it's a flop for me. before i can fully digest the song, it already finished. i felt like she was in a rush while making this(?) there's some really fun and catchy moments but overall it's not something i'd see myself listening to everyday, the outfits slayed tho
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kpop fans are so obsessed with the idea of having a "diverse concept/discography" that they'll eat garbage up as long as its tagged with different names. to be a great musician you dont need to constantly change genres and visuals, i think this fast moving industry that jumps to the next trend every four months is the reason of people unrealistic expectations of how a musician should lead their career and as a consequence, the dumb criticism iu is facing for her music choices
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did they listen to the whole album or what?? she's trying to balance catchy upbeat music with ballads like shh. i do hope to listen more of her jazz/bossa nova side again but these people act like once you're 30 all you have to do is make sad ballads until the end of your career, what a joke
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I can't get into her music because it's too basic... I don't speak Korean so ballads don't really reach me.
15 years in music but she never took risks.
And I don't think it will change
modern times is better than the trashy music that most kpop groups put out
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Wait so the new info today is that HYBE tried to correct misinformation about NJ sales being reported to the public?!?? That’s it?!
At least there are very good posts today to remind everyone about legit feminism being about women just wanting to be treated equally with equal rights.
Hmm day isn’t over yet so back to work and will check later tonight
i came for the tea and there's nothing!!
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Well despite our seemingly opposite stances, i think we can definitly agree that women should have the free will to pursue their dreams and the model of life which suits them the best.
And i definitly agree that not all women are meant to be wife or mothers. And they can also be great models and widely contribute to the society. For sure!
But you can't disagree either that the latest wave of feminism and the modern capitalist society don’t share much respect for motherhood and for being a housewife. It's like you only have value if you make money otherwise you're just a bum and a failure.
And this is a major source of psychological stress and even an humiliation of women's desire to pursue such a way of life. The modern model of female happiness and success is solely based on illusional dreams of carrier success when in reality most people, man or women are only replaceable faceless dozens to make other people rich while being widely undepayed. Or for man to support their family.
The reality of the modern hyper capitalist sociaty is actually pretty ruthless and it doesn’t even leave the choice (mostly for economical contraints) for women to live the kind of life they would find most fullfilling.
The reality of life is also to accept that no, not everyone is exeptional or meant to be stars, most people are average. Average workers, averge mothers, average fathers.
Now which one of these two prospects you would think sounds more fullfilling, loving, human for most women?
I dare say the second one. Specially if this post 3/4th wave feminist hyper capitalist modern society didn’t make them so ashamed of such desires.
Actually you can find much meaning and so much beauty in motherhood. Difficult to say you would do so by selling lipstick or taping on a laptop all day long!
you're right and that's why it has been so important for me to read about feminism from indigenous women. a lot of western/white feminist see women in these communities cooking while their husbands go out to work and think they're being systematically oppresed just like in the western world when in reality, cooking/making food has a far more important place in their lives than fishing/hunting, without cooking or taking care of your home and family members the entire world would fall apart. there's of course feminists who discuss this in a more academic way, our understanding of private/public spaces and the binarism that permeates in out perception of the world and the criticism that comes from popular feminism but of course, that shouldnt mean that we can not be wary and critical of the "choice feminists" cause what we believe is our own choice has been influenced by our sorroundings and therefore, is not really just our choicf
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The documentary was a pretty bad move. It just casts this negative vibe over the whole group and now when I look at them I just feel sadness and negativity. It feels like the final days of CLC when I was watching their variety series and the members just seem down and tired. It really drags down the mood and made it tiring as a stan to feel positive about the group because when I see them on stage I just think about how they're forcing themselves to smile.
the problem is hybe thinking they can and should pull the same tricks they did with bts with their other groups by making those docus. not only did bts never get the insane hate for their performance as lsrfm is getting now but they also had a massive fandom to protect their image
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the "SOTY energy" songs you refer to are national hits which rarely happen. i don't want to downplay aespa achievements with this song (i prefer armageddon tho) but this new system made songs stay longer on the top of the charts and with melon flopping, a song needs to have like 200K ULs to be #1 so it's not that surprising seeing a song staying that long which makes records look less impressive ig the song didn't become viral internationally either which kinda makes it look less popular that it may be in sk cause idol groups smash hits in korea tend to be very succesful internationally too
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this is purely her artistic vision, let her be. some of the greatest songs and music i've ever listened to are under the 3 minutes mark, it has nothing to do with the lenght of a record, but rather the artistic process and reason behind it and how the context we're living it forces artists to release music short enough to not "bore" their audience. i think that now, people are being used to consume things at a very rapid pace, no time to enjoy and appreciate art, we lose our ability to concentrate, to enjoy one thing at a time and that's what is destroying us as people and also our creations
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Mhj must really be something, its crazy impressive how so many well reputed people coming out and openly speaking in support of mhj even though they are potentially put themselves and their careers at risk by going against the hybe.
