FIRST TIME REACTING TO aespa | Black Mamba, Forever, Next Level, Savage, Dreams Come True 

Next up: girls, spicy, illusion, drama

If you are that confused with aespa lore, just wait until you react to Red Velvet 😂 SM Entertainment never disappoints in this department.

Love or hate SM, you can't deny that their groups are legendary. They're always full of talents.

SM is known for their "switch up" they've been doing it for over a decade now.

Aespa constantly references their lore, which is tied to a wider SM lore, in their lyrics. It's ... complicated, so much so that I'd recommend watching a lore introduction done by a fan or something if you want to get into it. If you really want to experience it though, watch aespa's lore videos, which used to come out before every comeback, advancing the story. Haven't got one in a while though. Forever and Dreams Come True are remakes from songs by older SM artists, which is something SM does a lot with their newer groups. Dreams Come True by S.E.S was actually my first kpop song ever, since it is actually itself a cover of a song called Rakastuin Mä Looseriin by Finnish 90's pop duo Nylon Beat, which as a finn happened to be my fave pop act at the time. The aespa version is more kpoppified, but it gave me a hit of nostalgia all the same!😊 ... and their vocals are so good because they're an SM group. They're all like that, vocally.

There are three short mini-movies that explain the lore in the MVs, but here is a very basic overview of the Aespa lore to where Savage ends that should help you get started: The Aespa girls exist in a world where all of your social media posts create an avatar (what they call ae) of you that lives on the Internet (what they call The Flat). Since what you upload is usually your best, most perfect moments, the avatars are often better, more perfect versions of you. People interact with their aes and even help bring them into the Real World via a process called Synk. This is at least partially facilitated by the protector of the Flat, a being called Naevis. However, while good data is uploaded to the internet and exists on the flat, there is also bad data (hate posts, gossip, deep fakes, etc.). That exists in another virtual space called Kwangya (literally "the wilderness"), where an entity powered by this bad data named "The Black Mamba" is consolidating power. She is able to gain access to the real world and shut off the connection between the Flat and The Real World (Synk Out). Naevis can't attack the Black Mamba while the Mamba is still in Kwangya, so she contacts Karina, Giselle, Winter and Ning Ning to go there on her behalf. While the girls don't have powers themselves, their avatars do have powers in the virtual world. They are Rocket Puncher (Karina, does exactly what it sounds like), Armamenter (Winter, she can summon weapons to fight with), Xenoglossy (Giselle, it's complicated but it somehow is a combination of being able to speak multiple languages and manipulate light to form shields and blades) and ED Hacker (Ning Ning, she can alter the digital space). When they arrive in Kwangya, the Black Mamba traps them and tries to turn Karina against her friends, but she is able to break out of her prison and her friends also get free to prepare for a final confrontation with the Mamba, which happens in the music video for Girls (sort of, they change this in the movie version).

More more aespa Girls, illusion, My world, spicy, drama… all of it!

SM is a trendsetter in the Korean music industry. They are the originators of changing the beat in their music. Then it was imitated by other companies, such as JYP (NMIXX's agency). You have to watch the aespa short movie, it's very interesting like a Marvel movie. If you still don't understand, you have to watch the theory in the AESPA Lore guide on RU-vid. I really love your reaction. Even though it's not too exciting, the point is that you are trying to analyze and understand the MV story. In fact you are almost close to the answer. You are such a genius.

You saying "What is this high note?!" at 39:11 is so good, haha. That's just aespa in a nutshell for you, especially Winter belting at pretty much any chance she gets.

The way they change the melody parts of the song super smoothly is SM's tradition in the kpop music industry that the producers all recognize. If you listen closely to the music you will realize how well and smoothly they perform it. Hope you like it

Drama is their best title track, I hope you can react to it soon and that your head turns like me

Since it is quite difficult to follow the story at the beginning, I recommend the SM Culture Videos aespa 에스파 'ep.1 Black Mamba' - SM Culture Universe aespa 에스파 ‘ep.2 Next Level’ - SM Culture Universe aespa 에스파 'ep.3 Girls (Don't you know I'm a Savage?)' - SM Culture Universe But in my opinion this background story has ended since Welcome to my World.

