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    We just started FiftyFifty seaon 2.0, and now we're already getting rumors of season 3.0? :pepe-popcorn:

    You're on the shaman shortlist now :scaredy-bee:

    Is the first day even over?

    As of 35 minutes ago. Didn't you predict this to be a flop, or was that another Bunny? :pepe-narrow-eyes:


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    I actually thought the numbers sounded good until I saw this. Decent for many groups. Poor for Le Sserafim. We'll see if it picks up.

    Yeah, I mean, these are pretty common I thought. If you go on any non-PH affiliated site, you can find tons just by typing in deepfake. And before they really got cracked down, you can find them on PH too.


    Deepfakes are the future, or at least the technology will be. In probably less the 100 years, you won't be able to trust a video just because you see a video. It'll be absolute chaos in some areas. Deepfakng videos, photos, voices, etc better than you could Photoshop an image back in the day. Scary times with the tech. And now that it's out, you know you can't just put it back in the box.

    People can't criticize you for not being able to sing if you don't sing at all :meme-think-about-it:


    But yes, 2024 has been tremendously underwhelming for these top groups and the newer ones. I honestly don't know how it's come to this, but I hope to see it past. Lots of great songs still get released though by soloists, so it's not the end of the world for K-pop. I just consider it a chalked year unless the last quarter just switches it up for some reason.

    Which song is better?

    Which will be doing better?

    Which will dethrone Supernova first?


    I like both songs, but Crazy stuck in my head from first listen. And because they are the bigger act, i think they are going to do better and the one to dethrone Supernova

    If what dethrones "Supernova" is "Crazy" of all songs, I will never trust Korean general public taste again :aespa46:


    "Starry Night" is better than "Crazy." I wouldn't expect either to touch "Supernova." Then again, I never though "Supernova" to ever reach its current heights, so I obviously have predictive powers lesser than even a fortune cookie.

    Minor bop. I was conflicted in giving it major blop or minor bop status, but I went with minor bop.


    I agree that something was missing. During the chorus, I felt like they could've gone up a level in the instrumental. And at the end, when that one person hit a high note, I was expecting SNSD Jessica ad-libs for some reason and was let down when that didn't happen. In fact, I'm listening to a video of Jessica adlibs to sate me.


    Very safe song to pre-release with, but it might not be a bad thing considering the scrutiny they were facing. But that's a single vs going for a double discussion, if you get what I mean.


    They can't play it safe forever though.

    Yeah, NMIXX are better singers than Le Sserafim. I think everyone would agree with that. Their music just isn't as good.


    If Le Sserafim are 15-year-old kids reheating patties onto your McDouble, then NMIXX are Michelin chefs baking donuts, throwing the donuts into the trash, dumpster diving to recover the donuts, and then serving them to you with a side of New Jersey tap water.

    The best song in the album is Crazier!

    But why Hybe is obsessed with short songs? Like every single one of them is short except Chasing Lightning!

    We're in sync here.


    "Crazier" is the best song, but it's a ballad, and there are tons of much better ballads out there. I put this on the playlist though. This pales in comparison.


    How is "Chasing Lightning" the longest thing on this EP? It's not even a song. I just assumed it to be a special introduction to set the mood. Everything else is a total flop. I feel like each of these songs could be filler in something much better.


    "Crazy" I had already been dreading from the teasers, but somehow the instrumental was the best part of the song. At least though, I can understand them when they say "all the girls are girling." But it doesn't pump me or anything because just as it sounds like it's going anywhere, "all the girls are girling" comes up and deflates the song.


    "1-800-hot-fun" just sounds okay at best. Unfortunately, the song is in English, so I compared it to other English songs, and this just comes off as mediocre at that point.


    The worst song is "Pierrot." During the song, I thought to myself that this sort of sounds like western rap, and when I put it in that frame of reference, the entire song collapsed. They can't rap, and the beat is lame. That was amateur hour.


    Overall, a flop EP.

    In many places? Yes. K-pop's issue is that Korea is small, and it speaks Korean. Nobody but Korea speaks Korean. So countries can easily just adapt K-pop elements into their own domestic audience and focus on just the domestic crowd. It's not like Japan where countries besides America and China really don't want to compete in spaces like video games. Everyone wants to at least own their domestic market.