antidrops are like falling into the ocean and expecting to hear wave crashes but you get the drowned out sound instead. i love it. it's just very THAT

Riding on to your ocean analogy, it's like when a huge crashes against you and there's is only the sounds of being submerged

@Serious Analysist nobody asked tho?

YESS

The most cool example with explanation 🤘😊

I hope Blackpink gets another song with the anti-drop in it, Whistle is really one of their BEST songs because of how unique it is and how it still has the badass girl crush sound without being stereotypical or copying other styles. Teddy really is an amazing producer and that man is a musical genius.

End chorus of pretty savage

@𝓼𝓮𝓸𝓾𝓵𝓲𝓽𝓮 bi is not the only one who produced whistle lmao

@𝓼𝓮𝓸𝓾𝓵𝓲𝓽𝓮 ICOULDNT AGREE MORE Teddy needs to GO and leave blackpink alone.

Whistle was thanks to Kim Hanbin, B.I. of Ikon. NOT Teddy. Thanks music is there most generic and blandest with Teddy’s production. That’s why the quality fell off.

@Wilson Chavez LTHM anti drip made me gasp seriously its so goooood

GOT7 You Calling My Name is just so cool and elegant. When I first time heard it I really thought it would be a huge drop but an anti-drop really gave it that smoothness to the song.

@SMILEY Boi i personally liked that one too lol. The way it was said 👌

@Angeline Bena except for "yOu ArE a pArT oF mE"

THIS!!!

💚💚💚

It made the song really elegant and underrated! GOT7 truly deserve more recognition from that song alone 😢

SEVENTEEN's antidrops are godlike. Especially in 24h.

@Iness Ladia bruh what haha

@Iness Ladia I dont even think ive existed when the comment was written 💀

RIGHT the antidrop is home is just 👌👌👌👌👌 basically, i live for it 😮‍💨😮‍💨

@Iness Ladia LMAO NO NO NO. WHY IS IVE GETTING INTO THIS (?) SEVENTEEN PRODUCES HALF OF THEIR SONGS, STAY PRESSED

You Calling My Name is still one of the best Kpop songs ever created

For me best song ever created is I'm gonna be a star

tru bestie

A true masterpiece

It’s really not

@Derren the Pianist did i stutter.

never realized i was an anti-drop lover.... the songs you have presented have been my favorite song at one point

I KNOWWW

same for me

Same

i was wondering what the term was!!

SAME!

I’m highly appreciative of the editing. It’s very clean

Thanks, finally someone appreciated that.

That's what I was thinking !

The ''You Calling My Name'' IS JUST PURE ART, PUREST ART AT IT'S FORM

Yep, It is. No hard beat drop just melody, great singing and rap :)

chungha's stay tonight is definitely one of the best songs ever made

SEVENTEEN totally owns the concept of anti-drop. They never miss ❤

seventeen slays

Seventeen's discography is really no joke, like none of their songs are a miss, all hit

@Jaya Shre I understand your concern but they said it'd be great if they made music with such concepts(?) Like more on melody side.. I guess that's what they meant..

@sofia lou tbh...you are right

You're here!!! I love your editing style honestly

@Jossa Asuncion ikrrrr 2015-2018 were the best year of bts songs. I stop w boy with luv sorry. I rlly missed their concept like dna, fake love, mic drop, idol etc etc etc

@sofia lou that's true their music look like western music now not kpop music that we use to know and it make me sad

God just the mention of Energetic has me tearing up. Got into Kpop because of Wanna One and stayed because of Seventeen after Wanna One disbanded. I am thrilled that they're getting back together briefly for MAMA this year

I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO WAS A WANNABLE BUT STAYED AS A CARAT AND STILL A WANNABLE NO MATTER WHAT 😭

5:21 I know Wanna Be Myself was a commercial firm for athletic outfit brand BUT THAT SONG IS A MASTERPIECE. THE VOCAL AND THE RHYTHM IS SO GOOD. THE WAY THAT SOING WAS A CHOKEHOLD ON ME

AND THE FACT THAT IT WAS SIMPLY FOR AN AD IS???

@Username • 15 years ago ohhh I was wondering why they showed the glasses off but it makes sense now😂 I loved Gleam it is such a great song!

