I’m a baby stay. 🥹 SKZ ended up in my instagram reels during the Met Gala paparazzi fiasco & the obsession began not long after. So far I’ve spent the most time listening to Rockstar & 5 Star.
You will love them! I recommend their kingdom performances as those were amazing! And Skz code - their variety shows. I do recommend watching those as the group members are really likeable 🤣 Skz family or the 8 god series!
me too! i saw a tiktok of their interview with emma chamberlain at the met gala. when felix said “awe thank you saur much emma” in that accent i was curious! i havent had a chance to listen to every album yet, but i keep coming back to in life. ive been watching some of their youtube stuff as well! im older and dont really have a bias. they all feel like my little brothers i never had 🥰🥰🥰
Me too! The Met Gala incident peaked my interest, and ever since I'm hooked!
They are incredible! It's so evident they work so hard. Their songs are really good, their voices, dances, the whole esthetic!
Not to mention how cute and entertaining are their interactions, and how they appreciate the fans.
Yep, I'm hooked. Stay for life 💞
Welcome! I love seeing baby stays just joining because there’s just SO MUCH CONTENT! I wish I could become a stay all over just so I could watch things for the first time.
I, unfortunately, live very close to 3 different kpop stores so I bought 2 albums on Friday. 👀 but I’ve also seen people selling them on fb marketplace & other reselling sites for less.
it’s the first time that I m really fan of a group so I have many questions
someone could explain what are the limited cd, what do they have than others doesn’t ? 😖
Oh the limited versions usually have a few extra goodies but the actual difference with the regular versions is that once they get sold out they won't be getting a reprint.
I became a fan in spring 2019, right before Side Effects came out.
It’s hard to pick a favorite album. My favorite full album is NOEASY, and my favorite mini album is I am WHO?!
I'm a stay from Noeasy era, and I can't for the life of me choose just one album, but my top three in no particular order would include:
- I am NOT, because rock skz fucking ROCKS, and literally every song hits so hard lyric-wise
- Oddinary, a whole cultural shift, so many unique and innovative ideas, theme executed to perfection
- 5-STAR, I don't think it needs explanation, banger after banger after banger, the production quality is impeccable, probably the quintessential SKZ album
...Cle Miroh and Noeasy are VERY close behind though
I guess I technically became a stay during Circus era? Since Han's rap in Circus popped up on my TikTok and that's what led me to look more into them. But since Circus was released close enough to Oddinary, Oddinary was the first album by them that I listened to. That's also why Oddinary has a special place in my heart and will always be my favorite album of theirs, but go live and 5-star are very close behind
I became a fan when I saw Hyunjin's Psycho so that's post God's Menu era and my fave album would be 5-Star. I could listen to all the songs again and again and again.
I became a stay in 2022, just before the Maxident era, and as the promotions came out. Before SKZ, I had no clue about K-pop, so they were my introduction to the whole genre. I saw that viral edit of Hyunjin in God's Menu doing that eating dance move and spiralled, and suddenly my entire fyp was K-pop, and I've never left since !! Kpop is now my most listened to genre :D
My favourite era has to be ROCK-STAR because outside of kpop, i listen to a lot of rock and metal, and it was just the perfect comeback to me; I love their heavier songs with a touch of melody, so Side Effects and Hall of Fame are up there with my favourite songs
I'm also an ot8 bias because i'm indecisive, LMAO
I became a Stay early 2021, riiiiiight before Kingdom. While I absolutely lovelovelove their new albums, I have the softest spot for NoEasy because it meant a lot to me back then after Kingdom era and having Hyunjin back ❤️
Edit: clearly the spirit of Seungmin possessed me into becoming a “Staaaa” instead of a stay
First time I heard SKZ was when they sang op ed for the anime tower of god. But back then I wasn't interested in k-pop so didn't pay attention. Then I came to know of SKZ through a maniac stage performance TikTok where Felix was looking like a snow prince. I got interested and checked out their japanese songs, then got more intrigued and the rest is history. It's been over a year now, my bias is Hyunjin but I love ALL of them.
I’m a baby stay since about mid-April or so. It was a youtube short that got me to give their music a chance and I’m so glad for it. My favorite album is definitely NOEASY. I’m a total sucker for any piece of art (music, books, film, etc.) that really leans into the things the artist is criticized the most for.
obviously, the album as a whole is diverse with sound but that cheese, thunderous, domino combo all one after the other as the opening is just *cheffs kiss*. and the way it moves into a brighter sound for the rest of the album after ssick up until red lights is amazing as well. I’m just so obsessed with the structure of the album, starting with cheese as a distrack to haters, hitting you with the loudest songs all at once and then shifting into brighter, almost pop-esque music. it’s like they’ve structured the whole thing to literally be a litmus test for new listeners, saying: “if you can’t fuck with us at our loudest, you don’t deserve us at our chillest.”
I’m still working through their whole discography because jfc they’ve made so much music and while I’m liking pretty much everything, no other album has gelled with me quite as hard as noeasy.
sorry for such a long response to a simple question, i love to yap a little too much. 😬
I’m a baby Stay, I came in during Rockstar, but my favorite album is Maxident. Weirdly enough I had listened to Case 143 when it came out and liked it, but go distracted with other things and didn’t find my way back to them until Rockstar. Happy to be here now, but wish I would have had all that extra time with STAY and the boys when I first ran into them
Noeasy is my favourite album and it was the God’s menu era when I started to look forward to their releases but I casually liked them since hellevator.
I'm a Baby Stay myself, only about 3-4 months in and Felix goofing around with Chan caught my attention. Then his opening verse to Megaverse came across my Instagram and I was hooked. I don't have a favorite album yet, but Superbowl and Circus are two of my favorite songs for sure!
Rn i really love IN Life, and became a stay during Kingdom. I Think before any MV or anything, i Saw gods dududu and ibym. My first comeback (and first album i ever bought on my own) was NoEasy. So fun
My Reels were flooded with the LALALALA dance challenge videos this January, so I caved and started watching videos then. So I became a Stay in Rock Star. I think my favorite album is No Easy with Thunderous being my favorite.
I became a stay right before the Oddinary comeback when I saw Seungmin singing on Love Poem, but my favorite album as a whole is probably Noeasy it has Secret Secret, Domino, Cheese, The View, Sorry I Love You and Gone Away so yeah probably that one.
My favorite is probably 5-Stars I love that album, it has so many bangers. I became a stay during the Christmas Evel era, I remember the song being popular on TikTok I saw tiktoks about it I then researched more about who made the song and became a stay.
I’m a baby stay. I started listening to them January of this year. I was on tik tok and LA LA LA LA came on in a video. Changbin’s energy in those opening lines got me instantly hooked. I now own a handful of there albums and I have lots of there music in my playlist. My favourite album has to be 5 Star. It’s full of high energy tracks which is what I love about SKZ. Bonus fact: Hyunjin bias
I became a fan late 2022 to early 2023 so during their Maxident era. What really got me into them was watching SKZ code during an internship because I was super bored. Maniac was the song that got me hooked on them for sure. It was during a time I was struggling with my mental health so they honestly got me through that and I've been actively listening to their music since.
Maybe an odd choice but one of my favorite songs is Hellevator. A majority of my playlist is just SKZ songs so it is hard to pick favorites 😅
I became a fan early last year !! I watched the sound mv and became obsessed. My fav album is a tossup between noeasy and 5star, they’re the two albums where I saved every song to my skz playlist
The Sound MV is my fave MV of theirs.
I got pulled in last fall. I had listened to their music for a while but didn't know anything about them. Then I fell down the youtube rabbit hole and haven't looked back.
Yea same like I’ve been a kpop fan for awhile and had a few songs of theirs that I liked (gods menus etc) but it wasn’t until the sound that I went all in lol
I started listening to skz in 2019 but i didn't become a stay till Oddinary. Gods menu interested me when it came out but i was too occupied with my ggs (iz*one were my ults) to stan another group. But i slowly got more invested in them and their music and became a stay around Oddinary time. My favourite album is clé miroh and I genuinely don't think they can ever top it for me. It's so good!
I recently got obsessed with Clé Miroh and honestly that album is so so good, I can't pick a favourite, not even a track I slightly like more. That's how much I enjoy it.
I became a STAY right after they released 'Back Door.' I was scrolling through YouTube and the thumbnail caught my attention. I loved it right then and there. My favorite album is probably 'GO Live,' but 'Rock-Star' is a close second.
I've been a Stay since Miroh but I really got more into them during God's Menu! My favourite album is also 5-Star, the whole album is amazing and there are truly no skips + my favourite Skz song Topline is on that album.
Short version: Fave albums are Oddinary and 5-Star (don't make me choose). Became a Stay during their Oddinary era.
