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Quote from kittykitka

same lol

I used to stan a couple bg, but I can't think of a single one I stan now lol

Exo has some pretty good songs though 👌

Seems like they're not getting a full group comeback anytime soon though 🥲

I like a lot of the groups you mentioned actually

Though aespa and bm I would say I'm a stan of.

Wasn't too sure of bm at first, but they're so genuinely talented it was hard not to! Their last album was honestly perfect 👌

Blackpink taking all of my time and money too lately though

Especially with the 70 new songs

I wish they'd go to more tour spots instead of the same old places 😪

It's an 8 hour drive to the nearest one for me

Considering just flying to LA at this point cause I hate driving

I've also met a couple random people who were into black pink lol

They really are universal

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I agree with everything you said.

I'm hoping they add more U.S. locations like they did last time. I'm probably going to buy a ticket to the second day in Los Angeles today and not take a chance on missing them.

I listened to all of "Ruby." I loved it.

It's good you're posting again!

Quote from kittykitka

ddu×4 Era was really something else!

I loved seeing people finally realize what wonderful stars they are

It's not that I don't realize that they're each essential to the group in every way, I just see it as personal bias yk?

I feel like for every group, there's always someone I like just a little more, if that makes sense?

With that said, blackpink members>>>>>>> wall>>>>> every other kpop idol, for me

I don't think I'll ever care about any other act the same way..

I think I've been their fan since i was 15 or so

Question for you though 🤔

Do you only stan blackpink? Or are there other acts you like as well?

They've definitely set a new bar lol

Yg better step up

I'd like to see at least 10 songs on their newest album, as well as some creative input from them 👌

Kick teddy out

Aside from that, really looking forward to seeing them live in concert again

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Yup, I understand a personal bias. Each BP member has something unique...and I like how different people can see something that they like or admire in a certain one and that they would like a little bit more. I think that's one of the reasons BP is so successful.

I like other girl groups. I find it hard to get into boy groups, but I really like BigBang and I like Exo's sound.

I like everything Babymonster has put out. It's amazing how professional they are being how young they are.

I like and admire Twice for being "perfect" idols. They work hard, do everything asked of them, don't have meaningful scandals, and I like their early songs and some of the recent ones. I don't like some of their fandom because we still have Once's fighting the 2018 battles here on AKP.

I like Red Velvet for individual songs, and I really like the interactions they had with BP at award shows. There was one where Yeri waved BP over to open seats and their table and the 8 of them (I think Wendy was on a special stage or something) looked like a super group. I'm glad some of them are still friends. BlackVelvet!

I like individual songs from Ive, Aespa, GFriend, OhMyGirl, Everglow, and a couple of others. I don't really have the time to follow them. Blackpink takes up all of my time, energy and nowdays MONEY.

I almost bought a ticket for the 2nd night of the Los Angeles concert, but chickened out. I don't know if I have the energy to drive 6 hours one way and then 6 hours back home again like I did in 2019 to see them. I might change my mind. I'll probably change my mind if a ticket is still available in the spot I want. The daughter of a co-worker is going that night, which surprised me.

"yay! Those are some of my faves too!

Especially new woman and zen! They've been on replay all day

I've ordered all 4 too, but lisa and jennie still haven't arrived for me
I know they'll just be gorgeous tho

I know they will be. Rosie was so proud of hers and how you can choose your own favorite cover.

"lmaooo I still remember that "awesome screen" Era! And the entirety of 2017 Where we only got one song??? we really did go through it didn't we?"

Awesome Screen Era was something! I remember staying up until 2:00am my time to see Ddu Du Du premiere, and crying because I knew the song was so good that the girls were safe...they were going to make it.

"But it seems we're out of jail now! They released more than half of their discographies in less than half a year 😳

I still remember people saying it was the girls who didn't want to release much music

And They participated heavily in the composing/producing/writing too!

I'm honestly so proud of them😭"

They've worked really, really hard on their music...harder than people are giving them credit for.

"Have you really never had a bias? "

No. I've always thought that each one was necessary and brought equally important parts to the songs and the Blackpink "brand." I'm alot older than most people on the forums, I guess. When I was growing up, there was never any thought that one of the Beatles was better than the next, or a member of Van Halen, or in any other group. My friends and I have talked about this and when we were in high school we just accepted the band or group we listened to as a whole. The lead singer usually got the most attention, but I guess we were "taught" that every member of a band was more or less equal and was part of making up the total experience of a group.

When I discovered Kpop, terms like bias and stan were, I don't know, foreign to my music experience, and I never really used them. I was a fan of some Kpop girlgroups, and my favorite was Blackpink, and so forth.

I'm glad you and other Blinks are enjoying these times so much.

