Was Pristin Too Early For The Highteen Trend?

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Their situation is weird because while their songs were good for me, there was obvious inter group issues as well pledis scheduling issues, which you can see it with Nuest right now. Nuest can handle it because they are a senior group with quite a patient older fanbase. Pristin was rookie it was impossible for it to handle, especially not with fandom size difference of members and member clashes. 

Pledis is usually good at for being people that can go along, but I guess they kept and observed girls for too little time, causing this situation. 

 

Edited May 29, 2021 by lighterxx

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1 hour ago, Your Biggest Fan said:

Member clashes?

it is said members were cliquey and they couldnt get along in private. 

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6 hours ago, Simpatico said:

This makes some sense to me. It's a bit sad since when they were together especially during their Vlives I felt they were so close and they had all trained so long together but you can just look at their respective instagrams to see the truth. The only ones who follows ALL of the other members are Kyla and Yehana. The others do not (Nayoung for instance follows all her IOI members but in Pristin only follows Siyeon, Kyla, Kyulkyung and Yehana - and pointedly not the Hinapia 4 or Sungyeon, who in turn follows everyone but Nayoung and Kyulkyung). Sad.

I still would lowkey love to know what went down though - Pledis not only gave up on them but went radio silence as soon as Pristin V promos were over and even purposely seemed to alienate the Pristin fanbase by ignoring them, never updating the group's social media (Twitter or IG) except on birthdays, and trashing fans' letters/requests etc. (that's not how you operate a business). Even if there were issues with individual members - it was a 10 member group, Pledis could have jettisoned half the group and carried on if they really wanted to.

As for the songs - Wee Woo has grown on me and I still listen to it, but I still think We Like was a B-Side quality comeback (even Tina from that album is more of a bop). Neither was terrible though and was on par with other girl group "average" comebacks. But neither showed what the group was capable of in terms of talent that we saw in their dance covers or Pledis Girl concerts. I largely blame Pledis who basically were too cheap to pay for songwriters (despite at the time being co-owned by Sony Music) and wanted Pristin to be a self-producing group ala Seventeen (but the songs weren't Seventeen level). 

I think Pledis choose to let them go if they wished, without forcing contract on them because they could if they wanted to. Only few members remained afterwards, Kyulkyung Yehana, Sungyeon. That's why pledis got so angry when Kyulkyung tried to get out of the contract the second she had some success, because they already gave her opportunity to do so, but she continued so they invested in her. Then she cut the contact. It would piss me off too. For Yehana and Sungyeon, seems like pledis wants to grow them as composers, both are under Bumzu to my knowledge ATM. Basically pledis wants a Woozi out of them. The issue is, from the very start Woozi was not specially trained for this. Dude saw their debut getting postponed again and again, and decided to give composing a try on MacBook computer bandmate, not even a proper composition programme. To intentionally train that same desperation, idk it seems pretty hard to me? I am not saying they can't do it, but for Woozi he had to do it otherwise svt would get postponed to eternity, so it is a different mentality. Pledis even for svt, their most money making act, refuses to get composers, Woozi himself hires some to change songs a little bit at times, but otherwise Pledis fully depends on Bumzu, who joined because he became bff with Woozi, and prism filter, again Woozi's bff's. It makes me think the second woozi attempts leaving Pledis would have breakdown. I think Pristin was not ready to self compose, their songs were not at that level yet and honestly fans would be happy to have them as bsides, instead of titles. I like their songs don't get me wrong but I don't think they should have been title. 

But honestly everything, things I said, things you mentioned, was so unfair to fans. They could at least share there is contract disagreements therefore they will suspend group or something. To refuse everything and make fans wait that way, its just cruel.