↬ NOEASY (AUGUST 2021)
└ second full album
└ things may be hard, but skz are going to break through that difficulty with their sound. as long as they have stay, they can overcome everything.
1. CHEESE
2. 소리꾼 (Thunderous)
3. DOMINO
4. 씩 (Ssick)
5. The View
6. 좋아해서 미안 (Sorry, I Love You)
7. Silent Cry
8. 말할 수 없는 비밀 (Secret Secret)
9. Star Lost
10. 강박 (Red Lights)
11. Surfin'
12. Gone Away
13. Wolfgang
14. Mixtape: 애 (OH)

↬ NOEASY - NOISY wordplay
└ life is pretty no easy, but being noisy help overcome hardships.
1. CHEESE
↬ song with a-class lyrics against skz haters
↬ "fold your index (thumb), middle (index), ring and pinky fingers" - when you fold fingers as lyrics goes you do "thumbs up!", but when you change lyrics for adlibs you're ending with "fuck you"
1.2 CHEESE
↬ wordplay:
└ 새끼 (saekki) - they shorten 새끼손가락 (saekkisongalag) - pinky finger, to 새끼 - "pinky" only, but only 새끼 also means bastard

↬ Chan: "some people are making you angry, some people are really frustrating, but if you think it's funny, then you win"
1.3 CHEESE
↬ references to God's Menu and Side Effects, popular, very experimental singles that received some criticism because of their sound, but
└ God's Menu currently has 270M views on YouTube
└ Side Effects was chosen as one of the best kpop songs of 2019 by Dazed
1.4 CHEESE
↬ loosely inspired by Wallace and Gromit animation

↬ I.N's "One, two three" part was added by 3racha in the studio while recording final version (it wasn't in demo originally)
2. 소리꾼 (THUNDEROUS)
↬ holds Stray Kids' story and is about being firm, keeping principles and expressing themselves through their music to people who nags a lot
└ unique, strong and addicting mala taste genre
↬ jutdae - principles, inspired by changbin's viral speech
2.2 소리꾼 (THUNDEROUS)
↬ korean title:
└ 소리꾼 (sorikkun) - singer
↬ wordplays:
└ 잔소리꾼 (jansolikkun) - someone who nags
└ 소리 (sori) - sound, noise

↬ "I'm not sorry, I'm dirty" - english line, but can be said as "I'm not 소리 I'm dirty"

↬ Teen Vogue:
2.3 소리꾼 (THUNDEROUS)
↬ mixes elements of traditional music with Stray Kids' modern sound
└ 소리꾼 (sorikkun) as singer who sings traditional korean music styles
└ traditional korean instruments
└ Changbin's rap inspired by 판소리 (pansori)

cr. Teen Vogue, unesco org
2.4 소리꾼 (THUNDEROUS)
↬ 비켜라 (bikyeora) - get out of the way
└ pronounced by I.N like 비기라 (bikira), he is using Busan satoori - a dialect from I.N.'s hometown

cr. @.cadlilacs @.skzeru @.sanhabot, skz noeasy listening party stationhead
2.5 소리꾼 (THUNDEROUS)
↬ calling themselves thunderous and emphasizing their noisy being by onomatopoeia and loud sounds such as klaxons and laughter
└ 퉤 퉤 퉤 (twae) - sound of spitting
3. DOMINO
↬ holds aspiration that Stray Kids will become the start and everyone else will follow (naver @.seungdduk)
└ Han: "It's the craziest, you might wonder what made us make this song".
3.2 DOMINO
↬ domino sound
└ Chan used sound of falling domino in the chorus

