I think a feature of good underground rapper would have made it even better!
Posts by vasencety
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I love that type of style of beat. So a bop!
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Misty >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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As important as talent. Tha's why one of the only groups I truly like is SHINee. They meet everything you'd want from a group - real talent in singing, amazing live performances, great dancing, really handsome (you can see they natrall have the feautres and don't need any enchancements n reality), the music is nearly flawless with one of the most diverse discorgraphies in kpop, cool concepts, etc. Their visuals is equal o the talent and the outstanding performances they can give.
If t 's not the full package as above, I won't be really into the group. However, still, talent&music >>>>>>> visuals.
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As he title states: GD is only coming back because he's still in love with Jennie and it doing a matching couple CB. It's quite obvious and believable since he's been delaying it for so long. And baam, she made a comeback and he immediatel announced his song. Even the name of the song is Power aka him saying he's getting the power from Jennie. You can clearly see he isn't over her and wants to be connected to her in any way possible.
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Roly Poly --> Bubble pop = I am the best ------> Nobody. I really dislike Nobody, I never got what's so amazing about the song. That song has two super qualities over the rest here - it's not so electronically sounding and you hear good clear vocals that would've made the rest of the other songs top notch. But the melody and concept of Nobody annoy me for some reason I can't put my finger on.
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It's a song that needs something more. The idea is nice but without any unexpected interesting moments to the song, it will get old very fast. Overall, 7/10.
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1. SM was the best when Lee Soo Man was in charge and the slave contracts were in play. They had the power to control their idols and push them wherever they wanted etc which is not the case now. Idols now have some of their rights respected so they can't work like donkeys. Looking at RV's last comeback and it's poor promotion, it feels like the girls signed better contracts where if they get freedom or something, SM can't fully support them or something.
2. Huge labels are very structured in that everything to happen is planned years before so SM failed to adapt to the aggressive use of internet and stuck to their old ways for too long. Newer labels with flexible management styles came in better use of the internet and got more fans.
3. Luck is a real thing even though it works best for someone who is well prepared to make use of it when it strikes.
You basically paraphrase what I say but persist that somehow "luck" is a big part of it when it was all due to SM's own fatal mistakes, the biggest of which is their self-confidence and complete ignorance of what their fans want. We aren't talking about a shift happening in the span of a year or two but many many years. SM were in the best position both in the industry and financially. Pushing their groups on SNS back then wouldn't have even cost them a lot. It's even more ridiculous coming from a company whose whole concept was AI/ virtual reality/futuristic utopian world since the 90s!!! You want to tell me a company with such a goal couldn't simply include some SNS promotion and listen to the demands of fans for so many years?! Nope, they did it deliberately bcs they were so self-assured it will happen naturally years later once they've achieved full dominance in Asia with the groups from that time and then simply debut groups meant for the market outside of Asia. To see your position getting threaten for real and not by some short-time craze and to keep persisting in not doing the bare minimum to give the public what they want and their looking down on everyone bcs people will follow anyway is straight out insanity led to this whole fall. They should've sent those groups back then abroad and promote both them and the company by slowly introducing their grand concept connecting their groups outside Asia and thus killing any attempt of rise from the competition. Then debut the groups they'd ultimately push for those regions. But nah, they did everything upside down. No "luck" or circumstances are the problem when you set on fire every opportunity to recover (ridiculous when you were at the top by miles) for more than a decade, not a year or two with little money at hand like other players in the game. "Luck" would be a decent factor for a group from a really small nugu company, not when you're one of the richest and most influential players in the game.
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I agree. Such things make you question what labels really want with idols if they debut them but don't want to utilize their potential for further growth.
I think critics need to understand there is also luck in that not everyone makes it big especially when the western market is very different from the Asian one, some idols make it, others don't just like normal career people where some people make it to the top and others just survive or fail.
But, generally, SM is declining and we don't know what the future holds so I guess we'll see.
