A2K (JYPE US GG) ep.2 "Show Your Talent" Premiere

It's starting!!! Damn, wish I hadn't put my dinner in the oven.

I'm gonna have to leave mid-episode so my food doesn't burn.

Right into the auditions we go!

I've already seen Melissa's covers. Baby girls talented! What's she singing...?

Wrecking Ball!!!?

She's a little nasally. Her Easy cover was amazing, but this is good too.

Was not expecting JYPE to say that it wasn't "great" though. She sounded pretty good to me.

Atlanta!!!!

Yaaaaaaaaas!! Cristina!! I was waiting for her.

I had to physically run to get my dinner so I didn't miss this!!!

I had no idea "Love You Like A Love Song" was so popular. Sis...is not a great singer, so I hope her dancing is on point.

Of course, Dalla Dalla. The MVP of these auditions.

JYP roasting another contestant, but we already know she's going through.

New York!!! Savanna.

They were roasting her rapping last episode. Let's see if it's as bad as everyone thinks lol.

Dalla Dalla again!? Are there any other JYPE GG songs? They don't exist?

What about Icy, MITM, ...I don't know lmao?

Damn...she is not doing well, lmao?

Is she going to pass?

Wtf, JYP...he actually liked it lol.

Omg, it's the 12 year old.

Not sure how I feel about this. Let's see how she does.

Quote from Clmlrv

you rap like you mean it...

Yeah, I was actually defending her last Thursday, but yeah, it wasn't good lol.

Hopefully she gets better.

Damn, the 12 year old is a better singer than anyone else today.

Idk if I believe her about the breathing though.

Oh, there was a list. That's why everybody is doing Dalla Dalla.

I feel like even if Kaylee doesn't debut with this group, she will become the next Lily and become a well known trainee.

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The first girl was really good and Kaylee is really good but they shouldn't debut her now in 3 or 4 years she will be perfect, Also I really don't understand how that Christina girl has a dance academy with those low skills

Chances are she is teaching people her age and younger.

She basically created a KPOP dance team and probably calls it an academy to make it sound fancier. Like how people try to make their resumes sound fancier than they actually are. It's probably a dance team that does KPOP covers like the ones on those YouTube videos.

You have to keep in mind that this is in the US and not Korea, so there are not as many opportunities for people to dance KPOP. In Korea (especially Seoul), there are probably a lot places to get professionally trained while dancing to KPOP songs. That's not the case in the US, so people have to make do with what they've got if KPOP is their hobby.

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Kaylee so precocious! She is gonna be a force to reckon with if she gets accepted as a trainee. Only 12 and 3-4 yrs of training is gonna make her so ready. She can sing already and learned it herself along with dancing.

If JYP is smart, he better find a way to keep Kaylee. If she ends up signing with another agency, he will regret it. I'm just thinking like what happened to Natty or Somi.

I agree. She's has potential.

Also, the fact that she's Korean and speaks Korean, I feel she has a good chance to stick with JYPE if she doesn't debut with this group, which seems unlikely. Most of the girls they have been casting have been 16/17. That's a very narrow age range that would not make sense for a 12 or 13 year old to join.

Hopefully she also has family in Korea since I know it would probably be scary for her to move there by herself. Most of the JYPE trainees that have moved to Korea by themselves have been at least older teens. The only I can think of that came very young is Bambam.

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think the next episode has the jyp trainee, prob gonna see a big difference with her skill to show what a seasoned trainee looks like

Yeah, I'd hope so lol.

It seems like JYP was extra critical this episode, so hopefully next episode has a little something more.