Keep seeing sentiments of everyone upset about how the “cute innocent soft lofi sound” is “taking over” in k-pop, so here’s a thread of releases from 2024 that do NOT follow that trend 💕:
The idea that Wonyoung is “just pretty” is insane because her dedication and the seriousness with which she takes being an idol as her lifetime career is so obvious, it hurts. She wants this more than anything—she isn’t even 20 yet. I am proud of her too.
In my 20+ years of being a k-pop fan I have endured many cringe raps and I am here to die on the hill that this does not even make it in the top 100.
It’s coherent, fits the song, the flow is phenomenal, and the entire crowd loves screaming it.
It. Is. So. Good.
Seeing nevies mad about Super Lady being “too feminist” and “too gay” solidifies my theory that Soyeon is very intentionally culling nevies each comeback so the fandom isn’t full of fucking losers.
Tomboy - complexity of gender and accepting it is more fluid than binary
My Bag - flex song
Nxde - misogyny + sexualizing women / combating cp
Allergy - loving yourself
Queencard - having self confidence no matter what you look like
I Want That - toxic relationships / dv
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Even 34+35 is a display of skilled and clever songwriting—it’s just because it’s explicit and not “poetic” that people want to discredit it. People think female songwriters are only valuable when they’re being sad or sentimental. They aren’t allowed to have fun with their lyrics.
My ONLY complaints about Super Lady
1. I would like for it to be 20 minutes long please
2. I would like it to be in a medium that I can inject in my veins
3. I would like an additional 4D experience where Miyeon smacks me with that blinged out cane she got
🧍🏻♀️ thank u
No I don’t think people understand. My Bag was a masterclass in writing raps for four people who do not rap and Wife is stepping up to have even BETTER verses for said non-rappers?????? I’m in shock
Y’all crucify them for NO reason. All the members have so much talent and their music truly set the tone for a lot of 4th Gen. There is no group like them, and I hope JYP has big things planned for them! So much talent and skill in these girls.
Incredible 🥰
Some of y’all, plz chill. This is charting wonderfully. I think some of you forgot PAKs are ✨rare✨. (G)I-DLE doing it once was insane. Doing it 3 times back to back is even more crazy.
Most groups NEVER get one. Super Lady is doing fine. 💕
I don’t think people actually care about Soyeon’s English—they just pretend to. Because all of their other favs are cute and pupu and charming for their accents or pronunciation of words.
Y’all just hate this woman for doing things no one else in the game right now is doing.
The issue with KBS refusing to give (G)I-DLE any physical points for the albums they sold reminds me of last year when certain platforms refused to update their charts for WEEKS, which likely led to Queencard receiving less PAKs than it actually earned..
The industry hates them.
I think I already said this, but I’ll say it again.
In 20+ years, I’ve never seen any music video like this in k-pop. By any groups ever. Period. End of story.
Imagine if there were film stans who cried about “copying” every time a man died in a movie. 🙄 Idiots.
Idk if this is “unpopular,” but they have a true no-skip discography to me. I can shuffle their entire discography on Spotify on work, just leave it, and everyone (non-kpop ppl) enjoy it and get into them. They really have their own sound and vibe. Truly one of a kind.
Except it does highlight and showcase one of the member’s strengths.
Soyeon’s.
She is also a member of the group. She is writing for all of them.
And that includes herself.
Why are y’all so fucking mean to her? She is a part of the group, not some entity outside of it.
Cube Entertainment has applied for reconsideration regarding KBS Broadcasting judging "Wife" as ineligible for broadcasting
(G)I-DLE along with Cube are discussing revising some of the lyrics. It seems inevitable that the lyrics will need to be changed for broadcast
🔗
What I looooove about these BTS is that it shows the process of becoming a better singer, performer, etc. I think a lot of k-pop stans are under the impression idols are just born better than others. But moments where we can see real growth and normalize it are so wonderful to me
Soyeon is actually notorious for skipping lines before belting, and she usually does so with a little smile. I’m pretty sure she’s proving that it’s not a backtrack. :)
Because unfortunately, she knows her antis are waiting for the opportunity to say she lip-syncing it. :/
(I will love Super Lady and this cb even if it doesn’t get a PAK. My love for (G)I-DLE and their music is not determined by arbitrary metrics of success like sales and charts and other things fans like to “brag” about. Some of y’all are being annoying. 🙂)
I want to nip the “no budget” talk right now. Wife’s mv is NAWT cheap 😅 The post budget alone for that editing would make some of yall faint. Y’all see a white bg and think no money was spent.
WAIT
THE EMPHASIS ON 5. THE WITCH VIBE.
It’s giving a coven of witches who have been prosecuted, lost one of their own to a witch hunt, and are coming back for revenge. LIIIIIIIIIKE. The title being reminder…? 👀
Nevies I know we’ve all seen that video/tweet but plz don’t drag Changbin from Skz 💕
That man is the sweetest gg supporter and is friends with the girls, especially Soyeon. He gets shit from his own fandom enough as it is, and I’d hate for him to get it from us too
And just as a note—MOST rappers do this.
