The album consists of five tracks, including the lead single "Blue Hour", all of which have been co-written by the band members.[2][3] The group worked with various writers for the album, including British singer-songwriter Charli XCX on the track "We Lost the Summer". As a disco, rock, and R&B album that experiments with indie-rock, nu-gaze, dancehall, and pop rock, Minisode1: Blue Hour features production from El Capitxn, Slow Rabbit, Pdogg, Sam Klempner, and Shin Kung. Written and recorded during the COVID-19 pandemic, the album lyrically narrates the emotions from the perspective of a teenager who has faced changes in his life. The album's artwork and visuals illustrate the connection that can be felt through online communication despite being physically far.
Minisode1: Blue Hour received generally favourable reviews from music critics, with praise towards the emotional narrative. Commercially, the album debuted at number three on South Korea's Gaon Album Chart, selling over 300,000 copies in its first week. The EP entered the US Billboard 200 chart at number 25, becoming TXT's highest-charting album in the country. It charted at number one on the Japanese Oricon Albums Chart, becoming the band's second consecutive chart-topper, and also entered Billboard Japan's Hot Albums at number two. To promote the album, TXT appeared on several South Korean music programs including M Countdown, Music Bank, and Show Champion.
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Following the conclusion of the three-part "Dream Chapter" series which depicted stories of growth,[4] Big Hit Entertainment posted a motion graphic video on YouTube and Weverse on September 21, 2020, which revealed that TXT would be releasing their third EP, Minisode1: Blue Hour the following month.[5][6] According to press release, the EP serves as "a short episode told by Tomorrow X Together before they progress into their next series."[7] In an interview with Teen Vogue, TXT revealed that the album was written and recorded entirely during the COVID-19 pandemic.[8]
Minisode1 : Blue Hour is our pitstop as we prepare to move onto our next series. It's about the feeling of unfamiliarity that can sometimes hit us all when our relationships with our friends undergo a change. What we've really tried to do through this EP was to deliver a story that only we can tell. It's our take on the experiences of unforeseen circumstances, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, and we have tried to tell it through our own sound and fresh energy.
Minisode1: Blue Hour consists of five songs written from the perspective of a teenager who is "isolated and lost in emotions amid the unprecedented pandemic."[1] The songwriting is characterized by hopefulness, loneliness, unfamiliarity, loss of routine, desperation, empathy, and connection.[1][8][9][10][11] It explores the "conflicts of reality and reflects on the current need for a pause in real life."[9] Minisode1: Blue Hour is primarily a disco, rock, R&B album that experiments with several other genres.[12]
The opening track, "Ghosting" is a nostalgic indie-rock and '80s nu-gaze soft ballad.[8] It begins with vocal harmonies and vintage sound in the chorus before advancing in a melodic arrangement of electric guitars and synthesizers.[8][13] Lyrically, the track addresses the titular phrase of "ghosting" or "being ghosted" and narrates the confusion and disheartenment of being detached from the world.[10] Soobin and Taehyun co-penned the lyrics of the track with indie-pop singer Lennon Stella.[1][11]
The third track, "We Lost the Summer" (Korean: ) is a dancehall number with tropical influences, that was co-written by British singer-songwriter Charli XCX.[8][11] Backed by guitar, the track takes on a "sunny" production despite delivering a "melancholic" message.[10][11] Inspired by the 1998 Korean pop song "Arcade" by Han's Band, which focussed on the financial crisis of Korea in the '90s, "We Lost the Summer" parallelly speaks of "teenagers who face a world flipped upside down due to the pandemic."[1][9] Beomgyu explained, "Many teenagers could no longer go to school and hang out with each other, passing notes, sharing earbuds, and so on. It's our story but it's still a subject that teens all over the world can relate to. It's the teen perspective and we wanted to address it through our music."[8] The fourth track, "Wishlist" is an uplifting and anthemic guitar-driven pop-rock song, co-written by Huening Kai, Taehyun and Yeonjun. Lyrically, it portrays the story of a boy[1] who prepares a gift for his love.[1][8][13] The closing track, "Way Home" () is a future R&B song knitted with a soft vocals, trap beats, rhythmic drums, and synthesizer harmonies.[13][15] Exhibiting a sombre melody, it marks a departure from the signature bright and cheery sound of the band.[8][13] The song captures the loneliness of a boy walking back from school and emphasises the need of companionship.[1][9] According to Yeonjun, the track is about "a belief that regardless of uncertainties we may feel, we will still be together as long as we remember one another."[8]
The goal for the visual aspects of this album was to reflect the development of the online space as our hub of communication and togetherness while physically being home. It's become much more natural now to meet people and spend time with one another online; it's a change in our culture and the definition of the "space" we share with our friends. The visual elements are intended to represent the happiness and joy that we can still feel when connected with one another through online and virtual spaces. The bright and vivid colors represent our personal spaces.
