sometimes you gotta act like you don't care that's the only way these third
gen stans will learn! hi welcome this video has been a long time coming but
it's here now I have been putting off making this video for so long because
there is no way that I could do 2NE1 the justice that they deserve and this video
will never be up to my standards nevertheless I have been dying to give
you guys a retelling of 2NE1s career through the lens of my second gen heart
and also why they were revolutionary and why they deserved better so let's do
that actually I'm gonna stop you right there to remind you to subscribe to this
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like that or sharing my videos with people that you can hate them with so a
lot of you guys might already know who 2NE1 were but for those who don't
I'm gonna give a little synopsis for each member can you give a synopsis on
an individual 2NE1 was a girl group under YG Entertainment and their names stood
for the new evolution of the 21st century sounds awfully familiar doesn't
it black pink is the revolution, 2NE1 is the evolution, sometimes I feel like yg
just really doesn't try so we have CL the leader of the group and she grew up
in Korea Japan and France so she probably pronounces Rosé like that too
then we have BOM who had been featured
in two Big Bang songs prior to her debut with 2NE1 and I am mentioning this because
forever with you is actually the ringtone on my ice-cream phone that I
exclusively bought because BIGBANG promoted it I screamed to say I'll see
myself out but what stays that to me the most is
this part in 2NE1 TV where her trainer is literally scolding her and forcing her
to recite this mantra about how she's not going to eat corn anymore only to
find her in the next scene eating corn needless to say he gave up and it was
pretty iconic she said fuck diet culture it's just vegetables so then we have
Dada who had a very interesting past in the Philippines am I in or out am I in
or out? if you don't know ''Saranghamnida Boy pero afraid ako''
you cannot speak to me she also had a brother in the kpop industry Chundung
from MBLAQ which stood for music boys live in
absolute quality which is irrelevant but I felt the need to share that
information with you last but not least we have Minzy the youngest member of 2NE1
and she debuted at the age of 15 she would later come out and share her story
about the depression she had while she was in 2NE1 and the difficulties she faced
while being in a group that was ultimately considered ugly by society
and by their CEO as we all know yg always thought of 2NE1 as ugly and he made
black pink to be a pretty version of 2NE1 I will not stop saying that because I'm
still mad and on that note yeah of course before 2NE1 debuted and even after
they debuted they were compared to BIGBANG but the difference is 2NE1 wasn't
made to be a pretty version of BIGBANG and in fact they had a lot of interactions
together they collaborated they covered each other's songs you know had 2NE1 not
disbanded I'm sure there would have been a lot of interactions with black pink
that being said given 2NE1s disbandment there is that sentiment of anger towards
black pink which will be discussed in part 2 of this video the first thing I
want to point out as to why 2NE1 was so revolutionary is their fashion with each
comeback they brought forth such innovative fashion and really pushed the
boundaries in lollipop which is a collaboration with BIGBANG we see Dara's
iconic palm tree hair and this would be the first of many super eccentric
hairstyles that she would adorn across her career but we're gonna move on
straight to fire because lollipop didn't have any music show promotions because
it wasn't add for a phone and we all know if I use a yg music video I'm going
to copyright hell this style in fire was literally amazing twenty ones use of
accessories was insane leggo rings whipped-cream ring those Adidas shoes
with the wings the colors everything was just so much fun and then in that same
breath they would come out with a completely different style for the same
song and still make it work and a fun little anecdote so the whipped-cream
ring that CL has in the fire music video is actually
a gift from g-dragon from a company called Q-Pot and no they don't ship to
my country or at least they did in 10 years ago that's why I made my own out
of silicone so 2NE1 would always switch up their style and it was always something
really fun to look forward to if you think of 2nd gen fashion there is no way
you can't mention 2NE1 from more high-fashion looks like missing you it
hurts and I love you to more colorful looks like gotta be you and falling in
love to even quite edgy outfits like I am the best and ugly so when I say 21s
fashion was iconic and inspirational my god I would go to school dressed like 2NE1
I had the telephone sure to have that Laundry tag shirt I had the question
mark earrings so the next thing I want to talk about in terms of innovation are
