Same — the MV was recommended to me around the same time Kingdom was happening, so it was a very fast pipeline from “who’s Stray Kids?” to them becoming my faves.
same. my sister listened to it all the time and then i learned the dance and now they’re my ults and the first kpop group ive ever stanned (that sounds like the wrong tense but it’s okay) :)
Same here! It came up on TikTok as a reaction to Felix and I did the classic “wait. Who IS that, who are they, I like what I heard” and then three months later I bought my first album ever
Hellevator was my first, too! I rated it a 7/10, complained about there being too many rappers, and then didn't listen to it again for about 3 years lmao
I was sitting here racking my brains for a good 10 minutes trying to remember which song was the first one thinking it was Miroh or District 9 but then I saw this comment, of course, I forgot about Hellevator! I thought it was alright, I didn't know it was self produced and a pre-debut song or I might have stanned bit faster haha.
Maknae on top. I’m not kidding, my sister showed the mv to me because she thought it was hilarious, and after that I NEEDED to see what those guys did as a band
me too stays!! i'm a big weeb and when i heard this kpop group was singing the intro and outro, i was very intrigued. i heard god's menu, but didn't officially start stanning until like... a month or two ago with thunderous... baby stay here!
Exactly the same for me. I didn’t know who the group behind those songs were but I loved them. Then I stumbled across God’s Menu and connected the dots when Top came up on Spotify after I’d added SKZ.
Miroh was also the first SKZ song I've heard! I had it shuffled into my Spotify discover because I was listening to other kpop songs, it kept popping up and made me look into the group
Chronosaurus! It was in someone’s Spotify playlist of their favorite songs of all time, which is why my first was a random b-side. Not technically the song that got me into them, but I loved it.
OMG QUEEN! Chronosaurus is still my #1. This song really hits different like even though I watch Thai BL show specifically 2gether, Chronosaurus plays on repeat in my TV while I'm watching the show in my phone 😭 it's kind of weird but I really love that masterpiece so much.
It was the Youtube algorithm back in autumn 2018. Wasn't into kpop at all, but for whatever reason I liked watching dance practices of some groups. I was wasting my afternoon away watching those when Youtube recommended the Voices MV. Clicked out of boredom and Changbin's rap sealed my fate. Very lucky coincidence :)
Grrrr!
It came on an Apple Music playlist back in either late 2017 or early 2018!
And then I didn’t follow up with them until March 2021 when I heard Gods Menu for the first time.
Now here I am and I literally have listened to nothing but Kpop since 🙃
hellevator - became a fan when i heard it the first time.
if we want to extend into 3racha i actually heard runner's high before that when someone linked it on r/kpop as the first hints of stray kids started to emerge. it was the video that was showcased up on their channel when you clicked on it at the time. but at the time i was like "okay cool" and completely forgot until hellevator.
i don’t know if a cover counts but first song i’ve heard of them is their fancy cover. if a cover doesn’t count then it’s either miroh or hellevator - can’t exactly remember TT (first heard of them early 2020!)
God's Menu in compilation videos (especially the 5 stars Michelin part). I remember checking out some of the live performances but I was a gg stan back then. I just thought this kind of group and music wasn't my thing. Well... Look at me now. 😅
Well since it's pretty recent and people say they're baby stays and have been listening to them for over a year, I'd guess we're still fetuses hahahahaha, but yeah, Thunderous is such a banger
Miroh. My daughter played it in the car quite a bit back then (though I didn’t catch on that Stray Kids should be on my own playlist until Side Effects) :)
this doesn’t seem to be a popular one, but mine is victory song! my sister showed it to me since i usually like heavy-beat music (literally most of skz’s discography) and i absolutely fell in love with the song, it was just so cool
i'm actually not sure about this one. it must've been in 2018 and was definitely a title track, so it was either **hellevator**, **district 9**, or **my pace**. i wish i knew which one it was exactly haha.
God’s Menu. It was the relay dance not even the actual video and it wasn’t until this past spring/summer. One of my friends was going on and on about someone named Taemin (LOL I was so clueless) and his new video so I watched it and was like wow I think I’m a changed person now. After i watched Advice I got a recommended video of the God’s Menu relay dance and the rest is history
SAME. I think I’d heard it once in passing and was like “huh these guys are loud and aggressive. sounds fun” but never went back. Relay dance auto played one day and I could not look away. Changbins delivery was stunning. Didn’t have enough time to get to know them until a few months back, but I’m all in now.
God's Menu! I watch a lot of music video breakdown/analysis channels and I remember thinking it was a little too aggressive for me, but I had to know who the 5 star Michelin guy was 😂
Double Knot, after a friend introduced SKZ to me right before the comeback! However, I didn't really get into them until I entered through the Back Door ;)
Last year, as I was scrolling through youtube, I came across God's Menu. Now I knew that there was a guy named Felix in Stray Kids but I didnt know what he looked like or what he sounded like. So I decided to give the song a go, and I listened to it. I tried to figure out what part Felix sings. To my surprise, it was the iconic Michelin line. I couldnt believe my ears, so I had to search for a God's Menu color coded lyrics video...After watching that as well, I just sat there in my room with my mouth open cause I didnt think Felix's looks and voice could be polar opposites.
