Taz's Takeover - Boy Groups: First and Latest MVs
This replay comes from Taz’s Takeover, where Transcendent Patron Taz took full control of the playlist and guided us through a selection of lesser-known boy groups by pairing their first music videos with their most recent releases.
Watching each group back-to-back like this made the evolution really easy to spot. In some cases the change was dramatic, while others showed a slower, more subtle refinement over time. It led to some great discussion as the stream unfolded, especially around growth, confidence, and how each group’s identity has developed.
As with all takeover streams, this one had a very clear point of view behind it, and it was a lot of fun to experience a playlist built around comparison and progression rather than individual tracks.
Playlist:
CLOSE YOUR EYES (All My Poetry, X)
E’LAST (Swear, Crazy Train)
EPEX (Lock Down, Go Big)
GHOST9 (Think of Dawn, Down for you)
NouerA (New is Now, number of cases)
NTX (Kiss the World, ICE LUV)
OMEGA X (VAMOS, JUNK FOOD)
SUPERKIND (WATCH OUT, Beam me up)
TAN (DU DU DU, HYPERTONIC)
TEMPEST (Bad News, In the Dark)
TRENDZ (TNT, Villain)
Comments (3)
Does anyone have timestamps for E'last, Omega X and Tempest?
Yes, the pink boy in Omega X is Hangyeom :) (and yes, he was in Jazz for Two) - I still love the fact that 5 members acted in dramas and 4 of them were the main characters in BLs 😂 What happened to them is so heart breaking. There are several interviews after they got out in which they talked about everything and seeing them in tears during that interview hardly able to talk about it hits so hard. Some members are in military atm so they don't release songs as a group but they have a subunit called OX:N (Jaehan, Yechan, Jaehyun and Xen). Junk Food was already released under the new company. Also, half of the group will be on Europe tour this month :) You should definitely check out more of their music, they're great! And about the thing that so many groups don't make it: Omega X is a perfect example for that. All of them were part of at least one group before their debut with Omega X and none of those groups made it (Spectrum, Limitless, ENoi, Snuper, SevenOClock, Gidongdae, 1Team, 1The9) don't know if I missed any but this is 8 groups that didn't make it. If I hadn't known Omega X I probably would have never heard of those groups. And they had some really good songs, too. It's so sad to think about what could have been for some groups if they had the right exposure to the public. So many of them would still be around then.
I didnt know Hangyeom until I first saw Vamos. And I fell for him immediately! His stage presence is incredible! 😍