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17 reasons to stan Seventeen

Chapter 7: KWON SOONYOUNG

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(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

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Hoshi | Kwon Soonyoung

 

  • 96 liner, leader of performance unit, seventeen’s resident choreographer and our favourite 10:10 tiger-possessed hamster
  • OH BOYYYYY he’s a LOT. Whereas jun and jeonghan are layered individuals, Hoshi is just, EVERYTHING ALL AT ONCE. The way he dances on stage is mesmerising, his offstage personality is hilarious, he flips between sexy and cute? and the sheer amount of bullshit he stirs makes enough content to turn pledis into bollywood. A chaotic good boy.
  • One of the best dancers in kpop sis have you seen him MOVE? Like there are good dancers and then there’s “My name is Soonyoung and you can call me Soon”
  • This chapter took 4 days because I just kept rewatching his fancams when trying to compile a list of my favourites

 

  • Over time he developed his own style which is? Deliberately gender-neutral and dangerously sensual. (Taemin influence is clear)

 

    • You can see it early on in his choreo, like this? ballroom-esque part in Fast Pace and THE WAY HE COCKS HIS HIP and in any of the choreo he does for himself
    • This cover ofMamamoo’s Egotistic the perfect example
    • If ^that^ destroyed you, Touch is Hoshi’s solo and THE ULTIMATE FANCAM. It! IS! is so RUDE. LEATHER PANTS AND HARNESSES. AND! AND! THOSE BODY ROLLS. THAT LOOK!!! !!! He said it himself that he wanted to emulate a girl crush concept. A GIRL CRUSH. FOR! THIS BOY!!
      • You have to watch THIS fancam to get the best angle for a certain move ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
    • (Yeah btw he is a maaaasssiiive shinee fanboy. Hoshi listens to their music every night before he sleeps and fans will legit gift him shinee merch at fansigns. When their comebacks overlapped you can see him creeping at music show endings, and, when told to imagine his ideal type he chose Key haha.
      • Also a fan of Super Junior > him dancing to chokiwa at Donghae & Eunhyuk’s concert is v cute (ft Oh Sehun having the absolute time of his life before remembering he was a idol)
    • watch the collaboration stage w/ monsta x and wanna one covering 2PM (A GOOD STAGE) … Again and Again is a sexy and serious song full of smouldering looks and angsty eyebrows….. but just… look at Shownu and then look at Hoshi asdsamSDAQHAHA
  • He is not just PU’s leader, he is also the leader of performance for Seventeen. He hypes the crowd, sets the energy and is scarily aware of how his members are going.
  • HOSHI AT NORAEBANG IS THE FUNNIEST SHIT (gets 100/100 on songs he doesn’t know and the rest of svt is shook).
    • also a liability because once he almost killed Seungkwan who was laughing so hard he suffocated. In this vlive Seungkwan spends half the time on the floor in fetal position and the other half in a corner in fetal position.
    • but seriously, this kid can sing (please click it's SeokSoon covering DBSK's Love in the Ice aka my favourite kpop ballad) (another duet with Seokmin to heal your heart)
  • do you know the kid at school who, on a field trip, yells when the bus drives past his house? that kid is hoshi
  • Kept begging Woozi for a duet and Woozi indulged him ONCE (Bring It) and immediately regretted it because Hoshi will not stop deploying “Hoshi-Woozi Combo Deuleo bwassana”
    • Also on the Yam and Nam Show he was outed for daydreaming about his solo debut. He already had the album name (H for Hoshi) the the title song (Hurricane), the genre (EDM) and the chorus choreo bahahaha. Was a meme for 2 years and I guess he bugged Woozi/Bumzu enough because it became real
    • https://youtu.be/b0cdQQbW6D4?t=139 CHECK THIS LINK
  • He’s so well known for spoilers before release that during interviews members just, take the microphone away.
    • Iconic 161127 incident when he spoiled Boom Boom. This also good example of how each member will react to a Crisis. Mingyu becomes small, Seungkwan panic MCs, Minghao is shooketh and Jun needs a hug, DK hides, Vernon goes through 200 facial expressions, Joshua smiles it off, Woozi doesn’t want you to know he’s laughing so he buries his face in his hands. Coups reacts immediately but pretends everything’s okay and Jeonghan… mouths along like he knew it was going to happen (definitely complicit). And it’s alost always Hoshi’s fault.
  • Does this cat thing where he gets curious when members are eating. So he goes up to them, plonks himself down with his mouth open looking pleadingly at the food like PLEASE FEED ME (it’s quite cute but Minghao wants him to Stop). Legit, there’s compilation vids of him staring at people eating food with his mouth open without saying anything, waiting to be fed. And then he looks so pleased with himself after
  • His persona so happy and light-hearted it’s easy to forget that he has a serious side and lord, does he have a serious side.
    • I can not emphasise enough how amazing it is that he CHOREOGRAPHS for THIRTEEN PEOPEL. He works with a professional choreographer for the title song, and perf u for other songs, but his specialty is knowing Seventeen as Seventeen. So he knows which formation works for 13 people, how to transition from block to block, who should take center and how to use levels and effects to emphasise the singer. Someone on YT once said, the brilliant thing about Hoshi is how he doesn’t just choreograph to the flow, but also to the lyrics. One is hard enough, but to do both??!!
    • Once he danced so hard he dislocated his shoulder onstage ;______________; (when he came back on he apologised and said he left the heater on at the dorm bahahaha). It’s a chronic dislocation so who knows how many times it has happened. Even now he still tapes his shoulder.
    • once he stopped a saesaeng with a stop sign. Like the story is hilarious but also a chilling reminder of the reality of being an idol
    • Bumzu: Once, hoshi came to me and explained AN ENTIRE SONG through dance . He explained his musical imagination and emotion through dance. That song was Highlight.”
      • like legit he goes to Woozi, wiggles around, makes sound effects (boom tsk tsk shuuu) and Woozi translates that into a song

I honestly have so much to say about Hoshi but I have to stop because otherwise I’ll NEVER STOP. There’s so many moments, like, how he tried to eat a hamburger in one bite or his massive vegenence saga with Wonwoo during OFD or how he survived being killed in Mafia after they figured out he was mafia, imitating Seungkwan, getting flying-kicked by Seungkwan, naega hosh naega hosh, the development of his tiger obsession and the anti-tiger movement (Woozi, Wonwoo, Minghao — and the reluctant conversion of Minghao), the “Jeonghan please stop coddling hoshi” movement, his grandma-grandpa skits with Seokmin, his self-confidence in the recording studio, Seungcheol being surprised that he can rap, backstage freestyle battles …. ahhhh one day

Notes:

- will not finish this before comeback see you in july :'D
- twt user mi_won17's acc got suspended so some links will be broken ;___; I'll meditate about longevity
- I need to hold myself back the chapters are just getting longer and longer and it's unsustainable
- surprisingly I don't have that many fansite pictures of Hoshi? it's mostly fancams FAIR but next comes Wonwoo, my bias wrecker and the one I have the MOST photos of