You can know their caracter in song alled "aenergy", Karina is rocket puncher, Winter is an armamenter Giselle got xenoglossy, and Ningning is E.D hacker.

If aespa is the first SM group that you've reacted so it pls be prepared to more confusion when you deep dive to SM ent artist LOL

fun fact: dreams come true is a cover of a song with the same name released by sm entertainment's first girl group called s.e.s. i’ll leave the link to the original dreams come true mv here, it was released in 1998 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8uiR4SrDGZk.htmlsi=uoctXadS9wQnGtJ-

Forever and Dreams Come True were covers/remakes of songs by previous SM Artists, hence having no story correlations. Dreams Come True in particular is a remake with aespa's unique flare put into it. The weird alien rap was part of the original song and I honestly can't give you much context for the original song by SES or this remake by aespa 😂 More noteable side-project songs: •Hold on Tight (Tetris Movie theme) •Zoom Zoom (Beyblade X theme, their first japanese song) •We Go (Pokemon theme, theres an english ver. too) •Regret of Times (originally by Seo Taiji & Boys, a remake/cover) •Beautiful Christmas (in collaboration with their senior SM girl group, Red Velvet) They also have their own solo music from concerts, OSTs, and collaborative songs with other fellow SM artists under the SM Town/SM Palace projects.

Just a clarification: Winter is also a Main Vocalist now, her position was changed during their Spicy era last year. Credits to Weverse.

They're singing SAVAGE LIVE at Coachella, check that

Every AESPA MV has a related story, like watching drama from one MV to another MV is a connected story you should watch sm culture universe aespa eps 1 then watch black mamba mv then watch sm culture universe aespa eps 2 then watch next level, and so on then you will understand the storyline, you will also understand what kwangya, naevis, and so on but it's okay, if it's not watched like that Try watching SM Culture Universe AESPA later, then you will understand the concept and storyline of AESPA

32:38 They have powers, weapons and skills. Karina has her Rocket Puncher, Giselle uses Xenoglossy (the ability to freeze things in time), Winter uses weapons especially a sword and NingNing is an ED Hacker (she can basically hack anything). They can all fight btw and they each have their æ version (avatar versions); æ-Karina, æ-Giselle, æ-Winter and æ-NingNing. They're a very interesting group. Check out their other songs and releases.

This is the first time I am watching your reaction and I really enjoyed it. Please react to the SM Culture Universe part 1 & 2 to understand their lore and some of the terminology in their lyrics. Make sure you watch Girls mv before SMCU episode 3 to avoid spoilers. All aespa members are extremely talented in all departments, you must listen to them sing live, they are amazing. I have just subscribed and I am looking forward to more aespa reactions.

So glad you reacted to Aespa. IVE and AESPA are dominanting kpop rn

100% sure u'll love Welcome To My World

Kwangya is a World where everything is changing every time so my theory is that's why Next level is like a 3 song put together.

just today winter said she will go to doing the group schedule starting from tomorrow!!

38:58 that's KWANGYA language, KWANGYA is SM's universe

Hi Fydra! I hope you're doing well. How cool to see you reacting to aespa. You are collecting great girl groups on your channel 😊

Welcome to SM ent the biggest kpop agency, all of they group was legend.. You must listen 👍🏻

I know we have to believe in the process, but I can't wait for him to watch the music video for DRAMA

Winter has been promoted to Main Vocalist last year, it was on their Weverse profiles

next you should react to these in order: Life’s to short, Illusion, girls, welcome to my world salty and sweet, i’m unhappy, thirsty, spicy, better things, and finally last comeback drama. there is a new comeback on the way so keep a look out!

