NCT DREAM 3rd album about MBTI personality types “ISTJ”

 

NCT DREAM 3rd full length album about MBTI personality types “ISTJ” and members thoughts about the album

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On Monday (July 17), the K-pop group which have seven members Mark, Renjun, Jeno, Haechan, Jaemin, Chenle and Jisung released its third studio album, ISTJ, which NCTzens can now listen to on streaming. Physical copies of the album will arrive on Aug. 18. The album is based on famous personality test MBTI. The album named after the Myers Briggs' ISTJ personality type contains total 10 tracks.

NCT Dream finally releases the song video for their track ISTJ. The music video shows several personalities of the group members showing how they could sometime be trapped inside their own thoughts that can mist their judgement. The track captures the essence of looking to be loose from their observant and overthinking character. Beginning with the whole shape of ISTJ the organization seamlessly transitions into how absolutely everyone has unique characteristics that should be acknowledge in this unique world.

On July 12, SM Entertainment declared that the album had received over 4.1 million stock pre-orders at the date of July 10. This extraordinary accomplishment not only marks the group's highest number of stock pre-orders to date but also sets a new record as the third-highest stock pre-order count in history.

The title track, in which the boys choose getting to know someone over depend on the MBTI personality type; names of all the tracks on the album are “Broken Melodies”; “Yogurt Shake”; “Skateboard”; “Blue Wave”; “Poison”; “SOS”; Pretzel ”; “Starry Night” and album closer “Like We Just Met,”.

In their press conference for the album all the members shared their thoughts

Mark shared, “I’m very grateful to NCTzens (NCT’s official fan club).” He shared that he prepared with a pleasant attitude, explaining, “This is the mindset we always prepare with, and NCTzens always give back way more than what we’ve prepared.”

Talking about the MBTI concept of “ISTJ”, Mark described that NCT DREAM represents as ENFP persona in the song who is in love with an ISTJ persona, which represents NCTzens. When they asked about how did they chose MBT concept for their album, Mark lightheartedly stated, “The MBTI of KENZIE (the composer and lyricist for “ISTJ”) is ISTJ, but I’m not sure if that’s related.” He said, “When we received KENZIE’s idea, we all thought it was very refreshing at first.” Renjun added, “MBTI is really popular in Korea, so we wanted to show these fun elements to people around the world.”

 

They also discussed about their B-side track “Like We Just Met”, all the members participated writing the lyrics for. Chenle said about the song “It’s a ballad song, and the melody is really nice. It’s the first time we all wrote our own lyrics, but considering that it’s our first time, I think we did a great job.” While answering the question, which part of the lyrics he liked the most, he said he enjoyed the part he wrote the most, adding, “I’m a foreigner, but I was very satisfied with (the Korean lyrics) I wrote.  

Renjun explained, “To talk a bit more about the concept, ISTJ is the opposite of ENFP. Since they’re opposites and so different, they wonder why they’re attracted to each other and why they love each other. I think it’s a very refreshing concept.”

Haechan shared his thoughts about what goals NCT DREAM wants to achieve for this album, “I don’t think that we receive love because our results our good but rather, our results are good because we receive so much love,” emphasizing that he felt it was important to return that love to NCTzens.

Jisung talked about not losing the early mindset he had when he started off as an artist. He commented, “Seven years have passed, but we’re still more passionate than ever, so I think we’ve changed for the better, and I think there will be greater changes going forward.”