The Best Produce 101 Stages (and Spiciest Memes) Don’t get intimidated by the page count this is 96.8% memes, fanart, and fansite photos I promise, yes I did actually calculate this, love you too <3 Starting with the ICONIC LEGENDARY AMAZING Sorry Sorry Team 2 cover which I will gush about for a longer time than all the other stages because im a biased person okay and this stage is amazing also Ong is amazing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg6b6VUIW80 This was back when there were 101 boys, and of these 6 boys, 4 of them made it into the final group (Ong, Daniel, Minhyun, Jaehwan). The fifth (Jonghyun) became super popular as well for his amazing leadership, but ended up as rank 14…EVERYONE was shocked when he didn’t make it into the final group because Jonghyun’s the kinda guy that no matter who your bias is, you can’t help but grow super fond of him. I’ll talk more about him later And the last guy in this group (Hyunbin) ended up debuting as well, in the group JBJ! Digression number one: JBJ So after Wanna One’s members were revealed, fans got together and made a fictitious group of the remaining trainees (think IBI) with the highest amount of stage charisma. It was made of trainees that had ended up in ranks 20-30. Fans made fake album designs, fanmade teasers and fanart. And then, after the show, somehow, miraculously…the group was formed into a real group! I really enjoyed their debut song, watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGYIpwovVsc If you’re interested in learning more about these boys and why they deserve the world just let me know ☺ Back to Sorry Sorry Team 2 Though! So, why was this stage iconic for its members? Multiple reasons: • Jaewhan got noticed for his god vocals (yep, 1:43 is him. All the pretty harmonies going on are him too. ) • Ong is center (he’s my all time bias I love him to pieces). • Daniel first got noticed for his stage presence, his fancam went positively viral on naver. I think it has 10million+ views now? Also, pink hair Daniel YEEHAW • • Jonghyun got recognized as being an amazing leader…he gained the nickname Nation’s Leader after this stage o Watch these clips and you’ll be able to understand why! o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2flIFl7dLlM o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv1uak8-flw o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lGJazFXqbw o o ……… o Jonghyun didn’t make it into Wanna One …everyone was very very VERY upset about this (more on this later) • Minhyun was praised for picking such an amazing team. • Hyunbin won top place on his team (from live audience votes) despite being a model and not having danced before All of these boys are older and fit the mature concept really well. Suits = A+++ Also, Daniel and Ong became best friends during this stage and they stuck to each other the entire show. People called them dumb and dumber. I’m so happy they both made it in you have no idea how stressful it was watching week to week. (They also became close with the young Woojin and it was adorable) They went out to get pictures with the ads their fans made for them together Everyone knew Daniel would get into Wanna One (since he had all the noona fan’s hearts) but people (ESPECIALLY ME) were really REALLY nervous for Ong, he always dropped in the one-pick polls. Ong made it in ☺ Also! Minhyun and Jaehwan became best friends too! They literally had every. Single. Stage. Together on the show. Jaewhan and Minhyun totally judging you. Next Stage: Never! (Original PD101 song.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmbMEZq8tIg Very well practiced and technically executed stage. Woojin performed despite having shingles. Also my boy Ong has the legendary “Everytime, everywhere” line so like I had to put this on my top list. If you want to watch the 2x version of this that the boys did while on the show you can see it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ina7lHLwHig Ong’s really funny in this ☺ This song was performed when there were 35 boys left. Of these 7, 6 made it (all but the Nation’s Leader Jonghyun ) Song was written by Triple H (That’s the 365 Fresh singers!!) This song is Tropical House so you might not like it as much as I did! It did sell really well, 720,000+ downloads in Korea currently! ☺ ^^^ These are the same people (Minhyun) Next Stage: Open (Original PD101 song.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahPJRT1cSxM Very sexy stage. Daniel Kang, everyone. Daniel’s move at 2:08 became kinda legendary. I remember watching the livestream of this episode and the comments totally blew up at that part, lol. Dongho was really good too. His vocals are amazing!! Daniel’s the only one of this stage who made it into Wanna One, but his stage presence really shined here. ^^^These are the same person too. No, I can’t explain it either. Kang Daniel is a god. Next Stage: Shape of You! (Dance) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2-97IBVz0U In this challenge, the boys had to choreograph the song themselves! This team’s choreography quickly became legendary. The main choreographer/leader of the group (Noh Taehyun, he’s the center at the start, Hotshot member) became the leader of JBJ. Kim Donghan (0:51 black vest) is also in JBJ! Definitely my favorite choreography in the show. Fear (Rap) Highlight for this one is Jonghyun’s rap. (Jonghyun’s the Nation’s Leader