The K-Pop industry has surely been taken over by the ’16 Personalities’ test. Well, except NCT DREAM’s Renjun (haha).
On July 17, 2023, at 6 P.M. KST, NCT DREAM released their third full-length album titled, ‘ISTJ.’ The album’s digital release on all streaming platforms was accompanied by the music video of the album’s title track of the same name.
This full-length album comes a year and 5 months after ‘Glitch Mode,’ and 7 months since their 6th EP ‘Candy.’ On July 10, 2023, SM Entertainment had announced that NCT DREAM’s upcoming album had surpassed 4.1 million stock pre-orders and was the group’s highest number of stock pre-orders to date, breaking the past record of 2.07 million stock pre-orders for ‘Glitch Mode.’
One song from the album, titled ‘Broken Melodies’ had served as the album’s pre-release single and was released last June 19, 2023. The ‘ISTJ’ album consists of 10 songs with 2 singles—‘Broken Melodies’ and ‘ISTJ.’ Another track on the album, titled ‘Poison’ was given a track video as well and teased to fans last July 7, 2023.
‘ISTJ,’ the title track, is described as a “hybrid hip-hop dance song” with lyrics telling the story of an ENFP type person to understand how an ISTJ person is and to break stereotypes set by the MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) test.
NCTzens were totally impressed with NCT DREAM’s newest release and had praises for all of the songs on the album. Others even called the beat change in ‘ISTJ’ as similar to SNSD’s ‘I Got A Boy’ and the iconic line, “Don’t stop, let’s bring it back to 140.”
NCT Dream drops the music video to ‘ISTJ.’
Watch: https://t.co/8mAi9VZeVO pic.twitter.com/BUlJ0gHZPP
— Pop Base (@PopBase) July 17, 2023
I AM OBSESSED WITH CHENLE’S BRIDGE
NCT DREAM ISTJ OUT NOW#ISTJby7DREAM#NCTDREAM_ISTJ#ISTJ_사랑법_드림이_들려줄게 pic.twitter.com/oTCDgsB0Vt
— a😸 (@chenlelegend) July 17, 2023
https://twitter.com/liebchenle/status/1680866355044843520?s=20
MARKSUNG SERVED AGAIN!!!#ISTJby7DREAM pic.twitter.com/i1XwjI1JuL
— ︎#1 jisung enthusiast (@JlSUNGlE) July 17, 2023
WHEN THE GENRE SUDDENLY CHANGED I WAS LIKE DAMN WHAT IS HAPPENING….
— ٰ (@joyfulmarkly) July 17, 2023
i cant moveeee that was so sm sounding like sm at their prime throwback fuck
— ñ (@yerenesaries) July 17, 2023
graduated with masters from the snsd school of beat switches pic.twitter.com/dgKzeBmQYF
— afifasaurus (@jaems_ng) July 17, 2023
did dreamies just pull a let's bring it back to 1.40 with the genre change for istj's bridge SCREAMS
— 제노리 (@jenoxious) July 17, 2023
https://twitter.com/liebchenle/status/1680818602281406464?s=20
YOU DID YOU DID YOU DID pic.twitter.com/wcLoa6qHsz https://t.co/EE5hTQfcWf
— ౨ৎ (@augustIune) July 17, 2023
WHEN I SAY ALBUM OF THE YEAR YOU SAY?????????
NCT DREAM ISTJ OUT NOW#ISTJby7DREAM#NCTDREAM_ISTJ#ISTJ_사랑법_드림이_들려줄게 pic.twitter.com/zWUHcH6fpm
— rei. ☻ (@taeoxoscart) July 17, 2023
the bridge is soooooooo crazy#ISTJby7DREAM#NCTDREAM_ISTJ#ISTJ_사랑법_드림이_들려줄게 pic.twitter.com/Hg7CeFyTD6
— wiz (@jhyngae) July 17, 2023
ISTJ better than beatbox and glitch mode https://t.co/TL0L1pCyMD
— Anna🍖| Swim Coach 🏄🏾♀️ (@strawbrry_Baek) July 17, 2023
WHEN OUR MAIN DANCER JISUNG MAIN DANCERING WITH HIS DEEP VOICE DURING ISTJ LAST PART!?!!!!?!?!?!?!??!!!!!pic.twitter.com/4K9Z8gnquE https://t.co/nKdwa8Alg7
— 강아지성˙ᵕ˙ (@jisunqpawrk) July 17, 2023
GOT ME ON CHOKEHOLD ?! 😫 pic.twitter.com/LEgULYddS6
— ella⁴ 🎀❄️ | MOLO (@scarletmark) July 17, 2023
only hot bitches got istj in the first listen
— ✰ JENO DAY !!!!!! (@heart4jaemin) July 17, 2023
the beatdrop change in istj got me like pic.twitter.com/OlMwMVrPZB
— ❤︎ (@jaeminners) July 17, 2023
ISTJ ALBUM OF THE YEAR! pic.twitter.com/Bi4cwbIZRG
— َ (@huawrites) July 17, 2023
hello future istj pic.twitter.com/JndANcPyTT
— loffy (@hyckflmz) July 17, 2023
https://twitter.com/durkhheim/status/1680867342555951104?s=20
NEXT LEVEL 🤝 ISTJ
having the most awesome bridge— 24 (@skymlees) July 17, 2023
i thought hello future and broken melodies have the best line and screen time distribution but goddamn it istj said move bitch i got it OH MY GOD QUEEN
— ☁️ (@mrhverse) July 17, 2023
Mark's intro for ISTJ
His calm and deep voice oh my God 🫠 pic.twitter.com/qIHDBWMCjb
— ᴄᴀʀᴏʟɪɴᴇ¹⁰⁶⁺⁹⁴ (@anythingforlmk) July 17, 2023
Congratulations to another ‘slayful’ comeback from NCT DREAM!
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