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I went to Jay B's concert in Chicago last night. I'd like to preface by stating that GOT7 is my ultimate group. I've always had such an immense sense of respect for Jay B because of his admirable leadership, and dedication to performing. Last night was a testament to both statements. His US tour has multiple stops, with him only having one day of rest in between shows. He had his Chicago show yesterday, today he is Atlanta, and tomorrow the US grand finale of his tour will end in Maryland. His schedule is daunting. Jay B is a seasoned performer, but this feat is almost insurmountable for any idol. Jay B deserves his 10s for remaining strong, and giving his all during this tour. During soundcheck, Jay B stated that he was exhausted. Despite his fatigue, he did everything in his power to make everyone happy, which he succeeded in doing. He sang live, danced choreography full out, and overall made the atmosphere feel like one massive party. Jay B is hard work personified. He's one of the most talented K-pop idols, and O hope that he takes a long, well deserved vacation after his tour. submitted by /u/Steffy_love [link] [comments]

Not sure if anyone else has noticed but for the last 2-3 years, majority of the survival shows that have come out have had small lineups. As someone who first got into kpop in 2016, having large lineups in survival shows was the norm. But nowadays you're lucky to even debut a 9 member group from a survival. I honestly think it's a waste to host an entire show where only 6-7 people make it (especially when they're company shows. they could've just picked the lineup themselves instead of doing an entire show for it) I more so wish the survival show RUNEXT debuted a larger lineup than the 6 to 5 lineup that ILLIT became. That group should've definitely had more members. And same with ILAND. I kinda hoped they would've at least debuted 9 members. Anyway does anyone else share my thoughts? submitted by /u/lamningwon [link] [comments]

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Making a super group of female idols felt like the natural next step after super m. I was so excited when it was announced, the line up was amazing and full of great talent. It sucks that the group never went anywhere. I don’t know if it was their concept, sound, promotions, company restructuring, maybe a combination of everything, but it ended up being poorly executed. Personally I didn’t think step back or stamp on it were the right sounds to go for, I would have liked more of a 90/00s rnb or pop sound vs the kind of electronic girl crush they did. Even if some fans liked the sound, neither song was very successful which is unfortunate because it killed any incentive they had to continue the group. I also think good management could have found a way to continue group comebacks in addition to Got the Beat, if GOT was more successful it could have been a big boost for the individual groups’ own comebacks. But iirc SM as a company was going through a lot back then and it was pissing fans off, making the reception to GOT that much poorer. It’s just a shame because I feel like there was soooo much unused potential behind the group. submitted by /u/etoilez [link] [comments]

