Soojin fumbled the bag HARD with her debut

I feel like Soojin lost all her confidence after that scandal she kind of lost that sexy confidant aura that she used to have I mean look her she can’t even perform live to her fans

It’s seems that scandal harmed her more psychologically than we think so it’s probably going to take some time before she goes back on stage

"she doesn't want to promote" is likely untrue, her reputation is pretty bad and whats left of her popularity is just not worthy for shows to get her

I think she fumbled her debut badly but the reason is that she chose a chill song with boring choreo, she was known mostly for her sexy aura in Gidle, she should go that way, with a english title, banger song, catchy choreo, focus a bit internationally since koreans don't care about her either way

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God, this makes me cry. Yeah, you're right but her management team should have handled this better and picked a better song for her.

Well she said that she chose this song because this is what suits her right now also this is only a debut song we don’t how her career is going to progress let’s take Somi for example her debut and her latest release have nothing to do with one another artist take time to find what actually suits them don’t forget her identity was centred around her group and now she’s solo

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I feel like Soojin lost all her confidence after that scandal she kind of lost that sexy confidant aura that she used to have I mean look her she can’t even perform live to her fans

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It’s seems that scandal harmed her more psychologically than we think so it’s probably going to take some time before she goes back on stage

She knows people are jugging and she does not have other members to hide behind or to lift her confidence.

It's hard to put yourself in front of a crowd and perform solo, when you're out of one big bullying scandal and a years long hiatus, and used to perform within a group. Plus, I'm not sure she ever was that confident in her vocals. Her charisma and stage presence came from her dancing and expressiveness. Singing live with a minimal backtrack never was her forte.

I'm not that surprised because even back when Gidle was a full group with no bullying controversies, I was already skeptical about Soojin as a solo. She was so shy. She seemed very comfortable letting other lead the way, do the talking, relying on them to make decisions, etc.

Now that I think of it, I even remember reading once that, at first, the leader position was offered to her since she was the eldest Korean member (before Miyeon joined Cube). And she declined promptly. But once you're solo, you're your own leader. Even if someone backstage makes all the decisions in terms of music, art direction, concepts, etc; when you're on stage in front of an audience, you're on your own, there's no one to hide behind.

I was rooting for her so hard, but as you said, the songs were very boring and generic. I hope she can regain the confidence she had when she was in g-idle, and come back strong for her next release.

Y'all are being stupid for no reason, she already said many times that shes an introvert now with the bullying scandal she's even more cautious and thats fine. Her debut did amaziiing, she doesnt wanna do shows for now cuz she clearly said she came back mostly for the fans. When she settles she'll be back with a banger and promote it.

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I'm not stupid.

Liar

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... So, if you want to comeback you need to be clearer or you can go the JYP route and ignore it. ...

But both groups are not popular anymore in Korea. For Stray Kids it doesn't matter, because they have already exploded globally. But Itzy were doing so well, and lost a lot of momentum.

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Also, if she doesn't want to promote on music shows then fine but making a statement citing the bullying scandal as the reason is a bad PR move from her management team.

What? There is no such statement. All the company said is: "We have no scheduled music show promotions, and we'll communicate with fans mainly on social media or YouTube. With that being said, it isn’t like we have not promoted (in Korea) at all. We have already held a fan-sign event and will continue to do so." Everything else is speculation from the media.