DAWN OF A NEW DAY is the debut mini album of girl group CREPUSCULE, released by SMKE on may 16, 2016. the album is available digitally and physically, containing six tracks, in the mirror acting as the title track. they promoted a long dream on music shows for only three weeks, from may 16 to june 5. they had one special stage for the bside in & out, as well as a stage where they did a cover of rough by gfriend.
TRACK LIST:
in the mirror (title)
won’t be easy
in & out
only you
polaris
body talk
STYLING:
yoorim ;; mid back length silver hair
tomie ;; shaggy blonde pixie cut
gab ;; mid back length black hair with fringe
bee ;; waist length brown hair with purple
ari ;; mid back length red hair
ERA HIGHLIGHTS:
YALL THIS WAS SUCH A HOT DEBUT LIKE
i mean they didn’t have a lot of hype surrounding their debut bc starmaker was still a pretty nugu company at the time but they managed
THEY DID THEIR MAKEUP THEMSELVES AND DESIGNED SOME OF THEIR STAGE OUTFITS !!!!!! you can tell they really had a hand in everything it all had their lil personal touch :(((
the styling in general was cute as hell they all looked like lil dolls
they self produced the entire album too !!!!!! all that themselves !!!!!!! talented little bbys
they opened personal instagram accounts !!! we got so much content they were updating very regularly
they also opened a youtube channel !!! where they upload mostly behind the scenes content and vlogs ! as well as the occasional cover from one of the members
they uploaded a live version of wont be easy and they looked like they were having so much fun it was so cute fr
we got dance practices for in the mirror, in & out, and only you !!! whew
ohmygod can i talk about the rough cover let’s talk about the rough cover
people loved it so much it started a tradition of them doing at least one cover every era when they can it was so cute
the vlogs were interesting to say the least tho . they constantly made jokes abt their dorm being haunted and even managed to catch a few things on camera
like when yoorim was walking into her bedroom and the door suddenly slammed behind her and when she yelled out for the other members they were all in the living room
no one rlly believed them tho lmao they just thought they were joking around
but were they
were they
they got onto two (2) variety shows and they had SO MUCH FUN pls
although they didn’t have much hype for their debut and the only reason people knew smk was bc of chae aka that one solo artists who was outed as a lesbian so yk
in the mirror managed to peak at #11 on itunes tho so !!!! not bad at all for a debut especially under a nugu company they did pretty decent !!!
it was a criminally underrated debut tho and daylights think this is still one of their most underrated eras
CREPUSCULE (크레푸스쿨) is a five membered self producing girl group under STARMAKER ENTERTAINMENT. they debuted on may 16, 2016 with the album dawn of a new day. they’ve cemented themselves in the kpop industry with their hypnotic music, hauntingly beautiful visuals, and eerily elegant concepts.
debut date ;; may 16 , 2016
members ;; yoorim , tomie , gab , bee , ari
agency ;; starmaker entertainment
genre ;; kpop , rnb , edm , ballad
debut album ;; dawn of a new day
fandom name ;; DAYLIGHT (데이라이트)
official colours ;; twilight blue (#375597) , opera mauve (#b784a7) , golden mist (#d6cf92)
summary : bee attempts to teach gab and ari not to mess with the spirit world, and royally fucks up in the process.
characters : maladee chairat / bee , lee sooyoung / gab , kim areum / ari , and kubo tomomi / tomie and jang yoorim briefly
genre : mostly slice of life with some mystery elements i guess ? but it’s mostly stupid
warnings : idk ? do i need to put a warning for a haunting it’s just like . there’s ghosts ! yk ?
words : 1.1k
[ 3:19 am , crepuscule dorms , 2016 ]
“okay, what is this?”
standing at the entrance to the hallway that opened up into the kitchen and dining room, bee, although her eyes were foggy with sleep, could somewhat see sooyoung and areum at the dining room table, hunched over with their full attention on something on the table.
sooyoung looked up at bee, “we’re just tryna see if this thing works.”
“what’s ‘this thing’ i can’t see it-“ bee froze when she leaned down and saw what the two girls were so focused on. she gasped, eyes as wide and round as could be, “where did you get that?!”
