I am waiting for your treat that makes this about the 1,000 year old.
She already served in 2011
For whatever reason she does not sing OSTs of her own drama because I think she wants to be identified as just an actress when she is in a drama. The only OST she sang in her own drama after 2014 was Our Happy Ending in Hotel Del Luna which is not released to this day.
In Korea, among younger women, baseball players have taken a position similar to an idol , and attendance of younger women on the Korean Baseball League games have increased.
Display MoreMere lyrics won't be enough.
Both IU & LYW need to sing, act in MV and of course promote..
A single is enough, no need for an album.
Another option she should explore is getting foreign artists in Palette, translation tools are good that it can be seamless.
Starting with Japanese - Aimyon, Yoasobi
Looks that is not happening
Actually that is not their first encounter, since Byun Wooseok appeared briefly as Lee Jieun's ex boyfriend in Scarlet Heart
So Lee Jieun will probably sit out of KPop in 2025.
Popularity fades along time. IU already 16 years in her career, her latest release only looks bad bcs non-fans keep seeing her previous songs rank #1 on Kcharts but it still good than majority of 3rd to new gen idol groups.
Even GD struggle to get PAK, but he still managed to get #1 on majority of Kcharts. It's not weird for older acts to struggle, but it is weird if the new gen is the one that struggle as only few managed to do well so far
It took help from MAMA to get GD to the top of Melon.
That aside I am not concerned about BTS in Korea. I do care about its stature in the world, which has been significantly reduced.
They are past their prime in Korea and the U.S. There is nothing left for them to do but entertain army until they are in their 40s.
BTS has nothing left to prove in Korea. They've gotten plenty of hits and now they can focus on their side gigs, solo careers, and touring. BTS will be 12 years old next year, so it makes sense if they choose that life. They already limit their appearances on variety and award shows post 2020. Now I would love for them to break tour attendance and/or gross ticket revenue for a group, that's one of the only things left for them to really accomplish.
It had lots to prove in the world but threw all of that away to placate some Koreans who voted for New Jeans anyways.
It is the world which is important, not Korea.
Display MoreHolssi didn't do well, only by IU's own standards and Shh.. did as well any non-Title of IU.
How come Bibi alone gets credit, Holssi & Shopper was stopped by TWS as well
Still she put all 5 songs in top 25. Not something most acts can do
But yes, I liked those songs far better in concert, concert versions, than the Music Videos.
And yes, veteran acts going largely into concert mode is a well established dynamic. Nobody is exempt to that.
IU, BTS or Bruno.
The younger people aren't interested in legacy acts and will stan the younger acts.
The older fandom now with jobs, family don't have time to do crazy stuff, but rather do the greater quality experience of concerts.
Ergo.
But concerts are where the most money is. So good for them.
The fundamental difference is while IU was not relevant as far as the world is concerned BTS had ruled the world.
Now it will only play second fiddle to whatever act which is hot.
They had the entire world and threw it away.
Do I need to gain experience and level up to get more than 8 badges to display?
I know. I just wonder why that received booking prio over getting their ROY award
More likely some deal fell down about the stages, and that led to Illit to go to that event since events like that, not held in Seoul, does not get to invite more famous acts . Usually the players themselves organize the shows. Illit just took whatever event was open on that day.
I think Illit showing up there would probably have made aespa upset, given what Bang had bleated before, and that event was an aespa event so it was better for both acts that they didn't get to see each other on that day.
IU was not given any Grand Prizes at MMA but was noted for her concerts having 520,000, or 540,000 attendees.
Her two title songs, Holssi and Shh, did badly at the charts but was well received in the concert.
So it seems she has given up her looong struggle to seize the narrative of KPop, after she was decisively defeated by Bibi with a song given to her by IU's ex Jang Kiha.
Also, with Bruno Mars sitting on the MAMA, where he only said one word, "Bruno", I suspected that it would be the future of BTS, with a vocal member (most likely Jungkook) sitting in some event in a country not well known for its pop music, saying just one word, "Jungkook".
Is it what all the people who were yapping about its 'long term career' were talking about?
But the largest concerts go to those who still control the narrative, not some old singer who just panders to his/her exiting fans.
It seems Bang has played some shenanigans with the stock market as the MHJ saga continues and MHJ's side, having nothing to lose, throwing whatever is in their arsenal.
Which might be why Bang was too afraid to cross the Korean law, since it is no fun to be put into a Korean jail when he could be enjoying his wealth and hang around with people like Juice Seyeon.
But that does end BTS' world domination . Stray Kids have already overshadowed BTS, and the trend might exacerbate.
And it is going to be quite hard to be dancing around in their age.
How would the armies accept the cold fact that BTS has lost the control of the narrative and will mostly settle for being a concert oriented act from now on?
They are uniting against the 3rd Gen assaults next year
They went to a festival for a local baseball team
The Kia Tigers, a team based upon the city of Kwangju in the SW of Korea, won Korea's baseball championship and had a celebration on that day so Illit went to there.
