Now imagine him doing this after a HIATUS, stays were LOSINGGGG their minds, mind you we never really got shirtless or stomach hyunjin before this. Hope you check out his Motley Crew Artist of the Month performance.
Hyunjin is such a talented artist, it’s why he’s my bias in SKZ. He blows my mind every time he performs and he’s an amazing, hilarious human. Love ur reaction! You have to see his Artist of the Month performance. It’s legendary.
When hyunjin and han are together then the extraness is on another level. Btw it wasn't an elastic band it was just his finger. It was hyunjin that was being extra about it. It didn't really hurt
hahahaa recently they released a like a variety show thing and in it they had to spend 5 mins drawing smthn, during those 5 mins they were very concentrated and quiet. bang chan looked up and went "can you hear that? you cant hear anything right? i love it so much"
I like how you speculated about the outfit and staging choices in relation to the storytelling. I think the "prince" outfit references how he's always talked about for his "prince-ly" visuals and he breaks free from that image throughout the dance as the outfit gets more disheveled and stripped back into something more raw and feral. Notice how the lighting and hairstyle actually hides his face throughout most of the dance, as if he's saying look at my skills and not my face.
almost all of the members have names that they get called by the fans (either their actual name or something cute) binnie usually refers to Changbin Jinnie or Hyunjinnie is a cute way to say Hyunjin's name but he also has nicknames like in 'the Prince', Drama Llama, Night Fury. you will also see people call him a Ferret (thats his animal for their SKZoo characters... in a way you can think of them as being somewhat like the BT21 characters from BTS [idk if that correlation helped but yea]) since you might be curious ill put a list for each memeber BANG CHAN | Christopher, Chris, Chan/Chani, Wolf, Kangaroo, CB97, Vampire, VamChan, ByungChan, Koala, Genius Leader Bang | wolf emoji 🐺 and SKZoo is a wolf named "Wolf Chan" LEE KNOW | Minho, Lee Rino, LeeCasso, 4-D, Tsundere, Dancing Jewelry, Handsome Psycho, Butt Hunter | rabbit emoji 🐰🐇 and SKZoo is a rabbit named "Leebit" CHANGBIN | Binnie, Mogi (mosquito), Jingjingie (whiny), Teokjaengie (chin), Dwaekki (Pabbit = pig rabbit hybrid) | pig+bunny emojies 🐷🐰/🐖🐇 and SKZoo is a Dwaekki named "Dwaekki" HYUNJIN | Jinnie, Hyunie, Llama, Drama Llama, Prince, , Bunny, Weasel, Ferret | hyunjin isnt really consistent with his emojis, but he uses hearts a lot and his SKZoo is a Ferreit named "Jinret" HAN | Sungie, Jisung, Squirrel, Quokka, QueRrel (from quokka + squirrel), Hanie, Hamster | jisung uses the squirrel emoji 🐿️ and his SKZoo is a Quokka named Han Quokka FELIZ | Yongbok, Happiness, Lix, Bokie, Ppokie, Fairy, Elf, Angel, Chick, Sunshine, ASMR Master | chick and kitty emojis 🐥/🐱(cat when with Seungmin) SKZoo as a chick named "BbokAri" SEUNGMIN | Minnie, Snail, Cherry, Cherry Dog, Puppy, Dandy Boy | he uses the puppy emoji 🐶 and his SKZoo is a puppy named "PuppyM" I.N. | Jeongin, Innie, I.N.ie, Jeonginnie, BabyBread, Oppang, Yeni, Desert Fox, Maknae on Top, Yanggaeng | he uses the fox emoji 🦊 and his SKZoo is a desert fox named "FoxI.Ny"
Thank you for this birthday present for Hyunjin and for us 😍 I just want to give you a little bit of a look into the choreography that Hyunjin made here, since everything, from the dance itself, through the song chosen, outfit chosen, tiding up his hair and even the props like mirror and the rose - all these things were his idea. Play with fire is a story about beautiful prince (everyone's been refering to Hyunjin as a "prince" since the school) who is considered as just beautiful and elegant and perfect but he has a wild animal inside and his heart is full of fire, especially while he dances. That's why he looks so messy at the end, because every person has flaws and imperfections. At the beginning when he pops and chokes himself it's his true imperfect and wild nature coming out of him, breaking through the "perfect prince shell" and at the end he's choking himself again, silencing that wild nature that can't be released and he just walks away back to his schedules and normal work, back to trying to be perfect in the society and industry that requires perfection in every aspect. It's a dance about passion that burns within him but can't be fulfilled in the way he wants. Hyunjin has an artistic soul and express himself through the art, making choregraphies, making photos or drawing, and this is his own story he wanted to tell us after four months of being silenced and hidden. But the most