E'dawn is an adult.
Naah...nope. We aren't blaming women for choices that men made.
He made the decision himself, he's a grown man.
Yes, but would his idol career be in a better state, if his current relationship with Hyuna had never happened?
It's rather obvious that you can be lucky in love (or life) while at the same time your career might be on a less fortunate level.
... And the reverse of course, you can be lucky with career, while unlucky in relationships.
Display MoreI remember when Revuvus would give me a hard time about how Red Velvet canceled f(x) and how no one will remember f(x) cause they are flops compared to Irene and the girls.
Well lol. What goes around comes around I guess. Looks like Aespa has cancelled RV. Theres only been three RV threads since the new forum was unveiled.
Mark my words their next comeback will be their last like 4 Walls was for f(x). Any chance they had at sustaining themselves after Aespa takes over was squandered by Irene.
So my question for Revuvus is this. Will you stay a RV fan after they disband like I did with f(x)? Or will you jump on the train of the newest hottest thing which is Aespa like most fake fans do?
I hope so, if it'd mean that you'll finally end your irritating, non-stop bashing and trashtalking of Red Velvet, and that you finally move on to other targets for your bitterness. It'd really be worth it :)
For that matter, I feel slightly sad, that the time you were absent from the site and that it seemed you'd gone for good - as any boomer troll should - has ended, and that you're back apparently.
Ah well, hater trolls will troll, I guess 
I just encountered some articles on the main AKP site about Hyuna, which made me wonder about the question in the title.
I mean, I get that when you're in love and in a relationship, you should be able to enjoy it and be able to be public about it if you want to, that goes for idols too.
But at the same time I have to wonder if it was a smart idea.
It also fears somewhat unfair: Hyuna already had a long, successful career in which she had built up her name and reputation as an artist. So I get she might be entirely over the whole 'keeping relationships secret' thing, and was at a point in her life where she'd become impatient to simply move on to a normal (i.e. public) relationship.
But E'Dawn was still at the early stages of his idol career. The going public with their relationship completely changed his life and career as an idol/artist.
I have to wonder if, after all those many years of training and preparing for his dream, an idol career, this is what he's happy with.
Meaning, he might be happy in his relationship with Hyuna, but I wonder how he feels about the (changed) state of his idol career and if it was worth the many years of sacrifice and prepation.
It's not as if at any given time there's only 1 concept that's being used by all K-pop groups.
To the contrary, there's always a large variety of concepts, themes and styles used by K-pop groups in any era.
But there's always some concepts that are more popular and more frequently used by groups, and which those most used, dominant concepts are varies over the years.
There was the cute/bright concept that got very popular due to SNSD and other 2nd gen groups and that saw a return to popularity in 3rd gen era with TWICE's rise.
Then there was the sexy concept that was very popular when groups like Sistar and Girl's day had their peaks - only to fade away after them.
And let's not forget the girl crush style that with the growing international popularity of K-pop has become a dominant theme the past few years.
Which brings me to the Retro concept.
I'm sort of catching up with K-pop songs of last year, and I noticed that last year saw a noticeable increase of retro concepts, themes and styles being used among the top K-pop groups.
Not that before there were no songs with a retro concept at all.
But lately it seems a lot more songs with a retro concept have been released by the top K-pop groups.
It's also very diverse: there's songs with a disco '70s concept, songs with an '80s vibe as well as songs with that '90s/early '00s hiphop and R&B style. By both boy groups as girl groups.
I'm not complaining btw: it's interesting to see how all those old (and sometimes ancient) styles are being dug up and re-used, often with a contemporary twist and music styles to them.
I'm just wondering, I haven't exactly kept up-to-date with K-pop: so, is it just a fluke, or is retro style really the rising trend now in K-pop?
Well, the 3rd gen groups are still very present and it doesn't look like they're going anywhere for some time.
