WOODZ — UNCUT 5 SONG STUDY: 'Drowning,' 'Waiting,' 'Love Me Harder,' 'I Hate You,' & 'Feel Like' (59 min)

I have never followed him closely but when my sister and I still had a relationship we used to watch his videos together, after that he kinda got lost in my radar but it is nice to see him again, I knew some of these and didn't some others, but seems like he is going through different stuff. I'm glad you liked him. :)

I got interested in WOODZ from your reaction to Drowning and I have to say, I think it's still my favorite! I love that sad, yearning, rip-my-heart-out emotion. But "Feels Like" is sexy and fun, I like that one a lot too.

As for Drowning. Just a bit of history. May 11 2023 Woodz uploaded Drowning live clip 2024 Jan 22 Woodz enlisted Oct 4 Immortal Songs special Military Day performance uploaded Oct 1 entered Melon's weekly chart at No. 951 2025 Jan 2 entered TOP10 on Melon Feb 19 it was 5th in TOP10 April 3 it was 3rd in TOP10 April 13 it was 2nd in TOP10 May 7 Drowning briefly hit no1 on Melon daily chart, but weekly top is 2nd July 21 Woodz returned from military 2026 In May Drowning hit the record of over 70 continuous weeks in Melon weekly TOP10 surpassing NewJeans' 'Hype Boy' (49 continuous weeks) and BTS' 'Dynamite' (36 continuous weeks) At the moment the continous TOP10 is broken but it's still up there usually in 9-12 place depending on the week

For Feel Like I actually don't have much to say. You already said everything. Only thing maybe, did you notice they had him dance on the guitar? And I believe it's once again HOHO playing the guitar on the track. I imagine he might know how to ride bikes because he said his father wanted to travel the world with him on a Harley motorcycle and get matching tattoos when he came of age. He later got his tattoos in memory of his father and I haven't seen him actually ride bikes. But he might. He definitely drives the car a lot in his vlogs.

The lyrics of I Hate You are interesting, wish you had tried to turn them on, because this time they actually existed 😂 For example in the end when he sings "I can live well without you" In the background he says "no way pls don't go" I'd say until Colourful Trauma, he was probably more RnB artist with one or two rock-like songs but I guess maybe Meaningless, Rebound, Lullaby, Tide, Sweater and Memories could be considered crooning ballads? I'm bad with genres and totally not sure what exactly is crooning 😃 And yes, majority of his discography are relationship/post-breakup songs but not all. Especially on the new album, there's only a few I'd consider fall into this category but everything depends on the interpretation

Love Me Harder He started solo already while Uniq was somewhat active, first 3 singles as Luizy in 2016 and then 3 singles as Woodz in 2018. 2018 was also the last year Uniq released new music. Then came the Produce x101 and X1 in 2019/2020 And after they were forced to disband he returned to solo with his first EP and Love Me Harder The music video starts out with them fighting, the girl leaves, and shoots him. Then we see the mullet Woodz who is either his consciousness, death come to collect him, or his alternate universe self or something And what follows is basically "life flashed before his eyes" Woodz leaves the car we see the police tape and Accident scene. His murder scene. We see the past events - looks like they were making counterfeit money. He puts the bag in the trunk and is happy imagining spending time with his girl. Who shoots him and steals his money. The mullet Woodz is trying to get him to understand he's been shot and is dying. When Woodz gets shot back into the car and the mullet Woodz is sitting eating popcorn with 3D glasses (blue-red for the "our love is blue, not red" but also for the police lights) then Woodz is angry, he's realized he's dying but don't want to accept. The last he sits in the chair and is breathing heavily like having a panic attack. And in the end you didn't watch the last seconds but they showed him in the car closing his eyes with blood oozing from the head wound.

Thought about it and decided to comment one song at a time I'm actually quite isolated in the fandom, so Waiting being a hidden gem and unknown outside of fandom was news to me. But then again, most people know mainly Drowning I guess. I do know a lot of people whose favourite song from that album is Chaser. I think I'll add the Waiting music video for a deep study. Or better yet, the whole Only Lovers Left EP. It's too bad about most of his old stuff not having subtitles. Im guessing Hoho was playing the guitar in Waiting? I didn't see the instrument credits but he was listed as coproducer and author

Unfortunately, for some reason the third-party app to interact on the upvote page is not recognizing my Patreon account? So please just consider this my vote for Archive.1.

Here for WOODZ for sure. And if there’s somewhere specific to upvote an Archive.1 album reaction, someone plz let me know. His tour is about to hit the Americas — whoever can see him, don’t miss it!

As far as any Michael Jackson influence…there’s not a facet of K-pop that isn’t inspired by him. He’s the King of Pop, and K-pop is very heavily influenced by and evolved fr Western pop (something you would hopefully learn more about if we get to do a K-pop history video).

I don’t know how many more votes you want on the Archive. 1 reaction before we do it…but we will keep voting it up… 😄 Hopefully with more Moodz coming over, we’ll have even more support than we already have for the last few months

Of course as soon as there ARE lyrics (I Hate You), you don’t turn them on 😆 that’s the way it always seems to go Edit: and Feel Like 😅