Only Ruka and Rora qualify as visuals imo but there aren't any visual holes at least!
Posts by rubyjanes
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That was a belly-flop into a kiddie pool. Too one-note and kitchy
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I mean isn't it more impressive when a creator is more profitable and popular with one product out versus their competitors flooding the market with material and still not coming anywhere close to those achievements? That's not to say BP's marketing strategy (starve the fans so that when you finally do feed them once in a blue moon they will go all out) is good for the industry, in fact its probably bad, actually, but it's impressive nonetheless
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Stayc girls, it's goin down...
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Domestically: SNSD (Kpop market was smaller, therefore less competition for fans and SNSD was leading by a landslide)
Internationally/As a whole: BLACKPINK, no group girl group was able to keep up, to the degree that to call anyone second to BP's first place would be a joke because BP were just in a league of their own
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Not really that shocking. KIOF got a few months heads start (debuted in July 2023 vs Baemon's November 2023) and that was with Baemon missing the most buzzworthy member (Ahyeon), while KIOF had both Natty and Julie who possesed (moderate) pre-debut notoriety, nothing comparable to the pre-debut hype of Baemon coming from YG and having their own pre-debut reality show, however still enough for KIOF to pique the Kpop audience's interest. From there KIOF was buzzworthy for 1) Singing live 2) Sexy dance moves 3) catchy music, whereas Baemon got off to a rocky start with their debut universally labeled as disappointing
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I thought this song was cool and good when I was a newborn kpop fan and only knew like 3 groups and this song was protoypic girl crush to me.
Your post made me think about this song for the first time in years and it's fair to say that--like most 2nd gen girl crush before the dawn of Blackpink who would go onto refine and redefine the genre--this song aged like Joe Biden and Donald Trump
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No matter who you are aging can decrease your perceived value in the dating market, but I think the points added by being a famous celebrity vastly outweigh the drawback of age.
Rather, the problem for older female idols is not a lack of men willing to date and possibly settle down with them, quite the opposite, they probably have dozens of men saying "Marry me noona," but they cannot accept them because, while dating may now be accepted for a senior idol, getting married and having kids is still an unpardonable offense for most delusional kpop stans
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super pretty cough and thus extremely marketable cough and a good dancer. She has a pleasant energy on stage and in interviews which makes her endearing and entertaining to watch. I fear her biggest drawback is that her music is really nothing remarkable or different, just pretty run of the mill afrobeat.
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I don't think the song was good nor was the timing especially bad. The song was uneventful + disjointed, two auditory sins which in isolation may be fine but in conjunction are unforgivable, and the mv/aesthetics were cheap and unimaginative. Blackpink took 2NE1's powerful, hiphop inspired concept and innovated by beautifying it and making it more palatable for audiences, Baemon isn't doing anything we haven't seen/heard before. YG is broke, their producers are tired, it's time to pack it up
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Even if the song has good critical consensus RV is still a senior group past their prime, it would take a majorly catchy song with some sort of viral moment in order for them to get a hit at this stage
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seems our uninformed opinons on MHJ feelings about NJs members are split into two extremes: either you believe that she is faking her affection for the members and secretly couldn't care less about them because she is a greedy narcissist that only cares about herself and will use a fake relationship with the members to scrub her image, OR you believe the opposite, that she has too much affection for the members and is obsessed with them to the point of trying to slither her way into their personal lives.
Both sides seem too extreme to be likely. I think the truth is that MHJ seems a shrewd business woman who at the end of the day looks out for herself before anyone else--but this shouldn't come as a shock, I mean, how else do you think a woman survived this long and rose to such esteem in a misogynist industry/country?--but she still has a love for the NJ members, after all, she handpicked them herself and got to watch them grow up and help her make her creative vision a reality.
Also important to note that MHJ is a 44 yr old woman who, as far as I'm aware, has no kids and given her age the likelihood of her having them in the future (unless she adopts) is very slim. NJ members probably do fill that hole in her heart that many woman who missed out on motherhood have, and I can't say that I blame MHJ nor do I find it worrying as long as the member's families don't mind, its like a spinster aunt having a relationship with her siblings kids.
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I still cant believe he's 25, dude looked 40 in some of those pics. In these ones, he looks closer to 30 i guess.
I agree. It's not that his skin is wrinkly or any of the negative signs of age, it's just that his features are more of a mature handsome than a youthful handsome hence why it feels weird picturing him dating such a young and trendy idol as karina. First time I saw him I assumed this was another old actor-young idol relationship a-la Lee Minho and Suzy
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Not bad. The first transition from chorus to verse was a bit blunt but overall I'm liking what I hear, in terms of RV's recent releases I'd place it above Chill Kill and Birthday but below Feel My Rhythm
That MV is beautiful! Conceptually it's a rip of the movie Midsommar but, hey, Midsommar is a rip of a centuries long cultural tradition, and I believe culture is meant for sharing and inspiring so I don't begrudge either, I guess it's just the MV isn't as intriguing when I've already seen the movie that inspired it.
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of course it is possible but becoming a trendy group is still extremely difficult, like capturing lightning in a bottle the proper combination of hit song, trendy aesthetics, popular members, public interest, it's difficult to bring all these elements together at once, hence why it only happens to most groups once (if at all) and they either continue building that momentum or lose it irreparably.
either way even if IVE never become the trend again they will be fine. baring any major scandal or their company facing financial crisis, their fandom is pretty much secured so they can continue to make comebacks for as long as their contract allows.
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makes sense. often times people new to a creative endeavors (writing, music, art, etc.) start out copying "the greats" or their peers before they are able to hone their own artistic style and begin creating unique works. Min Hee Jin stands out against the rest of Hybe because she has already undergone the "finding onseself" period of her career long ago and is able to leave her handprint on everything she touches