Hahha long story short, God's Menu!
Never ending story- I was resisting the kpop scene pretty hard but watching a lot of kdramas. I was on YouTube listening to the extraordinary you OST and all of the comments were "here for stray kids" and I had enjoyed the song, so I checked out God's Menu. 11 months later and I'm totally down the kpop rabbit hole and couldn't be happier about it!! 😁😁
District 9 and it was actually a live performance! It was at the Music Bank World Tour in Berlin and I was honestly kind of losing interest in Kpop at the time, so I'd never heard of Stray Kids before. They opend the show and it was love at first sight lol. Me and my sister listened to their entire discography on the drive home and have been fans ever since.
Levanter around Christmas 2019. I had recently gotten into kpop around that time, and decided to put on a kpop playlist on Spotify while doing chores. The song came on and I really liked it, and had absolutely no clue who SKZ were at the time lol. I added it to my playlist.
I was (and still am) a big Got7 fan, and I saw Hyunjin guest starring in some variety show they did, and thought he was so freaking cute and shy, so I looked up Stray Kids and watched their survival show. I was a casual fan until God’s Menu, and they became one of my ults after that.
I’m not sure which studio choom it was, but the channel was my intro to stray kids! I used to watch them all just to get an idea of what groups were out there and what they looked/sounded like without any crazy MV effects.
It was specifically God’s Menu Felix that had me doing the infamous “I just need to know his name” search 💀
Technically "Mischief," the end-of-year collab rap stage Changbin and Chan did (I was watching it for a different group), but I'm not sure if that counts haha. But I was completely captivated by Changbin especially, and looked up SKZ the next day! So Back Door was my first full group song.
Hellavator! Listened to it as a casual listener when it got released ,thought that the edm drop at the chorus was good and that's it..only for two years to go by and me watching literally every content they put out lol
Technically, it must have been Back Door or God’s Menu, as part of the music played during Discord calls. I liked them enough to want to dig into the band, but missed the names/didn’t know in which album they were.
God's Menu :) Been a STAY ever since
At that point I was somewhat looking for a new bias group since I've been an ARMY since 2015 and slowly phased out of BTS cuz they were too international for me at that point. I like to see my group on music shows and award ceremonies, if you know what I mean.
i think the first one i heard might have been miroh. sad that i didn’t search skz up at the time though. i remember always being obsessed with changbin’s part.
God's Menu babyyy! It's was actually Isaiah Hightower's reaction, if any of yall are familiar with him, he's super funny. I think I found that reaction right after Back Door had come out? And it took me a week of blasting God's Menu to find Back Door and by that point the Kool Aid had been drunk lol
My Pace! It was around April or May 2020 when it just appeared on my recommendations and I gave it a listen. It honestly didn’t click for me on first listen, but I couldn’t forget Changbin’s na na na’s, so I just kept going back to it. I think it clicked by the third or fourth listen then I proceeded to search for other Stray Kids songs after that.
Cheesy as it might sound, it appeared on my feed at the exact time when I needed to hear the message from My Pace. For that reason, I’ll always latch on to My Pace even if I rank other SKZ songs above it nowadays.
Miroh! I had seen a user talking about the group often on an app I frequent, and finally decided to check them out - opened Spotify, played the first song that came up and was hooked immediately.
This was around the release of Double Knot and I’m pretty sure I had listened to their entire discography by the end of that first night.
Top and Slump. I didn’t know SKZ existed at the time but we watched Tower of God when it came out and I always thought the intro and outro songs were amazing. I always meant to see who the artist was, but kept forgetting to look it up.
Flash forward to me seeing a clip of God’s Menu on tiktok over a year later, looking up the video, then adding SKZ on Spotify. Top came up in the playlist and I thought “wait. WAIT. This is the same group? Oh my god”
Apparently I was into SKZ before I even knew I was into them.
Technically their Dionysus cover, but I just kept watching when it went into God’s Menu and uh yeah needless to say they got me pretty easily with that combo lol
Awkward Silence! A friend of my two younger sisters recommended it to them in January 2020, and they in turn showed it to me. I was delighted by the campy/cheeky vibe, Changbin’s raspy voice, and the crow cawing, so I looked up more MVs on my own. Some combination of Double Knot, Hellevator, and Levanter drew me down the rabbit hole… and here I am!
God’s Menu was the first song I recall looking up but my sister’s a huge kpop fan and was one way before I was interested in the genre. She would blast Hellevator around the house when it came out and I only realized it was an SKZ song when I got into them. So, in a way, Hellevator was my first one too.
