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ATEEZ Theory TidBits Ep 3 - What did TREASURE EP 1: All to Zero contribute to the storyline?

Time for a mini-series! Here, I’ll be exploring a summary (we can do in-depth later) of how and what each album contributed to the storyline. I’ll be looking at the materials we got with the album, any special promotions or events of note, theories that were big in the fandom at the time, and so on.

Do keep in mind that the first album I was an ATINY for was TREASURE EPILOGUE: Action to Answer (aka the ‘Answer’ album, for those of you who only know albums by the title tracks, or the ‘blue’ Treasure album for those of you who only know them by the covers). Therefore, most of the things I talk about that came before the time I was an ATINY comes from random sources I’ve sighted and cobbled together in my brain from the internet, from past videos, and so on.

I’m making this whole process sound much more exciting than it is. Really, I’m just staring at the videos and albums a lot.

So, ATEEZ’s first album, All to Zero. The miracle album with only 430 first-day sales.

In this post;

Materials included in the album

Additions to the storyline

Meaning of the album name

Track breakdown

Reactions from the fandom

Important motifs and storyline elements which were added

My perspective on the storytelling (from a screenwriting kid)

Quality of the album

Other important things to note

Conclusions

Zero to One was the foundational album for ATEEZ’s concept and storyline, yet was simple enough to not overwhelm the audience with the complexities of their concept, which was very new and unique at the time, like the time-travelling, universe-bouncing, Jekyll-and-Hyde Big Brother dystopian things.

Yup.

Full discussion below the line.

Materials included in the album

Not an exhaustive list, just the key things which contributed to the storyline.

The album itself (physical)

Videos; ‘Intro: Long Journey’ video, ‘Pirate King’ and ‘Treasure’ MVs, ‘Pirate King’ and ‘Treasure’ choreo videos, ‘Pirate King’ Halloween performance

All the regular things; performance vers. of MVs, member teasers for the abum, MV teasers, etc

ATEEZ logbook; roughly Episode 1-7

All the other contents groups pump out on a regular basis

A lot of fansigns (both pre and post-debut)

Additions to the storyline

The album was the introduction to the storyline for the fans. It established the group’s current position (in the desert), their goal (the Treasure), and their position in their journey - at the beginning. It also established their pirate concept and general story motifs, like the journey they were on, their positions on the pirate ship, etc.

It also set everything up nicely for the later albums, especially TREASURE Ep 2 and TREASURE EPILOGUE.

Overall, it didn’t do much, but it didn’t need to, and it was very smart of it to not try to establish everything. If it had tried to, it would have been overloaded and crowded, and full of crazy pirate shenanigans that no one would be able to understand. We need to remember that ATEEZ were a pretty unknown group, especially in Korea, and were coming from a relatively small and unknown company (KQ’s only other artist of particular note is Block B, under a sub-label). If ATEEZ had come exploding into the industry with all the power of time-travel-possession-dream-state-body-snatching-alternate-persona storylines, everyone would have freaked out. Also remembering that storylines weren’t as common at the time (notable groups being BTS, EXO, and Dreamcatcher), especially not for 4th gen groups. The smartest move for KQ was to have an album which established the storyline, but was simple and mainstream enough to gain ATEEZ fans before their later comebacks and more complex storylines. This move is comparable to SM debuting Aespa with ‘Black Mamba,’ a single which had relevance to the storyline but was more mainstream, before songs like ‘Savage’ and ‘Next Level,’ which were more complex story-wise and more experimental musically.

JYP should be taking notes for NMIXX. Not that that matters anymore.

Meaning of the album name

‘All to Zero’

All of the members have worked hard in the past - to become trainees, to grow, etc. Now, they all come together as a team (8 makes 1 team), and, together, all of their skills and past efforts are combined. Only together, with all of the work they have done before, can they finally reach the start line. They are now literally at ‘zero’ in a harsh industry, and are ready to move forward.

Track breakdown

Intro: Long Journey - The big storyline one, established their concept, position, and goal, and well supplemented the rest of the album.

Treasure - Went into greater detail on ‘Intro: Long Journey,’ and established some choreo motifs. Was very important in the storyline, especially once ‘Precious’ was released.

Pirate King - The main one that everyone likes and listens to. The big takeaway? Hongjoong is the Pirate King.

Twilight - A cute little song which, 3 years later, was wonderfully mirrored by ‘Turbulence,’ but, at the time, didn’t have much of note.

Stay - The token ‘for the fans’ song of the album - I love you, let’s stay together, etc. Has storyline relevance and encourages ridiculously one-sided parasocial relationships - what more could I want?

My Way - Establishes their attitude - keep going, no matter what. This attitude would be later backed up by songs like ‘WIN’ and ‘Rocky.’

Reactions from the fandom

From what I can gather, there were no particular reactions to note. People liked it (the few people who actually stanned ATEEZ at debut), and found it unique in the world of kpop. Everglow with their pirate concept hadn’t debuted yet, and it would obviously be a long time before we saw NMIXX. Other 4th gen groups either hadn’t debuted, didn’t have a storyline yet, or were only just starting up as rookies, so ATEEZ’s storyline stood out, and, with their intense dedication to it, was a very fun and fresh concept which got them a lot of fans.

