ok ive taken a deep breath and steeled myself. what do you think of liu yu
I'm going to put this under a cut because I rambled a little, but I wanted to offer my detailed impression :P Rest assured! No tearing to shreds occurred. He remains intact.
Well, I didn’t know who this guy was, so I took myself to the ole Wikipedia and my first thought was wow! Look at those label names.
Second thoughts: Ooh, dancer. I'm looking forward to see how the dancing is (if he still dances).
I have heard of INTO1 but don't watch idol competition shows, but it's impressive that he placed first. I decided to listen to/watch two songs/performances: his first single, 靠岸, from 2019, and his most recent single from 2023, Focus.
靠岸 didn't seemed to have an official video, so I ended up watching a live performance from a show called Mr. Radio.
I was pleasantly surprised by this song! Seeing that he had been on Produce Camp, I was expecting a more pop kind of song, but this was a song I could imagine playing in the OT of a drama (in a good way!). I think his performance was a little shaky here, but I sense that maybe he was nervous? Either way, he seems a little shy here, where this song would really benefit from a powerhouse performance. Idk, maybe it was also a sound mixing issue. I like the song, though. Very pretty. I went to listen to the studio recording and it was a lot better—much closer to what I was hoping to get. The oooooh part sort of reminds me of a Zhou Shen song whose title I can't remember at the moment. It was space themed, though. (EDIT: the song I was thinking about was Cassini)
Next up!! Focus. I watched the Official Music Video on Youtube first.
Coming off 靠岸, I could see from the thumbnail that this song would be closer to the pop sound that I expected, so the things I was interested in seeing was the MV concept and the dancing. On first watch, I didn't really listen to the lyrics much, because there were no captions to read and I can't really tell what people are saying in pop songs anyway.
I have to admit that going into the video with the big gray space only, I thought it was pretty ugly at first. I just think that the CG structure on pale BG concept always looks cheap no matter who does it, though, and Liu Yu seems like a sort of tiny guy, so with all the dancers around him, I initially thought he looked a little swamped by them.
At 0:48 when we got a flash of the all-black cowboy look, again I was a bit disappointed, thinking that there wouldn't be much edge to concepts.
Then we got to the, I'm gonna say, test lab sewer gothic, and I thought "ok, at least that's something". It's definitely be done before but there's more production in that set and look, so at least the whole video isn't just going to be a gray void. The flash of Liu Yu standing in as his own princess was kind of interesting (disappointed this character never showed up in the music video again)
Now I know said I wasn't going to rip him to shreds and that's because....!!! When the beat dropped, I went "ok wait" lol. At 1:03, I witnessed evidence of stage presence and was like "oh we are so back, baby"
Still not a fan of the big pale space, and I think Liu Yu's charisma was most visible in the sewer gothic scenes and weakest in the scenes where he's wearing the silver ice skating outfit looking blouse, but maybe that's just because it distracts you with his little twig body. I personally can't buy into the energy of someone who looks like the most movable object on earth.
3:03 the "yuh" made me laugh tho
MV looks ranked (best to worst):
One thing that I didn't like about the MV (but understand is necessary) was that the video kept cutting right as I thought to myself "Oh, this is a nice bit of dancing", and I wish the shots had been wider on the dance moves instead of cutting him off at the ribs. A wider dance version in the sewer (I know that's not what it was but jhkalfjl) would've been appreciated by me. With that in mind, I decided to see if there was a dance performance video and there was! As suspected, the choreography in the beginning of the song is also just not that strong or compelling to me. It sort of gives intermediate hiphop 2 dance recital. My favorite part of choreo is the breakdown at 2:56.
Anyway, I hope these impressions were sufficient! I didn't check him out on any variety shows so I can't comment much on what I think about his personality, but from a music/performance standpoint, I think he's pretty good. Not really the kind of stuff I listen to anymore but if I still kept up with idols, maybe I'd check him out from time to time :)
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🌼 donghee's personal ig account is public and he follows local small businesses and his university friends . he tends to post more ig stories focusing on his daily life, cafe visits, and traveling . hotae's account is ancient and rarely used when he does post it's usually about donghee, music, or "studying" for the 검정고시 . hotae likes to use the coffee tasting events donghee gets invited to as unofficial dates and enjoys letting donghee dress him up, even if cost comes out of his paycheck . they have a "collaborative" playlist for the cafe . 🌼
credits: @jkjmsgf ig template, @kittyshcherbatsky ig template, @springdoy playlist template
(originally intended to be posted with sway me like the sea, my hotae/donghee fic buuuuut lol better late than never? the playlist is temporary btw! it'll be deleted eventually.)
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Dream’s dnf fanart likes
August 21st
two versions of itt!dnf holding hands
itt!George holding the match gun and itt!Dream holding his sap gun
itt!Dream with his nails and itt!George with his hammer weapon
George and Dream in Breaking Bad outfits
itt!dnf holding onto a dandelion, floating in the air (+gif)
itt!Dream standing behind itt!George, arm around his shoulders
George asleep against Dream's chest, blue butterflies around Dream's head
itt!dnf back-to-back, tied to chairs
Dream and George walking together, arms around each other, Dream holding a bag of groceries, George holding a drink
George and Dream saying their tweets about playing It Takes Two directly to each other
Dream and George reaching out to each other, their other hands connected by a red string
Dream making a heart with his fingers, George making the 👌 sign
Dream, wearing a party hat, with George beside him, various animals Dream has been in George's 'Minecraft but my friend is' series around them
Dream sitting, George standing next to him, looking at each other, from the Everest MV bts
Dream in an art gallery looking at a painting of c!George
biologist!George and merman!Dream looking at each other in surprise
George, in a white tshirt, and Dream, in the green minecraft end poem hoodie, holding hands and staring at each other
dogboy!Dream with his arm around catboy!George's shoulder
itt!George elbowing itt!Dream in the chest playfully
Dream and George wearing cat ear beanies themed after their It Takes Two characters
itt!Dream leaning into itt!George's personal space, both of them staring at each other and blushing
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