But I want to know, with all of this experience producing albums, tracks, and videos on their own, and really really good ones....what will a YG song sound like now? How can they bring their personal tastes and excellence together in their new music as OT4? What will it sound like? Will YG put them back in a box with some Teddy songs from 2019? How can YG grow to meet their growth?

Quote from kittykitka

Lmaoo right??

It's kind of overwhelming, in a wonderful way

We're finally free 🙌

What have been your favorite tracks by them so far?

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I like

Earthquake

Your Love

APT

Toxic to the End

New Woman

FXCk up the World

Mantra

Zen

Start a War

the most.

I haven't had a chance to really listen to Lisa or Jennie in depth yet and I still need to download Ruby, but I bought all four of their physical albums and am waiting for the last three of them after Rosie to ship and arrive.

I really am not used to having so many songs to listen to at once and to absorb. Four songs here, 8 songs there (that were mostly pre-released a month before) is what I'm used to digesting. I still remember in 2017 we were listening to the "Electric Safety Song" public service video they did for KBS or something as IF IT WAS A REAL RELEASE. That's what I'm used to.

I really like Jisoo's album. I have her as my display picture because she was scolding someone and I thought it was funny, not because she's a special bias. I don't have a bias in Blackpink; I like each equally and as a whole. So I guess I'm saying that I'm not just kneejerk choosing her over the others....but...I actually listen to Earthquake the most. I just like her voice and the EDM. And I love that video.

Quote from kittykitka

She's been making my month honestly

I honestly can't take all of this content from each of them. We all remember what it was like for years and years....

Posting here for chatroom Blinks:

Here's her explanation:

Posting some interviews from Lisa, Rosé and Jennie:

Obviously, this (it has English subtitles):

I can always hear the parent of a girl in the MV:

"Yes, you can join your girl posse and hang out in dark alleys, commit graffiti vandalism, and get gold grills...but be back home by 10:00. You have school tomorrow."

Money--Coachella version

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This is one of the longest BP comments I've read in my life.

I guess I should work harder

It was my Whyknock/Unabomber moment.

No one comes here to talk any more. People post on the main Kpop forum and there's not as much fighting or engagement because Blackpink has no group activities so they're not a threat. Alot of BP shooters were banned or stopped coming here.

Sometimes people will post a story about solo Pink activities news, but not very many people respond. I mean, no one wanted to talk about Lisa's new house in Hollywood, for example. Sometimes a new Blink will post a story on the main forum and not even old blinks will respond, so the new user stops posting.

The hate is dormant until they come back. The solo activities are either shouded in secrecy or haven't happened yet. Jennie and Zico have a smash hit. Most people seem to have evolved to "yeah, that's just what Jennie's impact is" and don't make alot of threads about it, but they are a couple of good threads about the success of the song.

Also, we used to talk about a bunch of crap here just to to earn akorns. That went away, then I think earning may be back...I don't know. That stopped the chat room dead.

Blackpink has become a legacy group. It doesn't feel like we have to fight to prove it. The world tour proved it. Coachella proved it.

Personally, I'm too old to fight with people, so I don't want to make threads or post unless I'm worked up about something. I have this feeling that Blackpink was vindicated, they won the race with other groups, they're rich and doing what they want, and now we can be at peace. When knetz use Blackpink as the standard that other groups have to match at Coachella and on stage, and call them "perfect idols" now, after years of dumping on them...I guess I'm just at peace and enjoy being their fan without calling too much attention to it.

Oppar and Koreans living in S. Korea:

Can you tell me the difference in the news networks? (Who watches them, their demographics, target audience and so forth)

Google translating the Korean comments under the YouTube news feeds for the press conference (about 100 each for each channel, but there were sometimes 10s of thousands more that didn't have time to see), that were submitted within a few hours of the conference,

JTBC has 100% approval comments for Min Heejin

SBS had 60% negative, but a rebroadcast video had 80% positive a few hours later

YTN had 100% negative (no support; thought she was a disloyal employee)

MBC News comments were all neutral sounding, but didn't believe she was cunning enough to try a take over

A channel that translated into English as "Checkpoint Issue" was 100% supportive, but thought it was hilarious and wanted to see the Korean SNL skits that would come next week

I'm just curious if these channels have a particular kind of audience or age that would influence the response to her.

I love it. It's got the uuntz uuntz uuntz.

(And the choreography slaps too)

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Fellow GenX er here as well. Your history is so close to my own experience omg. I LOVED the 80s in terms of music, it was the peak of Western music tbh, nothing will ever come close at least in our lifetimes . OMD, Pet Shop Boys, The Cure, Bobby Brown, NWA, Journey, Poison, Bon Jovi, GunsnRoses, Phil Collins, Michael Jackson, Whitney, i mean i could list literally 100 names that released legendary songs during this era.

