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The constant demands by these people for more "content" from the girls is creepy AF. And they're super entitled and aggressive with it too. It's almost as creepy as A2O's AI idol clone chat called "Blooming Talk" Which I'm guessing is in conflict with handing out free content online. Hopefully A2O at least ignores the demands to push a camera in these girls' faces 24/7. But now that they've had one of the biggest debuts in history, there will be more demands on these girls than ever. I just hope they have good people around to watch out for them.

Unfortunately this has been normalized in K-Pop for decades Here are some legacy performances from top groups where they were forced to perform while visibly injured or recovering and there are many other examples HYBE is a K-Pop company and probably think they can get away with this kind of attitude toward the artists

Jessica will star in a new travel reality show, launching this week! The queen always remaining booked and busy

IRENE: March 2026 (full album) Red Velvet: August 2026 (mini album) IRENE & SEULGI: September 2026 (mini album) WENDY: November 2026 (mini album) SEULGI: Spring 2027 (full album) YERI: Spring 2027 (solo debut) JOY: TBC 2027 (full album) Red Velvet is forever!

This teaser is so eerie. Carrying on the RV traditions, I see Interested to hear the musical direction she has chosen this time

This should help, taken from the website: "Zalpha Pop" is a genre that "seeks to cultivate a Play2Create culture in which Gen Z and Gen Alpha move beyond passive consumption to become active prosumers who recreate, expand, and contribute". There's also "Zal-Dance":

The song was originally pitched to SHINee and looks like they used the instrumental from that demo too. However...I never thought I'd see the day where I missed Amber rapping though...until now

Thanks for the tag...ready for another collection of hymns from Miss Wendy! Loving the ice blue theme, still keeping her RV official color I see

I don't think it matters who is doing it, that choreography is just bad. Jisoo sweetie...the people selling you these demos and choreographies...lose their numbers asap

Neon back to PAK! They only need one more to reach 100!

Sadly, most idols won't challenge or speak out because of culture/societal customs. CLC Sorn once exposed that foreign idols were being paid around 6x less royalty payments than Korean idols by law. She only discovered after checking her and Elkie's accounts compared to the Korean members. She said she mentioned this to Lisa and Bambam but they had just accepted that their company told them it was "normal" to get paid less as a foreigner. It was only because Sorn then challenged the law that the situation was changed to give equal royalty payments. But it took years just to change that one thing. Unfortunately, in most cases idols are under too many pressures to speak out. What it really needs is government level to step in and change, but they will never want to upset the agencies, since K-Pop is so good for the economy.

In honor of the thread title:

Perched if she's finally said yes to the Calvin Harris collab, otherwise she can keep it!

Melon TOP100 and Daily calculate different things, so it's possible for this to happen. It's made more possible by the fact that Neon hasn't really lost popularity since going down to #2. So it's likely Neon still has a higher daily score at the moment (through streaming + downloads vs. the weighting score on TOP100) to keep daily #1.

The way the A2O girlies are pushing back towards PAK