SB19 MBTI

Tayo ma’y magkalayo

Panalangin ko’y kayo

Takot ay maglalaho

Ito’y aking pangako

Ako’y andito

Josh (ISTP): Tara, road trip tayo!

Stell (ESFP): Sure! Kailan ba yan?

Josh (ISTP): Now na!

Stell (ESFP): Go! *naghanda na ng gamit*

Pablo (ENTJ): Ano?!?! Ngayon na! Bakit ngayon lang kayo nagsabi? Saan tayo pupunta? Paano tayo pupunta doon? Ano kakainin natin?

Josh (ISTP): Dalhin natin kotse ni Jah papunta dito *looks at map and randomly points to a spot*

Jah (INFJ): *all this time tahimik na iniisip mga dadalhin nyang gamit at paano ipagkakasya lahat sa maleta at nagpapanic na dahil walang plano* Ha? Magda-drive ako papuntang Bicol?

Ken (INFP): Okay, ready na ako! *nagsuot ng cap at mask*

Mana

Verse 1

Ayy, isn’t it mysterious?

(You) didn’t know me while I was still on the ground*

Ayy, I can’t remember when you asked how I was, I bet you fifty

Ayy, now that I am flying high**

You say I’ve changed

Didn’t you miss me, oh, yeah

Nah, I’d rather half my body go missing, oh yeah

Pre-chorus

Why is it like this?

I don’t understand what you’re saying

Is the world unfair?

If it really is, here, I’ll change it

It’s not my problem

If you still don’t see

I possess the gift

That you can’t deny

Chorus:

Manananggal, manananggal, manananggal, mana***

Heaven and earth will come together+

As long as you believe

Even if you don’t see the true value of my gift

Post-chorus:

Mana

Mana

Mana

Mana***

Verse 2

Huh? I can’t hear what you’re saying

Your words don’t reach me where I am

And the airplane beside me is really noisy

I’ll go turbo, turning on the nitro

Zoom, flying away, I’m not stopping

I be floating here ‘cause I’m grounded, chillin’***

Whatcha calling punks? Yeah, we not dead

Pre-chorus

Is there nothing new?

Something that I don’t know about myself

Haven’t you learned?

I think you really need a miracle

It’s not my problem

If you still don’t see

I possess the gift

That you can’t deny

Chorus

Manananggal, manananggal, manananggal, mana***

Heaven and earth will come together+

As long as you believe

Even if you don’t see the true value of my gift

Post-chorus:

Mana

Mana

Bridge:

Because I’m an aswang so you’re afraid of me?#

Just shut your mouth

Do not test my patience

Fine, fine

Just don’t sleep on me

Because I’m an aswang so you’re afraid of me?

Just shut your mouth

Do not test my patience

Fine, fine

Chorus:

Manananggal, manananggal, manananggal, mana***

Heaven and earth will come together+

As long as you believe

Even if you don’t see the true value of my gift

Manananggal

Just don’t sleep on me or else (Rahh)

Mana

Mana

Mana

*”nasa lupa pa” is a Filipino idiomatic expression that means someone is still unknown, poor, or lower status

**”nasa alapaap” literally translates to being in the sky

***”manananggal” is a Filipino supernatural being that looks human during the day and can separate its upper body from its lower body at night. It hunts for food at night, basically humans. When it halves its body vertically, it sprouts wings on its back so its upper body flies around while its lower body (waist down to feet) stays on the ground in a safe place.a

“Mana” means gift or inheritance. Manananggals select a person to transfer its abilities to through mana.

+”Langit lupa’y magsasama” references the Filipino idiomatic expression “langit at lupa” which means “extremely opposite”. In the song, they literally say “Heaven and earth will come together” which is basically something impossible or extremely opposite coming together, thus, saying we are making the impossible, possible

According to Jonathan Creek, there are 4 types of introverts. While a study published in Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience found that there are 2 types of extroverts. Google’s right there for you guys to delve deeper into these topics. I’ll focus on the types I think SB19 are 😁

The Extroverts

Pablo 🌭 - Agentic Extrovert defined as go-getters. They are assertive, persistent and driven by success. They feel comfortable being in the limelight and take leadership positions when opportunities arise.

Stell 🍓 - Affiliative Extrovert defined as social butterflies. They are friendly, warm, and can easily break the ice with new people. Close relationships mean a lot to them and they tend to have a very large group of friends.

The Introverts

Josh 🍢 - Social Introvert. They prefer to be alone or socialize with small groups, however they are not shy and don’t feel anxious around others.

Justin 🌽 - Restrained Introvert. They think before they act and move at a slightly slower pace, making sure every action is intentional and thought through.

The Ambivert

Ken 🐥 - Ambivert. Socially comfortable and interactive, yet value alone time.

So in the latest TM Mad Rush to your Crush episode, we saw the members showing their I/E/A preferences clearly.

Here you have Pablo standing and dancing every time the stans sing/rap, he’s really energized by the whole activity. Then Stell interacting with everyone, being the quintessential social butterfly that he is.

The introverts are just chilling on one side of the bench. Josh piping up when he feels like it but mostly just vibing where he is. While Justin is keeping close to the people closest to him, SB19, mostly just observing and reacting rather than being in the thick of things.

Then we’ve got ambivert Ken with The Juans at the back, talking and laughing with them. I’ll guess he probably got some good sleep at the end of that day to reenergize.

They’re all cuties and I’m amazed at how balanced their group is. Every member has a different style but this is the reason why they work well together. Each one brings something different to the table and that means more creativity going into their craft 💙

Credits: Definitions are from medium.com

The way I observe this is how someone answers when asked to lay out a plan. I also see this in how someone organises their lives or activities. Usually, when someone have a strong preference for each end of the spectrum - J vs P - it’s very obvious 😁

Pablo 🌭 - Very strong Judging (J)

He has a very strong Judging preference. It’s no wonder he’s been chosen as the leader of the group because he has such strong preference for organisation with the skills to match. This is why planning and executing comes so easily for him because it’s his natural inclination. The best example of this is his answer to their TM Pusuan question - Ideal Date with Crush (pic below). He’s got that date planned out from beginning to end! Another example is how he’s the one who takes the longest to get ready but still shows up on time. This is because he wakes up early - it shows how he plans his day to make sure he hits every one his goals.

Josh 🍢 - Strong Perceiving

I would actually say he has a strong Perceiving preference. He’s more laid-back and go-with-the-flow. You can see it when he mentioned he’s investing in cryptocurrencies, this type of investment matches his preference as it is volatile and exciting, he has the flexibility to meet this volatility and do what is needed. In their What The Making Film, he mentioned how he directed his part on the day of his shoot and changed it from the original plan. His ideal date is literally no plan at all 😅

Stell 🍓 - Balanced but leans to Perceiving

As far as I can see, he’s balanced. He does not plan every single thing but he’s still organised. However, I do think he may lean towards P more as he often improvises on the spot. For example, during the epic WHATxMAPA YTBardagulan, he invited everyone to his TikTok for a live, seeing a great opportunity to interact with A’tins. For his ideal date, he has a general plan of what they’ll do but with a lot of room to improvise should the need arise.

Ken 🐥 - Perceiving

He’s another perceiving type. You can see it when he re-choreographed his parts of What as they started practicing it. When he shared his story about how he came to Manila during their Kwento Juan podcast, he showed the classic hallmarks of a P - having just an end goal but no detailed plan of how to get there. All he knew was that he’ll get to Manila to start training for SB19. He didn’t even tell his relatives he was coming and just showed up on their doorstep. His ideal date is another grand plan with very little details - it’s basically a goal, not exactly a plan.

Justin 🌽 - Very strong Judging

He’s so obviously a J, it’s funny! It’s great that he and Pablo focus on different aspects of their group - Pablo focuses on songs/music and Justin focuses on visuals/creative direction - because they complement each other very well. His strong Judging preference is what helped him complete a degree with an Honorable Mention AND debut with SB19 at the same time. That takes mad organisational skills to pull off. I remember in another interview he mentioned he presented a powerpoint presentation of their plans for their clothing collaboration (or someone mentioned - I forgot) but that just demonstrates how much he prefers Judging. He loves to plan and seeing him in action creative-directing What from planning to execution shows this. Just take a look at his plan for an ideal date where he has decided what they would do down to the minutest detail.

