QuoteLineup changes, and the reasons for them, tend to get shoved under the rug where they become a rather obvious lump, the elephant in the room that no one can publicly talk about. “We had a lot go down in 2021, it was a rough time,” Soyeon says, reflecting from the one vantage point available to her — the aftermath. Minnie, Yuqi, and Shuhua returned to their respective homelands but they all stayed “in constant communication through FaceTime. We made conscious efforts to keep our hearts together,” Soyeon adds. “We frequently said that we wanted to hurry up and release an album together. During our time apart, each member was able to do what they’d been wanting to do but also felt how precious (G)I-DLE is.”
Ever the storyteller, Soyeon sought to make sense of what had happened through a narrative mirror. “While we were going through everything,” she explains, “we thought that in a novel or a comic book, the main character meets obstacles and needs to go away for a period of time. The character grows and is able to come back and triumphantly overcome them. So, like those characters, we also had to go through a hiatus where we were able to grow, and we decided we must release the album to show the public that (G)I-DLE were able to overcome.”
(G)I-DLE Is Taking Their “Tumultuous” Journey in Stride
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Maybe put some quotes in to entice people to read?
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It's a well written article about Kpop by a US based company. I've seen Kpop acts being featured more and more by local teen mags like this and Seventeen. Even seen lot of Kpop related stuff in more adult oriented names like Vogue and Cosmo. Is Kpop really making inroads into mainstream young adult/teen culture?
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Oh, it's a decent length! And they link to both My Bag and Tomboy. I'll have to read it in full later.
Thanks for sharing!
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