The lyrics of jisung also said "the seagull that has always been smiling" dreamies actually refer to mark as a seagull because his eyebrows are shaped like seagulls! Hahaha but you're right, they wrote their own parts.
+ and the CL's line that a star will comfort you(mrk) and it's me(cl) really hit me bcs chenle is nicknamed shining little star and his name is related to star so it feels so personal.
This was Mark’s graduation so all the songs feels that much more special, beautiful time and dear dream had me in tears for weeks. The emotional trauma we went through 😭
for the song "dear dream", the rapper line wrote their own parts and they dedicated it to mark and dream. that's the reason why each lines hit close to home. also, on mark's rap part at the end, he mentioned something about putting a "bookmark" on his chapter with dream. this word holds so much impact to them because they made a song about it in the hot sauce album, which is rainbow (eng title) / bookmark (korean title). i also wanna add the line where he said he'll call back whenever he feels lost and that he hope they don't forget his tone... dream has their own team chant, "yo dream, jjeorro juja fighting!" which translates to "yo dream, let's be dope! fighting!". since mark's their leader, he's the one who leads their chant. true to their words again, when dream started to promote as 6 during boom and reload era, they would often call mark on the phone just so he could lead their chant :(((
when she starts wrapping herself with her blanket.. y'know she's gonna freak out any time soon HAHSHAHA that blanket is like her life support 😭🤣 ily caitlin! 💚
I remember that it finally hit me that Mark is leaving the dreamies when he cried during their last performance together. To this day, nothing in ncity has made me cry as much as i did when i watched all of them cry during their speeches. Emotional damage frfr
I couldn’t even listen to Dear Dream after Mark left. I played Dear Dream once on its release, cried for a few days, and never listened to it again. And I think Mark’s graduation and Dream’s graduation system in general was one of the most painful experiences in NCity history. I’ll always be thankful that more than half of the fandom joined recently because no fan should ever experience the pain we experienced.
PS Forgot to mention: Mark has writing credits on 4 of the 5 songs on this album, yes, including Drippin Actually all our rappers are credited on Dear Dream (not even going to go into how this song wrecked me considering Mark was graduating etc) Mark, Jeno, Jaemin and Jisung wrote some beautiful stuff there and it really hits the heart. I love how they have continued to do that with songs like Rainbow. Their words are so beautiful
to add more sadness, i'll share a not so fun fact as you noticed, this song was about mark (and us but mostly mark). there was this word that jisung mentioned from his part "seagull", mark has this nickname "seagull brows" because of how arched his eyebrows are, resembling the wings of the seagull. so when i saw jisung's part, my heart dropped lol
I think the main reason they didn't recommend you to react this album is that Dreamies and NCTzens were hurt in this era. I also don't listen to Dear Dream much even though I like it alot. Whenever I hear that sound, tears come out TT.. actually there's no bad song in NCT Dream's B-side tracks. By the way, I want you to check out 1,2,3 performance it's really cute and bright
Haechan, Mark and Renjun did the background vocals for 1, 2, 3 haha maybe that's why you can mainly hear Haechan the whole song. The first time I listened to it I thought Haechan was the only one doing the background vocals, his voice it's so powerful! but yeah, anyway, hahs you will always find Haechan doing the bg vocals for most nct songs.
I can't remember if it was for Drippin' or 119, but in an uncut/ recording dairy, Heachan said that at the time it felt weird that Dream was doing a song that had a more 127 feel. Also, there is a dance practice for 1,2,3 and it's really cute. The last thing, have you checked out the Halloween 2018 ver. of the We Go Up dance practice and the Halloween 2018 Regular dance practice?
i think the reason why this album wasn't frequently mentioned is bcs of the fact that it reminds us of the graduation system. this album is really great, and tbh this album brought a lot of achievements too. but looking back and listening to the songs here reminded us of emotional trauma we (and 7dream) had gained. i heard somewhere that the supposed title track of Dear Dream was Dear Diary, but they changed it to Dream.
