S.O.T DEBUT MINI ALBUM - PART ONE [2015]
— PART ONE was the debut mini album released by Triptych subunit, S.O.T on July 3rd, 2015. The trio makes a bold entrance to the kpop scene with confident and charismatic tracks like their title track, WASABI, as well as b-sides YEAH YEAH YEAH and FEUGO. The girls explore a variety of genres with their first collection of tracks, including pop, rnb, hip-hop, and EDM, showing their versatility. With the promise of empowering listeners and fans, PART ONE is full of dance-able and catchy songs that will boost anyone’s confidence.
△ TRACK BY TRACK.
1] WASABI
A smooth and sexy pop track oozes confidence and charisma. With the goal in mind of making listeners feel unstoppable, the girls delivered with sharp lyrics and a catchy chorus. For their debut song, they wanted a song that grabbed people’s attention, and they certainly succeeded.
Writing credits go to all three girls.
The line distribution for this song can be found here.
2] YEAH YEAH YEAH
Having been in the spotlight since before their debut, the girls have been receiving disapproving words from critics since their trainee days. This pop track is a direct response to those who don’t support them, basically saying that they aren’t listening.
Written by all three girls.
3] DOWN
With lyrics that are catchy and memorable, the S.O.T girls bring forward a dance track that would fit right into a club’s playlist. This song was created from Zim making up her own song on the fly while the three girls were dancing around their kitchen. The final product was polished up by producers and writers.
Writing credits go to Zim and Yen.
4] FUEGO
Another charismatic EDM track that focuses on being one’s own hype man. With fiery imagery in their lyrics, the girls instill listeners with confidence and hype.
Written by Yen and Nia.
5] WOMAN
One of the first controversial songs released by Triptych. This song takes a feminist perspective on their current society. The girls received a lot of backlash for putting out such a blunt song, but it remains a fan-favorite.
Written by all three girls.
6] PICTURE PERFECT
The last song on the mini album closes out with an upbeat poppy reflection on how far the girls have come since their predebut days and how they are finally seeing their dreams fold out right in front of them.
Written by all three girls.
△ THIS ERA.
First off, they had a good amount of hype surrounding their debut thanks to the highly successful HBH Trainees 2014 project that they were apart of.
Nia was easily one of the most popular trainees, so her debut alone was enough to gather lots of attention from the general public.
Because of their dedicated pre-debut fanbase, they were able to score their first music show win just a week after their debut.
Their debut music video gathered 3.5 million views within the first 24 hours, which was a lot for an HBH group at the time.
Shortly after their debut, knets were quick to criticize the girls. One of the biggest things they got attacked for was being accused of copying EXID’s charismatic charm.
Even though S.O.T and EXID never had any personal beef, Leggos and Artychs used to not get along at all because of these accusations.
However, the air was cleared greatly when S.O.T and EXID performed a collaboration stage together at MAMA 2015.
They went on Weekly Idol the day after they got their first win and it was very clear to viewers that Yen did not like Doni and Coni at all. A lot of reaction memes were birthed from that episode.
Speaking of episodes, their YouTube show, Triptych TV, kicked off this era! It showed fans a more relaxed and goofy side of the girls.
Some episodes included the girls promoting their mini album at a cafe, designing each other’s dream rooms, and doing mundane activities like grocery shopping and cooking.
As far as individual popularity goes, Nia was easily the most popular, closely followed by Zim, then Yen. Yen was only not so popular because people thought she had a bad attitude(and she lowkey did oop)
Yen also wasn’t so popular because she seemed to hang around male idols quite a lot. People accused her of dating almost every male idol she was seen around.
Zim also was also dealing with body-shaming comments around the time of her debut, as she gained quite a bit of weight since her brief hiatus during her trainee days.
On the surface, things looked pretty fine, but behind the scenes, the girls were not doing so well. All of them were taking a mental toll on the drama they got caught up in.
Tensions were high between members for a while. There was a period of time where they straight up didn’t get along (and you can kind of tell by their earlier performances - their chemistry is totally off).
But towards the end of this era, things started getting better. Their friendship strengthened, they got the recognition they deserved, and their fan base grew tremendously.
△ ERA FASHION.
Primary colors were a must. Each girl wore their representative color on stage all the time. There was a time where the company wanted them to wear their respected colors off stage (at variety shows, airport, etc.) but then they decided against it because that’s cheesy and controlling.
A lot of fake fur (”I would rather show up naked than wear real fur.” - Yen, 2015).
A lot of checkered prints.
Baggy cargo pants with boots.
As far as hair goes:
Nia had shoulder length black hair with bangs. They kept it really simple, yet recognizable for their leader and center.
Zim had black hair that faded into yellow. Her hair was so fried from having to re-dye it every other week that during TROMME’s debut period and S.O.T’s rest period, she had to cut her hair.
Yen had long dark brown hair that was ALWAYS, and I mean ALWAYS either in dutch braids or pigtails. They tried to give her like the ‘bratty maknae’ look to match her bratty maknae personality.
△ FANDOM BEHAVIORS.
During fansigns, fans proved to be just as funny in person as they are online.
S.O.T would always die laughing at every fansign, which gave some great photos for fansites.
Artych’s formed a really great bond with the girls because they were always so respectful?
Like they would hold up red ribbons together at airports to prevent the girls from getting mobbed.
The only downside of Artychs this era was the beef that they had with Leggos online. It got pretty out-of-hand sometimes, giving Artychs a bit of a bad rep.
However, they were all pretty chill for the most part.