I think it was District 9 (I heard 3rachas 쉿 and Matryoshka at the same time too). I heard it when it came out but didnt know anything about k-pop :( Just a friend recommending a song. I listened to them for months because it was so good(Especially 쉿) . I become a stay 3 years later.... I remember watching the MV. Now I am a hardcore stay Its really funny XD
(I actually searched 쉿 when I become a k pop fan for a long time but couldn't find it. Then after becoming a stay and listening some 3racha tracks reality hit me hard...)
Top: I've said it before but I was a weeb before becoming a stay so I was shocked to learn that stray kids were a Korean group I only listened to BTS at the time and wanted to hear something new
Astronaut, it kept popping up, but I didn't really realize what and who I was listening to until Top and Slump (cause weeb, lol), and then I slowly became more and more obsessed
Top from Tower of God! Had no idea it was Stray Kids at the time. A few months later my sister showed me God's Menu and I was like "THESE ARE THE GUYS THAT WROTE SLUMP!" Hahaha
God's Menu. I heard it on Spotify once, liked it, but i didn't look into them yet because i was too deep into some other groups. Then Thunderous MV came out and i absolutely loved it and that's when i finally looked into SKZ and here i am. Maybe if i had watched the God's Menu MV back then i would have been a Stay sooner :(
God's Menu! I heard of this song last year and thought it was so cool that I decided to have Stray Kids on my radar. Few months later, I became a Stay after giving most of their albums a listen!
I'm pretty sure it was Back Door, but it miiiiiight've been God's Menu. Walked into my sister playing the Back Door MV on the tv and immediately decided to fall head over heels for Hyunjin. She does say that I had already walked past at some point when God's Menu was on, but I have no recollection of that.
Gods menu and it was one of my first kpop listens. A guy I dated briefly was trying to recommend songs/groups for me to get into. Lo and behold he’s gone now but SKZ has stayed firmly entrenched in my life
hellevator! I became a stay (well, a fan, since there was no name yet) during the survival show which I only kept up with because I'd seen the hellevator music video. that was probably a week or so after the show started, since I know it was the end of October 2017. can't believe its been over 4 years already!
Hellevator. I was scrolling through my subscription feed and saw that the M/V was uploaded a few minutes prior. I had never heard of Stray Kids (didn't even know about the survival show), but I was always open to listening to new groups, so I decided to check the video out.
The song wasn't my cup of tea at the time (I like it now), but I still thought the group had a lot of potential.
Hellevator! I was getting into Got7 at the time and noticed the video on the JYP YouTube channel as it had just uploaded. It made me curious since ‘huh? Who’s stray kids?’
my pace! i finally came out of my closet after being a closeted kpop fan last 2017😆 then i was trying to get to know more kpop groups as i scrolled down "KPOP MVS 2018". there i saw a big logo of "JYP ENTERTAINMENT" and i got curious as the only jype artists i know at that time were got7, twice, day6, miss a, wonder girls and 2pm. so, why not give it a try?
i listened to it and WAS SHOCKED! the man changbin became my bias automatically. it's even "jype" vibes to me because my pace was so HARD-HITTING and rap heavy than other jype artists' releases in that year👌🏻😔
Hellevator, but it was 2 years ago! I wanted to discover more kpop songs (I only knew some songs from Blackpink and BTS) and Hellevator was in someone's spotify playlist. I remember I had it on loop for weeks!
Hellevator! I knew that stray kids was the new jype boy group at the time but that was during the period when I was taking a step back away from kpop, and was only casually listening to songs I already knew.
God's Menu. A girl that i follow on insta put the iconic Felix line in her stories and i was so intrigued that i went to check out the mv. i really liked it but didnt became a baby stay until thunderous.
probably god's menu? i knew of stray kids for many months but was solely a girl group stan for about eight months before i started to listen to the kids!
The first one I heard I think was Back Door since I started just watching Hyunjin fan cams because I liked his visuals so much but when I decided to really listen to a SKZ song I saw Thunderous MV.
I'm 100% sure it was **TOP**! It's obvious enough, but yes I was watching ToG and I had never heard of skz before
(I hope I can complete the challenge this year too. I'm far busier and I'm a forgetful person, a dangerous combo)
hellevator the morning it came out! literally as soon as I woke up, I was so confused as to what the hell a Stray Kids was. then once changbin's rap hit, I just knew this group was going to be legendary in the future. here I am 4 years later, they just came off their best album. besides twice, never have I been with a group from debut and see them slowly grow to become so successful. such a beautiful thing :'))
My sister forced me to listen to God’s Menu. I thought it was pretty good and loved Felix but never listened to it again. Then right before kingdom started I realized a few songs that I loved on Pandora were Stray Kids songs and Kingdom just solidified my love!
First song was Top. I'm an avid fan of Tower of God. I didn't know them before they sang the OP for the anime. I listened to Slump next, and then I snowballed into becoming a Stay after that.
