.  This is absolutely legend behaviour okay? And let’s get this out the way: he has the best and sharpest jawline in all of kpop. No, I am not taking any criticisms on this. Thank you for coming to my MaxTalk. =)

[cochaeryoung]

Forever chasing the high that was hearing Love Scenario for the first time

[kimteume]

iKON's new song is such a bop, I love it 🥺

[sanstropfremir]

by request, the first post-kingdom stage roundup! this one is a best to worst by group!

some introductory notes:

i’m not going to be ranking the 100sec stages in here because they are too different of a scale. but i will be talking about them as a part of the process. i’m not going to be including the team stages here either, since i talked about them in my episode seven and eight reviews and i do think they stand separately from the individual group stages, because we don’t know who the creative teams were behind them. this is not meant to be an overall best of all the performances, i’m intending this more to be a look each of the groups’ stages overall; seeing how they adapted and improved and how effective the trajectory of their journey as a whole was. also, a very important definition to make right at the start so i don't have to explain it every time: by ‘worst’ i do not mean the stage was actually bad. by ‘worst’ i literally mean ‘not the best.’ if i break it down, i’m ranking these by ‘most amount of successful components’ to ‘least amount of successful components.’ there were no stages that were actually bad or unwatchable; they were all successful in one way or another, but some of them more so. i’m ordering these in my own personal ranking of reverse who did the best overall, which obviously is not how the actual show rankings went down, but we all know my thoughts on the official rankings.

in case you want to catch up and read my more in depth thoughts, here’s all of my episode reviews: one, two (with added tbz costume breakdown), three, four, five, seven, eight, nine, ten! oh and also here’s my very first review of the dance solo performance film, since i’m also going to be referencing this a bit.

tbz

monster - the least involved with their overarching story concept and it’s stylistically the most interesting because it’s a departure from the glittery royalty concept we have primarily seen them in. it also helps that it’s a great song that they did a relatively good cover of.

kingdom come - the solidity of the choreo is the thing that puts this stage up here, because it’s some of their best. and it’s not as explicitly reliant on the game of thrones theme as their other stages.

o sole mio - this has real potential as a good small concept vaudeville themed stage; it starts off really strong and then they blow it by shoehorning in the unnecessary lore.

no air - they tried to start off with a big conceptual bang in the first round with a semi-explicit narrative, but it relies entirely too much on the viewers knowing the references for it to make any sense.

to be honest, i’m not that surprised about how tbz constructed their stages and how they turned out. i know a lot of people have been disappointed with how lackluster their stages have felt in comparison to their rtk ones, and i think that’s fair because i agree, i don’t think they ever captured the same energy they did for danger or for shangri-la. if you’ve been following along (or have just read all my reviews now) than you know most of my complaints about how tbz have been working with their lore and concepts, so i won’t rehash them here. but i do think it’s warranted to point out that theoretically, being first in rtk would logistically put you at the bottom of the initial ranking for kingdom. i know they’re not technically the youngest group, but in the execution of their stages in comparison, it does make sense to me that they come out looking as the most inexperienced group. even though they were intending to have a similar overarching story like they did on rtk, it was not at all very fleshed out and there wasn’t a strong enough connection between that story, the themes of their stages, and the narrative shapes of those stages. which is a shame because they are not unskilled performers, and they have the most members of all of the groups on the show, so they had a lot of opportunity to be doing interesting choreo and blocking work that never seemed to materialize. i also think they never truly got used to the size of the stage in comparison to the rtk stage, and they were always struggling to fill it in an intentional way. they tried valiantly to recoup their ground and bring everything together in a full circle for their last stage, and even though they somehow came in second, i think by the finale they had been worn down and lost a lot of their steam. it also doesn’t help that they lost a member to injury right near the end, which can be very demotivating, especially for a young group.

skz

god’s ddu du ddu du - the most stylistically different and interesting of the bunch, with a lot of interesting elements and well designed movement, even if the overall arc was half baked and lackluster

i’ll be your man - this was an actual attempt at a departure from their normal bluster and even though it never makes it all the way there and they don’t do that great of a cover, it’s different enough.

wolfgang - although watchable for hilarity and/or cringe value, nothing about this stage demonstrates a significant amount of growth from the first one. it fact it just feels like they injected a load more money and time into the premise of their 100sec stage, without any of the reflection that this kind of circular final stage concept should have. it’s exactly the stage of a group that’s been propelled to first in every round through an artificially inflated system.

god’s menu/side effects - the most scattered of all their stages. there’s not quite enough material to tie everything together and it feels underformed.

