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Speak out and possibly get sued for defamation, be blacklisted, or get bombarded by thousands of delusional fans calling you a liar? I would keep quiet. The editor spoke up because she had audio evidence.

Exactly as it should be. She is a bully. Let's hold her accountable.

Kudos to you for keeping this dying site alive

The only thing they need is some solo activities. Otherwise I don’t care about them changing their style to fit whatever your standards are.

It's fine, I'm just tired of people sh*tting on Itzy's concept. Also, you think they need to sing "love" songs to attract male fans? That just sounds creepy. Miss Yuna is still underage.

Are y'all happy now? God forbid girl groups sing about anything except love, smh

"WHITEFACE". IS NOT. THE SAME. AS BLACKFACE. IT DOESN'T. EXIST.

Yeah, she said she really likes the bangs but I prefer her without them. They all look great though

whiteface racism... it's not even worth reading nb comments, I know I'll just get angry

So proud of underrated GGs this year, first OMG now April

MILK STRAIGHT OUT OF THE GLASS

I think it would be lame, but companies don’t care if something is lame if it works. YG has established a pretty concrete image as THE hip-hop/girl crush company in Korea, which is the only reason I said it. Regardless I’m interested to see what they do.

I don't get his obsession with groups like SNSD. YG has cornered the market for "swaggy" girlgroups with BP and 2NE1. He can literally sustain the company with that, but I guess when you're rich you always want to be richer. That and he needs his gambling money.

I'd be curious to see the receipts for this, if they exist...

Whyyyy did they use such a dated song, Zara sounds great but this ain't it for a 2020 release, let alone a Twice title track. We want Twice's sound, not Zaras. Still bop to it on my playlist, but forever salty.

Highkey wish I never got into kpop. Stan culture is exhausting but I feel trapped by it. I need breaks every few months.

Issues with the site being down. I still have problems today with the site running extremely slow and it drives me insane. I only come on here to check out the news, but there also isn't much discussion on news, or people haven''t even posted about it. The allkpop forums are trash, but at least they have a constant flow of up-to-date info coming in.

Who was disliking every comment in here But tbh, do we need the sexy concept to come back full force? Do we want rookie groups being forced into that? I can only think of the Stellar situation.

I don’t think the group thing is a turn off for people— you have girl groups like little mix, fifth harmony, in the past destiny’s child, spice girls. Don’t know a whole lot of boy groups unfortunately. For 1D, people “hated” on them the same way they hate on any famous guys with a large female following (see Justin Bieber), it wasn’t because they were a group. I agree that the turn off has a lot to do with the culture shock of Korea— how blatantly engineered groups are to be not only talented but attractive, different concepts (e.g aegyo) that are foreign, and the language barrier (I have talked to SO many people who say they don’t like to listen to kpop because they can’t understand the lyrics). Americans don’t like when music is so clearly being sold to them as a commodity. Not to say the same thing isn’t done here, but it’s more “taboo” and kept on the down-low, and a lot of emphasis is placed on “homegrown” groups that formed themselves.

JYP really be giving his artists Stockholm syndrome lol

I'm so sorry you had to go through that, I hope you're doing okay. The best we can do right now is all be supportive of Mina and other victims of bullying.

But also why would the girls bring an angry Jimin at all? When Mina is incredibly emotionally unstable? Clearly Jimin going by herself would have been the wrong move. But who's to say she still won't?

You're right, we really don't know the full story, my comment was reactionary. She might have called all of them over herself. I was just speaking out of concern for Mina, and I question what has been going through the other members' minds for the past 10 years that Mina was bullied. Was Mina silent, did she not tell anyone? Have any members gone to the company to complain about Jimin's actions in the past? I guess we just don't know yet.

If the other girls were her friends, why did they think it was a good idea to bring the whole group + Jimin + managers to her door?? Did Mina have anyone around her or was everyone there to gang up on her?

What does this mean tho? I never understood are the stans just older or do do sm groups lack casual listeners like