My problem with small groups

A group can still make up for it with how they use backup dancers and use the stage. The bigger issue with this performance would be energy wasn't fully there and didn't cover parts.

Or it could simply be a poor performance.

BIGBANG performed without a TOP last year, yet the performance went viral, proving it's possible.

Performances in recent years have become so much about sound and light shows with special effects everywhere and armies of dancers in the background that they increasingly mask the flaws of some performances.

Not really. When you are not in your best shape mentally or physically it'll mirror in your performance and if you can't make it up bc of one member than you aren't the good one.

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yes but filling in for missing member when you are already tired on your own from packed schedule is kind of like a nail in the coffin for other members

Yes and no. Agencies need to pay attention for idols health and like I said, if it's a bad day for them even with all members there they would still look bad like the performance wouldn't suddenly improve.

This has nothing to do with small groups. This is all about skills and mostly experience.

I love multiple 4 or even 3 member groups and they never had this problem.

Actually, more than 5 or 6 members means more problems, because the song has to be divided for 7 people and the same goes for the chore and other things. Sometimes, all you can see is 2 or 3 people doing something and the rest of them are basically backup dancers or just standing there.

This is why TripleS is life. They can be like 8 members short and at first glance you’ll think, yep that’s all of them.

whilst true the advantages of having less members probably exceeds the downside of lots of people in a group

Skill issue

3 member Sistar manage to end everyone still

- If they selected right people from the start, 1 or 2 absent means nothing,

- The emptiness can be solved by backup dancers,

- There is no reason for a girl group to have more than 5 members in 2025. Boy group yes, because of enlistment.

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There is not one reason for any group to have more than 5 members

Of course there is. More members mean more people can cover the flaws.😅