person from Sorry Sorry) Watch at 1:03 on of the subbed version here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKnGWHtuJ0Q Guanlin made it into Wanna One (0:37). He’s a chick trainee from Cube who’s only trained for six months. He works really hard to keep up and he loves his hyungs so much its adorable ahhh my heart No Name (Rap) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J97ftIAHDh0 Little backstory: there was a contestant named Minho who got in a really bad scandal and was forced to leave the show. He had already performed this stage with his team and so you know what Mnet did? They edited all the team’s segments as if Minho never existed. It’s a very clever (and slightly hilarious) edit if you go back and watch the episode. Everything from picking the team leader to practice to the stage itself shows no sign of Minho as they used zoomed in cuts from when he was off to the side or very close close ups of the other boys. You can sometimes see the edge of his body lol. I think you can see him in the mirror at one point. Interesting editing which is part of the reason I included this stage. But it’s also a very good rap stage! “woo jinyoung micheotji” became legendary. (Yes, this is the Woo Jinyoung that became first place in YG’s Mixnine!) None of these boys made it into Wanna One but Sanghyun (0:53) is in JBJ. He was in ToppDogg before coming on Produce 101. Playing With Fire (Vocal) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oj6LPCtCYI A very fun rock cover of Blackpink’s song! Lee Daewhi (0:35, you’ll know the part trust me) got into Wanna One! Sewoon (guitar guy at 1:09) became a successful soloist. His first title song was an absolute jam, is one of my favorites of the year, truly underrated BOP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gigORGNGnwY Dongho and Minki returned to Nu’est (now Nu’est W) Digression number two: Nu’est and Nu’est W So Nue’st was a group formed by Pledis in 2012. They had a really good debut but sales plunged (they couldn’t even fill a 100 person fansign at one point) and they found themselves on the verge of disbandment. So, in a VERY controversial move at the time, Pledis sent 4/5 members onto Produce, where they became trainees again. There was, understandably, a lot of backlash against them at first. They already had their chance, this was a show for trainees etc etc. But then over the course of the show they were able to make new names for themselves. Jonghyun became known as the Nation’s Leader and was first overall in one of the eliminations, Dongho got noticed for his muscular bandit-like appearance + excellent vocals, and Minhyun got lots of attention for his fox-like visuals and analytical nature. Minki…got shafted on screentime. But yes, people – even casual viewers who originally were against them - started rooting for them at some point. Everyone thought definitely 2, maybe even 3 of the four would make it into the final group. In a (very very very) shocking finale only one of the four made it. Minhyun made it in, and Jonghyun (the Nation’s Leader!) wasn’t in the group! …Seriously I can’t stress how much salt went down on the internet because of Jonghyun not making it. It was all discussions talked about for days. Top trends on Twitter right after the finale (Onibugi/Wartortle is Jonghyun’s nickname): It ended up….working out. The other members of Nu’est created a subgroup named Nu’est W, which stands for Waiting. They’re waiting for Minhyun’s return (THIS MAKES ME SO EMOTIONAL HALP) Nu’est W had their first album released recently and it sold absolutely amazingly. Over 200,000 in the first week (compared to ~5000 total albums sold of their previous one before Produce which was a shame as Canvas was a total masterpiece). Preshow post: They also got their first win with this album, 5 years after debut. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Noufajqgt7w A post about The Unit I thought was really well articulated: Best Audition The first episode or so were trainees showing off a prepared piece and being ranked A-F based on ability. This one was soooo good. It was the two Ardor and Able boys. They had debuted in a group called Hotshot which was pretty nugu . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q_hCT5XKyQ Both boys were put into A class. For context, only 7/101 boys were put into A class initially. Black/yellow (Sungwoon) outfit made it into Wanna One – as number 11!! Green outfit (Noh Taehyun) is the leader of JBJ ☺ ALSO ANOTHER SIDENOTE two of the other boys in Hotshot went on the unit. One of them, Timoteo, has been best friends with Taemin (one of the unit’s judges) for literally a decade. Taemin cried when he saw them and it was really emotional and I need emotional support after watching this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m875LJPgOBE Misc This is the choreography for their B-side Wanna Be! I really like it (plus Ong really shines in this soooo) But seriously Ong 2:52-3:03 <3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnQoGiaSn0Q Burn it up dance practice! VERY SATISFYING SHOE SOUNDS ALERT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqeEcAfHggI Ong is really funny on this show. Seriously, he’s made for variety. This is one of my favorite of his moments https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMkXUWGcXAg ^^ LITERALLY ME
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