When do you think SMNBG will debut?

I get that NCT have the "infinite amount of members" concept, but I think that SM would eventually choose to debut a brand new stand-alone boy group while they continue to debut new NCT units. SM ent doesn't debut a new boy group since 2016, which makes NCT a 7-years-old project, which is a lot for SM standards [there was a 3 years old break between TVXQ(2003), SUJU (2005) and SHINee's (2008) debut and a 4 years old break for EXO(2012)]

I dream of a new boy group which has an exactly different concept as NCT - so, more vocally-oriented and small (similar to TVXQ and SHINee) - so that those two groups can attract two different kinds of audience

So, when do you think SM will debut a new boy group?

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but SM can debut vocally-orinted and small NCT sub-unit

I think they can do everything, but it seems like it's not a path they don't want to take... Like, it seems like they want to debut a japanese unit, an american unit (nct hollywood) and many other units based on the continents of their members

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I think they will eventually debut new boy group, but so far why bother when NCT is super popular and brings a lot of money? building new brand and sound is expensive af.

Many comapnies debut a lot of groups to have more sources of income at the same time, like Jyp or Hybe

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i think japanese unit or american unit or whatever region unit can be small and vocally oriented. Music direction and size does not depend on country.

yea I get it, but it seems (at least to me) that they want to keep that performance-driven concept. That said, anything can happen

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Jyp still has less active acts than SM. And Hybe is a different case from structure perspective (and still have less active acts).

I mean, i have some serious qiestions to SM regarding menegment of current acts, do they need more idols to mismanage?

No they don't need more idols to mismanage, but the thing about SM is that they have a selective mismanagment; they start not paying attention to idols when they become part of older acts, and they fixate on newer groups- so I think that they will be able to manage as many groups they want as long as they're in their firsts years of activity

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B-but... NCT is also vocal oriented.

they got good vocalists but for they titletracks they rely on the SMP style the most - I won't say their most famous songs are vocally driven

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You'll find heavy vocals on any NCT title track. In fact, 127 who often gets associated with this style the most has far more vocalists than rappers. And if you listen to an album from them, most of their b-sides are heavy on R&B.

That's not the point, any SM groups have good vocalists, but vocal-centered groups are those kind of groups like Mamamoo who are all main vocalist material and all of their songs play on that. NCT is a group with good vocalists and rappers, most of their titletracks have an hip/hop feel and they both sing and rap in those