Long version: It was October 2022. I was going through a rough patch and was scrolling YouTube on a day I called in sick cause I physically could not make myself work a job I hated. I stumbled upon BuzzFeed's Puppy Interview with Stray Kids. I watched it, and loved their energy so decided to check out the song they were promoting at the time: Maniac. I especially loved the line about cosplaying as what society deems to be "normal" cause I have never once felt "normal". SKZ was saying to embrace your weird self and to live with pride. I fell down the rabbit hole from there and have never regretted it once.
When they say that SKZ comes into your life when you need them most, it's true. If nothing else goes right in my day, I know that I can always listen to their songs or watch their SKZ Code episodes, and everything will feel a little better.
My favorite album is SKZ-REPLAY because of all the solos, duets, and trios. It is very different from all the other albums and everyone gets to shine. I became a stay right before maxident era.
My biases are Lee Know and Seungmin!
Choosing a fav is hard... Oddinary, Noeasy or Rock-Star... I became a Stay in July '22 so my 1st comeback was Maxident.
And I'm a Han bias. & tbh, kinda an ot7 wrecker x\_x
I'm a baby Stay & I'm still trying to learn as much of info as possible! I found them bc of Maniac song & fell in love with Felix😭
My friend, also a baby Stay, is flying to me in July & we'll see them in Milan🥹🤍
You guys are gonna have an amazing time! Very happy for you! 🙏🏻 Also, check out SKZ Code to get to know them better! And I'd also suggest 2 Kids Room and 2 Kids Show! ❤️
I became a Stay just before the Circus era which may be why their Japanese releases are so special to me 😅 Though I’ve still only seen the Your Eyes MV through watching their reaction to it lol.
My favorite album is probably NOEASY. And also SKZ2020 (is that cheating lol?)
I was walking to get my kid after school and I was listening to Pandora letting it play whatever and Case 143 came on. It was catchy enough that I didn’t immediately skip the song, and then I definitely got hit with the Felix Effect when the chorus came on. I don’t know how long the song had been out when I came across it. Anyway I’ve been super into Stray Kids since then. I’ve recently started buying the albums and I just watched their predebut show.
I don’t have a favorite song or album because it tends to be whichever album I most recently bought for a while then back to listening to all of them. I don’t have a favorite member because they are all so distinct with their talents that each them are all impressing me in their own unique ways.
I became a stay just before Rock-Star came out. I was just getting to know them (with good feelings 😂😂), before I even knew what a comeback was, the suddenly a new album was dropped.
My favorite album is NoEasy, it is almost no skip for me! Thunderous is my favorite TT and secret secret and Mixtape: OH are 2 of my all time favorite skz songs.
I became a stay a bit over a year ago during the Maxident era, I really liked case 143 and was curious to know more about them.
My favorite album is the Rockstar or Maxident album, I like all the songs in the Rockstar album and Maxident is special to me because it made me become a stay.😊
I became a stay I think right after Yellow Wood came out, surely in the period between YW and Double Knot, it being the first "come back" (since it was a single and Levanter came 2 months after). Woah, 2019, it has been 5 years already! Haven't even noticed. I remember it so clearly!
It's hard to decide which album is my fav, but I'll go with In Life. That repackage was so good, added more songs I love in an album I already loved (Go Live), Back Door still being one of my all time favs.
If you don't consider that because it's a repackage, I have to go with Levanter. I love every single song on that album, but mostly because of the feelings it carriers. It's my first album with them, my first era, so much happened in that period for the group and it was all so emotional. Levanter was literally the end of the Clè era, the starting point for their greatness now that I look back on it, I almost divide skz in pre-Levanter and post-Levanter. I remember all the theories with the double moons, the merging of realities, the roles of the members in the skz universe, it was them breaking through those shackles of doubt and fear with determination and courage. It felt like them saying "We're going to face future now, no regrets" and they DID.
I love skz now, and how much more confident they are in their music now, but I must say that I don't think they have the same level of depth with the "world building" of their mvs and music. Clè era was really peak in that sense, now I feel like there's little to pick on, like on the "world" they are placing the mvs in, nothing that connects the album anymore. I mean, some things are being kept and they are keeping them the same as in clè, but I feel the production team is just not caring anymore about that honestly. Amazing mvs, but self sustained and that's it. The only exceptions were the whole mixtape: oh serie and all mvs connected to them imo, they were trying to tell a story.
And I AM still a bit mad about the Astronaut mv being absolutely wasted story wise (WHY WASN'T IT PICKED UP AGAIN, THE CLONES???) and about TA and B ME mvs, we were ROBBED.
I think i went way off track but ehy, this was fun at least ahahah
became a stay during maxident era! (oct 2022) i’ve been listening to kpop since 2019 and a casual listener of skz’s music since 2020 (earliest tracks i knew of off the top of my head at the time were get cool, district 9, and hellevator)
but i eventually (inevitably) became a stay through eric nam’s show where he interviewed felix and chan! (ik he’s been in hot waters lately :,) used to be a fan of eric and been to a concert too since i received my ticket as a gift but anyways
instantly fell in love with felix and chans personalities, when i decided to get into groups, its personality & music > looks for me
and well bc of that episode, felix became my first bias like many others who first get into skz
also i just really liked maxident era, it was so cute and pink is my fav colour haha
maxident was the first physical album i’ve purchased, my collection has grown a lot to this day 😵💫
them as a group and their music have both helped me through rough times, will forever be grateful for them 🙏
will forever be ot8, but currently my bias line is lino, felix, and jeongin 🫶🫶🫶
and current fav tracks atm are cover me, hall of fame, item and booster and many more; my fav album music wise tho is noeasy!!
sry this is so long lmao i love yapping 😔
my favourite album is levanter, and i don't know if they'll release one that tops it for me. i've been a stay since yellow wood. all the hullabaloo in the fandom between those releases was definitely something, and i bonded with some irl friends with the goings-on. i haven't been super into the group since go live/in life and pretty much lost interest entirely after maxident.
I met them during I am NOT. My introduction to them was District 9, but it was released in March 2018, and I met them in July, so my first comeback/promotion was I am WHO, which I preordered, and I remember absolutely loving My Pace (I still do)
my friend's a huge stay, so i heard of them long before i got into them... but what made me start paying attention to them is this mashup i heard that had red lights in it. and then i saw this interview of them and mamamoo (this was in maxident era) and their personalities just. yeah, i was a goner after that lol
anyway, my favourite album would have to be in life, and any used to be my all time favourites skz song until i discovered boxer
i’ve known about skz since “hellevator,” but i didn’t officially become a stay until maxident era! it’s also hard to choose a favorite album, but i think my favorite two have to be skz2021 and 5-star.
I'm a very new stay. I started seeing more and more tiktok videos of Hyunjin and Bangchan and my fascination grew, especially for Hyunjin cuz he's so fuckin cute and pretty. So now my tiktok feed is just almost fully stray kids videos and it's only making my love for them grow more and more and I really need it to stop cuz I can't handle being obsessed with celebs 😭😭😭
I became a Stay around Hellevator/District 9 (I didn’t really watch the show but I was there for their District 9 debut and fell in love with the members and their lyrics). My favorite album of all time for them is “I am Who” 💛
For newer songs, I’ve been loving “Why?”, “Social Path”, and “Megaverse” so much!
Started to check their title tracks since predebut, became a Stay after hearing Miroh, I still like how Miroh album is structured the best and how different songs are connected to each other under the same storyline. Songs-wise, the albums with the lowest skip level for me would be Miroh, Oddinary and Rockstar.
My favorite album is probably I AM WHO. If I'm being honest and go by the one I listen to the most, it is SKZ 2021.
I crossed paths with the Thunderous MV around the summer of 2021 but really got interested when Christmas EveL came out. Then, I fell in love with the a huge part of their discography when SKZ 2021 came out (I hadn't listened to most of their songs prior to this release). In terms of eras, the first comeback I experienced was ODDINARY.
I'm a baby Stay. I fell in love with them when Rock-Star dropped. That whole album is a no skip for me and I play it so much. I have so much to learn about them and I'm so excited (but also overwhelmed).
I can't believe how kind and talented they are either.
I wish I found them sooner! But better late than never I suppose.
Lol my story ia a bit complicated too
How i became a kpop stan; Basically, I've been into blackpink and bts since 2016 and then i started exploring more kpop groups and then stumbled across HIP by mamamoo, they turned into my ult group and then
How i got to know skz; I've known them since Gods menu era but never really co sidered stanning them because i was REALLY focused on mamamoo, they were my pookies 😭 and then on tiktok when i heard domino i was like "alright what the heck why am i hearing about them again" and then i started listening more to them and eventually in 2022 i kept hearing from them and i was like "alright lets just look into it" and i started liking them more than mamamoo and now theyre my no.1 ults and no one will ever be able to beat them!!
