ATEEZ 'Cyberpunk' SUPER DEEP DIVE SONG & VOCAL ANALYSIS! 💥40 minutes

Loved this! I knew the chromatic melody was striking af and that the drop/climatic moment with Seonghwa’s big line (we call standout moments like that the “killing part” in kpop bc they’re so awesome/exciting) was insanely powerful, and now I see why musically thanks to your analysis. Btw, YES you should watch more ATEEZ live performances in addition to the MVs (cyberpunk is a b-side tho and doesn’t have an official mv. The one you watched seems to be a montage or footage from the Guerrilla MV trailer) and if you want to watch the full stage without the zooms/cuts to show the members’ closeups, search for “full cam” along with the song title to get the full band shot. You’ll see that our vocal god Jongho IS actually dancing along hard with the rest of the band and only stabilizes himself/steps out or dances a softer variation of the others’ moves during and sometimes right before his lines bc singing his difficult vocal parts beautifully is important to him and the band, so the choreographers have found clever ways to let him lean into his biggest strength. EVERY member of ATEEZ sings beautifully (and you’ll want to take people’s suggestions to watch the individual Lee Mujin episodes for the five members who’ve done an episode so far: Jongho, Hongjoong (our captain, the other rapper besides Mingi, who also has a surprisingly beautiful singing voice - for him, you should check out some of the BY.HONGJOONG solo song cover videos bc they not only show off his voice singing and rapping but also his skills as a song writer/producer because he does his own musical arrangements for those cover songs. I highly recommend his BY.HONGJOONG covers of Michael Jackson’s Beat It or Linkin Park’s Numb), San, Seonghwa, and Yunho.

Thanks so much! It's really great to watch people appreciate ATEEZ, especially Jongho (he's the least popular member of the group), so I'm really looking forward to future vids.

This is one of my favorite ateez songs ! But I would love the deeper dive into the solo and their unit things too!

Hand mics vs. head mics: Except very rare occasions Jongho, Mingi, and Hongjoong almost always use hand mics. Seonghwa started using a hand mic in the last few years which coincides with him ramping up on vocal training. Most of the others use head mics unless they are doing special shows, vocal heavy shows, or stages. Jongho is ALWAYS live unless they just cannot be, like certain music shows don’t allow it. I’d say the rest are live 95% of the time. There is often a backing track and sometimes on intense choreo they let the backing track take over, but they suck at lip syncing, so they usually don’t even bother pretending.

Great reaction! Always happy to see more Ateez here!

Hongjoong can have a big hand in production. Now as far as cyberpunk? I’d have to flip through and check, but it’s one of my fav songs production wise from them. Just a super fun collab of their creators they have there. Hongjoong tries to really play around with the timing of his raps or just the pocket in general. Actually recently saying in an interview how it’s burning him out by trying to always find something new with the schedules they keep. Their newest album he’s more hands off but still wrote. He wants to see how that goes for once. Mingi loves to play around with sounds and layering with his rap. And he will change the beat to make his sound more impactful. Jongho really is a student of his craft. Drawing influence from older and newer artists. If you want his Lee mujin service, he will talk about it more. I think you’d really enjoy those shows in general. Also Jongho is uncomfortable with showing skin and their company respects that and doesn’t put him in revealing clothing so I think that will also set him apart. Along with the good old “park and bark” (here I’m pretty sure he was coming out of recovery from knee surgery)

This song is such a fan favorite. Jongho used to dance harder and use a headset mic but ATEEZ’s choreography was too intense and towards the end of concerts he could feel himself losing energy to sing the high notes. Also, he got injured twice, once on his ankle and the other time his knee, which he had to get surgery on.

I really enjoyed this song and I liked that you covered it in 3 different videos so we could also see the choreo and I definitely need to color coded lyric video to learn their names

“One of the fun things about choreography is seeing it synchronized.” I cannot WAIT for you to get to Seventeen (i will wait, though, lol).

Since you mentioned it, I think you’ve said Jongho wrong every time still 😭 you’re saying it like ‘juno’. It’s JONG-oh. Almost exactly as it looks.

Future me, does Tim ever realize that this is a fan made music video?