↬ dual meaning, domino game as well as Domino's pizza
└ reference to the pizza and franchise in the lyrics
4. 씩 (SSICK)
↬ wordplay:
└ 씩 (ssick) - sound effect smile/smirk
└ ssick - as something cool
└ 미소 (mi so) - smile
└ "me so sick" - can be read as "smile, ssick"
└ "내 소식도 so sick" (nae so sik do so sick) - the news about me is so sick
@.sataykids @.skzphorias
4.2 씩 (SSICK)
↬ bridge:
└ Chan made a bridge while thinking of Felix and they sang it together
5. THE VIEW
↬ inspired by beautiful Los Angeles' views, the idea was born on the way to meet producers 3racha made this song with
└ Han: "I'd be very happy if it could be a healing song for people who are busy in everyday life or busy with a lot things to do".
6. 좋아해서 미안 (SORRY, I LOVE YOU)
↬ Changbin: "song about having feelings for a friend, but you're hesitant to tell them how you feel, because you're worried that it might make the relationship worse then already is"
└ situation that many people can sympathize to
7. SILENT CRY
↬ about not holding everything in yourself and going to vent your feelings
└ a song sang to YOU
↬ Changbin personally thinks Silent Cry is related to Streetlight (Changbin's skz-player) cr. melon, @.acornswiper
8. 말할 수 없는 비밀 (SECRET SECRET)
↬ Han: "everyone has at least one secret. even if you tell your secret it might not to make you feel better. you might be afraid of showing your weakness. i am trying to say, you have secret too".
└ lyrics that a lot of people can relate to
8.2 말할 수 없는 비밀 (SECRET SECRET)
↬ Han: "I didn't have any tool to release my feelings, I didn't know how to release my stress or vent my feelings".
8.3 말할 수 없는 비밀
↬ korean title:
└ 말할 수 없는 비밀 - Story I Can't Tell
↬ inspired by a movie with the same title (eng. title Secret)
└ original taiwanese movie was from 2007, there will be korean remake filmed later this year
↬ english title:
└ to emphasize secret
9. STAR LOST
↬ Chan: "star lost feels like wandering in the stars, so I wrote lyrics with such feelings, inside such loneliness and emptiness there's a light called you, seeking for a light called Stay"
└ being a star alone and lost between stars
└ inspired by Little Prince
10. 강박 (RED LIGHTS) (Bang Chan, Hyunjin)
↬ korean title: 강박 (kangbag) - compulsion
↬ it's about compulsion and confusion of ego
└ they wanted to try something sexy, but they wanted to express themselves, not someone else as well, so it's not all about sexiness.
10.2 강박 (RED LIGHTS)
↬ about something Chan and Hyunjin can really relate to
└ Chan: we both have some kind of obsession about doing something. I thought there may be people like me, so i wrote this song with this message. I need to do stuff or i have to have things in order.
10.3 강박 (RED LIGHTS)
↬ Chan as recording engineer
└ they recorded demo vocals in Channie’s Room studio, but because quality of vocals was so good, they decided to leave it in final version of song.
└ 3RACHA has their tendency to make high quality vocals in guides.
11. SURFIN' (Lee Know, Changbin, Felix)
↬ hip hop song with cool vibes for the summertime, to feel refreshed
└ Changbin: you need to have some relaxation in the middle of a hot, repetitive and tiring daily life.
12. GONE AWAY (Han, Seungmin, I.N)
↬ the memory of love they had to let go
└ Seungmin: we had a crush on someone, but it came to the point where we felt like we had to let go of that someone. But it's not easy, it's painful and desperate.

cr. NME, SKZ SONG CAMP
13. WOLFGANG
↬ mixing something classical with more recent trap music
↬ title, two meanings:
└ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
└ wolf gang as wolf pack
Chan: you might think it's about wolf gang that does music, but I guess we really wanted to emphasize how wolves team up to survive.
13.2 WOLFGANG
↬ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
└ Austrian composer, composed music in several genres including opera and symphony.
14. 애 (MIXTAPE: OH) https://twitter.com/ahgaseaste/status/1413183139946668032?t=vT_FHA4EnSVC4uGoSk1kkQ&s=19
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