we all knew what the outcome of the show was going to be the moment that very first round of fan voting came in. now i don’t actually care about final outcome of the show, because the most valuable experience of a show like this is learning from what your competitors around you are doing and how to improve your work for further rounds. if the ranking system had been solely expert + judges based, all of the weekly rankings would have looked a lot different and skz would have actually had a chance to grow from this experience. but because they have the biggest and most aggressive fandom, their stages constantly ended up in first place and they never actually had the opportunity to sit back and reflect on their performances to figure out how they can do better. because the truth of the matter is that they did not have the best performances on the show. they consistently made stylistically stagnant stages and never managed to correct any of the issues that have been plaguing them since the 100sec round. the closest they got was god’s ddu du ddu du, which was aesthetically the most different and had the most interesting subversions of the stage format, even if it ultimately fell flat because they still missed the mark on managing the shape of the narrative. if you watch all their stages back to back you’ll see that there’s an overreliance on the same types of stylistic decisions and thematic elements, including in the sound and feel of the work. this is a bit hard to explain, but even though the stages all look different, they don’t convey any nuanced emotion or intention other than ‘stray kids world domination.’ now nuanced intention is not necessary for a kpop song performance, but skz took it upon themselves to try and tackle some fairly complex thematic ideas, which is commendable, but they fall flat because the members themselves don’t know how to act. and acting is supremely important when you are doing themed stages. i talked about this same principle in this response about orange caramel and wjsn chocome, but most newer idols don’t approach performing as a character, they approach performing as themselves, and skz are big victims of this. that’s why even i’ll be your man, where they do actually attempt to be a bit more nuanced in their delivery, still comes off like all their other stages. they don’t ever push themselves beyond their performance boundaries (physically yes, obviously. i mean mentally) and so every stage has a little checklist of skz-specific personality traits that round out in the bigger picture to the same general feel. this kind of strategy works great for music shows and for general promotion because it’s super marketable, but in this particular setting, where we spend an extended amount of time with all the groups, it doesn’t facilitate the same amount of growth that letting those of personas go would.

ikon

at ease - really clear cumulation of their performance, group colour, and design elements over the entire show.

classy savage - well designed and decorated with an interesting concept, but has a few flaws that keep it from being their best work.

inception - again, very well designed; the set is so inventive and features a lot of carefully blocked movement, plus the colour palette is tight and used effectively, it just doesn’t reach the same scale as the latter two stages.

love scenario/killing me - it’s the first stage and it clearly suffers from a bit of underd evelopment as they were getting used to the format of the show. it’s still an interesting and well performed stage with the start of elements that we can see them develop further in the next rounds.

ikon had the most lackadaisical attitude toward the whole show, which i think was the best way to approach it, but also they didn’t really push much beyond their boundaries as performers. i’m not faulting them for not wanting to, they’re a very well established group and honestly don’t really need improve on anything. they did however, do a really great job of improving on their design quality and intergration after the first round, which is the one thing that this program definitely facilitates for. they’re also the only group where their finale stage was demonstrably their best stage, so they really did nail that slow improvement progression. they got what they wanted out of the show, which was new friends and a chance to make some fun stages that they wouldn’t have otherwise been able to. like i think i’ve said in every other review, there’s not that much to say about them as a whole because they just put their noses to the grindstone and did the work while maintaining a chill and fun demeanour, and those efforts paid off even if they didn’t end up ranking very high.

sf9

the stealer - great integration of theme into narrative and design, small scale concept with big impact.

believer - smart use of camera work and choreography in conjunction with the design elements. although not very narrative focused, it’s a clear and thoughtful elaboration on their intro stage that’s very well executed.

move - a risky choice that pays off fairly well for them, even if it doesn’t capture all the depth that it could have.

jealous - it’s their first stage of the competition and the first time they had worked on something of this scale before, so it only makes sense that it’s the weakest of their run. despite that, it shows a strong understanding of an unusual concept and it still holds up.

sf9 were the clear underdogs of everyone and the rankings pretty clearly reflected that. but as a group they really put in the work to improve their skills and i think they showed the most dramatic improvement of everyone, especially between the first and second rounds. they repeatedly made comments about how they were focused on creating good stages and it paid off. their stages were all conceptually and visually interesting without relying on much external lore or overly dense themes, even if some of them were more effective than others. they had a lot of strong emphasis on costume in particular and they were very well styled. their finale stage was a very clear synthesis of all of the experience and knowledge they gained over the course of the show and it wraps a neat aesthetic and thematic bow on their journey. they absolutely did not deserve last place; they were the ones hardest hit by the fan voting system and i hope that the group doesn’t internalize the official outcome too much, because they did a lot of good work that they should be proud of and deserves a higher due than it was given.

ateez

rhythm ta - simple concept with a clear narrative that uses a lot of visual referencing as exposition without being cluttered and too reliant on the source material. impeccable use of limited design elements to create atmosphere and it’s a strong reinvention of the song.

wonderland - an absolute banger of a first stage that does all the same things as rhythm ta just to a slightly less polished scale.

ode to joy - both stylistically and tonally a departure, this stage relies a lot on group lore but also has a very clear message that was surprising for its maturity and temerity.

the real - purposefully pulled back in scale and ambition as a pointed critique of the competition as a whole. looser in design aesthetic synthesis but has more freedom for the members to show more dynamism in the group’s abilities and colour.