@Klara their two previous 2 commercial song Wanna Be Myself and Gleam are both my fav song 🎵

Whaaat I didn't know that😂😂 I have been listening to that song for a long time and it's so good!!

for real, all mamamoo's commercial songs could be official tracks and no one would bat an eye. they are this good.

Woozi is a masterpiece himself. He produced svt songs perfectly ❤️

I believe in Woozi producer-nim supremacy at anti-drops even the fakeouts with Home. :) I'm so proud of you!

"Move" by Taemin was the first one I ever heard, and it really hit me because I NEVER expected that chorus.

Drip Drop by Taemin also has that unexpected anti-drop in the chorus. I remember being stunned when i heard that chorus.

My favorite on this list it's so smooth

he is the best.

So true omg

EXACTLY

For me Oh my god by (G)I-DLE is a concrete example of antidrop, from 16th counts to 4 counts in beat, solid bass hit, and solid vocals, it is the finest antidrop.

as someone who studies music, 24h hit so hard omg

This... taught me something new Which is: I am very into antidrops executed well. At first when I heard the word "antridrop" I thought it would have been something more unpleasant, and less energetic, yet I quickly learned that it wasn't about the energy but more of a technical point (as you explained in the video: bass, drums and vocals), because to me most of the antidrops you showed did not match at all my first impression of "being less powerful", but instead flowed extremely well! This was really interesting, ty!

I'd like to add Drip Drop by Taemin as well. That was a year before Move and was very new and experimental at that time. It was the first time i've ever heard something like that.

(G)I-DLE Soyeon's "oh my God" then anti-drop is blessing to my ears. The way she pronounces it is just 👌

Yess

The reason i became a fan😇

Made me a fan

Ikr her “oh my god”s are the most powerful

I LOVE THIS ANALYSIS SO MUCH it's so interesting and entertaining at the same time. You seem to be a music enthusiast yourself (?), please make more videos like this. ❣

seventeen's music is so *CHEFS KISS* woozi just has this way of producing

My opinion: Some songs really can get boring because of the anti drop, I had a really hard time getting into 'stay tonight' when it was first released. But I think kpop is really good at working with anti drops, they don't make it sound so boring and it is actually quite energetic (and it doesnt sound so repetitive) even thought it's not drop like it is usually, or a person wants. (For me pop songs don't really know how to make the song not boring when using anti drop (except Charlie Puth who's songs are probably one of the only ones that actually stills sounds not boring or dry, repetitive with anti drop)

"is not only because wonwoo was moving like that in a crop top, there's a mathematical reason for it" 🤣🤣 I'm your fan

I believe there's a lot of anti-drops that are just so satisfying in some way, like, it just breaks our expectations in a good way cause it doesn't turns out being that high energy chorus that is so usual in kpop songs and turn even more authentic, so, I love some of this anti-drops when it works right.

Most kpop songs have anti drops now, so a chorus is more unexpected

Somewhat, since plenty of songs use both. Oftentimes, you can predict when one is being used over the other, but I definitely agree that they both have their merits.

Exactlyyy and that's why Woosung - Face and Seventeen - Home are in my top favs

Samee

Right!!! Got7 just hit different bro

you’re absolutely right on that last one… i was never interested in wanna one at that time but when their debut song came out i was looping that banger unintentionally because it was soooo goooooood😭😭 it was wayyyy ahead of its time and we need to see more

Seventeen never misses with anti drops, woozi never fails with any type of music he makes. Plus the choreography to those beats are always chefs kiss

Home's fakeout totally just changed the mood for me, like I was so confused because it felt so empty all of a sudden 😳 but it carried the message of the song across that way so 🤝🏻

every once in a while, I come back to this video series of kpop anti-drops to listen to these masterpieces I found my all time favorite song, face - woosung, from this video thank you so much

Sending much love to Superhuman as it’s one of my all-time favorite NCT 127 songs ever 💚💚💚 and so underrated too

I had never heard a single wanna one song until I went to a inkigayo super show and heard energetic LIVE. Safe to say I was floored and I couldn’t stop listening to it after the show. That one is going in the books for one of the best debut songs. And it’s the only wanna one song I’ve ever listened to lol