when caitlin was about to listen to dear dream i was like "you're so gonna cry girll" but im the one who is a crying mess..the amount of times i've cried to dear dream😭😭😭
My personal opinion is that Dream albums just get better and better. Also they have steadily grown in their fandom. So that’s probably why you hear about We Boom and Reload more. Reload is my favorite mini-album (although title track-wise I tend to listen to Boom more). Why does listening to Dear Dream still make me cry. 😭
I cried again watching you listening to dear dream omg and you’re right the song is for mark and mark wrote it for the members and the members wrote it to mark 😭😭
I have tears in my eyes watching you hearing Dear Dream for the first time. This song still feels like a letter they wrote for each other, and having Mark, Jaemin and Jisung credited in it makes it all the more special, we can feel it’s real. These boys love each other a lot and SM shouldn’t have made them suffer this much by splitting them up. Well, they’re finally back together now, how it was all meant to be, so 😆 aside from that, I just really want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the love your pour into your reactions and all the love it’s clear you feel for the boys. Thank you for creating this safe space for us to just love music, appreciate the artist, their hard work and their overall journey. I’m so happy I stumbled into your channel all those months ago, when you first reacted to NCT, it definitely opened a door for me, to a place I know I’ll always feel happy and safe. I’m not much of a talker, never talk much about feelings, but I truly do appreciate your life and everything you share with us. You put yourself out there everyday, and I hope nothing but good things come your way. Thank you for giving me, us, a place to come back to when life gets hard and reality sucks a bit. I know exactly where to take refugee in, I know where I should go to smile or to have a healing crying: to Caitlin’s little corner ✨ don’t ever let your light fade, because that is exactly what everyone is so jealous of! Fighting, Caity, and thank you again 💚✨ love you ✨💚
Awe Emily thank you so much! 🥺💚 I just want to say thank you for always being so positive and encouraging in the comment sections. I always see your comments and they bring a smile to my face! Thank you for allowing me to be myself and going on this journey with me! 💕
한국어 자막이 안달려서 모르시는 한국시즈니들이 많은데 진짜 엔시티 드림 리액션 영상은 이분이 최고인것같아요 진짜 👍🏻👍🏻 그냥 뮤비나 멜로디만 듣고 리액션하는 경우가 대부분인데, 뮤비, 멜로디,가사,목소리 하나하나 세심하게 리액션해주셔서 시즈니로서 너무 감사해요💚(드림 노래들은 가사가 정말 예쁘거든요ㅎㅎ❤️) 엔시티 체제를 이해하고 많은 멤버들과 유닛들과 노래들을 알아가고 다른나라의 언어와 정서를 이해한다는게 절대 쉬운게 아닌데…역시 전세계 시즈니는 모두 대단하네요ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ👏🏻👏🏻 멤버들 목소리까지 구별하고 믐뭠봄까지 있으신거보니 찐시즈니같으신데…반응이 저랑 너무 똑같아서 영상보는내내 너무 웃기고 공감돼요..ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ🤣🤣 앞으로 올라올 엔시티 영상도 기대할게요! Thanks for your reaction video😘
ALSO bc i love crying . if you look back at jisung's rap part in dear dream, he mentions a seagull-the seagull is mark. mark's nickname was seagull for some time hehe. also this is MY interpretation but the way this song is structured it was mark starting and ending the song, jeno is right after mark (he unofficially took over as leader), then jaemin (the regret of missed night and day bc he was on hiatus, maybe) and youngest jisung....his verse is so obviously for mark :((( . also tehet the most heartbreaking part whew there is a recording diary for this and mark was there throughout rapline's recording and they kept asking for his input AND THEN he was the last one to record his verse after everyone else....yes tears i love tears
teehee beautiful time is similar to walk you home they dedicated it to fans during their 2nd set of dream concerts in 2019 (what was supposed to be renjun, jeno, haechan, and jaemin's graduation shows) as the ending-ish song :))) it's very cute there's a concert video for this song with fanchants that the members did by themselves
For me personally, I found it difficult too to know their voice back then because the studio version sound the same as they performed 1,2,3 in 2018, but when they perform it on the dream show concert it feels kinda different cuz their voice got deeper and more mature and BETTER
mark has writing credits on 4/5 songs on this album (yup dripping included). he often writes his own parts (and sometimes its very noticeable, or at least to me, bc his verse often gets more flowery and poetic in wording than you'd expect LOL, like how the whole song is very repetitive in wording with dripping and overflowing and his verse says "my feelings capture everything" "in your heart, rain shower" "love ain't never shallow" ). the boy loves his metaphors. once nct 127 filled out a questionnaire of "which fruit reminds you of which member" and most members were just like "mark likes watermelon so hes watermelon" but he wrote actual reasons and comparisons between them and fruits LOL (taeyong, dragonfruit, gorgeous inside and out. doyoung, grapes, just like how grapes come in large bunches, it feels like doyoung always has many thoughts in his head)
three connected-ish songs are dear dream, puzzle piece, and rainbow tbh. recently they revealed that puzzle piece is about mark :))) oh candlelight too! but it's a station. it's mark's official grad song, maybe. they mv is shot to look like it tbh
yes! dear dream is kind of like . a letter to 7dream from 7dream, hence the title! consider it as part 1 of rainbow (if im not mistaken, rap line and jisung wrote their rap parts for this song too like in rainbow). so there are a lot of references to this song in rainbow if you look back and compare lyrics :))
I'm gonna sound like a broken record but I always look forward to your reactions. 1,2,3 has a super cute dance practice video. Maybe someday you can do a reaction to all the Dream dance practices/covers you haven't seen yet?
