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Today, we’re going to discuss the hottest controversies that took the whole Kpop fandom
by storm last week.
Make sure to watch until the end to get to know how big can netizens' bitterness towards
a female idol be.
Well, who would have expected that an act once considered to be the ultimate girl group
consisting of the finest members from various girl groups under SM Entertainment, now seems
to be heading towards disbandment?
So recently, GOT The Beat held a fansign event with fans and things were all fun and game
until at the end of the event, Taeyeon made everyone frozen by announcing a shocking yet
confusing statement, "So the first and last fansign of GOT The Beat has ended".
Needless to say, this statement soon stirred up all the online forums and led to many speculations
that the girl group may be disbanding.
The ridiculous thing is the number of people who are happy about this and hope GOT The
Beat would soon disappear is many times more than those who are regretful for the girls.
The reason for this is partly due to the underwhelming performance of the group's latest music release.
Specifically, their comeback track "Stamp On It" only garnered close to 20,000 album
pre-orders on K4town, this is a very low number for a group from SM.
Compared to other recent female groups, this number can be considered disappointing.
At this point, fans are demanding the "super girl group" disband because this project has
a bad effect on the members.
To be honest, besides BoA, the rest of the members are struggling with constantly being
rescheduled as well as the lack of personal activities and group comebacks.
It seems like GOT The Beat was created just for the sake of promoting aespa and milking
SNSD's residual reputation but that backfired real hard on all the members involved.
The fact that SM created a new group based on extremely familiar faces caused netizens
not to have the same excitement and expectations as a group with completely new members who
have much more for them to discover.
Not only that, GOT The Beat’s concept is also said to be nothing special because it
is similar to many other girl groups with girlcrush style like BlackPink or (G)-IDLE.
Their music is also said to be too hard to listen to and their boring MVs are the clearest
proof of SM's sloppy work.
To be specific, a netizen commented on the group’s Stamp On It MV, saying “The music
is just a bunch of "koo-koo" sounds, makes me have to go check if the electric rice cooker
is done cooking”
Some even suspect that the debut of GOT The Beat is just a result of BoA persuading SM
to create a group so that she can reappear as an idol again.
Considering the way BoA takes up a lot of screentime in the group’s MVs, many believe
this suspicion is valid
However, that’s also quite absurd when BoA is a senior in the company and in Korea, the
number of people who knows about her is equal to all the other members' fans combined, so
she doesn’t need a group to boost her reputation.
Perhaps BoA was just too excited to challenge herself after nearly 20 years of solo debut.
On the other hand, some netizens suspected there was a conflict between Taeyeon and BoA,
leading to Taeyeon making such a negative statement since she didn't want to work in
the same group as BoA anymore, as evidenced by the fact that the two girls are no longer
following each other on instagram eventhough they did before.
Aside from those possible reasons leading to the group’s precariousness, there is
one more thing contributing to that: The huge age gap among the members.
Yep, maybe if GOT The Beat changed their lineup and narrowed the age gap among the girls,
things would be much better.
It could be seen that the oldest in the group was born in 1986 and the youngest was 2001
and they might have always interacted with each other like aunts and nieces.
Even if BoA and Taeyeon don't act condescending towards the younger members, with such a big
age gap, it's hard for them to get along, not to mention BoA and Taeyeon look super
far-fetched with the rest of the members due to their much more mature appearances.
Yet, even if GOT The Beat disbands or continues promoting, hope the girls don’t get too
upset and have better new plans in the future.
By the way, have you noticed lately that SM and Lee Soo Man have been having problems?
There's even a rumor that he is betraying his own company.
Confused?
Let me explain to you in the most understandable way:
A few days ago, Lee Soo Man broke his arm in the US but instead of staying for treatment,
he immediately went back to South Korea.
It turns out, he was in a rush to sell 14.8% of SM's shares to HYBE, making HYBE the largest
shareholder of the company.
Previously, Lee Soo Man owned 18.46% of SM's shares and was the company's most powerful
shareholder.
Everyone, including Kakao and two CEOs of SM, Lee Sung Soo and Tak Young Joon, were
shocked by this unexpected move of Lee Soo Man.
