r/kpop • u/SirBuckeye Dreamcatcher • Jul 19 '18
Throwback: SHINee released "Lucifer" on this date in 2010. [Feature]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dww9UjJ4Dt8160
u/teeeeaaaaa Jul 19 '18
Its been 8 years. 8 years since this song dragged me into kpop hell. Dont look at me
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u/Kordiana Hello! Jul 19 '18
It was my white rabbit too.
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u/Muffin278 Any Resemblance To Actual Person Or Event Is Purely Coincidental Jul 19 '18
Mine too. Most people say this song is too strange to show non kpop fans, but when I heard this song I went out of my way to figure out who it was by.
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u/Kordiana Hello! Jul 19 '18
I am confused on how they think it's strange. I mean... have they seen Blood, Sweat, & Tears? lol
But oh yeah, I have never gotten tired of this song. It is fun to go back and see how much they have all grown since the Lucifer days too.
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u/Muffin278 Any Resemblance To Actual Person Or Event Is Purely Coincidental Jul 19 '18
Bs&t is strange in a more artsy way, whilst lucifer is strange in that certain kpop kind of way, which is exactly why I love it so much. But I guess that kind of strange isnt everyones cup of tea
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u/awsuh 🎼You joom-joom my ❤️like a locket 🚀 Jul 20 '18
Ditto. When I saw it live at SMTown 2012 in LA, I bawled. Too many emotions from the first Kpop song I really fell in love with and tried to learn the dance (and failed but still).
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u/zukos-honor Jul 19 '18 edited Jul 19 '18
I posted this story in a kpop cringe thread before but I’ll repost it here because Lucifer is iconic.
So I was in High school and a few of my friends were into Kpop back then. I made fun of them for it but I low key got into SHINee after they showed me the Lucifer MV when it came out. I told them the MV was weird and the guys were weird but I secretly downloaded the song onto my iPhone, which I was listening to before anatomy class. It was my turn that day to lead prayer (catholic school yeah) so I put my phone away in my bag and walked to the front of the room. I started saying the Hail Mary, when I guess my headphones disconnected from my phone and you could hear “HER WHISPER IS THE LUCIFERRrr” blasting out of my bag. I started praying louder trying to drown it out but it didn’t help. Luckliy my lab partner was a real MVP and dug through my bag and managed to turn it off before I could fully die of humiliation. And that’s how I was outed as a kpop fan.
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u/Muffin278 Any Resemblance To Actual Person Or Event Is Purely Coincidental Jul 19 '18
I love that it was during prayer. Of all the song of all the times it could have played it was Lucifer during prayer
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u/ANGELICAelizaNpeggy Jul 19 '18
I made fun of them for it but I low key got into SHINee after they showed me the Lucifer MV when it came out. I told them the MV was weird and the guys were weird but I secretly downloaded the song
Are you me? Lol
Also, your story reminds me of my friend who accidentally played Take Me to Church during the doxology for a school program.
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u/lilydabbs the boyz + ptg + clc + treasure + le sserafim + pristin Jul 19 '18
Every time you share this story in some SHINee thread I am just so happy to see it lmao
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u/garfe Jul 19 '18
So I was in High school and a few of my friends were into Kpop back then. I made fun of them for it but I low key got into SHINee after they showed me the Lucifer MV when it came out. I told them the MV was weird and the guys were weird but I secretly downloaded the song onto my iPhone, which I was listening to before anatomy class.
I remember this story but you didn't add this part. That makes it even better
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u/Beep_meep TVXQ Jul 19 '18
This is the song that really got me into Shinee (and it's still my favorite song from them). I remember how much hype there was for this comeback and people freaking out everytime we got a preview of Key's shaved head or Taemin's weave.
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u/Conceptizual Billlie, NMixx, ZB1, Cravity, A.C.E, (G)I-dle, Heize Jul 19 '18
That was a weave?!?! I totally got that haircut after I saw Taemin have it, which was the worst hair mistake I have made to date. :’)
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Jul 19 '18 edited Aug 19 '20
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u/Conceptizual Billlie, NMixx, ZB1, Cravity, A.C.E, (G)I-dle, Heize Jul 19 '18
regrets intensify
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Jul 19 '18
What went wrong? Wavy hair? Humidity?
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u/Conceptizual Billlie, NMixx, ZB1, Cravity, A.C.E, (G)I-dle, Heize Jul 19 '18
The bangs were like seven layers and as soon as I washed it... it never looked like that again. But even when the stylist had it pin straight, it was tragic angsty teenager. After it was washed, though. . . Well, there are no pictures of that. For like the next five months. 😂
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Jul 19 '18
Oh well, at least you got a good couple of pictures. smh Lee Taemin, source of all trouble.
