Posts by harambelives

  • do you think k-pop stans are the worst fandom?

    As a football fan, football (and sports in general) are next level trash lmao. Just watch any football match between rival clubs or countries and watch the shit hit the fan. Offensive chants in stadium, racism, fights before during and after matches, stereotypes, sore winners and losers, massive egos and everything else


    Kpop is definitely up there though. Bullying, (successful) death threats, misinformation/lies, harassment, racism, sexism. Their victims are real people which makes things worse than hating fictional things like anime or games.

  • Do you think Lisa can sing?

    Nah not really. I always saw her as weak singer (most of Blackpink too) but at least she could hold a note or so I thought. I means not like 3G onward was known for their singing. But after her solo stuff and live perfs, she actually sucks. I recently saw clips of her coachella stages and she relies on heavy back track or lip syncs and it’s often hard to tell which is happening and it’s not like either option benefits her case, both make her look bad. She struggles to sing and dance at the same with a steady voice and before people say dancing and singing is hard yeah it is but lots of other idols can sing and dance simultaneously adequately or very well so why would she be an exemption?

  • Blaming a trainee for not refusing to cover a song with the N-word is like blaming an employee for doing their job.

    It's a bit column a, a bit of column b and bit of column c.


    Labels will give set songs to trainees to perform. It's been a standard practice since gen 1. Sometimes that involves songs that might inappropriate content for the idol (eg obvious references to sex and having a 11 yo sing and dance to it) but that's part of their training. We've seen survival shows with kids being criticised about their looks or weight so clearly labels have lots of power.


    However Idols also do have some control for their perfs at least on other labels. They can choose what to perform including adding changes or making a remix. That can be from adding their own singing flair, adding dance or censoring like they do with swears. Sometimes for an evaluation you can do something different, as a trainee Yuri famously did dinosaur impressions a couple times for her weekly performance evaluations lol.


    Or to avoid any and all issues that just don't use songs that feature controversial things. Pure and simple. Put them on a ban list that way there's zero chance anything happens.

  • There is nothing to indicate BLACKPINK is a more impactful group than SNSD

    SNSD is the blueprint for hundreds of groups including BP as the original project was supposed to be YGSNSD but that fell through as trainees left or didn't advance the line up


    Hundreds of idols have said SNSD is their fave or role model. Trainees are trained to match SNSD standard including ITNW being a common trainee song to practice.


    They at the forefront hallyu across the world and put kpop on the map in a time when YouTube was still relatively in its early stages. If SNSD debuted in a time with social media they would've blown up when bigger.


    They are multimedia stars, from day 1 they were getting multiple TV shows, guest appearances, high ratings, solo events like talk or radio shows. They were advertising monsters endorsing everything from typical fashion and beauty to electronics and homeware. They made a chicken franchise which seemed silly for gg to doing at the time and made become a multi million franchise


    They were the face of Korea. Pop culture icons, tourism attraction, sent to inter national concerts as Korean reps, every CB they made national news.


    In recent years ITNW is a defacto 2nd national anthem.


    BP might have more success overall but SNSD is by far much more influential. Their impact evolved and shaped kpop industry and to and even Korea to an extent. Without SNSD inflence a lot of groups wouldn't have existed since and today and kpop itself would be different.

  • Drama time: Alleged Disgruntled YG Employee Leaking Videos

    Oh lmao I saw kpop fans were getting in a tizzy on TikTok and now I find out there’s fuck ton of questionable data ready to be released.


    it’s mutually assured destruction now, no one can come for anyone’s faves because they all will have their secrets revealed lol (unless there’s there dark shit in there like murder or pedo or something, anyone involved in that can get fucked for real).

  • [TW] Actress Kim Saeron found dead in her home

    Korea and bullying female celebs to suicide. Name a more iconic duo.


    They pushed Sulli to suicide, they did it with Hara, they tried it with Tiffany, they did it with Saeron. There's also stuff like molka and mass sexism which gets a pass (burning sun associates only getting a couple years tops). There's something really fucked up with Korean society to hate women that much.

  • Do you think SNSD revolutionize KPOP ?

    Not revolutionised since it's been done before (I think shinwa did it) and it's not a common thing across the industry (yet) but SNSD certainly showed it can be possible and idols leaving doesn't need to mean the end of the group.


    I think the key aspect is that SM still sees them as a legitimate group because we all know SM doesn't have a great track record with older groups or idols who leave, that includes SNSD themselves as when SM deliberately sabotaged their 10th anniversary. Look at SNSD standing in SM and it's noticeablely different compared to other older acts; SNSD were allowed to perform as a full group with plenty of songs at SM town during Forever 1 era and currently are promoted as a full group with their own merch and new song whereas other groups have multiple members missing from promo/merch like Shinee, Exo, Suju or are completely absent like Fx. Half the group aren't in SM so there's no reason why SM would promote the non SM members as what happened during the Oh GG days yet here we are.


    I wouldn't be surprised if SNSD status becomes a common sight across the industry with idols in different labels but still performing as part their group under their original label.

  • Do you stan a group or idol who can slay their encore stages? Be honest

    Wins big award, no ear pieces, most of them are still celebrating but they still put on a beast perf


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  • WTF is this AKP ??? 😱😱 ( TRIGGER WARNING)

    AKP started out asa general translation site but quickly became a hate site against SNSD and Big Bang, regularly picking articles and making editorials to generate clicks because they were the biggest names to leech off.


    The worst they did was get ahold of Ailee nude pics (I think one of her ex was either on akp staff or he leaked them to AKP) and they posted them for no fucking reason. I don’t remember any other news source even covering the story. There was a LOT of backlash against AKP form knetz and multiple kpop fan sites trying to ban them as a source.

  • Who are your top six most influential K-Pop Groups of All Time?

    You know what? I agree. The only contention for me is NJ


    I don't know anything about current gen so I don't know if NJ as impactful as the others but seeing how popular and successful they are (their popularity reminds of SNSD tier) then probably deserve at least a strong mention but remains too be seen what impact they leave on the industry. Otherwise she's not a idol group but Boa? She was the biggest selling Kpop artist for a time and carried SM for a while - all while being a teen.