if you don't know what bang si-hyuk said, he said and I quote "Star power holds much more value than a skill of a trainee or an individual in the K-pop industry." ,"Usually, people believe that skill is the most important part, but for me, it's star power." and "This explains a lot about the company." in katseye's documentery on netflix - people were really shocked to hear this, including me since skills should be more important than visuals
and now i know what he means when he said this, i cant believe im agreeing with this blood money person, but he is right and an example would be meovv and how they were popular even before debut even though we have never heard them sing or dance- their aura that they gave off to me is a well established group and not rookie vibes
looking at meovv's trailers, they were all visual based, and people really liked the aura that they give off, as for the performances, the main thing that stayed consistent is their visuals - even though i didn't like the song, i really liked their stage presences or in bsh terms, "star power"
so as you can see, bsh was right when he said that star power is everything since it pulls people in, anyone can dance and sing, but not everyone has the capability to be keeping in a whole crowd