(G) I-DLE (아이들) Killing Voice Study (64 minutes)
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0:00 Intro
3:45 LATATA
7:39 Hann (One)
12:54 Hann (Cold)
13:22 Hwaa
23:30 POP/STARS
25:46 Señorita
30:54 Uh-Oh
33:27 LION
36:33 Oh My God
45:16 DUMDi DUMDi
46:03 TOMBOY
48:46 Mallijima (Don't Stop Me)
52:26 MY BAG
55:39 Nude (Nxde)
58:42 Queencard
Comments (28)
Two years ago YuQi was a guest on ZIP DAESUNG. She explained the meaning behind her name and talked about i-dle in general. The segment regarding her name starts at the 15:19 min. mark. https://youtu.be/OsYO6tj89vA?&t=919
Late to the party! love your professional take. Welcome to the world of our self-producing queens!
Whoa, our worlds are crossing at every junction yet again. I subbed for the Vtuber Arc, but now you're also listening to my favorite Kpop group?!? Careful, Tim, I might just make you my favorite reactor at this rate!
Do you know that they produced the song nxde bcs their group name is idle in korean language a little bit typo would lead u to type "child" so to prevent people from typing child nxde if someone search idle nxde (in korean) it would lead to their song instead? Its a fun fact
What they meant by soyeon produced the song is that she literally wrote the notes and lyrics. Every song in this video except Popstar was produced by her. She is what you would called a genius, I mean she wrote Latata at 19…
Wow, I really loved them. I will have to listen to more of their music.
I love the diversity in their voices, and how low they get! Pretty rare for gg (they love high voices in kpop) but the sort of weird, low slides idle are know for are some of my favourite features. It gives so much depth and character.
joined for idle, thank you for your in depth reaction. was a great vid to watch along w/ you while getting ready for work lol! 🤍🤍🤍
Just joined for idle; would love to see your reaction on their recordings. Really would love to hear your thoughts and insights!
Thanks for the reaction Tim! ❤️
My ult list is all slowly showing up here. You just need some kickflip now. 🤣
Hwaa may be my favorite I-dle song musically
About the I-dle rebrand, the group expected to debut under the name i-dle, but the company thought people would associate it with being lazy and changed it to (G)i-dle - without telling them. Soyeon produces most of their music, and she produced all the songs on KV and except for Pop Stars wrote the songs. Take Latata - Cube would not give them a song to debut so Soyeon wrote it, pirated software to record and mix it on her laptop. They did their own choreography and went back to Cube with a finished product and said we're ready to debut. Within 21 days of release they had their first win. That's i-dle in a nutshell. When the contract came up for renewal they took their name back, but people referred to them as i-dle before. A perfect all kill is being #1 on all 9 Korean pop charts at the same time.
I have a theory about the rebranding regarding the name and dropping the G (and 여자). When it comes to the group's name, what ever happened to the 'English/international' name is irrelevant. When the idea of i-dle was born, the international market was not the target market for CUBE. There is this rumor, that CUBE also intended to debut a boy group. The Korean name would probably be something like (남자) 아이들 (namja aideul). So they put the (yeoja) in front of aideul. Like I explained in my introduction video, a literal translation would sound corny at least, if not even off-putting. So adding the '(G)' in front was just sth to have it sound similar to 여자 (yeoja) and incorporate the meaning (female, girl) into it. G being short for girl basically. The 여자 and G was always in parentheses and was never intended to be spoken. It lead to a lot of confusion. Even in Korea. They were usually announced by others as "yeoja aideul" but never referred to themselves that way. You can hear it in their Korean greeting. I can't remember hearing them say once "Annyeonghaseyo, yeoja aideul imnida" only "Annyeonghaseyo, aideul imnida". Why they started to say "Hello, we are G idle" in their English/international greeting, I have no explanation for. Also in Soyeon's rap of the Queendom introduction from 2019, the last line even is "we are idle". If the G was important, she could have rapped "we're G idle" to have the same amount of syllables and leave the G in there. So imho the rebranding regarding the name, at least for me, is just sth to make it consistent in both languages and get rid off the confusion. I know they have commented on the rebranding in several interviews and why they decided to drop the G, but I mean, they have to tell the public something that has a deeper meaning than simply correcting a mistake they did when starting to say "G idle". But again, it is only MY PERSONAL theory.
Love to see this
Joined for i-dle =P. Would lvoe to see Crow (mostly rapping) and Mono. They're their newer songs!
