fan base K-Pop Thread: 2022 Archive

[Xalric]

 

Still singing.

[hallucinate]

it’s kinda funny how some group names just scream nugu like “mimiirose” “ily:1” “irris” “CSR” etc.  

 

NewJeans also sounds like a nugu gg name but they smashed upon debut so who knows what might happen

Edited October 29, 2022 by hallucinate

[Tomek]

 

 

damn this video compilation with all of iu's plagiarism is doing numbers in korea

[Chemist]

2 hours ago, BigBangStan said:

 

Woah! Newjennies indeed

[OrgVisual]

7 minutes ago, Tomek said:

 

 

damn this video compilation with all of iu's plagiarism is doing numbers in korea

Some are REACHING but no.10 is nearly identical wow But she didn't write that song

[Blueberry Kisses]

1 hour ago, Tomek said:

 

 

damn this video compilation with all of iu's plagiarism is doing numbers in korea

Most of these were hard reaches but the Red Shoes one...IU, girl...

 

EDIT: wait I literally never noticed that that Producers song literally had uncredited samples from Gimme More in it

EDIT2: actually I take it back, she didn't write most of the ones that actually sound similar. Still, though. This is Lee Hyori all over again.

Edited October 29, 2022 by Blueberry Kisses

[cloudbusting]

2 hours ago, Adama said:

But Not having a tour after 8 years is so weird. I read that they couldn’t tour this year bc Joy was filming but imo it’s not like SM was planning to do it lol. They always act like that. They did the same for Exo with Nct. Exo was the #2 group and could have grow bigger but SM decided to push Nct in America instead and gave them lot of contents! 

Red Velvet have toured tho, Redmare had mostly shows outside of SK (including several stops in the US)

 

that being said we need something bigger 

[Pluto6]

11 hours ago, Adama said:

True but A lot of Koreans man, especially the teens/uny students are more interested in K rappers/ urban artist. 

 

Jay park, Zico, BEO, Big Naughty, Ash Island, Changmo all managed to score top 10 hits meanwhile BG struggled to chart lol.

Heck even Crush scored a top 5 hit this year! 

 

 

 

10 hours ago, k4rmabutterfly said:

They do tho girl groups have a lot of fanboys, it’s a common thing in Korea. They aren’t very loyal tho, see what happened with Twice.

 

10 hours ago, ayndr said:

A lot of them are definitely listening to (and more importantly thirsting over) those girl groups. Some groups like G-Idle, RV and STAYC probably have more female and queer fans but twice's uncle fans are still very much alive, and likely moved on to IVE or something, since IZ*ONE had like over 70% of male fans.

 

10 hours ago, Flomik said:

I think a part of it has to do with Korean mentality - for them it's more normal to listen to something cute and "girly" compared with the Western stereotypes, but of course some (or most) of them view the ggs as a sеxual interest first, music second

same thing with Japan, where many adult men tend to be fans of lolicon

 

8 hours ago, discreetinside said:

 

Korean GP generally just not interested about Kpop after 2nd Gen

 

And yeah Korean men are more interested towards K-Hip Hop recently and this is why Show Me The Money was popular. 

 

Looks like Bigbang is one of the only exception to the point VIPers are joking they're being a girl group now. Like literally they're the only BGs to achieve PAK this year and not to mention they being respected among the Khip-hop communities as well. 

 

7 hours ago, harrythevifan said:

Big Bang, mostly.

 

I'll just confirm what's already been posted and say they'll listen to k-hiphop when they're angry and they'll listen to specific ballads when they're depressed and they'll turn to pretty girl groups when they want to escape the anger and the depression.

 

Interesting. The way all of y’all spilled and gave me the tea on these Korean men  

Edited October 29, 2022 by Pluto2022

[Pluto6]

8 hours ago, DelRey said:

Felix not being last invalidates this list, that boy have no vocal talent. Like not even a nice tone. 

Felix can somewhat sing compared to RM and Suga though 

[Mel.]

3 hours ago, newuser said:

Are you slow? This is based off of korea billboard. Not everything is about US billboard lol. 

B!TCH, ARE YOU FUCKIN SLOW? 

was it fuckin necessary to be rude? dickhead

 

and idgaf if it was Korea, the US or tim-butt-fuckin-to!

some of those winners are still sketchy

 

furthermore...I already explained they used the hot 100, bb 200 and the global charts

those are not Korean charts genius 

 

b!tch don't fuckin come for me.

[Pluto6]

I miss them so much 

 

[Tomek]

55 minutes ago, Blueberry Kisses said:

EDIT: wait I literally never noticed that that Producers song literally had uncredited samples from Gimme More in it

girl it was a huge controversy at the time, to the point that she had to delete the song from existence 

in 2015 she was almost canceled for having a lot of controversies, plagiarism (which koreans hate) pedoph... accusations because of some song she wrote and etc... but she was able to bounce back and she's been playing it safe since then 

now she's going for that cookie cutter image and it's been working so good for her 

[CandyCoatedClouds]

14 hours ago, paddii_ said:

Itzy concept is teen crush while LSF is targeted at a more adult target group. Itzy concept has always been sassy self confident teens having fun and saying what they want even adults disagree and stuff like that. Therefore BLY and Sneakers are very much on brand with the target group, it’s just not always I wanna be different blah. So song choices make sense. As for growing up and concept switch I don’t see that happening with the increasing album sales. The only ones who might get a concept switch are NMIXX. 

