Introducing Seo Changbin: the real mastermind behind many Stray Kids' concepts and ideas

So, It's well known Changbin can rap, dance, write, produce and pull on a show on stage with his outstanding charisma and presence, but what most people don't know It's how he's behind the building of Stray Kids' ideas.

• Let's start with a relevant one: God's Menu. Stray Kids had already decided and recorded the original Go Live's title track. A month before the release of the album, Changbin called them to listen to God's Menu and all the members loved it, until Hyunjin asked Changbin to talk to JYPE If they could change the title track and they received green light thanks to him. God's Menu bringing a self-appreciation and personal conception that Stray Kids have of themselves. Metaphorically claiming they make their own music. A concept they brought up. And If It wasn't Changbin, It wouldn't be there to go viral and change their career;

• Initially, Hellevator would be called only "Elevator". However, Changbin came up with the idea to mix both "Hell" and "Elevator" words with the intention to express their ambitions and how hard they've worked since the very beginning, despite being discouraged multiple times and going through many hardships to be able to debut and reach their dreams;

• During KINGDOM, in the first round, JYPE's Division 1 wanted to convince Stray Kids to do a mash up of God's Menu and Hellevator. But Changbin didn't think It would work and disagreed. He wanted to do a mash up with Side Effects, instead of Hellevator, thinking about another concept's idea. And well, they won the first round and were acclaimed by the experts in the program for their performance;

• Also in KINGDOM, the concept of the Deadpool/Marvel - what made the performance going viral and they being recongnized by A-List actors - was Chan and Changbin's idea. And Changbin was the one who thought about the mashup of God's Menu and Ddu-du Ddu-du. Something he's very proud of, because JYPE was against their ideas in the beginning, but they were able to convince It would work. They also won this round and were acclaimed by the experts;

• Last one from KINGDOM, he wasn't only behind the Stray Kids stages and concepts, but also behind the idea of the performance he made with Chan, Han, Hongjoong and Minhyuk for their rap unit. Changbin helped in both the creation of the theme of the song they produced together and the hook;

• The title of the album NOEASY with the wordplay No Easy/Noisy was also Changbin's idea, since the concept of the album is the group embracing their sound;

• Who came up with the title and the concept of one of the most popular Stray Kids b-sides, DOMINO, was Changbin! The keyword was because most of their title tracks have 3 syllables, so Chan added in the production a Domino-like sound;

• When 3RACHA were discussing how they would create Christmas EveL, they came to the conclusion they didn't want Stray Kids to sing a normal christmassy song. So Changbin gave the idea to since about the bad side of the holiday and winter season, since not everyone is happy when It comes. He described as song that has "different charms from the calm vibes that you got reminded of when you think of christmas season song".

And obviously many more that I didn't write about, but Changbin was absolutely necessary.

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Changbin wasn’t wrong when he talked about how following your principles is always a good thing.

Changbin has gone against JYPE status-quo and advice so many times and every time that’s he’s protested, he’s added yet another influential moment to Stray Kids’ career.

If someone told me that I could talk to any person for an entire day, I would pick Changbin, just so that I could experience his thought process in real-time.

I have so much respect for Changbin, both as an artist and what he's shown of him as a person.

I think how things would work If many times he's decided to not speak his mind and fighting for what he believed that would be the best for Stray Kids, while just following JYPE blindly.

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Isn’t this that one yelling guy

his brain is so hot for this, wow

Well, this is how he introduces himself in Thunderous, so you are right

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omg seriously this threadd

mina thank you for giving changbin the credit he deserves \haechan hugging johnny smol cute.gif

It's absolutely necessary to appreaciate how much Changbin is important to Stray Kids

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The fact that I didn't even know some of these as a Stay, revoke my Stay card! I'm embarrassed! Well, I praise Changbin for thinking of mashing up God's Menu and Ddu-Du Ddu-Du, I always love it when BLACKPINK and Stray Kids' worlds cross over (in Kingdom, Stray Kids covering As If It's Your Last in front of YG and stuff like that). I knew Changbin was behind the title for Christmas Eve, but not the concept itself. I also didn't know about the Hellevator one, or the mashup one. I knew the God's Menu title track was a last-minute change but forgot who suggested it. This was very informative to me. That you Minazuki for not being lazy and showing us your big, beautiful brain. I am now smarter because of you. Have a great day/night!

I'm glad my thread was helpful to you, youchan

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I remember during the Zach Show interview, they said when Changbin presented the title track for Division 1, they were like "If Stray Kids wants to release this song, then go ahead!". Nice to see they received positive response from both JYP the man and their division.