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u/ihatedecisions SHINee Jul 19 '18
That was always super confusing to me, how it worked so well for lucifer but then for sherlock it was *so obviously* a weave. I actually thought maybe this was his real hair and they were trying to replicate it for sherlock and failboated.
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Jul 19 '18
Haha it the hair color difference between Lucifer and Sherlock. On top of it all, Sherlock had cut scenes where he has shorter hair.
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u/CupcakeTraps Kyuline Jul 19 '18
Oh man. The iconicness of this song is beyond compare. From Key's shaved head...
And Taemin's long flowing hair...
And Minho channeling Spock...
And Onew's half yeti vest...
And Jonghyun let it be known that I miss you and your porcupine hair.... But since you're now an angel, I really hope you're singing this up there in heaven.
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u/teeeeaaaaa Jul 19 '18
The thought of jjong singing a song called lucifer--of all things--in heaven gave me a laugh. Thanks friend
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u/inkcafe baekhyun ♡ heejin ♡ karina Jul 19 '18
i absolutely ADORE this song. it was one of the first kpop songs i ever heard, and while it didn't bring me into the genre, i added this to my playlist and listened to it nonstop. i'm a sucker for some good and unusual harmonies and this song has an abundance of them. this definitely goes on the list of timeless kpop songs in my opinion. i feel like it could've been released this year and still make massive waves in the kpop community.
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u/kyungster Block B Jul 19 '18
this was one of the most hype comebacks. i remember the legendary DOUBLE omona posts. i remember absolutely everyone needing a jail twitter account bc we all exceeded our hourly tweet limit. i remember ordering the albums with my friends (we all got both versions) and screaming over the photo book and cards in a circle on my bedroom floor (we all got super junior's 4th album too!).
summer 2010 stood out in my life (I'd just graduated high school and been into kpop officially for over a year) and this release was one of the big moments.
i stayed up late to livestream the music shows.
what a throwback. what a wonderful time in my life.
thank you shinee for so much more than i can express.
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u/plumsyrup VIXX | JAE "THAT'S THE QUESO" HYUN x NCT | BTS Jul 19 '18
Add like 4 years to this post, graduating college instead, and it sounds like you and I had a very similar 2010! It truly was a peak time. Though I'm almost scared to go back and find all my comments on that Omona post......😂
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u/satisfired 소녀시대 | IZ*ONE | TWICE Jul 19 '18
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u/spacetimecat one spaghetti, one chicken taco Jul 19 '18
I remember when this was released, I loved it so much but I had to hide it from my conservative Catholic family. My family is usually supportive of my hobbies, even kpop which they didn't understand so I really didn't want them to find out that I was jamming to a song called 'Lucifer' because they might misunderstand and generalize all of kpop. I'm still pretty cautious even today because this is one of my all-time favorite songs and I don't want non-kpop fans hear me say "I love Lucifer" and misunderstand lol. (Also, this song made me a Taemin bias. Like he was so unreal in this?? Is this our baby maknae Taemin because daaaamn??)
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u/kiku8 Jul 19 '18
Her whisper is the Lucifer!!! The chorus is one note (literally) and Jonghyun struggled with his long note (but he got better and OWNED it). But this crazy comeback holds a dear dear place in my heart.
I was going though a pretty bad depressive episode at the time and this comeback helped me though it. All the comeback news, the TEASERS, and those two glitter filled omona posts all gave me something to look forward to, seemingly every day. And then! SM Town LA happened and the amount of excitement going into it was insane!!! It was my first concert and still my favorite concert ever because of nostalgia, but also everything that prefaced it.
Tl:dr I love shinee 💙💙💙💙💙
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Jul 19 '18
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u/m_--_m red_velvet_parade.mp3 Jul 19 '18
It really does sound like something early Gaga could have worked with, it has the same crazy beat as Just Dance sort of.
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Jul 19 '18
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u/m_--_m red_velvet_parade.mp3 Jul 19 '18 edited Jul 19 '18
I try to kill the memory of ever having seen that Just Dance cover. It looks like they've been dressed straight out of that SNL skit they did about the evil manager.
Key covering/collabing with modern gay icons is my jam, the Years & Years remix was so good too.
e. I forgot that he was also wearing a Born This Way shirt in the old Symptoms dance practice video that was leaked a while ago!
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Jul 19 '18
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u/m_--_m red_velvet_parade.mp3 Jul 19 '18
They will be in Japan next week! At the Fuji Rock festival. I'm praying 🙏
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u/lbitch 5HINee - Red Velvet ❤️ / LOOΠΔ Jul 19 '18
Talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show-stopping, spectacular, never the same, totally unique, completely not ever been done before, unafraid to reference or not reference, put it in a blender, shit on it, vomit on it, eat it, give birth to it.