3:33 his voice is so nice omg

so proud of Hui and Wooseok from my ults pentagon that made energetic 😩 their talent is insane!!

this is Woozi's expertise. Seventeen has perfected the art of anti drops. I would give anything to hear Home again for the first time

Domino also added to the list

ive did it better

ME omfffffff i actually avoid listening to it as much as i can because i want it to always remind me of the first time i heard it. Same with my best friend who's barely into kpop, she got goosebumps when i played it in front of her i wasnt even telling her to listen to it i just knew it would capture her on its own thats how Powerful home is

YEAHH

Tbh pledis groups are gods when it comes to antidrops. Both nuest and seventeen have had amazing antidrops that Ive absolutely loveeees

you calling my name is a real masterpiece we should thankful to jaebeom for making this song 🫶🏻🫶🏻

"STAN dreamcatcher effective immediately" gave me a really big smile :)

ok this video was SO WELL PUT TOGETHER THOUGH!!!! the editing, the timings, it's just.... you're really good at this, I was never bored once throughout damn

When my friend first sent me Chungha's Stay Tonight mv, I didn't like it because I dismissed the anti-drop. But for some reason, I kept going back to it. By the end of the year, it was my most listened to song, and I'd grown an unhealthy obsession with Chungha 🙃 Hate-love anti-drops.

i’m a proud antidrop enthusiast

Ummm how can we express “DANGGG SAMEEEEE “ in a more enthusiastic way lol

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE YOUR PFP

same

I love love face by woosung it just highlights his vocals in a spectacular manner 🤌🏻

Seventeen’s Home and Iz*One’s sequence imo are the best out of all these such bangers

I love Energetic! the anti-drop is beautiful. And credit where credit is due, if i'm not mistaken, the song was written and produced by Hui from Pentagon! So if you liked this go check on pentagon

Hui did an outstanding job with Energetic.

I never realised this was a feature in a lot of kpop songs I like!! The one in You Calling My Name is just *chefs kiss* perfect. Also love Whistle being ahead of its time of course it was haha.

@Nora Ti oh, thanks! I will

@TheRg & CM Official if you like the song, you should go check out GOT7's discography more. They don't really fit into one genre and try out a lot of cool stuff :)

This!!! This explains why I love YCMN and Whistle so much

I swear, i feel like jinyoung is just lifting me at the end of a thread with that one🤭☺

How is it ahead of it’s time lmao almost everyone had done that once

I was like, “Wow Home really does show an impactful Anti-drop Fakeout” :) Then you wrote “…best anti-drop” and I was wracking my brain trying to figure out what would be and I screamed (AGAIN to one of your videos) when I saw “Energetic” OMFG

(G)I-dle's Oh My God is what made me aware of this trend i loved it so much that i started looking for more, not realizing that a lot of the songs in my pre-existing playlist were already anti-drops. i loved this trend before i even realized it was a trend hahahahhaha god

I accidentally clicked on this video, but I’m so glad i did 😭 This made me realise how much I actually love anti-drops, and i didn’t even know that there was an actual term for this lmao

I love anti-drop too!! The transition of a song into anti-drop make that song sounds special. I like Got7's 𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝘾𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙈𝙮 𝙉𝙖𝙢𝙚 the best in your example.

My friend and I talked about his before, and we found we both love the anti-drop songs the most in kpop. My all time favorite antidrops are HOSHI - Spider, WOOSUNG - FACE, and NCT U - Baby Don't Stop. (I don't know if the last one counts, but I think it does?)

Seventeen sounds amazing whether there's a drop or not😭❤️

damn, this video is so well done and so enjoyable to watch! I had no idea what "anti-drop" was, but this video, along with the editing and examples you gave was just perfect and that in addition to teaching me more about it also introduced me to several amazing songs💙

I’m an anti drop lover

Ngl the 'anti-drops' gives me more chillls and jaw-dropping moments than the other beats. That is why I love it. It also lasts a long time like you didn't get tired of it sometimes.

Agreed, it's just doesn't get old

"it lasts a long time" OMG SO TRUE BESTIEEEE

Prob bec its fresh and different

Frr

You calling my name SLAPS energetic SLAYS and move is just LEGENDERY

My favorite is when the anti drop has a funky beat. It really adds a whole different feel

I love how we all agree that energetic is THE BEST SONG EVER

MOVE will always remain my favorite in this category of songs. I still remember being blown away when that beat dropped.