Important motifs and storyline elements which were added

The desert as a place of hardship

‘That place’

Utopia

The Treasure

Pirate concept

Positions on pirate ship (established HJ, YH, YS, S, MG)

Being shot

Being controlled

Hints to WY being a bit suspicious

The ATEEZ demon

The flag

‘ATEZ’ by HJ

The desert rovers/ATEEZ driving cars

Importance of weather

Twilight, day-night cycles etc

And many others

My semi-professional perspective of the storytelling, production and production values, etc

The album was a very smart introduction to the storyline - chill and professional. It was well-produced and high-value, especially for a smaller company. There were many good choices made which ensured the company got maximum value for their budget - shooting all three MVs in the same location and with the same props allowed more content for cheap, and key creative choices were made to make each one feel unique.

I already discussed how important I think it is that the storyline of the album was more contained, but it’s hard to emphasise how important this decision was - especially since we had next to no anticipation, as the next album was released about 3 months later.

IE - whoever was in charge of this album did a good job on everything, except perhaps marketing.

Quality of the album

I don’t know what to tell you - it was very good quality for the company’s size and as a first album for the group (I mean, just look at SEVENTEEN’s debut album if you want a comparison). Not to mention that it, and all ATEEZ albums, are bricks. I had a delivery once, and it got a bit bashed up. The TXT albums fell apart, but the ATEEZ one? Came out without a scratch. Those things are weapons.

Other important things to note

I dunno.

Conclusions

Great decisions were made at every level - to have a production team which was to go with the group through all of their albums, to let the members help with the album, to only introduce the barest bones of the concept and storyline, to reduce the budget in tactical ways, to have two title tracks, etc etc. I don’t think it’s a ‘perfect debut’ or ‘the best’ debut (contenders include TXT and Aespa), but it was a very good one and had a lot going for it.

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[EP] ATEEZ (에이티즈) - TREASURE EP.1 : All To Zero

ATEEZ (에이티즈) – TREASURE EP.1 : All To ZeroRelease Date: 2018.10.24Genre: DanceLanguage: KoreanATEEZ takes their first step to stardom with debut album Treasure EP. 1: All To Zero! ATEEZ stands for A TEENager Z, which represents that they own the A to Z of what teenagers love. The eight-member boy group consists of members Hong Joong (leader), Seong Hwa, Yun Ho, Yeo Sang, San, Min Gi, Woo Young…

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Ateez Masterlist - Discography Ver.

Basically ateez's tracklist but with the ffs linked! click on the song and you'll be led to the content which will have a detailed description + warnings of its own. enjoy <3 and special thanks to @eightmakesonebraincell for helping me out with the formatting! (PLAYS = word count, CREDITS = description). P.S: for reactions, requests and headcanons, pls refer to the masterlist here <3

TREASURE EP.1: All to Zero

# Title

1 Intro: Long Journey

2 해적왕 (Pirate King)

3 Treasure

4 Twilight

5 Stay

YEOSANG (ft. princess!reader) 18,692 PLAYS CREDITS: royal au where yeosang is an archer and he replaces your tutor and keeps your secret, joins you in finding some adventure in life and eventually, helps you find true love.

6 My Way

MINGI (ft. princess!reader) 18,619 PLAYS CREDITS: royal au where mingi is your bodyguard and you, the princess, travel to the enemy nation to expose the schemes of your betrothed, risking your life when you can't hold back your feelings for your guard anymore.

TREASURE EP.2: ZERO TO ONE

# Title

1 HALA HALA (Hearts Awakened, Live Alive)

MINGI (ft. human!reader) 26,976 PLAYS CREDITS: fantasy au where the shadow demon is cursed to share a body with mingi. mingi encounters you when you run away from home and you decide to stick with him. you start falling for both the demon and mingi but tragic consequences await you as you learn more about the curse.

2 Say My Name

3 Desire

4 Light

5 Promise

YUNHO (ft. princess!reader) 23,068 PLAYS CREDITS: royal au where you, princess of eden, find yourself in an arranged marriage with prince yunho of wonderland and find your homelands at war with each other, making you wonder what will become of your marriage esp when you fall for him.

TREASURE EP.3: One To All

# Title

1 Utopia

2 Illusion

3 Crescent

SAN (ft. bodyguard/assassin!reader) 17,274 PLAYS CREDITS: royal/fantasy au where san is the prince and you are hired to be his bodyguard and personal assassin as he travels to eden to uncover secrets and a possible betrayal.

4 Wave

MINGI (ft. teacher!reader) 7,881 PLAYS CREDITS: high school-ish au where you both are teachers and accompany students to a one week trip as per your suggestion, experiencing your own high school romance

5 Aurora

YUNHO (ft. spy!reader) 26,543 PLAYS CREDITS war au where you are a spy/cryptographer in the enemy nation and meet yunho, skilled strategist and cryptographer, win his favour to get on his team so you can eventually get to the medical research department to expose their plans, but fall in love with him in the process, fearing the day he'll learn your true identity.

6 Dancing Like Butterfly Wings

TREASURE EP.FIN: All To Action

# Title

1 Wonderland

2 Dazzling Light

YEOSANG (ft. human!reader) 26,709 PLAYS CREDITS: fantasy au where yeosang is an angel on his last mission and you, a mere human, messes his mission making him stay for longer than he'd like... until he starts actually liking it (and you) and finds himself in a life-threatening situation.