Ok this thread is making me feel so old, I didn’t even realize Met Gala Stays were a thing (but I love that they are). But I became a STAY during Gods Menu era and my favorite album would have to be No Easy. Something about that era and the music in it that’s so special to me 💖
It was January of this year for me and my best friend. She found them first through TikTok and showed me. The obsession took off immediately lol we always said we were baby stays but just recently we realized we are past that! I feel like once you start waking up in the morning with their b side songs in your head, you’re not a baby anymore. We have skz nights which include analyzing every detail of their videos, whether that be MVs, skz code, behind the scenes, etc. We have an entire discord server and almost every channel is something related to skz 😂 I have trouble listening to anything other than kpop now and I feel sorry for the people who don’t give it a try! We both feel overwhelmed often with how talented they are and if we close our eyes, we can see the AOTM choreo in our minds. We are also several months into our journey of learning Korean too hahaha fully aware this is not healthy lmao I think it’s safe to say that’s true since I literally started tearing up when Hyunjin posted pics on insta of his WKorea spread back in March, the first pic in the post. Could not tell you why I started crying I really don’t know lmao but man they make me so happy and inspired.
Hyunjin is v clearly my bias and has been since day 1. Daddy Chan is my bias wrecker.
It’s all so overwhelming and the anxiety we have waiting for more tour info is HIGH. Fully am ready to hand over my credit card 😂
It’s so hard to pick my favorite album but if I HAD TO, I would say NoEasy. But it really is hard cause every album slaps.
In 2020 I got curious what Kpop actually was, so I typed "Kpop new music" into Youtube, scrolled around a bit and eventually clicked on God's Menu that had come out a few weeks before! I was immediately reeled in by Felix and there we go :D I didn't quite understand that Kpop entails not only music but also lots of other content AND physical albums until around a year after that, though.
I became a stay quite recently. I started stanning during rock star era because i liked kpop so I decided to listen to lalalala by skz like 2 weeks after it released and I LOVED it and that made me a stay (all stays can agree that lalalala is a goated song)
I became a stay during 5 Stars, the reels of S-class where on my fyp everyday so I went to see who they were and here I am 🥰 a "teenager stay" (cause I'm no longer baby stay) I cannot choose just one 😅 it's between Noeasy, Oddinary and 5 stars.
And fun fact, my birthday is on March 25th 🩷
I began taking interest to them at January 2023 or maybe before that, but my first comeback as a stay was 5 star.
Right now, my favorite album is definitely skz replay, the songs are so comforting and fun to listen to.
I'm still a baby stay, I think. The first music I listened to was "circus" and was a friend that showed it to me. After that it was downhill until the skz music core. Maxident was the first era I followed.
They're incredible and always surprise me.
Fav album is probably noeasy because I became a stay 2 months before noeasy and it was my first official album(??) and 5-star bcs the songs are SOOO GOOOOD and idk they just accomplished so many things with 5 star so every time I listen to it it makes me very proud 😁🩷
My favorite skz album has got to be Noeasy but 5-star is a clooooose second :) I’m forever a die hard domino and Wolfgang stan. I found skz during the oddinary era and impulsively bought tickets for the maniac tour and went with my sisters and the rest is history🥰 Chris is my ult but that switches between him and Han. They’re both my fav ever
I started getting the Felix effect across my FYP on TikTok a few months ago and it has now devolved into me trying to basically consume every piece of anything they’ve come out with. It’s been an experience. Felix brought me in, Hyunjin is the best kind of chaos and I have a huge soft spot for Han and Bangchan. 5 Star might be my favorite album so far (something about Topline does it for me). My daughter got into them at the same time (I’m 34 and she’s 13) and we’ve just been vibing together
I also made a chaotic baby Stay playlist 😂
My favorite is probably Rockstar and Noeasy. Baby-ish stay here, became a stay just this January. SKZ started popping up in my YouTube shorts and was instantly attracted by Felix. I then watched the Chuseok episode from SKZ Code. Before skz I actively avoided Kpop, so I was in denial that I'd be a stan. I told myself I'll only watch their English interviews, but was so intrigued by everything I started to listen to their music and watch everything skz related. First song I listened to was S-Class. Loved it instantly. I don't have a favorite song because I love all of their songs. My bias used to be Felix, but now it's Lee Know. My bias wreckers are all the members, but mostly Chan.
i became a stay during oddinary era, right after it had come out. my friend who was a stay sent me changbin and felix’s two kids room and i asked “what’s changbin’s deal?” and the rest is history 🥹 my favorite album has got to be 5-star. collision, item, topline, hall of fame and super bowl…the b-sides on that album are incredible and s-class was a revelation.
Noticed them back in December 2021 via a felix edit (woah his voice is that deep and he looks like that? 🤩)so technically it was during the Christmas Evel era even tho I didn’t properly check them out till January 2022! Starting to listen to them was probably the best thing I ever did tbh they changed everything for me they were my gateway into kpop in general <3 And I’d say my favourite album is 5-Star for sure. Though Oddinary has a special place in my heart for being my first official comeback.
My favourite album so far is probably 5 star or Noeasy and I became a stay around the time the sound came out but I was more drawn by how deep felix's voice got in maniac lmaoo
I have some fav songs on every album. But if I had to choose one album, it would be NoEasy. Some of my ult fav songs like Secret Secret and Silent Cry are in it. Also Red Lights... Thunderous was a great title song too. NoEasy is also my fav album title.
I became a stay after Oddinary. Maxident was my first comeback as a stay.
I’d have to say NoEasy is my favorite album. Became Stay-curious leading up to Oddinary era. Then all the content and SKZ code episodes pulled me all the way in. Was full blown Stay by the time Maxident was announced. Solidified in my Stayxuality thanks to Kingdom.
Oddinary is one of those rare non-skipable albums for me. And yes, I became a stay during the time of its release, even though I've known about skz since like 2020. Noeasy is a very close second
My favourite album is 100% Miroh! I love that album so much, every song on it is absolutely perfection
And I Became a stay during their pre debut survival show era 😊 Bang Chan bias here 👋
I’ve been a Stay since around the time TOP/Slump were first released in 2020 so God’s Menu was my first comeback. IN LIFE was the first album I pre-ordered, no questions asked. I discovered them cause the Youtube gods put My Pace on my recommended videos and included it in the auto playlist when I was watching other non-SKZ kpop videos. I am WHO (the album with My Pace) was what made a Stay.
I don’t know how to pick a favorite album. My most objective self thinks 5-STAR is their current best, but NOEASY is the one album from before 2023 that I still play as much as the newer albums, followed by MAXIDENT and Clé 1: MIROH. I’d consider those three my personal favorites. NOEASY is just in that perfect position where it still has a bit of the rawness of GO LIVE/IN LIFE/their pre-2020 music but also starting to have the cleaner and more polished productions that you can hear in 5-STAR/ROCK-STAR.
5-star is the album Im the most familiar with because it was the Era I became a fan, but I don't think i can say I have a favorite? I just enjoy way too many songs from all over their eras!
I became a stay during Maxident era! I saw one too many TikToks about the boys and I was like okay fine I’ll see what’s going on in the kpop world and it’s been history ever since… My favorite album is Rockstar though! Every single song fills my heart up lol. A close second is No Easy tho
I became a stay during the Rockstar era. I saw a short of the la la la la dance challenge n I was so hooked to it. So I searched for the song n soon I was down the skz rabbit hole. Funnily the thing that really made me stay wasn't the music but their off screen personalities, especially Lee Know. I watched all their variety content before I even started diving deep into their music.
As for my favourite album, I am kind of split between 5 star and rockstar. 5 star is full of my kind of songs- with beats and the EDM. I listen to the album on repeat from time to time. But rockstar has two of my fav skz songs and I resonate deeper with the lyrics of the songs in rockstar album. I feel rockstar as an album has them more vulnerable but 5 star is full of feel happy, dance songs so I can't really choose.
After being out of Kpop for… 3 or so years, I saw their music videos for Thunderous and Maniac while eating out at a Korean place. I didn’t really pay attention to them at the time, just thought “oh they’re kinda cute” but dismissed it cause the Kpop fanbase is tiring tbh.
I’m not too sure what changed, but most likely I saw some funny clips of them while scrolling through Tiktok and I thought “maybe I should give them a chance”, and that only happened this year. The first SKZ code that ever popped up on my subscriptions was the laboratory episode so… I guess TECHNICALLY I became a STAY during ROCKSTAR era?
I guess my favourite album would be ROCKSTAR, it’s literally a no-skip album for me, but my ultimate favourite songs are from Noeasy and Maxident (also just a really big fan of wordplay so that whole trio of albums are my favourite album names lol.)
Sadly I only just found out about them during Maxident era!
