I wonder do you work in JYPE or are thay paying you for defending the company? Cuz every time someone says something bad about them you are here with some bs...
Most albums are out of stock for over a year.
Now how will you defend albums going out of stock during pre-order period when the pre-orders are for gauging interest. Are people in the company so incompetent that they can't do simple tasks?
No, not really. I don't work for JYPE at all. I'm just not anti-establishment / anti-corporation as many of the people on these forums appear to be, and I don't view the interests of the artist and management as opposed to each other. And, having worked in both a large corporation and partially in the creative media industry before, I'm perhaps a bit more sympathetic to the background staff who do the day-to-day operations. I'm aware that corporations aren't faceless entities, but comprised of people who work with the artists very closely every day. So when I see topics that say something like "fuck JYPE" or "fire the stylist" or "terrible management", I'm aware that these people are criticising the people who their favourite artists are probably very close with. Have you ever watched your close friend at work or in school being scolded in public? How does that make you feel, as a bystander? Do you feel happy that the person you work with and do projects with every day is being scolded for their supposed incompetence, especially if you've witnessed how much they've worked and done for you?
The second issue is whether the person who is accused of incompetence is being fairly accused or not. That's why my first comment in this thread was about clarifying who exactly is responsible, and the chain of information / decision-making. I'm open to correction, as I said, and I believe stan12345 clarified that 3rd-party distributors still would need to check with the original company for signoff before printing more albums. But that's already a more nuanced recognition that the process of restocking albums isn't as simple as one company being responsible for making all the decisions that are causing you, the consumer, to have problems. It's a supply-chain issue that has at least three parties involved (publisher, distributors for various regions, retailers), and the decisions of what to restock, how much to stock / restock, and when to restock has multiple points at which errors can be introduced.
Not to mention balance-of-power negotiations between publisher and distributor. Like, I could very well posit an alternative theory that JYPE is pushing as hard as they can for TWICE, but Republic Records is dismissive / underestimating the demand for TWICE albums, being less in-touch with the Kpop scene. And only after the success of "The Feels" does RR start to take TWICE and JYPE seriously, when they can witness their popularity first-hand. Which makes the problem nothing to do with incompetence, but one of trying to overcome institutional barriers. But without more insider knowledge of the actual deals struck or the process involved in distribution, my theory and your theory of "JYPE is doing everything in their power to sabotage TWICE" are equally speculative and without hard proof. It all depends on our initial assumptions about whether management works with or against the artist, which colours our perspective on the interpretation of events.
To use a different analogy to put it into perspective: if the movie "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings" isn't playing in a cinema in China, do you blame Marvel Studios for being incompetent and sabotaging "Shang Chi"?
They did a great job in introducing themselves to the world, though.
