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Hip Hop Unit
- the absolute rudest of them. rudest outfits, rudest lines, absolute rudest stage personas call my lawyer I’m compromised
- they take the harder-hitting official songs like Back it up and Ah Yeah but since 2018 they’ve been experimenting with more mellow, laid back sounds like Check In and Trauma and I LOVE IT
- but sometimes their softest songs has the rudest dancebreaks
- I’m vibing but then I read the lyrics and I want to cry HHU writes their own raps and there’s so much raw honesty
I’m barely breathing
Like I forgot how
It’s too hard for me
To be lenient with myself
Feels like debt
All the light on me
The stage is getting bigger
But the place in my heart
Is so small
- also the unit with the most unreleased songs? I’m sorry PLEDIS WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF?
- it’s a pity because you really get to see their potential as rappers in their concert-only’s. Their artistry is raging, wonwoo’s low tone, vernon’s flow, seungcheol growls and mingyu’s ad libs (screams into a pillow)
- What’s the Problem + MMO (Seungcheol snaps. Also it started raining during this performance. I warned you)
- UN HAENG IL CHI: MY FAVOURITE JAM. they look like triad leaders shit-talking at the last supper I’m ruined.
- Sukyo: imagine being so powerful, when you get invited to kcon not only do you do your title tracks… but also your b sides… AND unreleased songs that no one except your stans will know. btw they are in harnesses.
- Lotto Remix: they rap on top of rock guitar. I listen to this and I want to start a revolution.
- Believe Me: THEY RAP. IN BALACLAVAS. AND STRAIGHTJACKETS.
- The Other Side: ;______; they rap blindfolded send help
- when you think god is unfair remember that HHU can also sing
- you would think HHU loses games because kim mingyu is a black hole but lmao no they win bc SCoups is the most competitive baby and wonwoo is scarily competent when he feels like trying
Performance Unit
- ethereal, breathtaking, a gift of genius onto us mere mortals
- there’s a reason they’re called performance unit and not just dance unit bc it’s a full course feast
- a lot of their debut b-side choreo was done by PU!! and even after debut they keep changing it up to produce content like I’m so fond of their ver of adore u (ft joshua and his guitar agenda)
- look, if HHU channels all of SVT’s rage, then PU embodies their sexual frustration like REALLY, hoshi is this necessaryand WHO tf stole from magic mike I don’t need names I just want answers
- first time I heard Shhh I put it on my slow hoes playlist and when they performed it I was Right (why is there so much touching I’m wailing)
- before I became a carat I already stanned lilili yabbay because I found it so cool there was a space for this in kpop where cookie-cutter moves and trends are mainstream. You don’t need to understand dance to be mesmerised by this move
- like INDIVIDUALLY they are amazing dancers but since lilli yabbay I feel like instead of going hard, they’re going creative. They’re learning to express together, four bodies dancing as one unit. 247 feels like a continuation of the ideas they’re just starting to develop and I’m so excited to see where they go.
- remember that hoshi was originally in the vocal group, jun has the sweetest falsetto, minghao does emotional ballads and dino wrote (and delivered) a full solo song at 17
- off stage their dynamic is hard to pin down because both of the hyungs do not act like hyungs and the maknae is a cold hearted city man. it’s kind of funny because their personalities together is v different to their personalities separately (I still love them)
Vocal Unit
- they are precious and I will protect these lads with my dying breath
- These boys are the backbone of the last svt chorus. there will always be an obscene high note (bonus: watch pdx101 trainees cheering when lee hyeop made boo seungkwan proud)
- they have the most beautiful cinematic MV like Pinwheel inspired a generation of AU fics and can we talk about the stage for Habit? They were singing in a galaxy of stars.
- The official recording do not do them any justice. When Joshua Hong does an acoustic arrangement you know there will be harmonisation and countermelodies and high notes galore.
- has the most hilarious dynamics because you have Seungkwan the MC and Jeonghan the cheating enabler and DK the pure enthusiastic soul that goes along with everything (Woozi/Joshua quietly suffering). Their energy is UNENDING. You’ll get backstage disses and dance battles and games involving ridiculous punishments. Surprisingly they don't win that many games but they do win at screen time hehe.
- Also their new manager thought they were hip hop unit bc they kept rapping in the van
- their ver of un haeng il chi is compulsory reading sorry I don't mka the rules (Josh swearing, DK high tone rap, entire vu on thrones) + this carat's animation
- never forget VU won the dancing rhythm challenge. shame perf u, shame.
- oh my god so there was a special 97-liner stage with DK, the8, Mingyu and others like Jungkook and Yugyeom AND VOCAL UNIT WAS THE BACK UP BAND. Josh on guitar, Woozi on drums, Jeonghan on Bass, Seungkwan on keyboard asdasmq it was so hot