There must be some reason for this level of loyality that people have towards mhj, if she really was some crazy abusive toxic witch like how hybe tried portraying her to be, people wouldn't be going to this extent to support her.
a lot of abusers in hollywood are supported by their also famous and successful celebrities friends, that doesnt mean sht. people are not 2d characters who act the same with everyone they know. and i cant believe there's people who are defending this woman, isnt what she did to shinee enough?
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people are creating so much conspiracy theories when in reality and as i said in the digital thread, these numbers are the result of a dull and uninspiring comeback, a song purely to promote a brand (which is being boycotted right now), a song released a month later than its mv, and a sound similitar to what we're used from them with no stunning concept or mv to make up for the lack of promotion or repetitive sound
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This njs release has proved a lot of things:
First of all, their company lack of effort in building up hype for their songs and expecting social media and playlist to do their job
Which brings me to my next point. Unlike their last album where they released stunning teasers and enigmatic videos, this feels dull and how sweet looking like a zerox2 (song made to promote a brand) doesnt help either, there's no fairies, or angels, or greek myths or witty lyrics to make their songs look more interesting
They lack a solid international fanbase. This scandal could have helped them build a stronger and hardcore fanbase but it doesnt seem to be the case
I dont think this is the result of no "hybe payola" but just a boring comeback, with little to nothing remarkable and songs that despite being good, are more of the same sound we've already listened from them. i think they will do better when they comeback with an album release
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no nwjns member actually stand out because the group was meant to be seen collectively and not as individuals, that's why they debuted with similar hairstyles and unlike most groups they don't dye their hair often, their youth and genz persona is what the public likes and unless their ceo knows how to keep the public attention and change their image once they get older i dont think they will be a long lasting group but maybe im just being too pessimistic
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is most popular same as the most viewed??
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any artist as long as their company makes up album sales numbers
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that's what the oscars literally do, though? young actors are rarely awarded for the main categories since the academy leans towards the older and "more experienced" actors, very often awards are not about the performance they're nominated for but their career and how it was long due for them, a recent example is gary oldman and timothee chalamet, both nominated for best actor, even though the two of them did a great performance, critics and experts were sure gary was going to win not exactly because he was better in his characterization of churchill but because he had a drastic physical transformation and after such a long career he finally deserved to win so yes, seniority can be an important factor when it comes to judge decisions to award someone
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all these collabs feel so forced and unnecessary, latto delivered so i didnt mind the song featuring another singer/rapper but jack harlow didnt add anything to the song, the ones gaining something out of these collabs are the western artists and not jungkook so i hope his next single is a solo song with korean (more interesting) lyrics
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All of them are not like they used to be in their prime years anymore. All of these are for a few reasons, like fierce competition from small to medium companies, a wider international market for kpop, social media influence, poor marketing strategy, changing of leadership in the company and also poor management and decision making. All of these lead to the decline that we all feel.
If we put album sales and revenues aside, the Big 3 is simply not as powerful as they used to be. They are still on the top but not really that wow or impressive anymore.
SM: The pioneer for big kpop company. They used to dominate the market all from bg to gg. All their older groups are extremely popular, not only among kpop fans but also, gp. Yet starting from 3rd gen precisely after RV, they started to go downhill. Exo was super successful and has lots of potential but, sm dropped them since 2018 when the competition with Bts were very tight and close. Rv is always being treated like their stepdaughter. It is a mess. Dream has a chance but has started to be put aside. Wayv? Gone. Aespa and Riize are probably gonna get their senior treatment right after they are big enough for sm standard.
YG: Nothing much to say because they don't have a solid background of history, like sm. But they having the biggest and iconic bg in 2nd gen and gg in 3rd gen make you think they know what they are doing. Funnily enough, they are not. From having bigbang to being the last in the bg competition among the big 4. Not sure what will happen to bm and if they able to repeat the success of bp with them.
Jyp: Just like Yg, there is nothing much to say but they are known as a gg company for their iconic gg with hit after hit. Twice save their reputation as the company started to decline during early 3rd gen. Itzy did great during their rookie era and suddenly boom, they have such inconsistency in their TT. Nmixx didn't have a chance since the beginning. Their gg growth are the slowest now among the big 4. Skz are doing good internationally but not much domestically. For now, Jyp are also the weaker in domestic market among top companies
this is actually wrong, bangtan was already miles ahead of any other group in terms of international success after dna release and their two cbs in 2018, fake love that got paks and became the first korean song in billboard top #10 and love yourself breaking album records cleared out any doubt about competition, exo comeback with tempo just confirmed. im not trying to downplay their success or potential but they were not comparable with bts in 2018 because a lot of reasons, including of course sm known history of mismanagement
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argentinian fans are so useless, they talk sht about american fans all the time and yet, they cant give bts a top 10 in their country, same as uruguay, the rest of latin america broke streaming records not only for a korean act but a non spanish speaking song but of couse it had to be the whitest countries in the region the ones that did the worst not surprised at all