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I know SM is incompetent and they don't really seem to care about their older groups in general, but for such a monumental milestone that very few groups have reached for a group that still has a sizeable fanbase, for an anniversary all the members are so excited for, what is SM doing? In the months leading up to the comeback which'll be on July 8, the members have all talked about how excited they were for the comeback and the following tour. They've promised really big and ambitious things, and have hinted at wanting to go to places to meet fans where they haven't been before. SJ's biggest fanbases are in East/South-East Asia and in Latin America, which is why they always go there for every single "world" tour they have, but they still have sizeable fanbases in other parts of the world, notably the Middle East, North America, Europe and even Oceania. The last proper world tour was SS9 (2022-23), and according to some members like Ryeowook, Australia and Canada were on the stops but didn't make the final list because of scheduling issues. Apparently, it was also planned that the US would have around 2-3 stops, but that fell apart too. SS9 ended up just being a tour with an Asia leg and a Latin America leg. In 2023, Super Junior-D&E had a small fanparty tour and went to places SJ hadn't been to before like Australia (two stops), Canada, New Zealand, etc. And even though they had a really terrible promoter to the point where so many fans didn't even know they came, they all relatively sold well and Donghae and Eunhyuk promised they'd come back and bring the whole group with them to Australia and Canada. Now jump to 2025, and it's SJ's 20th anniversary tour that all the members have been hyping up. Members like Shindong have said the tour is going to be long (around 7-8 months), so it made a lot of people excited that the tour length probably meant they'd go to more tour stops. At SMTOWN LA, they hinted that they were looking at an LA stop for SS10. Then yesterday, they dropped the tour list, and from August 2025 - April 2026, there will be 16 stops overall - and surprise! Four stops will be in Latin America (two of which in the same country), and the rest are just in Asia. No North America, Europe, Oceania. Not even the Middle East when they're one of the most popular groups there and made history as the first group to hold a solo con in Saudi if I recall correctly? Maybe I shouldn't have been clinging onto a promise from 2 years ago from a duo who had left SM by then, but the lack of a single North American or Europe stop in particular is really shocking, especially when NA ELF form a huge chunk of attendees whenever SJ have a 15 min appearance at SMTOWN/any other festival, and when SJ is skipping SMTOWN London where most European ELF were hoping to see them. No Middle East, and the Latin America leg doesn't even include Brazil? No Vietnam, where SJ concerts and their subunit performances sell out and sell well? It literally just feels like it's last year's last-minute, rushed cashgrab Asia tour, plus the Latin American stops. I've been seeing complaints that SM isn't picking the usual big venues for their Asia stops as well, when they know they're going to sell out in minutes there. Mexico's venues are also apparently really small and unsafe. From what I've heard, according to a few promoter sources, SM negotiated for these venues and booked them really late, and for Brazil in particular, they were going to put Brazil on the list, but promoters couldn't afford them because SM jacked up costs and charged exorbitant priced for the promoters. Like sure, the Western fanbases for example aren't as noticeable as Mexico's or Japan's, but I'm sure we (and SJ) would've been fine with a much smaller venue that wasn't a 20k stadium like in Asia. I just know SJ are seething because they've always been transparent about wanting to go to new places and meet all their fans. They've even acknowledged how fans from all over the world travel just to see them because they never go to them. At the end of the day me stating the obvious won't change anything and I'm still (delusion) hoping for another set of announcements but it's not looking likely. Because if they're not going anywhere else beyond SS10 they'll never come. I know Super Shows are a quick and easy way to get free money for SM because they always sell out (see Spin-Off last year lmao), I know SM don't care for SJ beyond that which is why they were so late and rushed with booking everything, but I'd imagine they'd at least care a bit more for the 20th anniversary of all events. I already saw some ELF whose cities are on the list getting mad at other fans for being upset that their cities aren't on the list... submitted by /u/admiralmasa [link] [comments]

Jimin with now most BTS members is BACK!! It feels so unreal that Jimin did NOT post anything at all on his Instagram for straight TWO YEARS! 😭 Just barely two weverse posts, it feels weird because while others were also enlisted they at least updated us on their Instagram accounts, Jimin really took military seriously because he was posted at the most difficult unit at NK border at the FRONT LINES! And guess what he ACED that too😭 To think that PARK JIMIN aced driving a military tank and recieved multiple highest awards he even achieved CBRN-E (Chemical biological radiological nuclear and explosives) THA'S A KPOP IDOL?????? 🤯 Not romanticizing military but this just blew my mind how he went and became this unimaginably perfect at everything to the point it's scary bc he's unstoppable quite literally. Now coming to another point which came to my mind right as I am writing this, armys underestimated Jimin so much despite him being pro martial artist and having the best core strength and the best mental and said he is weak and he needs protection etc and they were naming other members that'll overachieve in the military and now TWO years later Jimin literally overachieved in the miltary and endured every possible harshest conditions and came back saying it has its charm JIMIN THE MAN YOU ARE, and on top of that he showed empathy and asked us to show empathy to the military soldiers. 🥺 He also became popular among his comrades some are even calling him "Dad" lol he babied them and took care of them. Ahhh I can't believe we actually got over sever Jimin draught and he's back bot to mention back looking even younger and he finally posted on Instagram 😭😭😭😭 submitted by /u/Affectionate_Cap8353 [link] [comments]

