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RE: Unpopular NCT opinion

SM are cutting losses with 127, they're not even trying anymore either with the songs, photography or mediaplay... They announced 1.3M preorders early for shock value because they know it won't go higher and won't touch Hot Sauce and they won't communicate better numbers... They'll finally shift focus to Dream + the new unit(s) and their upcoming new boygroup.. Meanwhile expect a Taeil solo next year then enlistment, Doyoung probably some other musical roles, Jaehyun and Taeyong Im sure will…

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Sep 12th 2021

NCT 127 unemployed next year.

Sigh - what is this anonymous poster smoking. I'm an equal fan of dream and 127 but why do I suspect this is a "dreamzen" secretly wishing for 127 to fail.. there's been a spate of them on twitter.

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Ok, people are saying that they can hear Taeyong vocal fry in Sticker.

NEO  kpopnewbie32  butterbutterfly @quark12395 Can you confirm that?!

Yeah I think I heard him in the "sticker sticker sticker" part

The chorus sounds nice or at least Doyoung's vocals sound incredible... either way I remain excited for the title track

its good. the worst a track can be is boring and this isn't. as a solo - she presented her own unique identity and it feels very "her" - a successful solo debut imo.

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my thoughts on lemonade

I'm not surprised I don't like Lemonade because I don't like this type of song (basically repeating the same top line 20838x times with no interesting melody and no interesting/dynamic instrumental to compensate for the lack of it). To me what makes Hot Sauce an awesome song and this not so much (I know it's not full, but I'm not expecting a plot twist Next level style lol), is that Hot Sauce has so many different sections, an amazing pre-chorus, a quirky sample looping throughout to keep it nice and spicy (pun non intended), awesome vocals and interesting HARMONIES. And the taste like lemonade part where Doyoung sings above Johnny was so predictable. This ain't got any of that, it's the same type of bass, synth, minimal percussion, chant-y vocals and the simple rhythms in the rap sections that we've heard so many times before (maybe Mark will have a dope rap break in the full version but I'm judging from what I heard today), but with no originality to make up for it. If that makes sense. The only part that I didn't hear twice was Jaehyun's first rap bit, which is why I loved it so much and it would be even better if it wasn't repeated again in the song.

This is exactly why I didn't like Regular, it felt like the whole song was a loop of the same section over and over again, and I find it boring/overdone.

I know I'm clearly in the minority here and my selfish side thinks it makes the experience of not liking it suck even more, but those are my thoughts.

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I think that's fair. To be honest , I don't know if I love the song yet or if i'm just really glad that at least it's a change from the last 3 and more of the unique NCT sound. Don't feel bad - I think its best to just wait for the title track and the full album and take it from there.

I will say though that -every track video reveal for nct dream's album made me more excited for the record which has not been the case with 127's b sides so far.

The most deserving SOTY candidate of the year so far..

song is the pop culture moment of 2021 and had impact!

Finally!!!!!!!

if I saw another cosy instagram aesthetic i'd have punched a hole through the wall

I look forward to hearing the song tomorrow.

Finally! i'm so happy for them. its a great song and they sell it well.

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Makes sense. Jungwoo stans will get pissed af if that's the case. INCLUDING MYSELF.

I'd rather a rap heavy cherry bomb style track than milquetoast as the title track.

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If I wanted this, I'd stan NCT Dream...

LOL - I'm an NCT Dream fan but man same....

this is not what I was expecting or wanted. I thought we were going to kwangya! what happened to the hackers/2 worlds concept and no weird Neo sounding bops either.... I am underwhelmed.

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Where's the album details?

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I know right.. also I think it was unwise of SM to announce the 1.3 million preorders after 1 day... seems off to me. Their ktown4u numbers are almost the same as Lisa and she only has 700K preorders total so I'm not sure where that 1.3 million figure came from and after 24 hours at that.

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It gives me hope WayV will still shine and conquer the world little by little no matter what!

Not to be negative but all the rules/bans that the chinese government is putting in place (effectively a ban on kpop) does not give me hope for a bright and shiny future for wayv. I don't see them getting much bigger there with or without Lucas.

same I really like the song and that mcountdown stage put a smile on my face. Its really cute

Interesting.. I've always though Loona would lend itself better to subunits. Hopefully they start exploring that more.

I have noticed and chosen to no longer engage. A certain fandom acts like the success of other groups is a threat to their faves and when called out will feign ignorance every single time.

Y'all ain't slick but I choose not to engage like it's pop music - its not that serious.

Karma is a bitch tho and it's coming for your "oppas" so you just go ahead and carry on with the schadenfreude

None for now. Also you should have added enhypen, Boyz and ateez to the voting options.

While stray kids have now crossed 1 million which is awesome - TXT will also likely do that with their next comeback judging by their trajectory (they are a year younger I believe).

I think the first group out of all of the above to have a modest general hit (charting in melon top 100) for at least a month and able to do it consistently will be the winner....

TXT had 2 great public friendly singles this year and still were not able to chart well so I really do not know what it would take to make it happen since song quality was not the issue there.........

Depends...album sales are equivalent to the size of a fandom which is good for the longevity/stability of a group.

Girl groups are more subject to the whims of the general public and can be ended by "bullying"/attitude scandals due to a lack of a sizeable dedicated fanbase

also to go old school - there's a Netflix documentary about boyz 2 men (super popular male vocal group in USA in early 90s) - they went from having successive singles be no 1 for 16 weeks at a time to nothing within the span of 2 years because they had mass appeal but didn't have a large super loyal core fandom - that would never happen to BTS!

Aespa next level for song of the year

I don't understand how people do it. You essentially rinse/remove the novelty of a song within the first 24 hours to the point it just becomes background music.

It must get boring after listening to a song on repeat for hours and hours like it's a job.

Damn.. it'd be crazy amazing if a female soloist managed to sell 1 million?

Anyway regardless - she's very talented and I'm rooting for her. Hope YG gives her a good song