Posts by salem9

Best selling album by a girl group? Surpassed in a couple of months by Izone

Biggest GG song since Gee? Surpassed by Next Level

Views? Soon to be surpassed by Itzy's flop songs

why this happened?

Last time we had a nation's girl group they held the best selling album for years and had by far the biggest longevity among all kpop girl groups (and probably still do)

Quote from WhimsyLand

OSTs are very different from solo releases. OSTs all depend on how popular the drama/webtoon is and Wheein's OST is for a very popular webtoon.

How did her actual comeback do on the charts?

There is actually a song from that show performed by Melomance and a member of Davichi. Both digital monsters. Both surpassed by Wheein.

Her comeback didn't do THAT well, but still charted despite being totally rushed by her new company. This will definitely give her more exposure

She's been always referred as one of the least popular members from 3rd gen, yet:

- Her OST song is killing it on the charts

- 2nd Highest charting OST right now. Surpassing Melomance (for now), Davichi, Jihyo, Bibi, Seventeen and a bunch of other artists that released OST songs recently

- She's all over variety shows

- Not Big4

She managed to do all that with shitty promotions and after leaving her former company. A queen indeed.

kpop as a whole rarely has any groups with good performance skills

Truly, what is the purpose of this show other than being rigged in favor of mnet's new flop group?

- Both Hyolyn and Eunji are waaaaaay above everyone else. They are legends

- All performances will be lipsynced, as usual. Except for Hyorin ofc

- Loona and WJSN members tested positive for covid

My predictions:

- Mnet will milk from the Gfriend failure storyline

- Milk from the Brave girl's 5 minutes of fame

- rob Hyorin from winning the show

- WJSN will be edited as the villains of the season

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Is Hwasa a new gen gg idol tho?

From the new gen, I'm seeing a great potential from Winter and Karina

"New gen" as 3rd-4th gen

4th gen idols are way too new. I doubt they are even more popular than any Twice member

For me, it's Hwasa:

- Huge in SK

- Popular internationally

- Hits in SK and Maria was also quite big internationally

- One of the biggest Trendsetters from past gen

- Maria's sample was everywhere after her comeback in 2020

Do you agree?

i mean, it was about time to get a decent vocalist after so many years

Hip for sure

Insane how she even surpassed Melomance and Davichi's releases for the same Webtoon show

Get ready bc she's coming

RV > Twice > BP

Blackpink barely has a discography so

Also, props to Stayc for doing what had to be done

They really are making me feel the Apink-Miss A- Carly Rae Jepsen fantasy

I'm very confused.

Since my trainee days as a nugu kpop fan I noticed there has been ALWAYS a pattern in the industry: kpop songs are mostly 2 or 3 songs mashed up in order to make ALL the members perform (unlike american acts that are known for having filler members that never sing).

Sure, sometimes it stands out more but at the end of the day it's the same essence. Pretty much always the pre-chorus or bridge or dance break pops up with a weird-experimental beat:

But hey! Those are recent songs, but It isn't something particularly new. It has been A THING for years now:

But what's the big difference now? Why everything sound so chaotic that people call it revolutionary?

Well, it's simple: that old formula had way smoother and complex transitions. Now composers only take a bunch of weird beats and put them together with a talked rap to fill empty spaces.

No hate on Aespa though. I think their composers are doing a great work. As for Nmix and the new horde of "girl crush newbies" (IVE, Loona, Keepier and currently Itzy too), they are just copying what the flop IOI groups tried to do in the past: mixing a bunch of messy, bland and uninspired sounds and call it a day:

Yet Wheein is now coming for her 3RD hit as a soloist

We stan an unbothered ballad queen

Talent wins, as usual

Quote from Whi

Wow did not expect you of all people to like aespa’s music while shitting on jyp’s ggs and mnet’s new gg

I've been a fan of their music for a while! Same for Itzy. But those new releases have been a huge mess. It's just cheap SM music

Anticipating that #1 spot, yass!!

StayC and Aespa really carrying the kpop industry with bops and saving us from JYP and Mnet's noise

What did you expect? They are just another Itzy but with more members

Because Wheein is thriving, we stan

Quote from timedisplace

since the start of kpop. meaningful lyrics is like what made kpop.

what's "meaningful" to you? I am genuinely curious because it sounds like you haven't heard or seen any kpop song since 2014