Agree to disagree but Im standing ten toes down on my opinion of solos in every fandom, even armys (yeah im an army idgaf) who solo stan other idol groups. Theres an army to solo pipeline because of this. Ive been inactive in Kpop for a while, mostly focusing on Bts. But scrolling through my feed now that they’re almost complete is exhausting, I curated it to be as peaceful as possible on all platforms but it isn’t enough. Do I really need to see this bs on my for you page? So many solo accounts are popping out with thousands of followers and likes and its making me sick that people are actually bigoted and project so much of themselves into their “fav” to be their “kinny”. I remember solos barely existing in 2018 and suddenly theres a boom rn. How do you decide to stan 5 groups with 15 members each and then be a solo stan for another. They act like the only backbone to their favs career by supporting everything fav puts out wether it be official, unofficial, private, or public info, but except for that ones that my members helped work on! cause apparently their friendship isn’t real? I know every fandom that exists is toxic af but I genuinely believe solos do not have real life friends, you hateeee hate hate a person your fav is close with on the daily, but yeah, let’s perform a microanalysis on every movement, post, interaction, and make out own narrative. Its not just bts solo stans, ive seen txt solo stans too? Theres so many shady posts on IG towards another but the worst Ive seen is of Jmn of bts always being the target of death, rap3, s3xual harassment, being compared to an animal, purposefully misgendered, and transphobic, misogynistic posts, and AI p0rn. With hundred to thousands of likes from and solos alike. How do you live life thinking that way, cause no way you treat people irl like that, do yall not have any friends or social life? and it’s scary cause these solos will actually go to official fan event sites and write shady stuff on the walls for the artist to see, and then be the first mfs to spread private info and encourage stalking. If you talk to them like a normal person explaining why theyre a bigot, they’ll either gaslight and pull sht out of their ass and create a whole new fan fiction on the spot. I noticed that many solos are abundant in a certain demographic who are not native english speakers and live in a conservative country so maybe they wouldn’t get it? but even then Im also in that demographic and dont have that nasty ass behaviour. We have them here in the US too and they certainly dgaf about being a bigot. Its coming to a point that even the “peaceful” solo stans are resharing, rting, and kekeing with those same anti solo stans. Now have this habit of checking who I interact with and it’s depressing to find out they’re a sick solo. I have so much more to yap on about this but it’s just frustrating and atp the only thing that might stop them is that everyone comes together for 5 minutes and mass report (not really working though) or expose their behaviours irl. /hj submitted by /u/Automatic_Spot_646 [link] [comments]

