A Pet Peeve of Mine

Excuse you. It looks good. I love me some of those line dances.

I love the silliness of it. They do funny expressions and it feels more authentic to me.

It's supposed to be fun and not taken seriously! Just them being quirky with their new song

It's only really fun when the parts are switched up. That's why I only really watch specific groups do this because most other groups just do their own part like a normal boring perf.

it can be fun. those groups you posted just did it bad

It’s only fun when it’s spontaneous bc the dance relay format was designed to catch idols off guard when they have to perform lines they don’t sing and not knowing when the member standing in front of them would step aside - leading to some cute and funny “brain fart” mistake moments, and giving members with no lines in the song their rare moment to shine at the centre.

It’s no longer fun when idols rehearse the single line choreo beforehand and treat it like a normal dance video, with everyone performing their own lines like normal and there’s no fixed “order” of the line to force them out of their comfort zone. Which also means this trend was only fun at the beginning of its creation almost 10 years ago and had a shelf life of like 1 or 2 years, before corporates caught wind of it and ran it to the ground by sucking all the fun out of it, like they do every other viral trend out there.

Check out this “vintage” dance relay compilation from 2017, it’s night and day compared to what it is now since idols are too preoccupied with memorising and perfecting their new dance formations instead of having fun with the unpredictability like this: