''Oddinary'' is the sixth

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and recorded by South Korean boy band

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. It was released on March 18, 2022, through

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and

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, seven months after the band's second studio album ''

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'' (2021). The EP is Stray Kids' first release on Republic Records, which they signed in February 2022. According to the band, the EP is a blend of "odd" and "ordinary", and represents "all of us who have something odd about ourselves" and the concept "odd things will soon become ordinary". Material on the EP was primarily written and produced by

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, an in-house production team of Stray Kids and other members; other producers on ''Oddinary'' include Versachoi,

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, Trippy, Jun2, Nickko Young, and Millionboy, with whom most of the group has previously worked. It consists of seven tracks, of which "

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" serves as

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, and includes various

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s such as hip hop,

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. Upon its release, the EP received positive reviews from music critics. ''Oddinary'' peaked at number one on the album charts in South Korea, Finland, Poland, and the United States; and entered the top 10 in Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Hungary, Japan, Lithuania, Sweden, and Switzerland. It marked Stray Kids' first appearance on the US ''Billboard'' 200 and the UK

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, among others. The EP has sold over 1.7 million copies, becoming the group's second million-selling album after ''Noeasy'', and was certified "million" by the

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(KMCA). To promote ''Oddinary'', Stray Kids embarked on their second concert tour,

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, which commenced in late April 2022.

Background

Stray Kids uploaded the video "Step Out 2022" via their social media on January 1, 2022; the video outlined the group's accomplishments in 2021 and plans for the new year, which included releasing two albums. On February 10, it was announced the group had signed an exclusive contract with

for promotions in the United States. The group held their second fan meeting at

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on February 12 and 13, the second day of which was webcast as a paid livestream via

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. At the end of the event, Stray Kids premiered a comeback trailer for their upcoming EP ''Oddinary'', which was scheduled for release on March 18. The trailer was later uploaded on their social media accounts. According to band member

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: "With the title ''Oddinary'', we want to bring the message that everyone has their own odd in them, and that's totally ordinary". The EP's title, ''Oddinary'', is a

portmanteau A portmanteau word, or portmanteau (, ) is a blend of words In a ''StarNews'' interview on March 4, Stray Kids said the EP would show their "potential energy", be "crazy" in the meaning of "extraordinary", and show a "new side". Their label

stated the group "will solidify its presence and continue its surge in popularity through the extraordinary music, concept, and performance of the new well-made release".

Music and lyrics

''Oddinary'' is twenty-two minutes and three seconds long, and consists of seven tracks in various

s including hip hop,

, and

. All of the tracks were mainly produced and written by Bang Chan, Changbin, and Han, who worked as the in-house production team under the moniker

. Other members also participated in writing the tracks; Lee Know, Seungmin, and I.N co-wrote "Waiting for Us" while Hyunjin and Felix co-wrote "Muddy Water". Other songwriter-producers Versachoi,

, Trippy, Jun2, Nickko Young, and Millionboy, most of whom the group has worked with previous records, also co-wrote songs for the release. In an online press conference to promote ''Oddinary'', Changbin stated the EP has added relaxation, composure, and moderation more than the previous release, which focused on explosive energy, while according to Bang Cham: "We wanted to tell that the part of you which can seem odd and strange to people around you can serve as a special factor that can make you cooler and more gorgeous". In the introduction video ''Intro "Oddinary"'', leader Bang Chan said every song on the EP blends into the main theme of ''Oddinary''.

Songs

''Oddinary'' opens with the trap hip-hop track "Venom", which suggests the impossibility of escaping someone's fatal charm, metaphorized as a spider, its web, and venom. It is followed by "

", a trap

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song whose

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drop, bird-chirping, and

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sound tell the story of "odd " people who break the society's

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s and expectations, comparing them with

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. The third track "Charmer" is a hip hop song that includes a snake-charmer-like flute sound that is inspired by the story of the

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; it is about self-confidence, which can charm others. According to critics, "Maniac" and "Charmer" are influenced by

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. "Freeze", the fourth track, is a

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, and

song that is influenced by hip hop beats and expresses the intention to overcome a problem, the excitement of breaking free, and the pursuit of dreams. The song was compared with the game

