Ugly by 2NE1 is not so enjoyable for me after knowing bts info

thats the nature of the industry sadly. Looks matter a lot for idols. There will probably never be another girl group like 2ne1

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Tbh kpop is heavily manufactured so anything can be used to sell music or idols. It's why concepts are a thing, it's much easier to sell say a group that does 80s retro concept than show off girl crush group #432.

YG sold 2ne1 as basically an alternative gg to the usual pretty gg. It obviously worked and was a huge success. But yeah he did go overboard calling them ugly on TV and going so far as to continuously praise a rival group more than his own.

Sadly this isn't news, I mean, BP themselves have empowering songs made by yg the company but at debut they were described as prettier 2ne1. This don't only happend at YG tho, unless the ideia came up by the artist themselves and they wrote it being cynical isn't a stretch, but being very honest what matters it's what it means to you, really, if at some point you could relate to and feel better it's the most important

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behind the scenes

At first, I was confused by the title and I was like "What does BTS have to do with it?"

Well... I forgot it is an acronym for Behind The Scenes.

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Bts?

Behind the scenes

It is funny how people sometimes forget the official meaning of the term even for non kpop fans 🤣

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behind the scenes. bts stands for behind the scenes (when in relation to non bts the kpop group content)

Okoki

I get the bts thing now

2NE1 went through so much shit i truly hope they're happy solo even though I'd love a OT4 comeback one day even if it's just a single.

Well if you did actual research you would know Teddy wrote that song when he had low self-esteem. He also said the word ugly doesn't necessarily mean unattractive. It could mean much more than just being ugly. Basically for those who deviate from the standard. It's to give those people hope and empower them.

But other than that, it's not a secret that YG called 2NE1 ugly. Kpop fans did that too.

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Well if you did actual research you would know Teddy wrote that song when he had low self-esteem. He also said the word ugly doesn't necessarily mean unattractive. It could mean much more than just being ugly. Basically for those who deviate from the standard. It's to give those people hope and empower them.

But other than that, it's not a secret that YG called 2NE1 ugly. Kpop fans did that too.

Was gonna say this exactly. Can't remember what exactly the episode was but Teddy went through the process in 2ne1 TV/YGTV. Something about feeling ugly as a person

I fucking hate acronyms and I will always do it you lazy fuckers.

Anyway, claiming they were promoting 2NE1 as an "ugly group" and trying to use this as selling point is just a stupid claim. Just because someone in the company maybe describe them as "ugly" does not mean they was trying to use that as a selling point. Sure, you could claim they use a concept that made them less depened of good visuals and even gave them some more credibility, but I don't think they really used their "unattractiveness" as a selling point, more like it did not hurt them so much because of the concept they had.

We can agree they did not have the best visuals in kpop, even if they had Dara in the group that was one of the best looking girls in kpop. They would never had much of a chance with a "cute" concept like early Twice, and groups like Twice would not have much of a chance if their visuals was not above average.

Imagine when BP was about to debut and people asked about it He said "It's 2ne1 but pretty". That man is an a*****e.

YG were the masters of the "not like those other idols" game. They also created the whole artist vs idol thing.

I hate them for it