interesting part about him is that he had never practiced dancing before he had been street casted by a JYPe employee when he was shopping with his mum. He had been training dancing only for 2 years before debuting with Stray Kids as the MAIN dancer (him and Minho are both main dancers). At first he was so bad and inexperienced in dancing that others scolded him and laughted at him when he kept saying that he want to debut as a main dancer. They kept saying he's going to debut just because he's pretty so he was working twice as hard to prove them wrong (sometimes 18 hours per day, he'd been practicing, sleeping for 2 hours, going to school, then back to the company to practice again, and he also joined SOPA and took contemporary lessons) and now he became one of the best dancers in the industry, (few days ago Studio Choom's PD called him the best 4th gen male dancer) his fancams have millions of views (8,8 mln views for Psycho fancam for example and 14 fancams with over 1 mln views). He is known for his hard work, dancing has become his greatest passion and he even choreographed two dance covers by himself (PWF you've just reacted to and "When the party's over"). He is so young yet he already has menaged to create his own style of dancing and lately he started to write and compose songs (you can watch his self-written and self-composed song "Little Star" and "#Lovestay" he composed himself and co-wrote with Felix and I.N). "Red lights" he made with Chan is about perfectionism and compulsion of workaholism. Him and Chan are the biggest hardworkers and perfectionist in the group so they could capture it perfectly. But think the main point why he became so good at dancing is that the dancing became his greatest passion. He practices almost his all free time, even other members say he's thinking only about dancing (and painting 😋). He said that when he wants to take a break he thinks that someone over there is probably practicing right now so he just gets back to training. He's been doing many dance vlives called "Hyune's Dance Studio" and there are many compilation of his vlive dances on YT as well, especially when you watch his freestyle dance, you can clearly see his passion and love for dance, the way he immerses himself into music and dance, trying to convey all the emotions he feels. He said that dancing is a language for him, that he's not that good with words, but he conveys his emotions and thoughts through his dance and paintings. He treats dancing not as just his work but a passion and an art, he has really artistic soul, he can't help but creating art, trough his dancing, painting, photographing, composing, writing songs and even making bracelets. He is not just a dancer. He is an artist. Hyunjin is an INFP, he's very introverted person. He likes to work on choreography and songs all alone, to spend time alone, mainly on drawing or watching sad romantic movies after which he cries a lot, he likes to walk along Seoul streets alone and taking pictures, his room is full of his drawings, dried flowers and candles, he's writing his thoughts about life like a poem, he's like a modern bohemian, that came out straight from a romantic book.
Thank you girls for saying Happy Birthday to Hyunjin! 🎈🌻 🌞 It's Hyunjin day, so I am going to talk about Hyunjin 😄 You asked if we could say what we think about Hyunjin in 3 words, it's not easy, but I will try. For me it's more like 3 words in 1 - #lovestay. He genuinely cares and he is the one that created the # Hyunjin wrote the lyrics for "Love Stay" together with Felix and IN and he also tries to have a meaningful conection with Stay. Many people tend to talk a lot about his hair, so a few months ago he asked Stay not to talk about his hair during his Vlives, because he would rather talk about our worries. Which he then proceeded to do on a regular basis. He really takes pride in his craft. There are a couple of videos from studio Choom. One is the performance itself th-cam.com/video/T-ajHVsMcKk/w-d-xo.html The other is 31m with the preparation and behind the scene th-cam.com/video/IRH5MuOWtDg/w-d-xo.html He loves drawing as well. One of his famous faces is from when he tried to draw Lee Know during his Vlive and was not impressed by his progress. 😆 Hyunjin and Lee Know were room mates for a while and are the only Skz that are an only child as well. They are really like older and younger sibling with each other and remind me a lot of how my sister and I used to be, when we were younger. If you would like to hear him sing a balad, he co wrote and co-composed Little Star th-cam.com/video/jzorNBLDIEI/w-d-xo.html There is a lot more, but you will figure it out as you go. 🥰😂 Anyway, thank you again.
