[Reality Show] The Unit - Ep 6 Reaction

i don't understand how you don't like Euijin,, he was literally my favorite on the show

Isa Alvim

it still baffles me how only one person chose Perfect Man in the beginning lmao this song is a masterpiece

Isa Alvim

And then with Seyong vs Euijin, it's a sticky situation. Korea places high emphasis on hierarchy, and they have a weird one. Seyong is one year younger than Euijin so that puts Euijin>Seyong. But Seyong debuted with MYNAME in 2011, and Euijin didnt debut until several years later. So that makes Seyong his senior by several years and puts Seyong over him. In this situation people usually go with seniority over age, but Euijin was going with age instead. So that's what makes it so complicated there. Also!!! I want reactions to the groups from the Unit!!! Aka to MYNAME, to Boys Republic, etc!

Setres09 .

So by the way. I read the comments thinking someone would say it but was surprised no one did! So! Suwoong trained with BTS to debut with them, but was taken out and replaced with Jin. So he left Big Hit and debuted with Boys Republic in the same year BTS debuted.

Setres09 .

I was confused when Donghyun placed first in the Monster team too, cause honestly he didn't actually stand out to me and I didn't really like his vocals in the performance. Jeup and Lee Geon were so much better in my opinion

Chloe Borley-Evans

Yes this is why I don't like it when the audience votes for these things instead of professionals or people in the industry. It becomes a popularity contest, both with the members in the team and the song that they have. I also remember not really liking the Fire team too much, they were fine but it lacked that special something to pull you in. I think Her should have ranked higher too, it was so fun and engaged the audience a lot. In the end, I like the final members that ended up in the group even if a lot of them were there due to "popularity" so I can't complain too much but I do think there should be a more objective way of voting.

Cat R

That’s my Boi Je-Up from IMFACT with that high 59:12 💪🏻🔥 🔥 🔥 His vocals are just so damn GOOD!

RemmyMoon

BTS covered Perfect Man in 2015. This performance got me into them. Jimin was incredible!

SHINeele

agree lol. I don’t remember Juliette being a cute concept. And that’s the SHINee song that pulled me into kpop in 2009 (dang I’m old)😂

Deiseree

same. As a shawol something felt a little lacking especially during the highlight part.. But as u said, it’s really hard to pull of jonghyun’s parts. And I don’t remember Juliette being a cute concept?

Deiseree

Gang is really popular because it's so bad that it's good ;) And korean liked it because Rain took the critics really well and said that I liked readying the comments under the mv

vega

Her is actually one of my all time favorite kpop songs. It just makes me so happy. You should check out the original by Block B, it's really great. I agree with you about Rain's songs but that first one, Gang, seems to be super popular in Korea. A lot of people have covered it. As much as I love Rain I can't bring myself to like the song. I can't wait for the next episodes, especially for the girls it has some of my favorite performances (I'm especially looking forward to your reaction to the girls doing Jackpot, another Block B song, but in their own killer way)

Sheila Vaidyanathan

HER team deserved better tbh. MONSTER was definitely a favorite too! those 2 teams looked like real teams that have been working together for years. really fascinating to see!

Natalie Burger

No you were right both of those songs flopped when they came out. Gang just become popular in 2020 because of a meme

Makayla Curington

They didn't day the Rain choreo was hard , they just kept making mistakes that's why :Dd Also it might have been for clout we don't know, but it looks like it was filmed in a hurry, cuz the camera was shaking also the way it was moving 🤷‍♀️

Austėja Račaitė

I'm so happy and proud that you noticed JUN (UKiss) as the 'best singer' on their team (Perfect Man) because he is actually a RAPPER! ❤ and he's also a good dancer (fast learner too!) 🥰 All-rounder ACE I must say! 👏🏻 Btw, BLOCK-B is the group of both ZICO and U-Kwon (Hit The Stage). Their songs are so good really!

eve_ss

Please react to True Beauty

I completely forgot how great Kanto's rap in Block B's "Her" was and I was pleasantly surprised, because I love that song! That Zico's rap part is tricky to do, it's hard hitting and playful at the same time, so I'm glad Kanto was on point with that :) Overall that performance was my favorite, but I missed Taeil's (main vocal of Block B) voice in the bridge hah I hope you will see the original performance someday! Block B is a great group (currently on hiatus because of the military enlistments + Zico's still in the group btw, he's their leader). Also! You NEED to see BTS covering Shinhwa's "Perfect Man"!! That performance is iconic, even Shinhwa's members highly praised them for that cover. I started listening to Shinhwa after that BTS stage and "Perfect Man" is one of my favorite kpop songs of all time ;)

Paulina K.