the youngest of the six groups, i don’t think anyone was expecting ateez to come out swinging in the way that they did. oh, we were all expecting them to put up a fight, but i know that i wasn’t expecting much beyond the capabilities of what we’d seen from skz and tbz, since they all share the dubious honour of being similar aesthetic performance based fourth gen groups. but oh baby did they prove us all wrong. the fact that they have incredible performance abilities and stage presence is what carried them half of the way, but they also proved to have a top notch creative team working behind them that knew how to visually craft a great performance. wonderland and rhythm ta are two of the smartest designed stages, and i’d put rhythm ta as the best designed stage, because it does so much in such a small amount of time. this ranking was tough because all of their stages intentionally prove a point and i dont think there are any that are demonstrably weaker. wonderland and rhythm ta served to prove that they had the capacity to keep up with their seniors, and that they were ambitious and hungry and had a solid team foundation. both stages ranked them first in non-fan judging and once they saw how the fan judging skews the final results, they smartly and ambitiously made a choice in the round BEFORE the finale to make a stage that rebuffs the laurels of the competition show they were at the pinnacle of, specifically for their fans. there is so much care and thought put into the ode to joy stage that it feels wrong to rank it as their third best, especially when it also contains one of the greatest 40 seconds of acting i’ve ever seen on a kpop stage. just the dichotomy of the stage’s melancholy feel with the choice of song is so compelling, and in its context as a part of the whole now the show is over.... i’m out of words. the brain on the person who came up with this, i would LOVE to talk to them. and having the real as a followup stage? where they have the freedom to have fun and be stylistically themselves while thumbing their noses at the show? a perfect follow up and rounding out of the expression of their abilities.

btob

back door - perfect. simple concept and simple narrative extremely well executed. excellent attention to detail and atmosphere.

show and prove - perfect reflection of their journey on the show as a whole.

blue moon - same as back door, just with a slightly larger scale.

missing you - only last because it doesn’t have the same strength of narrative and design concept as the other three stages. it’s still a better stage than 80% of the stages on the show.

we all know this, but btob are the real kings. all of their stages were phenomenal and they all hit my personal top ten, so this ranking is more of a ‘which stage was the best of the best.’ they did an incredible job of playing to their strengths and they knew exactly what they needed to do in order to craft the best performance. this was actually very difficult for me to decide because they never fucking missed. watching missing you for the first time in like two months smacked me right upside the head because that stage is beautiful. the intro in the forest with changsub and eunkwang is fucking gorgeous; the lighting and atmospherics are so effective and the trees do an incredible job of obscuring the stage architecture. and their costumes. this stage screams elegance in a way that no other stage managed to capture and this was the first round. and i’m putting last on this list, which should be telling about the quality of their work. and honestly it only goes up from here. they took that one maybe valid expert critique that they got of utilizing more narrative and they RAN with it. i put back door as first because it juuuuust inches out blue moon and show and prove for smart camera work, but honestly all three of these stages could take top spot, they’re of equal rank.

btob came into this show at a pretty distinct disadvantage: they’re old, and there’s only four of them. and as we know, thanks to rtk and the fourth gen groups, this show has a reputation for big acrobatic blowout spectacles, which is just not something they can do. but they also had a distinct advantage: they’re old and there’s only four of them. they very smartly foresaw that they wouldn’t be able to compete with the fourth gen groups in athletic ability, so they specifically chose to highlight the areas they were the strongest in, which you can see right from the start. their intro stage specifically highlights their vocals, and even in minhyuk’s dance solo the design is music show themed, as a gentle reminder that they know how to work a stage. and as the show progressed they started to solidify that assumption. they used narrative extremely well to give their stages an element of emotional investment that kept the audience engaged without banking on individual idols’ popularity to keep them afloat, and spent their time on the show being gracious and generous competitors, intent on being as watchable offstage as they were on. and it worked. by the time the finale rolled around, we knew who these men were and we had seen them be individuals, so they were able to cast off the need to play to narrative and to character and instead they were able to loop back around to that very first stage; simple, clean, emphasis on vocals, with a very important addition of uniformity. the current trend in kpop costuming is to have group members dressed similarly, but not exactly the same, partially in order to be able to everyone apart, but also because the ‘sameness’ of the boy band model has fallen by the wayside. btob took all their previous stages where they had clearly been individuals and as the culmination of their journey they chose to look exactly the same, to clearly send a message that they are a singular unit and they are proud of that. and they absolutely stuck the landing. this was a perfect run for btob, they should be really fucking proud of the work they did.

[mizugucci]

not to sound like pretentious or anything, but why do overlapping stage names exist... like if you’re gonna choose a stage name choose something not already in use?? i love u guys but cmon

[honeysahi]

dude please, for the love of god vote properly

and by this, i mean fairly! we all want our faves to win, but this isn't a popularity contest, it's a show in which the most talented, artistic, etc. should win. and i've seen so many people state they won't vote for x bc they're the biggest competitor or whatever.

Just wait, see the performances with an open mind, and vote for who you think deserves it BASED ON THAT.

i mean c'mon even mnet is trying to make it fair

Besides, if as a strategy some fandom decides to vote only for these other two groups who they don't see as a threat, and they end up winning i would laugh so hard 😭😭😭

[straykidz888]

KINGDOM WAS AMAZING MY THROAT IS DEAD FROM SCREAMING