Beauty Box thread??
Love their B-Step album and actually already have this song on my playlist. "BoggleBoggle" is only my third favorite song from the album.
I'm still catching up through 2023 K-pop songs, but they put out one of my favorite songs of 2022 with "Plz Plz Plz" and am happy to see them still around. Can't wait to see what they're up to.
Good group in my opinion. Wish them more success.
Nice. I really enjoyed "Do Not Touch" and "Funny Valentine" on their last release. Looking forward to what they put out this time.
YGE was in the Big 3 before they debuted Blackpink, and that was off of the back of their previous groups and artists. Blackpink has been wildly successful for them, but they weren't what put them on the map. Blackpink has many other accolades to their names, but company-map charting isn't one of them 
Maybe this is my J-pop bias poking out a bit, but I always thought Sakura had placed herself in an amazing position to succeed in all of her groups. While her singing is a let down, huge success in Japan and Korea is difficult to get as an idol, but she has done it consistently and has been at the top with multiple groups. The two fields demand different things, but she has been able to adjust about as well as anyone can. She only has one true weakness on the K-pop side which is singing, but that can be improved upon.
She's still in her first seven years of her latest group, but I've always thought that she will have a top five idol career when it's all said and done. If Le Sserafim keeps up their success, she will end up in the top five alongside the likes of BoA. Depending on her legacy and possible solo work in the future, I would even place her into a top ten greatest idols of all time list 
People use the word "flop" too often with top groups. Yeah, IVE and Newjeans have been releasing duds, but they've still done well with their releases. It's hard to consistently match the levels of songs like "I AM," "Love Dive," "Attention," and "Ditto" (some of the great songs of the generation and might go on to be classics if they stand the test of time).
We should allow groups the space to have dud releases without declaring them flops (dud mileage is subjective). Most groups wish they could "flop" at the levels of IVE and Newjeans.
She was out in charge of boarder control which has gotten completely out of control wdym nothing wrong
Republicans had already blocked a border fix that would've given them most of what they were asking for, so there was nothing that the administration would've been able to do about it. It's their strongest argument against the Democrats, so any actual fix was unlikely to actually happen.
Display MoreYou are underestimating Zionist money backing and influence. Despite colleges being very anti-war and leftist, it's the donor class contributing hundreds of millions who has the final say. They skew to the pro-Zionist side. https://www.washingtonexaminer…sities-over-antisemitism/
Media coverage is also very pro-Israel. It relates again to money from advertisements and corporations that are almost completely supporting Israel.
It's money that runs the world. Millions were donated to the BLM movement from these same companies that in no way, shape or form have any reason to protest the genocide of Palestinians. Due to their ties with Israel, they will eventually benefit from the genocide as more land becomes available for doing business with Israel.
I don't believe that I'm underestimating anything, and you've already reiterated a point that I've already made (that people that support the Palestinian cause don't have the numbers to impact change). Many college students and professors lean towards the left than the right, but that doesn't necessarily mean that students and professor have the Palestinian crisis as something they see worthy of boycotting or divesting from companies that they engage with. From the protests that we see, it's only a minority of students that feel the need to engage in such activities.
Your post is arguing that it's very difficult to confront Israel and force divestment because of the large hold that they have over companies and elites. However, that doesn't contradict my original argument that Palestinian protestors don't have the numbers to change the courses of companies on this topic. Your post just supports my argument, only adding that it's very hard to get companies and universities to divest, and it would be difficult because they don't have the numbers or the influence.
It's a major movement at the grassroots level but extremely powerless compared to the pro-Zionist side. Netanyahu commands a lot of respect and influence with the US government. And Zionism isn't just about Israel but Western powers wanting a chokehold over the Muslim world via Israel and a huge number of Evangelicals, who already hate non-Judeo-Christians, believe that if they support Israel they will go to heaven. The Zionists have the government, religious organizations, corporations, think thanks, media, nonprofits, NGOs heavily on their side. So these boycotts is the most such movement shut off by all sides can do in such situation, even if largely symbolic. It's the least people can do as they watch helpless a genocide happening right before their eyes.
I do think it's a popular grassroots movements, and it's been able to exert influence locally e.g., Deerborn, Evergreen State College, etc. However, there don't seem to be enough numbers to influence state-level politics in their home country, let alone K-pop artists across the world whose income is primarily dervived on the other side of the world. Back in 2020 during the BLM protests, about 5% of the American population participated in those protests, and those could be argued to have affected no real change in many places or a backlash later on if there were any changes. The Palestine protest seems to be much smaller.
Even with the enshrined advantage that the Israeli state and corporations may have, there's not enough support to challenge it.
The Palestine movement is a minor movement that has an outsized voice: a small population that shout loudly. One of the biggest pieces of evidence for this is that companies that should be receptive to these types of call outs are not. I would say most countries and companies don't guide their courses on solely morality most of the time. They have other incentives. That there are governments and businesses and people haven't changed their actions can only mean that the number of people who care enough to change their behavior aren't enough. Not enough in America, in South Korea, or in most of the world. And where there are enough in number they are not enough in influence.
And the proof of this is that actions haven't changed.
In the US specifically, be prepared to see a lot less coverage of the conflict leading into the election, and then it will mostly be relegated to punditry talk once the election is decided. The fact that Democrat congressmen clapped during Netanyahu's speech at the Capitol last week is the biggest sign that the movement is cooked in terms of influence.
She does. She may not be able to win a Democratic primary, but now that she's the nominee (or soon will be), she will be able to compete in a different field. Being unviable in a party's primary doesn't mean that they are necessarily unviable in the general.
Harris has basically hidden in a basement for the last four years. She's done nothing notable, but she's done nothing wrong either. This means that many attacks that have been sticking onto Biden are unlikely to stick onto her outside of general attacks (e.g., communist, socialist, woke, etc). Coming in this late, she has a chance to re-introduce herself to the nation again and change her image from four years ago, and she also has a limited time to really blunder. If she's going to be able to do that is a different question, but she has a good chance.
Her focus should be winning appeal the middle voters and try to match some of the concessions that Biden promises the Squad to shore up the flaky youth vote.
Another three minute made-for-TikTok song blowing up on TikTok. The song is uninspiring. I would use "filler" to describe it.
Cute song. I'll put it on my playlist.
I will consider the possibility of it being oversexualized once sexy concepts return for a year or more across the groups.
Where else would they be? They are being sued, so they are shutting up and lying low, which is what they should've done in the beginning unless their lawyers told them otherwise.
The first line says that the application is specifically against the Givers. Is their anything about the the former members, or are they just being lumped in with the Givers? And what of the parents of the former members? This article lacks too many details.
It's impressive, but they haven't released anything decent in over a year, and nothing really good since 2022. We'll see if the current company drama sets them back, but their latest release was below the standard that they set for themselves.
Fifty Fifty at 16th is crazy though. Truly the biggest blunder of fourth gen. We'll see if they regain in September.
I actually try to keep with every group.
I use Kpopping to follow releases and then just binge everything. It captures big groups, soloists, and nugus, so it's ideal for me.
Hi, yes, it works. I think it just took some time to kick in. Thank you!
Went for Jessica instead. Can't deny my OT9 bias. Sooyoung soon... 
