[enter-talk] If Wooyeon and Nana would be from big agency they would've been legendary

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Also, there's a misconception about Nana and how unfortunate girls like her are to come from a small agency or whatever.

If not for CEO Kim Kyu-sang, Nana wouldn't be an idol today. Not because he's the one who took her in after she got rejected by bigger agencies. She never auditioned for any agency. She didn't consider becoming an idol. It is CEO Kim Kyu-sang who spotted her at a dance contest and convinced her to join the group he wanted to build. His agency didn't even exist yet.

Later she met an SM scout who offered her to join the company; but she declined as she'd rather remain loyal to the one who placed his faith in her and who she trusted could debut her successfully.

So no, not all idols from nugu agencies have a sob story. I think she's the kind of girl who, if her career had to end tomorrow, would miss the thing but wouldn't be too depressed about it. She just enjoys the moment and have fun with the opportunities she gets.

Interesting fact. This also gets rid of the "big 4 criteria is very strict and other agency didn't think she was good enough" arguement

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Most kpop fans are success stan how many kpop fans that you know stan Idols outside of the big4? and when they do usually it's a famous group

hm, im rooting for bb girls, 50 50, h1-key and woah. but i they get famous i wont unstan.

Most of this talk about "pretty but nugu looking" is more about styling. Some ZB1 stans doesn't even recognize Jiwoong in old photos, and his face is the same, but he was in small companies who gave him bad styling. Soojin and Eunbi is the same case, they looked like a average nugu girlgroup member when they were from small companies (that's not a drag, the enchanting effect celebrities have is about good styling, my faves would suffer the same with bad styling).

Nana looks amazing with this kind of styling. I don't like the fringe covering her whole forehead how she usually use, and I prefer her with black hair.

Wooyeon is really pretty too.

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Most of this talk about "pretty but nugu looking" is more about styling. Some ZB1 stans doesn't even recognize Jiwoong in old photos, and his face is the same, but he was in small companies who gave him bad styling. Soojin and Eunbi is the same case, they looked like a average nugu girlgroup member when they were from small companies (that's not a drag, the enchanting effect celebrities have is about good styling, my faves would suffer the same with bad styling).

Yeah these are somewhat true.

I mean, Ye-a Kazoo and Izone Eunbi looks like a different people

I also remembered the response of kpop stans when chaewon and sakura photos with bang pd posted. Many saying that those two looks a bit different.

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Yeah these are somewhat true.

I mean, Ye-a Kazoo and Izone Eunbi looks like a different people

I also remembered the response of kpop stans when chaewon and sakura photos with bang pd posted. Many saying that those two looks a bit different.

I didn't know the power of a good styling till I saw these girls nugu era. In Produce 48 Eunbi image was already better and more celebrity-like, since she was already in woollim.

Soojin case is interesting too, who could imagine this girl would carry so much sexiness and star factor:

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I didn't know the power of a good styling till I saw these girls nugu era. In Produce 48 Eunbi image was already better and more celebrity-like, since she was already in woollim.

Soojin case is interesting too, who could imagine this girl would carry so much sexiness and star factor:

oh wow, I barely recognized her

What is even "typical small company visual"? so classist imo. And they say Nana lack star power and then proceeds to say Eunwoo who is really bland

Woo!ah! is visual group tbh too bad they are from nugu company and i think they debuted too early imo

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even if i agree that obviously big 4 company idols gets more chance to get viral

i also agree that if these girls were truly beautiful in the sense of someone leaving you speechless because of how beautiful they are, they would already be viral or get a little more attention

because we already had tons of example about how when some is visually very stunning, big company or not they'll always go viral just look at Nana, Seolhyun, Jiyeon, Naeun, Yura, Hara, Hani, Doyeon, Jei.....

the list is long

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seolhyun, jiyeon, hara and hani got some recognition but it went alongsite musical success. all the groups had allready hits when they made headlines vor their visuals. i dont know the other girls. but being pretty is usually not enough to make it in an industry with so many pretty people.