I'll admit I'm stealing this post off reddit but this conveys my feelings regarding the topic and people need to know the TRUTH:
As a disclaimer, everyone is entitled to their own musical preferences. If you don't like BabyMonster songs, that's totally fine with me. If you don't like their dancing or vocals, no problem. If you think their concept is outdated and not interesting, you're allowed to have that opinion. But I really don't get the sentiments like "poor girls, they are so talented but are stuck with YGE" and similar notions that portray them almost like hostages, forced to do things they don't want to. Because it clearly shows that people saying those things have never followed the members.
Chiquita and Pharita had been huge Lisa and Blackpink fans since they were young, before they auditioned to become trainees at YGE. Ahyeon was a trainee at JYPE before deciding to join YGE, and her favorite artist of all time is GD. Ruka was a hip-hop dancer and also a massive 2NE1 fan, Asa got her sight on YGE because she really liked 'Playing with fire' etc.
The girls themselves have always loved the YGE sound and style, it's not a situation where they have to do the concepts they dislike because of the company. Even in their pre-debut content, from when they were middle school age, they were pretty open about their passion for being on stage, when asked about their goals the answers were mostly about festivals and world tours. Chiquita was mocked because of her mentioning Coachella, there were multiple viral tweets about 'win a music show first' etc. But the members are very proud of their live performing skills and are excited to show that whenever they have an opportunity to do so. And honestly they always look like they are having a blast when they can go loose a bit at their concerts.
Among 5th gen girl groups BabyMonster have most albums sold, most Spotify streams, and their ability to sell tickets is extremely far ahead of their peers'. They are performing at KSPO Dome for two nights as rookies. It's the same venue that Twice, IVE, (G)I-dle used for their most recent domestic concerts. In fact no girl groups except for Blackpink have ever booked a venue bigger than KSPO Dome in Korea. They have already announced 11 dates in Japan, all arenas with 10K+ capacity (they sold our arenas in Japan for their fanmeetings last summer as well). I'm sure their SEA leg will also feature sizeable venues. And they are already coming to the US to tour (all details haven't been announced yet). BabyMonster had their proper debut as 7 only eight months ago, yet they can rival some popular 4th gen girl groups in touring.
By all accounts they are already very successful and on track to have a great career, more importantly the girls get to achieve the goals they've always dreamed about, yet people talk like they are in a some sort of awful situation and their talents are completely wasted. I swear next year they'll be holding an encore show at Tokyo Dome and K-pop fans will still be pulling out stuff like "if only they weren't stuck with a girl crush concept in YGE".
You don't have to like them, but the fake pity is getting a tad annoying not gonna lie.
Monstiez Taglist I really think is a great post/comment that other BM stans can appreciate.
) so fans should either accept they won't chart as well as BP, 