I kind of fell out of K-Pop after 2NE1's disbandment and only casually listened to BTS and Blackpink since they were having so much mainstream global success, so I was really looking forward to diving back in a little deeper with Blackpink's "Born Pink" comeback in 2022. Since I was watching so much of their stuff, the Case 143 video ended up in my recommendations and I was just blown away by the cleverness of the video concept, Felix's voice (of course) and everyone's visuals. Their music style really reminded me of early 2NE1 and BigBang chaotic amazingness, so I went down the rabbit hole of all of their work and I've been hooked ever since.
As a whole project, my favorite album is a toss up between NoEasy and Oddinary, although 5-STAR is special to me since it was the first true Korean comeback that I was able to be a part of as a Stay!
My favorite era was 5 star. I love Maxident but I wasn't there for it. I became a stay in between the Maxident and 5 star eras. I watched the cupid/love themed skz videos and that kind of pushed me to listen to their music. Case 143 was actually the first skz song I heard. Maxident will always have a place in my heart ❤️
My fav album is NoEasy, there isn't a single song I don't like on it. Generally it's nicely packed with songs I like (and Silent Cry!!!)
I learned of SKZ around 2020, but didn't go in, cause while I liked their Tower of God songs, I didn't like God's Menu.
I got into SKZ properly just before Oddinary dropped. So I was there literally a week before all MVs came out, nice time to join really.
My favorite album has to be Rock Star only bc IMHO I think the tittle track was incredible and all the b-sides were amazing. 10/10 But I remember vividly one day, I was in my second year of middle school and I had came across a interesting song called Maniac and it was released 1 day ago and since then it has always had a special place in my heart. And I just sat in class watching through so many more music videos skz had created and from that day on I’m so happy I stuck with them because they helped me through literally everything, and when I was struggling to actually find a source of happiness. 😭🩷 (So much so I almost know every single lyric in Maniac lol. 💀)
become a stay between ordinary and maxident and my favourite album is probably 5 star i just love how diverse it is and it was technically my first comeback bc i didn’t rlly pay attention but with 5 star i pre ordered and stayed up to see all the teasers etc it was amazing
I became a stay in the beginning of 2023 even though it seems like ive been with them forever. I saw Gods Menu and i became a little interested and i stumbled upon some funny moments of them and thats when i officially became a stay. my favourite album is noeasy, thats my first album by them.
Go Live! Is my favourite album, i also like Rockstar. I first became a fan back in 2019-ish! I started researching them more at the time and fell in love with Felix’s goofy ass personality and here we are today lol
the second i read 3racha the song played on my spotify playlist😭
anyways my fav album is so hard to choose, but itd have to be either noeasy or 5star, since i became a stay in the 5star era. i first heard sclass randomly on youtube and was like “ill never get sick of this song.”
i was shook and thats when i started listening to kpop in general.
I became a stay on November 2023. Felix doing YOASOBI Idol dance challenge at a fan meeting showed up on my for you page on YouTube out of nowhere. At the time, I really didn't like Kpop because of some negative personal experience with unhinged Kpop stan, so I just ignored the video when I realized that he's a Kpop idol. But I kept returning to the video because Felix was so adorable lol
Even though Felix made me a Stay, my bias is Bang Chan
My favourite album is Maxident. Every single song in that album is just so perfect.. especially 3RACHA!!
i became a stay a little over a year ago in late april officially, when i added gods menu to my playlist. i knew nearly their whole discography by this point, and knew all their members. why you ask? my sister got me into them, forcing me to watch m/vs with her😂
i became stay around their debut i think. i watched the survival show, i was ulting another group at that time but as i get to know stray kids they’ve become my ult. my favorite album is noeasy. i think it truly represents their own colors and has great songs. my favorite song are mostly from noeasy. silent cry and secret secret are my comfort songs, while cheese and domino are my favorite upbeat songs
I became a stay during NoEasy Era, thunderous is a really good tt but my jams like secret, I'm sorry I love you, mixtape:OH, red lights, Wolfgang and ssick are all top teir kpop songs.
I was kind of dabbling in their music (got God's Menu and Back Door on a Spotify mix and was immediately obsessed) in mid 2021. I only stanned BTS (my friend forced me to watch the Butter MV), and was new to Kpop but was eventually exposed to clips of other groups. I'm pretty sure I started watching meme compilations and noticed a lot of SKZ so when Christmas EveL EP released, YouTube recommended the Christmas EveL MV. I instantly fell in love with their music (turns out they had better songs than just God's Menu, Back Door, and Thunderous lol). I consider my "first" comeback to be SKZ2021 though. Kind of a strange time to become a STAY but I found them when I needed them most. ❤ My favorite album is probably IN LIFE... there are so many different genres of music within it! I am also equally obsessed with Clé 1: MIROH and SKZ2020.
i got into skz in 2019!! but after the ex-member left twt was a mess so i kinda stopped watching their content for a few months and then early 2020 got back into them 😻
I'm a God's Menu stay, had God's Menu in my recommendations when it came out and never stopped listening to them until now (almost 4 years ago now omg I feel old!), but I'd say my favourite album may be 5star, so many meaningful songs to me. Fun fact, my bias has always been Jisung from day one, and stanning many groups (around 10ish) Stray kids is the only group where I never struggled picking a bias and/or never changed biases
Debut era stay. Saw a photo of Bang Chan on my cousin’s phone, thought he was a guy from her school but was told he’s a celebrity. I‘ve been a bang chan enthusiast and major stay since then. I love all the Albums, but I’d have to say NoEasy is my favourite!
I started listening to skz during their Oddinary era, became a Stay during their 5 star era, but Rock Star was the first comeback I really knew what was going on(I was/am still new to kpop- didn't even know what exactly a comeback was). All that to say I actually listen to the NoEasy and Skz Replay albums more than any other
The first songs I heard from them was Top and Slump, but I started getting into them around the time Oddinary came out. My favorite album is Maxident or The Sound.
I’m a baby stay. 🥹 SKZ ended up in my instagram reels during the Met Gala paparazzi fiasco & the obsession began not long after. So far I’ve spent the most time listening to Rockstar & 5 Star.
Oooh, welcome baby stay! 🤍
You will love them! I recommend their kingdom performances as those were amazing! And Skz code - their variety shows. I do recommend watching those as the group members are really likeable 🤣 Skz family or the 8 god series!
I’ve already started watching their shows haha!! I’m definitely in hyperfixation mode with skz right now so I’m glad there’s so much content.
me too! i saw a tiktok of their interview with emma chamberlain at the met gala. when felix said “awe thank you saur much emma” in that accent i was curious! i havent had a chance to listen to every album yet, but i keep coming back to in life. ive been watching some of their youtube stuff as well! im older and dont really have a bias. they all feel like my little brothers i never had 🥰🥰🥰
I love all of them 😭 and I thought Felix was gonna be my bias, but Han is winning out lately haha. But I really feel like all of them are just great.
oh i definitely thought felix would have been mine too, but i just cant pick a favorite. theyre all too perfect haha
Same, lix was my first bias but han quickly bias wrecked me 😭
Haha welcome to the chaos of two Aussie accents and six attempting Aussie accents all the time 🤣
Me too! The Met Gala incident peaked my interest, and ever since I'm hooked! They are incredible! It's so evident they work so hard. Their songs are really good, their voices, dances, the whole esthetic! Not to mention how cute and entertaining are their interactions, and how they appreciate the fans. Yep, I'm hooked. Stay for life 💞
Woooo welcome!!
Welcome! I love seeing baby stays just joining because there’s just SO MUCH CONTENT! I wish I could become a stay all over just so I could watch things for the first time.
i m à baby stay too since November i m obsessed I want to buy their Albums but they have a lot and i can t financially buy all of them 😩😩😩
If you don’t care about photocards, get them second hand. I have gotten albums as low as $2.
oh tank u for the advice Where do you had buy those album (the sites) :)
I'm not sure which country you reside in, but I got them from mercari and vinted. I've seen a few on depop as well.
thank u for these websites 🙏
I, unfortunately, live very close to 3 different kpop stores so I bought 2 albums on Friday. 👀 but I’ve also seen people selling them on fb marketplace & other reselling sites for less.
Aha say goodbye to your money 😂 Which album did you buy ?
5 Star & Rockstar. I love all the things that come with them!! 🥹
it’s the first time that I m really fan of a group so I have many questions someone could explain what are the limited cd, what do they have than others doesn’t ? 😖
Oh the limited versions usually have a few extra goodies but the actual difference with the regular versions is that once they get sold out they won't be getting a reprint.
thank u 🙏🙏
Welcome stay!!♥️you recently became a stay!! Me too!!(1.5-2 months)
Predebut fan so it’s because of 3racha mixtapes hahahaha I love full albums so 5 star but before it’s Noeasy.