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. The fifth track "Lonely St." is a rock song that describes loneliness and feeling lost, and the inner narrative of youths; it includes imagery of a person walking along an abandoned street. It is characterized by "rough" and "delicate" vocals; makes much use of

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; and includes hand-claps, light

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guitar, and trap beats. "Waiting for Us", the sixth track, is sung by Bang Chan, Lee Know, Seungmin, and I.N., and is described as a "heartfelt", soulful,

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, and

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that talks about missing someone who promises to wait indefinitely for them. ''Oddinary'' concludes with Changbin's, Hyunjin's, Han's, and Felix's "Muddy Water", a

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y '90s hip hop,

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, and old-school that discusses actions that reject contemporary societal values.

Release and promotion

On February 13, 2022, Stray Kids premiered a video trailer for their upcoming EP ''Oddinary'' at the end of a fan meeting at SKZ's Chocolate Factory. On February 28, the trailer was uploaded to the band's social media accounts. Directed by Kwon Yong-soo, The video depicts band member Felix holding a padlock, boarding a bus, and entering a building with the neon sign "ORDINARY", which suddenly changes to read "ODDINARY". He meets the other members, who attempt to corner him. The trailer shows Hyunjin whispering in Felix's left ear, followed by the caption "Do you want to be ODDINARY?" and a series of ellipses. Hyunjin pushes Felix from the window before jumping after him, and breaking and unlocking the padlock. At the end, Felix, wearing a different outfit, walks to stand with the other members, showing his left eye turning green. Pre-orders for ''Oddinary'' began on the same day as the trailer release,Citations concerning the pre-order of ''Oddinary'': * * coming in three editions on CD—a limited Frankenstein version and two standard versions, Scanning and Mask Off,Citations concerning the version of ''Oddinary'': * * including the

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exclusive versions alongside a pre-save on

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and

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. The complete track listing of the EP was posted on March 3, confirming "Maniac" as the

. Concept teaser images were uploaded on social media in three sets from March 4–5, 7–8, and 11–12. The first set depicts the band members in black clothes standing in front of a

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or shadow of a head with screws. The second shows the members wearing black-and-white costumes with a black mannequin and metal detectors. In the third, the members wear colorful outfits with exploding firecrackers and cracked, smiling, emoticon props in the background. Stray Kids teased the tracks via excerpt videos titled "Unveil: Track" for "Venom" on March 6, "Lonely St." on March 10, and "Freeze" on March 13, and as well as a mashup video that revealed the other tracks on March 14. Three music-video teasers for "Maniac" were released on March 15–17. Before the release, they uploaded the 20-minute documentary video ''Intro "Oddinary"'' and held an online press conference. ''Oddinary'' was released on March 18, in conjunction with an accompanying music video for "Maniac", at retail stores, and on

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and

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platforms. It was the band's first release on Republic Records after signing with label in February 2022. In addition to the lead single, the music videos for "Venom", "Lonely St.", and "Freeze" were released on March 23, 27, and 28, respectively, Individual-member-cover

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versions of ''Oddinary'' were released on March 28. Stray Kids began promoting ''Oddinary'' with the debut performance of "Maniac" at

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's ''

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'', and

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's ''

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'' on March 18, the same date as the release. However, on that day, JYP Entertainment announced that subsequent promotions had been postponed due to most members, except Felix and I.N, testing positive for

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. On March 26, the label announced that Stray Kids would continue promoting at the music shows beginning at ''

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'' on March 30, including ''

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'', ''Music Bank'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. The group also performed "Maniac" at '' Virtual Gayo Top 10'' on March 25, and ''

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Fresh Out Live'' on April 1. In support of ''Oddinary'', Stray Kids announced their second concert tour, titled "Maniac", on March 7, 2022, while teasing the EP. The 42-show tour opened with shows from April 29 to May 1 at

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, Seoul, South Korea, and traveled to Japan, the United States, and the

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region. It was the group's first concert tour in two years since their first tour, District 9: Unlock. In this tour, besides "Maniac", Stray Kids performed all of ''Oddinary'' for the first time, except "Freeze", which was first performed at

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on January 7, 2023.