3 안개 (Mist)

SAN (ft. mediator!oc) 53,807 PLAYS CREDITS: supernatural au where the oc, seohyun, is a mediator- someone who can see and interact with the dead and helps them move on. she befriends san and together, they navigate through a journey of danger and thrill, heartbreak and love, and tragedy that drives them worlds apart.

4 Win

WOOYOUNG (ft. princess/assassin reader) 42,555 PLAYS CREDITS: royal au where wooyoung is an envoy from utopia, also undercover, and finds out your identity. a secret shared, you try to prevent utopia from taking your homeland while he helps though you can't help but question his loyalty multiple times- even when you're falling for each other.

5 If Without You

WOOYOUNG (ft. reader) 14,449 PLAYS CREDITS: best friends to lovers au where your childhood friend wooyoung moves in with you as he adjusts to the city and you try to get used to his presence without revealing your romantic feelings for him.

6 친구 (THANK U)

7 Sunrise

SAN (ft. soldier!reader) 29,895 PLAYS CREDITS: you and san are majors in the special forces. you think the idea of romance while being in the military is stupid for a number of reasons, but san thinks otherwise and decides to prove his point, making you question your beliefs.

8 걸어가고 있어 (WITH U)

TREASURE EPILOGUE : Action To Answer

# Title

1 Answer

2 지평선 (Horizon)

SAN (ft. oc) 100,725 PLAYS CREDITS: royal/fantasy au where san, faerie prince of earth, finds gaeul who came back from the dead as a part of a darkling's evil schemes, her magic now unnatural and dark. san realises he might be connected to gaeul in unimaginable ways, the bond they share serving as both their salvation and demise. SPINOFF (TAKE ME HOME)

3 Star 1117

4 Precious

5 Outro: Long Journey

TREASURE EP. Map To Answer

# Title

1 Declaration

2 Better

YEOSANG (ft. reader) 9,302 PLAYS CREDITS: enemies to lovers au where you belong to rival gangs but find yourselves at the mercy of a common enemy and have no choice but to rely on each other and address your confusing feelings for each other.

ZERO : FEVER Part.1

# Title

1 Dear Diary: 2016.07.29

2 FEVER

3 THANXX

4 지평선춤을 춰 (TO THE BEAT)

5 INCEPTION

6 Good Lil Boy

WOOYOUNG (ft. princess!reader) 23,785 PLAYS CREDITS: royal au where you meet prince wooyoung, your best friend and your worst enemy, at a retreat in another kingdom and you start to cross personal boundaries with each other in the name of bets, unable to keep your hands off each other.

7 One Day At A Time

YUNHO, SEONGHWA (ft. reader) 18,565 PLAYS CREDITS: royal/war? au where seonghwa and yunho are both the king's trusted guards and best friends. you fell for seonghwa, married and had a daughter with him before losing him forever. later, you fall for yunho- a loving father to your daughter and a husband who gave you enough space and time to grieve and fall for him.

ZERO : FEVER Part.2

# Title

1 불놀이야 Fireworks (I’m the One)

HONGJOONG (ft. reader) 25,903 PLAYS CREDITS: royal au where prince hongjoong holds a selection- 30 eligible candidates from the kingdom competing against each other, one of which would be his wife and the future princess. you're only a translator to one of the candidates but you catch his eye.

2 선도부 (The Leaders)

3 Time of Love

JONGHO (ft. reader) 19,800 PLAYS CREDITS: friends to lovers au where jongho is your brother's best friend (yeosang) and the three of you share a living space. you catch up with jongho and your feelings for him resurface with all their might.

4 Take Me Home

SEONGHWA (ft. oc) 155,416 PLAYS CREDITS: royal/fantasy au where yena (oc) with a magical block on her memories goes on a journey to uncover her past, encountering the eight faerie princes and learning her identity and fighting against an evil scheme as she falls for prince seonghwa of dark, a love that transcends the boundaries of time, space and magic.

5 Celebrate

Into the A to Z

# Title

1 Still Here

Dreamers

# Title

1 Dreamers

2 Blue Summer

Season Songs

# Title

1 바다 보러 갈래? (Be My Lover)

2 여름날의 겨울동화 (White Love)

HONGJOONG (ft. fireprincess!reader) 24,832 PLAYS CREDITS: fantasy au where hongjoong is the ice prince and sets a neverending winter in the land and you, the fire princess, find him trapped. as you team up against the threats on your lives, you make unexpected friends and find love.

3 검은 고양이 네로 (The Black Cat Nero)

ZERO : FEVER Part.3

# Title

1 Eternal Sunshine

HONGJOONG (ft. reader) 23,393 PLAYS CREDITS: you and hongjoong meet on the train and instantly connect, becoming friends and more, but you're both plagued by a past that you can't remember, and when you start digging into it you realise that your pasts may be connected and the situation might be graver than you thought.

2 Feeling Like I Do

YUNHO (ft. reader) 4,671 PLAYS CREDITS: you and yunho have been best friends since forever and neighbours for a while, and you find it harder with each passing day to hide your feelings for him.

3 Deja Vu

SEONGHWA (ft. reader) 22,281 PLAYS CREDITS: past life/reincarnation au where seonghwa was hades and you were persephone and in the present, seonghwa is a detective and you are a florist and you meet during his case investigation, your encounters making you relive your memories from your past life.