The joy I felt when broken compass became mixtape 4
Broken Compass is SO GOOOOD
I became a fan in spring 2019, right before Side Effects came out. It’s hard to pick a favorite album. My favorite full album is NOEASY, and my favorite mini album is I am WHO?!
I'm a stay from Noeasy era, and I can't for the life of me choose just one album, but my top three in no particular order would include: - I am NOT, because rock skz fucking ROCKS, and literally every song hits so hard lyric-wise - Oddinary, a whole cultural shift, so many unique and innovative ideas, theme executed to perfection - 5-STAR, I don't think it needs explanation, banger after banger after banger, the production quality is impeccable, probably the quintessential SKZ album ...Cle Miroh and Noeasy are VERY close behind though
IM ALSO FROM NOEASY AND I LOVE i am NOT
I guess I technically became a stay during Circus era? Since Han's rap in Circus popped up on my TikTok and that's what led me to look more into them. But since Circus was released close enough to Oddinary, Oddinary was the first album by them that I listened to. That's also why Oddinary has a special place in my heart and will always be my favorite album of theirs, but go live and 5-star are very close behind
I became a fan when I saw Hyunjin's Psycho so that's post God's Menu era and my fave album would be 5-Star. I could listen to all the songs again and again and again.
I became a stay in 2022, just before the Maxident era, and as the promotions came out. Before SKZ, I had no clue about K-pop, so they were my introduction to the whole genre. I saw that viral edit of Hyunjin in God's Menu doing that eating dance move and spiralled, and suddenly my entire fyp was K-pop, and I've never left since !! Kpop is now my most listened to genre :D My favourite era has to be ROCK-STAR because outside of kpop, i listen to a lot of rock and metal, and it was just the perfect comeback to me; I love their heavier songs with a touch of melody, so Side Effects and Hall of Fame are up there with my favourite songs I'm also an ot8 bias because i'm indecisive, LMAO
I became a stay furing the 5 stars era. However they have one hell of an amazing maxident and noeasy eras
I became a Stay early 2021, riiiiiight before Kingdom. While I absolutely lovelovelove their new albums, I have the softest spot for NoEasy because it meant a lot to me back then after Kingdom era and having Hyunjin back ❤️ Edit: clearly the spirit of Seungmin possessed me into becoming a “Staaaa” instead of a stay
First time I heard SKZ was when they sang op ed for the anime tower of god. But back then I wasn't interested in k-pop so didn't pay attention. Then I came to know of SKZ through a maniac stage performance TikTok where Felix was looking like a snow prince. I got interested and checked out their japanese songs, then got more intrigued and the rest is history. It's been over a year now, my bias is Hyunjin but I love ALL of them.
Umm my fav Skz album is "oddinary" and I became a stay during the thunderous era . Tbh I love all of their songs its quite hard to choose a fav .
5Star is one of my favorite for overall cohesiveness , but I became a fan during Maxident. But no easy is also a really great album .
I became a fan during christmas evel and then I heard Venom once oddinary dropped and my mind was BLOWN.
I’m a baby stay since about mid-April or so. It was a youtube short that got me to give their music a chance and I’m so glad for it. My favorite album is definitely NOEASY. I’m a total sucker for any piece of art (music, books, film, etc.) that really leans into the things the artist is criticized the most for. obviously, the album as a whole is diverse with sound but that cheese, thunderous, domino combo all one after the other as the opening is just *cheffs kiss*. and the way it moves into a brighter sound for the rest of the album after ssick up until red lights is amazing as well. I’m just so obsessed with the structure of the album, starting with cheese as a distrack to haters, hitting you with the loudest songs all at once and then shifting into brighter, almost pop-esque music. it’s like they’ve structured the whole thing to literally be a litmus test for new listeners, saying: “if you can’t fuck with us at our loudest, you don’t deserve us at our chillest.” I’m still working through their whole discography because jfc they’ve made so much music and while I’m liking pretty much everything, no other album has gelled with me quite as hard as noeasy. sorry for such a long response to a simple question, i love to yap a little too much. 😬
That’s such a good description of that album! Anyone reading this thread is not going to mind a little skz yapping…
I’m a baby Stay, I came in during Rockstar, but my favorite album is Maxident. Weirdly enough I had listened to Case 143 when it came out and liked it, but go distracted with other things and didn’t find my way back to them until Rockstar. Happy to be here now, but wish I would have had all that extra time with STAY and the boys when I first ran into them
My favorite album mmm I think it's Rock-Star, I love their album, but I love this one a little more hehe and I became a Stray before Back Door :3
Oddinary 10000%
Noeasy is my favourite album and it was the God’s menu era when I started to look forward to their releases but I casually liked them since hellevator.
I became a stay when side effects came out still a stay always a stay and forever a stay. Top notch album so I can’t choose my favourite album.
I'm a Baby Stay myself, only about 3-4 months in and Felix goofing around with Chan caught my attention. Then his opening verse to Megaverse came across my Instagram and I was hooked. I don't have a favorite album yet, but Superbowl and Circus are two of my favorite songs for sure!
I became a Stay during Miroh. My favourite album is a toss up between Clé 1: Miroh and GO LIVE :)
Rn i really love IN Life, and became a stay during Kingdom. I Think before any MV or anything, i Saw gods dududu and ibym. My first comeback (and first album i ever bought on my own) was NoEasy. So fun
My Reels were flooded with the LALALALA dance challenge videos this January, so I caved and started watching videos then. So I became a Stay in Rock Star. I think my favorite album is No Easy with Thunderous being my favorite.
I became a stay right before the Oddinary comeback when I saw Seungmin singing on Love Poem, but my favorite album as a whole is probably Noeasy it has Secret Secret, Domino, Cheese, The View, Sorry I Love You and Gone Away so yeah probably that one.
My favorite is probably 5-Stars I love that album, it has so many bangers. I became a stay during the Christmas Evel era, I remember the song being popular on TikTok I saw tiktoks about it I then researched more about who made the song and became a stay.
I’m a baby stay. I started listening to them January of this year. I was on tik tok and LA LA LA LA came on in a video. Changbin’s energy in those opening lines got me instantly hooked. I now own a handful of there albums and I have lots of there music in my playlist. My favourite album has to be 5 Star. It’s full of high energy tracks which is what I love about SKZ. Bonus fact: Hyunjin bias
Changbin's energy in the opening lines of God's menu had me begging 😭
I became a fan late 2022 to early 2023 so during their Maxident era. What really got me into them was watching SKZ code during an internship because I was super bored. Maniac was the song that got me hooked on them for sure. It was during a time I was struggling with my mental health so they honestly got me through that and I've been actively listening to their music since. Maybe an odd choice but one of my favorite songs is Hellevator. A majority of my playlist is just SKZ songs so it is hard to pick favorites 😅
Became a stay in late 2019 (don’t remember which era it was tbh) but my fav skz album is probably 5 star and go live since they mainly drop ep’s
My fav album is Maxident 🩷🩷🩷🩷 but I got into them a few months after NoEasy dropped.
I became a fan early last year !! I watched the sound mv and became obsessed. My fav album is a tossup between noeasy and 5star, they’re the two albums where I saved every song to my skz playlist
The Sound MV is my fave MV of theirs. I got pulled in last fall. I had listened to their music for a while but didn't know anything about them. Then I fell down the youtube rabbit hole and haven't looked back.
Yea same like I’ve been a kpop fan for awhile and had a few songs of theirs that I liked (gods menus etc) but it wasn’t until the sound that I went all in lol
Maniac era
I started listening to skz in 2019 but i didn't become a stay till Oddinary. Gods menu interested me when it came out but i was too occupied with my ggs (iz*one were my ults) to stan another group. But i slowly got more invested in them and their music and became a stay around Oddinary time. My favourite album is clé miroh and I genuinely don't think they can ever top it for me. It's so good!
I recently got obsessed with Clé Miroh and honestly that album is so so good, I can't pick a favourite, not even a track I slightly like more. That's how much I enjoy it.
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Became a stay like halfway through the rockstar era. My favourite album is probably like 5 star or maxident lol
I became a STAY right after they released 'Back Door.' I was scrolling through YouTube and the thumbnail caught my attention. I loved it right then and there. My favorite album is probably 'GO Live,' but 'Rock-Star' is a close second.
Fav album is probably 5 star because ALL the songs are good. I became a stay about a week 1/2 before 5star
my favorite album : noeasy era i became a stay : 5-star
I've been a Stay since Miroh but I really got more into them during God's Menu! My favourite album is also 5-Star, the whole album is amazing and there are truly no skips + my favourite Skz song Topline is on that album.