Joining the band wagon of asking you to react to SHINee's Juliette. lol the other teams did fairly well for a cover but I was most disappointed with how they made Juliette cutesy

kittykat

Rain is known for being a type a perfectionist so I would not be surprised if he was that angry especially that it’s his comeback stage after 3 years of hiatus. This comeback didn’t do particularly well because to put it simply Rain tried too hard when he should’ve stuck to what he does best. It all comes full circle now because Gang went viral this year and Rain became even more popular.

slampoets

HAHA exactly! unless you’re in Dream i guess 👀

seth james

ooooo i’m so excited now!

seth james

This is semi random (ish), but if you have time, could you react to some of the chinese dance shows? I think you might enjoy them! #1- hot blood dance crew, #2 - street dance of china, #3 - the 8 (I think) chinese versions of the produce series [I feel like you might enjoy these 8 or so series! Especially Idol Producer, Produce 101 China, Qing Chun You Ni, and Youth With You. *all written the way I typed it out. ]

Nova Amore

I would love to see you react to SHINee's Juliette

Selene Ledezma

I like perfect man and her performance. I played their perfect man quite often after that episode aired hahaha. And same i was so shocked her ranked last. The song itself is good, block b is ateez senior. So yeah that company has unique song. Her was really popular and zico's part was iconic, then kanto did cover it very well

tsalis park

When you said "It's an SM thing, they don't always smile" It reminded me of when Jaehyun said "I haven't smiled since Touch" lmao

Selene Ledezma

You should check out the original Version of Her. Kanto did a good job covering Zico's Iconic Rap Part in my a opinion. https://youtu.be/YFqerTvc950

BaoziBang

It's so funny to see gang at that time!! It became one of Rain big hit recently and put him back on the map but at that time it was such a fail

vega

I really wish that they put more attention with SHINee’s Juliette on the vocals. It’s a really high pitch song and the highlight really lacked for me cuz... it’s really vocally centered especially the falsetto and high notes. Understandably, JH tone is really hard to do so I get why they changed it but it’s truly a bit lackluster for me.

Louie Gabiliño

Agree on Fire, I think the dancing was good, but vocally it doesn’t feel like they had the right folks for this song. I think Hangyul’s voice would have been better for the start and end, and vocally Jude’s voice isn’t quite right for this too. I forgot his name but the guy from A.cian was better. Digressing a little, I really liked Hangyul during the unit. His image then was rougher, more masculine, which really suited him so well. His post Produce 101x styling seems a bit… For the heartbeat group I am not sure if it’s a case of Eui Jin asking for the choreo to be changed because he had a hard time only…they had practiced 1 version of the choreo and then Seyong could have made a quite a number of changes that weren’t shown in the cut…The end result performance was very good though so however they managed to resolve it worked! Monster vocally was good especially Lee Geon! The rap wasn’t so good yeah but I don’t think this group really had rappers? (most of them sing in their original groups no?). I don’t think if there had been other people in this group, they could have pulled it off quite as much. Not sure why Donghyun topped this group though. I think maybe he was still one of the most well-known of the group at that point in time hmmm. Juliet I didn’t really like…maybe I am just an aunty and can’t stomach cute concepts ahhaha. I think the members wanted to try a cute concept but at least half of them don’t really suit a cute concept…so I think it was always going to be a tough one to pull off… Perfect man was good too! Chan’s voice was actually so suitable for this. I think though with the older choreo and style of song it might have just been a bit harder to excite the audience…Jun (ukiss) is just…Jun (he just knows what he’s doing. He’s quite young too tho, maybe hanging around older members in ukiss helped lol). I think the styling for the boom boom team was a let down..too baggy Y_Y and as someone else said…too uniform. The camerawork was a bit weird too? The exciting bits of the choreo I felt I couldn’t see in full cos it’s zoomed in on someone’s face for some reason bleah. I think you miss the reason why they were dancing during the vocal coaching. Jo Hyunah asked if they could dance while singing and everyone was a bit stunned, then Feeldog just yelled “yes we can!” lol and everyone then went along with it and gave it their all. That’s why the mentors said they had the best attitude. And they did. No bad vibes wherever feeldog goes, ever lol. Her was good too…I’m not sure why it ranked so low. ☹ It’s a fun song too and should have been exciting. Her was by block B tho, so…Zico! Kanto. Good 😊 Most of the MAS guys here…you wouldn’t notice they were band guys looking at this perf. About ages, just want to mention that I think they mention Korean ages so you would want to deduct 1 year from all the numbers from what you hear. I hadn’t watched along with you for the Produce series; but it sounds like you agree with (and had a lot of the same thoughts) as the mentors 😊. The mentors here are really much kinder than the other shows I feel. and it's not you. this rain album didn't do well. It's legendary now for other reason tho hahah you can search "1 gang a day". Rain himself has gone on tv and joked along with the whole meme phenomenon tho, so he's totally chill about it (which is very cool of him). This video explains it succinctly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE-u_cfHKUU

S H

Your comment about Jun being on stage with Rain makes me think about how ace have some really unexpected friends, acquaintances and fans among korean stars, and how public is, you know, blind... I mean distracted haha

Maria

I think if the producers wanted a cute concept SHINee song they would have been better selecting something like Hello. I think in an older interview with SHINee they talked about how the point chorography was kind of risque because they were meant to be drawing the curves of a women with their hands. The lyrics really aren't that cutesy either. Also Heartbeat has me so nostalgic for 2pm, I hope since Changsung will be out of the military soon we'll be getting a comeback..