Critical reception

Upon its release, ''Oddinary'' received positive reviews from music critics. ''

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''s Divyansha Dongre described it as a "powerful" EP and wrote of the group's "commitment towards re-defining their style and artistic growth". Tamar Herman from ''

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'' said the EP "has gathered a lot of buzz". Nandini Iyengar of

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praised Stray Kids for "proving their musical capabilities" and using everyday words more meaningfully on the EP. Writing for ''

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'', Tássia Assis gave the EP four stars out of five, noting the EP reflectes Stray Kids' "extraordinary passion, wit, and growth", and praised it as an "elegant step forward for a group who, hopefully, will never get tired of raising questions". Crystal Bell from ''

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'' said of ''Oddinary'': "The nature of that essence can best be described by the meaning of ODDINARY itself ... so why not embrace the things that made you different? It's the same principle that's been guiding Stray Kids from the very beginning, and it's why so many have fallen under their spell. They're not about to compromise now."

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reviewer Neil Z. Young gave the EP four stars out of five, stating the EP encapsulates the band's many sides; showcases their "aggressive blend of dance-friendly electronic and hip-hop"; and offers "hard-hitting anthems, earnest R&B-inspired vocal harmonies, and proof of rap prowess on the mike". According to ''

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'' writer Yemi, the EP "shows the skill that naturally appears according to the and'scareer"; Yani also said it "has not deviated too much from the previous releases in terms of sound and theme consciousness" because it "present something 'neatly organized', which is a virtue that is far from the team's previous appearance". ''

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'' listed ''Oddinary'' as one of the 50 best albums of 2022 at that time. According to the magazine's J. Lipshutz, the EP "mixes pop hooks, rap cadences and dance tempos in a manner familiar to mainstream K-pop, but each song lands with a dazzling intensity". ''South China Morning News'' Herman chose the EP as one of the best K-pop albums in the first half of 2022, saying it is "not what you might expect (random instrumental additions show up where they’re least expected but most welcome), but overwhelmingly addictive".

Accolades

Commercial performance

On March 17, 2022, the day before its release, it was reported ''Oddinary'' had sold 1.3 million copies in pre-orders, surpassing the 930,000 pre-orders of ''

'' and setting a new record as JYP Entertainment's most pre-ordered album. According to Hanteo Chart, the EP sold 855,021 copies in its first week. In South Korea, ''Oddinary'' debuted at number one on the

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on the issue date of March 13–19, selling 1,546,907 as of March. making it Stray Kids' best-selling album and second million-selling album after ''Noeasy''. Additionally, all seven of the album's tracks simultaneously entered the top 30 of the Gaon Download Chart. ''Oddinary'' received a "million" certification from the

(KMCA) on May 12, 2022. In the United States, ''Oddinary'' debuted at number one on the ''Billboard'' 200 on the issue dated April 4, 2022, becoming Stray Kids' first album to appear on the chart, and the third Korean act to top the chart after

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and

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. Of the 110,000

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s sold in its first week, 103,000 were pure sales with all but 2,500 of those being physical copies, and 10.09 million were on-demand streams; at the time it was the biggest sales week for an album in the US in 2022. The EP also peaked at number one the

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, and

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charts, and remained there on the latter chart for six consecutive weeks. The debut of ''Oddinary'' resulted in Stray Kids re-entering ''Billboard''s

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at number one for the first time, becoming the fourth Korean act to top it since BTS,

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, and SuperM. Four of the EP's tracks entered the

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, including "Maniac", which peaked at number one on that chart. ''Oddinary'' also appeared for the first time on several other national album charts; the

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at number 20, the Czech ČNS IFPI Albums Top 100 at number 87, the Italian

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at number 48, the New Zealand Official Top 40 Albums at number 33, the Swedish Sverigetopplistan Weekly Album at number 5, and the UK Official Albums Chart at number 95. It topped the Official Finnish Albums Chart, and the Polish

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Chart for the first time. ''Oddinary'' also charted in

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Track listing

Notes Translation of track titles in Korean: * Track 1: means a

spider web A spider web, spiderweb, spider's web, or cobweb (from the archaic word '' coppe'', meaning "spider") is a structure created by a spider out of proteinaceous spider silk extruded from its spinnerets, generally meant to catch its prey. Spid ...

