Music

보고 싶다

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(Photo: Terrible image quality of a high quality act – what can I say? It was a dark room and it was hard to get a picture).

“Yeah, they used to write deep songs about growing apart as friends and navigating that rocky ground of reconnecting when your life, circumstances, and sometimes even you have changed.”

“And now their songs are ‘everything is fire, everything is lit’.”

“Exactly.”

This past weekend, a group of my friends and I watched the highly anticipated return of BTS as they performed a free hour-long concert in Seoul. We did not, in fact, go to Seoul because the prospect of dealing with 269,000 fans was just a bit much. But we did watch it live on Netflix. 

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Delight 15: “Noise”

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Stray Kids brew up a storm in Thunderous new music video [WATCH]

Warning: Nerd Post Alert.

With that out of the way, to no one’s great surprise, I love music (I mean, don’t we all love some form of music?). But more than that, I like “noisy” music. And I like learning about the writing/producing process behind albums.

So you can imagine my delight when my favorite kpop group, Stray Kids (yes, they’ve replaced BTS), came out with a new album named Noi(ea)sy. Even better when I found out they made it as a response to criticism that their music was “noise.”

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