- He has several nicknames: the members sometimes use Hyunjinnie, Llama/Weasel/Ferret (in reference, not address), he himself uses Hyun.e (basically Honey), Jinnie/Jini, and Prince is pretty universally applied even well outside of the fandom. - 5:47 What makes this dance bit even better is that he and Han were getting their groove on to the carnival music from a toy claw machine. - 6:46 "I feel like they're really hard to organize as a group..." According to both them and everyone who meets them: YES. They're chaos. They've been singled out as chaotic by other chaotic people. We eventually noticed that Chan once again demonstrated his genius by figuring out how to wrangle them (when he's not being part of the chaos): he treats them the way a kindergarten teacher treats five-year-olds. He'll toss out a "Let's do [whatever]" suggestion in the midst of the melee, and it makes them all suddenly focus on the new activity, and then he has them. Otoh, even just yesterday, yet another person who's met them mentioned that when they're in performance mode, they're preternaturally focused and intense. They flip between chaos and laser-beams. - 8:08 He was sleeping like a rock in the restaurant. They'd been amusing themselves by playing their music fill blast and holding the phones up to his head to wake him up, but he just...kept sleeping. - 8:36 Hyunjin's reaction here is hilarious, but honestly, the full story makes it better. He jokingly insulted Lee Know earlier in the show and immediately assumed a defensive position because, well, historical precedent. So Lee Know acted like nothing happened, and eventually Hyunjin let down his guard over the course of the show. And then Lee Know stealthily nailed him with a rubber band, immediately hid the band, and acted like nothing happened. So when Hyunjin was dying and accusing Lee Know, the others checked Lee Know's empty hands and got his completely innocent "I have no idea what he's talking about" response. This moment is the essence of HyunMin. - 12:07 Yes, before he started lifting, Changbin was notoriously scrawny. Until he hit about 20 or so, he was a stick figure. You'll immediately notice it when you get around to some of their early vids. - 13:10 Roughly half of them went through a heavy "baby" stage. They still do it fairly regularly, but they've added in "jagiya." - 14:54 He was the actual host (as opposed to guest host) on Music Core from 2019 until early 2021 (now Lee Know is). - "Play with Fire" was his first solo project to release after he returned from hiatus. "OH" was the "SKZ is reunited" announcement, but "PWF" was "I'm back. You tried to get rid of me, and you failed. Here's my story." I mentioned that one of his most well-known nicknames is Prince -- even random music shows and announcers call him that. So we have a perfect prince enter this quiet scene, examine his idealized image in a mirror, tie up the hair he's famous for, and then grab his throat and be silenced. So instead of using the words he's not allowed to speak, he dances, slowly coming apart, until he ends completely disheveled, his princely image all but gone, just the raw self left, the vestiges of his facade clinging by a single button...and then he grabs his throat again as a reminder that he's still not allowed to speak. A coordinated attack of lies tried to take him (and several other people) out, to destroy his career and life, and in typical kpop fashion, he couldn't say a word to defend himself. Even when it was proven false, he couldn't speak about it. He could only keep dancing, keep writing, showing himself to be a person, not a perfect image, silenced but not gone. The prince showed himself as the person underneath, silenced but still here and still reigning. - Yes, Hyunjin is THE choreographer. He worked with the director on the staging, but the choreography is his. In all SKZ releases, they're very specific about the creators, be it choreography, lyrics, composing, arranging, whatever. For instance, you'll see Lee Know's co-choreographers listed with him on _his_ solo release, "Dawn." There's no "well, we'll just give The Idol the credit" BS. - This is not his first self-choreographed release. You mentioned contemporary, so you might appreciate his "When the Party's Over" Billie Eilish cover (th-cam.com/video/bY_TqcsMyHM/w-d-xo.html ), made to express how he feels when a concert has ended and reality returns. And Lee Know's very short contemporary bit for the intro to Kingdom, th-cam.com/video/YRryu_P06mw/w-d-xo.html .
![IM DEAD. [Stray Kids:SKZ-PLAYER] Hyunjin "Play With Fire" (원곡 : Sam Tinnesz) STAY REACTION](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/hOOIC_HcD_U/mqdefault.jpg)
PLEASE do his Artist of the month on Studio Choom as well ❣️❣️
Now imagine him doing this after a HIATUS, stays were LOSINGGGG their minds, mind you we never really got shirtless or stomach hyunjin before this. Hope you check out his Motley Crew Artist of the Month performance.
Hyunjin is such a talented artist, it’s why he’s my bias in SKZ. He blows my mind every time he performs and he’s an amazing, hilarious human. Love ur reaction! You have to see his Artist of the Month performance. It’s legendary.
His dance to Billie Eillish’s When the party’s over is amazing.