That's part of the "I'm so different" persona though. Also every group has too mature. Can't stay the same forever, especially as they age and grow out of their current demographic. 

11 hours ago, Narima said:

 

I know people were mad but I'm so glad they got to release this song instead of CLC. had they released it, it never would have been heard. Because of IZONE it's one of the most iconic 4th gen girl group songs.

[karlo_98]

At least my girls are breaking records 

 

We can say now that they will promote ANTFRAGILE in U.S soon. 

 

[MusicFan98]

Is this smashing yet?

 

 

 

[Blueberry Kisses]

47 minutes ago, Tomek said:

girl it was a huge controversy at the time, to the point that she had to delete the song from existence 

in 2015 she was almost canceled for having a lot of controversies, plagiarism (which koreans hate) pedoph... accusations because of some song she wrote and etc... but she was able to bounce back and she's been playing it safe since then 

now she's going for that cookie cutter image and it's been working so good for her 

I do remember that but I thought the controversy was that it just sounded too much like Gimme More, I didn't realize it actually sampled it

She's one of my earliest k-pop faves so I'm always rooting for her but if that video's going around with k-netz it's got some eerie similarities to what happened to Lee Hyori in 2010.

[newuser]

1 hour ago, Mel. said:

B!TCH, ARE YOU FUCKIN SLOW? 

was it fuckin necessary to be rude? dickhead

 

and idgaf if it was Korea, the US or tim-butt-fuckin-to!

some of those winners are still sketchy

 

furthermore...I already explained they used the hot 100, bb 200 and the global charts

those are not Korean charts genius 

 

b!tch don't fuckin come for me.

You must be super slow or just plain stupid, those awards are based on off billboard Korea which is a Korea chart. 
 

why would billboard Korea use American chart? Don’t be stupid lol rted 

Edited October 29, 2022 by newuser

[DelRey]

 

I love they are singing live again  It is live right? Or is me being delusional?   

Edited October 29, 2022 by DelRey

[GucciBang]

5 hours ago, BigBangStan said:

 

Oh this is huge   like back in the day of Jennie and Chanel level huge   Gucci knows that Hani will have her Lisa moment soon, so smart of them to have her as their ambassador this earlyI can't wait for the rest of the NJ girlies to get their own luxury brand ambassadorship soon  hopefully Chanel and Dior already eyeing their 4th gen girly, I can see each of NJ and LSRF girls + Rei and Yujin (hopefully Versace announcement soon) being representative of high-end brands like the Pinks

[New Edition]

Generations is EVERYTHING 

 

Girls really left the dudes in the dust this year wow. Like it's not even close and I don't see how boy groups can recover next year even if SM, Hybe and JYP debut brand new groups.

 

Boy groups are OVER 

 

I see male solos just taking over and leaving boy groups behind tbh

 

[PerfectSacrifice]

19.8k pure sales for ANTIFRAGILE in the USgreat numbers for a rookie group. I think they will start some promotions in the US and collaborate more with western artists after 1 or 2 years just like TXT. 

[DelRey]

 

 

Jin 

 

[Pluto6]

41 minutes ago, New Edition said:

Generations is EVERYTHING 

 

Girls really left the dudes in the dust this year wow. Like it's not even close and I don't see how boy groups can recover next year even if SM, Hybe and JYP debut brand new groups.

 

Boy groups are OVER 

 

I see male solos just taking over and leaving boy groups behind tbh

 

Not to burst your bubble or anything, but outside of BP and TWICE, boy groups generally are still making more money than girl groups. They sell better, have bigger tours and bigger dedicated fanbases, which is what a lot of companies actually strike for. 

Some of these new popular girl groups right now are still only carried by the GP and the GP will move on eventually after a new girl group debuts after them. And if these girl groups don’t have a big fandom to rely on, then they will be over. For example, look at all the 3rd gen girl groups now, outside of the BP, TWICE, RV trinity. 

 

Luckily girl groups like BP, TWICE, ITZY, aespa etc. have some of the biggest fandoms in Kpop even bigger than most boy groups, which is why they will never be over, even if they underperform on charts etc. cause they still sell albums like boy groups 

Edited October 29, 2022 by Pluto2022

[Mel.]

2 hours ago, newuser said:

You must be super slow or just plain stupid, those awards are based on off billboard Korea which is a Korea chart. 
 

why would billboard Korea use American chart? Don’t be stupid lol rted 

dumbass

it's an AMERICAN award created by Billboard US dedicated to kpop

is there a Billboard chart in Korea? no it isn't so wtf would it taken from the Korean charts?

stop quoting me if you don't know wtf you're talking 

clearly you just wanna get into it with me cause you're bored

 

 

[Winmill De Kwynn]

2 hours ago, CandyCoatedClouds said:

That's part of the "I'm so different" persona though. Also every group has too mature. Can't stay the same forever, especially as they age and grow out of their current demographic. 

I know people were mad but I'm so glad they got to release this song instead of CLC. had they released it, it never would have been heard. Because of IZONE it's one of the most iconic 4th gen girl group songs.

Eunbi pre-chorus and bridge are still LEGENDARY, I still got chill