Listen, there's absolutely nothing wrong with evaluating and criticizing your favorite artists (it's a good thing actually) and there's nothing wrong with being disappointed in the general trajectory of their music if you're not enjoying it, that's all fine, and it's okay to voice out that opinion. But if every single album you're clamoring for artists to return to a specific album sound, it gets ridiculous after a certain point. As someone who has stanned both BTS and aespa, it's such a tired discussion. Every comeback people come out to complain that "this album doesn't sound HYYH or Wings, it's disappointing" and "this album doesn't sound like the Savage EP, it's disappointing". I understand the English trilogy, Dirty Work, and Rich Man are all divisive, but there's definitely a difference between wishing BTS to sound more hip hop / aespa to sound more hyper pop versus just wishing them to repeat an album from their rookie years. You for sure don't have to enjoy everything your favs put out, but if you haven't enjoyed anything since and want all releases to sound like those, are you really a fan of the group or just those albums? Especially since those groups still explore their earlier sounds (ex. RUN BTS and aespa's Dark Arts) I hear these same discussions with Itzy and Ive as well. People want IVE to return to I AM and Itzy to return to Wannabe (even though Itzy is lowkey the most consistent 4th gen gg sonically). At some point you have to recognize the artist isn't for you anymore. Like it's been years... move on submitted by /u/Q-TipBrain [link] [comments]
