Pieces (IU) vs Got the Beat (Girls On Top) - an interesting fight

On the night of June 17, 1815, Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington, assembled around 68,000 men from England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Holland (Belgium was part of Holland till 1830) and Hannover (ruled by the King of Great Britain) at Mont St. Jean in what was then part of Holland.

He waited Napoleon, hastily bringing about 100,000 men (but 30,000 of them were led by a chap called Grouchy who lost his way).

Since Wellington was a master of the Square defense, he knew all he had to do was to wait the Germans led by Blucher, although he didn't know when they would arrive.

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SM launches its campaign to regain its lost influence by bring BoA, Taeyeon, Hyoyeon, Seulgi, Wendy, Karina and Winter in a project called Girls On Top, releasing its single GOT the beat, on Jan 01.

However, one advantage Lee Jieun has is she has connections to Melon, so she knows who releases what in advance.

Lee JIeun had moved first, releasing 5 of her unreleased songs on Dec 29.

Three of them are known, and one of them has been hinted but the last one, which is likely to be the title, is a song which had not been released before. That might become Through the Night season 2, dooming any sings to be released next year.

Lee Jieun had battled SNSD many times, and crossed paths with Red Velvet, but never had the chance to fight BoA and aespa. Now she gets to fight them.

Given that I wrote about Lee Jieun extensively in the last 10 years most people will think I am biased against her, but even if one is objective, digitally Lee Jieun appears to have the advantage.

I don't know who had planned better. However the initiative is on the hands of the Effective Owner of Edam, who doesn't have to get shareholder approval, company meetings and executive conferences to do anything - she can just do whatever she feels like at the spur of moment, an advantage very few of her competition has.

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Here we go again.. Conan Doyle used "Napolean of Crime" and you "Napolean of K-pop" for IU.

Poor Napolean.

Anyway, SM has really done well this year with Aespa, not sure whether they need a revival.

But if so, then the oh!GG comeback is far more a splash than this project unit.

As to IU, she seems rather taking it chill with "Pieces", hardly any lead up activity and doubtful if there would be promotions.

So Napolean might be giving your Waterloo a skip

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I always put IU against the side of "Napoleon", since she is the most reactionary singer of all time. I did compare her to Castlereagh, Metternich and Wellington, Nap's foes.

I think SM wants to revive all of its girl groups a jump given aespa is doing well.

IU has not really promoted Through the Night, BBiBBi and Eight. So I don't think she will promote this other than one single episode in her own channel.

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you're obsessed with pitting everyone against IU.

That is because IU had fought against all these people, plus aespa, ive and some others I might have missed, all her life.

CNBlue (IU fought against CNBlue during Nagging)

Big Bang (GD & Top)

Kara

Sistar

DBSK

SNSD

Wonder Girls

T-Ara

Trouble Maker (Hyuna and Hyunseung)

SNSD - TTS

Shinee

EXO (first week of Jan 2014, IU's Friday against EXO's Miracle in December)

F(X)

Laboum

Sechs Kies

Im Changjung

Monsta X

NCT 127

Baek Yerin

Red Velvet

Nuest (During 'Eight')

Twice (During 'Eight')

IZone (During 'Eight' - I fought at that time IZOne did defeat the Senior Singer, although the latter had defeated IZOne digitally in Feb 2020)

Seventeen

BTS

Golden Child

Kim Wooseok

Baekhyun

Kang Daniel

Brave Girls

Itzy

ONF