Girl, when you said you were going to TRY and finish their discography before their comeback, in your live, I didn't think you meant that we were going to get a video the very next day! 😱 Thank you so much 💚
fun fact: 1,2,3 was my first ever NCT song. A live performance was recommended to me and just the moment I saw cute little green haired Chenle I fell down the NCT rabbit hole 😂😂 think this is way I love WGU era so much and have a soft spot for both the album & title track ♡♡
the rappers all have writing credits on dear dream, which makes it all the more touching. in the live before the album launch where they talked about this song, jeno even explicitly says he wrote what he wanted to say to mark T_T this whole song is so sweet and its also SO abundantly clear which that jeno jaemin and jisung wrote their own verses. jisungs line, "I'm worried about the seagull that's always been smiling for us" - also made me tear up bc of how sweet and also abundantly clear that its written by jisung, in case you didn't know mark has the nickname "seagull" from the dreamies bc of his eyebrows.. never thought that nickname would make me emotional. jaemin also has a really sweet verse about mark, and if you dive into more of their videos (one of them talked about memories of their trainee days?) jaemin talks about how mark motivated him. jaemin actually didn't have much interest in being an idol when he was younger, and according to himself, slacked off a lot in training. i dont remember the details, but at some point he did find his motivation, and mark was his hyung that he looked up to so much. he says that mark would train every second of the day, when he wasn't dancing, hed be rapping or singing, and it made him motivated to practice just as hard. there's also an old photo of trainee jaemin's "goals", like a todo list or schedule, and one of them was "follow mark hyung. mark points out what i need to fix" 🥺 also idk if he wrote it, but renjuns "your appearance its my strength, ill be your home" hits cause he says something so similar to this in 7llin in dream at the campfire. especially since renjun is actually second-oldest in dream, i feel like he really relied on mark. all of haechans lines about "a long time ago, every night a compass in my dream", he (and mark) joke a lot about how they've been together for so much of their lives and as if they keep following each other.
I’m not sure if anyone has already mentioned it but I thought Dear Dream ended with Mark saying “Hope we always feel like” and felt like it was a cliffhanger to signify that their future is looking like a cliffhanger at that point. But after a few more listens (yes, I was bawling the whole time), I then realised that the other Dreamies ended the song in the background saying “I’ll be your home” So actually the whole complete sentence was “Hope we always feel like….home” Please I cried more after that 😭
Immediately watching this as soon as I saw 'NCT Dream', thank you Caitlin for uploading more of NCT Dream contents, i was looking forward to it every time!
Caity, you are working tooooo hard. Didn't you just go live for 5 hours yesterday? PLSSSS DRINK A LOT OF WATER. Also, they did a collab with HRVY (British Singer) through SM Station titled Don't Need Your Love and it's like one of my fave Dream songs 🥺 It's not on any of the albums but it's so good.
somehow i get why ppl don't recommend this album as much as the other eventho the song are GOOD. this album is so heartbreaking and tear-jerking for nctzens (esp dreamzens), we kinda not want to remember this painful era :") fr i think SM should be groveling for all the pains they caused us and the dreamies went thru.
The way I was having so much fun at the start and then I was like *gasp* the Dear Dream track is on this album and then i preemptively teared up lol T T thank u for reacting! This is one of my favorites of Dream
i definitely feel you on jaemin jeno and jisung change. jaemin and jeno especially, sounded a little similar when they were younger, plus often had the similar lead-rapper positions and shared verses. all 3 of them really grew into their current voices
Hey caitlin! I always love watching your reactions! There’s actually a recording diary and you don’t have to react to it, but if you watch their Recording diary #5, you’ll see Mark’s reaction to his final recording for dear dream and omg it made me cry :’). I know you’ll love watching it!