Now that I have set out my initial assessments of each members’ preferences, I’ll move to blogging my thoughts on how these preferences emerge in their activities. I may be a clown 🤡 and got it all wrong but I think those strong preferences are way too obvious to say otherwise 😅

This is actually very hard to observe basing on just interviews and activities - especially when there are no overt examples of decision making. However, some members demonstrate very strong preference for either T or F in their behaviors or how they talk about specific experiences.

Pablo 🌭 - Thinking

He prefers thinking as far as I’ve seen. You can see how rational and logical he is when he answers questions. The example that really stands out to me that shows his T preference is their interview in Mars Pa More and they were asked who was the most picky with food. Everybody pointed to Pablo as the pickiest and he was so surprised 😅 - his surprised Pikachu face was so funny! The reason the group picked him as the pickiest is because he comments on the food a lot. To Pablo, it’s just a logical comment - the food is too salty - and that’s it. There is no malice in his comments. It really didn’t cross his mind how his comments impact others (ie the person who cooked the food). You can also see it in the What The Making Film Episode 1 when he asked Stell to redo his part and he said it in a very straightforward manner. If we look at what he decided to make in their MAPA artwork, he went with presenting something theoretical rather than something personal like showing his family.

Josh 🍢 - Thinking

He has a very strong preference for thinking and among the four dimensions, this is his strongest preference. In their PopCinema with SB19 interview, he answered that the first thing he checks in the morning is the state of his crypto investments. He’s also very objective when he answers questions. When he commented about a hate tweet they received about him being the ugliest member of the group, he just said maybe that’s really how the person saw him and took it very rationally. This is also probably how he overcame all the challenges he had in his life because he views everything from a logical lens. In his MAPA artwork, he decided to draw what he wants to give - a very objective presentation.

Stell 🍓 - Feeling

He has a very strong preference for feeling and this is his strongest preference as well. It’s quite obvious that he seeks to be caring all the time when they do things. In the Kwento Juan podcast, he explained how he sought motivation to continue being in the group. This is also why he’s the most affected by bashing because he takes these comments personally. But because of his strong preference for feeling, he is a ray of sunshine for the group and A’tin. He puts relationships first and the impact of what they do on their relationships. His MAPA artwork was deeply personal to him as he presented his grandparents.

Ken 🐥 - Feeling

I think Ken is more balanced but tips to the feeling preference more than thinking. There’s a level of being consultative in his decision-making even though he also challenges first. For example, he discussed his decision to go to Manila with his grandparents first. His MAPA artwork was coming from a personal point of view as he presented an OFW mother (coming from his experience being a child of OFWs) and yet he made it generic or more objective as it was not exactly his mom he drew.

Justin 🌽 - Feeling

He has a preference for feeling. He consults with other people when he makes decisions. Even though he’d conceptualised the concept for their What? music video, he still consulted the group and his friends and took their inputs before pushing through with the final work. In his recent birthday live on Instagram, he asked everyone first whether it was okay to invite fans to the live before doing it. Even in their Kwento Juan podcast, he presented his experience relative to the other members’ experiences showing how relationships are very important to him when he decides to say or do something.

The way I observe this in people is how they describe the world around them. How they answer questions.

Pablo 🌭 - Intuition (N)

He is a very strong N from what I have observed so far. Just read the lyrics to his songs and you can tell it’s an N who wrote them. He is very metaphorical. His strong N is what makes him think up titles like MAPA and make it represent Mama and Papa, Mata (Eyes) and Paa (Feet), AND map - our parents being the metaphorical map of our lives. This is also illustrated in the SB19 Artwork for MAPA episode when he presented his artwork. Where others took a more literal approach (in a spectrum of course 😊) - he drew his MAPA as the dots and line in the middle of his drawing with the dots representing emotions and how in times of darkness and happiness, he’ll always go back to his center (ie family). This is also why he’s not into small talk 😅 he prefers deeper conversations about concepts and ideas.

Josh 🍢 - Sensing (S)

He’s a strong S. This is illustrated by how detailed he answers questions, especially when he’s asked to describe something or an event. Probably why people say he’s talkative though he’s an Introvert. I wasn’t surprised he won the Category Game in their PopCinema with SB19 interview. Highly preferring S means he can think up of lists very easily. In his MAPA drawing, he drew what he wanted to give to his MAPA rather than present the idea of what MAPA means. This shows how grounded he is on practicality and reality rather than abstract concepts. This also explains how great he is at making microexpressions like in his What? elevator scene.