This will probably be removed not long after it’s posted but I’m gonna write about it anyway! I also wasn’t quite sure which tag this falls under since it fans under ‘thought’, ‘rant’, and ‘speculation’, but I chose rant because of how long this is. With the reports that came out yesterday about the lawsuit between Hybe and MHJ’s shareholders agreement, there was a bit that I didn’t take too seriously that I now realise IS kinda important. When Hybe’s side brought up the poaching/stealing NJs argument as part of why they terminated the shareholders agreement, MHJ’s side argued that MHJ didn’t have enough time to steal NJs, and they emphasised that she didn’t have enough time AFTER the audit, her removal as CEO, and resignation to poach them. But Hybe’s argument has never been that she tried to steal them after the audit; it always been BEFORE the audit, her removal, and resignation happened. All the evidence Hybe has submitted (so far) has been before the audit took place, not after; specifically, the KKT messages, emails and documents from as early as January 2024 to March/April 2024, and the KKT messages with her Shaman doing as far back as 2020/21. From April when the audit happened, to November when she quit, that’s 7 months. That’s plenty of time to whip up a poaching plan. But I remembered that we know from Dispatch’s December 2024 exclusive that MHJ met with DavoLink’s Chairman/CEO at both the DavoLink building AND at Chairman Park’s personal home in Cheongnam-dong in September 2024, with Mr. B present. Thanks to MHJ’s oversight, we found out that Mr. B is Hyein’s uncle through a conversation she had with Chosun Biz reporter Jang Woojeong in January 2025. We also know now that MHJ knew about NJs September 2024 emergency press conference since a guilty conscience parent leaked the messages to Dispatch. Additionally, we know that MHJ met with the mothers of NewJeans on September 24th, 2024, just one day before NJs 1st ‘bring MHJ back’ deadline, with a Sejong lawyer present. Park Jungkyu’s (DavoLink’s Chairman) exclusive interview with TenAsia in January this year gave us insight into what they actually discussed at those meetings in September, including plans to set up a new company, funding, investments and how to remove NJs from Hybe/ADOR. The Chairman went as far as to say that as soon as Mr. B called MHJ on speakerphone, she immediately asked if the investment discussion between Mr. B and himself had gone well, suggesting that MHJ knew about Mr. B’s investment offer to Chairman Park, i.e. she was in on it. MHJ did all of this while still being an internal director in ADOR. All this happened around September/October 2024 time. MHJ didn’t resign until November 20th, 2024. She WAS actively seeking out investors for a new company for NewJeans while still being a Hybe director. She WAS planning on poaching NewJeans. Hybe are exactly right to say that MHJ’s side are moving to block them from submitting KKT messages as evidence because they’re scared about the messages’ content since they KNOW that MHJ was looking at outside investors and buyers willing to take on and help steal NJs from Hybe/ADOR. Hybe are so fortunate that nobody took the risk. Now. Here me out here…I believe that MHJ has been planning on stealing NJs since Hybe’s very first meetings about a new girl group. It would explain the entire reason why she went from being 120% into the idea to suddenly demanding that her power over the project be elevated from branding to music management to performance management, demanding the removal of BSH as producer, the lazy prep of the branding documents that she delayed handing over, to eventually demanding that the project be handed over to her and a new company be made for her; delaying NJs debut and planting seeds of doubt in NJs’ heads about Hybe management with her “well they were so incompetent and didn’t have your best interest at heart, that’s why they delayed your debut. But don’t worry, mummy will look after you now” sob story that NJs, as children, would’ve fallen for being so far away from their own parents. NJs would’ve debuted with an immediate distrust of Hybe and Hybe executives with that bs sob story, and they would’ve been paranoid and distrustful of every decision Hybe made, even if it was a routine decision or action that any company would’ve taken or done. It would also explain why NJs have kicked up such a fuss about Le Sserafim’s debut and their Louis Vuitton ambassadorship. MHJ gaslit them into believing Hybe gave up on their debut for LSF, a problem that SHE HERSELF, caused. I can easily imagine that it would’ve left NJs feeling so bitter and angry, and then Hybe to accepting and “”stealing”” NJs LV ambassadorship for LSF, well that just happened to fall perfectly for MHJ and her eventual goal of removing NJs. Couple all of that with MHJ’s overbearing mother complex, constant gaslighting and ego stroking over 2/3 years, you now have a group of spoilt, petulant, egotistical young adults and teenagers who think they can do what they please because they’re better than everyone else because MHJ said so. NewJeans will just continue to follow MHJ like a lamb to the slaughter. They’re following her blindly with their eyes and ears closed and eventually, they’re going reach the edge of the cliff. They’ll open their eyes, look down, and stare the dark abyss right in the face and suddenly, MHJ won’t be there for them anymore because she’ll be behind them, shoving them off it with a big grin on her face before running off gleefully. And it’ll be during that fall to the bottom that they’ll realise exactly what kind of woman she is, but by then, it’ll be too late and Hybe/ADOR won’t come to their rescue. I’m not trying to strip NJs of responsibility with this rant/discussion, they are 100% responsibly for the decisions they’ve made. At any point from August/September-ish time to now, they could’ve pulled their lawsuits and returned to ADOR. They’ve had plenty of time to reflect on the choices they made and realise just how badly they messed up, but they haven’t. They’ve chosen this path, and they’re going to have to walk it alone when the story ends, but it this does explain a lot of the strange behaviour NJs have been exhibiting since MHJ’s departure. Though, it really does sicken me that their parents are happily sitting back and watching, even encourging, their daughters to run head first into their demise. Anyway. It’s an interesting thing to think about even if I’m way off base. submitted by /u/ThenSpeech6 [link] [comments]