The memories I have omfg. I cannot describe the emotions. It was the first dream comeback that I was fully aware of and officially in the fandom. It was a time in my life that felt so God damn easy and light, but also changing all the time. The album perfectly portraits the time of growing up and going through puberty lmao. I'm Jisung's age, so it felt even more personal for some reason. Also, Mark leaving wasn't as emotional to me as it must've been for other, since I had manipulated my brain to think he wouldn't disband and somehow find a way back - and guess what, my intuition was right.
(I got help from a translator.) I really love your videos. 😍😍 love you♡♡ As a Korean who understands English a little bit, I often see mistakes in translation(as you know!) or even mistakes from Korean lyrics, I'm sorry that the meaning has changed *so much.* ㅜㅜ (1,2,3 and *Dear Dream* ㅜㅜ) Sometimes I imagine making videos by myself, but to do that, I'm not that good at English. That's sad haha😢 (I always respect and thank the people who make the lyric videos!!) Anyway, I love your video!! I'm happy that you like NCT like me!
I'm a brand new fan of NCTDream when I starts to know them from DejaVu, right at the moment when Dreamies reunites back with Mark, and I heard all these big deals Dreamies have faced last 2 years... and now I understand the whole situation it just strenghten my love with these boys. They've been through so much.
43:32 I think it's better to understand like "Do you remember what I said?" 43:42 and this part is misinterpreted idk how to speak English well but the real meaning is like "Looking back on you being young, You looked so big back then, That gives me strength"
Caitlin you're lowkey lucky that you weren't a fan at this time. It was a wreckage for us Czennies that were there seeing Mark graduate & seeing all the other baby Neos emotional because nobody knew what was next for them since the 2000s line were graduating next. Overwhelming emotions for that time but I'm soo happy their a fixed unit now.
And yeah sm wanted people not to get attached initially and just bop to the cute songs because it had failed once with super junior, since they were temporary but fixed by public demand. So they tried to fix the problems that super junior 05 system had and created dream. I feel like their problem with running dream as intended was that they kept delaying mark's graduation because they couldn't pump out as talented "young" trainees at the rate that they were graduating, and five core members would've graduated in a short span of two years if it was done in the intended timeframe. The delay caused more time in the public eye and at that point people started getting attached...so they decided that it was no use making graduations painless and started giving us maximum pain instead!!
dear dream, beautiful time are two of my MOST FAV kpop songs ever and dear dream is so so special and emotional, beautiful time is just so PEACEFUL. nct dream 😞💘
when mark left it was awful. seeing them cry so much during dream show and thinking we'd never get 7Dream again. I'm so glad sm saw sense and finally listened to us, 7Dream literally grew up together and they have something special. Dear Dream was heartbreaking back and still hits now even tho they're back together :((
I really love watching album listens because it's like watching with a friend. Because I know the songs, I'm excited to share the joy. I cried with laughter at your Drippin' reaction as that was basically everyone's reaction, including the members when recording it 😂 And I don't listen to Dear Dream much because I cry. every. damn. time. Same with Rainbow. If you're looking for growth, ot6 post-Mark graduation definitely has it. Gosh, NCT music is just so top tier. Glad you enjoyed this album, I enjoyed watching you experience it 😊💞
23:19 the "im with you" from Mark hits even harder when you consider that this was basically mark reminding them that he's always with them even though he would not be able to promote with them after graduation... im so glad the graduation concept has been abolished
this album is like yeahhh dancing (1,2,3) then oops i’m getting emotional(beautiful time) then NEVERMIND (drippin) then yeah i’m crying my eyeballs off (dear dream)
Dream's whole discography is a masterpiece TT. Even if people talk about a specific album, every single one of their songs is great TT. I cant wait for u to listen to the rest
until now really, I'm still emotional in dear dream especially in we go up. those two songs will forever have this bitter-sweet feeling. I still really remember how much I cried while listening to this album. this is still my favorite album of the dreamies
For the first time in five days I've watched something other that news and in the end I've seen what you've written under your video. Thank you for support, Caitlin
In 2018, I went on a long trip in Vancouver and it was the first time I had traveled alone. I was there to further study english. I had recently started to stan NCT Dream and this album had just come out, so it gave me a lot of comfort while I settled in. Such good songs for such good memories. (: It's still one of my favorite kpop albums.
