"Young creator crew" CORTIS released a special video that adds a spoonful of humor to solid performance.
CORTIS (Martin, James, Juhun, Sunghyun, Gunho) captured global fans' attention on the 12th by presenting the conceptual performance film for the track "ACAI" from their mini album 2, GREENGREEN, on their official YouTube channel.
This video, matching the song's mood centered on the "acai bowl" that the members often ate during the actual work period, adds meaning by having the members participate directly as co-choreographers. In the video, CORTIS roams from a vintage hotel's dining room to its garden and underground storage, radiating free-spirited energy. In particular, some scenes shot with a vintage camcorder perfectly realize the retro sensibility and raw texture unique to the 1990s and 2000s, completing CORTIS's distinctive atmosphere.
"Gulp gulp," "pull pull" and other playful lyrics are intuitively expressed through gestures and shoulder-shaking rhythmic choreography that add to the viewing enjoyment. The "perfect-fit choreography" born after intense deliberation instead of the "cute version of the choreography" mentioned at the release party fully demonstrates the members' stage composure.
All members participated in the song's production, with Martin and Sunghyun handling production, and behind this song is the weighty aspiration "to become artists with substance who are good even if you only eat the base, like an acai bowl without fancy toppings," offering a glimpse of CORTIS's sincerity.
CORTIS's current momentum is truly "unprecedented." Their mini album 2, GREENGREEN, surpassed first-week sales of 2.31 million copies on the Hanteo Chart, recording explosive growth of more than five times compared with their previous work. This is a record-breaking figure for K-pop albums released this year, second only to BTS's "Arirang."
Meanwhile, the title track "REDRED" entered No. 17 on the U.S. Billboard "Bubbling Under Hot 100," setting the historic record of becoming the first K-pop boy group that debuted within the past five years to chart. It is also solidifying its status as a "global trend" by continuing long-running success on the Spotify global chart.<
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