Posts by Cydney

I recall that Minji of New Jeans was apparently originally a trainee at SM. It was stated that LSM was so enamoured of her that he wanted to create a girl group around her. So how did she end up at Source? It doesn’t make sense to leave a company as big as SM was at the time to go to a company that was barely staying afloat.

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Bang also picked those girls before reaching out before flying them out. I guess the creepiness for some people is the age gap though. When I was younger, it also creeped me out, but now I don't really care about age gaps. I know many with age gaps going in well over ten years at this point.

Before flying them out? You are ASSuming an awful lot. You don’t know anything but what you saw in a picture. They were walking together down the street. Everything else is your imagination.

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And about 'payola', you seem to have very little understanding of what you're talking about. Like bruh.

Playlisting and even some level of autoplay is normal, that's what you call proper promotion. And Ador promoted NJs well dispite harsh adversity within their own parent compagny.

And whatever investement they got from hybe they paid it all back and more. Pff.

NJs did got Ador 'payola' partially backed by Hybe (investement etc), like all major artist get from their compagny. But there is a difference between payola and MASS payola.

For example Billie got payola (playlisting etc) while Sabrina got MASS payola and is harrassing people on spotify just like Magnetic did.

Also what i'm accusing hybe off is even worse that than. I accuse them of fraudulence and sajaegi. That's totally different!

NJs NEVER got Bang / Scooter connections, Illit did.

Bang is a convinced fraud by court and he also admited to inflate album sales to 'step' on others. Who can even trust that person of playing fair??

Magnetic jumping +100 places on global spotify in a fiew hours after it's release while they were nugus who had zero hype pre debut doesn’t scream very organic to me.

That's not even promotion. That's straight up sajaegi. The exact same sh*t hybe is doing with Jimin with his last release. The exact same thing they did with TWS too. F*cking frauds .

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I wouldn't mind fair competiton like i didn’t mind it with aespa or even kiof and probably with meoov as well. That's natural. And people here can confirm that.

I was rooting for aespa and Supernova even tho they were in direct competiton with my faves because i can recongize and actually enjoy a quality release from a quality group.

But what I can’t stand is mediocrity, fraudulence, and unfair competiton by a clearly evil ass compagny.

And yes i want this f*cking nasty Bang to flop HARD and into an absolute blackhole because my faves were his primary victims!

What he did is is still trying to do to NJs is OUTRAGEOUS!

Sorry if you can't understand something so simple .

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You honestly come across as crazy. There is way too much anger in your post to even take you seriously. You don’t know any of the people involved and none of this should make that much of a difference in your life to be that angry. Log off for 10 days and interact with people in real life and not on the internet so you can regain some sense of self.

I doubt that’s what happened. When they failed to renew the domain name the other company probably rushed in to register it.

I never really liked Kpop, I liked a few groups like BTS, Big Bang, and 2NE1. I only have a mild interest in the others. If they put out a song I like, I might listen to it on YouTube, but I follow BTS and purchase their music. The only girl group I am consistently impressed with now is Red Velvet because their vocals are so beautiful.

Is this supposed to be a good thing?

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Discovery, in the law of common law jurisdictions, is a phase of pretrial procedure in a lawsuit in which each party, through the law of civil procedure, can obtain evidence from other parties by means of methods of discovery such as interrogatories, requests for production of documents.

I know what discovery is.

Koreans consider saying someone is untalented as defamation, while the US considers it defamation if you say the person has an STD and you can’t prove it.

I have no idea what the person said about Wonyoung, but unless it was seriously damaging, the person can easily win by asking for a jury trial. Most Americans would probably roll their eyes at things that seem to offend Koreans.

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Feel like SKZ just constantly churns out music but I don't know any of their songs but God's Menu.

I have to agree with you. I also think they will never be popular with multi-generations like BTS. It’s not just the music that makes groups popular, it’s the personas. BTS just clicked with the US market which is the largest music market in the world and therefore the most important. Their success was an anomaly and I don’t see their success repeating itself for a very long time in Kpop. Kpop appears to be on a down cycle now that BTS is in hiatus. No one other than a few niche fans really seems to be interested in it anymore.

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Why not just enjoy kpop instead of analyzing why people analyze kpop🤓

Because it is behavior I don’t see with other genres and it is a bit peculiar.

Since I have started paying attention to Kpop, I noticed that there are what seems like thousands of YouTube videos analyzing everything Kpop idols do from their videos and lyrics to their dancing, singing, makeup, fashion, etc. Even the companies they work for are analyzed. I have never seen any other genre analyzed to death like Kpop is. Why not just enjoy the music and videos rather than analyzing them? Can someone explain why there is this need to analyze Kpop and not just enjoy it?

I love the show. She is just adorable.

Yes, tears of joy. PTD and Dynamite by BTS. The songs seemed to hit right on time.

I am grateful for HYBE, they restored my interest in music, specifically Kpop. The whole Kpop industry should be grateful.

I don't believe New Jeans will be as big as BTS. BTS was an anomaly. That type of success is very rare. Ii think they will go far, but I don't see any Kpop group reaching the level of success that BTS has.

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Assuming this isn’t a set up but no. This is a very kpop biased thought. Maybe she’s top 5 kpop stars but she’s no where near the top worldwide. I would argue that outside of kpop/fashion circles (which are small niches) she’s middle of the pack famous. In the US probably less than that.

Most people in the US have no idea who any of these Koreans are. BTS is the most well known Kpop group in the US period. Jungkook is probably the most well known Korean because he has been promoted in the US. Kpop is still a very small niche in the US with the exception of BTS and Jungkook. No one is really checking for these people, Kpop fans just need to make these people more important than they really are. I know of NO ONE outside of these message boards who even knows who Blackpink is, let alone Jennie.

So she has time to record after shamelessly chasing after another woman’s husband? I hope Jungkook doesn’t link himself to that POS.

Yes. There are casinos in my state that I have been to, but the ones in Las Vegas were more fun. It’s not even to gamble really. Las Vegas is a whole vibe. There are other things to do.

A strip show is a strip show. Whether it’s in a fancy club or on some seamy side street, it is what it is. What’s the definition of a stripper? Right off the Encyclopedia Britannica: A performer who removes his or her clothing in a sexually exciting way. The Oxford Dictionary adds the phrase “ in front of an audience”.

I think people are being disingenuous to make this more palatable for themselves. Here is a review from a major travel website:

Unfortunately this show was a disappointment.

“There is zero talent amongst the performers who are basically just naked girls swinging their hips. The only talent is the light engineer who manipulates light around their bodies. But there is no dancing, singing, acrobatics etc. it’s simply a strip show. Don’t waste your money on this garbage. We left half way through it was that bad. “

“Save your money and your time. It was one monotonous cheap topless dance after another. They should be ashamed for charging 100 euros for such garbage.“

“Strip show. Nothing more, nothing less. Just because it is hyped up, termed Cabaret instead of strip club, and in Paris does not change what it really is.
Some people will go absolutely indiscriminately silly for anything as long as it’s French but if this same show and same girls were in USA they would say they are just strippers...“

Let’s stop pretending that this isn’t a strip club.

I think I just read a whole bunch of nothing.