Stray Kids "Christmas EveL" M/V Song Analysis
Such a cool Christmas song, very on brand for them, I loved it! Fun to breakdown, they have a great sense of humor.
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The genius with this one is that feliz navidad is happy Christmas in Spanish. They are just so clever
For the "lore" behind the intro: they released this in the end of november 2021, but a few months earlier in august they released their No Easy album and in the trailer for that the story was that there is a soundmonster who is eating all the world's sounds and Sks are the world's last hope with their "noise" 😀 Their album trailers (and mashups) are very fun to watch and usually don't give much spoilers for the actual album at all. Only Japanese mashups I think are conventional mashups.
I always love people's reaction to my name lol Anywaysss I'm sooo happy that you checked out Christmas evel such an amazing song :)
I just joined here and just wanted to say thanks for the great Analysis and reaction🙏. I have been a Stay for a long time and its amazing to see how many people Straykids is reaching now🤗 Watching this was alot of fun and Im excited for more to come (especially a concert sounds amazing!)🤩
FELIX NEVER BAD 👏🏻 Hahaha, I love this song. My absolute favorite part of the video is when they introduce themselves to the little girl the exact same way they introduce themselves in public / at award shows or interviews, with the synchronized "1, 2, 3, step out". It cracks me up. I think I love the song for a lot of the reasons you mentioned - it's so sassy and fun and Christmas-y but not saccharine or sad, which seems to be the default for other holiday songs. And every part of it is so catchy. It's a real crime that the only live performance of Christmas EveL that I can find has pretty bad audio/visual quality. As far as I can tell they've only done it live once, years ago! If you DO want a sad Christmas song from Stray Kids, they also have Winter Falls that I believe was written by Han. He's good at the sad/emotional songs, you can usually tell when something is a Han song.
I like when you said that it had that Straykids sound because I think thats speaks for how much of an artistic Identity Skz and 3Racha in their songwriting have. You are not that deep into your kpop journey yet but you will notice that alot of Kpop groups go through a bunch of concept changes in their career where they suddenly have a completly new sound and style. While Straykids definatly envolved and kept trying new things they never really did that extrem of a change, even if you go back to like Hellevator and District 9 (Their first songs) it still has that same little something that is so 3Racha and Straykids. Anways sorry for the rambling, loved the reaction like allways 🫶🏻 and im sooo fascinated by the fact that you can point out new things to me in songs that I have listend to a million times 😂
The Felix part went pretty viral when the Song came out so im not suprised you liked it aswell😂 Changbin just recently said in an interview that 3Racha tends to activly try to avoid following trends in their songwriting and I feel like you can hear that here aswell. They took everything christmas songs usally are (Cheerfull lyrics, slow simple melodies,...) and just turned it around and made something completly diffrent and absolutly Straykids😂 Christmas love is alot more of a classic christmas songs but the stage performace is really cute
Oh they definitely try to avoid trends. I think it was an interview, or some show where they were guests, where Changbin said "we try to figure out what is trending and then do the opposite of that"