Make sure to react to the rest of MVs and also prepare for their comeback Armageddon!!! It's a full album and they will have double title track, Supernova and Armageddon!!! I really enjoyed your reaction, keep reacting to aespa ❤

One of my favorite reacter. I hope you love aespa and aespa’s music.

A recommendation, before reacting to more music videos, you should also react to their series, there it explains the entire history that they have. Like react the ep.1 of aespa called "Black Mamba", then you see the music video "Illusion (this is optional)" and "Life's too short", then the ep.2 "Next Level" and at the end the other music video "Girls". Note: After "Girls" if you like you can react to aespa x Red Velvet 'Beautiful Christmas' If you want to continue listening to more, continue with the ep.3 "Girls (Don't you know I'm a savage)", then the music video "Welcome To MY World", then the three Track Videos "I'm Unhappy", "Salty & Sweet" , "Thirsty", And at the end the music video "Spicy" And his last two songs "Better Things" and "Drama" Note: aespa 1st full album is coming 😊

Black Mamba is described as a "threatening existent to the world and a hindrance to the connection of aespa & 'ae', their avatars." She threatens the connection between aespa's real-world members and their “ae” avatars, making it harder for them to communicate with each other;

the "weapons" connect to their powers/roles, in savage we see winter shooting with a gun and karina punching a bullet, in the song "aenergy" the lyrics say: "karina rocket puncher, winter armamenter, giselle got xenoglossy, ningning ed hacker"

The way he rolled his eyes got me lol 28:55 😭

you also need to watch aespa episode 1, 2 and 3 in kpop they have a very detailed lore

I remember watching Savage when it came out and i felt like a whole different person when it ended

There was a debate that Aespa had started this whole switch up in between songs in kpop and after Nmixx had debuted..a lot..I mean A LOT hated Nmixx for copying the concept of Aespa's next level song switch off part 😭😭

cant wait for the next aespa part!! 🖤🖤

Dream come true is a remake song which is released in 1997 by Nylon beat. Then, SM entertainment bought it and their first girlgroup named SES performed this song in 1999. Next, many girlgroups gen2 and gen3 in kpop also coverd it. Finally, aespa also remake this song.

The core story (I call it the Black Mamba saga) consists of 4 (or 5) songs along with 3 mini drama to tie everything in. In order: Black Mamba, SMCU Episode 1, Next Level, SMCU Episode 2, Savage, and Girls, Episode 3. Welcome to My World is more so an epilogue of the story. Sypnosis: Digital beings born from the data of people's social media/internet data emerged in the world, called æ's. The humans and their æ counterparts basically kinda became friends. They originate from a world called FLAT. Beyond the FLAT is a place of chaos and wilderness named KWANGYA. One day the æ disconnected from reality (known as SYNK OUT) and went missing. So aespa's job was to enter KWANGYA to find the source of the problem, the Black Mamba. NAEVIS is a being from the FLAT who guides aespa through KWANGYA. Also SM is well known in the industry as a company full of unique and skilled vocalists, they definitely look for vocal quality when recruiting, and their idols get pretty good vocal training. Though the company itself is full of its own issues

we need more aespa reaction

SM is the company that started with beat changes. At first they were heavily criticized, especially aespa and nct, but later other companies started to use them in their groups too, like jyp with nmixx. You should definitely listen to drama, ilusion, girls and welcome to my world (listen to I'll make you cry and unhappy too, they're bsides but are really good)

The Hallmark of a SM group is the fact that everyone is a good vocalist and they focus on harmonies like look at red velvet

Next SM Culture Universe " AESPA " 1. aespa 에스파 'ep.1 Black Mamba' - SM Culture Universe ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vbH4Lk5wYWg.htmlsi=QlLnKLiyDL85V0PR 2. aespa 에스파 'ep.2 Next Level' - SM Culture Universe ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-i8fRCkq5tbw.htmlsi=W0OkBLhKlXFKi4Bl 3. aespa 에스파 'ep.2 Girls (Don't you know I'm a Savage?)' - SM Culture Universe ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iq-ivLY_9A8.htmlsi=U47sZsGh8VRgbthL

