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K-Pop Thread: 2023 Archive

This is part 1 of the K-Pop Thread: 2023 Archive discussion.

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  • aespa #1!    MYs can have arts AND charts now No chart updates on Spicy from you then?   I think not. Nope. They're at #1 now. Consider your points deb

  • Also @Mel. now that thread banning is back your two week ban starts now. 

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    some of the new members not giving new at all 

Maybe its time for a WJSN The Black comeback until Dawon finds an agency, I rather take that than almost a whole year without a comeback :redface:Starship might as well put those fresh Ive coins to use since its just the beginning of their slayage. 

 

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5 hours ago, Flomik said:

This is the most YG-esque sound that YG groups have had since 2016

Right.

poor Joy
hope she's ok

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1 hour ago, Sept said:

The way you just make up shameless lies :deadbanana: :deadbanana:

 

BTS Proof: Hanteo 3M - Gaon 3.4M => 13% dif

17 Face The Sun: Hanteo 2.5M - Gaon 2.8M => 12% dif 

NCT 2 Baddies: Hanteo 1.8M - Gaon 1.8M => 0% dif

Born Pink: Hanteo 1.6M - Gaon 2.5M => 56% dif

Aespa Girls: Hanteo 1.4M - Gaon 1.8M => 28% dif

IVE After Like: Hanteo 1.4M - Gaon 1.65M => 18% dif

TWICE Between 1&2: Hanteo 600k - Gaon 1.1M => 83% dif

ITZY Checkmate: Hanteo 690k - Gaon 1M => 45% dif

RV FMR: Hanteo 597k - Gaon 694k => 16% dif

Dont feel like doing math but I’m pretty sure the 83% for twice is incorrect :toofunny2: it should be closer to 50%

18 hours ago, newaespa said:

We still need that Ningning and Karina solo that they performed in their tour :jonny5:

can they actually debut as soloists in the same way that other kpop stars have? i don't see why they would have them record and perform solo material and then for it to never see the light of day that factually doesn't make any sense

17 hours ago, Adama said:

I dont think these solo songs are going to released. Only performed on their tour maybe? 
 

Idk if another cb is going to happens this year since they are releasing in May. 

their needs to be a law about performing material that's never gonna get released. this has to be one of my biggest gripes with the music industry

17 hours ago, Century said:

Don't hold your breath for ae1 anytime soon. They're going to be touring through the rest of the summer and have 3 different countries to promote in now. If it's coming 2023 it's coming late.

 

Even during the first nights of hyperline the members said a lot of the songs were experimental and that they were trying new things. Again don't hold your breath for them unless we get something like a repackage or some Target edition bonus tracks(not even sure that store does that anymore or has ever done it with kpop).

i don't mind it coming in later. Q3 or Q4 idc even if all we get is another single leading into another comeback on top of the next year i'm fine with that. i just want more consistency with their release schedule is all especially since they're in my opinion have the most capacity to crossover as the next big thing in KPOP them being a quartet makes it easier to distinguish and sell them and their sound is also fresh and not the typical kpop sound

17 hours ago, Century said:

Hot Air Balloon and 2HOT4U deserved placement more than Thirsty but basic internet geighs aren’t ready for that conversation the same way they weren’t ready to understand the musicality of Girls.

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i agree with you about 2HOT4U only but yes. wish the mini was 8 or 9 songs so that we could've gotten TUMBLING, HOT AIR BALLOON, DON'T BLINK and YOLO the last two I was REALLY ANTICIPATING

17 hours ago, Flomik said:

As long as Wake Up and Menagerie make it in the next album I'll be satisifed

along with 2HOT4U if we're not getting another comeback having the girls each drop their solo debuts in the meantime until their next comeback would be perfect marketing strategy to establish them as individuals 

16 hours ago, LustSpell said:

Trying so hard to get into aespa, but something's just not clicking and I feel kinda sad because their concept and idea of worldbuilding is interesting, but I'm not understanding what they are fighting in lore from their singles 💀

 

Cautiously anticipating their next release to see if I can understand it.

their edge is also gonna be their undoing. it's a mouthful and just very complicated to breakdown if you're trying to introduce someone to them. i've had people turn them down because when i've tried to explain their concept they're just like isn't it just kpop why are they doing the most and i'm just there like yeah i know, i'm sorry lol the "black mamba" is what they're fighting in these "singles/metaverse" literally the equivalent to a virus lol you're never gonna understand the universe because apparently they rewrite and are always changing the storyline making it even harder to keep up and make sense of it all

16 hours ago, motherpills said:

obsessed with the fact that visuelle also literally translates to "visual" in french 

okay slay a bit lol

16 hours ago, MonsterNavy said:

