37 minutes ago, JO1s said:

You'll hear the worst payolad kpop music you've ever heard in harajuku.

Nnnnn that's exactly where we were; It was mainly Plave on every other street and wall with randoms like INI and TWS, plus Lesserafim all promoting their Japanese singles. But Tower Records had taste with the Club Icarus wall, got a copy and a free signed Heejin photocard with it 

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The animation style in that Kpop Demon movie is so hard to watch  Awful character design too

9 minutes ago, starstruckaj said:

Nnnnn that's exactly where we were; It was mainly Plave on every other street and wall with randoms like INI and TWS, plus Lesserafim all promoting their Japanese singles. But Tower Records had taste with the Club Icarus wall, got a copy and a free signed Heejin photocard with it 

Honestly I recommend a stroll through ueno park and going to omide yokocho for dinner one night pretty underrated spots in Tokyo tourist wise.

1 hour ago, JO1s said:

You'll hear the worst payolad kpop music you've ever heard in harajuku.

I know my sister would never call "Dirty Work" payola'd.

1 hour ago, Green Tea Is Green said:

I've been so out of the kpop world I haven't really kept up with their stuff either  I did see they had some songs on that kpop movie though  as for the comeback since its a full album I'm hoping it'll live up to FoL 

No I get you I'm on the same boat, I've been out of the loop and haven't even gotten the time to process everything that's coming 

 

wait lemme try to consolidate everything here lol

 

so we have:

 

1. TAKEDOWN (Jihyo, Jeongyeon and Chaeyoung) for Kpop Demon Hunters movie soundtrack

 

 

2. The 4th full album 'THIS IS FOR' (with FIVE different subunit songs, total 14 tracks)

 

 

3. Chaeyoung SOLO 

 

4. Japanese 6th album 'ENEMY'

 

 

 

5. 'THIS IS FOR' World Tour

 

 

 

6. SOLO tracks from ALL nine members just for the tour, not included on the album 

 

Spoiler

 

 

7. Other things like Nayeon and Tayla Parx collab, the Street Woman Fighter mission with Nayeon, Jeongyeon, Momo, Sana and Jihyo etc

 

 

 

 

 

Bottomline: They're not letting us breathe 

And they're doing all of this in their TENTH year, when 99% of the kpop groups either dont last over 7 years or continue with reduced members with sparse releases, let that sink in

2 minutes ago, Eternium said:

I know my sister would never call "Dirty Work" payola'd.

I'm calling the boy groups with no tracks above 10 mil streams on Spotify from their latest albums that 

TWICE drowning in success:

 

4 hours ago, MonsterNavy said:

3 members are underaged btw 

 

 

Idk what's up with the confused reacts as if the man doesn't have a history of grooming idols

 

this is everything 

 

so excited for their album, everything sounds amazing  especially the title track and solo tracks 

lemme get my preorder in

this underrated gem

 

3 hours ago, MonsterNavy said:

 

I streamed this more than 10x but its really just not clicking with me. i'm sorry rosé unnie I hope this flops so you never make a turd song like this again

 

 

shes so boring in every aspect it actually upsets me

58 minutes ago, Supervillain said:

The animation style in that Kpop Demon movie is so hard to watch  Awful character design too

not to mention the music and vocals, I heard one song and I don't wanna watch the movie anymore

21 minutes ago, youresotoxic said:

 

this is everything 

Shouldn't they have released a cute Love Attack follow up though? This doesn't sound like a song for the summer from a growing girl group 

33 minutes ago, JO1s said:

I'm calling the boy groups with no tracks above 10 mil streams on Spotify from their latest albums that 

so your username?

 

1 hour ago, Supervillain said:

The animation style in that Kpop Demon movie is so hard to watch  Awful character design too

What are you talking about, the animation is literally the best part of that movie? 

Story is meh, but animation has fluidity and character expression unlike any other 3D movie outside of Sony's own The Mitchells and Spiderverse movies. Best American cartoon studio by far. What a good animation style would be exactly, the Pixar movies?

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7 minutes ago, K$Ellie said:

so your username?

 

 

Spoiler

 

 

KARD is making PVSSY music and I love it so much. 
 

That video isn’t going to get played on TV for sure. 

17 minutes ago, K$Ellie said:

so your username?

 

Be classic will have 20 mil streams by the end of the week where as alleged viral TikTok song dim which came out 3 months earlier is struggling to hit 9 mil streams.

38 minutes ago, motherpills said:

shes so boring in every aspect it actually upsets me

especially when she was the main slayer in the hylt performances which is like their biggest comeback  

looks like they shot something today, he's all done up

 

please look forward to it.

 

12 hours ago, Sheep said:

Teddy is a serial plagiarist and credit thief. There are physical Big Bang minis from before GD's reputation as a songwriter-producer took off that incorrectly printed Teddy in the credits where he didn't belong, and isn't credited on any streaming service today(their 3rd mini is the worst offender). Those actually aren't his songs and CL was more involved with 2NE1 than she's credited.We literally have hours and hours of their process documented thanks to 2NE1 tv. CL got writing credit on EVERY project she has ever done that wasn't directly under Teddy's supervision(dating back to 2009) and was even teasing the BP songs on ig in 2015/16 but somehow, only has credit on less than a handful of 2NE1 songs, and none of YG/TBLs attempts to recapture that sound without her have hit the same vibe, but both of CLs albums have her lyrics and melodies down without a single Teddy credit in sight. There is literally an uncredited vocal sample of CL on As If It's Your Last that everybody and their dog was able to clock the day it came out, before any stems or demos leaked, or before the ex-YG employees and Park Bom both said it was originally for 2NE1. CL was robbed of years of her life and her fans have a right to be pressed.

 

I like some of the BP songs released after the 2NE13 scraps ran out(I think Lovesick Girls is actually a contender for their best song), but you can't deny that their ratatata boom boom rah rah girl crush songs were a lot less stale and phoned in sounding back when CL had her hands on them first, or that their more pop-leaning, less noisy singles completely vanished at that point other than an Ariana Grande scrap. That's not a coincidence.

 

SNSD wasn't barred from coming back ever again.

 

Red Velvet wasn't barred from coming back ever again.

 

SHINee wasn't barred from coming back ever agian.

Thank you, this summarizes things PERFECTLY. I understand BP stans rushing to protect their faves, but I wish they could understand that when we criticize the handling of the songs they recorded this is nothing against the BP girls themselves.

 

YG destroyed the career of the 2NE1 members while using them to propel other artists. This is not the same as SM switching their minds on which group should received which song. 2NE1 was recording an entire album, CL was making connections in the U.S. and none of that was used for their career but was used to establish another group. 2NE1 helped to build that agency. I wanna see anybody trying to tell me with a straight face that CL's rapping and Bom's singing style aren't still being used as a template for most of YG's female idols to this day. And what do they get? Put on a bus in a decisive moment of their careers.

 

It's really hard to argue with people who takes criticism to behind-the-scenes management as equal to a personal attack to their faves. An adult can clearly tell the difference between those two things, but I guess k-pop fandom culture does impact the maturation of the brain process on some of its followers.

3 minutes ago, Bewitched said:

 

ahhh still booked