Like you i lost interest in US music in the 2000's, little by little, after Grunge killed real rocknroll in the 90s, everything just homogenized into one boring hip hop/RnB track after another.

There were some outliers of course, Taylor Swift, The Killers, and of course the entire EDM era with Pitbull, DJ Sammy, and the like, it was the last time i was truly invested in local pop. When Old Town Road came out and blew up local pop and ushered in the mumble rap/trap high hat era, i knew i was done for good. Like i loved that old TI song "Whatever You Like" as much as the next fella, but everything turned into low fi, chanting, super simple songs with the same incessant trap high hat and percussion....just too much.

Yup. I tuned in via the internet to an L.A. radio station to hear a live Blackpink interview, during the Kill This Love comeback, and had to listen to terrestrial pop radio for the first time in maybe 15 years while waiting, and between segments. I was absolutely shocked by how bad it was. This would have been around the day the Old Town Road remix with Billy Ray Cyrus was released and which they played. If I ever have to get another car they can omit the FM radio.

I feel all of your groups but was already done by the Pitbull era. I think I was listening mainly to soundtracks or classical music from my itunes library. I found Kpop in the weirdest way: wanting to hear the communist anthem "l'internationale" led (all via YouTube) to mainland Chinese Mandopop singer (and Commie) Jike Junyi, then Ailee, then Blackpink, then other girl groups I like today. It's so stupid how excited I can get for comebacks of groups I like. They're events, the way a Star Wars or Spielberg movie premier used to be. Kpop has a weird magic.

(I posted something. It was fake)

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ipod nano omg.

Yeah, i obviously love my hair metal but the beats in those songs dont really seem conducive for Kpop style choreo. Maybe just the legendary synthesizer riff will be sampled as part of a whole new song.

I should have said Sony Walkman...that's 80s.

Yeah, they have to just be sampling the beginning of Final Countdown, and maybe make some themes like Ive did with "After Like."

I love hair metal. You get a lot of crap from these AKP children about being a 'boomer.' Well, I'm a Generation Xer, not a boomer, and they don't know what they missed in terms of variety in music. I stopped listening to music altogether in the 2000's because American pop sucked so bad, and always liked synth driven 'Euro' sounding songs. I got into Kpop when I heard "As If It's Your Last" in 2017 and heard the synth backgrounds and little callbacks that reminded me of 80's groups like A-Ha and The Pet Shop Boys. There's also just a little bit of something like the Shiny Toy Guns "Le Disko" (which is from a lot later, I guess). Besides Teddy, RT, 24 and his other Blacklabel producers are said to be club DJ's, so they bring that ability to sample and make dance beats and build anticipation in their drops. I'm looking forward to this new Rosé song.

Also,

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OMG.

TEDDY plus ROSIE plus MOTHEREFFING FINAL COUNTDOWN

I'm literally dancing and crying right now, this is my literal childhood.

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Y'all dont understand.

Teddy is my generation. I feel like half the reason why i loved Blackpink was because of Teddy. He grew up in the US around the same time as me, he was an 80s baby, his childhood WAS the 80s just like mine.

Y'all kids need to listen to the original Final Countdown, see the epicness that us boomers got to witness.

Keep your trap beats and high hats, your autotuned robots, your sleep inducing chanting and toddler level song structures... you aint got a heart or a soul if you aint wishing and praying for THIS kinda sound to return and replace all that.

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I'm older than you are, so I understand...but it's crazy! This song...I mean it has a great driving beat, and I actually looked in up on YouTube a week or so ago because I wanted to hear it for some reason....but how did it come up to be considered? Was Teddy listening to his IPod Nano?

Quote from BlackpinkHouse

Successful CEO types are all the same lol. Even LSM had to be practically dragged out of SM by his hair, dude was deadset on remaining in power till his last breath. Being the top alpha dogs in cutthroat industries breeds this it seems like, they just dont know when to bow out gracefully.

Agreed. Also, I don't know how you feel about Form of Therapy on YouTube, but when he was watching the Babymonster evaluation/fake competition shows last year, he suggested that if YHS wanted to do something really different with this girl group, because they are different from his previous girl groups, YHS should embed himself in their promotion: not just produce them personally but promote them personally, to the level Colonel Tom Parker did with Elvis.

I don't think Form of Therapy has any special insight into what YHS was going to do, but as a long time YG stan and Kpop follower that was an idea that came to him that seemed logical and that seems to be happening.

Let's see how the album does in S. Korea vs. internationally. YHS can greese the skids with some industry types to help Babymonster promotions and show wins, but the Korean public and international fans will decide if they can get past him to like the song if he over plays his involvement.