What is a concept you would like to see NCT try? (any unit)

[pulsar jackal]

Music: Rock is good, but Metal would be great. Yoshiki from X-Japan (also pioneered visual kei) knows Yuta and attended NCT 127's Tokyo Dome concert, and he also produced a lot of J-pop boyband songs (mostly for Johnny's Jimusho's rosters). NCT 127 has a strong vocal line, a power ballad like Kurenai as the title track will be a hit in Asia and Europe. Fill the album with a lot of Bass-centric songs with bombastic vocals for vocal line, Gangsta rap songs for the Rap line, throw some industrial music inspired songs, which NCT's current more experimental songs were not enough, SM please let DemJointz to be executive producer for an album for once. K-pop is quite good at adopting metal into their own flavour, just look at Dreamcatcher for example. I saw a video of EXO performing MAMA (heavy metal version) on some awards show in 2016, to great results. Visual: Someone in this thread suggested military costumes for the clothes, YES PLEASE. Hit SHINee up for some recommendations, please I beg you SM. For album design, why somehow Toilet Paper crossed my mind? Pop Art inspired design, please. For MV, a collaboration with Modern Art artist Becky & Joe, maybe? I hope Pop & Modern Art don't have some weird feud going on, or my idea will be shot straight to the toilet (pun unintended).

[fringe wedge]

Finally someone who feels hurt over the Catharsis tease like Yuta would EAT 😭

[junior mango]

NCT 127 doing retro (like full 1940s) lol

[teal walrus]

Open discussion! What is a concept you would like to see NCT try?

Personally I think it would be cool if there was a FULL rock concept for 127… we were robbed of the Catharsis concept during Favorite era 💔💔 dark makeup and layered outfits.. yes please

[latent glacier]

you and me both..

Please actual rock do not just add guitars and call it a day...no soft rock ballads either

[teal walrus]

[uncut sapphire]

true

[latent glacier]

that and y2k boyband but not like. What kpop does as "y2k", like actually taking inspo from bsb and nsync, going full on late 90s

down to the makeup and clothing and hair too

[teal walrus]

oh ur so right

[latent glacier]

https://youtu.be/is6gtilerPk like please

Please....

[teal walrus]

EXACTLY ..

[steady basalt]

i need the neos to do something like what kai did in peaches

the styling was so good

[plucky mantle]

visual kei inspired concept please sm

call yoshiki right now and make him a producer again

[teal walrus]

just looked that up …. I agree with u

[plucky mantle]

also if they do there's a lot of styles to choose from... Infinite possibilities

[pulsar lava]

honestly would love to see them do something reminiscent of early tvxq e.g. a mix of orchestral pop/r&b/rock, and hopefully with vkei inspired styling

[latent glacier]

so real

[uncut sapphire]

YOU ARE ON TO SOMETHINGGG

[latent glacier]

im glad we can all agree on this 🤝

[plucky mantle]

i can't stop thinking about it because it's like.. Yuta LOVES vkei

give the man a chance

[latent glacier]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDLxzNwXZpA&ab_channel=Cantavanda PLEAK

[plucky mantle]

what favorite could have been

[latent glacier]

AND NEVER WILL BE !

the dropped the bag SO HARD on catharsis

im honestly mad they even showed us that bc they just ditched it like it was nothing

[uncut sapphire]

another thing i would like to see is like a military concept tho this could go down a wrong way cause one nugu group i stan did a military concept and lets say the mass email templates were flying but i want to see a military style done right(?)

[civic jay]

I would like something upbeat and funky and kinda cute. Similar to exo’s love me right vibes

But I want a legit rock concept more, especially Yuta with some VKei styling

[latent glacier]

tbh i think there's Enough military

like. with how problematic the military system is as a whole, idt it needs to be glorfied

and kpop companies dont have a good track record of handling topics with the seriousness it needs

[manic pumice]

omg yes…

[spare stone]

Nct J (all J named members)

any concept

[west badger]

In regards to an MV and album design, me and @halcyon crow had this idea of having 127 do a 1950/1960’s detective concept and the photo album booklet thing would be designed after a 1960s magazine with the article text being lyrics to their songs. The actual box for the album would be designed like a mini suitcase and some of the merch inside could be placed in a little file.

[civic jay]

Wayv…kinda like a spy concept or like undercover operation like WJSN the Black’s Easy. Like they’re up to something, might be crime.

[teal walrus]

ooooooh

[spare stone]

oh and 00z line maybe with a concept similar to 127

[civic jay]

Have we missed any sports concepts we have hockey(90s love) , baseball(let’s play ball), hello future is on that soccer field…

[latent glacier]

basketball bc im not counting we go up

it like. Barely counts to me they werent even wearing jerseys

LOL

[teal walrus]

football also 😭

but that would be strange imo

[plucky mantle]

no more sports concepts ! unless it's something fun like water polo

[halcyon crow]

I'm still hoping they do smth like this

[teal walrus]

some of these messages are not showing up for me 😭 but that seems like an interesting idea for sure

[idle snow]

the wonhofication

[teal walrus]

who

[idle snow]

exactly

[teal walrus]

😭

[idle snow]

WATER POLO????

