- Wow. - I love this song.
- (humming)
- NCT 2018. Boom.
♪ (industrial intro) ♪
- Oh, another K-pop group.
- Yeah, K-Pop.
- This is K-Pop. I see SM Entertainment.
- I don't know who this is, but they look very familiar.
- Is this BTS?
- This isn't BTS? Okay.
That's the only K-Pop group I know.
- My sister really likes newer K-Pop.
This seems like a band she knows,
but I wouldn't.
- Oh, it's NCT! Oh my gosh, it's NCT.
- ♪ (singing in Korean) ♪
- We like K-Pop, 'cause K-Pop is amazing.
- ♪ Now we in the zone ♪ - Oh my gosh,
they're so cute.
- Sick.
- I like the song. It actually is good.
I like it.
- Whoa. Oh, I like this a lot.
- The guy can dance.
- Dude, I wish I could dance.
- ♪ But I'm still unsatisfied ♪
- Oh my gosh, the choreography.
- I love K-Pop so much.
- I don't wanna guess who it is in case I get it wrong,
but they at least remind me of Monsta X
when they first debuted.
- The visuals are really cool. K-Pop visuals are always
really cool.
- ♪ (singing in Korean) ♪
- The visuals for this were so sick.
That's very dope. That's a very dope video.
- They're good. Their movements
are just sharp.
- I only recently got into K-pop, but I love it.
The concept is so cool.
- That one didn't grab me. There's a cookie cutter
feeling to this and that's the part that I guess
keeps me away.
- Cherry Bomb?
- Cherry Bomb. Oh, I know this song.
- Oh, this is NCT.
- Oh, Cherry Bomb. Okay, I know NCT then.
- Okay, they're doing the classic boy band thing
where they all match.
- ♪ (Korean singing) Cherry bomb, feel it, yum ♪
- Wow.
- That is so cool.
- Dude, I think I had parachute pants like that
in junior high.
- ♪ (Korean rapping) ♪
- It's such a good song. You just wanna dance to it.
It's a bop.
- It's a lot more like-- I don't know how to describe it.
Like, rap-y than a lot of other K-Pop groups.
- ♪ If you're happy and you know it clap your hands, yo ♪
- What? No.
- Very action packed.
- ♪ Cherry bomb feel it, yum ♪
- Yeah, the dances in this one are literally insane.
- I just love it. I love the visuals on them,
'cause they're all so cute and then they just look great.
- It's cool. I don't know.
I like it.
- Visually, that's rad.
- ♪ (slow beat) ♪
- Ah, that's a little more sexy.
- Well the background looks cool.
- ♪ (Korean rapping) ♪
- Those are the real lyrics?
- Okay, this is a little more raw. I like this a little more.
- Ooh, that's cool.
- It's so aesthetically pleasing.
- How do I-- why does it feel like there's
more and then less people in the videos?
Is there sub groups?
- ♪ Open your eyes Open your eyes ♪
- They're so good looking.
- It doesn't sound in my head what I think K-Pop is.
It's more rap-y and I like that a lot.
- Sub-groups are basically, there's a whole group
and then the sub groups are a couple of them
that do their own little projects off to the side.
- They're just covering all genres of pop music.
See, I like that. It's good to try new things
and it must be fun for them, 'cause then they don't get bored
and pigeonholed.
- They're trying different genres, seeing what fits,
and it seems like they handle them all very well.
Kinda like a bunch of male Beyonces, you know?
- (bubbling)
- ♪ (Korean singing) ♪
- Wow. - I love this song.
(humming)
- Oh, I like this one a lot.
- Ooh, [bleep]. That's fire, okay.
- It's pretty cool, I guess, but it's just not
what I would listen to.
- Ooh, that beat swap up. Okay, okay.
- I love the different structures of their songs.
- ♪ We go up ♪
- This is all over the place.
- Oh, the choreography!
- They're so cute. - It's so good.
- ♪ And we go And we go ♪
♪ We go up ♪
- The colors are so crazy.
- ♪ We go up ♪
- This is just a summer song you could just listen to
with your friends in the car.
- The music videos that really carry the music, you know?
I don't know if I would be as interested in the music
if I wasn't seeing the visuals to it.
- Dancing in a well lit room is more reminiscent
of J-Pop at the time and so now they're taking
western aspects of the music, too.
It speaks so much to how the K-Pop industry
has evolved.
- They work really well together. They're a good looking
bunch of guys, and gosh, I couldn't
keep up with them.
- Is this all of them together?
- There's so many members.
- There is a lot of people in this group.
- How many people are in this group?
Is this really the entire group?
- ♪ NCT in the house ♪
- NCT, is that them? NCT?
- That's so many people.
- ♪ (Korean rapping) ♪
- Wow.
- Oh my God, whoa.
- ♪ NCT gotta go get them ♪
- Oh wow.
- Jeez, this is gonna make me sick
the way the camera's moving.
- ♪ NCT, we the dream chaser ♪
- I love this.
- ♪ What's up ♪
- Those camera moves are crazy.
- ♪ Hey black black black on ♪
- See, this reminds me of kinda early Exo actually.
- You just wanna dance. You wanna watch it.
- Oh!
- Wow.
- The choreography's phenomenal.
- They're so in sync.
- This [bleep] is so bad [bleep], dude.
- Oh yeah.
- They're having so much fun.
- NCT 2018. Boom.
- So pretty.
- Edgy boys.
- They're all in the group? And do they always
tour all together or do they break up in--
smart. Nobody's ever done that.
- NCT seems to be doing amazingly and it'll be really
interesting to see how it progresses if they really do
keep up with that concept.
- They're fun to listen to, but they're even more fun
to watch. It's like going to
a good ballet. I mean, a really good ballet
where it's very physical and very exact movements,
sharp, well defined. They got it.
