fan base K-Pop Thread: 2022 Archive

[Pluto6]

Best b-sides of the year why? 

 

[cloudbusting]

the One of These LEGENDS slander… y’all will not be seeing heaven i fear

[Zack]

KRYSTAL at a special event by FILA in Manchester, U.K.

I hate that she's not active as a performer these days. This lewk though omg

 

 

[CandyCoatedClouds]

2 hours ago, Zack said:

 

Probably just tastes, The Velvet has some great songs...Cool Hot Sweet Love, OOTN, Light Me Up, First Time...it was a brave album to do because it's all about the vocals and with R&B/ballad themes that weren't really popular at the time it came out, it's not a really pop album. But conceptually it's so strong. It's their most mellow album though, which is why it's probably polarizing. I find people either hate it or love it.

 

The only bad thing about The Velvet for me is the tracklist with all those annoying remixes added on. Plus commercially it was the wrong kind of album to release at the time.

It probably is because I am not to turn away from slow tempo ballads. Also it sure was brave but also incredibly foolish since it hurt them after they had just come off of a really successful 2015. SM makes so many questionable choices sometimes.

 

[Jenlisa]

The Velvet is my favorite mini from them, I love the MV too despite the budget 

[cantstopmes]

1 hour ago, Zack said:

KRYSTAL at a special event by FILA in Manchester, U.K.

I hate that she's not active as a performer these days. This lewk though omg

 

 

Smth about her reminds me of giselle

[Pluto6]

2 hours ago, Zack said:

KRYSTAL at a special event by FILA in Manchester, U.K.

I hate that she's not active as a performer these days. This lewk though omg

 

 

 

 

Not Jennie's mother with Andrew Garfield, wow She's so beautiful and we stan an it-girl 

[Shou7]

6 hours ago, Rhyme said:

You mean the animal mascot that was already shown to have been used before by Red Velvet? The group who do references to their past comebacks EVERY comeback? 

 

Anyways I'm bringing up Taeyeon and Sunmi because they were decked out in Y2K for 2021. BLACKPINK as well conceptualized their BORN PINK concept with Y2K as far back as May. Even Nayeon used Y2K for POP right before newjeans came out and I'm assuming Talk That Talk by TWICE was conceptualized around then too with more Y2K. 

 

Newjeans can't be representatives for a trend that they were already super late to. 

The RR reference explains WHY the mascot is a cat. It does not explain HOW the cat is depicted. Yall gonna tell me that the cat's STYLE looks more similar to RR than the NJ bunny...??? You can both reference a past comeback AND be influenced in its new depiction.

 

Okay. So the SM directors might have had more influences. Cool? Once again NJ was specifically brought up because of the above point.

 

I don't really understand your last point. It's like saying elvis presley can't be representative of rock and roll because the genre had existed for years and others were already doing it.

Edited November 25, 2022 by Shou7

[Shou7]

4 hours ago, Eternium said:

Do you not realize that the creative director of NewJeans was the creative director of Red Velvet? You realize she’s just reusing concepts, right?  

So RV has a new creative team, okay. And why did they choose to reference an old MHJ idea in a similar aesthetic to the NJ bunny? Once again, influence can go both ways. Pointing out that NJ had influences from RV/MHJ is not a rebuttal of the idea that RV may have taken some influence from NJ.

[hallucinate]

well it’s over  at least he is going to be slaying those military pics

he decided to enlist early too, a man 

Edited November 25, 2022 by hallucinate

[Shou7]

4 hours ago, Cotton said:

What are you talking about. Y2K has been prominent in fashion worldwide since the beginning of this decade. Multiple groups and artists have been using the Y2K aesthetic as a concept BEFORE NJ.

 

The fact the Y2K trend has been seen as a concept in multiple comebacks, multiple performance looks and individual looks automatically negates your opinion on NJ being the representatives of the genre. Y2K has been pretty much inescapable in Kpop for the last two years, you're not making any points.

 

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Thanks for sharing the examples? NJ has been by far the biggest phenomenon that came out of the y2k trend and if that's not how you want to define being a main representative of a trend, that's cool. Never implied they were y2k trendsetters/starters. And my point abt the current iteration of the RV cat taking influence from NJ doesn't really hinge on this argument, so...

[Jenlisa]

37 minutes ago, Shou7 said:

Thanks for sharing the examples? NJ has been by far the biggest phenomenon that came out of the y2k trend and if that's not how you want to define being a main representative of a trend, that's cool. Never implied they were y2k trendsetters/starters. And my point abt the current iteration of the RV cat taking influence from NJ doesn't really hinge on this argument, so...