SM songs style always like this, there's bridge on their songs. So don't be so confused cause it's common enough for SM 😂

Aespa is one of my favorites, I love his music, his aesthetics and his lore 😎👌🏻 my bias is Winter 🔥💙

reaction aespa MV and bside songs pleaseee!!!!! 1. Black Mamba (debut) 2. ⁠Forever (single) 3. ⁠Next Level (single) 4. ⁠Savage (the 1st mini album) -aenergy -I’ll Make You Cry -YEPPI YEPPI -ICONIC -Lucid Dream 5. Dreams Come True (remake) 6. ⁠Life’s Too Short (single) 7. ⁠ZOO (taeyong, jeno, hendery, yangyang, giselle) NCT x aespa 8. ⁠⁠Girls (the 2nd mini album) -Illusion -Lingo -ICU 9. Beautiful Christmas (aespa x Red Velvet) 10. ⁠Spicy (the 3rd mini album) -Welcome To MY World (feat. naevis) -I’m Unhappy -Salty and Sweet -Thirsty -‘Till We Meet Again 11. Better Things (single english) 12. ⁠Jingle Bell Rock (remake) 13. ⁠ZOOM ZOOM (single) 14. ⁠Drama (the 4th mini album) -Trick or Trick -Don’t Blink -Hot Air Balloon -YOLO -You 15. NOBODY (Soyeon of (G)I-DLE x Winter of aespa x Liz of IVE) 16. ⁠Regret of The Times (remake) 17. ⁠Over You - Jacob Collier (feat. aespa & Chris Martin) 18. ⁠Die Trying (aespa x TOKiMONSTA) 19. ⁠Supernova (the 1st full album) May 13th, 2024 -Armageddon (the 1st full album) May 27th, 2024 -Set The Tone -Mine -Licorice -BAHAMA -Long Chat -Prologue -Live My Life -Melody 20. Hot Mess (debut japan) July 12th, 2024 OST 1. Hold On Tight (tetris - apple original film) 2. ⁠We Go (pokemon) 3. ⁠Get Goin’ (apple tv+ original series soundtrack) Fraggle Rock: Back to The Rock - Season 2 OST Member 1. Once Again (Ningning, Winter) “Our Blues” 2022 2. ⁠Sad Waltz (Karina) “Song of The Bandits” 2023 3. ⁠With You (Winter) “Once Again” 2023 4. ⁠Count On Me (Ningning) “The Midnight Studio, Pt.1” 2024

SM always step up their games with beat changes, they did that since their 2nd circa early 2000s. And yes, it always clean. Many trynna do the beat changes but not as detail as what SM do 24:34

we NEED more aespa's reactions!! 💙

Yessss Aespa! So glad you are reacting to them. They are some of the best vocalists in all of kpop. I'm not super well versed in their storyline, but their songs are all so good on their own as well. The girls are so talented and their concept is very unique. I can't wait to see your future reactions.

39:35 dream comes true is remake of s.e.s song dream comes true which is 1998

Thanks for reacting to Aespa they def have the best concept in kpop together with the GOAT Red Velvet. So please react to Red Velvet songs.

every aespa member has strength, try listening to the aespa song - aenergy there they mention their respective strengths and Black Mamba is their villain If you want to see the stage performance, just try searching on RU-vid, there will definitely be fans who have uploaded it, because they have already performed the song at a concert.

