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8 hours ago, Sept said:

Nobody disputed that but RV has been inching closer to TWICE now than ever before

 

They are catching up in album sales, digital and heck even Psycho is coming for TWICE's wig on Spotify streams. It's wild that few years ago TWICE used to outsell RV by 2,3x times

I actually think RV is bigger than Twice domestically RN since they are still getting hits (sans birthday) but Twice has other markets (hihi Japan and the US) which make them still a huge group overall.
 

Speaking of, why doesn’t SM let the girls tour :rip:

Psycho has always been quite close to Fancy in streams ( both International Klassics), so it’s not really catching up per se. Twice also has WIL over 300m with The Feels,  FS and ICSM nearly at 300M :bird:

 

I actually like both groups and think they have very different careers RN.

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Posted
37 minutes ago, Pluto2022 said:

I honestly don't know either cause only SKZ and ATEEZ are able to pull it off among the 4th gen bgs. "Maniac" is everything what HYBE wanted for their 4th gen bgs to pull off but couldn't. Stray Kids are able to pull the dark and intimidating concept that the HYBE boy groups just can't. 

Like when comparing SKZ, TXT and ENHYPEN's releases last year which has somewhat the same concept,  you can see how SKZ eats them up effortlessly. With SKZ it feels natural, while with the other 2 it feels forced. Though I must say that ENHYPEN are way better at pulling off the tough bad boy concept than TXT.

I swear every time I enter the thread you're writing paragraph long rants about how Stray Kids are better than TXT accompanied with poorly embedded videos and images. :deadbanana: Like do you not get tired... 

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The GOT performance was a serve!

 

Wendy, Seulgi and Karina in particular really brought the energy, sass and vocals!

Posted
1 hour ago, Witnessed ET said:

:keir:

 

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everyone looks pissed off lmao

they look gorgina but tea, they look like they just got terrible news like they found out their Korean comeback is something NMIXX’d 

Posted

I agree. I think groups were every member could be the visual member like TXT, EXO or NCT dont really fit the bad boy concept, thats why BTS, Stray kids, ATEEZ or Big Bang where most their members have an unusual type of beauty usually nail that concept. Also those groups usually have someone with a very low voice like TOP, RM or Felix. 

Posted
10 hours ago, Aniston's Boobs said:

 

 

oh wow they're actually promoting

 

karina looks amazing :WAP: 

i need godspa to come back now :WAP:

Now why does Taeyeon have a drug on her head :dies:

Posted

I guess this confirms there's gonna be no promo :bibliahh:

All members are on vacation right now, Tzuyu in Taiwan, J-line in Japan, Jihyo in Thailand (although she's with managers so she might have a schedule there after her free time? Hyolo is coming :msmarvel:)

 

Posted
2 hours ago, discreetinside said:

The military service scandal was originally began with some football athletes and young chaebols a while back and it getting more messy as deep investigation goes on and Ravi is the latest batch to allegedly involve with the scandal. The context of this scandal was mainly about systematic manipulation of medical records so they can serve on lighter military duty like public service worker (which Ravi currently did right now) or getting exempted from military enlistment.

A whole mess.

I mean, it would have been better if he just went instead of finding ways to manipulate it. :deadbanana:

Posted
25 minutes ago, LuneMon said:

BTS, Stray kids, ATEEZ or Big Bang where most their members have an unusual type of beauty usually nail that concept.

:dies:

Posted (edited)
1 hour ago, Pluto2022 said:

 

I honestly don't know either cause only SKZ and ATEEZ are able to pull it off among the 4th gen bgs. "Maniac" is everything what HYBE wanted for their 4th gen bgs to pull off but couldn't. Stray Kids are able to pull the dark and intimidating concept that the HYBE boy groups just can't. 

Like when comparing SKZ, TXT and ENHYPEN's releases last year which has somewhat the same concept,  you can see how SKZ eats them up effortlessly. With SKZ it feels natural, while with the other 2 it feels forced. Though I must say that ENHYPEN are way better at pulling off the tough bad boy concept than TXT.

 

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"Case 143" is literally their worst title track and I'm honestly shocked that it's such a big hit in Japan :dies: This also explains why they are coming out with a Japanese studio album next month. "Maniac" blew up in China and made them the most popular 4th gen group in China along with aespa. Hyunjin has the biggest C-bar after Karina and Winter. I wonder how well their next comeback is going to do this year, since they were able to snatch China and Japan on their side last year. Though SKZ were always popular in Japan since 2020, when they released "TOP"  which is the longest charting top 10 song on Oricon by a Korean act :clap3:

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Do you stan SKZ or a you casual listener? Who's your bias? What are your favorite songs from them? :alexz::duca:

 

It’s not that ENHYPEN can’t pull off the tough bad boy concept, as Blessed-Cursed and Drunk-Dazed are more or less on the same lane, but the reason their recent comeback fell flat was because of the song quality. Pass the Mic is trash compared to their otherwise stellar discography. Maybe SKZ and Ateez can get away with releasing subpar material like that since they’ve built their image with that sound and their stans expect it by now, but for an act like ENHYPEN who has serving quality after quality in a more melody-driven and structurally pleasant music, it’s not gonna work. 