“they literally sell them at toy stores, they’re 8+,” areum said calmly as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. maybe it was, but was bee crazy for thinking you shouldn’t be able to contact spirits at eight years old?
“what kind of toy store is selling ouija boards? and why did you buy one?!” bee whisper-yelled, because after all, it was literally the middle of the night and yoorim was sleeping not that far down the hall, and they knew if she woke up she’d be grumpy in the morning. “and why are they only 8+?!”
“okay,” sooyoung started, “you’ve seen the weird ass fuckin’ shit that’s been going on here lately, so we decided to, reach out, y’know? just be like, ‘hey, what the fuck, dude’.”
bee knew the dorm was haunted, the rest of them knew the dorm was haunted. it was getting harder and harder to explain away doors slamming and opening by themselves, the random cold spots all over even when the heat was blasting in every room, and things being misplaced almost every other day.
what exactly those spirits were and why they were attached to the dorm, bee didn’t understand, and that’s what she had been trying to figure out. countless hours of researching the building they lived in and the areas around it, she’d even tried contacting them- as in whatever resided in their dorm herself, but so far, she’d had no luck. but she did know, that a board game was not the proper way to figure this out.
if bee wasn’t half asleep, she’d be scolding the two of them until their ears bled, but she found herself too tired to care. she sighed, and locked eyes with tomomi in the kitchen, who stared back at her, wide eyed with half a bun in her mouth.
“i’m not involved, i just wanted a snack,” she said quickly.
bee nodded, and turned back to the two girls at the table, “why did you think this was a good idea right now?”
areum shrugged, her calm expression certainly not matching the sheer panic behind bee’s sleep fogged eyes, “arent ghosts like, more active this time of night or something?”
sighing and pinching her nose bridge, bee would go on and attempt to explain why you shouldn’t mess around with the spirit world at three in the morning. if areum was being honest, it all went in one ear and straight out the other. something about 3am being the time when the veil between the living and the dead was the thinnest, and how it was dangerous because they could possibly house something malicious in their dorm, and how you’re not always talking to who you think you are, yada yada. she could really go for one of those buns that tomomi was stuffing her face with earlier.
“did you hear any of that?” bee queried, her patience very obviously wearing thin (just like how she described the veil, kind of ironic).
“i did!” sooyoung exclaimed, “you’re good at storytelling, isn’t she?” she looked down at the board, as if she was asking it directly, but before it could escalate, bee flared at her and continued for scolding session.
“stop messing with this stuff! you guys are gonna get us in serious trouble!”
“bee,” areum deadpanned, reaching her hand out to clap bee on the shoulder, “i love you, but fuckin’ chill. these don’t even work half the time anyway.”
“i’m allowed to be concerned about whatever you guys could be contacting!” bee shrugged areum’s hand off, her eyebrows drawn closely together in concern, “you know it’s easy for something to say they’re something they’re not.”
areum shrugged, “is it? hey ghost! buddy! who the hell are you?” she exclaimed, reaching out for the planchette, but bee swatted her hands away, almost slapping her out of recklessness in the process.
“don’t do that! you’re asking for something to happen.”
“what’s gonna happen?” areum continued to argue. bee would’ve bashed her head in if she still wasn’t half asleep and starting to slur her words together because she was so exhausted.
“i mean, we could always be terrorized by ghosts the rest of our lives, that certainly wouldn’t be fun,” tomomi piped up from the kitchen.
areum glared at her, “i swear i thought you went to bed.”
“alright fine,” tomomi threw her hands in the air, “going to bed now,” she continued as she started walking down the hall, “night.”
“and that’s where we should all be going now,” bee mumbled, picking up the lid to the box the board came in and tossing it in areum’s direction.
“alright, damn, going to bed now,” she grumbled as she picked the lid up and began putting the board back in the box.
