Okay, I guess it is time to talk honestly about Itzy.
JYP has become kind of a punching bag for his recent girl groups underperforming. And righfully so. But people would blame him for the music, content and promotions, and again, rightfully so, but one thing they don't wanna blame him is for actually putting these groups together. I find it pretty hypocritical to say the least. Like you're saying the guy who does everything wrong did no wrong in actually creating the group?
This is a well known fact that Itzy was supposed to be Somi's group. Then something happened, either Somi fucked up and JYP kicked her out or she made her own choice, we'll never know, but she left. Somi's group became Somi'less. Now the right thing to do was to postpone the group and make some changes. But nah, JYP had a promise to shareholder and didn't want stocks booboo, so he replaced her with Yuna and pushed through with the debut.
Now at the time, after Dalla Dalla came out and did well and Yuna trended couple of times, people immediately assumed problem was solved, the genius JYP did it again, another hit girl group but now looking back it no longer seems so. Itzy members are pretty and charming but none of them is literally the nation's #1 pick.
2) Not delivering on the promise of talent
Again, remember, Itzy were supposed to be this really talented group who're just gonna kill it with their performances? Remember? And they are just not, sorry. Sure they are good at dancing, but who isn't? Majority of girl groups are. Hard choreography? Please, Twice and Gfriend already had that covered.
What about singing and rapping? Well, JYP is a 26 years old company and they still haven't figured out rapping, which is ridiculous. Especially when he seems to be close with YG, like, ask him for a lesson, man, it ain't that hard. Twice got a pass cause it ain't their concept. But you debuted a girl crush teen crush or whatever group that still can't rap? That's embarrassing.
Before I get into the singing part, lets talk about their songs first.
3) Itzy's songs are bad.....or are they?
Now, this is a popular opinion that Itzy is struggling cause their songs just aren't that good. And I am one lf the perpetrators of this opinion. But have you ever actually thought what if another group performed Itzy's songs? Would they still be bad?
Take Loco for example, is it actually a bad song? Think about Mamamoo or another vocally strong group performing it, picture it in your head and reevaluate. The thing is that the song is actually quite good and catchy, the problem is Itzy are yelling it at you instead of singing it to you. And that's with every Itzy song. Their vocals are weak and they'd just compensate it by yelling out all of their songs. And that's just offputting.
Or take Sneakers, one of their most hated songs. It is not a vocally challenging song however it requires a softer and cuter approach. Like I wouldn't even be surprised to hear that the song was actually written for Red Velvet, it'd fit right there with Happiness and Rookie, it is such a RV song and they'd totally nail it with their soft and harmonious vocals.
Some of their songs are indeed irredimable but the case with most is just Itzy's lack of singing skills.
Itzy is a group of pretty dancers and that's their biggest problem.
Sorry, the few Itzy stans remaining on this site, but this post was pending for long.
The previous one:
Groups that were never really good to make it - #1 Weki Meki - K-POP - allkpop forums
