Hate Rodrigo is easily a SOTY contender.

They should had atleast changed the title from Hate Rodrigo to something else cos its very inappropriate no matter what was yena's intention

i don't know bout soty but why anyone would try to make a controversy out of this song is just strange

I wholeheartedly agree with you! Hate Rodrigo definitely SOTY winner for the dumbest marketing tactics in kpop this year.

50/50 will win AOTY, no one ever doing it like them in kpop. They speedrun 7 years worth of experience for other groups in just 4 months.

Please everyone vote for them harder.

I wonder who will win ALOTY 🤔

wicked love could be too

Yep, I completely agree that Hate Rodrigo is an amazing song. Yena is crazy talented and didn’t deserve the amount of backlash that was received. Wouldn’t have been a big deal at all 25 years ago, but it’s a different time…

Totally disagree. Stupid song, stupid concept.

You can try and paint the controversy as stupid all you like - naming the song that was a masterclass in stupidity. Particularly as Rodrigo was coming out with her new album around the same time.

That aside, song's fine I guess. As for some of her other stuff (Love War? and Wicked Love), the hard and simple truth is Yena's idol vocals just aren't up to the task to carry those songs - those songs ask for more in the RnB vocal area, and Yena just is not it. She just doesn't have enough to carry what those songs ask for.

She gets given 8/10 songs and makes em 6/10s.

I wouldn't call it soty but I did enjoy it, and the bsides aswell. And I agree the controversy was overblown

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That aside, song's fine I guess. As for some of her other stuff (Love War? and Wicked Love), the hard and simple truth is Yena's idol vocals just aren't up to the task to carry those songs - those songs ask for more in the RnB vocal area, and Yena just is not it. She just doesn't have enough to carry what those songs ask for.

She gets given 8/10 songs and makes em 6/10s.

I see your point but I just want to point out that she does not always just "get given" songs.

She is credited on the composition of Wash Away, Love War and Hate Rodrigo, and the lyrics of most of her tracks

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She is credited on the composition of Wash Away, Love War and Hate Rodrigo, and the lyrics of most of her tracks

I mean, fair enough I stand corrected on that aspect, but, with full apologies to Yena, my main point remains. She obviously wants to not be pigeon-holed in Pop Punk so I understand why she tried the genre, but she may need to look elsewhere.