Bending words and grammar is VERY common in rapping. Eminem went viral a while ago for being able to “rhyme words with orange.” He did this by pronouncing words “incorrectly.”
Soyeon is an actual rapper. And she’s doing it correctly.
Also. Isn’t neverland’s whole brag that (G)I-DLE’s success is organic…? Y’all are starting to sound like other fandoms.
Let’s all take a breath! Yuqi is doing well! Organically!!
"neverlands have failed yuqi" frankly I think spotify streams are the least of our concerns and for kpop popularity. sure it's great to have high numbers but some of us have lives to live not sitting down with 10+ devices streaming on Spotify 😭
“These ladies,
Once beneath the ground,
How small, weak,
Yet harmonized they are.
Did I fall from the sky?
Or did I rise from the earth?
We think
The power of inscape.”
NO
because the way he grabs it like “YOU WON’T” because that’s what abusers do when you stand up for yourself but then she DOES
I’m literally crying I needed this
Literally no one can figure out what the fuck BRD is or where it came from and the theory is that it’s “Soojin’s own company” but there’s no way she funded it on her own and I am going to be delulu and imagine Soyeon (and her big producer wallet) is her main investor/funder. :)
I feel the need to declare: (G)I-DLE could never top another chart, never win another award, never break another record and it would not change how I feel about them at all. They would still be my ult, I would still love them, I would still stan.
That goes for all my favs.
This man keeps saying he’s sorry but never says what he is sorry for. That is literally so fans can leave it up for interpretation so they can continue to make excuses and baby him. Like. Be serious rn. “If I hadn’t done that” DONE WHAT????
I have a theory that all the women in the teaser who were walking around that screen room like mindless zombies are awakened and liberated by (G)I-DLE, and then come join them on stage as a part of their army to fight for women n shit.
I wish people could understand that Soyeon has so many lines in so many (G)I-DLE songs because she writes actual raps….
And real raps (not k-pop raps) are full verses…not 2-3 lines crammed into a song that actually didn’t need them 🫠
It’s just not the same thing
I keep seeing people say the clean version of Seven wasn’t banned because the explicit / clean lyrics change the meaning of the song. Without “fuck”, it’s no longer literally about sex.
I get why y’all struggle with (G)I-DLE lyrics. I get it now. 🙃
If MAVE and PLAVE are k-pop groups, then so is K/DA m.
Like what’s the deal with not wanting to acknowledge K/DA..? Because the avatars are already characters in League or…?
Revising a script written in THREE languages that she could have accepted without doing her own double check but didn’t because she takes being an idol and MC seriously and cares about her accuracy and takes accountability for her own image.
The bitterness is LOUD.
SY IS ALWAYS UNDER PRESSURE
FR like I’m sorry but there is NO female idol some K-pop stans hold to a higher standard and put under more scrutiny and criticism than Jeon Soyeon and y’all still ALWAYS look foolish for it because she comebacks better. Every. Time.
📲
@G_I_DLE
“Allergy” is currently trending on various sites:
comments:
- as expected you can always trust gidle
- the charms of a self-producing group
- you can relate to the song, crazy
- SY is always under pressure but it’s amazing that she always come with better quality
Girl no one is hating on Taehyung. Nevies are acknowledging the power of him and IU together is gonna claim
#1
💀
And who tf is “hating” on Jungkook…? Because we’re pointing out Seven is about sex???
Y’all see people look at BTS and jump to call it hate? No one is beefing!
There is no way you actually believe (G)I-DLE is not currently beloved by the general public 🧍🏻♀️
Nevies are not a “mass streaming” fandom. 95% of us are multis who refuse to only listen to one artist while the other 5% complain about how we won’t participate. Plz be serious.
Just bc there's "demand" doesn't mean that the music is good yall will just mass stream anything 😭 like do yall not realize that mass streaming and streaming loopholes are a thing 💀
Now why do y’all have this mindset. (G)I-DLE has nothing to do with how ITZY performs on charts. Plus, they are friends. I love both songs because both songs are incredible.
Stop being so worried with how popular things are. If you like them, just fucking enjoy them.
They shot this SO well. I do stage combat and with a lot of actors/artists, choreo like this looks corny because they can’t comprehend violence. But Yeji is killing this!
I know some nevies are already upset about sales and streams but plz remember:
* western release with no Korean promo
* we will get lengthier organic radio play, live performances, and promo the next few months
* this is artistically a massive success already
* messy release
Well maybe if y’all stopped demanding new content every five fucking minutes, the incentive to create bigger releases and not a million small releases + promo + solo activities + world tours + festival appearances + guest starring + talk shows + award ceremonies + brand work….
I think what’s extra incredible about gidle is seeing the progression of budget in their videos.
they really were doing the most with nothing—but damn it they know what to do with a budget when they get one!! They’re never going to take it for granted, so they never disappoint!
