Join the biggest community of K-Pop fans live on Pinkvilla Rooms to get one step closer to your favourite K-Celebs! Click here to join. In 2021, NCT 127 released their record-breaking third Korean studio album, ‘Sticker’, and its repackage album ‘Favourite’, which sold a combined 3.58 million copies and became the best-selling album of all-time by an act under SM Entertainment.ĪLSO READ: WATCH: aespa members are in search of their counterparts in a thrilling teaser for ‘ep2. NCT 127 subsequently released the EP ‘We Are Superhuman’ that year and their second Korean studio album, ‘Neo Zone’, in 2020, the latter becoming their first top-five entry on the US Billboard 200 and their first release to sell over one million copies. In April 2019, the unit's increasing global popularity prompted their label SM Entertainment to sign marketing and distribution deals with Capitol Music Group and Caroline Distribution, respectively. They broke into the mainstream in 2017 with ‘Cherry Bomb’, now recognized as one of their signature songs, and received greater international attention following the release of their first studio album and its lead single ‘Regular’ in 2018. Since their debut, NCT 127 has released three studio albums, two repackaged albums, and four extended plays in South Korea. Members Doyoung and Johnny joined the unit in December 2016, ahead of their second EP ‘Limitless’ (2017) Jungwoo, the final member, was introduced in September 2018 for the group's first studio album ‘Regular-Irregular’ (2018). Their debut extended play (EP) NCT #127 (2016) was a commercial success upon release, winning them the Best New Group title at several South Korean music award shows. They debuted on Jwith the single ‘Firetruck’ and an original lineup of seven members: Taeil, Taeyong, Yuta, Jaehyun, Winwin, Mark, and Haechan. It’s just so cool.NCT 127 was formed and managed by SM Entertainment. Also with the group’s new song ‘Punch,’ SM decided to keep this whole martial arts thing going, which we started. “We all knew that we had to capture the fans in first few seconds of the song, which we did. In their repackage album NCT 127 Neo Zone: The Final Round, it is the fifth track, and in their Japanese second mini-album Loveholic, it is the fifth track. It was released on March 6, 2020, and serves as the title track for their second Korean studio album NCT 127 Neo Zone. As creative artists, that’s what you live for.” 'Kick It' ( yeongung yngxióng) is a Korean song by NCT 127. And we were so excited about that concept, as it was so different from anything we’ve done. “Once we got Bruce Lee, we got very intentional with the sound, adding some martial art nuances and lyrics.
The team had already finished with the melody, and it was almost as if the magic in the room was telling them what to do next.
I didn’t want anything to offend.”Īfter SM assured that it was okay to go with it, things progressed smoothly. Kick It blends traditional and modern elements, best seen in the sets, its play with stark contrasts, and the heavy inspiration from Bruce Lee.One of the main sets early in the music video features the interior of a traditional Chinese house.
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For me, just as a Black woman, I’m really careful with that. The aesthetics of the Kick It music video begins to solidify the meaning of Neo Culture Technology, the full name of NCT. “And somebody said, ‘Wait, did you just say Bruce Lee?’ and we were like ‘Wait, that’s kind of cool, but is it okay to say it in a song?’ Because we wanted to make sure if it wasn’t an appropriation. “I remember, we (songwriting team) were pitching ideas in a studio at SM Entertainment as usual, and one of us randomly mumbled something similar to Bruce Lee,”
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