K-Pop (The Comeback Thread) Genre • Page 58

I liked Sticker too

This is not Sticker IMO it is truly awful

 

Wasn't sure on this one, but I've listened a handful of times and maybe it's growing on me? Haven't decided yet.

Also, not sure this fits in this thread, but it's RM so. (maybe needs a dark subject matter warning)

 

I'm still not super-mega into K-pop, but from this thread and maybe being tagged in a few other threads, the artists who I am keeping up with are NewJeans, LE SSERAFIM, ILLIT, FIFTY FIFTY, KATSEYE... I think that's all

 

Don’t think there will be much more NewJeans to keep up with unfortunately… I think… I dunno, I don’t pay attention to k-pop drama. Just gimme the music haha

 

that’s my exact list (I haven’t checked FIFTY FIFTY yet) + Blackpink and ARTMS

 

Yeah I've seen enough, but I'll keep an eye out for if any of them do something, or make a new group or whatever. I think they are clearly my favorite of all the artists too

 

Good riddance to NewJeans at this point, I hope kpop does move on from them

 

I'll be on my hater shit as long as they are I guess idk

Just don't like what they've been doing at all, musically since ETA and socially since ever

 

What have they done?

 

nice try, HYBE agent

 

literally nothing, theyre trying to get out of their contract with hybe claiming workplace abuse, and given the evidence from the court case they are in the right but issue is the way idol contracts work in korea idols aren't considered workers for the company theyre under, so its this whole mess

then you have idiots online that are ride or dies for idol companys that hate new jeans for even trying to get workers rights.

 

K pop infrastructure is so fucked up, it's scary and dangerous and puts these kids through so much. The high suicide rate, the way they are treated, it's all really sad...

 

Glad you said this. It’s a workers right issue more than anything else and it’s a shame it often gets diluted or lost amidst childish stan wars or something elsewhere online.

It’s also nothing new, sadly. It’s part of the reason I kinda “grew out of K-Pop” in the last few years, in addition to my faves stopping one after another as they reach the end of their contract etc.

Hard to get invested in a new group when you feel like there’s something bad just around the corner.

 

There’s so muuuuuuch to explore to anyone getting into K-Pop. That’s the fun, even if time consuming, part about it.

In my first foray (2013-2015), I was a fan of Nine Muses, f(x), After School, SNSD, AOA, BoA, Miss A, T-ara, EXO, Wonder Girls, TAEMIN… then you had Red Velvet and TWICE just about to get started.

During my return to it (2018-2022), I caught up as much as I could and started getting obsessed with the likes of LOONA, WJSN, GFRIEND, Lovelyz, Dreamcatcher, CLC, GWSN, Apink and all the then new groups like ITZY, STAYC Everglow, G-idle…

The past few years, most if not all the acts from my second wave stopped and I progressively lost the will to proactively continue seeking out music. I still follow new releases but I accepted I’ll probably never be as invested as I was during those days.

Newjeans were actually the first time in years I felt the same fire for an act as I had for LOONA, for example… so when their legal troubles started, I just became very, very disillusioned. I got burned so many times with past faves also being victims of the industry as a whole. I was like “yeah I think I’m done” basically lol. Ah well, guess I’m fine just sticking to the music now, as apathetic as that makes me sound like.

All to say there’s endless stuff out there. I’m thinking of making playlists if anyone is interested in diving deeper into the past. The sounds explored were at times worlds away from what you can hear in K-Pop in 2025, and it’s fun seeing its evolution in line with the pop trends in the Western landscape and not only there, the diversity of it all (and I didn’t really get into boy groups on the side), …

 

Not gonna actually give my full thoughts because this is the dumbest post possible and insulting. Just because I don’t like a group that helped fund harassment of other groups doesn’t mean I stan a label and a bunch of loser suits. That also doesn’t mean Min Heejin isn’t still one of them too. It’s a much more nuanced situation and there are a lot of victims, some to their companies, some to each other.

I will do my best to not make an insinuation about you in response but I think you know what mine is

 

Do you have any articles or anything about this? Had a Google but can’t find anything

 

That is so fucked

 

I'm going to be gone for a while today and have a lot of shit to deal with at the moment so I can't dive super in depth but here's a link to a megathread related to the ADOR/HYBE saga that also has links to a ton of articles (and previous megathreads that also have links to a ton of articles). The articles really focus around Min Heejin as a whole but do shed light on various aspects such as the relationship between HYBE and ADOR and all of the bad parts going around there, and NewJeans' involvement in harassment of ILLIT and Le Sserafim alongside some things that have crazy implications if true. They also disprove SOME of the things said in here (but not all, NewJeans are definitely victims to a large extent, just not to the people that are being implied here).

It is a LOT to summarize or even find individual links on but as someone who followed it as it started I feel like it's good to just put all the info out there on everything. I do get that there's a lot of people who just want to know what's going on and stick up for these girls who had so many adults fail them.

https://www.reddit.com/r/kpop/comments/1jrbxat/megathread_21_hybe_ador_mhj_hearings_take_center/

 

newjeans also just a few weeks ago met up with a super fan of new jeans who was out there harassing other girl groups which is such a loser move.

it’s all a mess but I just don’t care about newjeans anymore. They are dead to me.

 

That is… a lot. I’ll stick to the music.