4 ROCKY

5 All About You

6 Not Too Late (밤하늘)

ZERO : FEVER EPILOGUE

# Title

1 야간비행 (Turbulence)

2 Be With You

SEONGHWA (ft. spy/defector!reader) 23,593 PLAYS CREDITS: royal au where you're a spy for the king but he tainted your name and imprisoned you in the enemy nation as a defector, imprisoning your sister as leverage. once you run, you encounter seonghwa- the king's right hand- save his life and use him to get to the castle, wondering if he'll still love you when he learns the truth.

3 The Letter

4 멋 (The Real) (흥 : 興 Heung Ver.)

5 Outro : Over the Horizon

Don't Stop

# Title

1 Don't Stop

BEYOND : ZERO

# Title

1 The King

THE WORLD EP.1 : MOVEMENT

# Title

1 Propaganda

2 Sector 1

3 Cyberpunk

JONGHO (ft. programmer!reader) 23,750 PLAYS CREDITS: you're a programmer in the eden droid project and you find your boyfriend jongho as the droid assigned for you to 'fix'- you wonder if it was just an awful conincidence. you run away with him so you can turn him back to human but it starts going wrong and you find yourself learning shocking truths as you make plans for the downfall of the project.

4 Guerrilla

YUNHO (ft. writer!reader) 27,902 PLAYS CREDITS: he's a doctor, part time serial killer/vigilante. you're a gore crime fiction writer. you move in with him despite the strict and strange rules and somehow, you both end up falling for each other amidst lies, secrets, past traumas and a detective who suspects you.

5 The Ring

6 WDIG (Where Do I Go)

JONGHO (ft. reader) 23,701 PLAYS CREDITS: royal au where jongho is hired as your bodyguard under your father's order bc you are a gossip-dealer who owns hotel crescent. with your father as your opposition when you support two different princes of two different nations at war, you wonder where jongho's loyalty lie.

7 New World

THE WORLD EP.PARADIGM

# Title

1 Intro: Siren

YEOSANG (ft. sirenhunter!reader) 27,894 PLAYS CREDITS: enemies to lovers au where yeosang is a siren and you're immune to a siren's call. while you help each other get your respective revenge and overcome a curse that starts turning you into a siren, you find that yeosang isn't the monster you thought all sirens to be.

2 Paradigm

3 Outro: Liberty

SPIN OFF : FROM THE WITNESS

# Title

1 Halazia

2 Outro: Blue Bird

LIMITLESS

# Title

1 Limitless

SAN (ft. queen!reader) 28,912 PLAYS CREDITS: you're the princess of utopia, queen of eden by marriage to the king. for a whole year of marriage, you've taken his abuse but you're planning his downfall and you find an unexpected ally in the king's right hand choi san. he not only helps you plan but also shows you how it is like to be truly loved and wanted.

2 Diamond

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'HIMARI' PROFILE

... BASICS

Stage Name: Himari (히마리) Birth Name: Min Himari (민 히마리) Korean Name: Min Ha-Yun (민 하윤) Nicknames: Sunshine, KQ's Princess, The Siren, Korea's Angel, White Swan, The Holy Maknae, Hima, Hime, God's Touch, Hand of Midas (w/Yoongi)

Representative Animal: Tiger 🐯 MBTI Type: INFP Position(s): Lead vocalist, Sub-rapper, Producer, Maknae

Date of Birth : November 23, 2001 Birth Place: Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, Japan Association: Yeoheung Min Clan Family: Min Won-Shik (father, 1967-2012), Endo Asuka (mother, 1970-2012), Min Hanzo (older brother), Adoptive Mother, Adoptive Father, Min Geum-Jae (adoptive older brother), Min Yoongi (Adoptive older brother)

Blood Type: O Height: 157cm (5'2")

... CAREER

・As of April 2024, Himari has 173 KOMCA credits

・Was the first 4th generation artist promoted to a full Korea Music Copyright Association (KOMCA) membership in 2022

・Joined JYPE in late 2014 to be part of girl group Twice but was deemed too young to debut after 10 months of training

・Was the first trainee to join Hongjoong at KQ Entertainment and the last to join ATEEZ - following survival show 'Last of 10' (the group was originally going to have ten members but Lee Junyoung didn't debut)

・Became a producer during 'TREASURE EP.1: All to Zero' with credits on 'Stay', 'Twilight', 'Treasure' and 'My Way'

・Officially a part of ATEEZ's 'Demon Line' alongside Hongjoong, Seonghwa and San

・Made a special appearance on the 6th episode of MNet's show 'Good Girl', aired June 18 2020, to perform a cover of Dreamcatcher's 'Red Sun' against the cast.

・Made her acting debut in the K-Drama 'Hellbound' where she played the role of Jin Hee-Jeong. She then obtained the lead role in 'Where We Fall' alongside Yunho in September of 2023.

・She sang the OST 'Suzume' for the animated movie 'Suzume no Tojimari', 'Long Black Night' for K-Drama 'The Glory', 'Rewrite Me' for 'Where We Fall' and 'Blue' for 'The Killing Vote'

・Her fans are called 'Hirangies' which is a play on her representative animal called '호랑이' in Korean as well as her own name and '사랑' which means love.

... INTERESTS

・Her hobbies are traditional ink painting as well as photography and she enjoys leaning how to reform clothes from Hongjoong.

・Loves Studio Ghibli movies, her favorite being Grave of the Fireflies, and K-Dramas, her favorites being Death's Game, The Glory & My Name.

