Posts by rubyjanes

I watched it on Netflix when it came out I remember I was in a Zoom class which I had on mute and was watching BP on my other browser lol.

Fromis_9 : IDK them that well but Nakyung solely because of that iconic half-and-half hair during Love Bomb, one of my fav fun hairstyles a kpop idol has ever done.

(G)-Idle : None

Izone: Wonyoung final boss of all idols of course

Itzy: Ryujin based of looks alone cause idgaf about itzy

aespa : Winter

StayC: Yoon cause she kinda annoying lowkey but thats so me, like hey sis!

IVE: Wonyoung

Newjeans: I have a vague fondness that is distributed equally amongst all the members

Le Sserafim: Sakura... despite the Hybe nose and Hybe voice, that cant hyde her queen status

Illit: Yunah cause she's the cunty one ig

Kiss of Life: Julie sorry not sorry she just has a certain je ne sais quoi in the way she performs it's tew good.

Babymonster: Ahyeon, the predebut "secret weapon" rumors ring true once again. yes she screeches instead of singing but she's the most satisfying to watch on stage

NMIXX: Sullyoon, I respect tf outta her for not just sitting back and being the talentless visual (which she totally could've gotten away with given how she looks) but instead gets on stage each day and sings like rent is due

Kep1er: None

Looks like she's doing cosplay of Natalie Portman in Leon the Professional:

That movie seems popular in SK for some reason, even IU made a whole song based off it:

anyways looks like I was proven long, I lowkey thought with the string of idol abdications happening recently that Lia would quietly withdrawl, but I guess not

Because Hyuna is going to sign a legally binding contract with a man directly implicated in the scandal, whereas the other idols mentioned merely did one-time collaborations with a man (Zico) who is only speculated to be involved (strongly suspicious but no hard proof). The degree of involvement and the person they're involved with are both very different.

Only Ruka and Rora qualify as visuals imo but there aren't any visual holes at least!

That was a belly-flop into a kiddie pool. Too one-note and kitchy

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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They don't seem to take their jobs too seriously unless warranted.

It's fun to read about people around artists enjoying the time together sometimes.

Yes, it must be fun to work with idol with bubbly personalities like these besides the times when you have to elbow away rabid fans

Been aware of kpop since 2016, been invested enough to be called a "fan" since 2018, learned 0 phrases in korean

Stayc girls, it's goin down...

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

call me a spoilsport to but this event is so stupid to me. Just a lipsync fest that unnecessarily wastes tons of water with the sole excuse of providing idols a blames-less opportunity to show skin so their fans can shamelessly goon.

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

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

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

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.

Sounds similar but then again both songs sound like 90% of those contemporary, "self-empowerment" pop songs being pumped out by the music factory, which makes sense for IVE doing an ad song, but a tad pathetic for Baemon's promotional single...

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

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

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.