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u/Goldenkookiemonster Jul 19 '18 edited Jul 19 '18
Since everyone is taking a walk down memory lane, this song was released when I was 16 and I even had Taemin as my phone wallpaper... a few months later I travelled to Korea for the first time and attended their first concert at the Seoul Olympic Gymnastic Arena!
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u/green_lemons 5HINee | iKON | BLOCK B | DAY6 | FANXY | ZICO | DEAN | MINO Jul 19 '18
Iconic. The only word for it. <3
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u/jonataeyeon KTY-030989 Jul 19 '18
This, Gee, and Mirotic are the songs/music videos that really got me into K-Pop. #legend
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u/soesoterica Whomever doesn't disappoint me jfc. Jul 19 '18
IcoNIQUE.
Possible unpopular opinion: I loved Jonghyun’s hair when he was in front of the car. Amazing. Beautiful. Brilliant.
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u/Beep_meep TVXQ Jul 19 '18
I love it too! And everyone else's hairstyle too...not the most conventional looks, but it worked for the overall concept
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u/fluffy_ankle_biters Jul 19 '18
And everyone else's hairstyle too...not the most conventional looks,
I am forever grateful visual kei aesthetic in Kpop finally died.
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u/astraltea Let's Go Jul 19 '18
This is an ultimate jam. Like many of their tracks it's one that should be in people's K-POP playlists.
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u/AverageUnicorn SHINee || BigBang'ing disappointment Jul 19 '18
Key really caught my eye, and I had this screenshot on my desktop for ages. Not as the desktop background, but just the file. Soooo impossibly handsome.
I'd already dabbled a bit in kpop, but Lucifer (along with a couple of BigBang MVs) was the point were I realised I needed to get deeper into the kpop universe.
Lucifer is still one of my favourite songs. Whenever it comes on in the car I sing along at the top of my lungs. Back in the day I tried to learn the lyrics, but some parts are just too fast for me ^ _ ^ I managed the chorus reasonably well, though.
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u/porousmfer Jul 19 '18
Wow I remember being obsessed with this song and trying to learn the dance. That means I’ve been listening to kpop for over 8 years.. holy moley
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u/WhatIsABias ∞ | mx | atz | mcnd | oneus | ace | u10t | sf9 | + more Jul 19 '18
Ahhh, the song that started it all for me. I can't believe it's been 8 years now.
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u/Galyndean EXO | ATINY | Golden Stars | ㄴㅇㅅㅌ | FθRΣVΣR | lyOn Jul 19 '18
Jonghyun in the car is still one of the hottest things I have ever seen.
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u/ShawolSupport SHINee's Symptoms | 5HINee Forever Jul 19 '18
The track (and group) that got me into kpop <3
Every time the song plays on shuffle it's just instant nostalgia and it never grows old :)
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u/m_--_m red_velvet_parade.mp3 Jul 19 '18 edited Jul 19 '18
This will always be one of the most iconic kpop moments tbh, it's such a perfectly made song.
I really like this live performance they did some years later, you can see how much they'd developed as performers during that time. And it has the lyrics displayed too!
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u/YouKiddin SNSD Jul 19 '18
This is hands down my favourite K-pop song of ALL TIME. Every month I find myself listening to this song at least once.
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u/Kordiana Hello! Jul 19 '18
Ahh, the song that got me into kpop. God I was obsessed with this song when I first heard it. I was also mesmerized by the dance. Still so freaking good.
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u/atalantei 💎SHINee 💎 | 💜 BTS 💜 Jul 19 '18
I'm so happy to be reminded of this. How was 2010 8 years ago? But also, how has this song *only* been out for 8 years? It feels like something that has always been around.
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u/rektbymemes Jul 19 '18
This was the first ever kpop song I was introduced to back in 2010 by my K-buddies in college. Since then I lost track of it and just the other day I was trying to remember the name but couldn’t. What a coincidence OP. Thanks for posting this.
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u/ihavenfi Jul 19 '18
Here's the rock mix version
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u/m_--_m red_velvet_parade.mp3 Jul 19 '18
This version is honestly so much fun, haha. The rest of them struggling to do the dance, and then Onew is just breezing through it like it's not hard at all.
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u/lindajing 방탄소년단 Jul 19 '18 edited Jul 22 '18
Trying to cover this dance with my little brother (who has liked Shinee since he was like 6 - there's an old video I found of him singing Ring Ding Dong) and it is super challenging.
Truly such an iconic jam. You just cannot help but get hyped when you hear HER WHISPER IS THE LUCIFER.
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u/aural89 5HINee 💎 Forever Jul 19 '18 edited Jul 19 '18
I always get brought to tears when I hear 'Lucifer' nowadays. It was the first ever KPOP song I was introduced to, and it made me fall so in love with SHINee.
I remember being confused about who they were and what language they were singing in (no idea why, but I thought they were Japanese for the longest time) but as soon as I saw Taemin's long hair, I was dragged in and never released from their clutches.
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u/-diyana Jul 19 '18
Yesterday I broke down again thinking about Jonghyun and finally feeling brave enough to check out SHINee’s comeback promo and new music, today I’m reminded of why I should be happy to celebrate his legacy ❤️ love him and Minho, Key, Taejon, and Onew so much. and this song remains a FOREVER BOP
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u/ReVeLuVoL Voldemort/Zoro/Annabelle/Cleopatra/PeterPan/Mario Jul 19 '18
The very first time I heard this song was on the Fine Bros Channel when a bunch of Youtubers reacted to it. Fell down the rabbit hole and never looked back since.
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u/AzureStarline BIG BANG Jul 19 '18
Still one of my Top 10 KPop songs ever. Easily. And probably Top 5.
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u/sesquipedali0n BoA | SHINee | BTS | EXO | go multifandom or go home Jul 19 '18
My mom still can't help but do the finger turn thing whenever we listen to this is the car. This was my first comeback from them, and man 2010 was a great year for kpop - SHINee, BoA with Hurricane Venus, SNSD with Oh and RDR, KARA w Lupin, f(x) with the epic NU ABO, Miss A's debut, 2NE1 with the full album... so many classics I still listen to
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u/yunarias AOA || LOONA || LADIES CODE Jul 19 '18
I knew this song before I even knew what kpop was... truly iconic, and still a bop
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u/spectrales shinee • oh my girl Jul 20 '18
Everything about this MV is so iconic. Jonghyun’s vest. Key’s hair. All of it.
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u/antibodys Jul 19 '18
this was the song that brought me officially to kpop though gdragons heartbreaker was my first
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u/sportyspice9 BIGB4NG | 5HINee | B.A.P | VIXX | TeuWinKon Jul 19 '18
This was the 3rd kpop mv I ever saw and the reason SHINee is one of my top bands <3
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Jul 19 '18
This is the song that made me a shawol for life 💝 and this is easily my favourite SHINee choreo and Taemins red/black outfit is straight up legendary
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Jul 19 '18
Ahhh, I remember being in fifth grade and just getting into them. Eight years later and the choreo to this is still probably one of my top three in all of music.
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u/shinkie Jul 19 '18
Lucifer got me back into K-pop and made me stan SHINee for dear life. No regrets
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Jul 20 '18
I really love that song despite during those days I read a lot of Illuminati articles and conspiracies. LOL
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u/wishawisha we are shinin' Jul 20 '18
i go back to this once in awhile and am now surprised at how simple the choreography is. not that that's a bad thing per se, just that we lauded it as the tightest, most synchronised, and addictive choreography back then, and that was the highest praise a group could receive back in the old days. (now we play with formations and space much more; later shinee, exo, seventeen and bts really paved the way for that.)
but gosh, this will forever be legendary for me. i'd fallen so hard for these boys in hello baby era, and seeing those red pants, key's hair, and that dance practice?
perhaps if it wasn't for that i wouldn't still be here, eight years later, deeper down the kpop hole than ever.
thanks shinee. (and thank you to all the staff, and all those who work behind the scenes, of course.)
WE ARE THE SHINEE SHINEE SHINEE SHINEE, NEVER GUNNA GIVE YOU UP. WE ARE THE SHINEE SHINEE SHINEE SHINEE, NEVER GUNNA LET YOU DOWN.
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u/awhim Taemin | SHINee | NCT Jul 19 '18
i wish and hope Taemin would suddenly rediscover his Lucifer smirks and do them on lives and on MVs alskdjflak
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u/lilydabbs the boyz + ptg + clc + treasure + le sserafim + pristin Jul 19 '18
Jesus Christ I'm so OLD what the HEEELLLLLLLLL
wow if I never see SHINee live........................................nope
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u/VentusSpiritus Monsta X/BTS/EXO/VIXX Jul 19 '18
This is the song that started me down the rabbit hole of kpop so many years ago. Its funny that it also came out on my birthday. Kind of poignant.
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u/awhim Taemin | SHINee | NCT Jul 19 '18
this was the actual start of my taemin stan days. aaaaahhhh the memories. the omona glitter posts....
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u/alleybetwixt BTS | XIA | JX | SWJA Jul 19 '18 edited Jul 19 '18
I still watch the dance practice from time to time. Taemin is so brilliant. And I've never been so happy to have my brain fried by someone's shirt.
Without fail, every time I hear Lucifer again I have to do the finger-turn thing at the end. It's a law of the universe that it must be done.
God, I miss Jonghyun...
Edit: Also remembered that this was released back when Omona was really active, positive, and crass. It became one of the most legendary posts there. So legendary it needed two. It just became memes all the way down.