@ottokke711
Lmao, not you acting as if it's a small company 🤡
" In 2022, the value of assets held by South Korean entertainment company Cube Entertainment amounted to around 106 billion South Korean won." Birth to many famous kpop acts. PRIVILEGE.
Y’all come shit on an idol and then cry big boohoo tears when the only other fandom as big as y’all comes in to DEFEND THAT WOMAN from Y’ALL and point out your own misogyny.
A bunch of fucking hypocrites.
I was worried the fandoms always concerned about “gibberish” wouldn’t know what the word inscape means, so just in case anyone needed to question Soyeon’s English again:
I don’t understand the insistence that this is a bad line either. The flow is excellent, the meaning is clever, the rhyme works well (bending words to rhyme in rap is often better than using perfect rhymes)
As someone who listens to rap often, the hate it gets never made sense
Some fuck ass anti said something about Super Lady “sounding like every k-pop song ever”
And I’m just wondering when the last time when got a huge non-dance power anthem was because……? And to release this when the soft tempo R&B pop is in trend for k-pop…? Just wild.
I think one of the reasons why ITZY hasn’t had a clear concept in a min is because some of y’all give them shit for everything they do during release.
Y’all hated MITM, Loco, Not Shy, Sneakers—and are only loud about actually liking it months later.
I’d be fucking confused too
HELLO CAPTAIN?????
Soyeon heard y’all calling the official (G)I-DLE tiktok Yuqi’s dance account and came in to remind everyone she has MAIN DANCER ENERGY TOO
gtfo talking about she’s not an ACE??????
People saying Soyeon’s “lyrics are bad” when I understood the cream soup innuendo immediately before I’d even seen the English translation for the rest of the song…
Some of y’all just lack media literacy and that’s ok!
When people say “company privilege” this is very much what that means.
Markers of success before music, before debut, before notable achievements.
And that is FINE. I hope they get their bag and they seem lovely. But THIS is company privilege in this industry.
…? What’s the issue?
Popularity will not win you every single award and poll and trophy. I adore RM, I think he’s so talented, his album is one of my favorites.
But Soyeon is equally talented. WHY is that an issue for Armys to acknowledge?
The bob is so interesting to me too because it says something about uniformity and it’s used so frequently in American depictions of Asian women. I wonder if there is messaging too about men coming from all over the world to find their docile Asian wives. Not just in SK.
Can we talk about even with an American-promoted English EP they have no producer credits on, they’ve managed to work another major issue women face in SK (and globally) into their mv. Cunty, yes, but also the mv is portraying DV, which is such a serious fucking issue.
To continue increasing their sales like this so late into their career, with a million controversies and the worst company in the game, when the competition is fucking more brutal for ggs than it has ever been… 🖤🖤🖤🖤 I hope they are really truly proud of themselves
(G)I-DLE's first week on Hanteo:
2 – 1,537,083 🆕️
I Feel – 1,163,395
I Love – 678,652
I NEVER DIE – 176,914
I burn – 115,538
I trust – 112,075
MY – 99,078
DUMDi DUMDi – 94,587
Windy – 35,708
I made – 20,390
I am – 2,064
I am screaming. I am crying. I am gagged. I am never going to recover. Our lives our about to change. K-pop will never be the same. WHAT IS THIS???? SOYEON TRY NOT TO KILL US CHALLENGE???
It’s also weird because the fandom’s collective favorite songs (OMG, Lion, Hwaa, etc) did not go
#1
…..
What goes
#1
is not just about how good the song is. It’s about what is trendy. Super Lady is AMAZING. It just isn’t trendy. Let it go.
fr i kinda side eye nevie twts that actually roast super lady just bc it didnt get
#1
. it gives the impression that u care more abt charting and boasting idle’s achievements on here than idle’s creative vision and that just doesnt sit well w me
Ah yes, when Cube pays for a random b-side to go
#1
and not the title track it spent over 1M on…
Some of y’all would not know organic if it slapped you in the face
I wouldn’t call this “breaking in” so much as I would call it “retrieving the food that they should have had weeks ago but never got because the UN is proving to be utterly incompetent and spineless”
Thousands of Palestinians who broke into UN food warehouses in the besieged Gaza Strip are ‘scared, frustrated and desperate’ after 3 weeks of war, says director of UN Palestinian refugee agency ⤵️
My bf isn’t into going to concerts so I usually can’t convince him to go with me….
but I showed him a Soyeon fan cam from the tour and he said… “Oh fuck it I’ll buy your ticket—I gotta see her” 💀
he got taste 😌
@hwasasummer
I love her so much. She’s grown into such a wonderful mentor and figurehead in k-pop, and I’m happy to see her calling out what she probably went through 20 years ago. 💖
@allyseons
Oh. U right allyseons you have changed my mind with your stellar argument. My bad. Everyone give a round of fucking applause for this genius who was so brave to set the thousands of us who only THOUGHT we understood the lyrics straight. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
What a trooper.
Where are all my “real rappers of k-pop” stans at??? If you have ever UTTERED a word in a conversation about rap in k-pop, I’d better see you saying something about her. 😤
This EP is gorgeous.