I'm glad you checked out I-dle, they are among my favorites. I find Miyeon's voice the most beautiful among the female voices I've heared so far. Also, the members are often chosen as interpreters for OSTs of different K-dramas. I might add some request for some of them on the app.
Thank you EVERYone for getting this on Tim's radar (and keeping it there!). And thank you Tim for reacting to this! I've been an I-dle fan since "LATATA" and even with songs that aren't exactly my cup of tea, I am always blown away by these artists. YuQi's name you got it pretty much how I've heard it pronounced, ("oo-gee" but not with as much stress on the "g"). If there is a desire for it, I definitely encourage you to check out her solo tracks. "Wait, are there multiple 'Hanns'? Killed me lol. Soyeon is the main rapper, but as you found out, all the members can rap. Minnie's "Uh-Oh," is kind of a signature sound (imo). Fun fact that I learned from a Korean reactor: "Queencard" can be a play on a Korean word (I don't know the Korean spelling) "kin-car(d)" which is the male version of, "I'm the s**t." This reactor hypothesized that the way Soyeon had the song sung, "queen-car... (without pronouncing the "d") is her way of playing on that word. I haven't independently tried to verify this but it tracks given the group's general messaging. I am so glad you enjoyed it! And I'll be adding more requests next month for YuQi's solo stuff as I am genuinely in love with her voice and her style.
퀸카 'Queencard' is the female counterpart to 킹카 'Kingcard'. Both terms are derived from the English word. And the terms are commonly used in Korea. If you look at the original lyrics, Soyeon used 퀸카. There is no ㄷ/d sound at the end. I was always annoyed that native English speakers didn't bother checking out the lyrics properly. If they had, they would have known, that the pronunciation 'Queenca' is correct! 😝
They have such FUN music!!! I totally agree that I’m a fan because of the unique tones and textures they create with their voices. They don’t necessarily are trying to make themselves sound pretty. Their voices are flexible and change to match the music. And their music is so diverse!!!
So much in my head after watching the reaction, I had to collect my thoughts first! 🤪 First and foremost a big Thank You to Zaphne for requesting i-dle's KV and also to all those who voted for it, so Tim finally had to do a reaction to one of my two favorite GGs! TWICE Killing Voice next! 😝 Then, don't worry, Tim, I don't want to kill you, but I had the feeling that some time passed between watching my intro video and then doing the reaction to the KV. It felt like a lot of info was not there anymore. 🫤 I mean the rebranding was in 2025, 7 years after debut, and the KV is from 2023. I know there was a lot of info in the introduction video for s.o. who isn't familiar with the group. Probably too much to take in and remember. Honestly I was kind of worried, that I concentrated a little bit too much on Soyeon, but she is my ultimate K-Pop bias ever since I first heard her rap. So I probably spent a little too much time on her rapping. 🫤 That's why it threw me off that Tim thought YuQi would be the rapper. 🤔 Also about the intro video, I left out that Soojin didn't leave the group 'voluntarily'. Explaining the whole bullying situations in the early 2020s in the Korean entertainment business would have made the video much longer. As well as mentioning that Soyeon and Miyeon participated in K/DA. And sooooooo much more! 🙈 Anyways Thanks for the reaction and I am looking forward to many more i-dle reactions! 🥳
There's so much to take in on these first impressions to Artists. I have a feeling we're going to be studying them quite a bit more. As we study them more, I guarantee I will retain more! Lol I thought your video was very interesting. I would love to react to some of the recording scenes. Could you request some of those?
Joined just for I-dle <3 hope we get moreee
Request more on the app! Come join in the chat on discord as well
It bothered me a little but Tim we can't hear your keyboard!
Yeah, it bothered me a lot. I was really bummed when I noticed that after the fact. :/ my OBS glitched out.
An explanation of what "perfect all kill" means. RAK - Real-time All-Kill - The song reaches No. 1 on all major South Korean real-time charts. CAK - Certified All-Kill - No. 1 on all real-time and daily charts. PAK - Perfect all kill - CAK + No. 1 on the weekly charts
About the mentioning of the PAK for Nxde. I also thought that was kind of weird to give Tim that info. 😜 Especially since i-dle scored their first PAK with Tomboy. Which was their first comeback after the one year hiatus. They also had one with Queencard and eventually with Fate, which was released after the KV. i-dle was the first GG and the second K-Pop group overall to score 4 PAKs in a row. The first was BIGBANG btw.