Thank you for reacting to Aespa! You should definitely check out more of them! If you decide to react to one of their title tracks spicy you should also react to welcome to my world. Since it is an pre release for the title track and it contains some Lore!

you need to watch SMCU universe there is 3 episodes so far, this will catch you upto speed with aespa lore, fo rwhen and if you watch the future videos. Forever and dreams comes true are not part of the lore, they are remakes or older SM artist songs. AEspa is also having comeback 27th May, with a pre-release single on 13th May.

it was released a teaser for each member showcasing their main talent (Karina - dance, Giselle - rap, Winter (they kept her talent a secret), Ningning - vocals) and you should really check them out. It’s the best Giselle’s rap till this day and she wrote it entirely herself in 3 different languages (korean, english, japanese)

Thank you so much for reacting to aespa and for taking time to get to know the lore~ :) Also for trying to understand what's happening

Man your reactions are soo funny😂 I love aespa but when I watched with you I realised that they’re discography is so chaotic😂 Hope you react to Girls, Illusion, Better things and Spicy

we need pt.2!!

OMG FOREVER SUCH A BEAUTIFUL SONG.so Beautiful 🥺❤️

i'll stay tune to get more aespa 🙌

their tittle track have their own smcu. 1. smcu black mamba, 2. smcu next level and 3. smcu savage you can react to all of them to know their storylinen🤩

winter is also the main vocalist

You absolutely need to check out Aespa SMCU Ep 1,2,3. It explains their lore pretty well

Aespa is an excelent kpop group, please keep reacting to it. I also recommend you to react to Red Velvet and Girls generation, they´re under Sm enterteinment as well and are 2 of the biggest and important groups of the industry; and of course, their vocals are just insaaane, just like Aespa or even better. Sm ent. has the best vocalists of the industry alongside with Exo, Nct, SHINee, Super Junior, etc. And yes, as you said about Nmixx and the beat change, they related it to Aespa cause the beat change is something Sm Ent. has been doing for over 20 years, its like its representative feature, so they wanted Aespa to represent it as well, as you saw with next level, which was the start of it. Next level was a bop in Korea and out of it, it was very famous, even so that, Korea banned it because the students were in national tests and could get distrated of their responsabilities, and after that JYP launched Nmixx with that concept, the first group under the company who was focused more on vocals and a solid concept, which was beat changes; same as Aespa´s concept, it started a war because after Aespa´s next level huge success, JYP wanted to do the same, but apart from that, both groups are amazing and their talent is incredible, also their discographies are top tier, so yeah.

at some point, while watching your reaction, I wanted to erase my memory and be just as surprised and feel these emotions while watching aespa clips for the first time!

There is a song called nobody, it is a collaboration between gidle Ive and aespa

The last song dream comes true is a remake song from their senior group in SM. and it releases on SM Station (Mostly like a project outside their main music)

if u wanna learn to an aespa's lore they have a big big storyline if u wanna get whats all about u should check out this first its about 2 ep guess check this outand then u get whats all about an also KWANGYA is like a new world that SM ent like created for their artist and navies is that one who saved aespa in the other world u should actually check their storyline and u absolutely got what's all anout its really cool

Best thing to understand the lore is simply to watch the SMCU episodes

Their MVs are usually dance focused but they put only hints in the MV and lyrics You'll understand the lyrics once you watched the SMCU series SMCU is a series to explain their lore they have their own dictionary for aespa lore words the "Rap Part" in Dreams Come True we call it "Kwangyanese" Official language their lore is pretty direct if you watched it seriously

I LOVE AESPA FOREVER ❤❤❤❤❤

for the story you must watch in youtube : 1) Aespa "Ep. 1 Black Mamba - SM Culture Universe" 2) Aespa "Ep. 2 Next Level - SM Culture Universe" 3) Aespa "Ep. 3 Girls (Don't you know i'm a savage?) - SM Culture Universe

OH MY!!! I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!! THANKYOU FOR REACTING!!!

If you follow the chronology of the videos, the next ones are: Illusion, Life's Too Short and Girls! After: track videos Unhappy, Thirsty and Salty and Sweet, then official videos My WORLD and Spice. *Hold on Tight and Better Things. When you enter the Drama era, watch the girls' individual "I'M THE DRAMA" and then watch the official DRAMA MV!

if you want to understand the early Aespa stuff you have to watch SM cultural universe epp 1, 2 and 3. They connect directly with Black mamba, next level, savage - and girls is like the finale.