Currently, the fact that Lee Soo Man is selling shares to HYBE, a company that has been always
considered a rival of SM Entertainment, has caused a stir among the public as they are
continuously speculating the reason behind Lee Soo Man's decision.
Since the beginning of February this year, there have been disputes between Lee Soo Man
and the leaders of SM Entertainment.
Things started when the current CEOs of SM Entertainment, Lee Sung Soo (Lee Soo Man's
nephew) and Tak Young Jun, announced the SM 3.0 restructuring project.
However, this campaign referred to cutting ties with Lee Soo Man in the role of producer.
The situation escalated when Kakao acquired 9.05% of SM Entertainment's shares, becoming
the second largest shareholder of the company, making Lee Soo Man fly back all the way to
South Korea from US immediately to handle this.
According to Lee Soo Man, this was an illegal transaction as the agreement of the largest
shareholder of SM Entertainment, himself, was not obtained.
That's why Lee Soo Man felt betrayed, leading to his retaliation action of selling shares
to HYBE.
So groups like Aespa, NCT, Lesserafim and NewJeans will be under the same roof?
Yep, that's right.
Besides, Min Hee Jin must be really shocked since she just left SM to join HYBE and now
these two companies become one.
HYBE is really getting bigger and bigger, you see, they just acquired Pledis Entertainment
and now they even swallowed SM, a company that has always been considered a giant who
laid the foundation for the kpop industry
You must be wondering about the reaction of SM artists to this, right?
SM's board of directors confirmed that all SM staff and artists did not see eye to eye
with Lee Soo Man and they were really shocked, because once they belong to HYBE, chances
are their direction and style will change significantly.
Thus, some said that SM should’ve belonged to Kakao and Lee Soo Man should’ve been
ousted because in fact, he has always been funneling SM's profits out to support his
private company.
Well, there is a fact that SM's downfall is not just a recent occurrence.
Many have noticed that the company has been gradually declining since last year, and the
not-so-good performance of GOT The Beat, the spare comebacks of Aespa and especially the
alleged rigging of NCT127 and NCT Dream's award shows are clear evidence that the company
was not doing well at all.
Now, let's move on to another headache-inducing issue, which is HyunA in her recent Instagram
picture.
At first, it seems like there is nothing serious when this is just one of the countless pictures
of idols posted on social media, but soon after that, a netizen brought up the photo
on Pann for people to discuss and while very few praised HyunA for being freaking hip and
bold, the rest all agreed that the female idol really has problems and needs to reconsider
herself.
In the comment section, many people could not hide their shock when seeing HyunA's picture
and asked in confusion: “What the?
Why is she randomly swearing at us?”, “Is the 'f*ck you' finger the trend among idols
nowadays when they take pictures?”, “Do you guys really like this?”
For them, it was so insensitive and even rude of HyunA to take a picture with her middle
finger raising right in front of the viewers’ faces like that.
Someone maybe browsing on Instagram the other day and suddenly get their mood ruined witnessing
this photo.
It can be said that HyunA is one of the few female idols who always accompanies a rather
weird and quirky image, but this time it seems that she has gone a bit too far, causing some
fans to admit that they cannot recognize their HyunA anymore and wonder what is wrong with
the female idol.
Some even claimed that HyunA is pathetically trying to be another version of Harley Quinn
yet this has no benefit and even gets her tons of hatred as well as slut-shaming comments.
Not only that, a netizen even questioned if being a weirdo is really HyunA's trick to
keep herself relevant in the context of hundreds of new rookies taking all her spotlight.
On the other hand, many others instead worry about her mental health.
Seems like after the controversy of breaking up and then reuniting with Dawn, HyunA has
changed quite a lot.
You can see that in previous photos of HyunA, although there is still a very bold and free
vibe in each of her stylings, none of them look as rebellious and shocking as this one.
This major change in her appearance and style is most likely the result of psychological
problems that HyunA has suffered for a long time surrounded by many rumors about her problematic
relationship.
So, that’s all for today’s discussion.
What do you think is the main reason for GOT The Beat being on the verge of disbandment?
Will SM Entertainment still exist in the future?
And why do you think so many people hate HyunA's photo?
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