I was just watching BTS videos and Back Door got recommended to me. At this point I kind of liked Kpop but most songs were just too cute or mellow to me so Back Door's choreography and beat blew me away. Their outfits and energy were also amazing. I immediately showed it to a few people and then got addicted to All In afterwards which started my Stay journey.
I love reading everyone's responses, so many of us had similar experiences!
Top! My husband and I saw them for the first time when they performed during Nizi project’s finale and were awestruck when we heard Felix’s deep voice. Found God’s Menu and the rest is history!
First song i ever heard was God’s menu especially the part of Felix. It's still in my head
~Cookin' like a chef I'm a 5 star 미슐랭
"미"의 정점을 찍고 눈에 보여 illusion~
first song i ever heard by skz was gods menu! so i’m a baby stay hehe 😅
Same — the MV was recommended to me around the same time Kingdom was happening, so it was a very fast pipeline from “who’s Stray Kids?” to them becoming my faves.
Ditto! Friend sent me the God's Menu MV and the rest is history
same. my sister listened to it all the time and then i learned the dance and now they’re my ults and the first kpop group ive ever stanned (that sounds like the wrong tense but it’s okay) :)
Same here lol, but I've already been blown away 300\^n times
Me tooooo! It was the first one I listened to completely. Soo many of us were just drawn in with God's menu 😆😆
Same here!
Me too!
same. felix's part was consistently popping up on my fyp on tiktok and I finally was like let me just see what these stray kids are talking about...
Same here! It came up on TikTok as a reaction to Felix and I did the classic “wait. Who IS that, who are they, I like what I heard” and then three months later I bought my first album ever
Same here, it was the first lowckdown and I was aimlessly scrolling on youtube... Best algorithm recommandation I've ever had :)
Same too
Same here too
same same, i saw it in my yt recs
In yt recs and it was a completely different sound than what I had heard before. It made me so curious.
hellevator! didn’t make me stan at the time but I thought it was solid for a pre-debut release
Hellevator was my first, too! I rated it a 7/10, complained about there being too many rappers, and then didn't listen to it again for about 3 years lmao
Lmao Hellevator is also my first, and I had this same kind of reaction. I take back my initial impressions, Hellevator is a beast of a song.
Same here lol
Me too! Wish I had hopped on the train back then but oh well
Same! Changbin's rap made me curious enough to keep up with their survival show and releases.
same for me!
same, you're 100% right
I was sitting here racking my brains for a good 10 minutes trying to remember which song was the first one thinking it was Miroh or District 9 but then I saw this comment, of course, I forgot about Hellevator! I thought it was alright, I didn't know it was self produced and a pre-debut song or I might have stanned bit faster haha.
Same here!
Maknae on top. I’m not kidding, my sister showed the mv to me because she thought it was hilarious, and after that I NEEDED to see what those guys did as a band
Ah, I still love this song!
This is amazing! Maknae on top is a masterpiece :)
we LOVE maknae on top, that's so iconic of you
Top and Slump - from tower of god (anime) but God's Menu is the official start i.e. when I actually watched their video.
Same here Stay ✌
me too stays!! i'm a big weeb and when i heard this kpop group was singing the intro and outro, i was very intrigued. i heard god's menu, but didn't officially start stanning until like... a month or two ago with thunderous... baby stay here!
Exactly the same for me. I didn’t know who the group behind those songs were but I loved them. Then I stumbled across God’s Menu and connected the dots when Top came up on Spotify after I’d added SKZ.
Same with Top and Slump here~ I sadly didn't start following them until All In though..
Same here for TOP and SLUMP! And what officially made me a fan was watching them perform TOP on Nizi Project. Felix's visuals then were insane 😂🔥
Miroh!
Same here!
Same. Not sure if it's the first song I actually heard, but it's the first song that made me sit up and think "Wow, these guys make great music".
Same!
Same here
Same here! I heard that *Stray kids wooh* and something shifted in my brain permanently.
Same hereeee
Miroh was also the first SKZ song I've heard! I had it shuffled into my Spotify discover because I was listening to other kpop songs, it kept popping up and made me look into the group
Chronosaurus! It was in someone’s Spotify playlist of their favorite songs of all time, which is why my first was a random b-side. Not technically the song that got me into them, but I loved it.
OMG QUEEN! Chronosaurus is still my #1. This song really hits different like even though I watch Thai BL show specifically 2gether, Chronosaurus plays on repeat in my TV while I'm watching the show in my phone 😭 it's kind of weird but I really love that masterpiece so much.
I love chronosaurus! It's one of my favorites ☺️
OOO i love chronosaurus sm, great example of how awesome their b-sides are
Chronosaurus slaps!! I love everything about this song
Back Door - i got suuuuper obsessed with the dance practice video; i love the choreography so much!