When hyunjin and han are together then the extraness is on another level. Btw it wasn't an elastic band it was just his finger. It was hyunjin that was being extra about it. It didn't really hurt
hahahaa recently they released a like a variety show thing and in it they had to spend 5 mins drawing smthn, during those 5 mins they were very concentrated and quiet. bang chan looked up and went "can you hear that? you cant hear anything right? i love it so much"
Kai, Taemin, Jimin, and Hyunjin in a dance performance together would be FIRE!
OH YES!!!!!! That would be killer.
I’d be dead ☠️
Thanks for doing this for Jinnies birthday! He is an absolute sweetheart and I know these gestures mean a lot to him.
Thank you for continuing to do these appreciation videos for the Stray Kids members on their birthdays! It's very sweet
"He's such a bitch" IDK WHY THIS KILLS ME
I like how you speculated about the outfit and staging choices in relation to the storytelling. I think the "prince" outfit references how he's always talked about for his "prince-ly" visuals and he breaks free from that image throughout the dance as the outfit gets more disheveled and stripped back into something more raw and feral. Notice how the lighting and hairstyle actually hides his face throughout most of the dance, as if he's saying look at my skills and not my face.
Happy birthday hyunjin! 💗
Happy birthday Hyunjin
almost all of the members have names that they get called by the fans (either their actual name or something cute)
binnie usually refers to Changbin
Jinnie or Hyunjinnie is a cute way to say Hyunjin's name
but he also has nicknames like in 'the Prince', Drama Llama, Night Fury.
you will also see people call him a Ferret (thats his animal for their SKZoo characters... in a way you can think of them as being somewhat like the BT21 characters from BTS [idk if that correlation helped but yea])
since you might be curious ill put a list for each memeber
BANG CHAN | Christopher, Chris, Chan/Chani, Wolf, Kangaroo, CB97, Vampire, VamChan, ByungChan, Koala, Genius Leader Bang | wolf emoji 🐺 and SKZoo is a wolf named "Wolf Chan"
LEE KNOW | Minho, Lee Rino, LeeCasso, 4-D, Tsundere, Dancing Jewelry, Handsome Psycho, Butt Hunter | rabbit emoji 🐰🐇 and SKZoo is a rabbit named "Leebit"
CHANGBIN | Binnie, Mogi (mosquito), Jingjingie (whiny), Teokjaengie (chin), Dwaekki (Pabbit = pig rabbit hybrid) | pig+bunny emojies 🐷🐰/🐖🐇 and SKZoo is a Dwaekki named "Dwaekki"
HYUNJIN | Jinnie, Hyunie, Llama, Drama Llama, Prince, , Bunny, Weasel, Ferret | hyunjin isnt really consistent with his emojis, but he uses hearts a lot and his SKZoo is a Ferreit named "Jinret"
HAN | Sungie, Jisung, Squirrel, Quokka, QueRrel (from quokka + squirrel), Hanie, Hamster | jisung uses the squirrel emoji 🐿️ and his SKZoo is a Quokka named Han Quokka
FELIZ | Yongbok, Happiness, Lix, Bokie, Ppokie, Fairy, Elf, Angel, Chick, Sunshine, ASMR Master | chick and kitty emojis 🐥/🐱(cat when with Seungmin) SKZoo as a chick named "BbokAri"
SEUNGMIN | Minnie, Snail, Cherry, Cherry Dog, Puppy, Dandy Boy | he uses the puppy emoji 🐶 and his SKZoo is a puppy named "PuppyM"
I.N. | Jeongin, Innie, I.N.ie, Jeonginnie, BabyBread, Oppang, Yeni, Desert Fox, Maknae on Top, Yanggaeng | he uses the fox emoji 🦊 and his SKZoo is a desert fox named "FoxI.Ny"
Thank you! That is really helpful 😀
Hyune and Lovestay Boy too! These two are really popular!
Thank you for this birthday present for Hyunjin and for us 😍
I just want to give you a little bit of a look into the choreography that Hyunjin made here, since everything, from the dance itself, through the song chosen, outfit chosen, tiding up his hair and even the props like mirror and the rose - all these things were his idea. Play with fire is a story about beautiful prince (everyone's been refering to Hyunjin as a "prince" since the school) who is considered as just beautiful and elegant and perfect but he has a wild animal inside and his heart is full of fire, especially while he dances. That's why he looks so messy at the end, because every person has flaws and imperfections. At the beginning when he pops and chokes himself it's his true imperfect and wild nature coming out of him, breaking through the "perfect prince shell" and at the end he's choking himself again, silencing that wild nature that can't be released and he just walks away back to his schedules and normal work, back to trying to be perfect in the society and industry that requires perfection in every aspect. It's a dance about passion that burns within him but can't be fulfilled in the way he wants. Hyunjin has an artistic soul and express himself through the art, making choregraphies, making photos or drawing, and this is his own story he wanted to tell us after four months of being silenced and hidden.
