Posts by ThePhantomThief
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She also made those comments about loving history and being interested in it. She didn't do herself any favours.
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But if you have issues with distorting History, you going after a rookie actress makes no sense. Going after the producers on the other hand is.
They are going after Jisoo because of the frankly disgusting reaction from some i-fans
She's the focal point for that. If she wasn't in the show, most of the shielding i-fans wouldn't care
I think the question for Jisoo, and Blackpink, now is "how do I fix this and repair my image?".
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Well, some people who defend this drama will probably be the first one to go crazy and sign a petition if Korean drama/movie distort their country’s history and calling it “Fiction”.
I find it really ironic that many Thai Kpop fans want Korea to ban Sitala just few weeks ago because of her family’s political standpoint but when it comes to Snowdrop, they said Korean are overreacting lmao…
I wonder what the Venn diagram of Thai fans who want Sitala banned, hated on Lisa for not publically supporting the pro-democracy movement and think Koreans are over reacting to Snowdrop looks like?
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I'm still always shocked that in 2021 the major big groups still don't let their idols have individual Social Media accounts, especially after seeing the numbers spat out by BP's insta accounts and ESPECIALLY now after BTS.
It's free real estate. It lets fan stay engaged with an idol even when the group is somewhat inactive or on a break.
Saying that, I also expect JYP to be the LAST company that allows their idols to do so.
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And most of this is just a lie. There is nothing organic in Western pop, Kpop is just more open about how they manufacture idols, Western media likes to hide the truth.
When you sign with a company like UMG as a rookie, they own your ass. Plain and simple. We're just better at hiding this from the gullible masses, Kpop labels dont care to hide it they openly talk about it.
Thats why I said "come across as". The big and popular artists are almost all obviously manufactured and their image puffed up by whatever label owns them and controlled by them (even if they pretend to be rebellious, shocking artists).
But the story is still important. The whole "Lil Nas X was a nobody until he spent $30 on a sample and went viral on TikTok and got popular". Thats why the term Industry Plant even exists, a created, manufactured "authentic" artist. Lorde is another one. I've also read a fair bit saying Billie Eilish and Olivia Rodrigo are as well.
So what I'm saying is that the trend in the Western music world right now is to LOOK "organic and authentic", a trend that doesn't gel with the boy group/girl group formula. There's still a bit of distaste for the obvious and open "we made this singer/group, please enjoy them" model.
But as I said, I kind of think that will change as Western labels try and start emulating BTS (and successful kpop girl groups).
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The West is going through another "authentic" fad, where the popular artists are ones who come across as having "come from nowhere and made their own name", as opposed to a group manufactured and polished by a label. Even more ideal is making it look like the artists popularity grew naturally from social media. "Just a small town girl got big on the Instagrams and now has a grammy!!". It does seem like some of these artists are so called "industry plants" though, still manufactured by a label, but polished to look "authentic".
But with BTS' popularity in the west, and even the less, but still important impact of other kpop groups, I think we'll see more Western companies start experimenting with obviously manufactured groups again over the next few years. Although there will be a big focus on diversity in said groups.
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It's part of the whole infantalising of kpop idols from the fandom.
That anything they ever do outside of singing and dancing well and looking good is this overwhelming achievement.
"OMG SONGWWRITER XXXXX SUCH DEEP LYRICS SO TALENTED"
"OMG CHEF XXXXX SUCH GREAT PACKET RAMYUN MAKING SKILLS"
"OMG ARTIST XXXXX SUCH AMAZING DRAWING"
"OMG DOOROPENER XXXXX SUCH BEAUTIFUL DOOR OPENING"
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Yeah I'm pretty open about it.
All my work colleagues know I'm into kpop, to the point where one of my secret santa gifts this year was a pack of Blackpink stickers. But I wear most of my hobbies on my sleeve, don't feel much need to hide them at this stage in my life.
My parents got me the Dreamcatcher light stick for my birthday this year, but Mum screwed up the online order and accidentally bought two, so that was cool.
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I only voted in terms of girl groups since I don't keep up with boy groups
Me too, Girl Groups only, so had to throw a vote at ITZY.
Although I would have voted Dreamcatcher + Live Band if it was a choice
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Lip Syncing well is not an easy thing to do. It does actually take a lot of skill and practice to be able to make lip sync well enough to create the illusion that you are actually singing. As others have pointed out, facial expressions are a big part of it, so is mouth movement and a range of other smaller details. If you do it properly and create the illusion properly, most viewers will be ok with it. It's kind of part of the whole "theatre" of the experience.
The biggest problem I see with aespa is that right now, they cant lip sync very well at all, and hence they keep breaking the illusion that "they really are singing live". Their facial movements and expressions give them away way, way too easily. The MAMA performance was a really good example of this. Their lip sync was... well out of sync. It almost looked like a dubbed movie, with their lips moving differently to the lyrics being sung. There were even points where some members mouths didn't appear to be moving at all when their lines were being sung.
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Been saying for a while that an ITZY tour would be amazing.
ITZY musical style and songs seem made for big, brash live performances in front of large crowds.But Covid hitting soon after their debut kind of squashed that for a while.
But now with some more songs under their belt and more time to gel and improve, they could seriously rip up some venues.
Imagine the finale part of Loco, with the clapping, when a whole, huge crowd of fans is doing the clapping part. It'd be amazing!
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Finally leaving the news page to comment here.
That was such an amazing performance and really cements my theory that Itzy would be an amazing group to see live. Their music seems almost created for live, stadium style performances. So much energy and hype to them.
Hopefully they will be able to tour next year.
