know next to nothing of NCT, what are some good songs?
Tbh they're a bit of an acquired taste. A lot of what I ended up liking ended up being stuff that had to grow on me, but the realization for some is like "wow, this actually was a genius idea"
Most commonly-liked tracks:
Boss
Baby Don't Stop
Kick It
Other good tracks that imo can be totally subjective:
Almost all the lead singles that have an MV except for the early Dream unit stuff because that was straight up geared for a stupid cutesy kid concept. Also avoid the English renditions of stuff (like Regular). SM makes garbage translations.
WayV is very underrated imo. They are an NCT subunit focused for the Chinese market, so they don't appear on many regular Korean programs. This was a very-well put performance imo, and they've got some of the best vocals in all of NCT for sure. Ten is virtually all the dancer Taeyong is but a much better singer. Thai guy, Korean agency, Chinese group, and sometimes has to speak English. Ten.
The more recent NCT U "Make A Wish" single imo is a great example of how the NCT system works. Implementing Jaemin from Dream and Xiaojun from WayV. Especially with years passing, it's hard to make sense of the point of Dream vs 127 units, apart from giving all the NCT members a better opportunity for line distribution.
Up until like last year, Mark was almost in like every damn song because he was assigned as a regular in all units but WayV. It was funny seeing how true that was when NCT was on that random dance TV show and he pretty much was in every song. Also funny when NCT did a collab with EXO in an SM stage and it's like "well shit now he's part of EXO. Ironically enough, he's in SuperM.
On that note, SuperM isn't all that great imo. A combo of NCT/EXO/WayV and Taemin, so crazy talent, but the songs don't seem as well thought out.
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