I've come to realise, boy groups DO have concepts (they're just different ones)

ATEEZ have fantasy/epic pirate concept.

obviously boy groups have concepts. It's so annoying when people claim otherwise. Like, stop lying to yourself.

Enhypen have Fantasy/Vampire/Horror concept for Given-Taken, Let Me In (20 Cube), Outro : Cross the Line.

They are the first group to debut with that concept so kind of fresh within 4th gen. Idk if any 1st or 2nd, early 3rd gen groups did that for their debuts.

In music I’ve noticed three major ones 1. A light pop sound think EXO Love Me right 2. Dark concept usually on heavy loud EDM and hip hop think EXO obsession 3. A sexier r&b sound not as hard hitting as the dark concept not as airy as the light concept think EXO Love Shot.

All songs will fall under one of these three in my observation

boy groups do cute, sexy, badass, fantasy, mature. Just like ggs

There are so many bg concepts out there that I can usually find something anyone can enjoy. It really rubs me the wrong way when people think everything is either generic cute/bright or generic dark/sexy :C

Thinking of this, I remember as A.C.E said their concept is to be the first and only hardstyle-boygroup ... aaaand woopsy they stoped after 2 songs and never returned to that

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Lol, they did?

It was pretty bad. The main problem on it was that almost all TV shows forced them to cut out the most obvisious like hardstyle sounding parts that shortened the songs to a bit over 2 minutes and a lot Knetz who never checked the MVs said online "Why are their both first singles this short?" and some Knetz even said they can't see a success for them if all their songs would be that short. They also wore outfits that were pretty uncomon so they got the people's atention, but in a wrong way and a lot Knetz also said stuff like that they would dislike it. "They wear hotpants, skirts, flower-earrings, paint their nails, wear a pink and dance to hardstyle... that's something I don't like". Besides being on some music shows they had no other promotions and instead of geting invited to interviews or reality shows or game shows or talk shows like most other idols they spend their time doing youtube-videos and instead of having payed concerts they danced on the streets for free and even in their outfits that might make people who pass by think "WTF is this?" since they wore hotpants and glitter-shirts with random bands around their naked legs. And as they were on a TV-show all they did was blaming themself by saying random stuff like "We shave our legs every day in case we have to wear hotpants again. Please apreciate that effort!" or "Don't ask us for ageyo, we have no idea how this works. We only know one emberasing thing that Chan teached us" and Chan only knew how to say "Dear/honey/my love, buy me a hamburger" while acting like a annoying baby. And they also did the mistake instead of having concerts in Korea they spend their first year as a group with 3 worldtours and even split up to participate in 2 survival shows only half a year after debut. Of cause they got attention on both shows but it was pretty different. The member who went on Rain's survival show gained attention by dancing to Sunmi's Gachina but the winner-group was so badly promoted where one of them was in that it didn't helped their group anything after the winner-group of that survival show was disbanded. The other member went to a survival show by YG but the CEO of A.C.E's company found all problematic parts in the contract of the winner-group where 2 of the member of A.C.E would have been in, so she told every CEO to not let their idols sign the very shitty contract. She even told the whole world how bad it was by reading the whole contract out loud on camera arguing with YG that broke companys could go bankrupt trouight YG's idea so a lot people only remembered A.C.E in the end of 2017 as "the group who is the reason why a YG-show failed" and thinking of the CEO of Beat people only remembered how YG insulted her and she couldn't say anything against him cause she felt too hurt to be able to defend herself till the time she told him at the end of the show to beg off. Later on in 2018 they tried a cute concept and even opend up for male idols to wear crop tops but Knetz found it very random and weird to see 4 grown up men in crop tops and questioned their fashion once again. (Funny how only a few months later most of these people begun to love men in crop tops after more male idols than also begun to wear these, especially cause of Kai and if you say "yeah but you hated on it a few months ago, they act like if the thing about A.C.E never happend or tell you "yeah I know but Kai is so hot" wtf) ... and well it really took them till 2019 to finally be accepted as the group they are. I know it's not a lot they reached so far but it was still enough to make it at least far enough to have made one of the most important Kpop-songs of 2020 now, wich is weird since they didn't sold much CDs and the song also didn't even charted that good...

