Stray Kids Entered Their Chill Era and Honestly We Didn't Know They Had It in Them
The 10th EP 'This & That' swaps their signature chaos for something groovy — Bang Chan calls it a whole new color.
no bc STAY has braced for eardrum obliteration for NINE YEARS and Stray Kids just... relaxed? the group dropped its 10th EP 'This & That' and the whole thing leans chill, groovy and cool — a full left turn from the rough, maximalist noise they built their entire brand on.
at the Seoul press conference leader Bang Chan basically said as much. "we prepared a new color of Stray Kids, just as the title suggests," he told reporters, and it's giving grown-and-grooving. the hip-hop-based title track shares the EP's name and runs on a looser, cooler energy than anything in their usual arsenal.
before anyone spirals — it's still THEM. all eight tracks were produced entirely in-house by 3Racha (Bang Chan, Changbin and Han), so the chaos gremlins are simply chaos-ing at a lower BPM. Changbin says the title track uses sonic textures they've never touched, wrapped around simple, repeating lyrics so it actually sticks.
nine years deep and choosing the harder, weirder path instead of coasting on the formula that already prints? that's the flex. Stray Kids could've run it back and gone feral on command — instead they're serving restraint, which is somehow the most chaotic thing they could've done. new color unlocked, we are so back.
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g-dragon reportedly clocked a cameraman about to fall off a stage and saved him mid-performance
a since-viral account from the concert says GD spotted the danger and stepped in — main-character reflexes, allegedly confirmed
this is the kind of story that makes you go 'not the man being effortlessly heroic AGAIN.' during bigbang's 20th-anniversary run, g-dragon allegedly noticed a camera director backing toward the edge of the roughly two-meter-high stage — and stepped in before it went south.
the facts, with a caveat: the account comes from a post attributed to the director's wife plus fan-shot video circulating on X, so treat the finer details as unconfirmed. per that telling, GD alerted the director and positioned himself to keep the guy from going over the edge while, somehow, still performing.
if you've ever tried to do two things at once and failed at both, imagine running your anniversary setlist AND a live spatial-awareness rescue op simultaneously. the multitasking? unmatched.
no agency has formally confirmed it, but the clip did numbers and the internet has collectively decided gd is a gentleman. we're inclined to agree.
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