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On 6/26/2021 at 4:25 AM, Zaheer said:
Great and amazing technique, but she has such an unremarkable voice, lacking feeling... all technical and she sounds like your regular Disney female lead singer
Yes although Koreans like her style of voice. That's why she will never gain any Western fans
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Lee Jieun's voice has a style which is very hard to place among other singers, which is why she was not put into a group and her company had to develop her as a soloist.
Her voice is not pure and clear, and has some kind of impurity, but it is not too annoying to the ear for some strange way. So her style of singing, while not too popular among Americans, Europeans and Africans, has quite a lot of appeal in Korea.
Plus, she now chooses music which can use her strange tone of voice.
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6 hours ago, godblessdelulu said:
Oh Lilac
Lilac will probably end with #4 in the yearly chart
Celebrity is competing against Rollin
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Brave Girls' new song is now #4 in the Melon 24 hits chart.
While quite decent, it was supposed to carry Rollin over through the summer, making Rollin a firm hit thru there and scoring the yearly #1 , denying the elusive yearly #1 from you-know-who.
And competition is fierce. Aespa, BTS and Heize do not appear to be willing to yield their seats to BB's new song.
Which means Rollin won't be roaring hard during the summer.
Which means, Brave Girls will probably take #2 in the Melon yearly chart,
failing to dislodge
You-know-who
in the end.
What is your opinion about Brave Girls, in the end, not able to dislodge you-know-who from the Melon Yearly #1?
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well, that means Gidle album is being delayed...
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Jurina #10
Sakura #12
Jurina not making IZOne was a blessing in disguise after all
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10 hours ago, sawarin said:
what in the dystopian fanfiction is going on here
Reality is cold and harsh. Han Chowon only has bitterness remaining, and Cube pushing Yoon Sangah and her faction will probably end with a very nasty incidence.
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3 hours ago, Zack Morris said:
I honestly don't see how both "factions" getting equally pushed would make everyone involved unhappy. Everyone now has a chance at stardom and becoming the "It Girl" of the group so. And I think the group mix well together, it's been 3 years since Produce and I believe that would've let things marinate for a bit allowing for a smooth transition.
It's also interesting that you mention Gugudan because all the girls seem rather close despite being in "factions". I believe the same will happen with Lightsum in your hypothetical situation rather than the April route. Thank you for this odd little thread, it was an interesting read
Those who were done wrong before will feel they were cheated again, and they will get very, very angry.
Doesn't really matter whether the Gu9udan members are rather close, since only Sejeong and the Chinese girl are still in showbiz, Kang Minah having cut ties from the rest and becoming a full actress
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4 hours ago, Drama Drama Drama said:
Sangah has it factor
I predict she will be the popular member
And maybe Cube try to push her more her than the survival girls
Leading to a shitstorm which will make the Hyunjoo of April look like a kindergarten fight gone wrong
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2 hours ago, GetRapper said:
Lightsum are still kids, I doubt they even think about "factions". They're more concerned about being idols and doing well for their debut.
There are HUGE, HUGE anger and frustration among the PD48 people, who spent the last 30 plus months in limbo, especially Han Chowon, who is a powder keg.
And the other 4 who did not go to PD48 will NEVER understand their anger. Maybe Lee Joohyun, who was in Cube for 7 years, might understand a bit but certainly not Yoon Sangah who was in Cube for just 2 years, after auditioning in companies which produced IZOne members. Yoon Sangah might be friends with IZOne members, whose names are never to be mentioned before Chowon. So, already they could NOT mix to begin with.
I have said that within 2-3 years there will be a fight in there which will make the April issue like a child's play.
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53 minutes ago, Zack Morris said:
ctfu "factions", these girls are nawt at war with each other
The faction which went to PD48 and the faction which didn't can't really mix, as the experiences of Pristin and Gu9udan have proven.
Initially those who were in the Mnet audition are better known, and others who were not there get angry. Cube chose the worst option; instead of making one faction happy and let them lead the act so it would be recognized by the people faster, it chose to push both factions half-heartedly , 50% for each instead of 100% for a faction and 0 for the other.
That created a situation where neither faction is particularly happy since there is no one who catches people's eyes initially.
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2 hours ago, WujuLike said:
i really want to know why you think there are 2 rival factions in the group or that chowon and sangah are competing with each other
Like Gu9udan, there are 2 factions in Lightsum. (The lone Japanese member is not part of it.)
There are the three PD48 people led by Chowon.
And there are the four who did not go to PD48, nominally led by Lee Joohyun but actually led by Yoon Sangah.
They have formed their own cliques, which can't really be broken because of the painful journeys PD48 people had had. Yoon Sangah only joined Cube on 2019, after auditioning in companies where some IZOne members belong to, and she appears to have unified those who did not compete in PD48 against those who did.
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It is her choice. Mamamoo has been taken over by Hwasa so Wheein has little reason to remain
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When Gu9udan debuted there were 9 members, and only three members who competed in Produce 101, including Kim Sejeong and Kang Minah who were IOI, had any following.
But the company nevertheless debuted all of their trainees, and the group sank. Other than Sejeong and Minah (who is now exclusively an actress and refused to join the IOI reunion, although she did not hesitate from appearing at Music Core when Lee Jieun showed up there), (Yes I know some of you are going to watch for my mention of IU)
and the Chinese member who was smart enough to find a niche in China before too late, the rest just disappeared.
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Lightsum has 3 members from the infamous PD48, 4 members from Cube itself, and one Japanese member who is not part of the discussion since if there is only one foreign member in a group he/she is usually not part of a faction .