That “point” is so weak though, they’re not similar at all lol and you look sillier with the fact that the cat featured in three of their comebacks in the last few years  

[Shou7]

2 hours ago, Jenlisa said:

That “point” is so weak though, they’re not similar at all lol and you look sillier with the fact that the cat featured in three of their comebacks in the last few years  

Every iteration of the cat has been wildly different. Photorealistic CGI, 80's (???) cartoon, etc. This is the first time it's been shown with this thick outline cartoon network aesthetic, which is the same style the NJ bunny has been drawn in. As a whole they're not THAT similar but to reject any and all similarities is just disingenuous. This isn't an argument about plagiarism. How "weak" or "strong" an influence is doesn't take away from its validity.

Edited November 25, 2022 by Shou7

[Jenlisa]

10 minutes ago, Shou7 said:

Every iteration of the cat has been wildly different. Photorealistic CGI, 80's (???) cartoon, etc. This is the first time it's been shown with this thick outline cartoon network aesthetic, which is the same style the NJ bunny has been drawn in. As a whole they're not THAT similar but to reject any and all similarities is just disingenuous. This isn't an argument about plagiarism. How "weak" or "strong" an influence is doesn't take away from its validity.

Lol no it’s not. Be Fr 

[Witnessed ET]

Omg   i knew I wanted to watch her show for a reason

 

 

[Santhosh]

Hello KTRL rats

 

[Park Jinyoung]

5 hours ago, hallucinate said:

well it’s over  at least he is going to be slaying those military pics

he decided to enlist early too, a man 

I had a feeling but… no i refuse 

[Santhosh]

On 11/22/2022 at 10:17 PM, DelRey said:

 

 

Yaaas kings are back, they will serve ART.

 

Everyone at SM releasing (Boa, Chen, Xiumin, Minho, RV, Dream and now WayV) meanwhile 127 and Aespa shelved 

 

 

Finally a comeback 

 

On 11/22/2022 at 10:19 PM, Aslan said:

WayV CB without Lucas…

damn I guess he really is over

 

They should kick winwin out and take back lucas

[Subzero]

 

OH OH OH OH

BYE BYE BYE BYE

 

[Adama]

IVE better have prepared something. I don’t want another Inkigayo stage

Edited November 25, 2022 by Adama

[Adama]

Tonight :

 

 

 

Now which songs IVE and NJ are going to sing .

 

And when Zico performs new thing with the Street man dancers 

[harrythevifan]

• MuBank.EP1143: FIFTY FIFTY, CSR, woo!ah!, NATURE, Song Sohee, YooA, AIMERS, DRIPPIN, NINE.i, Xdinary Heroes, YOUNITE, TEMPEST, TO1, TRENDZ, VERIVERY, VICTON, KIM JONGHYEON, CHEN

Post-Thanksgiving sausage delivery.   And for the rest of the weekend.

• MuCore.EP787:FIFTY FIFTY, CSR, Miss.Jung, ICHILLIN', CLASS:y, HYNN, TFN, Xdinary Heroes, YOUNITE, ATBO, TO1, TEMPEST, NTX, DRIPPIN, CHEN, VICTON, VERIVERY
• inkigayo.e1163: BoA, Irris, Fifty Fifty, Yooa, Secret Number, Nature, CSR, Chen, TO1, Tempest, Victon, VeriVery, Drippin, Xdinary Heroes, Younite, ATBO, Nine.i, Aimers

 

Anyway, earlier Simply K-pop released a bunch of Fifty Fifty Plycams.  So, that's something at least.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

Edited November 25, 2022 by harrythevifan

[illia]

Cheshire's bridge sounds better than Sneakers and Mafia already

 

and where can I read Lesserafim's webtoon in English? nevermind I found it

Edited November 25, 2022 by Flomik

[Cotton]

2 hours ago, Dark Horse said:

thank god there's someone else culturally and visually versed in this thread.

 

i can almost guarantee you this image was on their moodboard

 

 

 

"b-b-but... there's nothing similar!!!" the sm sheep be shaking. i stan aespa/rv but i'm not delulu. trendriding is nothing new in kpop.

They’re not similar  & I don’t see why a group would copy album art rather than actual music it really doesn’t make any sense. What does that do for RV realistically? You’d think if they wanted to serve NewJeans they’d comeback with music that feels like NJ. 
 

It’s a classical pop trap song. NJ’s are not the trailblazers y’all want them to be

 

Cookie could even be argued to be very RV esque.

[CrisPop]

Chuu kicked out from LOONA

 

 

 

Edited November 25, 2022 by CrisPop