Aespa SMCU ep1, ep2, ep3 will explain you all about aespa world, for example FLAT, Kwangya, æ, and others:)❤

Aespa aespa aespa aespa❤❤❤❤

i think you will really like "girls", "spicy" and "drama". all of these are my fave. aespa's music type is either you love it or hate it, there's no between.

Next Level and Dreams Come True is remake song! I recommend you listen to the next level's original ver

I hope you listen to the B-sides, and keep watching their music videos in order, that's all. Also, there are aespa SMCU episodes that explain the lore and background, they are part of the whole storyline if you watch them in order, they are in episode format. And Forever is just a special Christmas video, it's not part of the lore, just a one off. Same with Dreams Come True, that's a remake of a song by S.E.S which is a 1st gen Kpop group, may want to check out the original song too. Only Black Mamba and Next Level and Savage were lore videos here. Please continue with the rest in order though.

I will wait for your next reaction

It would be great if you checked out their smcu episodes, it explains their lore and it follows the storyline with mv order so it's easier to understand. On that note, I was amazed how quick and well you picked up on the points of their story!! SM groups are definitely my favourite just because they're all vocally strong and each group has such a unique and creative sound.... Another SM group known for their lore is EXO. Their storyline in the mvs is a little bit more subtle, but their debut - MAMA has an interesting narration in the beginning explaining their concept. I loved your reaction and hope to see you react more to SM groups! Thanks :)

aespa also have series video SMCU 1,2,3 to explain their lore. Also don’t forget to watch girls MV that connect to their lore. Btw thank you for reacting to them.

I love *aespa.* Their storyline/lore is intriguing. I love their tracks/songs. Their discography is diverse. Their concept is futuristic. They can nail any concept. Their B-SIDES are amazing. They can nail any genre. I love their singing, rapping and dancing. Their vocals are impressive. Their rapping is dope. Their dancing is awesome. Their visuals are great. Their MVs are phenomenal.

Next Up:Illusion,Girls,Drama,Savage,Thirsty,Salty & Sweet

you also gotta check out thirsty, salty and sweet, I'm unhappy, better things, illusion, hold on tight, we go

Wanna hear a switch up? The original experimental song with switch ups is I Got A Boy by Girls Generation. It basically changed KPop to what it is today, so definitely check it out.

Aespa is Number One Gen4🎉🎉😂❤

I think one of the other comments mentioned the 3 mini-movies that explain their lore. If you search on SMCU episode 1 or 2 or 3 you should be able to watch each one. Would love to see your reactions to those

Please, continue watching Illusion, Girls, Spicy, Better Things and Drama Thank you for you sincere reaction!!!

forever is just a cover of their vocal coach's song! so you are right to say it sounds like an old song

love ur reaction💓

Cant wait for you to react to the rest of their mvs + SMCU episodes😊

Spicy, Drama next. Also their next album is coming out soon!!!!!

SM is famous for the best vocals and also concepts. Each group is super talented, I recommend checking out more not only GG but also bb. My favorites are SHINee and SNSD

If you enjoy watching artists/groups who are really good in singing even in live performances then SM Ent. got it all for you. They are well known to be the company the produces talented, good looking and top tier vocalists in Kpop World. As what other says, YG & JYP entertainment produces good rappers and good dancers, then SM also is known to be the only company that produces "vocalist artists" Their founder also, Lee Soo Man, was one of the reasons why Kpop genre started in South Korea. He wanted to produce talented artists like those singers in western during his stay in Hollywood. SM Ent. likes to experiments and love making lore, stories and transitions in their songs. They are also, if i'm not mistaken, the one who started making lots of transition in their songs, transition meaning by switching lots of melodies in their songs. Many have tried to copy their transitions but they can't copy how clean SM entertainment produces.