AWESOME! Reacting to STRAY KIDS "Thunderous" - go Savanna! 

The animated creatures, in the beginning, are mythical Korean creatures called Dokkabei. They came to earth and transformed into Stray Kids, hence the blue floating flames. The story goes like this. The village is holding a talent competition. The Dokkabei decide to come to earth to participate. They are the Thunderous Ones (Sorrikun) They are loud and unapologetic about being so. They stick to their principles and will stand against whatever comes their way. In the end, they will be victorious because they ARE SORRIKUN The song is a diss track for haters. Their songs were called noisy and not well received in their home country of South Korea.

Thunderous is based on the old Korean Pansori style of storytelling (Changbin's second verse is indicative of the performance style) as well as the reference to old fables of the goblins (the blue flames) known as dokkaebi. Additionally, the Korean title of this song (소리꾼) translates to "singer" as it relates to those storytellers in Pansori. The pun also exists because the literal translation is "noise master". The album this song is from is NoEasy (pronounce Noisy). This album was a clapback to the increasing complaints that they only create noise music. So they said in this song, not only are we noisy, we are Thunderous. There is a lot of sampling of traditional Korean instruments and use of the pentatonic scale. Edit: The black masks the cloaked figures wear in this song are also the masks on the walls in Miroh.

FYI Stray kids performed thunderous in front of many vips and important people including the President of south korea, while representing their country in one of the biggest expos in the world in dubai. The president of Korea gave a standing ovation after the performance.

i read the others comments and realise that no one explaining about this one. in this song, skz became a 'Korean Goblins' that called 'Ddokkaebi'. They're a mythical being that hated but worshipped at the same time. they came with the winds, thunders, and the blue flames. that 'Ddokkaebi' is pictured as a red creatures ( hence the red outfit, thunder, and all in the mv). they're a creature that can defy time and places (that's why they're all over the places, being in ancient times but with modern costume an all). and the most important thing about Ddokkaebi is, they're considered as god by the people. they can be a good and loving creature toward people that good to them. but at the same time, they can be a bad, evil, and nightmares to the people that does something bad to them (i guess they hold a lot of grudges?) all about this ddokkaebi story can be a whole book if should written here. so i recommend you to learn in your own spare times. there is a good drama that have this whole ddokkaebi explained (Goblin: The lonely and great god), exclude the romance things in the drama and it good to go to learn about the ddokkaebi 😌

Thunderous is the title track of the album NoEasy (wordplay on Noisy). The album (and thunderous) was released after Gods Menu. A lot of haters said that StrayKids music is too loud, to noisy (heh) and so on, so they made this track to say "Yes, we are noisy, we are the thunder. We will say, what we have to say and you can't stop us". Their goal was to implement a lot of korean tradition into this song and this mv (the flute in the backrground is a tradiotional korean music instrument for example). The blue flames are a symbol for Dokkaebi, which are korean goblins. They possess extraordinary powers and they often wear hanbok. As another comment said: the black people are the haters, which kinda flee the scene at the end when changbin makes the thunder sounds.

The black figures in the video are haters. And the thunderous ones are fighting them off with the thunder ( with their music ) and their are making fun of them and telling them to look up on themselves…

This song is diss track to haters... because haters says skz only make "noise" music(start side effects era)...the black mask is haters...this album is a clap back to haters..

Very easy to miss,you will need to go frame by frame to see it, but the end of the first chorus to where Hyunjin is sitting in the chair and closes the book. The picture in the book is a drawing of Felix from the previous scene before it. Only one reactor I've seen has caught that. It's one of those little nuggets that get missed.

I could not click on this one faster! This is in my top 5 songs. Love the tune, love the mv etc,ad nauseum.

Thanks for the reaction, I'm still discovering the Stray Kids and so far this is one of my favorite songs, in general the video and the song are very catchy. And it's true that all their songs are different, none of them looks like the other, but at the same time they are the same in that they have something that surprises you and that's great. I hope you can keep reacting to them, like their song S-Class that the video is on another level😍🙏🏻.

Thunderous was the first Stray Kids song I ever listened to so it's really special to me for introducing me to them and it is still one of my favorites

they are truly one of a kind, special and talented

I really appreciate the way you analyze everything and point out some parts of the production with the music that I wouldn’t have know. Thank you 🙏

Another reaction so soon, we love to see it! I hope this song prepares you well for the upcoming A2K episode! The blue flames in the MV are indicative of “goblin fire” - in Korean folklore/mythology, goblins are known to have supernatural and extraordinary abilities, much like our SKZ I’d say! I believe the attribution of goblins is partially related to the NOEASY (the title of this album that Thunderous comes from) trailer, wherein the SKZ boys are gearing up to fight a “sound monster” - and that’s another story in and of itself! In any case, Thunderous was a cultural reset for me. The outfits, the choreo, and the instruments were all so ambitious but perfectly Stray Kids-esque to me! A little background: the title of the album is NOEASY, a play on words to be read aloud as “NOISY”. This is SKZ truly embracing their sound and their reputation in the industry; if the haters are going to label them as “noise makers” (more emphasized in another song in this album, “CHEESE”) then SKZ will proudly be just that and rightfully claim themselves as “masters of sound” (which can be taken as the meaning from the Korean title of Thunderous, 소리꾼/sorikkun/“singer”)! I hope that is a good bit of insight into this song, sorry if my thoughts were all over! Thanks for another great reaction & I’m looking forward to the next one!

If you watch historical K-Dramas you’ll recognize the sets!!!