・Aside from the many groups whose fandoms she is a part of, there are quite a few soloists she tends to fangirl over, those being: Gemini, Penomeco, DPR Live, Han Seung Woo, Woodz, pH-1 and Zico. During her room tour in a recent live several albums of B.A.P could be seen resting on a shelf and she admitted to being a BABY whose bias is rapper/leader & soloist Bang Yongguk, whose albums were also spotted in her room. She calls herself a lucky fangirl as she has filmed the 'Bouncy' challenge with him as well as Woodz and Penomeco.

... HEALTH

・Was diagnosed with anxiety around 6 months following the group's debut, then a major depressive episode in the beginning of 2021.

・Had a large fear of being left alone while the members went somewhere else due to what happened to her parents - a lethal collision with a drunk driver.

・Has stress induced nightmares, though not as frequent as earlier in her career.

・Fractured her left ribs during a rehearsal for the first stage of 'Kingdom: Legendary War' in February of 2021, then again during the shooting of the 'Guerilla' music video in 2022.

・Since contracting COVID during the quarantine period she has had breathing problems which have permanently weakened her cardio and cause frequent needs for an oxygen mask especially when fatigued. The condition still remains unknown.

... MISCELLANEOUS

・Her favorite color is white because she feels like it is elegant, which is why she chose it as her microphone color.

・Her birth name means 'Sun' and her Korean name means 'Beautiful Summer' , chosen because the sun symbolizes hope

・The youngest of her brothers, Hanzo, is the National South Korean Soccer Team's captain and currently contracted with the PSG after leaving the Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors at the end of 2023

・When speaking quickly or passionately about something she tends to slip back into satoori (Daegu dialect)

・A palm reader stated that it was both her and Seonghwa's first life, which is why they approach things with such excitement.

・She can play the Koto (Japanese stringed instrument).

・The members tend to refer to her as '우리 Hime' which means 'Our Princess' using the Japanese word for the title and is also a play on words with Himari's shortened name.

・While other members claim that Halazia has one of the easiest choreographies, she finds it to be one of the hardest songs to perform as she has to sing background vocals through nearly the entire song while keeping up with the steps.

・Loves to cook but often tends to be careless when it comes to the amount of spice she puts in. In addition to this, she loves beef and hates any seafood that has a shell.

・Her ideal type is someone warm hearted with a sense of humor and who can accept her care when they need it.

#ateez 9th member #ateez au #ateez extra member #ateez female member #ateez imagines #kpop oc

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[230303] ATEEZ are showing the world another side of K-pop by Taylor Glasby of i-D

Going stratospheric despite their small agency beginnings, the arena headliners discuss manifesting success and their secret ambitions.

ATEEZ have just played a raucous show to 20,000 fans at London’s O2 Arena. Backstage, with the adrenalin still pumping, Hongjoong, Seonghwa, Yeosang, Mingi, San, Wooyoung, Yunho and Jongho are talking about football. Mingi, deep-voiced, his cropped hair cotton candy pink, is a Chelsea fan. Jongho, the band’s youngest at 22, follows Spurs. “Which is better?” asks Mingi. My tentative, uninformed guess (“Spurs?”) yields triumphant hoots and disappointed groans, as Jongho reaches over for a fist bump and hi-five. This exchange isn’t so much about football, as it is a reflection of ATEEZ wanting to make everyone they encounter feel welcome – a habit unchanged despite their stratospheric rise through the global pop landscape since debuting in late 2018.

During their week-long stay, they meet fans (known as ATINY) at a signing event, make late-night TikToks beneath the glow of Big Ben, go live on YouTube from a cosy corner of a hotel room, and watch South Korean forward Son Heungmin score at a Tottenham Hotspur game. The club’s home stadium (soon to host Beyoncé’s five London concerts) leaves a lasting impression on Yeosang: “When I saw how big it was and how loud the people were, I thought about how I want to be an artist that can play there,” he says in his slightly raspy voice. Wooyoung’s thoughts, however, linger Stateside in the wake of their most recent EP, Spin Off: From The Witness, earning them a second Top 10 entry on the Billboard 200 in early January. “I don’t know if it’s a team goal or my own,” he admits, “but I do want a #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Hoping for it to happen is the easy part, but what’s necessary is the confidence and bravery in the belief that it will happen.”

ATEEZ’ ambitious nature is an overarching constant to their rapid growth as individuals and artists, useful as both a touchstone of their success and a beacon for their creative output. It was present on their first record, Treasure EP1: All To Zero, which set up a rebellious narrative (now a complex and sprawling alt-world storyline) just as much as it drives their meteoric singles and the exploratory genre-overlaps of their B-sides. As a result, they’ve become a prolific and landmark group. The World EP.1: Movement (their ninth EP, out in July 2022) was ATEEZ’ first platinum-selling release, a major accomplishment for an idol group from a relatively small K-pop agency.

Hongjong, the band’s leader, thinks and talks fast (today, in English) but he pauses to take a moment to muse over their trajectory. “Many people say that I can be proud of being a group from a small company that has made their own way. So if we continually do it like this with ATINY, then in the future people might agree that ATEEZ have made a change in K-pop. I think for now though, we haven’t done enough.”