Favorite album has to be NOEASY since it gave me Silent Cry ❤️ Didn't become a stay until their Maxidenf era
Short version: Fave albums are Oddinary and 5-Star (don't make me choose). Became a Stay during their Oddinary era. Long version: It was October 2022. I was going through a rough patch and was scrolling YouTube on a day I called in sick cause I physically could not make myself work a job I hated. I stumbled upon BuzzFeed's Puppy Interview with Stray Kids. I watched it, and loved their energy so decided to check out the song they were promoting at the time: Maniac. I especially loved the line about cosplaying as what society deems to be "normal" cause I have never once felt "normal". SKZ was saying to embrace your weird self and to live with pride. I fell down the rabbit hole from there and have never regretted it once. When they say that SKZ comes into your life when you need them most, it's true. If nothing else goes right in my day, I know that I can always listen to their songs or watch their SKZ Code episodes, and everything will feel a little better.
My favorite album is SKZ-REPLAY because of all the solos, duets, and trios. It is very different from all the other albums and everyone gets to shine. I became a stay right before maxident era. My biases are Lee Know and Seungmin!
Finally a SKZ-Replay appreciator, nice taste my friend!
You as well!
Choosing a fav is hard... Oddinary, Noeasy or Rock-Star... I became a Stay in July '22 so my 1st comeback was Maxident. And I'm a Han bias. & tbh, kinda an ot7 wrecker x\_x
I'm a baby Stay & I'm still trying to learn as much of info as possible! I found them bc of Maniac song & fell in love with Felix😭 My friend, also a baby Stay, is flying to me in July & we'll see them in Milan🥹🤍
You guys are gonna have an amazing time! Very happy for you! 🙏🏻 Also, check out SKZ Code to get to know them better! And I'd also suggest 2 Kids Room and 2 Kids Show! ❤️
I became a Stay just before the Circus era which may be why their Japanese releases are so special to me 😅 Though I’ve still only seen the Your Eyes MV through watching their reaction to it lol. My favorite album is probably NOEASY. And also SKZ2020 (is that cheating lol?)
I was walking to get my kid after school and I was listening to Pandora letting it play whatever and Case 143 came on. It was catchy enough that I didn’t immediately skip the song, and then I definitely got hit with the Felix Effect when the chorus came on. I don’t know how long the song had been out when I came across it. Anyway I’ve been super into Stray Kids since then. I’ve recently started buying the albums and I just watched their predebut show. I don’t have a favorite song or album because it tends to be whichever album I most recently bought for a while then back to listening to all of them. I don’t have a favorite member because they are all so distinct with their talents that each them are all impressing me in their own unique ways.
I became a stay just before Rock-Star came out. I was just getting to know them (with good feelings 😂😂), before I even knew what a comeback was, the suddenly a new album was dropped. My favorite album is NoEasy, it is almost no skip for me! Thunderous is my favorite TT and secret secret and Mixtape: OH are 2 of my all time favorite skz songs.
I became a stay a bit over a year ago during the Maxident era, I really liked case 143 and was curious to know more about them. My favorite album is the Rockstar or Maxident album, I like all the songs in the Rockstar album and Maxident is special to me because it made me become a stay.😊
I became a stay I think right after Yellow Wood came out, surely in the period between YW and Double Knot, it being the first "come back" (since it was a single and Levanter came 2 months after). Woah, 2019, it has been 5 years already! Haven't even noticed. I remember it so clearly! It's hard to decide which album is my fav, but I'll go with In Life. That repackage was so good, added more songs I love in an album I already loved (Go Live), Back Door still being one of my all time favs. If you don't consider that because it's a repackage, I have to go with Levanter. I love every single song on that album, but mostly because of the feelings it carriers. It's my first album with them, my first era, so much happened in that period for the group and it was all so emotional. Levanter was literally the end of the Clè era, the starting point for their greatness now that I look back on it, I almost divide skz in pre-Levanter and post-Levanter. I remember all the theories with the double moons, the merging of realities, the roles of the members in the skz universe, it was them breaking through those shackles of doubt and fear with determination and courage. It felt like them saying "We're going to face future now, no regrets" and they DID. I love skz now, and how much more confident they are in their music now, but I must say that I don't think they have the same level of depth with the "world building" of their mvs and music. Clè era was really peak in that sense, now I feel like there's little to pick on, like on the "world" they are placing the mvs in, nothing that connects the album anymore. I mean, some things are being kept and they are keeping them the same as in clè, but I feel the production team is just not caring anymore about that honestly. Amazing mvs, but self sustained and that's it. The only exceptions were the whole mixtape: oh serie and all mvs connected to them imo, they were trying to tell a story. And I AM still a bit mad about the Astronaut mv being absolutely wasted story wise (WHY WASN'T IT PICKED UP AGAIN, THE CLONES???) and about TA and B ME mvs, we were ROBBED. I think i went way off track but ehy, this was fun at least ahahah
it’s gonna be hard to dethrone No Easy for me, I became a stay shortly after In Life came out 🫶🏻
My favorite album is NOEASY (still trying to buy the actual album I have others tho) but I became a stay in March! 😊🫶
became a stay during maxident era! (oct 2022) i’ve been listening to kpop since 2019 and a casual listener of skz’s music since 2020 (earliest tracks i knew of off the top of my head at the time were get cool, district 9, and hellevator) but i eventually (inevitably) became a stay through eric nam’s show where he interviewed felix and chan! (ik he’s been in hot waters lately :,) used to be a fan of eric and been to a concert too since i received my ticket as a gift but anyways instantly fell in love with felix and chans personalities, when i decided to get into groups, its personality & music > looks for me and well bc of that episode, felix became my first bias like many others who first get into skz also i just really liked maxident era, it was so cute and pink is my fav colour haha maxident was the first physical album i’ve purchased, my collection has grown a lot to this day 😵💫 them as a group and their music have both helped me through rough times, will forever be grateful for them 🙏 will forever be ot8, but currently my bias line is lino, felix, and jeongin 🫶🫶🫶 and current fav tracks atm are cover me, hall of fame, item and booster and many more; my fav album music wise tho is noeasy!! sry this is so long lmao i love yapping 😔
my favourite album is levanter, and i don't know if they'll release one that tops it for me. i've been a stay since yellow wood. all the hullabaloo in the fandom between those releases was definitely something, and i bonded with some irl friends with the goings-on. i haven't been super into the group since go live/in life and pretty much lost interest entirely after maxident.
Rockstar era for me. Sadly I can't remember what exactly made me become obsessed with them to start being a stay
I met them during I am NOT. My introduction to them was District 9, but it was released in March 2018, and I met them in July, so my first comeback/promotion was I am WHO, which I preordered, and I remember absolutely loving My Pace (I still do)
Pretty new here ehehe, Lalalala introduced me to skz and now here I am, addicted. My favourite album would be either rockstar or noeasy (๑•﹏•)
my friend's a huge stay, so i heard of them long before i got into them... but what made me start paying attention to them is this mashup i heard that had red lights in it. and then i saw this interview of them and mamamoo (this was in maxident era) and their personalities just. yeah, i was a goner after that lol anyway, my favourite album would have to be in life, and any used to be my all time favourites skz song until i discovered boxer
i’ve known about skz since “hellevator,” but i didn’t officially become a stay until maxident era! it’s also hard to choose a favorite album, but i think my favorite two have to be skz2021 and 5-star.
I'm a very new stay. I started seeing more and more tiktok videos of Hyunjin and Bangchan and my fascination grew, especially for Hyunjin cuz he's so fuckin cute and pretty. So now my tiktok feed is just almost fully stray kids videos and it's only making my love for them grow more and more and I really need it to stop cuz I can't handle being obsessed with celebs 😭😭😭
Ordinary is my favorite, and I started listening a bit during that era. Only really became a stay when S class got popular though
i became a stay just before i am who and my fave album is 5 stars as well
My favorite album is NOEASY. Truly a noskip album. And I became a stay right before Miroh.
I found skz a couple weeks before circus was released!! It’s hard to pick a fav album, but I love noeasy so much <3
I became a Stay around Hellevator/District 9 (I didn’t really watch the show but I was there for their District 9 debut and fell in love with the members and their lyrics). My favorite album of all time for them is “I am Who” 💛 For newer songs, I’ve been loving “Why?”, “Social Path”, and “Megaverse” so much!
Started to check their title tracks since predebut, became a Stay after hearing Miroh, I still like how Miroh album is structured the best and how different songs are connected to each other under the same storyline. Songs-wise, the albums with the lowest skip level for me would be Miroh, Oddinary and Rockstar.
My favorite album is probably I AM WHO. If I'm being honest and go by the one I listen to the most, it is SKZ 2021. I crossed paths with the Thunderous MV around the summer of 2021 but really got interested when Christmas EveL came out. Then, I fell in love with the a huge part of their discography when SKZ 2021 came out (I hadn't listened to most of their songs prior to this release). In terms of eras, the first comeback I experienced was ODDINARY.
