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Please, she's not made any serious attempt. Most recently, she clearly emailed in the vocals for Friend of Mine from her phone whilst in the bathroom. And she appears for like 4 or 5 seconds in the music video, where she just opens and closes a door.

I'm very surprised about this update, since Kep1er's company wasn't playing ball. Glad Yujin can participate (idk if she's performing with them though??) and Helicopter now won't be the last we see of this group. All they need next is a good song

Do we even know what is happening with BLACKSWAN, bring any tea if you have it because I looked for updates and their company has been silent about any music since that "special" AI video they released like 6 months ago for an older song. They were also excluding Fatou from activities, so idk what is going on. Their last comeback was I LIKE IT HOT like over 1 year ago with the MV filmed in Dubai. Although it seems the money quickly ran out because the performance video was so low budget. It's a mess. Also a shame because the members are talented, they have so much potential if they had the budget of a major company

KISS N TELL performance in Japan It's giving a little too much H2H teas, but it's a cute bop and the vocals are great. Finally some NINGNING high notes again.

Nowhere did I deny that. Like I said, I don't care for the argument, but your comparison of album sales from 2011 (SNSD) vs. 2021 (BTS) didn't show any true context of the impact and hardships SNSD went through when they established a new Hallyu wave in Japan. To use a known phrase, SNSD paved the way for K-Pop groups (and girl groups in particular) in Japan from the 2010s onward.

She's the original. She's unforgettable.

They've been sexually harassed at debut in a publicly released manga too? There's a precedent for BTS' struggles in Japan because a path through those kinds of issues was charted before by SNSD. K-Pop fanbases are also much bigger now and a large core fanbase still remained in Japan for K-Pop post-2011, which as you pointed out, helped BTS maintain success in Japan despite difficulties. SNSD did not have that and had to earn their popularity the hard way, in the face of harsh challenges and additional hardships simply for the fact they are a female group. SNSD was also excluded from Kohaku in 2012 due to political tensions that had nothing to do with them, as well as other issues including a host being racist/xenophobic to their face, following a performance of The Boys (Japanese ver.). Many of these issues would cause a company to withdraw from the market, but SNSD broke through regardless.

A legendary bop

No. You're giving 1+1 = 3.98568568 BoA debuted in Japan in 2001 and ushered an earlier Hallyu wave, but that had faded by the time SNSD came to debut there. Even BoA herself had gone from selling million to just 72,000 in 2010 when she released Identity.

You're the best of HERO

I don't really care for the argument, but I want to point something out, as numbers alone don't tell the full story of the impact with your comparison. Those two albums were released 10 years apart (SNSD, 2011) and (BTS, 2021). When SNSD released GIRLS' GENERATION in Japan, the landscape was very different and harsh. K-Pop was deemed uncool and undesirable in Japan. The girls faced criticism for having no Japanese member and only a few Japanese speakers. There were anti-Korea and nationalist protests at the time and the girls were targeted in that. They were sexually harassed in racist manga and protesters appeared outside network studios where they were performing. GIRLS' GENERATION was an unprecedented breakthrough for K-Pop in Japan that kickstarted a brand new Hallyu wave. It became Million certified. Those girls actively changed the minds of Japan and ushered in a new era which brought in a wave of new success in Japan particularly for girlbands, another notable included KARA. While some K-Pop boybands had some success before this, K-Pop has only maintained/or grown consistently in Japan ever since 2011 and it all started with GIRLS' GENERATION.

In an ideal world, when she releases it on a unit album with GISELLE. It would fit so well with Lollipop!

All the explanations I've seen are reaching for the stars, I fear. The UK has a horrible colonial past, but in this case it's hard to see how they are wrong, not to mention the people of the islands themselves don't want to be part of Argentina. The islands are an overseas territory of the United Kingdom.

LIPS.

Down not making it to the album, I'm fuming. OT: I thought this album would remain frozen as lost media. It's a shame a tragedy had to occur for it to resurface again.

SM is working IRENE extra hard...they want the maximum coins possible while she's still in contract it seems This year so far: Biggest Fan solo full album + promotions I WILL solo tour RV group mini album + promotions RV group fancon I&S Japan unit mini album + promotions I&S unit Japan tour

The management of this group is non-existent. It was obvious he wanted to leave like 6 months ago when he literally just stopped appearing in group content completely...but was still posting on his own socials constantly as if he was never in the band Tbh they should have let him go back then. Idk why the company waited until right before they are finally releasing a new album to do this

The people trying to make SM's use of AI for RV into a "scandal" are uninformed haters. They already did it worse with Cosmic.

This is so cute!! although it looks like it could break super easily

No ReVe Festival...the cheer I let out *** The Red The Velvet The Red Summer Perfect Velvet The Perfect Red Velvet Velvet Summer **** The Concept Queens strike again

New aespa solo songs on the way

Canada has borders with Denmark and France...so why not

Agree it sucks for her but it's not her fault, the illness really took a toll on her voice sadly. However, and this is tricky...I don't think she sounds "great" either. People are too used to how she sang these songs in the past, but her vocals today just can't deliver that. They've tried to refocus the arrangement of BL by removing the drums etc so her weaker voice isn't drowned out, but this + all the high notes/belts being dodged makes the song sound a lot more flat. Her vocal performance was what made this song. It doesn't take away from how hard she's working though. She could've chosen the easy route by lipping to an old tour recording, but she's going out there performing live and working with what she's still got. I just hope it isn't damaging her voice even more in any way.

Finally some teasers but I can't at SM uploading blurry pics