They hope, notes Seonghwa (the band’s eldest member at 24), that their achievements will eventually be on a broader scale. “We’d love to be the people behind that movement,” he says. Hongjoong nods in agreement: “I want for us to provide people with a better understanding of K-pop worldwide. There are people who continue to say that K-pop is so technical and manufactured but K-pop isn’t just a single genre; each group has a different type of art and I want to show how we express our art to everyone. When I look into the crowd at concerts, I can see so many people of all ages and backgrounds yet stereotypes against the artists and the fans still exist.”

In the early days of ATEEZ, it was evident that Hongjoong and Mingi played a key role alongside their music production team, Edenary, and that a sense of individualism seemed to be encouraged in the group’s performances. These are both now acknowledged as strengths in their arsenal. The Fellowship: Break The Wall, their third world tour, serves to highlight their unified stance while showcasing the members’ idiosyncrasies — from dance style to sense of humour — but also how comfortably they inhabit the stage.

“During our 2019 Expedition tour, we learned a lot about how to perform with every show we did,” says Yunho, an effortlessly impressive dancer. “Then during the pandemic, we studied and developed how to really make the performance; working on the stage configuration and synchronisation of moves amongst ourselves. When we came back to Europe and the US last year for the Fellowship: The Beginning of the End tour, we were able to see how everything we’d worked on and our personal growth came together on that stage.”

For some members, the process has involved looking beyond the stage in order to feel more at home on it. Yeosang’s regimented program of working out put him physically and mentally in a stronger place: “I relieve my stress while exercising, but my breathing got better and my muscles also got better, so overall it connected into a great result on stage.” San and Seonghwa also turned inward, sifting through mental libraries of borrowed or imaginary traits to build and inhabit new characters for their performances.

“I always have a lot of imaginative thoughts,” says Seonghwa, whose general serenity is replaced by a lightning-strike energy on stage and sparks of playfulness when you least expect it. “Even before sleeping, I tend to think about fantastical things,” he continues. “I use these to decide on how I’m going to be on stage and make sure the atmosphere matches with elements like my outfit.”

“For San, it’s movies and dramas [that inspire his performances], he takes those characters on,” explains Wooyoung. San, widely lauded for having an explosive stage presence, makes his creative choices the day of. “If there’s something I think of that I want to do that day, I share it with everyone to see if it will be okay. Then we create that image together and I simply express myself.”

Wooyoung, who is both mischievous and magnetic, looks to those he admires for guidance. “I mostly look at videos of our seniors – Jimin (BTS), Taeyang (Big Bang), Hoshi (SEVENTEEN), there’s so many – I get inspiration from them and make it my own on stage.” It’s a process also adopted by Yunho. “There are artists that I can pull from, like Rain, learning from them in order to realise my own style,” Yunho says. “On stage, it’s just me, I’m myself, but I have all this in the back of my mind.”

The title of their current tour, The Fellowship: Break The Wall, is derived from last summer’s single, “Guerrilla”, on which the phrase “break the wall” is chanted with increasing ferocity, culminating in a screamo-style vocal outro. It’s one of the show’s many high points, with ATINY putting their everything into screaming along with the band. The atmosphere grows feverish, the stage bathed in red light as the giant screens flash through the dystopian city of their storyline. It’s unbridled to the point of being transcendental. San grins, reflecting on this moment. “It’s difficult to explain,” he says of the experience, while Hongjoong sees in it the removal of cultural barriers through music. “I see ATINY during ‘Guerrilla’ singing along really loud and really tough,” he says. “They come to our show, they memorise our lyrics, they shout. That’s how they’re breaking the wall, by coming together.”

Since last October, ATEEZ have been playing arenas across Asia, the US and Europe, adding extra nights as they go in order to accommodate the demand, and garnering rave reviews — even from broadsheet media, for whom K-pop remains a confusing phenomenon — in the process. But their feet, heart and heads remain earthbound. “Nothing in this world is guaranteed,” says Wooyoung. “We’re always grateful for everything. It’s something we’ve discussed as a group, but it’s all thanks to ATINY’s love and support that we’re where we are now. To become global artists and a good influence on even more people, we have to hold a sense of responsibility to give our all on stage and deliver our truth. Honestly, it’s less about dreaming of an unknown future and more about how we have to work harder so we can go even higher and pave our own path.”

ATEEZ’ success is holistic in form: personality, performance and music. A harmonious but intriguing balance of authenticity and polish. Their impressive discography features recurring motifs (waves, moon, light) and ideologies (power, truth, rebellion, movement), yet Mingi and Hongjoong — who have written lyrics on every ATEEZ track so far — admit they’re still learning how best to combine what’s on their minds with what’s conducive to furthering their storyline. It is, they agree, not always an easy task.

“It’s absolutely hard to focus on so many themes,” says Hongjoong. “Sometimes my brain stops, so I watch movies or our music videos again. I think too much when I write but, after that work, the lyrics have more power for the fans who know our storyline; they get different emotions and a different effect when I’ve done that work well. It’s really hard but it’s important to do.”

Hongjoong had an epiphany when he picked up a camera while touring last year. “There's such fierce competition – not just in music but all industries – so if there’s no purpose, I’ve always found it really hard to create freely. We have continuous deadlines. I do the first album, then the second, and once I complete the second album I have to start on the third. I’ve found my hobby with a film camera. I walk around taking photos and I can see that even if I have no immediate purpose, I can create something.” It’s something that’s changed his approach to songwriting. “These days, when I write lyrics or produce a song, I just start from zero,” he explains. “Before, if we had a pirate theme, for example, I would start with that as a topic. That’s why I found it so hard.” He now works backward, getting down exactly what he wants to say before connecting it to the narrative markers. “It’s quite different but it’s more comfortable for me and the results are better than before.”