- (FBE) So, those songs all came from the K-Pop group NCT.
- Yay. They were so good.
- I've heard of them. My friend likes to listen to them
and I know the song Cherry Bomb. I've heard that so many times.
- (FBE) The group has been one of the most heavily requested
K-Pop groups for us to cover in a while.
- Wow. Well then, I apologize
for all the hateful comments we're going to receive.
- (FBE) Well, NCT stands for Neo Culture Technology
and they are a K-Pop group that originally formed
back in 2016 and is divided into multiple different
sub groups like many other K-Pop groups are.
However, unlike many K-pop groups with sub groups,
the reason they're called Neo Culture Technology
is to describe the group's concept of having
an unlimited number of members. - Oh, wow.
So they change kinda like Menudo.
- That has never been done and I don't know
why it hasn't, but it's so smart, 'cause you could have
the same group touring all over the world.
- Oh, that's cool. I like that.
You never know who's out there, right?
Who has the talent or the look or whatever,
so I think that's really cool that they're open
to having anybody come through as long as they're good enough.
- It was a really interesting concept, 'cause with other
K-Pop groups, when they break them into sub groups,
it's like they have their base there and then they
kinda siphon them off into like, "Oh, you guys
are really good dancers. Come up with a dance album."
Or something like that, but with this one,
they actually-- it's more like they're drawing in
new members through the addition of sub groups
and they don't plan on stopping.
- (FBE) We showed you clips from NCT U, NCT 127,
NCT Dream, and the newly formed NCT 2018,
which consists of all eighteen total members and there are
even more groups in the works. Considering this is
Generations React, do you think that you
and the rest of your generation would like that concept?
- How can you ever have a favorite?
It's an interesting concept. I feel like you can have too much,
but if it's working for them, more power to them.
- It's a nice concept, I mean, but in the long run,
it's something where line distribution could get in the way
and then it's like there's so many members,
everyone's gonna get five seconds of screen time.
That doesn't make sense.
- I don't know. I'm not a young person,
so I don't know if I'd-- if you got to know all eighteen,
if you'd feel cheated if you got the touring group
and your favorite wasn't in it, but as a marketing
and profitability tool, Lord all mighty, yeah.
That's pretty smart.
- I don't think it's a good idea to split them up like that
because I think it'll confuses people.
- I have an opposite feeling about it.
I think it's cool because it focuses on a smaller group
of people first and then when they come together
as NCT 2018, you know them as a whole.
It's easier to fall in love or get to know the group better
at smaller portions first and then the whole thing
comes together and then you're like, "Holy crap."
- It's pretty cool. There's more people
to experience.
- It's not odd to create sub groups within a group.
Wu-Tang clan has done it, Odd Future has done it,
so it's very common to see it, but I think to that extent
is different.
- (FBE) So, the group performs mostly in Korean,
but have released their songs in other language options
including English in order to expand their worldwide market.
- Wow. - Wow.
- They're one of the new-- they are one of the few
K-Pop groups that come out with an English song.
- (FBE) However, a lot of K-Pop fans specifically appreciate
the Korean versions more than the English versions
even though as native English speakers,
because it comes off as more authentic.
So for you and for your generation,
which do you think that you would like more,
the Korean or the English versions of these songs?
- Um, English because I can actually jam out to that
because I can learn the lyrics.
- It more depends on the song, 'cause I feel like some
just flow better in Korean and they just sound better
in Korean, but some songs just might sound better in English.
- I would honestly like the Korean version.
Sometimes when people can't really pull off
the translation, then it comes off as inauthentic.
- It's always about the OG. I watch anime subbed.
I do not watch anime dubbed. I hate dubbed anime.
I wanna listen to it in the original format
that it was made for, which is in Korean.
- I like the Korean ones better. We need to have that
culture impact on our lives and if they just sing English songs,
it's just like hearing something like Justin Bieber
singing something. - It's the merging of cultures
is what's the coolest thing about the whole thing.
- There is that pull about K-Pop that you don't really understand
the lyrics, but they're sick and you're appreciative
of music in a different language and it's just kind of--
it further proves the point that music knows no bounds.
- Our generation right now is a little more diverse
and is a little more open to experiencing different cultures
I think than previous generations and we can educate ourselves
on different societal aspects of just different areas,
'cause that isn't an opportunity that a lot of other generations
have had before us.
- (FBE) So as the group develops, they are developing
even more sub groups. - Dude.
- (FBE) Their latest project though is that they're actually developing
a group, NCT China, because some of their members
are already Chinese and they have plans to do
the same thing with Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, and Indonesia.
- Wow, that's cool.
- Oh my gosh, that's amazing. - Wow.
- Those are all such amazing cultures and I--
oh my God, it's gonna be such a beautiful thing.
- (FBE) So finally, do you like this idea of branching out
into other countries or do you think that
being a Korean group is what makes K-Pop, K-Pop?
- I don't know. I just feel like it'd be cool
to have that kind of experience. To make music with your friends.
- I think it's a good idea 'cause then more people
will hear about it. Like, "Oh, I'm from Japan.
They're speaking Japanese. I'll try them out."
- It's really interesting and I think it'll be nice
to see how they do it. I just wouldn't want them
to come into a country and usurp the music industry
that's already there. So as long as they do it
with respect to the culture that's already there,
I think it'll be fantastic.
- Technology's brought everything closer together,
so I am sure there's some just as talented men and women
in China and North Korea as there are in South Korea.
- Music should change and music should grow
and for the first time in both our lifetimes,
they're able to include all those countries.
I mean, when I was a kid, China, rock and roll, no.
So now they're able to do this. I think it's wonderful.
Music can bring everyone together.
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