Kate

After NCT world can you react more of them?.. NCT Life or WayV Dream plan or WayVison .. NCT's fans love them so much and hope you enjoy too.

Love Love

This is so random but Jeff, if you haven't watched True Beauty yet, I wanna say that Jungha from the Heartbeat Team (the one you said you like) HE WAS IN TRUE BEAUTY EPISODE 1! I was shocked because I didn't saw his name on the list of casts. But you will see him on the first episode. Hahaha.

arianaisventi

my favorite performance was definitely Her. the vocals, rapping and dancing was great. and they had the same energy as the original song.

Victoria

SHINee songs are very difficult to cover. The dance, the vocal and the concept are unique for SHINee only. Watching these make me so nostalgic that I have to watch old SHINee performance again :((

Missy

Please, watch and react to WayVision

AnNuoyi

I am not black, and I still cringe every time I see his hair. Glad that he changed it

Missy

ive definitely entered that territory HAHA

seth james

So I was in my B.A.P feelings lately and thought Jeff, maybe you can make a corner on your channel or even a tier here so some of us could suggest some older groups? I understand that you're busy and it kinda makes more sense to react to groups that are active and popular, but I would be so happy to see your reaction to B.A.P, Toppdogg and more VIXX, and I am pretty sure, I'm not alone Hope you'll think about it

Maria

soo 1. Marco will change his hair, but not in the next episode 2. If any of BTS stans haven't seen their cover on Shinhwa's Perfect Man (Jimin was on fire that day) you should go watch for education 3. I wish Boom Boom team had a variaty of outfits not a "uniform" situation. It would be more fun imo About rankings I would say it's not about songs, but about groups I think MAMAMOO are really popular, and that's why their song won. Funny thing for me tho that I tend to compare them to SPICA which was Yang Jiwon's group lol I would place Give It To Me first but ok Also with boys who would expect songs by EXO and BTS be lower then second place? Anyway I don't really pay attention to rankings it kills fun (as a consumer I love the Perfect Man team the most) About age I think SeYong and Feeldog were 26 at the time, too. And some of the older guys made it to the final group and military was not an issue, the group was promoting only for a year. My next comment is highly irrelevant so if you're easily triggered skip it haha

Maria

You had me dying laughing when Marco said he could change his hair and you said PLEASE DO lol. I feel that as a black individual myself, I cringed so much every episode

M00seley

Btw Run is from The Most Beautiful Moment in Life: Young Forever lol And i have something to say about the fire peformance, i think their peformance was really great like if you compared with others trying to do cover for that song it really don’t work that well. You say early about they not trying to be the originals singers but while watching the peformance we feel comparing and we can’t do nothing about that right?!, more because we are so familiar to the original that ‘sounds strange’ kinda hearing some others different voices singing it, me myself feel strange too but i like because they put they own style for rap or singing to fit the peformance and about the first rap (ungjae from IMFACT) it’s really ungjae’s style the way that he did it, and i found it really good to him to put his own style to fit this song, so in general i like this peformance because they don’t sound so similar to the original we could see their own style in their voices, about the dance they killed like the original so we have a balance lol

Christ mmy

Watching Hansol really break my heart. If he could wait a bit more like Johnny he would success with NCT right now and Taeil not alone as the eldest. Don't bash me guys, just my opinion.

Ashimah Ashamudin

Jeff's nuances remind me of Lay's balance haha

Ana

I dont think the original julliet performance is this cute tho... it is cute because SHINee was so young (in 2009 i guess) not that they performed it as a cute concept song :( btw SHINee's live performance of julliet is amazing with their vocals, hope u can check it out!

donthaveanamestill

I enjoyed watching this<3! I would love to see u react to the original choreography and Live perf of SHINee (Juliette). https://youtu.be/-TgqhibSYkw This is a dance ver mv where u can see the whole choreography. https://youtu.be/81qtwuWjYog And this a live performance. I would love to hear what do think about it. It was the first title song for SHINee that was written by Jonghyun and he was only 18 when he wrote it which is amazing.

XSHINeeBAP

Yes, the audience definitely voted based on the songs (and the popular members too). I think the audience vote did the Her team dirty, their performance was good and they embraced the concept. Like you said, it feels like the song was theirs. They deserved a higher rank. Monster team was very solid. I am good with them winning no. 1. Juliette team was very unfortunate because Juliette’s concept is tricky. It is something that only SHINee can pull off. The team made it look cute and it was difficult for me to watch. Now thinking again, I actually don’t like song covers that much because I could not fully enjoy it without comparing lmao. I was laughing and agreeing with you a lot on the comment of how to lift and be lifted in choreo. I have learned it the hard way, I didn’t hold my core and I fell so hard lmao. But it is fascinating to see how our bodies change and react to it once we have learned and mastered it. Great reaction from you as usual, I can’t wait for next week.

Missy

first lol!

Jupiter