Hongjoong and Mingi, the group’s rappers, point to last year’s "Halazia” as the hardest storyline track to pen. “The atmosphere of the song is already quite difficult and complex,” Hongjoong notes, looking over to Mingi, who explains his process of cataloguing his many thoughts to later draw from. “I write down a lot of them as memos on my phone, so I always go back to them to see if they match what we’re going through (as a group); that’s how I write my lyrics,” he says. “Sometimes I’ll think of it as writing a script, to really get into that persona."

Mingi and Hongjoong are not the only collectors and creators in ATEEZ. “In my case,” says Seonghwa, “I always memo whenever I hear a line from a song or a line from a poem that I like, just for me to look back on. I’m the type to jot down my feelings if I experience something special. These help me when I write letters or want to say something to ATINY because I’m able to better word my feelings.” San, meanwhile, cites legendary South Korean poet 나 태주 (Ra Tae-joo) as an influence. “I love poems too — I’ve been writing my own but I keep them to myself,” he says. “They can be about my feelings on a certain day, the weather, objects or characters. I’m able to lay out my feelings like this.”

Now in their fourth year, ATEEZ remain as set on the idea of constantly challenging themselves as they were when they were hungry rookies. Take Jongho for example, whose rich, gut-punching vibrato forms the backbone of many of their songs. When he listened back to The World EP.1: Movement for the first time, he admits that he was “worried because my voice was used in ways that I hadn’t tried before, and I wondered how my vocal colour was going to fit”. He sat down with their producers and worked through “how we could still make it still an ATEEZ song and match my tone, while trying something new. I’ve gained more confidence — it makes me want to do better for all the albums to come.”

Hongjoong laughs. “It means our next albums are, uh, a big thing,” he reveals, knowingly. “There are so many good K-pop and pop stars that if we want to go higher, we have to have more good songs and try other genres, too.” But even as he muses on ATEEZ’ continuing expansion, the idea of one day becoming ‘too big to fail’ doesn’t appeal to him. “No, absolutely not that,” he says, gaze steady. “I want ATINY to be able to tell us if something is bad. I like it when they do this because we don’t want to just give them our popularity. I want to give them good quality, not just a song or a video or a performance.” Does the fact that music is subjective; that no single song can please everybody, bring some comfort? “We try to find the middle ground,” Hongjoong says. “The first thing to note is that if we think it’s really great but someone else says that they think it’s trash, then we don’t really care what they think. But when we’re unsure and questioning and someone says, ‘Yeah, it’s bad’, then ok, we go back to square one.”

The thought of ATEEZ honing their creative output through repeated baptisms of fire might well upset some fans, but the band are not only accustomed to the fame game’s highs and lows but wholly pragmatic in the face of its shadows. So when Wooyoung says he’s aware of “many people” who openly disparage their music, Hongjoong shrugs a little as he responds. “Yeah, there are. We talk about this a lot together, but if there are many more haters than before, it just means we’re more popular than before,” he reasons.

The group finds positive equilibrium via a heartfelt focus on ATINY, and all that comes with being an idol group who are years into a very successful career. “When we look at line-ups now, we’re closing the show,” says Wooyoung. “And as we perform, we see the other artists watching us, and we realise we have more responsibility. Firstly to ATINY, who have been loving us and supporting us from the start, but there’s also a responsibility to spread K-pop and Korean culture because we’re travelling around the world as Korean artists.”

One of ATEEZ many dualities is that while they have big, burning aspirations — Billboard charts, Grammys, performing at the Super Bowl — that make them look at each other starry-eyed, some of their ambitions are precious in a different way: they’re simpler, more immediate. “I’d like to be happier than the day before,” says Mingi. “And I want for us to never change our sincerity toward music and gratitude to our fans,” adds Seonghwa. This is echoed by San, who adds that ultimately, “I’d be satisfied if ATEEZ’ name came up when someone asks who the coolest artist is at the end of the year.”

“I want to make more events with ATINY,” says Hongjoong. “That’s a goal for this year because we always miss them and they always miss us.” Jongho, sitting in the middle of the group, is smiling. He’s been manifesting a more personal ambition. “By next winter I want to be able to snowboard,” he says. “I want to buy my own board, go down the mountain and not fall.”

#ateez #m: all #type: interview #content: i d #era: the fellowship : break the wall #type: article

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hee0soo · 1 year

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ATEEZ Cho HeeYoung´s Masterlist

Stray Kids Min Jisoo Masterlist

Very slow updates

Cho HeeYoung (조희영) is a fictional South Korean Rapper, Vocalist, Dancer and Actress under KQ Entertainment. She made her official debut on October 24, 2018 as Lead Rapper, Sub Vocalist and Visual of the mixed group ATEEZ.

About HeeYoung

Profile * Relationships within the Group * First time meeting the boys * Relationships with other Idols * Idols having a Crush on Heeyoung * Inside Heeyoung´s phone

Outfits

Treasure Ep 1. All to Zero * Treasure Ep 2. Zero to One *

Pre-Debut

Leaving * Surprise ER Visits * KQ Fellaz Ep. 1 * KQ Fellaz Ep. 2 * KQ Fellaz Ep. 3 * Stay Away

2018

Standing out * We found her! * Sick *

2019

Home * Visitors * Visitors Pt. 2 * Don´t give up *

2020

2021

New MC? *

2022

2023

Welcome to THE OUTLAW *

Misc.

