Danielle has one of the prettiest vocal colours in the business and Hanni is an ace, for sure
Posts by sassily
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Democrats never had the votes to pass all these things into the constitution. The last time they did those things were still considered controversial. Now that people generally agree they're important, there's always some Republican majority instance that can torpedo any changes. The Republican party will not allow any changes to a system that favours them, and it does - the Democrats have had the majority of votes in the US for the last 18 years. Any major shake-up of the political system right now would therefore be a setback for them, they'd never allow it.
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just to clarify : the following reply is NOT me judging "good" or "bad" nor stating my own preferences, which are completely different from any "standards"
its just an analysis :
took my time to give a detail reply so i hope you dont mind
i'd actually consider this an area of expertise for me
anyway lets go
so first you have to define what "korean" standards are, since you mentioned that, and obviously it matters more here than universal ones
what IS the korean standard?
the features common among the most popular korean celebs appearance wise?
lets look at some very well known examples then : Son Ye jin, Song Hye Kyo, Bae Suzy, recently Han So Hee
if talking about idols specifically, easily the biggest example is Irene who can murder someone and people will still worship her face
now lets look at what's common among their faces that the average person lacks
to me its clearly two things : Slender angular features and facial harmony
facial harmony is usually a very common trait among people considered attractive anywhere
slender defined features too is a mostly universal standard but of course due to racial differences, its highlighted a bit less than in the west ( Suzy is an exception here )
regardless, the most popular korean visuals DEFINITELY have much more slender defined features than the norm
now lets dissect the examples i mentioned :
Wonyoung : very round face with small features that give her a permanently youthful look
great facial harmony of course
closest classic visual i can think of comparing her to would actually be Eugene from SES
Karina : VERY wide upper face with a non existent jaw ( i know its SM's work ) and a pointy chin
basically korean anya taylor joy
much less facial harmony than the others mentioned
Jennie : very small chubby childlike face but with really mature sexy eyes
i kind of understand why she has so much sex appeal
its all in the eyes
regardless, you definitely cant say she'd be considered a worldwide popular beauty if it were not for kpop
Kazuha : very wide very flat features
completely different from anyone mentioned so far
as you can see, all of them have completely different appearances and appeals, and none of them really look like the "beauty standard" we hear about so often, like the one that irene is usually used to represent
so there HAS to be something else that matters more
as for the other idols I mentioned, Sana Heejin Dia Eunseo and Miyeon all have the very popular slender and defined facial structure and features that are DEFINITELY a staple of "korean standards"
and you cant say they lack facial harmony either, except maybe Eunseo whose face is a bit on the longer side
top tier visuals doesn't mean fits Korean standard (whatever that may truly be) to a T
all the idols you mention are objectively very pretty. Doesn't matter if they look different from each other, they're all considered the or among the prettiest members of their groups. That's it, literally. What people call the It Factor is mostly just a combination of visuals and sex appeal, more heavily on visuals for female idols, more heavily on sex appeal for male idols.
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people should at least wait for the song/MV to see what's up with these names because as of now it sounds like a crazy conspiracy theory and makes the whole Kpop sphere sound like qanon. The reddit thread is NUTS, I'm rarely that embarrassed to be a kpop stan but I really don't wanna get grouped in with these people. The presence of a car doesn't hint at anything when the name is supposed to be Estimated Time of Arrival so the names are really the only thing that sound at all plausible as a connection to Basque terrorist group ETA (and really, how many Koreans would even know about them?? They barely know not to say the N-word and use a Swastika)
and like others have said, aside from Mikel the other two are not exactly uncommon names in Spanish. And there's no really strong tie from Eva to ETA, like Kpop fans just picked out any Eva they could find from the list of members/victims, those three names are hardly a well-known trifecta of that group.
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sorry but what is that tweet...a) NJ concepts are hardly edgy, they're at best quirky and very teen-friendly (aside from Cookie) and b) only one of them is 14? aren't three of them 18 by now? are we gonna pretend 18-year-olds are interested in Barbies?
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like you said, you can be a good mother while having an affair lol.
that said a wifebeater awarding this is sus and "good mother" sounds like a sexist award anyway. How do you judge a good mother? a SAH mom who cooks all her meals organically from scratch? seems inherently problematic.
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sounds like someone from a conservative country would say that
in the West it's pretty normal for men and women to be friends. People are used to hanging out with the opposite sex from childhood on. It depends on the person, but my sister for example has tons of male friends, she's gone on vacation with them, she hangs out at their places, etc. I'm more of a girl's girl, but I also have some guys I consider friends. No expectations or interest on any side.
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idk I think it's up to Pledis.
I like fromis but I think they have very limited potential for growth. I wouldn't be surprised to see them cut.
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stop setting them up.
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What does being a Dive gotta do with it
probably that it's funny to see Dives call other groups out for bad choreo considering Ive has some of the worst (executed) choreo in the business yet you won't see them making these threads about that.
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Being in 3rd place below BTS/BP level globally =/= to being next to their level. A gap can exist. I know you wanted to get it off your chest, but one thing doesn't invalidate the other.
3rd place would be like BTS >>> BP >>>>>>>>>>> Stray Kids > TXT > Enhypen > etc. Their streams are good but seriously not leaps ahead of their actual competition and their competition isn't BTS/BP, idk what Stays were smoking this last week. Album sales went to their head, probably.
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well on reddit Stays have been claiming they're "far ahead" of other 4th gen groups and right below BTS/BP level so maybe that's a bit of a reality check lol
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Zayn is such a flake, I can't see this actually happening. His projects always fall through cause he doesn't show up or bails. Plus I haven't forgiven him for how he treated Gigi, so they can keep it.
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I think stuff like this is often just incompetence
that said we all know companies move hell and earth to boost their group's numbers with any trick in the book, so I never get why kpop fans believe stuff like this is above them. If they can mediaplay "sold-out" (half filled) arena tours, or 4 million albums sold via fancalls and 1000 photocards and truckloads thrown away, and 50% ad views on YT, they would also do everything to make their group's digitals look better.
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I feel like LSF get underestimated a lot cause they haven't had a national hit type song with PAKs yet, but look at them with 2 songs in the top 10! Pretty impressive.
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be the orange?? what if I want to be the lemon?
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I don't get rigging out people if they actually have a fandom willing to vote for them.
Especially a Korean fandom. That's crazy to me.
barely anybody actually voted for idol school that's why they completely ignored the votes and just put whoever they thought would sell in the group.
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Some of yall really live in the delusion that Garam would've been the it girl, if it girls means the most pushed then yes she would've been that member but girlie was literally ended by every member in every performance and content.
she was kind of bland and the weakest performer but she is still really pretty, that's all you need to be popular in kpop lol. She probably would have been popular in Korea/Asia if she'd stayed in the group
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I’m crying now people be like b-but Ditto was released During winter. I mean it’s true that songs get lower ULS at that time. But we will not forget that people were spamming about ditto’s chart performance because of how many PAK or whatever it got while forgetting it was releasing when basically there were no big artists. I guess I can use the empty house argument.
people did say that though? like people generally acknowledged when Ditto broke Dynamite's PAK record that Dynamite was released during a much more competitive period and before the charts became a lot more static. There's always people who bring up context and people who don't, it's just annoying when people only ignore it for the groups they stan, and every fandom is guilty of that, based on what I see around here.