their performances I would take a bullet to defend 2NE1 stage presents someone said
to me ones like oh my god they're just screaming uhm yeah thank you you're just
proving my point that you can actually hear their voices, you 2nd gen Stans
probably can't really if we look at their debut stage fire CL would run
onstage and scream and hype up the crowd and it was something I had never seen in
kpop before there's absolutely no denying that they brought something new
to the table when it came to stage performances and that's a certain
something that has not been able to be replicated since 2NE1 was very versatile
they could sing and dance and make an entire show out of it or they could just
sit there and sing either way it would still captivate you you could tell they
were singing live you could hear the emotion in their voices and their smiles
oh my god they would just stop and smile at each other and you could just feel
the passion you could tell that they enjoyed being there you could tell that
this was an art to them that this was fun to them and this is something that
is so common among their energetic performances as through their non down
centered stages they were still equally as captivating because their voices are
doing all the work when I say second gen mics were clear and powerful they really
were even the best vocalist in kpop today are
being held back by high standards of perfection and it's a shame because it
really takes the art out of the performance if you're focusing so much
on the perfection of something and that essentially looks like having very loud
back up track then you're really taking away the emotion from the performance
and if there's no emotion to me there's no art and this is something that third
gen has got completely wrong because we know these idols are talented we know
they didn't train for however many years just to not sing live and yet they're
put in these positions where they be can sing live moving on to their songs and
how life-changing they were because from the beginning they have greatly impacted
my life their lyrics were just able to simply describe possibly complicated
feelings like lonely it describes this perpetual feeling of loneliness
despite being by someone's side and feeling guilty about it and then ugly
hit me like a ton of bricks the first time I heard this song I cried in my
room because I had never been spoken to so bluntly in a song and at that time
even in American music the songs are about loving yourself and knowing that
you're perfect despite all your imperfections but this song literally
said I think I'm ugly and nobody wants to love me just like her I want to be
pretty you know this wasn't only different for kpop this was different
for pop music in general it broke the mold 2NE1 said fuck blind positivity were
realists and we don't feel good right now and that's okay and you know that's
part of what makes 2NE1 so revolutionary because they dared to go where no other
artists have the guts to go you know 2NE1 were considered the ugly group and it's
no secret that wives you consistently called them the ugly group and I'm sure
all of us can collectively agree that they were indeed not the ugly group
however a lot of us can relate to that struggle the struggle of people thinking
about your ugly and in that sense it just made 2NE1 so relatable
information was released involving Bom and medication that was prescribed to
her that was legal in the US but illegal in South Korea and even though she
wasn't charged with anything and even though this is something that happened
four years prior this was still the start of the downfall of 2NE1 fast-forward
to 2017 Minzy had already left the group and the
remaining three members released goodbye which really rubbed me the wrong way
because in one sense this isn't 2NE1 this is just three members of 2NE1 and it's
just painful for so many reasons because Minzy wasn't included
Minzy found out through the media about this song and because it's a literal
goodbye and it's a literal promise that you know we don't know if they'll be
able to keep until the day we meet again goodbye and kind of the salt on the
wound for a lot of people was YG's new girl group black pink because again this
is going to be the pretty version of 2NE1 and the sound and the lyrics and you
know down to the very number of members was very reminiscent of 2NE1 so we had
people heartbroken over the disbandment of one of South Korea's biggest girl
groups and then we had another girl group to kind of come in and save the
day but that is where we're going to end
this video because in part two I'm going to be discussing whether or not black
pink really is a carbon copy of 2NE1 and it should be really interesting so I
hope you're excited for that either way these beautiful individuals have shown
such inspiring resilience and honestly the dedication from Black Jacks is
something I've never seen before I've never seen such a powerful fan base for
a disbanded group 2NE1 did that I'm gonna go cry in a corner now bye