Learn the alphabet with Heeyoung...

SNS

Instagram 230323!-Yunho, 030423!-Seonghwa, 150623!-Yeosang

Twitter

TOKTOQ

TikTok

Broadcast

Compilations

Last updated 23/9/2023

#ateez #ateez 9th member #9th member of ateez #kpop added member #kpop addition #kpop au #kpop extra member #ateez addition #ateez added member #ateez female member #ateez female addition #masterlist

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yiijunz · 12 days

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(☆﹏☆) # I AM LOST LOOKING FOR YOU

YIJUN is the fictional ninth member of boy group ATEEZ. making his debut on october 24, 2018, with the extended play TREASURE EP.1: ALL TO ZERO, he would become the main vocalist, main dancer, and visual. he is known as the future of kpop (sorry dino), and THE ace.

# dream in a dream . . . masterlist ? tag dump ? ib: @kiiyunz.

#→˚₊· DREAM IN A DREAM ៸៸ pinnedᵎᵎ #fictional kpop idol #fictional kpop addition #ateez addition #ateez added member #fictional kpop community

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nonstop97 · 3 months

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🧡 Tracklist for Treasure EP 1: All to Zero album by ATEEZ 🧡

Intro : Long Journey

Pirate King

Treasure

Twilight

Stay

My Way

There will be a colorized version uploaded -here- as I could not decide if I liked this version or that one better. ATINY can decide. :)

reblog/like 🧡

#ateez #hongjoong #seonghwa #yunho #yeosang #san #mingi #wooyoung #jongho #treasure ep 1: all to zero #*mine #*gfx #*tracklist #*atz tracklist

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canyouhearthevoices · 2 years

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‘Pirate King’ Choreography Analysis

Welcome to the second episode of ATEEZ choreography analysis!

‘Pirate King’ was released with the Treasure Ep 1: All to Zero album, October 2018, and was one of two title tracks on the album - the other being ‘Treasure.’ It was one of the foundational choreographies for ATEEZ and their style. And, of course, has some very interesting moments.

And now, the video;

ATEEZ ‘Pirate King’ Choreography Analysis

#ateez #atiny #ateez theories #treasure #treasure ep 1 #all to zero #treasure ep 1: all to zero #choreography analysis #pirate king

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gamerwoo · 9 months

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selling albums & a lightstick!! :)

hi friends!! i’m currently looking to sell some albums that i don’t want anymore, as well as a lightstick. for the most part, i'm just looking to sell for what i bought it for or a little less if some/all of the extras are missing. these albums were basically looked through once and then put on a shelf, so they're in decent condition, just a little dusty

below the cut is more info, pricing, and shipping at the bottom, as well as a link to my depop if you'd prefer to buy through there!!

(pls reblog to spread, i really need to make some extra money for travel in a few months!!)

exo lightstick -- SOLD

i bought it firsthand but it was on sale because the box was damaged (hence the stains. they were there when i bought it and the box doesn't close). i only put batteries in it once when i got it to see if it worked, but took them out immediately after. other than that, it's never been used so i'm just looking for the discounted price i got it at (it also still has the stickers it comes with!!)

sf9 rpm album -- $15 + shipping

photobook & cd

zuho id card

zuho photocard

jooyeon photocard

zuho poster

missing group poster

bts the most beautiful moment in life: young forever album -- $7 + shipping

photobook & cd

missing all extras

exo the war: the power of music album -- $15 + shipping

xiumin photocard

there's so many loose items in this album box but i'm pretty sure everything is there. just in case, i'm asking for a little less than i paid for it

ateez treasure ep. 2: zero to one -- SOLD

photobook & cd

hongjoong photocard

group photocard

poster

calendar

stickers

nct 127 cherry bomb album -- SOLD

photobook & cd

missing all extras

monsta x take.1 are you there album -- $20 + shipping

photobook & cd

minhyuk photocard

shownu photocard

jooheon, wonho & shownu unit photocard

group photocard

shownu polaroid

group photo

i can't remember if it came with a poster or not but just in case i'm asking for lower than what i paid

monsta x shine forever album repackage -- $25 + shipping

bought secondhand

photobook & cd

jooheon cd

missing extras (that's how it came)

signed by wonho

since i got this secondhand, it is a little beat up and the sticker on the packaging is ripped so it doesn't close

shipping info!!

shipping is not covered by me!

shipping within the united states will be roughly about ~$5-$10

i would like to only ship within the united states, but i'm willing to ship internationally. i won't be paying for shipping, and shipping internationally is really expensive, especially since i'm shipping independently (in some cases, it's more expensive than the items themselves) so i feel bad making someone pay a ton for shipping. if you're outside of the u.s. and are still interested in buying something including the cost of shipping, you're more than welcome to reach out and i can estimate how much the shipping cost will be!

here's my depop where everything above is listed!

otherwise, payments will be through paypal! i will need to ask for your full name as well as your address, so you'll have to be comfy with that!! if you're interested, please dm me! and if you have any questions, feel free to send an ask or a dm!! 💛

#kpop #kpop albums #exo #sf9 #ateez #monsta x #wonho #bts #nct 127

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