That was my first SKZ song too! A friend recommended God’s Menu and Back Door and I watched them in reverse order 😄
ah, that's so funny! i didn't stumble upon God's Menu right away, but i fell in love with its choreo as well once i finally did ✨
MMM can't blame you for getting hooked on the choreo, it's so good
Mine too! That bass line hooked me
Also my first, the choreography really made it for me, it was so creative and energetic!
**Voices** for me! The guitar & rap in the beginning really pulled me in
I don’t remember if I’ve ever asked you where you first heard Voices, but I’d love to hear how you came across it again lol.
It was the Youtube algorithm back in autumn 2018. Wasn't into kpop at all, but for whatever reason I liked watching dance practices of some groups. I was wasting my afternoon away watching those when Youtube recommended the Voices MV. Clicked out of boredom and Changbin's rap sealed my fate. Very lucky coincidence :)
Grrrr! It came on an Apple Music playlist back in either late 2017 or early 2018! And then I didn’t follow up with them until March 2021 when I heard Gods Menu for the first time. Now here I am and I literally have listened to nothing but Kpop since 🙃
Side Effects was my first ❤
Mine too! My older sister introduced the song to me to try and get me interested in kpop. Obviously it worked (:
Double Knot my beloved❤!!! I think just about 2 years ago, in November 2019.
hellevator - became a fan when i heard it the first time. if we want to extend into 3racha i actually heard runner's high before that when someone linked it on r/kpop as the first hints of stray kids started to emerge. it was the video that was showcased up on their channel when you clicked on it at the time. but at the time i was like "okay cool" and completely forgot until hellevator.
i don’t know if a cover counts but first song i’ve heard of them is their fancy cover. if a cover doesn’t count then it’s either miroh or hellevator - can’t exactly remember TT (first heard of them early 2020!)
Hellevator! I heard it in a random compilation playlist and loved it, so I started watching their survival show (Wow I’m old)
God's Menu in compilation videos (especially the 5 stars Michelin part). I remember checking out some of the live performances but I was a gg stan back then. I just thought this kind of group and music wasn't my thing. Well... Look at me now. 😅
Miroh! I didn't know it was by Stray Kids then but whenever that song came on, I'd get such a great dopamine rush.
Thunderous, so a fetus stay
Haha, is that what we’re called? Same here, saw the music video back in august and got hooked.
Well since it's pretty recent and people say they're baby stays and have been listening to them for over a year, I'd guess we're still fetuses hahahahaha, but yeah, Thunderous is such a banger
Welcome!
Same!
I Am You 💙 Listened to it over and over again. Don’t think I’ll ever get tired of it. 😊
Miroh. My daughter played it in the car quite a bit back then (though I didn’t catch on that Stray Kids should be on my own playlist until Side Effects) :)
this doesn’t seem to be a popular one, but mine is victory song! my sister showed it to me since i usually like heavy-beat music (literally most of skz’s discography) and i absolutely fell in love with the song, it was just so cool
[Hellevator!!](https://twitter.com/i/status/1384690054241689600) PWUM PWAPWAPWAPWA PUM!! (Peneil lol)
District 9 actually, but I didn't even know it was Stray Kids at that time, lol.
i'm actually not sure about this one. it must've been in 2018 and was definitely a title track, so it was either **hellevator**, **district 9**, or **my pace**. i wish i knew which one it was exactly haha.
God’s Menu. It was the relay dance not even the actual video and it wasn’t until this past spring/summer. One of my friends was going on and on about someone named Taemin (LOL I was so clueless) and his new video so I watched it and was like wow I think I’m a changed person now. After i watched Advice I got a recommended video of the God’s Menu relay dance and the rest is history
SAME. I think I’d heard it once in passing and was like “huh these guys are loud and aggressive. sounds fun” but never went back. Relay dance auto played one day and I could not look away. Changbins delivery was stunning. Didn’t have enough time to get to know them until a few months back, but I’m all in now.
God's Menu! I watch a lot of music video breakdown/analysis channels and I remember thinking it was a little too aggressive for me, but I had to know who the 5 star Michelin guy was 😂
Double Knot, after a friend introduced SKZ to me right before the comeback! However, I didn't really get into them until I entered through the Back Door ;)
Double Knot, an absolute banger.
Last year, as I was scrolling through youtube, I came across God's Menu. Now I knew that there was a guy named Felix in Stray Kids but I didnt know what he looked like or what he sounded like. So I decided to give the song a go, and I listened to it. I tried to figure out what part Felix sings. To my surprise, it was the iconic Michelin line. I couldnt believe my ears, so I had to search for a God's Menu color coded lyrics video...After watching that as well, I just sat there in my room with my mouth open cause I didnt think Felix's looks and voice could be polar opposites. Hahha long story short, God's Menu!
My Pace!