On September 21, 2020, Minisode1: Blue Hour was made available for pre-order in three versions: R, VR and AR, that were packaged in blue, pink and purple pastels, respectively.[19][20][21][22] On September 29, version R of concept photos for the album was released in conjunction with a pixel art teaser.[16][23] The VR and AR versions of concept photos were released on October 6 and 8, respectively.[17][18][24] The album tracklist was revealed on October 9.[25] From October 12 to 16, individual video teasers of each member were uploaded to YouTube.[26] The first group teaser for the music video of the album's lead single "Blue Hour" was released on October 18, followed by a second teaser on October 20.[27][28] A preview of the tracks featured on the album was released on October 23.[3] The album was released on October 26, 2020, in CD and digital formats.[6][29][13] The music video for the lead single "Blue Hour", directed by Guzza of Lumpens, was released to Big Hit's YouTube channel in conjunction with the release of the album.[30][31] A performance version of the video was released on November 9, 2020.[32]
A few hours prior to the album release, the band held a media showcase at the Yes24 Live Hall, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul, which was broadcast online through YouTube.[33][12] Hours after the album's release, a special "Comeback Show", hosted by Mnet was premiered live worldwide, where they performed "Blue Hour" for the first time.[34] On October 27, the band appeared as guests on KBS Cool FM.[35] A dance challenge with the hashtag "#BlueHour_Moment" was started on TikTok the same day.[36] The group appeared on the October 28 episode of the variety show Weekly Idol.[37] TXT began promoting the album with televised live performances on several South Korean weekly music programs, starting with Mnet's M! Countdown on October 29, where they performed "Blue Hour".[38] The band also appeared on KBS' Music Bank, SBS MTV's The Show, MBC M's Show Champion, and SBS' Inkigayo, to perform the song.[39][40][41][42] They performed "Blue Hour" and "We Lost the Summer" on Kakao TV's Comeback Show MU:Talk Live on November 2.[43] In the second week of promotion, "Blue Hour" won first place on The Show on November 3.[40] The band appeared on SBS Power FM's Cultwo Show on November 8, where they performed "Blue Hour".[44] The band performed "Blue Hour" on Genius's "Open Mic" and MBC FM4U's Kim Shin-Young's Hope Song at Noon on November 17 and November 19, respectively.[45][46]
TXT released a group teaser for the music video of the album track "We Lost the Summer" on November 10, 2020.[47] Solo photo stills and video teasers were unveiled on November 12 and 13, respectively.[48] The song's music video was released to YouTube on November 13.[49]
On October 6, the album distributor Dreamus reported that pre-orders for Minisode1: Blue Hour had surpassed 300,000 copies in ten days, setting the highest album pre-orders for the band.[19] By October 25, album preorders had exceeded 400,000 copies.[52]
I\u2019m so tired. I even tweeted about how tired I am, which is just plain dull, but what is Twitter, sometimes, if not a sounding board for the worst of us: boring, greasy-haired, about to clean up cat pee and eat soggy Muesli for the fourth morning in a row?
I\u2019ve been thinking about Plath and her \u201Cstill, blue hour,\u201D which is how she described the time when she wrote her great Ariel poems in the fall of 1962, the ones she so correctly predicted in a letter to her mother would \u201Cmake [her] name.\u201D They did make her name. Sometimes I quote that letter to my students: \u201CI am a genius of a writer, I have it in me. I am writing the best poems of my life. They will make my name.\u201D It\u2019s hard for me to say it all out loud without breaking down; writing it, I feel hot tears prick at my eyes (and now, from elsewhere, the baby cries, and because I am no genius, his cry will not melt into any walls, but force my attention from this place of writing, which is no place at all).
Plath\u2019s letter to her mother moves me without fail because, as I began to age with her (marriage, babies, marriage disaster, divorce, single motherhood), I felt I knew what she was up against, writing those poems, in a way no biographer had ever really understood or gotten down on the page. There is a thing I learned, in my 30s\u2014 you can know something intellectually, know it as an abstract fact, but that doesn\u2019t mean much until you learn it emotionally. Before my 30s, I knew Plath\u2019s life story (or thought I did) like the proverbial back of my hand: here is her time at Smith (I type away and the little blue veins run up my hands like rivers) all tartans and cardigan sweaters and breakdown; here is her time in London (see how the fingers bend at the knuckle base, mimic the way I was taught to play piano) bathing Frieda in a Pyrex bowl, discovering the cracks in her marriage as surely as I see the 41-year old skin over the 41-year old bones of my hands dry out and crack no matter how often I apply a salve. 152ee80cbc
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