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It was pretty bad. The main problem on it was that almost all TV shows forced them to cut out the most obvisious like hardstyle sounding parts that shortened the songs to a bit over 2 minutes and a lot Knetz who never checked the MVs said online "Why are their both first singles this short?" and some Knetz even said they can't see a success for them if all their songs would be that short. They also wore outfits that were pretty uncomon so they got the people's atention, but in a wrong way and a lot Knetz also said stuff like that they would dislike it. "They wear hotpants, skirts, flower-earrings, paint their nails, wear a pink and dance to hardstyle... that's something I don't like". Besides being on some music shows they had no other promotions and instead of geting invited to interviews or reality shows or game shows or talk shows like most other idols they spend their time doing youtube-videos and instead of having payed concerts they danced on the streets for free and even in their outfits that might make people who pass by think "WTF is this?" since they wore hotpants and glitter-shirts with random bands around their naked legs. And as they were on a TV-show all they did was blaming themself by saying random stuff like "We shave our legs every day in case we have to wear hotpants again. Please apreciate that effort!" or "Don't ask us for ageyo, we have no idea how this works. We only know one emberasing thing that Chan teached us" and Chan only knew how to say "Dear/honey/my love, buy me a hamburger" while acting like a annoying baby. And they also did the mistake instead of having concerts in Korea they spend their first year as a group with 3 worldtours and even split up to participate in 2 survival shows only half a year after debut. Of cause they got attention on both shows but it was pretty different. The member who went on Rain's survival show gained attention by dancing to Sunmi's Gachina but the winner-group was so badly promoted where one of them was in that it didn't helped their group anything after the winner-group of that survival show was disbanded. The other member went to a survival show by YG but the CEO of A.C.E's company found all problematic parts in the contract of the winner-group where 2 of the member of A.C.E would have been in, so she told every CEO to not let their idols sign the very shitty contract. She even told the whole world how bad it was by reading the whole contract out loud on camera arguing with YG that broke companys could go bankrupt trouight YG's idea so a lot people only remembered A.C.E in the end of 2017 as "the group who is the reason why a YG-show failed" and thinking of the CEO of Beat people only remembered how YG insulted her and she couldn't say anything against him cause she felt too hurt to be able to defend herself till the time she told him at the end of the show to beg off. Later on in 2018 they tried a cute concept and even opend up for male idols to wear crop tops but Knetz found it very random and weird to see 4 grown up men in crop tops and questioned their fashion once again. (Funny how only a few months later most of these people begun to love men in crop tops after more male idols than also begun to wear these, especially cause of Kai and if you say "yeah but you hated on it a few months ago, they act like if the thing about A.C.E never happend or tell you "yeah I know but Kai is so hot" wtf) ... and well it really took them till 2019 to finally be accepted as the group they are. I know it's not a lot they reached so far but it was still enough to make it at least far enough to have made one of the most important Kpop-songs of 2020 now, wich is weird since they didn't sold much CDs and the song also didn't even charted that good...

Why do you have to write this long? I have given up from the middle!

But I don't really get this discussion. So you have thought boygroups have no concept but you have just realised they have concept?????

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apparently the op said people would go around saying BG's had no concepts and only recently she was watching more and more BG performances to realize they do have concepts and a much bigger variety than she thought.

I mean sure they can go on stage and do nothing and look pretty i'll still drool...but that's boring lol. People need to stop thinking only Girls can do concepts some of the guys can pull off girly concepts better than the ladies lol.

Anyways I hope the OP goes back and educates people on shit..especially if you show them the boyz performances, ateez performances, bts, stray kids etc.

When did people say BGs have no concept? Haven't they always say BGs have dark concept?