But the most interesting part about him is that he had never practiced dancing before he had been street casted by a JYPe employee when he was shopping with his mum. He had been training dancing only for 2 years before debuting with Stray Kids as the MAIN dancer (him and Minho are both main dancers). At first he was so bad and inexperienced in dancing that others scolded him and laughted at him when he kept saying that he want to debut as a main dancer. They kept saying he's going to debut just because he's pretty so he was working twice as hard to prove them wrong (sometimes 18 hours per day, he'd been practicing, sleeping for 2 hours, going to school, then back to the company to practice again, and he also joined SOPA and took contemporary lessons) and now he became one of the best dancers in the industry, (few days ago Studio Choom's PD called him the best 4th gen male dancer) his fancams have millions of views (8,8 mln views for Psycho fancam for example and 14 fancams with over 1 mln views). He is known for his hard work, dancing has become his greatest passion and he even choreographed two dance covers by himself (PWF you've just reacted to and "When the party's over"). He is so young yet he already has menaged to create his own style of dancing and lately he started to write and compose songs (you can watch his self-written and self-composed song "Little Star" and "#Lovestay" he composed himself and co-wrote with Felix and I.N). "Red lights" he made with Chan is about perfectionism and compulsion of workaholism. Him and Chan are the biggest hardworkers and perfectionist in the group so they could capture it perfectly.
But think the main point why he became so good at dancing is that the dancing became his greatest passion. He practices almost his all free time, even other members say he's thinking only about dancing (and painting 😋). He said that when he wants to take a break he thinks that someone over there is probably practicing right now so he just gets back to training. He's been doing many dance vlives called "Hyune's Dance Studio" and there are many compilation of his vlive dances on YT as well, especially when you watch his freestyle dance, you can clearly see his passion and love for dance, the way he immerses himself into music and dance, trying to convey all the emotions he feels. He said that dancing is a language for him, that he's not that good with words, but he conveys his emotions and thoughts through his dance and paintings. He treats dancing not as just his work but a passion and an art, he has really artistic soul, he can't help but creating art, trough his dancing, painting, photographing, composing, writing songs and even making bracelets. He is not just a dancer. He is an artist.
Hyunjin is an INFP, he's very introverted person. He likes to work on choreography and songs all alone, to spend time alone, mainly on drawing or watching sad romantic movies after which he cries a lot, he likes to walk along Seoul streets alone and taking pictures, his room is full of his drawings, dried flowers and candles, he's writing his thoughts about life like a poem, he's like a modern bohemian, that came out straight from a romantic book.
현진이 생일 기념 영상 귀엽네요~~다음엔 한국에 생일 카페 구경하러 오세요❣
Hyunjin AOTM 'Motley Crew' and Billie Eillish's 'When the party over' React pls!
I love this reaction girls! I just subscribed hopeful for more stray kids related reactions 💖
Thanks for joining us! Stray Kids reactions go up every Monday 😊
Thank you girls for saying Happy Birthday to Hyunjin! 🎈🌻 🌞
It's Hyunjin day, so I am going to talk about Hyunjin 😄
You asked if we could say what we think about Hyunjin in 3 words, it's not easy, but I will try. For me it's more like 3 words in 1 - #lovestay. He genuinely cares and he is the one that created the #
Hyunjin wrote the lyrics for "Love Stay" together with Felix and IN and he also tries to have a meaningful conection with Stay. Many people tend to talk a lot about his hair, so a few months ago he asked Stay not to talk about his hair during his Vlives, because he would rather talk about our worries. Which he then proceeded to do on a regular basis.
He really takes pride in his craft.
There are a couple of videos from studio Choom.
One is the performance itself
th-cam.com/video/T-ajHVsMcKk/w-d-xo.html
The other is 31m with the preparation and behind the scene
th-cam.com/video/IRH5MuOWtDg/w-d-xo.html
He loves drawing as well. One of his famous faces is from when he tried to draw Lee Know during his Vlive and was not impressed by his progress. 😆
Hyunjin and Lee Know were room mates for a while and are the only Skz that are an only child as well. They are really like older and younger sibling with each other and remind me a lot of how my sister and I used to be, when we were younger.
