Can you believe it’s been over two years since the official disbanding of 2NE1?!
Me neither!
To be honest, we all knew it was coming but still the release of “Goodbye” was just
heartbreaking and how the most popular Kpop girls band went from winning all the awards
to splitting and slowly fading away?
It’s Jason and I’m gonna tell you what happened to the girls from 2NE1!
To be honest, 2NE1 was the band with which my love for Kpop started.
I’m sure there are some of you who can relate!
So it’s not a secret that their disbanding made a huge hole in the industry as they just
cannot be replaced!
Everything good ends, sooner or later, but this case has probably been one of the saddest,
considering how much this girl band’s music influenced fans all over the world.
In 2009, YG Entertainment apparently thought that the girl version of Big Bang would be
on the same level of success… and they weren’t wrong!
Back then, 1 million views that the first 2NE1 music video got in one day was WOW!
Yeah, those four girls were performing a bit different kind of music, at least different
from the other Kpop bands.
But you know that different doesn’t mean bad!
Look at all the awards they started winning!
All the 4 members were young, beautiful and at the peak of the success!
I mean… except for the time when the girls were called ugly by a YG representative!
Now hold on!
Only Korean opinions with their ridiculously high beauty standards were what created that
image.
They should better catch up on some English since fans outside Korea can only WISH they
were as pretty as 2EN1 members!
Even though the girls were all focused on sharing their whole talent, I think public
opinion might have affected them…
In the period between 2011 and 2014, they just were climbing higher and higher, collaborating
with will.i.am, having world tours and releasing the best selling albums.
There’s no point mentioning the top hit single “I am the best” which became an
international hit and was widely used even in commercials.
But you know how they say, “the higher you get, the farther the fall”...
In 2014, the group faced difficulties thanks to Bom scandal.
She was accused of being an addict…
So I suppose every third student in the States is an addict due to using Adderall.
Hello, Korea, we are not junkies!
If you don’t want to admit attention deficit disorder is a real thing, it doesn’t mean
using this medication should be a crime!
Even though all the medical reports confirmed she was using it for her condition, a lot
of dirt was poured on her, calling her an addict…
Giving up to the social opinion, Park Bom just disappeared and the rest of the members
chose their own paths.
Dancing for Minzy, acting for Dara and solo singing for CL.
I guess it was okay, CL was more or less fine, but I didn’t particularly like the fact
of how fast she “sold” Kpop for American style songs.
Since then there was no word from the band until the MAMA 2015 audience had their mind
blown by a sudden reunion of all four members of 2NE!
Then you all know what happened, their official disband and the release of probably the saddest
song of Kpop “Goodbye” in 2017.
And even though Minzy was actually left out and even expressed her disappointment with
it, CL rushed to explain that the lyrics are actually a part of a farewell letter which
she wrote to Minzy!
Isn’t it a sweet gesture?
Since then the next time we saw them together was at a small but heartwarming 10-year anniversary
party the girls streamed in May this year.
Aww, look at this cake and their cute outfits!
I miss their voices and their songs so much!
Don’t you?!
I’m so glad they at least released “goodbye” before leaving the stage, to give us a bit
of closure as the whole way of how the group hit the bottom wasn’t the most pleasant,
neither for them nor the fans.
So many discussions are STILL going on about whose fault it is!
I mean YG kinda blamed Bom for it but it’s totally not fair.
The label has absolutely no clue how to deal with controversies like that!
Though I can’t say it’s totally their fault, those guys could have done a better
job, at least keeping Bom’s issue in private…
I don’t know everything so it’s hard to judge but probably the disbanding was the
result of all the mentioned above and maybe they’d split one day anyway…
The girls still have that special connection, they went through a lot together, and are
ready to support each other on dark days and even though there’s only a little chance
we’ll see them reuniting, we can learn something from them.
Now I’d like to see what YOU have to say about it.
Do you think it’s Park Bom’s fault that 2NE1 disbanded?
Or it’s poor managing skills of YG label?
Do you believe they’ll reunite one day?
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