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Meet Stray Kids, Your New Favorite K-Pop Group

The boy band's debut album is already one of the most-anticipated releases of 2018.

Stray Kids might be 2018's next breakout K-Pop group. The super-slick boy band's latest music video, tiled “어린 날개," or "young wings," has already racked up nearly a million views since it was posted three days ago. Their previous hit, "Hellevator," has 15 million views and climbing, and all of this is happening without a single actual album to their name.

Stray Kids released a pre-album "mixtape," this week that debuted at number two on the Billboard World Albums charts. The mixtape includes “어린 날개," and other songs performed on the hit Korean show Stray Kids that chronicled the nine-member boy band's formation and early days.

“어린 날개," is a simple and sweet song, as far as K-Pop goes. It's tempers down the boy band's typically aggro style with a bit of late 90s/ early aughts melody. In the video the nine young men dance around on a helipad, all of them clad in matching black leather and ripped denim outfits and nearly identical bowl cuts. The song is about the anxiety of "adulting," when you're just barely an adult. It's basically a song about growing up, but feeling stressed about the change—the youngest members were born in 2000 so it probably rings pretty true to the boys and their fans.

If the band's warm-up is generating this much attention, we can't wait for Stray Kids to "spread their wings" this year.