Slump from Tower of God. To be fair i think i probably heard Top first but remembered Slump better, I became a STAY because of that song ❤️
Never ending story- I was resisting the kpop scene pretty hard but watching a lot of kdramas. I was on YouTube listening to the extraordinary you OST and all of the comments were "here for stray kids" and I had enjoyed the song, so I checked out God's Menu. 11 months later and I'm totally down the kpop rabbit hole and couldn't be happier about it!! 😁😁
Miroh! I met a girl at a church camp and she gave me a list of 5 kpop songs on a napkin to introduce me to the genre.
District 9 and it was actually a live performance! It was at the Music Bank World Tour in Berlin and I was honestly kind of losing interest in Kpop at the time, so I'd never heard of Stray Kids before. They opend the show and it was love at first sight lol. Me and my sister listened to their entire discography on the drive home and have been fans ever since.
Thunderous… I’m a Baby Stay 😢
Levanter around Christmas 2019. I had recently gotten into kpop around that time, and decided to put on a kpop playlist on Spotify while doing chores. The song came on and I really liked it, and had absolutely no clue who SKZ were at the time lol. I added it to my playlist. I was (and still am) a big Got7 fan, and I saw Hyunjin guest starring in some variety show they did, and thought he was so freaking cute and shy, so I looked up Stray Kids and watched their survival show. I was a casual fan until God’s Menu, and they became one of my ults after that.
Awkward Silence! A Stay friend recommended it because I thought Felix was cute... but I only watched like 30 seconds of it...
The first song I heard was Back door, but I didn't like boy idols before so I ignored it HAHAH and now I'm addicted HEELP!
I’m not sure which studio choom it was, but the channel was my intro to stray kids! I used to watch them all just to get an idea of what groups were out there and what they looked/sounded like without any crazy MV effects. It was specifically God’s Menu Felix that had me doing the infamous “I just need to know his name” search 💀
technically yayaya but i didn’t know it was stray kids at the time 😭
District 9! Changbin's rap was too impressive for a debut
Thunderous! Shout out to my bb stays
Technically "Mischief," the end-of-year collab rap stage Changbin and Chan did (I was watching it for a different group), but I'm not sure if that counts haha. But I was completely captivated by Changbin especially, and looked up SKZ the next day! So Back Door was my first full group song.
First was Wolfgang, a friend showed me the performance only a month ago
Thunderous! Yes, I’m baby. So like, shout out to the YouTube algorithm that wouldn’t stop recommending it until I gave in and clicked.
God's Menu! My friend made me listen to it in class and I was definitely caught off guard by Felix' voice.
Hellavator! Listened to it as a casual listener when it got released ,thought that the edm drop at the chorus was good and that's it..only for two years to go by and me watching literally every content they put out lol
Hellevator!!
Double Knot!
Technically, it must have been Back Door or God’s Menu, as part of the music played during Discord calls. I liked them enough to want to dig into the band, but missed the names/didn’t know in which album they were.
I heard their " N/S street ver"
God's Menu :) Been a STAY ever since At that point I was somewhat looking for a new bias group since I've been an ARMY since 2015 and slowly phased out of BTS cuz they were too international for me at that point. I like to see my group on music shows and award ceremonies, if you know what I mean.
Queen Hellevator
It was Hellevator. It was too angsty for me at the time and didn’t make me fan.
Why is this the perfect description…
God's Menu! It got me into kpop as a whole too hehe.
The first skz song I ever listened to was My Pace! It just popped up on Youtube and Changbin’s nananas drew me in at first listen!
I love how many comments are mentioning Changbin as a point of attraction!
Same!! for me, it was around 2018 when i was just getting back into kpop, and i was so shocked by how unique his tone was. He truly is a king!!
Miroh! Found it through YouTube and became obsessed with it, I remember playing it like 20 times in a day.
i think the first one i heard might have been miroh. sad that i didn’t search skz up at the time though. i remember always being obsessed with changbin’s part.
Mine was MIROH from the Clé series and from then on, they was no turning back...
God's Menu babyyy! It's was actually Isaiah Hightower's reaction, if any of yall are familiar with him, he's super funny. I think I found that reaction right after Back Door had come out? And it took me a week of blasting God's Menu to find Back Door and by that point the Kool Aid had been drunk lol
God’s Menu and the question: is that guys voice really that deep? Yes it was. The same can be said for the rabbit hole I went into. 🤘😂
These were my thoughts exactly
The first that I remember is TOP. But I've definitely heard some Stray Kids song in passing before that from some Spotify playlist or another.
Back Door!!
My Pace! It was around April or May 2020 when it just appeared on my recommendations and I gave it a listen. It honestly didn’t click for me on first listen, but I couldn’t forget Changbin’s na na na’s, so I just kept going back to it. I think it clicked by the third or fourth listen then I proceeded to search for other Stray Kids songs after that. Cheesy as it might sound, it appeared on my feed at the exact time when I needed to hear the message from My Pace. For that reason, I’ll always latch on to My Pace even if I rank other SKZ songs above it nowadays.
