Posts by WhyKnock
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Good Day already has 48M views
External Content youtu.beContent embedded from external sources will not be displayed without your consent.Through the activation of external content, you agree that personal data may be transferred to third party platforms. We have provided more information on this in our privacy policy.Because at that time her fame was dying and she only did become relevant in the overseas after My Mister in 2018
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What happened to YT views aren't everything?
I have ALWAYS maintained the view that YT views are very important, as in my 2015 writing here
https://onehallyu.com/topic/21…=comments#comment-9770810
Thank myself for this piece in August 2015 because this piece tells the pathetic views of IU's videos in yt back then
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Dude, she’s 28, not 65!
yES but
External Content www.youtube.comContent embedded from external sources will not be displayed without your consent.Through the activation of external content, you agree that personal data may be transferred to third party platforms. We have provided more information on this in our privacy policy.Her entire career was catalogued and inventoried and she was given the Lifetime Achievement Award at the age of ...21.
So she has been a Senior Singer of Kpop since then.
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Actually, the director Lee Byunghun (no relation to the actor of the same name) had directed a drama which was quietly buried, after his great success
Koreeda is not known to be a hit director. It might be acclaimed, but it is not going to be a great hit. He can't find backers in Japan anymore so he first tried France with Catherine Deneuve's help, but the result was not too great.
It is not know whether Lee Jieun will play an unwed mother there, but whyknock thinks at 28 (when the movie will be released), she will be a little bit too old for that role. It appears Bae Doona recommended Lee Jieun for that role , whatever it might be, but if I were the director, I would be using a lesser known face., instead of using a singer who is Senior enough to be a grandmother to most of the 4th gen of KPop.
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Iu really is a marketing genius if you actually track her career. She started out as this indie solo artist making music akin to those arthouse films, then started to get more pop and blew up mainstream, then dabbled into acting to grow her domestic public awareness, then released more diverse music products to grow her artistry and attract listeners from a wider range of demographics, then secured hit dramas to gain a bigger international audience, then collabed with a member from the biggest boy group with the most dedicated fanbase in the world atm and gained even more fans from it.
Every move she made paid off and there was always something to gain for her benefit and her brand, literally. It’s quite incredible to watch lol
Lee Jieun knows very well about what people expect from her, although that was not always true (Eunhyuk, Zeze, etc) before.
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That is because , unlike everyone else, she is her own boss and dictates her own activities to her maximum benefit
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If that’s the case then it shows that how koreans think about Nazis are different from the west. I have to admit coming from country that had been occupied by the Japanese (with many horrific acts on our people), I would not have the same knee jerk reaction like the west about this issue. If I went to a museum or somewhere with a Japanese imperial mannequin, I’d probably take pictures too. It’s history, it was horrible and you learn from that. But people moved on.
Anyway I’m happy that SouMu is trying to understand the situation. Hope they’ll release an apology soon
Since Korea had very little to do with the Nazis, some Koreans do have some kind of fetish with them, as seen in the little known girl group named Pritz .
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Lee Jieun's attempt to sing a Kpop song has ended in tears
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A certain 2nd Generation Singer might want to offer a different opinion
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Little known fact - it was a song by LeeJuck and Kim Dongryul, a fact few people remember. Insooni actually used it without their approval
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I have always considered views to be important since it is a barometer about how popular a song is outside of korea.
I wrote this back in 2015
https://onehallyu.com/topic/21…=comments#comment-9770810
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However, all of them were defeated by one single person who does not have a video of 30 million views to claim.
IU's most watched video has 27 million views after 1 year and 3 months - and it is not even something which only features herself. SNSD's Party reached 30 million after one month.
SNSD's Gee(2009) has 144m views and counting - IU's Good Day(2010), which might be more enduring in Korea than Gee, only has 1/10th of that views and will probably never crack 20 mil.
SNSD's The Boys has 122m views plus 12m in the evo version, making the total 'official' view at 134m - IU's You & I, which decisively defeated that song, has 11m views in the original version and 7m views in the 'performance' version, making the total views at 18m.
So, the world cared about 7 times more about SNSD than IU, and probably more since IU's views are very highly skewed toward Korea itself.
But the sad truth that, IU, who has about 60,000 hard-core fans who will buy her disks (and most of them are in Korea) has reached the top position although she only had about 0.12% of the entire Korean population (about 50m) who were the die-hard fans of hers.
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Thanks to this post, the world now has a record of how pathetic Lee Jieun's music video views were around August 2015.
And that is AFTER the producers raised her position in the sinosphere a bit.
Youtube views are important, and I have said quite a few times that thanks to BBiBBi, Lee Jieun can now call herself a Kpop singer despite of the inconvenient fact that she contributed almost nothing to it.
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maybe after all gotta go where the $$$ is right - it'll be stupid not to follow the money
Lee Jieun had earned the most money in Kpop on 2017
https://www.allkpop.com/forum/…stimate-2012-2017.157483/
by domestic activities alone.
However, the climate has changed and now the trottists are running amok, and Lee Jieun probably felt she had to expand her reach in the overseas to stay relevant now the domestic market is full of trot.
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well IU's target market has never been the western market - she's beloved enough to be able to tour in Asia where they love her so. Her main market is and probably will remain Korea - and also I don't think anybody as ever called her a kpop artist she's more like a Korean artist since like you said her music is less kpoppie
That is true, but that leads to a very uncomfortable situation where a Senior Singer who has been in the industry forever has not contributed anything to KPop until quite late in her career.
She appears to be paying more attention to international fans, because of 1) money and 2) influence.
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None of them are KPop songs and they were NOT that popular to the i-fans