If you would like to hear him sing a balad, he co wrote and co-composed Little Star th-cam.com/video/jzorNBLDIEI/w-d-xo.html
There is a lot more, but you will figure it out as you go. 🥰😂 Anyway, thank you again.
외국인들은 현진이 학교 폭력 가해자라는 사실은 모르겠지...?
오래전 일이고, 그때 현진은 아직 성인이 되지 않았다. 활용하지 마세요 🙄
Shut up dumb ass
- He has several nicknames: the members sometimes use Hyunjinnie, Llama/Weasel/Ferret (in reference, not address), he himself uses Hyun.e (basically Honey), Jinnie/Jini, and Prince is pretty universally applied even well outside of the fandom.
- 5:47 What makes this dance bit even better is that he and Han were getting their groove on to the carnival music from a toy claw machine.
- 6:46 "I feel like they're really hard to organize as a group..." According to both them and everyone who meets them: YES. They're chaos. They've been singled out as chaotic by other chaotic people. We eventually noticed that Chan once again demonstrated his genius by figuring out how to wrangle them (when he's not being part of the chaos): he treats them the way a kindergarten teacher treats five-year-olds. He'll toss out a "Let's do [whatever]" suggestion in the midst of the melee, and it makes them all suddenly focus on the new activity, and then he has them. Otoh, even just yesterday, yet another person who's met them mentioned that when they're in performance mode, they're preternaturally focused and intense. They flip between chaos and laser-beams.
- 8:08 He was sleeping like a rock in the restaurant. They'd been amusing themselves by playing their music fill blast and holding the phones up to his head to wake him up, but he just...kept sleeping.
- 8:36 Hyunjin's reaction here is hilarious, but honestly, the full story makes it better. He jokingly insulted Lee Know earlier in the show and immediately assumed a defensive position because, well, historical precedent. So Lee Know acted like nothing happened, and eventually Hyunjin let down his guard over the course of the show. And then Lee Know stealthily nailed him with a rubber band, immediately hid the band, and acted like nothing happened. So when Hyunjin was dying and accusing Lee Know, the others checked Lee Know's empty hands and got his completely innocent "I have no idea what he's talking about" response. This moment is the essence of HyunMin.
- 12:07 Yes, before he started lifting, Changbin was notoriously scrawny. Until he hit about 20 or so, he was a stick figure. You'll immediately notice it when you get around to some of their early vids.
- 13:10 Roughly half of them went through a heavy "baby" stage. They still do it fairly regularly, but they've added in "jagiya."
- 14:54 He was the actual host (as opposed to guest host) on Music Core from 2019 until early 2021 (now Lee Know is).
- "Play with Fire" was his first solo project to release after he returned from hiatus. "OH" was the "SKZ is reunited" announcement, but "PWF" was "I'm back. You tried to get rid of me, and you failed. Here's my story." I mentioned that one of his most well-known nicknames is Prince -- even random music shows and announcers call him that.
So we have a perfect prince enter this quiet scene, examine his idealized image in a mirror, tie up the hair he's famous for, and then grab his throat and be silenced. So instead of using the words he's not allowed to speak, he dances, slowly coming apart, until he ends completely disheveled, his princely image all but gone, just the raw self left, the vestiges of his facade clinging by a single button...and then he grabs his throat again as a reminder that he's still not allowed to speak.
A coordinated attack of lies tried to take him (and several other people) out, to destroy his career and life, and in typical kpop fashion, he couldn't say a word to defend himself. Even when it was proven false, he couldn't speak about it. He could only keep dancing, keep writing, showing himself to be a person, not a perfect image, silenced but not gone. The prince showed himself as the person underneath, silenced but still here and still reigning.
- Yes, Hyunjin is THE choreographer. He worked with the director on the staging, but the choreography is his. In all SKZ releases, they're very specific about the creators, be it choreography, lyrics, composing, arranging, whatever. For instance, you'll see Lee Know's co-choreographers listed with him on _his_ solo release, "Dawn." There's no "well, we'll just give The Idol the credit" BS.
- This is not his first self-choreographed release. You mentioned contemporary, so you might appreciate his "When the Party's Over" Billie Eilish cover (th-cam.com/video/bY_TqcsMyHM/w-d-xo.html ), made to express how he feels when a concert has ended and reality returns. And Lee Know's very short contemporary bit for the intro to Kingdom, th-cam.com/video/YRryu_P06mw/w-d-xo.html .