What was it that first caught your attention with your favorite group?

Jennie💄🫰

For Stray Kids, it was Bang Chan's visuals and Chan's room that caught my attention even before I knew much about SKZ, I would watch Chan's room because I liked Chan. For NCT, it was their music and all the member's personalities, For Blackpink, Rose's voice and their music, For P1harmony, Keeho's visuals and singing, and for TXT, It was their music and Soobin.

This happened on a Wednesday, June 17th, 2020 at 6:00 am (BRT)/6:00 pm (KST)

Just one view and I sold my soul to the Devil instantly.

If you didn't get it, Gods Menu wasn’t meant for you, it will never be. I don’t expect that you understand how emotional, powerful and striking it is. I literally don’t expect that you think it is the best Stray Kids title track, I don’t expect that you agree with my opinion. I don’t expect that you sympathize with the chef's movement and their daily struggles. I don’t expect that you cry like I’ve cried. I don’t expect that it gets you like it has gotten me. What I expect is that you shut your mouth and accept that it wasn’t meant for you. Gods Menu is quality. Gods Menu is a Kitchen reference. Gods Menu is being five-star Michelin. Gods Menu is a cultural reset. Gods Menu is resistence.

That being said, everyone should watch It's recent orchestra version

my success stan era started FAST

5 days after the release I was already celebrating their hit sales

Their albums sales and their chart positions (in that time) ofc, like any kpoopie.

The Kill This Love MV

Before I watched that I really thought K-pop was just like J-pop in a different language, and instead of frilly madi/schoolgirl outfits, it was "sailor" outfits (I dunno, hard to describe). But still the J-pop/J-idol template of ear shredding cutesyness, not particularly demanding choreo in complete unison and borderline ummmm... p*dobaiting.

Then I watched Kill This Love one night and was blown away by the brashness and cuntiness of it all, the completely over the top MV, the much "harder" sound than cutesy J-pop stuff, the greater individuality between members where each one stood out and particularly Jennie, who just hooked me like the simp I am almost instantly.

It was my first exposure to BlackPink, to kpop and to k-entertainment in general (besides Train To Busan a few years earlier)

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You knew they would only blow up from here and stanned FAST. Queen

If they didn't blew up It would be one of the biggest boycotts in K-pop history. I just needed to watch one MV to see the potential IT factor, uniqueness and excellence.

Glad to know a lot of people saw what I saw and God's Menu completely changed the trajectory of their career.

Althrough, I think I would've stanned them If I gave a chance to them in 'MIROH'. I completely ignored their existence from pre-debut (when Hellevator dropped) to God's Menu and didn't listen to anything else from the group in between.

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Wish I was a fan when God's Menu dropped

One of their best eras to follow

EXO - The Overdose MV and especially D.O in it. It was my gateway into kpop (we don't count PSY ofc) and it had a huge impact on me. I remember being very confused with how fast the MV was moving and how many people there were. I loved the song at first listen, downloaded it and downloaded some more random EXO songs to check out and became a fan.

Red Velvet - I had liked them way before I decided to stan them (2018, Power Up era-ish), but I think what attracted me the most at first was the MCountdown performance of Russian Roulette. At that time it was their latest cb. I remember it marked me because of the outfits, the fanchants and the iconic hair colors. It's such a great performance.

NCT - similarly to RV I was a fan of their music for a long time, but it wasn't until 2020 that I decided to become a NCTzen. What first caught my attention to them in 2016 was the Fire Truck dance practice (NCT 127). At the time it was one of the most impressive choreos/dances I had ever seen. I was super impressed with their dance skills and stamina.

Stray Kids - with them the story is a bit different, I already knew them and had 5-10 of their songs in my playlist. I wasn't familiar with the members at all though (only knew someone called Felix was in the group). But around June 2021 I asked in the NCT guild (RIP) for SKZ b-side recommendations and the ones that were recommended to me impressed me a LOT, so much that I decided to check out the entire Miroh mini because a lot of those songs were from that release. After listening to that mini and some more extra music I decided to stan them. So basically, tl;dr what caught my attention was their music being so good and the fact that I had been missing out on it for all that time

edit: oh forgot to mention there was this one time (before 2021) I was working out and god's menu came on, and I thought wtf this is such a bop, really need to check more SKZ discography but ofc eventually I forgot to do so, so it delayed the stanning process by like half a year

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They definitely had a clear IT-factor in God's Menu MV. I thought that Miroh would be the song that got you into SKZ! At least you got on board during God's Menu.

I also didn't hear their music for a while. I didn't check out their debut, and I just listened to Side Effects because I saw people trashing it so I was curious, and that song was enough for me to write them off for a long time lmao

And you still dislike Side Effects, I suppose

always shading the queen here and there

Mesmerising stage presence /charisma which led me to a marathon session of their other MVs, dance practice, behind the scenes, basically anything that has them in it.

Of course, I have to like their music first.

The first time I was Shawol, it was because I thought Taemin was cute (I was a little kid).

The second time (the current time), it was that I remembered that I though Taemin was cute when I was kid so then I revisited SHINee (to see if Taemin is still cute) and then Key locked me in the fandom again.