* Track 4: is

onomatopoeia Onomatopoeia is the process of creating a word that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes. Such a word itself is also called an onomatopoeia. Common onomatopoeias include animal noises such as ''oink'', ''m ...

for tagging in the game

* Track 6: means "bloom"

Credits and personnel

Credits adapted from the EP's liner notes. Musicians *

** Bang Chan (

) – vocals ,

lyrics Lyrics are words that make up a song, usually consisting of verses and choruses. The writer of lyrics is a lyricist. The words to an extended musical composition such as an opera are, however, usually known as a "libretto" and their writer, a ...

composition Composition or Compositions may refer to: Arts and literature *Composition (dance), practice and teaching of choreography *Composition (language), in literature and rhetoric, producing a work in spoken tradition and written discourse, to include v ...

arrangement In music, an arrangement is a musical adaptation of an existing composition. Differences from the original composition may include reharmonization, melodic paraphrasing, orchestration, or formal development. Arranging differs from orches ...

, all

instruments Instrument may refer to: Science and technology * Flight instruments, the devices used to measure the speed, altitude, and pertinent flight angles of various kinds of aircraft * Laboratory equipment, the measuring tools used in a scientific lab ...

computer programming Computer programming is the process of performing a particular computation (or more generally, accomplishing a specific computing result), usually by designing and building an executable computer program. Programming involves tasks such as ana ...

** Changbin (3Racha) – vocals , lyrics , composition ** Han (3Racha) – vocals , lyrics , composition ** Lee Know – vocals , lyrics , composition ** Hyunjin – vocals , lyrics , composition ** Felix – vocals , lyrics , composition ** Seungmin – vocals , lyrics , composition ** I.N – vocals , lyrics , composition *

– composition , arrangement * Versachoi – composition , arrangement , all instruments * Trippy – composition , arrangement ,

synthesizer A synthesizer (also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis and ...

, drum , bass , computer programming * Jun2 – composition , arrangement , computer programming * Nickko Young – composition , arrangement , guitar , drum * Kim Hong-seo – bass * Millionboy – composition , arrangement , all instruments Technical * Lee Kyeong-won –

digital editing Digital media is any media (communication), communication media that operate in conjunction with various encoded machine-readable data formats. Digital media can be created, viewed, distributed, modified, listened to, and preserved on a digital ...

* Bang Chan (3Racha) – digital editing ,

recording A record, recording or records may refer to: An item or collection of data Computing * Record (computer science), a data structure ** Record, or row (database), a set of fields in a database related to one entity ** Boot sector or boot record, ...

* Goo Hye-jin – recording * Lee Sang-yeop – recording * Lim Hong-jin – mixing *

Manny Marroquin Manny Marroquin (born September 21, 1971) is an American mixing engineer.Daley, Dan (May 2005).Manny Marroquin. ''Sound on Sound''. Retrieved February 10, 2007 He has received ten Grammy awards for his professional audio work. Life and career M ...

– mixing * Yoon Won-kwon – mixing * Shin Bong-won – mixing * Lee Tae-sub – mixing * Chris Galland – mix engineering * Ramiro Fernandez-Seoane – mix engineering assistant * Kwon Nam-woo – mastering * Dave Kutch – mastering Locations * JYP Publishing (

KOMCA The Korea Music Copyright Association (KOMCA) is a South Korean non-profit copyright collective for musical works, administering public performance and broadcasting rights, and mechanical recording and reproduction rights. Founded in 1964, it is ...

) – original

publishing Publishing is the activity of making information, literature, music, software and other content available to the public for sale or for free. Traditionally, the term refers to the creation and distribution of printed works, such as books, newsp ...

, sub-publishing * Prescription Songs (

ASCAP The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) () is an American not-for-profit performance-rights organization (PRO) that collectively licenses the public performance rights of its members' musical works to venues, broadca ...

) – original publishing * Copyright Control – original publishing * AMRA – sub-publishing * JYPE Studios – recording , mixing * Channie's "Room" – recording *

Larrabee Studios Larrabee Sound Studios is a recording studio complex in North Hollywood, California, originally established in 1969. Facilities Located at 4162 Lankershim Boulevard in North Hollywood, Larrabee has six studios, three tracking spaces, and a prod ...

– mixing * Studio DDeepKick – mixing * Glab Studios – mixing * 821 Sound Mastering – mastering * The Mastering Palace – mastering

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