Dottie Hinkle

I like this song. It sounds like a valorant/League collab song. Something KDA would release. Hope it gets promo

Even the Japanese fans are baffled by the Sakura decision Son Sungdeuk went out of his way to pick the one Japanese trainee, that can't sing, can't dance, and can't speak english

Who would fit though? Adela is solo, Celeste can't sing, only Nayoung would fit but knowing HYBE they will pick a vocally challenged tiktok influencer living in LA

Im still gagged thinking about the Lexie departure. I can't believe Son Sungduek let his obsession with Sakura tank the group by changing Saint Satines concept when it was made with Lexie as the center. He knew Lexie, Samara and Emily had good chemistry + potential. Instead of finding a member who can compliment them tried to get Sakura to benefit from the HYBE just for the group to get shelved again until they find a replacement for Lexie. The gag is Sakura could've been a trainee and debut in another group in this time without losing Lexie again. If I was Geffen I would give HYBE 0 control over scouting the next pick

If Geffen has any brains they won't let HYBE have a pick here. Wasted their time multiple times

Obviously they had to change the concept and creative direction just like they did with katseye. I don't think Sakura was going to be ready to debut this year so the delay was happening anyway. Should've just let her be a trainee

Lexie was visibly checking out of the group after Sakura got announced. She is too young for a mature concept and doesn't have the vocals for pop let alone R&B. Geffen needs to stop giving HYBE the final say. They lost someone they put years of training into for an amateur who started taking singing lessons half a year ago. Sakura isn't even bringing in engagement from Japan with her "star power". 11 other contestants with actual training were passed over for this.

One more thing Sakura is not only young she comes from a poor countryside family who do not have the saavy to advocate for her. Unlike the members of most Katseye who were rich and had industry saavy

You can really tell Geffen wanted Jayla, Ayana, Seria but Son from HYBE was obsessed with the 15 year old Lexie turned her head around for the remainder of the episode because she was crying

Lexie looked like she wanted to cry after seeing Ayana lose

The fixation Son Sungdeuk showed towards her is creepy. Putting her in a group that will have extremely mature styling and choreo. I have the ick, even his reaction to her dancing is off-putting

There's something so gross about debuting a 15 year old in a group with this kinda choreo and styling. Especially in the US. This is Ayana performing Notice how most of the US judges are pushing for Ayana, I feel Geffen was rooting for Ayana but HYBE/son chose Sakura. HYBE was not expecting the reaction to Sakura to be this intense

The ratio over Sakura debuting is something I have never seen and I have been supporting Ayana(and Rira) since day one Lol Manon at least had fans. There are 10k tweets complaining about Sakura's debut. If the show was supposed to be Sakura's best edit I doubt she is going to be received well post debut

Even as an indie/rock song its uninteresting it sounds like a self parody. Im over the tragic Ophelia perspective she does with every song

All those Girls cannot sustain a solo career atm. I mean all, at least wait until they've released a full album

Not this again

She made multiple comments since Popstar Academy and most recently in the Cut interview alluding to the fact she hates the hollywood work culture coming from Switzerland. She couldn't even commit to their touring and festival dates. You can tell part of her likes the fame that comes with music career but hates the working part of said career lmao. She probably sees how her influencer friends go to the same parties without doing the same work and decided to check out of Katseye

I called it that this group wasn't built to last because they created a toxic fanbase during dream academy.

I'm so happy for them

Commas just had a bad budget and weird release

They need a featured remix like yesterday. I wonder who is within their budget

The gnarly and gabriela choreo is not age appropriate for a teen. Neither is most of their styling.

You would think they would also make the choreo and styling age appropriate though. Ppl saying this gives Olivia, SOUR has juvenile themes but the lyrics were not meme-y

The music is juvenile, they do brand collabs with kids toy companies but the creative direction and choreography is always risque.