#anyways love ten love birthday sm give him proper solo promo NOW

[sanstropfremir]

so!!! ten birthday. any thoughts?

very fine and normal thanks for asking!!!

no but for real though, i've been waiting for the full version of this song since APRIL; he used it as a special leader stage for gdc! that version is much shorter obvs and way more of an 'nct' song, plus i think bada may have made a new choreography for the full song. to be honest a lot of my thoughts are most just AAAAAAAAAA, which is fine bc there isn't much of a deep overarching theme and i don't think that there needs to be one either. obvs i'd love to see ten tackle something on the level of taemin or kai conceptually but i think there's a really special and underrated skill in fully embodying a performance regardless of its thematic depth, because it's hard. i talked about this with chaeyeon's solo but if you don't have something to ground your performance in it becomes very easy to be unmoored, and you can lose the thread of what you're trying to portray very quickly. something that i think ten does better than pretty much every other kpop dancer is that he is profoundly excellent at embodying feeling. you can give him a basic concept with a key visual and he makes you believe that he is that concept. and he does seem to base a lot of his creative decisions on embodying feelings, he's done several interviews recently and one that stuck out to me was that he said he's had birthday on the docket since pmn, but because he was feeling a specific way for pmn, he kept it on the backburner until his next cb. working down to your theme from such broad emotional strokes is a very difficult way of working, but it allows a lot of loose creative freedom that i think suits him very well.

obvs i gotta talk about the styling too. there's some really beautiful design choices happening here, most notably to me is the use of negative space and detailing! the main costume (the transparent shirt with the carpet pants) both draws attention to his torso and arms, while also provided fringe and loose dangling bits to accentuate the movement. most of the styling actually has these two elements, which gives a very strong unity of silhouette even though there are some pretty different types of clothing happening. one tiny weird detail that i don't know if anyone other than me noticed, but with the carpet pants and the patchwork ones from the vogue 8pm concert, because there's so many layers of fabric built up around the waist, you can see in specific moments what the pants actually stay still while his waist moves inside them. not an effect that i think was intentional by the designers, but a great effect nonetheless.

#SM DROP THE CHOREO VIDEO ALREADYYYYYYYYY #not to be a ten akgae but sm launch his solo career properly or i stg #sorry wayv i love you but if taemin can do solo and shinee ten can do solo and wayv i dont make the rules sm u can do it again #kpop questions #ten #ten w #nct w #also love love love love that we finally got something that's not a taemin clone!!! #ten really is starting to shape up his methodology with his solos and its so different from how taemin and kai approach their work #which makes perfect sense to me bc i know he consulted with both of them a lot and he's said that taemin told him to find something that's #'uniquely his' and that he's settled on this feeling thing is so interesting #like he's really embodying BEING a dancer in a way 99% of kpop idols cant do #very fascinating to me that there are so many taemin sons out there but the one who actually has taemin as a mentor has a unique style #anyways love ten love birthday sm give him proper solo promo NOW #anyone ever just remember that sm has four of the best dancers in the entire industry. bc that's still so insane to me #text #answers