Nah, no "luck" or whatever outside factors were the blame in SM's case. The label that made kpop in its full form, having one of the best connections and finances, having one of the best music (from composition to recording), one of the best talents in the industry. There's nothing more to be needed. Their groups were the most wanted back then during the 2nd gen/early 3rd gen, yet they did everything possible to not promote them when the public outside Asia craved for them. SM were so haughty that it will all go their way aka those popular groups will stay promoting in Asia and that the same success will come naturally later with the groups they debut in the future since people are crazy about their acts. That was the first major mistake however they could've recovered by doing the right thing. Yet, instead of getting back on the right track after seeing BTS' slowly growing fanbase and how they push them through SNS and all the blah blah talks, SM kept thinking they are thee final boss and didn't do anything. This is absurd and ridiculous! Then they let YG's media play with BP. Like, seriously? I've been into kpop since 2009 so I saw all this insanity play right before my eyes and my mind still can't register how can you f up your own game so badly, the game you established and ruled. They had everything - the right people, the finances, the position, and the time to recover from the mistakes mentioned above, yet they destroyed everything. It's as if I had 30 billion dollars and still manage to become a beggar.
SM nowadays is just...NCT were somehow promising but they failed to promote them correctly, instead they messed up the initial concept and started releasing songs after songs without promoting them enough and became a big mess (even though I like most of their music). Aespa were the ace they thought would put them at the top with the groundbreaking concept of Kwangya and all but the girls simply aren't impressive and barely attract you in any way since they look so passive and amateurish on the stage despite all the budget (I can barely watch anything from them as live performances; especially with me being used to legendary groups like SHINee who explode on the stage). They are only good vocally, that's all. The level of talent has fallen tremendously even with SM and it keeps getting worse and worse. Not to mention the fake push they do fr their groups in the recent years especially with Aespa with all the money going into them and the SMCU eps., yet it just scream artificial achievement of success. RIIZE are just the most plain group ever to come from SM, not a single thing would tell me they're from SM. They have nothing that draws me in any way - no outstanding vocals, just the usual hard choreography, having only like two songs, visuals are mostly your typical plastic type which does the opposite of attracting me in any way. Aside from that, their latest groups are super boring. I'm used to the full package and get like 5% of what I'm used to with SM. And it's all their own fault, no "luck" or whatever.
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I'd say SM has always cared. It's just that their earlier attempts (BoA's english album or Girls' Generation releasing an english version of The Boys and promoting on american TV etc) didn't succeed as much as they expected, so It became an "asleep wish" while they kept focusing on asian markets where the return in insterest was coming from.
The thing is, when they decided to try again (probably after seeing what BTS was achieving), It was too late for EXO, 2018 was their last year active as a full group and they had a newer boygroup they could invest. I believe they understimated Red Velvet, cause the girls has always struggled to cative a big and dedicate fanbase the way SM wanted on West, so It was an easier route for them to push a boygroup who, historically, always have been more successful in cater this specific demography, that's why they focused on NCT 127.
In 2018, they were already following BTS' steps to get US distribution (to a lesser extent than when they finally signed NCT to a US label in 2019, but still were available in stores such as Amazon and B&N), promoted on US, went to Award Show's Red Carpet, released an english version of Regular etc to 127 (I remember It even made their korean fanbase super mad).
That being said, "Western Validation" is not even bad the way people want it to be. If I was a singer I'd want validation for whatever part of the world and would love to see people from any country and race to enjoy my input.
They should've done it all during later 2nd gen/early 3rd gen. They were the top and people outside Asia got into kpop bcs of their groups and BB mainly. People showed good interest in them, why did they everything possible to not push them and instead let BTS win not through talent but through a literal online campaign to make them famous so their fans can call the shots and be the rulers by sabotaging the big, "bad" companies and their groups?! Just utterly ridiculous and it totally shifted the direction of kpop. SM are really pathetic and they definitely want to be at the top again but it won't happen bcs they killed all their opportunities deliberately. Their latest groups are far from what put them at the top back then. I really feel bad for their old groups and their talents being wasted. Now it's fake pushes when they had it naturally achieved back then...
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SM has totally f'd themselves up completely. They were THE company back then, they ruled with their groups (alongside BB especially) but they were so overly confident and did everything wrong that now it bites them in the ass. How can you have the talent, the budget, the great music and basically everything in your hands and manage to fail so miserably?! Their new groups have nothing on the real legends they had during previous gens. Aespa's concept was supposed to be the breakthrough but the girls, while amazing at singing, are just not stan attractors, now they are at least a bit more lively but still far from being amazing and giving you the wow at all. They are pretty boring aside from vocals and budget spent on their original concept. RIIZE doesn't stand out at all, I wouldn't have ever told they're an SM group. They are just your average kpop group that good at dancing and that's all.
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