 

ok now can LISA grace us by doing a rap feature on a song with JEON SOMI please since they're labelmates

17 hours ago, MonsterNavy said:

legend :heart:

 

YG needs to let them as soloists and as a group to do more features and collaborations on other people's projects. it'll help them grow even more

16 hours ago, Chemist said:

Just be patient. I didn't like their music at first and one day it just clicked :rip: Savage especially is just incredible :jonny:

 

yeah i checked them out when they first debuted with BLACK MAMBA but my BLINK goggles refused to let me put my bias aside to give them a proper chance. GIRLS was actually the song that got me into them ironically

16 hours ago, Hazy said:

I love their concept (but enough with the Black Mamba fight) 

Naevis can stay away though!! 

yeah they need to keep their concepts strictly to their aesthetic and visuals because the lore/metaverse bullshit is getting out of hand. it's serving anime CYBERCHASE and i'm over it. 

8 minutes ago, Mel. said:

“THEY’RE ALL BEYONCÉ!” :bibliahh: Yas, school the locals :clap3:

 

 

 

and this is EXACTLY why THEY'RE so successful. one of the few and RARE cases where everyone in the group are EQUALS because they ALL bring something to the table

20 hours ago, elevate said:

I wonder if Kpop artists ever look at forums like these and wonder why people are so obsessed with their sales and such when most of these artists are friends or have at least hooked up with each other.

 

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not to be ignorant but do any of these k-popstars even have the luxury of having that kind of access considering how micromanaging controlling these labels are with them. especially with how most of them are obligated to get work done

19 hours ago, MonsterNavy said:

with zero new music in 7months :clap3: 

see what having an amazing discography does to you :gaycat2:

 

 

so we can we get new material from them lol can they secure a feature on dj collab or collaborate with more artists asap the lack of material after being together for so long is astounding

 

2 minutes ago, New Edition said:

Where is Somi?

this is what i've been saying! it's been a minute where is her comeback and collab with blackpink please sis or at least lisa, rose or jennie

21 hours ago, Century said:

I have decided to Stan naevis/welcome to my world. 

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i'm sorry but unless 1 ACTUAL PERSON is GONNA BE BOTH THE VOICE and REAL LIFE STAND IN i want this VIRTUAL ABOMINATION to never see the light of day and take time and focus away from OUR GIRLS. if i were them i'd feel sometype of away about my label investing in a ******* AI and shafting me as their priority like what in the actual ****. miss NAEVIS better be portrayed by a NEW MEMBER and be like an unofficial guest star member addition to AESPA because so far all it's serving is FIFTH DIS-HARMONY

20 hours ago, Century said:

Siri, chatgpt, alexa, hatsune miku, etc better be sleeping with one eye open. Main ai girl naevis is coming for ALL of them the same way she came for black mamba.

 

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stop entertaining the idea of this DOLLAR TREE BATTLE ANGEL ALITA ***** taking anything from anyone when she can literally ceased to exist by just deleting the hoe from one of the SM servers Dx 

 

1 hour ago, starstruckaj said:

Maybe its time for a WJSN The Black comeback until Dawon finds an agency, I rather take that than almost a whole year without a comeback :redface:Starship might as well put those fresh Ive coins to use since its just the beginning of their slayage. 

 

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I hope we get something, but it doesn't look promising :rip:

 

On 4/24/2023 at 4:31 AM, Zack said:

Literal queen behavior. We're all living in aespa's MY WORLD :clap3:

 

OT: screaming at certain users scrambling for a new narrative after months of telling us aespa is "over" and "out of the race" :fan:

yeah AESPA is gonna shut **** down i can just tell

On 4/24/2023 at 4:43 AM, Century said:

I know I’ve mentioned it before but I’m still not over Giselles visuals in the recent teaser. Looking glowy, healthy, and ready to serve the best summer concept. aespa is truly the group without any vocal or visual holes. :ghostface:

yeah i'm usually indifferent towards her but she seems to have a fire under her ass this time around which is interesting. let's see if her actual presence translate to performing once these music videos drop. the pics being a slay are one thing we need to see if she can deliver that same serve in real time

1 minute ago, youresotoxic said:

I hope we get something, but it doesn't look promising :rip:

 

Who are these people :celestial5:

 

Only rooting for Chaeyeon

1 minute ago, Companion said:

Who are these people :celestial5:

 

Only rooting for Chaeyeon

I'm rooting for like 4 girls. Chaeyeon, JooE, Yeeun, and Yeoreum (if she is participating).

i don't really know the rest that well :rip:

1 minute ago, youresotoxic said:

I'm rooting for like 4 girls. Chaeyeon, JooE, Yeeun, and Yeoreum (if she is participating).

i don't really know the rest that well :rip:

There are H1-key Riina fans who despise Chaeyeon and her nepotism situation that according to them made Riina's life more difficult than it should've been.  Too bad there aren't many of them or it could make the show really spicy.