Stell 🍓 - Sensing (S)

He is an S but not as strong as Josh. He also gives a lot of details when asked questions. In his MAPA drawing, he literally presented his MAPA, being his grandparents. This is also why he’s good at their song games, he pays attention to and remembers details and facts about songs. This also explains their very detailed point choreography where he puts an action to every beat and their micro-movements (for want of a better word - I’m not a dancer but this is the only descriptor I can think of 😅).

Ken 🐥 - Intuition (N)

He is not a very obvious N (unlike Pablo) as he is also an Introvert so the way his N manifests is harder to spot. However, I think he’s an N based on how he answers questions - he gives broad ideas rather than details or sometimes just quips a one-liner that just ends the conversation. In MAPA as well, there was a lot of metaphor in his work and he used colors to represent ideas - like the darker color of the clothes representing the pain parents go through and how he represented being apart from his parents as a slash of white separating the mom from the baby.

Justin 🌽 - Balanced Sensing (S) and Intuition (N)

Among all of them, it was hardest for me to determine Justin’s preference. In what I’ve seen so far, he’s very balanced and hasn’t really shown a strong preference for either. He’s very meticulous about details but at the same time he loves to talk about what things mean or represent. It’s his S that makes him add easter eggs in their music videos and get to the minutest detail of the presentation or visual. At the same time, his N helps him think of concepts and metaphors. Being a creative person, he may be an N with a very well-developed S. In his MAPA artwork, he represented himself and his brothers as airplanes with his parents guiding them from the side, which shows N - use of metaphors.

Pablo 🌭 ENTJ - The Commander

He has very strong preference for N and J.

Josh 🍢 ISTP - The Virtuoso

He has very strong preference for S and T.

Stell 🍓 ESFP - The Entertainer

He has very strong preference for E and F.

Ken 🐥 INFP - The Mediator

Ken seems very balanced and I haven’t observed very strong preferences yet.

Justin 🌽 ISFJ - The Defender

He has very strong preference for J. So far, the rest is more balanced.

As a group, they have a very balanced mix of preferences and I think this is the reason why they work well together. They each use their strengths effectively to pull each other up.

credits: The names of each personality type is from www.16personalities.com

The way I usually observe this in people is how they get their energy. For example, do they get energy from others or from themselves? Are they hyped after a big performance in front of a crowd or do they go and be by themselves to recharge? When performing activities, do they prefer working quietly or do they talk through what they’re doing with others?

From my observations of their interactions with each other, this is what I think:

Pablo 🌭 - Extrovert

It’s very clear Pinuno is an extrovert. From their Show Break S3 Ep. 15 when they played “Among Us,” he talks through everything he did 😅 In one interview as well (which I forgot), he mentioned he had the hardest time in lockdown because he couldn’t meet anyone.

I wish I knew how to gif but I don’t so here’s the best I can do 😔

Josh 🍢 - Introvert

My gut feel is that Josh is an introvert. In the SB19 What?: The Making Film Ep. 1, Justin filmed him being by himself in another room. I think he was probably charging his energy battery away from the rest. There was also another instance where Justin (again) found him outside the door by himself 😁

Stell 🍓 - Extrovert

Another clear extrovert, Stell is described as the life of the party. He loves being around people and you can see how much energy he gets from them. In that Among Us game, Pablo and Stell were the loudest during the entire game 😁 Also, in TM’a Mad Rush For Your Crush episodes, Stell is the one who’s interacting with everyone and is the loudest of the bunch with his quips and jokes.

Ken 🐥 - Introvert (may be an Ambivert)

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Justin 🌽 - Introvert (may be an Ambivert)

To be honest, I had the hardest time decoding the Bunso Line and I think it’s because they may be ambiverts though I think they may fall in the introvert side of the spectrum more than the extrovert side. I think they get along well because of this preference. It seems like they can socialise very well with others and interact but need to be alone to recharge. Justin mentioned in one of their MYX interviews that he would like to go on vacation ALONE. Ken does exhibit the behaviors of a classic introvert - prefers to stay quiet unless it’s absolutely necessary for him to talk.