Yeaaa thank you for reacting to this! You also react so genuinely, I didnt mind the pauses and the rewinds. Im looking forward to savanna's performance of this too! It makes me happy when someone from a2k gets to perform an skz song cause I know their songs arent really easy. But lexus did a good job with gods menu, now let's see savanna with surrikun :D

They are going to be on the VMA's Tuesday. On MTV or VH1.

Thanks for your reaction! I really hope you check out some dance practices soon, because SKZ are such dynamic performers !! Also skz dance relays are chaotic and amazing 😂 Thunderous is such a cool and unique song, it was part of the NOEASY (NOISY) album which was kind of a clap back against critics who called their work noise/construction music. The korean title 'sorikkun' has a double meaning, referring to both haters/naggers ('jansorikkun') as well as a singer in traditional korean storytelling 'pansori'. In that second verse (where you mentioned the lower flute melody) Changbin's rap flow is actually in the cadence/style of pansori. The song is just so unapologetically SKZ and i love it so much!! Maniac and case 143 next?? 🙏🙏

Check out their performances on a TV competition show named Kingdom. They will blow your mind.

Happy to see new reaction so fast) Thunderous really special and unique song, it's more nowadays skz, they found their own colors after god's menu (in my opinion) and did this really great. Felix and Hyunjin looks in this era still one of my favorite, their hairstyle incredibly beautiful. The transitions between scenes are masterpieces, really great work. Traditional elements in song and video very well considered with modern, 3racha did great masterpiece) they are genius! Waiting for the next reactions to Stray Kids from you) It's very exciting to notice new details, even after hundreds of views MV. There are so many things happening at once that it's hard to keep track of everything. Thank you for reaction)

The original name of the song in Korean is meant to be goblins, spirits in ancient folklore. But they translated it as Thunderous. The blue flames represent the Surikun (spirits). The dark creatures are the haters Skz have in the industry and world, so when Chan (red hair) hits and you see tbe wobble effect is when he shakes the earth with his coming, so you can see right after, the dark creatures run away. The boys chose to use lots of traditional instruments, thus, the traditional elements like the drawing of the mountains in the beginning or the dancers in the end. Thank you for this reaction!

Lol I know exactly what you mean. I swear it's so hard to articulate original yet definitely SKZ...they do it every time it's like their personalities shine through the song with their emotions packed in...they (as you would have been told) did create they're own genre so I put it down to that too!

2 SKZ reaction in 24 h... i love it This song is definitely an all time favorit. Fun fact: this is my daughters absolute favourite song so she called our cat we got last year 소리꾼. 😂

My favorite MV!!! Yeeeiiiiii, I thought that think I need wait a few weeks for this video, pero thanks to Savanna, I can watch your reactions now! I prepared so many information for this moment but reading the comments, they already said everything 🤣 but, please watch the making off of this video in skz official page, because they’re amazing how they prepare everything, and they stay in all details. Recommendations: watch the ‘video making film’ and ‘recording scene’ off they songs, are incredible. Thanks for the reaction!🫰🏻

Ahhh so so so excited to see Savanna dance to this, I don't know if I'll survive it lol

Its really great watching you on your stray kids discovery journey. Really like how you notice things in the tracks, instrumentation, in the MV and even tbe lyrics.

thanks for reaction! some other people in the comments have explained the story of MV and the meaning behind the Korean title and lyrics already :) NMIXX also did a cover to this song if you are interested. not my personal favourite, but a lot of people praise them for doing a good job, so you might want to check it out and maybe would like it.

I’m a little late, but I subscribed to join you on your Stray Kids journey! Looking forward to more!

Glad u do the reaction for this song. Waiting for more stray kids.

Omg I love this so much, the song and the beat is so catchy and I love the raps and vocals. For me Felix (my bias) just slayed his part. The choreo is on point like always and I'm just in love with the entire thing words can't begin to describe how I'm feeling about this song. This song is such a hype and really gets me dancing and singing/rapping along. Also it's this song that Han became my ult wrecker. #StrayKidsWorldDomintion

Thunderous was supposed to be in asian style at release. Because in this year there was a special korean celebrate.

Love ur videos keep up ur good work ❤

I went noooo, when you went back to read lyrics after wondering about the masked figures and skipped the one line answering your question in between "here they come" and the "all eyes on..." where read they were the villains who made their blood boil. As in the haters and commenters who talk s*it, judge and look down on them for not fitting into the norms and for being loud. That was funny. It's been a sec and others have explained a lot of things already so I'm just saying that enjoyed the reaction and I think I'm staying~

Recién descubrí tu canal, y me gusta mucho como analisas y te profundizas incluso en las letras, me encanta muchísimo 🙏🏼💗

Hola Pierre gracias por otra reacción a skz ❤ y es una de la lista que te mande aunque sé que no la hiciste por mi sino Pk la viste en un programa 😀 pero se me cumplió ya va una menos gracias ☺️

9:30 I'm Asian, but when I first heard about it, I felt the same thing here in Bath!

POWERFULL VOICE MY SUPER FELIX🌟💫💛👼

If this is it then Maniac will be next one your gonna like and theres Case 143 and S-Class too check out their 5star album their recent comeback its just a flex in this one ❤

Awesome

Stray Kids💗

Blue flames "Goblin fire"

Get Lit and Top Line (Feat Tiger JK) are really good ones from Stray Kids new album 5 Star. I think you will really enjoy them. If you are able to find the time, could you please react to them?

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Do yourself a favor, even if only on your own time, but check out NMixx's cover of Thunderous. It's amazing!

Sorry but bro pauses was to much