[civic jay]

No swimming, I can’t take the free! comparisons

Bad alive is a weird matador/basketball styling too

[unkempt dirge]

hardcore anything. digital hardcore, hardcore breaks, post-hardcore. or electro-industrial. anything that will make kpoppies who call everything noise music combust. cmon nct, double down!!

[raw loom]

Would love to see an actual superhero/full on fantasy concept no bootleg cgi, just FUN (Think EXO Power)

[idle snow]

yess martin u are so correct

[latent glacier]

power rangers/mech concept

full on cheese with people in godzilla suits

[teal walrus]

https://youtu.be/qORYO0atB6g need something like this…

[idle snow]

power rangers 127

[teal walrus]

just fun

[raw loom]

need just a FUN concept back

[latent glacier]

ABSOLUTELYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

[raw loom]

No more “dark, we are MEN” concepts, I NEED FUN, I NEED TOUCH

Berets and fun!!!!!

[tall fulcrum]

omg a rock concept would be so cool

[pine forge]

omg this would never happen but that would be so funny

[plucky mantle]

100% blinded by fanaticism but this could be fun too. heroes in a dystopian world fooling around. https://youtu.be/egG7fiE89IU

[pine forge]

i loved the vampire/horror theme of favorite so maybe like that but more fulfilled? this might go hand in hand w the vkei/malice mizer idea but it's obviously kpop so it has to be somewhat poppy

[unkempt dirge]

there's a jpop group with some digital hardcore influence so y-you never know ! (me dreaming)

[hollow lotus]

girlcrush

[faint comet]

bubblegum pop

give me the pinkest poppiest song ever

[idle snow]

GIRLCRUSH LMFAOOOO

[civic jay]

Johnny center for pink poppy song

I think he’d run with it

[idle snow]

i just know jungwoo would slay the girlcrush concept actually

[teal walrus]

he’d be so into it

[idle snow]

him and haechan

[teal walrus]

they’d have a slayoff

[idle snow]

a fight I'd pay to see

[raw loom]

u say girl crush and then they itzyfy them

[tall fulcrum]

imagine if nct had a girl unit

that would be cute

[idle snow]

they do

I'm the leader

[civic jay]

Let taeyong put his StayC covers to good use with a girl crush concept

[ashen canopy]

something like taeyeon’s invu

[raw loom]

omg...that would be so good...

[zenith niche]

the purge... like really really gory horror. i wanna be SCARED because that makes me SWOON

or maybe like survive the night vibes??? the monster being black mamba or whatever is the new villain now that she's dead

basically i want something horror, and like ACTUALLY scary

i'd kill for dream to actually do a royalty prince concept, and not just for the teasers photos (im looking at u BB >:()

maybe WayV could have a Nightclub concept? We almost got that with Jalapeno but i feel like their intesne/sexy vibes could really come through

and for fantasy concepts i'd either want a dreamy concept or a magic school kind of thing!

[odd peak]

i wanna see them try smth like oneus' luna concept

[blissful rover]

omg yes, idk why but I can see that so clearly for dream and for 127 something more like skz thunderous but Luna's literally one of my favourite songs I'd love it if they did something like that

[lusty wave]

i want nct to do like an elegant concept or maybe royal concept

[weak ice]

dream chewing gum adjacent concept but instead of hoverboards it’s them surfing

[civic jay]

Lowkey I feel like Chenle would have a blast with a surf concept

[amber coral]

OK THIS MAY SOUND WEIRD BUT I REALLY WANT TO SEE NCT IN NORMAL JOB SETTINGS

like i can imagine haechan at mcdonald’s

jaemin at chucky e cheese

yuta at hot topic

but i mean i guess for a more formal concept it would have to be like thrill ride from the boyz where they have little jobs… OR IMAGINE WAYV AS CONSTRUCTION WORKERS LOLOL

[gritty torrent]

heavy metal/screamo

🧎‍♀️

it might be a stretch .... but i think they'd pull it off

[amber coral]

oh id really like to see that

taeil guitarist comeback…

[gritty torrent]

EXACTLY

🙌

• i remember yuta mentioning that he'd like to try something like that as well

[amber coral]

please i’m begging i need it

[gritty torrent]

[jade tartan]

complete soft boy kr&b pink green and brown theme

[tall fulcrum]

omg

this would be so good

[lusty wave]

we could possibly get prince yuta- BHFSDLIHFUIDLFHNSALIDFHSADFHSIADLFHSDAF

but you know sm

im now miserable

[tall fulcrum]

yesss our osaka prince !!!

sm really our biggest enemy

[lusty wave]

yes

would you like to join me in burning the sm building

[tall fulcrum]

yes

[lusty wave]

alright

thats good

11pm tmr

make sure to meet /j

just realised i can't english

[gritty torrent]

NCT dream sexy concept

[coral parrot]

hard agree with a full rock concept !! many groups have been dabbling with it but i wanna see full commitment 😤

[teal walrus]

[floral solstice]

Yeah, for me it's the rock/visual kei concept too, as long as it's not half assed.

[gritty torrent]

[atomic relic]

rock

[split ocean]

I know they've done it before with touch, but I'd like to see another nct 127 cute concept

[lusty wave]

omg hell yeah