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On 4/24/2023 at 6:18 AM, Adama said:

Really hope she end up in an established agency and not something like the Jay park one :deadbanana4:

 

Yeah she used to be big a few years ago. She was signed under 88rising for the global promotions but not to much happened.

******* morons. i hope that we get bare and rare part 2 and if anything she signs to a us label or something. chungha is a one woman army and deserves to be treated as such

On 4/24/2023 at 9:41 PM, Pinter said:

There you go newjeans and babymonsters career :clap3:

 

Kids should be protected. Korea did it right this time.  

should've been a thing from a long time ago for sure

10 hours ago, Chemist said:

IFPI uses actual sales (Hanteo) rather than shipments (Gaon).

This is incredibly incorrect. IFPI only used shipment numbers. IFPI has never once reported on sales in their entire career, sis. The closest we got was for digital single sales since there is no variance there between sales and shipments.

Has anybody ever gone to a kpop concert for a specific artist without buying the lightstick? I'm debating about buying a $60 lightstick that I know I'll only use for the one time they come here this year. Like, I Don't want to be the odd one out but I also don't want to buy a lightstick.

14 minutes ago, Witnessed ET said:

They can’t wait to get out of that company :lmao:

 

 

Shuhua :ahh: 

I do wonder if they'll try to take the group somewhere after their deal with Cube is over. They could rebrand as Idle, which Cube blocked them from doing so.

On 4/24/2023 at 6:25 PM, katyberry said:

I know the people who thought aespa would abandon their concept are fuming 

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yes i'm mad that we're literally getting ZORDON as a ******* member for a girl group because SM wants to clutch onto this MATRIX for dummies mythology that they've built smfh 

 

On 4/24/2023 at 6:43 PM, Pinter said:

Naevis is going to save the world once for all :jonnycat:

 

Curious to see how the ai voice will be presented with many voices actor being involved and mixed, especially when ai becoming really a hot topic with chatgp atm, this could be really big and potentially draws atention more than we can imagine... However i dont want companies to follow suit and debut their own naevis, one is enough just like there would be only one jesus in a lifetime :giraffe:

**** HER! I have never been this angry over something KPOP related in some time. The fact that NAEVIS is gonna have multiple people do the voice makes ZERO sense. NAEVIS can easily be given a new and worthy traineee and their gig. What a missed opportunity. Yeah that's another reason why I don't want this to become a thing because it's gonna become the new norm and soon enough we're gonna be out of seeing real and true and human talent. The same way self checkout has taken okay from register employees, AIs will replace popstars and that's ******* scary. I hope either someone SKULLDRAGS SM for this idea or the girls speak up and put their two cents into the CONCEPT and SHUT IT DOWN ASAP

On 4/24/2023 at 6:49 PM, Century said:

Some would say one naevis is too many when she's possibly going to get as many original songs as aespa this year 

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PLEASE DON'T PUT THIS OUT THEIR IN THE UNIVERSE. I WILL ******* LOOSE MY **** IF A ******* PIXAR ***** GETS HER OWN SOLO DEBUT BEFORE OUR GIRLS GET THEIR OWN DEBUT ALBUM. I CAN JUST IMAGINE SM BEING EVEN MORE MESSY AND HAVING NAEVIS BE THE COMBINATION OF THE WHOLE GROUP AS ONE ENTITY AND RELEASING THEIR SOLOS UNDER NAEVIS Dx

On 4/24/2023 at 6:52 PM, Pinter said:

It will be a collapse if SM hired a compatible ai programmer to create the ai voice version of taeyeon mixed with jessica with other notable popular sm main vocalist as a naevis voice... 

 

These ai covers are kinda trending atm on youtube and its voice its quite imoressive, imagine if SM manage to snatch a genius ai programmer... Whew...sm is trully ahead of its game... :eek:

or maybe not making an artificial intelligence a thing in the first place would be a start. this is so creepy and unecessary. naevis should be voice by one person and that same person should also play her human counterpart. give it to a fellow sm trainee pleace! ai covers are one of the works things to happen in music besides sped up and slowed down versions of songs because of tiktok don't indulge in it

On 4/24/2023 at 7:11 PM, Pinter said:

Nnn you spilled, but as much as i want naevis to succeed i dont want ai voice/idol to be mainstream i hope only sm is doing it :giraffe:

i hope that the idea is met with backlash so they don't try and go through with this ever again unless it's how i suggested. this is SO messy and i just know for a fact that the girls feel sometype of way about it all too

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