Do you think Mnet will give a daesang to NewJeans at MAMAs? 31
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Yes (20) 65%
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No (11) 35%
The storyline: Will the ADOR/Mnet beef carry over into this year's MAMAs--Mnet Asian Music Awards?
For those who aren't aware, prior to last year's MAMAs, ADOR and Mnet were on good terms, and NewJeans still promoted on Mnet programs like M-Countdown:
But everything changed after the 2022 MAMAs; NewJeans were invited to perform on both days of the event and walked away completely empty-handed.
That's despite four groups walking out of the 2022 MAMAs with ROY awards. Yet NewJeans, the group most agree had the biggest debut and rookie year ever, was not one of them.
Even their CEO, Min Heejin, walked away with an award for Breakout Producer, but Mnet couldn't even come up with one of their little one-off random categories to make sure NewJeans received something.
You may think this isn't a big deal, but ADOR has literally not sent NewJeans to any Mnet production ever since. It's been two entire promotion cycles since then, and they are clearly still not over this.
So now we get to see if Mnet will bury the hatchet and let bygones be bygones this year. Because NewJeans are somehow even bigger frontrunners for daesangs this year than they were for ROY awards last year.
Or will Mnet match petty energy with petty energy and freeze out NewJeans again, at the cost of destroying whatever credibility their awards have left?
Stay tuned~
Oh, I made a poll because why not.