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Posted (edited)
15 minutes ago, Green Tea Is Green said:

I guess this confirms there's gonna be no promo :bibliahh:

All members are on vacation right now, Tzuyu in Taiwan, J-line in Japan, Jihyo in Thailand (although she's with managers so she might have a schedule there after her free time? Hyolo is coming :msmarvel:)

 

Or maybe they already filmed all the promo stuff weeks/months in advance? It’s possible with Twice.

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Posted
45 minutes ago, Spark said:

I swear every time I enter the thread you're writing paragraph long rants about how Stray Kids are better than TXT accompanied with poorly embedded videos and images. :deadbanana: Like do you not get tired... 

Right :rip: the obsession :skull:

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The dupes in this thread already, no wonder those users were quick and confident to get deleted permanently

Posted
45 minutes ago, sunmimi imfurst said:

I actually think RV is bigger than Twice domestically RN since they are still getting hits (sans birthday) but Twice has other markets (hihi Japan and the US) which make them still a huge group overall.
 

Speaking of, why doesn’t SM let the girls tour :rip:

Yeah this is probably a fair assessment. RV has indisputably been performing better on domestic digital and physical channels, where as TWICE has stagnated/declined. But internationally there's no doubt TWICE has kept growing a lot, whereas international is not a factor for RV because SM refuses to promote them, despite clear demand and interest, it's quite odd. Touring is another thing SM keeps ignoring for RV, despite obvious demand.

 

Also, JYP management is actually really good/maybe even overkill, whereas SM's management is horrible/lazy, they need to fix that this year.

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Any tea on why Jinni left JYP? The way she left was shocking...it was so abrupt, no one saw it coming.

Posted (edited)

Can i just say its HILARIOUS the clear divide on the discourse of BGs and GGs is ?? :bibliahh:

 

Like yall literally never quote each other its so obvious to tell who is a BG and or GG stan :deadbanana2:

 

But i love it cause this thread finally has enough BG stans to discuss them, no annoying halting from GG stans anymore, at least for now. Such a breath of fresh to the usual k-trl script ( and honestly the discussions and drags are more fun, funnier and more interesting to read :coffee:)

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Posted
20 minutes ago, Da Vinci said:

The dupes in this thread already, no wonder those users were quick and confident to get deleted permanently

Mte.

They just wanted a new start but is quite easy to spot them. :rip:

Posted (edited)

I wonder what the future holds for ITZY and NMIXX. Cheshire didnt even manage to chart, they might get dropped from their label or forced into disbandment if their next comeback performs just as bad. NMIXX is in an even worse state, they literally have nothing for them. Their most popular member leaving messed things up for sure.

 

Things arent looking good for Jay Why Pee.

 

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Posted
54 minutes ago, Green Tea Is Green said:

I guess this confirms there's gonna be no promo :bibliahh:

All members are on vacation right now, Tzuyu in Taiwan, J-line in Japan, Jihyo in Thailand (although she's with managers so she might have a schedule there after her free time? Hyolo is coming :msmarvel:)

 

They have been carried their company in their back for 7 years. They deserve a long beak :gaycat5:

Posted
39 minutes ago, Witnessed ET said:

Or maybe they already filmed all the promo stuff weeks/months in advance? It’s possible with Twice.

Maybe a performance vid like the ones they've been doing recently, Jeongyeon said they filmed the MV so quick she didn't even have time to get pics :gaycat6: I'm happy they're finally getting MVs for bsides tho, and it looks like it has a pretty good budget :crown:

Posted

Someone woke Mother and her test tube baby Winter up :jonnycat:

 

 

Now why is King rattling her bones for this incontinent flop song? Boa is the only one left giving vapor. 

Posted
3 hours ago, Witnessed ET said:

:keir:

 

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everyone looks pissed off lmao

Momo ate the girls up here 

Posted
12 minutes ago, Green Tea Is Green said:

Maybe a performance vid like the ones they've been doing recently, Jeongyeon said they filmed the MV so quick she didn't even have time to get pics :gaycat6: I'm happy they're finally getting MVs for bsides tho, and it looks like it has a pretty good budget :crown:

Yeah looks like they filmed it a long time ago. And I can tell that based on Jeongyeon’s hair length lol. She has a bob now compared to the shorter hair on the teaser pics. 
and wait, what B sides MV? :bloo: Unless you’re talking about this being the bside 

 

7 minutes ago, Vrx. said:

Momo ate the girls up here 

this is actually a screenshot from a video clip, not a photoshoot still

Posted (edited)
25 minutes ago, AbsynthPop said:

Now why is King rattling her bones for this incontinent flop song?

Rumor has it haggard old witch of SM BoA held her at gunpoint. 

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I miss them

 

 

 

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