The 3 PD48 people are led by Han Chowon and the other 4 are led by Yoon Sangah. Although Lee Joohyun is nominally the leader, she is part of Yoon Sangah's faction and defers to Yoon Sangah.
Cube is well known for always making the worst choice possible, and this time is not too different.
Instead of letting Han Chowon lead the perf, and silence Yoon Sangah's faction, or vice versa and show that Cube didn't really want the PD48 people,
they tried to give equal footing to both factions, which can't be mixed.
They should have debuted separately but Cube's record of running two acts simultaneously is not good, so they debuted together.
Putting two absolutely incompatible factions together in one group historically did not work out well, and Cube refused to emphasize either faction, making both of them mediocre.
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The magic is off. It will do well at first, but...
1 hour ago, Lee said:Yeah, the tracklist confirms that their upcoming title track is indeed named Chi Mat Ba Ram.
Honestly, I'm surprised that Brave Brothers isn't writing or producing any of their tracks for this upcoming album.
BB knows he has lost his touch. So if this album fails he can escape the blame.
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24 minutes ago, Elessar said:
Now I'm intrigued, what incident the kpop senior singer had? Was really that bad?
It happened in 2012 but is known to any long time followers of Kpop
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-scandal-between-IU-and-Eunhyuk
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When you raise a child, you often make you read the biographies of famous people, so your child would hopefully learn from them.
Korea has a famous series of biographies for children, called the 'who?' series.
It has biographies for famous figures of Korea and the world, and also for sports figures hailing from there.
Now it has a who? KPop series.
http://www.whomall.co.kr/shop/list.php?ca_id=10g0
It is in Korean but there should be no problem identifying who is who.
From the right:
BoA - Asia's Star
BTS (revised edition - apparently it was revised after it won the first #1 in Hot 100) - The Seven Boys who ran for the dream of being singers
Twice - KPop's Top Girl Group
and,
someone who does not exactly belong there is also present.
IU - The Singer-song write who made a mark in Korean Popular Music
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However, I bet that the biography of the last person I mentioned will probably not mention an incident of hers which is not exactly educational, unless you want to teach your child what is a fish called anchovy.
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12 hours ago, PastelPetals said:
is a 5 mil apartment not enough??
I'm not sure anyone caresI do think idols need to be paid more but bts as a whole is doing quite well and there is no need to blame IU who is not the issue
BTS members are world figures but they live in a house less than 50% of the value of a singer who never really became famous outside of Korea
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On 6/2/2021 at 6:02 AM, Guest said:
What if one day all companies are under Hybe, and then all we know is Bang PD nim. BTS in their 40s as shareholders, bang pd in his 70s acquiring the last company too xD.
I don't think Edam Entertainment will join the fray.
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On 6/5/2021 at 4:26 PM, Taecoholic said:
Nobody cares lol
It means IU, who is effectively a company owner, can raise twice as much cash as a BTS member, who is a world figure.
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13 hours ago, lighterxx said:
Who knows how long iu waited before purchase tho? From my experience you don't go and.buy most expensive house you can find. Often you research and find most suitable, seeing IU get a newly completed place, I think she was waiting for it for a while
Lee Jieun could buy a house in the countryside, like the family of ex-IZOne Lee Chaeyon and Itzy's Lee Charyoung , to live like an Empress. However, by placing herself to there, she now gets associated with the highest echelon of Korean society which was probably her intention.
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1 hour ago, lighterxx said:
RM and Jimin can leave and have a studio too if they wish, I doubt anyone would dare to stop them
IU bought the palace with cash. RM and Jimin will have to wait a bit before they can raise $11.7 mil worth of cash
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8 hours ago, lighterxx said:
I mean just because you are rich it doesn't mean you will try to get most expensive house, there is various reasons to choose a home for yourself, and beating others in cost is not one of them
The point is because IU is (effectively) an owner of a company she lives in a house twice as expensive as those of RM and Jimin.
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16 hours ago, munyuna said:
Up&Down was definitely popular overseas, and Rollin was charting well on Spotify too
Rollin's low views tell that most of the people who listened to Rollin at Spotify were the same people who promoted it
However Rollin will remain a domestic act and Brave Girls as a failed attempted by disenfranchised men in Korea to overturn the apple cart.
Butter a WorldWide Hit while Aespa took the #1 at Melon
in Random
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In ancient China, there were two kings who always fought each other. The story of King Fuchai and King Goujian is very long and complicated, but I will just say that they were very bitter enemies.
Long story short, King F was victorious, and King G was subjugated. King F won some more victories, and decided to invade northern China to become the supreme ruler of it.
While King F led his armies to the north, King G, seeing King F's best soldiers are now far away, attacked and captured King F's capital. While victorious in the north earning the King F the title of the Supreme Ruler of China, when the news of King F's capital conquered reached King F's army, it disintegrated and soon King F was captured by King G, who ordered King F to kill himself.
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While BTS conquered the world and won an unprecedented 5 #1s at Billboard Hot 100,
Korea was captured by SM's aespa, singing an unreleased OST of Fast and Furious franchise.
How interesting it is, with BTS the ruler of the world except K-O-R-E-A.
(Now the Melon 24Hit's top position is occupied by MSG Wannabe, a bunch of has been or lesser known singers(plus at least one actor) assembled by Yoo Jaesuk, who is also another detriment of Kpop but I won't go too deep on him today.)
SM's very unexpected triumph against Hybe at the very opportune time is something to be recorded for the history of KPop.