“it’s like getting the wind knocked out of you” this has to be the best way to express how anti-drops feel

literally they described it so well!!

@oh lord heheh

@nao 🫶🏾 THATS CRAZY

!!!

@Levi Ackerman 2.3k now

what i also notice about some songs with anti-drops is when that happens its usually quiet but then they then resume the song with a post-chorus POP sound you'd hear in most typical beat drops like in STAY TONIGHT by CHUNG HA, WHY NOT by LOONA, LOVE DIVE by IVE even ATTENTION by Charlie Puth in the second chorus so overall anti-drops can make a song rlly good if used in the right way

taemin's move is one of my favorites.. i didn't know it was an anti-drop 😭

i love the anti drops i didn't knew the term used for this kind of drops but after watching this video i know it . my first fav anti drop is you calling my name and jopping energetic and superhuman

Your editing is so freaking good. You deserve 3x as many subs

i swear Woozi and Bumzu’s team are addicted to the anti-drop. It becomes one of their signatures since “Home”

@strawman fallacy well we ain't talking about who started what here...it's just when svt started the antidrops series~

@strawman fallacy but thanks was released before deja vu

@Verna It started way before that since Nuest W's Dejavu in early 2018

Bumzu and Baekho did it first in Nuest W's Dejavu back in early 2018, seriously what a song!

GENIUSES

Anti-drops are literally one of my fav parts of a song other than bridges like I just can't even explain why they sound too good they are like honey to my ear the fact just three things together can so beautiful is just AMAZING

I love how you used the songs I had in mind, i.e. Superhuman and Home....I thought they were soooo ahead of its time for the use of an antidrop before the real chorus. They're not the earliest users but they really kickstarted the trend I feel. Now we here them EVERYWHERE And so glad you mentioned Energetic!!! What a classic bop

Omg I love Wanna One and miss them so much 🥺😭 I started listening to them recently and they disbanded a few years ago but their entire discography is amazing. I wish I had found them sooner 😭 Energetic was such a great debut song

Move, Oh My God, Home and 24h really made me ascend the first time I heard them. God tier.

Stay Tonight is a masterpiece that deserves more attention. It’s one of the best, highly conceptual and refreshing songs in Kpop I’ve heard in a long time. It’s Chung Ha’s best work no doubt.

@pink rose blink what does not liking a song have to do with being against lgbtq??????

@Sergent Culotte don't worry, I also don't like Stay Tonight. I mean I like its chorus, is really cool but everything else is really messy. And for the person who told you you're homophobic bcz you don't like this song...lmao I am gay I love Chungha so much but stay Tonight is not my cup of tea :D

@Sammy same ! I think it's what threw me off, too much repetition

@pink rose blink 😂😂

Anti-drops always give me goosebumps, absolutely love them

You calling my name sounds good, it's empty but in a good way, and the vocal is smooth. But some of the other chorus are empty yes

"i did not listen to wanna one regularly and i only know like two of the members' names" no but SAME, and yet Energetic is one of my favorite songs of all time to this day. It was the best debut song I had ever heard at the time, and it still holds that crown for me.

I appreciate the new song recommendations, been kind of in a “kpop burnout” for a while cuz everything has been sounding the same lately, or so I thought until I saw some of these (haven’t exactly been looking, but I just like letting music come to me) but this was absolutely refreshing

stay tonight is just another level... i'll never forget what i felt the first listen plus the VISUALS

girl same. the choreography, visuals, the aesthetic... a fucking masterpiece of the century

AGREE

Mamamoo my queens, Wanna be myself is such a cool song, so classy to be in a comercial ♡

Energetic built you up and, despite that antidrop, didn't lose the hype in the chorus. I totally agree to this list.

As a music theory nerd, seventeens song hits extra hard

thank you for making these videos, im just getting into kpop and I love finding new music to listen to! :)

Okay but FACE is on another level it’s so minimal but his vocals make the song a total hit

Uuggh I love Face sm

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I love hima and that song sm

Agree, Woosung's voice is so strong. I love his aura in this solo. Different taster from Rose

I love anti-drops bc personally they feel more clean and the vocals are more presents.