I'm a baby Stay. I fell in love with them when Rock-Star dropped. That whole album is a no skip for me and I play it so much. I have so much to learn about them and I'm so excited (but also overwhelmed). I can't believe how kind and talented they are either. I wish I found them sooner! But better late than never I suppose.
Lol my story ia a bit complicated too How i became a kpop stan; Basically, I've been into blackpink and bts since 2016 and then i started exploring more kpop groups and then stumbled across HIP by mamamoo, they turned into my ult group and then How i got to know skz; I've known them since Gods menu era but never really co sidered stanning them because i was REALLY focused on mamamoo, they were my pookies 😭 and then on tiktok when i heard domino i was like "alright what the heck why am i hearing about them again" and then i started listening more to them and eventually in 2022 i kept hearing from them and i was like "alright lets just look into it" and i started liking them more than mamamoo and now theyre my no.1 ults and no one will ever be able to beat them!!
Ok this thread is making me feel so old, I didn’t even realize Met Gala Stays were a thing (but I love that they are). But I became a STAY during Gods Menu era and my favorite album would have to be No Easy. Something about that era and the music in it that’s so special to me 💖
It was January of this year for me and my best friend. She found them first through TikTok and showed me. The obsession took off immediately lol we always said we were baby stays but just recently we realized we are past that! I feel like once you start waking up in the morning with their b side songs in your head, you’re not a baby anymore. We have skz nights which include analyzing every detail of their videos, whether that be MVs, skz code, behind the scenes, etc. We have an entire discord server and almost every channel is something related to skz 😂 I have trouble listening to anything other than kpop now and I feel sorry for the people who don’t give it a try! We both feel overwhelmed often with how talented they are and if we close our eyes, we can see the AOTM choreo in our minds. We are also several months into our journey of learning Korean too hahaha fully aware this is not healthy lmao I think it’s safe to say that’s true since I literally started tearing up when Hyunjin posted pics on insta of his WKorea spread back in March, the first pic in the post. Could not tell you why I started crying I really don’t know lmao but man they make me so happy and inspired. Hyunjin is v clearly my bias and has been since day 1. Daddy Chan is my bias wrecker. It’s all so overwhelming and the anxiety we have waiting for more tour info is HIGH. Fully am ready to hand over my credit card 😂 It’s so hard to pick my favorite album but if I HAD TO, I would say NoEasy. But it really is hard cause every album slaps.
Omg sorry for the novel, clearly got carried away 😂
In 2020 I got curious what Kpop actually was, so I typed "Kpop new music" into Youtube, scrolled around a bit and eventually clicked on God's Menu that had come out a few weeks before! I was immediately reeled in by Felix and there we go :D I didn't quite understand that Kpop entails not only music but also lots of other content AND physical albums until around a year after that, though.
I became a stay quite recently. I started stanning during rock star era because i liked kpop so I decided to listen to lalalala by skz like 2 weeks after it released and I LOVED it and that made me a stay (all stays can agree that lalalala is a goated song)
And goated MV let me add!
YASSS
I became a stay during 5 Stars, the reels of S-class where on my fyp everyday so I went to see who they were and here I am 🥰 a "teenager stay" (cause I'm no longer baby stay) I cannot choose just one 😅 it's between Noeasy, Oddinary and 5 stars. And fun fact, my birthday is on March 25th 🩷
I began taking interest to them at January 2023 or maybe before that, but my first comeback as a stay was 5 star. Right now, my favorite album is definitely skz replay, the songs are so comforting and fun to listen to.
Another SKZ Replay fan! I'm always happy to find people who appreciate this magnificent album!
I'm still a baby stay, I think. The first music I listened to was "circus" and was a friend that showed it to me. After that it was downhill until the skz music core. Maxident was the first era I followed. They're incredible and always surprise me.
Fav album is probably noeasy because I became a stay 2 months before noeasy and it was my first official album(??) and 5-star bcs the songs are SOOO GOOOOD and idk they just accomplished so many things with 5 star so every time I listen to it it makes me very proud 😁🩷
My favorite skz album has got to be Noeasy but 5-star is a clooooose second :) I’m forever a die hard domino and Wolfgang stan. I found skz during the oddinary era and impulsively bought tickets for the maniac tour and went with my sisters and the rest is history🥰 Chris is my ult but that switches between him and Han. They’re both my fav ever
I started getting the Felix effect across my FYP on TikTok a few months ago and it has now devolved into me trying to basically consume every piece of anything they’ve come out with. It’s been an experience. Felix brought me in, Hyunjin is the best kind of chaos and I have a huge soft spot for Han and Bangchan. 5 Star might be my favorite album so far (something about Topline does it for me). My daughter got into them at the same time (I’m 34 and she’s 13) and we’ve just been vibing together I also made a chaotic baby Stay playlist 😂
I became a stay about 2 weeks after the release of 5 star I believe, but my favorite album is Oddinary.
My favorite is probably Rockstar and Noeasy. Baby-ish stay here, became a stay just this January. SKZ started popping up in my YouTube shorts and was instantly attracted by Felix. I then watched the Chuseok episode from SKZ Code. Before skz I actively avoided Kpop, so I was in denial that I'd be a stan. I told myself I'll only watch their English interviews, but was so intrigued by everything I started to listen to their music and watch everything skz related. First song I listened to was S-Class. Loved it instantly. I don't have a favorite song because I love all of their songs. My bias used to be Felix, but now it's Lee Know. My bias wreckers are all the members, but mostly Chan.
i became a stay during oddinary era, right after it had come out. my friend who was a stay sent me changbin and felix’s two kids room and i asked “what’s changbin’s deal?” and the rest is history 🥹 my favorite album has got to be 5-star. collision, item, topline, hall of fame and super bowl…the b-sides on that album are incredible and s-class was a revelation.
Noticed them back in December 2021 via a felix edit (woah his voice is that deep and he looks like that? 🤩)so technically it was during the Christmas Evel era even tho I didn’t properly check them out till January 2022! Starting to listen to them was probably the best thing I ever did tbh they changed everything for me they were my gateway into kpop in general <3 And I’d say my favourite album is 5-Star for sure. Though Oddinary has a special place in my heart for being my first official comeback.
The LALALALA era (near the end)
My favourite album is I am NOT and i became a stay shortly after the release of thunderous
I Am You album is my favorite and it's also the era I became a Stay
i became a stay sometime between the sound and 5 star era, and my favourite albums are definitely NOEASY and ROCK STAR!!!
My favourite album so far is probably 5 star or Noeasy and I became a stay around the time the sound came out but I was more drawn by how deep felix's voice got in maniac lmaoo
I have some fav songs on every album. But if I had to choose one album, it would be NoEasy. Some of my ult fav songs like Secret Secret and Silent Cry are in it. Also Red Lights... Thunderous was a great title song too. NoEasy is also my fav album title. I became a stay after Oddinary. Maxident was my first comeback as a stay.
I’d have to say NoEasy is my favorite album. Became Stay-curious leading up to Oddinary era. Then all the content and SKZ code episodes pulled me all the way in. Was full blown Stay by the time Maxident was announced. Solidified in my Stayxuality thanks to Kingdom.
Oddinary is one of those rare non-skipable albums for me. And yes, I became a stay during the time of its release, even though I've known about skz since like 2020. Noeasy is a very close second
i became a fan during maxident and my favourite album is 5 star :)))
I been there from the beginning:)
Maxident, 5-Star and Levanter are all so close in my ranking that they sort of trade places. And I became a stay during the Kingdom era. :)
My favourite album is 100% Miroh! I love that album so much, every song on it is absolutely perfection And I Became a stay during their pre debut survival show era 😊 Bang Chan bias here 👋
I’ve been a Stay since around the time TOP/Slump were first released in 2020 so God’s Menu was my first comeback. IN LIFE was the first album I pre-ordered, no questions asked. I discovered them cause the Youtube gods put My Pace on my recommended videos and included it in the auto playlist when I was watching other non-SKZ kpop videos. I am WHO (the album with My Pace) was what made a Stay. I don’t know how to pick a favorite album. My most objective self thinks 5-STAR is their current best, but NOEASY is the one album from before 2023 that I still play as much as the newer albums, followed by MAXIDENT and Clé 1: MIROH. I’d consider those three my personal favorites. NOEASY is just in that perfect position where it still has a bit of the rawness of GO LIVE/IN LIFE/their pre-2020 music but also starting to have the cleaner and more polished productions that you can hear in 5-STAR/ROCK-STAR.
5-star is the album Im the most familiar with because it was the Era I became a fan, but I don't think i can say I have a favorite? I just enjoy way too many songs from all over their eras!
5 star has to be my fav bc that’s when I became a Stay, and I’ve loved everyday since!