“you look tired, you can go back to sleep now!” sooyoung said, waving bee away, who, surprisingly, complied, obviously much too tired to do really much else. “night!” sooyoung called after bee as she disappeared down the hall.
later that night, as the call of slumber had nearly taken control, bee suddenly jolted awake again. she’d just then realized, in her sleepy stupor, she’d forgotten to make sure sooyoung and areum did one of the most crucial things. she heard areum stir on the other side of the room, and bee sat up.
“wait.” she said suddenly, “did you guys say goodbye?”
“...what?”
“on the board. did you say goodbye.”
areum was silent for a beat, before quietly replying, “...you’re supposed to say goodbye?”
so bee knew one thing was for sure, and that thing was that they were fucked! she was already imagining waking up the next morning to those spirits even more violent than usual. cupboards wide open, plates and other cutlery smashed on the floor, and at this point maybe some demonic hoof prints crossing the linoleum floor of the kitchen or something. who knew at that point! was bee overreacting? possibly, but she thought she was justified in being at least a little apprehensive.
“yes? if you don’t say goodbye you could- oh my god, areum, you didn’t know this?”
“i’ve never used a ouija board before! i just thought you asked the thing and the thing moved and that was that!”
“oh my gosh,” bee replied quietly, rubbing her eyes, “we’re screwed.”
NYCTOPHILIA is the first full album of girl group CREPUSCULE, released by SMKE on june 28, 2017. this was a very successful era for the girls, the title track, butterfly, peaked at #1 on itunes. they promoted from june 28 to july 20. butterfly got them their first music show win. they also had special stages for the side tracks red sun and colors, as well as a special stage where they did a cover of not today by bts. the girls got invited to a lot of shows and activities this era, and they credit this era as being one of their most successful.
TRACK LIST:
satellite
red sun
(fly like a) butterfly (title)
colors
rum pum pum
see saw
jazz bar
come to me
in the frozen
remember forever
STYLING:
yoorim ;; mid back length brown hair with pink
tomie ;; shaggy light pink mullet
gab ;; chin length bleach blonde hair
bee ;; waist length black hair with fringe
ari ;; shoulder length dark brown hair
ERA HIGHLIGHTS:
SO THIS IS THE ERA WHERE THEY BLEW UP .
it took a few days for the song to take off , but when it did It Really Did
THEY GOT THEIR FIRST WIN !!!!! GOD IT WAS WELL DESERVED TOO MY GAWD
they cried they cried a lot especially bee that girlie was an emotional wreck
their first #1 on itunes too :(( everybody was blasting this shit butterfly was the unofficial song of the summer fr
they got invited onto more shows this time around !!!! they were on a few variety shows and their personalities rlly got to shine somewhere other than their vlogs :((
ari was even invited to mc on a music show for a week !!
they each had a few viral moments bc they rlly started blowing up this era
EVERYBODY was simping for tomie and honestly can we blame them ? people were saying she looks like an anime character :((
everyone on twitter was all “WHOS THE GIRL WITH THE PINK MULLET”
THEIR MAKEUP WAS SO PRETTY !!!! GOD IT WAS A LOT BUT IT WAS SO COOL they uploaded a lot of it to instagram aswell
ONCE AGAIN they helped with the styling !!!!!!!!
AND they produced the whole album AGAIN !!!!!!!!!! like always we love legends
ohmygod this eras cover !!!! it was not today by bts GOD that was hot
that was also partially a part of them blowing up bc ! armies are a big fandom yk they hyped them up a lil thank u armies u did a good thing
everyone was singing butterfly like . it just HIT
FLYYY LIKE A BUTTERFLY NAL MEOLLI DERYEOGAL WINGS WINGS
this was like their bboom bboom iykyk
the vlogs are back ofc !!!!! daylights were used to them joking about the ghosts in their dorm now
“yeah, we have a ghost writer. it’s a literal ghost. woke up one morning to some writing i didn’t recognize in my notebook. that’s how butterfly was born. thanks ghosts, owe ya one.” - gab via instagram live
but she was joking around or was she honestly with gab u never know
OOOH live versions of remember forever, jazz bar, and rum pum pum were uploaded to their youtube channel !!!! they always look like they’re having so much fun in those videos it’s so cute
this album is their baby they hold it very dear in their hearts :((
