Stray Kids is an eight-member South Korean boy band comprising Bang Chan, Lee Know, Changbin, Hyunjin, Han, Felix, Seungmin, and I.N. JYP Entertainment formed them through the 2017 reality show of the same name. "Case 143" is the lead single from their mini-album Maxident.
"Case 143" is a pop and electro-hop track where Stray Kids are smitten with a girl. Sung and rapped in a mixture of South Korean and English, the boys cannot explain why they can't resist their feelings. The Stray Kids liken their confusion about their emotions to an unresolved case – case 143.
Why case 143? It's a numeric code based on how many letters there are in each word of "I Love You": I (1), Love (4), You (3). The term "143" for "I love you" was popularized back in the late 1980s and early 1990s when pagers were widely used. Because the devices had limited space for messages and not all supported text, couples used 143 to express their feelings for each other. Musiq Soulchild recorded a song about the love code titled "143" for his 2000 debut album Aijuswanaseing.
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