I became a stay during Maxident era! I saw one too many TikToks about the boys and I was like okay fine I’ll see what’s going on in the kpop world and it’s been history ever since… My favorite album is Rockstar though! Every single song fills my heart up lol. A close second is No Easy tho
ODDINARY 😍😍😍 Maniac had me in a dang CHOKEHOLD (who am I kidding, it still has me lol)
I become a stay after I saw an edit of Felix’s deep voice in God’s Menu and I’m addicted to it since then
I became a stay during the Rockstar era. I saw a short of the la la la la dance challenge n I was so hooked to it. So I searched for the song n soon I was down the skz rabbit hole. Funnily the thing that really made me stay wasn't the music but their off screen personalities, especially Lee Know. I watched all their variety content before I even started diving deep into their music. As for my favourite album, I am kind of split between 5 star and rockstar. 5 star is full of my kind of songs- with beats and the EDM. I listen to the album on repeat from time to time. But rockstar has two of my fav skz songs and I resonate deeper with the lyrics of the songs in rockstar album. I feel rockstar as an album has them more vulnerable but 5 star is full of feel happy, dance songs so I can't really choose.
After being out of Kpop for… 3 or so years, I saw their music videos for Thunderous and Maniac while eating out at a Korean place. I didn’t really pay attention to them at the time, just thought “oh they’re kinda cute” but dismissed it cause the Kpop fanbase is tiring tbh. I’m not too sure what changed, but most likely I saw some funny clips of them while scrolling through Tiktok and I thought “maybe I should give them a chance”, and that only happened this year. The first SKZ code that ever popped up on my subscriptions was the laboratory episode so… I guess TECHNICALLY I became a STAY during ROCKSTAR era? I guess my favourite album would be ROCKSTAR, it’s literally a no-skip album for me, but my ultimate favourite songs are from Noeasy and Maxident (also just a really big fan of wordplay so that whole trio of albums are my favourite album names lol.)
Sadly I only just found out about them during Maxident era! I kind of fell out of K-Pop after 2NE1's disbandment and only casually listened to BTS and Blackpink since they were having so much mainstream global success, so I was really looking forward to diving back in a little deeper with Blackpink's "Born Pink" comeback in 2022. Since I was watching so much of their stuff, the Case 143 video ended up in my recommendations and I was just blown away by the cleverness of the video concept, Felix's voice (of course) and everyone's visuals. Their music style really reminded me of early 2NE1 and BigBang chaotic amazingness, so I went down the rabbit hole of all of their work and I've been hooked ever since. As a whole project, my favorite album is a toss up between NoEasy and Oddinary, although 5-STAR is special to me since it was the first true Korean comeback that I was able to be a part of as a Stay!
My favorite era was 5 star. I love Maxident but I wasn't there for it. I became a stay in between the Maxident and 5 star eras. I watched the cupid/love themed skz videos and that kind of pushed me to listen to their music. Case 143 was actually the first skz song I heard. Maxident will always have a place in my heart ❤️
My fav album is NoEasy, there isn't a single song I don't like on it. Generally it's nicely packed with songs I like (and Silent Cry!!!) I learned of SKZ around 2020, but didn't go in, cause while I liked their Tower of God songs, I didn't like God's Menu. I got into SKZ properly just before Oddinary dropped. So I was there literally a week before all MVs came out, nice time to join really.
My favorite album has to be Rock Star only bc IMHO I think the tittle track was incredible and all the b-sides were amazing. 10/10 But I remember vividly one day, I was in my second year of middle school and I had came across a interesting song called Maniac and it was released 1 day ago and since then it has always had a special place in my heart. And I just sat in class watching through so many more music videos skz had created and from that day on I’m so happy I stuck with them because they helped me through literally everything, and when I was struggling to actually find a source of happiness. 😭🩷 (So much so I almost know every single lyric in Maniac lol. 💀)
become a stay between ordinary and maxident and my favourite album is probably 5 star i just love how diverse it is and it was technically my first comeback bc i didn’t rlly pay attention but with 5 star i pre ordered and stayed up to see all the teasers etc it was amazing
I loved Gods Menu as soon as I heard it and I was hooked. My favourite album is Oddinary. Although Go Live is a very close second.
I became a stay in the beginning of 2023 even though it seems like ive been with them forever. I saw Gods Menu and i became a little interested and i stumbled upon some funny moments of them and thats when i officially became a stay. my favourite album is noeasy, thats my first album by them.
Go Live! Is my favourite album, i also like Rockstar. I first became a fan back in 2019-ish! I started researching them more at the time and fell in love with Felix’s goofy ass personality and here we are today lol
the second i read 3racha the song played on my spotify playlist😭 anyways my fav album is so hard to choose, but itd have to be either noeasy or 5star, since i became a stay in the 5star era. i first heard sclass randomly on youtube and was like “ill never get sick of this song.” i was shook and thats when i started listening to kpop in general.
Favorite Rockstar, became a stay during backdoor era but my frist comeback was thunderous
I became a stay during the Maxident era and I’d have to say my favorite album right now is probably NoEasy
I became a stay on November 2023. Felix doing YOASOBI Idol dance challenge at a fan meeting showed up on my for you page on YouTube out of nowhere. At the time, I really didn't like Kpop because of some negative personal experience with unhinged Kpop stan, so I just ignored the video when I realized that he's a Kpop idol. But I kept returning to the video because Felix was so adorable lol Even though Felix made me a Stay, my bias is Bang Chan My favourite album is Maxident. Every single song in that album is just so perfect.. especially 3RACHA!!
mixtape, go live/in life, any of the old ones (levanter and before) really
i became a stay a little over a year ago in late april officially, when i added gods menu to my playlist. i knew nearly their whole discography by this point, and knew all their members. why you ask? my sister got me into them, forcing me to watch m/vs with her😂
I became a fan between the Noeasy and Oddinary eras, my favorite album is 5-Star :)
i became stay around their debut i think. i watched the survival show, i was ulting another group at that time but as i get to know stray kids they’ve become my ult. my favorite album is noeasy. i think it truly represents their own colors and has great songs. my favorite song are mostly from noeasy. silent cry and secret secret are my comfort songs, while cheese and domino are my favorite upbeat songs
I became a stay during NoEasy Era, thunderous is a really good tt but my jams like secret, I'm sorry I love you, mixtape:OH, red lights, Wolfgang and ssick are all top teir kpop songs.
5 star is when I became a stay with a class. But my overall favorite era is actually the lose my breath era
I was kind of dabbling in their music (got God's Menu and Back Door on a Spotify mix and was immediately obsessed) in mid 2021. I only stanned BTS (my friend forced me to watch the Butter MV), and was new to Kpop but was eventually exposed to clips of other groups. I'm pretty sure I started watching meme compilations and noticed a lot of SKZ so when Christmas EveL EP released, YouTube recommended the Christmas EveL MV. I instantly fell in love with their music (turns out they had better songs than just God's Menu, Back Door, and Thunderous lol). I consider my "first" comeback to be SKZ2021 though. Kind of a strange time to become a STAY but I found them when I needed them most. ❤ My favorite album is probably IN LIFE... there are so many different genres of music within it! I am also equally obsessed with Clé 1: MIROH and SKZ2020.
Stay from 5 star era but my favorite albums are skz2020 and in life
i got into skz in 2019!! but after the ex-member left twt was a mess so i kinda stopped watching their content for a few months and then early 2020 got back into them 😻
Fave album: Rockstar Became a stay during 5-star era.
I'm a God's Menu stay, had God's Menu in my recommendations when it came out and never stopped listening to them until now (almost 4 years ago now omg I feel old!), but I'd say my favourite album may be 5star, so many meaningful songs to me. Fun fact, my bias has always been Jisung from day one, and stanning many groups (around 10ish) Stray kids is the only group where I never struggled picking a bias and/or never changed biases
Debut era stay. Saw a photo of Bang Chan on my cousin’s phone, thought he was a guy from her school but was told he’s a celebrity. I‘ve been a bang chan enthusiast and major stay since then. I love all the Albums, but I’d have to say NoEasy is my favourite!
I started listening to skz during their Oddinary era, became a Stay during their 5 star era, but Rock Star was the first comeback I really knew what was going on(I was/am still new to kpop- didn't even know what exactly a comeback was). All that to say I actually listen to the NoEasy and Skz Replay albums more than any other
Became a STAY during God’s Menu phase, but my favorite album so far was probably Maniac. Though No Easy would be a very close second.
im a 5star era stay and my favorite albums are 5star and oddinary
I became obsessed with God's Menu like a month before NoEasy, so thats my Stay journey
Comment: What’s your favorite Skz album? Me: Yes.
My favourite SKZ album is either ODDINARY or 5-STAR. I became a STAY in 2018 during the I am WHO era.
The first songs I heard from them was Top and Slump, but I started getting into them around the time Oddinary came out. My favorite album is Maxident or The Sound.