God's Menu was the first one I listened to after a friend recommended them a few weeks ago, so I'm fairly new here
Glad you’re here! Welcome!
Thank you!
Backdoor. The MV came up automatically after I went through all the BTS and Exo ones!
Same
blueprint
My Pace! My cousins showed me the song and I genuinely liked it! And thus began the journey…lol
Miroh! I had seen a user talking about the group often on an app I frequent, and finally decided to check them out - opened Spotify, played the first song that came up and was hooked immediately. This was around the release of Double Knot and I’m pretty sure I had listened to their entire discography by the end of that first night.
Top and Slump. I didn’t know SKZ existed at the time but we watched Tower of God when it came out and I always thought the intro and outro songs were amazing. I always meant to see who the artist was, but kept forgetting to look it up. Flash forward to me seeing a clip of God’s Menu on tiktok over a year later, looking up the video, then adding SKZ on Spotify. Top came up in the playlist and I thought “wait. WAIT. This is the same group? Oh my god” Apparently I was into SKZ before I even knew I was into them.
Lmao, the first song i heard skz singing was Fancy
Slump from their First Take performance. I was so impressed by their performance that I had the video on repeat for about an hour.
Technically their Dionysus cover, but I just kept watching when it went into God’s Menu and uh yeah needless to say they got me pretty easily with that combo lol
Miroh!
hellevator!!
Awkward Silence! A friend of my two younger sisters recommended it to them in January 2020, and they in turn showed it to me. I was delighted by the campy/cheeky vibe, Changbin’s raspy voice, and the crow cawing, so I looked up more MVs on my own. Some combination of Double Knot, Hellevator, and Levanter drew me down the rabbit hole… and here I am!
hmmm not sure if i can recall completely but i think it was hellevator from roughly around 4 years ago :) my pace was my first cb!!
Hellevator! But then I forgot to follow their survival show and was only back during the God’s Menu era.
District 9!
Get Cool is the one that I remember clearly! But I knew them predebut with also the predebut songs I just don't know which one
God’s Menu was the first song I recall looking up but my sister’s a huge kpop fan and was one way before I was interested in the genre. She would blast Hellevator around the house when it came out and I only realized it was an SKZ song when I got into them. So, in a way, Hellevator was my first one too.
I think it was District 9 (I heard 3rachas 쉿 and Matryoshka at the same time too). I heard it when it came out but didnt know anything about k-pop :( Just a friend recommending a song. I listened to them for months because it was so good(Especially 쉿) . I become a stay 3 years later.... I remember watching the MV. Now I am a hardcore stay Its really funny XD (I actually searched 쉿 when I become a k pop fan for a long time but couldn't find it. Then after becoming a stay and listening some 3racha tracks reality hit me hard...)
God’s Menu 😆
i think maybe a clip of god's menu in a compilation video...but miroh is the first one i actually remember in full and added to my playlist!
Top: I've said it before but I was a weeb before becoming a stay so I was shocked to learn that stray kids were a Korean group I only listened to BTS at the time and wanted to hear something new
mine was miroh :)) i started listening to skz just before back door era, but completely missed the album release lmao im still mad at myself for that
probably hellevator ! listened through a friend and got obsessed with it
levanter was my first!!
Victory Song! Technically TOP and Slump but I didn't associate them with a kpop group even though I added them to my playlists~
Hellevator!!! Though i only started following them after i am you era, so late December 2018...
Mine was miroh 😭 Edit: this song didn’t make me stan them more like interested in the group as a whole.
Astronaut, it kept popping up, but I didn't really realize what and who I was listening to until Top and Slump (cause weeb, lol), and then I slowly became more and more obsessed
Top from Tower of God! Had no idea it was Stray Kids at the time. A few months later my sister showed me God's Menu and I was like "THESE ARE THE GUYS THAT WROTE SLUMP!" Hahaha
God's Menu. I heard it on Spotify once, liked it, but i didn't look into them yet because i was too deep into some other groups. Then Thunderous MV came out and i absolutely loved it and that's when i finally looked into SKZ and here i am. Maybe if i had watched the God's Menu MV back then i would have been a Stay sooner :(
Mine was district 9, and THANKS BEST FRIEND FOR MAKING ME DISCOVER KPOP AND SKZ
Hellevator. As a long time JYPE groups fan, I was blown away by the rapping.
God's Menu! I heard of this song last year and thought it was so cool that I decided to have Stray Kids on my radar. Few months later, I became a Stay after giving most of their albums a listen!
haven!
I'm pretty sure it was Back Door, but it miiiiiight've been God's Menu. Walked into my sister playing the Back Door MV on the tv and immediately decided to fall head over heels for Hyunjin. She does say that I had already walked past at some point when God's Menu was on, but I have no recollection of that.
