30 Days of NCT: what's your favorite ballad?

  • What's your favorite NCT ballad? (you have 4 votes) 19

    1. NCT U - Timeless (8) 42%
    2. NCT U - From Home (7) 37%
    3. NCT U - Faded in My Last Song (6) 32%
    4. NCT 127 - No Longer (6) 32%
    5. NCT 127 - Magic Carpet Ride (5) 26%
    6. NCT U - My Everything (4) 21%
    7. NCT 127 - Sun & Moon (4) 21%
    8. NCT 127 - Not Alone (4) 21%
    9. WayV - Face to Face (4) 21%
    10. NCT U - Coming Home (2) 11%
    11. NCT - I.O.U. (2) 11%
    12. NCT Dream - Candle Light (2) 11%
    13. NCT Dream - Rainbow (2) 11%
    14. NCT 127 - Knock On (2) 11%
    15. NCT 127 - Fly Away with Me (2) 11%
    16. NCT 127 - White Night (2) 11%
    17. NCT 127 - Rainy Night (2) 11%
    18. NCT 127 - Long Slow Distance (1) 5%
    19. NCT 127 - Day Dream (1) 5%
    20. NCT 127 - Make Your Day (1) 5%
    21. WayV - Horizon (1) 5%
    22. WayV - Back to You (1) 5%
    23. WayV - Sleepless (1) 5%
    24. NCT Dream - Dear Dream (0) 0%
    25. NCT Dream - Puzzle Piece (0) 0%
    26. NCT Dream - Be There for You (0) 0%
    27. Another ballad not mentioned here (0) 0%

    Every Czennie knows NCT has a softer side in the b-sides. And if you don’t follow NCT, you may be surprised! What’s your favorite NCT ballad?


    (If you didn’t know, this is a great chance to check them out and appreciate the outstanding vocals!)


    Czennies - to make this a more manageable list, I’ve only taken the most obvious ballads, but I know there are some other songs that can fit here too.


    You have 4 votes.


    NCT U - Coming Home

    NCT U - Timeless

    NCT U - I.O.U.

    NCT U - My Everything

    NCT U - From Home

    NCT U - Faded in My Last Song

    NCT Dream - Candle Light

    NCT Dream - Dear Dream

    NCT Dream - Puzzle Piece

    NCT Dream - Be There For You

    NCT Dream - Rainbow

    NCT 127 - Sun & Moon

    NCT 127 - No Longer

    NCT 127 - Long Slow Distance

    NCT 127 - Knock On

    NCT 127 - Fly Away With Me

    NCT 127 - Day Dream

    NCT 127 - Not Alone

    NCT 127 - White Night

    NCT 127 - Make Your Day

    NCT 127 - Magic Carpet Ride

    NCT 127 - Rainy Night

    WayV - Horizon

    WayV - Face to Face

    WayV Kun & Xiaojun - Back To You

    WayV Kun & Xiaojun - Sleepless

    Another ballad not mentioned here

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  • I know I always say I don't care for ballads but there are actually a lot of songs I love here!


    My votes here are for:


    Make Your Day / Rainy Night

    These feel to me like they belong together because they are very retro ol skool R&B style dramatic piano ballads. Jaehyun's gorgeous husky portion during the intro at :25 on Make Your Day is just chef's kiss, and goes Taeil's heart aching run from :43 to :54. Man, I could keep going - the instrumental is spare but it's a gorgeous song. Rainy Night feels like its sequel, opening with the always perfect 1-2 punch of Jaehyun and Taeil's voices side by side.


    Enjoy this live practice. Doyoung vocal flexing while sitting on the floor. We see you, boo.

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    No Longer

    An old-fashioned weeper. Live version always preferred. Dramatic and emotional, singing "she no longer needs me."


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    From Home

    I love this for a lot of reasons - vocals for days - but notably that it highlights the power and diversity of the NCT vocals. Everyone on this song kills it - from the sweet strength of Kun to thunderous Taeil to high and plaintive Renjun to emotional Doyoung. This also has a very r&b ballad vibe to me and I really love the lyrics about how the other person has become their comfort and joy: "Under this light, when we look at each other, even not noticing myself, I smile and i forget, cuz I am not alone. You are my warming home. Who I was yesterday and who I am today and who we will be tomorrow, it all starts from home." I'm not crying, you're crying.


    :sadr:


    Honorable Mentions: White Night, Magic Carpet Ride, Sleepless, Sun & Moon, Day Dream, My Everything

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  • Are I.O.U and Faded in my last song really ballads though? Then those are my picks. If we talk about like more classic type of ballad No Longer is the best hands down, although Knock on and Fly Away with me are also great.

    Ngl, I struggled how to split this out. There are a number of other songs that can fall into technically being ballads but it was getting to be too difficult for people to weed through or new people to check out so I tried to take a narrower view but it's tricky.

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