So, to me it feels more like a 3.5 gen situation. Kinda like 2011-2012, where newer groups like Sistar, Girl's Day and EXO started to rise but where the older 2nd gen groups like SNSD, Big Bang, Super Junior, KARA etc were still at their peaks and dominated.
Display MoreI know this is old news but I just watched a video on koreans opinions on Irene's bullying scandal and it reignited how angry I was.
I just can't believe so many people r willing to overlook bullying. So many people brush it off as "just a mistake" or "she's only human"
No. Screaming in someones face until they cry is not "just a mistake" it's a vile, arrogant, act of someone who thinks they're better than that person.
I've had someone scream in my face until I cried. It's obviously horrible.
Theres is something seriously wrong with a person's personality when they believe they can treat another human being like that.
Imagine still stanning her or defending her. Disgusting. Have some standards for yourself and some care for anyone else who isnt ur idolised eonni 🙄
While bullying is of course very wrong, it's also wrong to quickjump to conclusions and just tag every situation a bullying situation when there's a conflict (everyone remember the T-ARA 'bullying' scandal?).
You're entitled to believe, stan or dislike whatever and whoever you want to, of course.
But it's maybe good to keep some things in mind:
- We don't know the exact situation, the cause or context of the incident, we've only ever heard one side of the story and the stylist took care only to mention 'Irene yelling in her face', not why it happened or what the context was.
- In that regard, when you're emotional and hurt and you want to hurt someone back, there's no way you're not prone to exaggeration and painting a colored picture. So the whole' 15-20 min constant yelling in her face' should be taken with a heavy grain of salt.
- this was one incident, one time: one incident is not the same as constant bullying behavior, nor does one incident define someone's character. As a contrast, there have been MANY situations and incidents where Irene showed consideration and empathy with her members and staff.
- Irene has apologized, multiple times, and also realized the impact her words and scolding had in that situation. She has also talked with the stylist. The stylist has accepted the apology, and also admitted that people can act badly at times, and even admitted that there're probably people who she - the stylist - has treated badly at times and that may have been hurt by things she said or did.
So if the stylist can do that, why not you?
I can recall times that I've been hurt by the words of others and wanted to hurt them back, but when I confronted some of those persons, they said they never realized their words had that impact and that they never intended to cause hurt like that. And reverse, I've had people talk to me about things I said or did where I never realized or intended any harm like the effect it had on that other person.
it happens. We're all human, with our good and bad moments, nobody's a saint or hasn't ever unintentionally hurt someone with something they said or did (and don't believe it when people say they are). One or even multiple bad incidents where we go off don't define us.
And this applies to idols too.
For the international growth of K-pop, the latter is better for now, to have a few K-pop ambassadors that introduces K-pop to common folks.
To make people get used to Asian faces for artists, to non-English lyrics and to the appeal of groups and even large groups.
For K-pop fans and a healthy K-pop scene, the first is better, to have a wider variety of very successful K-pop groups that are distinctive from eachother in structure, style, vibe and concepts.
Unfortunately, SM sucks at restocking and have a habit of keeping their initial stock smaller than expected or than it needs to be 
Display MoreThere's no lie that Red Velvet has one of the best discographies in the game but what is shocking is they still have not sold 100k on hanteo as a full group despite debuting first before their predecessors like TWICE, Blackpink, Mamamoo who all have passed this achievement even ITZY and IDLE have done so already. What's also surprising is Red Velvet's subunit did what the group couldn't and sold 100k on Hanteo. Also, having a comeback first or even a comeback at that doesn't guarantee the group will sell 100k as Red Velvet has shown us this. So who will be the first to sell 100k? The rookie or the senior?
All of the top groups have seen a doubling to tripling of their album sales in 2020, so it's probably whoever has their comeback with an album first.
Although lipsynching can be very common in KPOP the following are my favorite full on live performancesDisplay More
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Interestingly enough, I've encountered several vocal analysis videos and topics where it was stated that You Hee-yeol's Sketchbookmakes use of excessive tweaking and tuning up of the vocal performances in their shows.