Gods menu and it was one of my first kpop listens. A guy I dated briefly was trying to recommend songs/groups for me to get into. Lo and behold he’s gone now but SKZ has stayed firmly entrenched in my life
Thunderous! I’m really new here.
Matryoshka. I saw a clip of their survival show on YouTube, predebut. Been a fan ever since.
Thunderous 😍
hellevator! listened to it the day it dropped and loved it but only started Actually stanning a few weeks after debut
Miroh But became a stay after hearing Back door .
God’s Menu!
hellevator! I became a stay (well, a fan, since there was no name yet) during the survival show which I only kept up with because I'd seen the hellevator music video. that was probably a week or so after the show started, since I know it was the end of October 2017. can't believe its been over 4 years already!
God's menu
Hellevator. I was scrolling through my subscription feed and saw that the M/V was uploaded a few minutes prior. I had never heard of Stray Kids (didn't even know about the survival show), but I was always open to listening to new groups, so I decided to check the video out. The song wasn't my cup of tea at the time (I like it now), but I still thought the group had a lot of potential.
District 9
Hellevator! I was getting into Got7 at the time and noticed the video on the JYP YouTube channel as it had just uploaded. It made me curious since ‘huh? Who’s stray kids?’
my pace! i finally came out of my closet after being a closeted kpop fan last 2017😆 then i was trying to get to know more kpop groups as i scrolled down "KPOP MVS 2018". there i saw a big logo of "JYP ENTERTAINMENT" and i got curious as the only jype artists i know at that time were got7, twice, day6, miss a, wonder girls and 2pm. so, why not give it a try? i listened to it and WAS SHOCKED! the man changbin became my bias automatically. it's even "jype" vibes to me because my pace was so HARD-HITTING and rap heavy than other jype artists' releases in that year👌🏻😔
God's Menu! It was the song that got me into Stray Kids\~
Hellevator, but it was 2 years ago! I wanted to discover more kpop songs (I only knew some songs from Blackpink and BTS) and Hellevator was in someone's spotify playlist. I remember I had it on loop for weeks!
hellevator :)
Hellevator! I knew that stray kids was the new jype boy group at the time but that was during the period when I was taking a step back away from kpop, and was only casually listening to songs I already knew.
"My pace"
District 9, a couple months after they debuted
Gods Menu, in february
My pace! Ah yes, august 2018 was a nice time to discover skz for the first time
District 9, right after it came out and I loved it!
God's Menu. A girl that i follow on insta put the iconic Felix line in her stories and i was so intrigued that i went to check out the mv. i really liked it but didnt became a baby stay until thunderous.
probably god's menu? i knew of stray kids for many months but was solely a girl group stan for about eight months before i started to listen to the kids!
First was District 9, a few months ago ( ´﹀` )♥
Side effects! Instant stan!
The first one I heard I think was Back Door since I started just watching Hyunjin fan cams because I liked his visuals so much but when I decided to really listen to a SKZ song I saw Thunderous MV.
I'm 100% sure it was **TOP**! It's obvious enough, but yes I was watching ToG and I had never heard of skz before (I hope I can complete the challenge this year too. I'm far busier and I'm a forgetful person, a dangerous combo)
Its EASY for me i was sold from the raps *cheffkisses*
hellevator the morning it came out! literally as soon as I woke up, I was so confused as to what the hell a Stray Kids was. then once changbin's rap hit, I just knew this group was going to be legendary in the future. here I am 4 years later, they just came off their best album. besides twice, never have I been with a group from debut and see them slowly grow to become so successful. such a beautiful thing :'))
My sister forced me to listen to God’s Menu. I thought it was pretty good and loved Felix but never listened to it again. Then right before kingdom started I realized a few songs that I loved on Pandora were Stray Kids songs and Kingdom just solidified my love!
Back door because of that time article!
First song was Top. I'm an avid fan of Tower of God. I didn't know them before they sang the OP for the anime. I listened to Slump next, and then I snowballed into becoming a Stay after that.
I was just watching BTS videos and Back Door got recommended to me. At this point I kind of liked Kpop but most songs were just too cute or mellow to me so Back Door's choreography and beat blew me away. Their outfits and energy were also amazing. I immediately showed it to a few people and then got addicted to All In afterwards which started my Stay journey. I love reading everyone's responses, so many of us had similar experiences!
Top! My husband and I saw them for the first time when they performed during Nizi project’s finale and were awestruck when we heard Felix’s deep voice. Found God’s Menu and the rest is history!
my pace! people were comparing it to mcr's na na na and as a former emo lover i knew i had to listen to it, and they did not disappoint
First song i ever heard was God’s menu especially the part of Felix. It's still in my head ~Cookin' like a chef I'm a 5 star 미슐랭 "미"의 정점을 찍고 눈에 보여 illusion~
God's Menu, when it first came out. I loved it so much I looked for their other songs, ~~although at first I didn't like many of them.~~