TW: Long Story
(Excuse my bad English if I said some confusing things lol)
Writing this so I can share my “strange” experience lmao. So I recently got into Enhypen.
•A little backstory, you can skip it lol: I’ve been listening to kpop since 2018 until now so I’m familiar with a lot of kpop groups and had joined and left various fandoms. I mostly listen to girl groups (I like IVE and I-dle the most) actually but I pretty much became devoted when I stan a bg (specifically bts). I do listen to some bg songs and added what i just like in my playlist but I listen and enjoy to gg songs more.
The last time I stanned a bg is Bts but I turned into a casual listener now but I’ve been a strong fan of them for like more than 5 years before I left the fandom in mid 2023. They’re the first kpop group I actually became very interested watching, not just from songs and performances but some shows of them too until Enhypen came lol.
•My discovery of Enhypen and turning into a lowkey Engene: I’ve been familiar with Enhypen, Iland, and some of their popular songs (especially “Polaroid Love” & “Fever” when they became viral) since their debut but never had the interest to check out their songs or the group since maybe I’m too focused on my favorite groups that time. When I first listened to them, it’s like back on late 2023 or early 2024 when I’m trying to listen to kpop groups outside of my fandoms or groups I mostly listen. I first listened to “Given-Taken” and liked it so I slowly started listening to more of their songs (just some though that appears on my feed), I was amazed by their choreography too since all of them are good dancers and I have some members I already have my eyes on already although it does not make me check more on their group.
I do listen to them time to time in 2024 and discovered more songs and learned some informatioms about the group since I became friends with a Kpop fan too that mainly stan Enhypen (maybe one of the reasons I got closer to discovering tje group too) but I never got fully into the group.
So just recently in April, I started following Enhypen on their IG since I became interested of videos of Sunoo doing some Tiktok trends and found them cute. I found their videos pretty entertaining actually everytime they uploaded, but It’s not the final nail to hit the coffin for me to make me stan them them. The reason why I find my way of finally stanning them “strange” is because of the “Given-Taken” instrumental, I do listen to instrumentals but i just do it occasionally when I’m curious enough. I don’t remember exactly how I just randomly searched “Given-Taken Instrumental”, probably because of my random curiosity lol. But I clicked on the first video that appeared, it’s not actually an official instrumental from Enhypen or Hybe but maybe from someone who used some vocal removing tool. I listened to it and there are some parts that you can still hear the vocals but they are very faint. The instrumental is actually good and made me love the song more, but what really got me is that when it reached the bridge part and when I first heard it I’m like ” Wait, what, repeat that again” and I feel like I found some hidden treasure. In the bridge there’s like a vocal part there that goes “Ohhh” with maybe vocal effects added into it (but I might be wrong) and it repeated twice in the bridge, I don’t know if something just hypnotized me from that part or what’s gotten into me that time but that part had me on hook for days or maybe a week. Like I can’t stop listening to it, I go on to actually finding more versions and covers of the song and the instrumental just to listen to that part. Some does include that part and some does because maybe it’s too subtle too, if I find one that does it, I feel so satisfied. I don’t know how long that phase of me lasts but after that, I suddenly got more interested into Enhypen, I checked almost all of their songs and I actually found their discography solid. I don’t know if it’s because my like towards the group that influenced me to think that way or it’s just their songs are just that good that made me love them with no skips, they also have strong memorable parts too and had amazing instrumentals where I can enjoy them without missing the vocals. I’m currently watching Iland (2020) and slowly trying to complete it before I go into their Enhypen contents lol like I’m reading series of a book in order, My bias is Jay who I actually least noticed at first and I found him funny and amazing too. I had trouble distinguishing their voices at first but the more I listen to them, the more I recognized their sounds individually. It’s crazy how a freaking instrumental and a specific part of it lead me to finally get into a group I’ve overlooked for long but as long as I get here it’s fine.
Now enough of my yapping, sharing a story like this is very random and new for me since I don’t normally share experiences especially with strangers even to people I know unless I trust them enough haha. I wanna know if you have a similar experience to me when you got into a a group in a weird or strange way
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