Not certain how much of that is true.
But I've always wondered how Blackjacks and other hardcore YG stans (the kind that always praised and talked about 'Papa YG' like that) were so quick and eager to believe that SNSD's performances in Sketchbook were fully lipsynced - for that matter, they believed EVERY performance of SNSD was lipsynced even if SNSD were already proven better singers - while at the same time believed there was no tweaking and tuning of 2NE1's performances in Sketchbook.
Felt like double standards to me.
Display MoreThe performances you're talking about are all lipsynched to the same prerecorded vocal track, that's why they sound like carbon copies of each other. Try watching genuinely live performances and you'll hear plenty of variations and adlibs.
Example:
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2 genuinely live performances of the same song, with different details and adlibs.
I know that lipsynching to prerecorded vocals is the "in" thing in kpop right now, and has been for years, but I'm always surprised at how rampant it actually is and even more surprised at how many people are fooled by it. There are groups that get praised to the high heavens for their supposed live singing but I can barely find ANY real live performances of them, there's one group in particular that has literally lipsynched their way through most of their career so far but their fans still insist they're vocally focused lol. Ignorance is a bliss I guess.
putting aside their stiff facial expressions and the lack of deviation from their choreography
having to see and hear the same thing over and over again
maybe that's why the performances are such a bore
Well, EXO has changed notes many times.
While lip-syncing seems more common for current-gen groups, when it comes to harmonizations and adlibs I've noticed that SM groups in particular have songs where members play off eachother's vocals or have some interesting, unexpected vocal riffs and runs.
Mamamoo as well I've seen use adlibs.
So maybe it's more of a preference per company.
I've always wondered why not more companies and groups make use of it, because it really gives songs that extra boost and liveliness, and makes it even more of a joy to listen to.
Oh wow, you're saying what I've been thinking for ages, but put better in words.
It's been annoying me for ages how k-pop stans wave around 'stage presence' as if it's not highly subjective and they only acknowledge it for their bias group or groups they like or that have the same flavor of stage presence as their bias (eg. how certain k-pop fans only recognize stage presence for 'swag' concept groups, but not for groups with a cute or bright concept).
It kinda reminds me how in the past Blackjacks and other hardcore YG stan extremists claimed SNSD couldn't sing or dance and that Bom was the best vocalist in K-pop and claim that those were the facts - only to get smashed back hard when actual vocal analysis proved how fake news it was, and who were actually the better singers.
I think that stage presence like beauty is subjective, and that there are multiple flavors in it - you don't have to be only swag or badass to command the stage. But I also think that stage presence and charm/facial expressive are also talents and skills that people can develop and evolve.
I understood that the max size for avatars has been increased to 500kb.
For some reason I couldn't get it to work though.
I tried to upload this gif for avatar (size: 498kb)
But only the first picture in the gif is being taken (see my avatar), not the entire gif.
I tested with someone else's avatar that was moving (and smaller than 300kb), and that worked as intended.
Any idea why the Eunha gif won't work as DP avatar?
edit: never mind, I got it to work, by changing the dimensions to exactly 128x128
I think it's hard to like all members equally well.
Usually there'll always be some members you like less or are more lukewarm or indifferent about.
Thx for the tip! I checked, and yep, there was a cyberpunk theme and I'm using it too! (and it has way less bugs than the cyberpunk game 
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FYI... I just upped the limit to 500KB to allow for slightly more complex animated avatars.
Oh, nice! That's great, that gives a little bit more room to do stuff with dynamic gif's.
Also, a surprise you're still hanging around on the forum part of the site? O_O
Other times you usually only hung out a few weeks on the forum before moving on again.
I was already wondering why the new forum was relatively peaceful and low on trolls 
(or maybe I've been lucky so far)
? That's odd. Any idea what might have set it off?
hats off to the one 