The LSF hate train is over (it is, right?), but like any hate train, it's hard to forget the things that were said. One talking point I saw often was how LSF were frauds because they didn't match their concept. Antis would see their reactions to the visceral hate they sent them and interpret it as not staying true to their image. "How are we supposed to buy their concept when they're so afraid of criticism?" My question is, how could anyone have been more fearless than them? As a group and as individuals, they faced a deluge of hate. The excuses varied - can't sing, Starbucks, evil step sisters, yadda yadda yadda - but the truth is that they didn't deserve what happened to them. As fans or spectators, it's easy enough to ignore the hate. Just mute and block, find an echo chamber that suits our tastes, or take a break all together. LSF didn't have that option. They turned off their comments, but online presence is integral to a group's success. LSF saw all the "nice" things people had to say about them. Sure, there were plenty of fake concern posts about how the entire group should go on hiatus for a year because their reputation was too unsalvagable. Of course, what these people really wanted was for LSF to lay down and die. To slowly fade from relevancy and never come back. But these people either didn't know or completely forgot what Le Sserafim stands for. The truth is, everyone is afraid sometimes. We all have fears, and Le Sserafim was open about theirs. They were raw, they were real. They got backlash for it, but they never stopped being true to themselves. They never stopped expressing their thoughts, desires, and flaws. They never stopped loving themselves. They never stopped. And that pissed people off. They were hated for not caving to the mob. They were hated for conquering the greatest of obstacles, for never giving up. That's what fearlessness is all about. Its more than not being afraid. It's looking your fears in the eye and overcoming them. That's what Le Sserafim did and still does. All 5 of those girls can confidently say everyday, "I'm Fearless." Their journey has been inspiring to watch. Le Sserafim is Fearless! Wanna make something of it? submitted by /u/SageSageofSages [link] [comments]

I saw that ITZY’s Yuna said she doesn’t care how successful their comeback is and that it’s more about the art of it and honestly, that was so refreshing to hear. In an industry where everything seems to revolve around charts, streams, and numbers, it stood out in the best way. These days, especially with 3rd and some 4th gen idols, there’s such a heavy focus on chart rankings and digital stats. It feels like success is only valid if it’s backed by big numbers, and that mindset can suck the fun and creativity out of music sometimes. Not saying chart success isn’t important, but it’s nice to hear a few idols still talk about passion and artistry first. submitted by /u/Narrow_Start_5340 [link] [comments]

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I'm Army for 7 years now. But I’m getting tired of this part of the fandom that immediately shuts down any opinion that’s not rainbows and OT7 fairy dust Every time someone says: - HYBE made a bad decision - Protect Jungkook - The company should protect BTS - Maybe BTS deserve better It’s always the same reaction: You’re being negative Stop overthinking Trust BTS Don’t start drama Stop! Speaking truth isn’t hate. Asking questions isn’t betrayal. Wanting better treatment isn’t being a solo stan. You don’t get to shut people down just because it makes you uncomfortable Think about it like this: When you talk to a friend or family member and they did something that hurt or upset you, do you want them to silence you just because it makes them uncomfortable? No. You want to be heard. You want to express how you feel. It’s the same thing here You’re not helping BTS by pretending everything is perfect. You’re hurting them. And people are scared to say anything real. Where we can’t talk about mistreatment, missed opportunities, or unfair pressure without being called toxic If you love BTS, let fans have honest conversations. Let people question things. Let people want more for them. And most importantly, we need to call out these silencing behaviors when we see them, because if we don't, nothing will ever change Let us speak! p.s. also Happy 12th anniversary for BTS and ARMY💜 submitted by /u/No_365 [link] [comments]

Not gonna lie, I’m getting seriously bad vibes from this whole “Deadline” world tour. The tour starts in 3 weeks, and we’ve seen zero signs of group rehearsals — just solo sightings in random countries. There’s no teaser content, no promo, no setlist hints. For a stadium tour, that’s wild. It doesn’t help that the name “Deadline” feels like a farewell wrapped in a contract obligation. Born Pink already showed cracks — flat vocals, recycled sets, dead group energy — and it’s looking like this tour might repeat all of that, just with shinier lights. Yes, they’re professionals and might pull through on stage. But if they show up unprepared and disconnected again, fans aren’t going to stick around just because the fireworks are big. We’ve seen this before. We know better now. Anyone else feeling like this is a slow-motion crash disguised as a comeback? submitted by /u/Critical_Year_4762 [link] [comments]