I never liked Perfect Night all that much, i thought it was a very poor man's version of Impurities which i still feel shouldve been saved for a title track.
But boy oh boy, the absolute SEA CHANGE in rival Kpop fans attitude towards LSRFM from before Perfect Night to after has been mindboggling. Most rival fans seemed to love Antifragile and Bluebeard, many were loving B sides like Blue Flame, Impurities, etc. Most were praising the ever loving fugg out of LSRFM's stages, including ones that were CLEARLY LIPSYNCED OR HEAVILY BACKTRACKED OR AUTOTUNED.
So what changed?
First of all Perfect Night happened. LSRFM finally reached #1 and had a true national hit, 6 weeks at #1, and defeated Aespa and Ive head to head and even outshined NJ's own English video game single GODS. They did this with a freaking game collab English single ffs, NO ONE saw it coming.
No longer were LSRFM those spunky upstarts, those girls that they could root for knowing that their own faves would beat them head to head, that they would always finish #2 which is what AF and Unforgiven and Bluebeard did. Tokkis thought this, Dives thought this, Mys thought this.
Now LSRFM actually ended them face to face with a song that could actually end up as MAMA's SOTY for 2024 lol.
This no doubt pissed off a LOT of rival stans.
Then the second punch happened with LSRFM getting chosen for Coachella. Now threatened jealous insecure Blinks joined in and of course Mys were doubling down on the hate. When LSRFM released completely unedited raw vocals with zero autotune and zero backtrack or lipsync, while doing their actual choreo (not the easy street toddler choreo that some groups are notorious for), it became perfect opportunity to ride the hate train and unleash all the jealousy and insecure hate they felt towards the same girls they were literally HYPING UP six months before.
Never mind that NONE of their faves would DARE do the Easy choreo while singing with zero backtrack, zero autotune, and zero lipsync, they just piled on the hate train.
Well, Izkarma as a result of Chaewon/Sakura is coming for y'all. Toxic blinks already got theirs with the news that BP are now a group in name only like SNSD. Toxic Dives and Tokkis already got theirs with their latest comebacks flopping. Karma will come for Mys as well no doubt.
If there truly is a God in this universe, LSRFM will either end this year with another huge hit or will be in Japan holding up the trophy for SOTY at MAMA