More than 30 years in the making, Kpop has now reached global influence. Along with Kpop’s outstanding achievements and tremendous “swordfish” ability, the increasing “industrialization” of music and image also brings with it countless negative sides. In recent years, idols’ lack of skills or, more seriously, their attitude and love scandals, even involving the law, have become a painful problem.
Knet believes that there should be a “deaf tone” contest for female idols and a “scandalous” ranking for male idols, thereby showing Korean netizens’ extreme disappointment with the “key Kpop industry”.
Female idols lack skills “abundantly”
The mass production of music groups in a short period of time and the lack of investment in time and effort in forming the skill sets of idols has created huge controversy recently. The most criticized entertainment empire currently is HYBE. First of all, LE SSERAFIM with its encore series was criticized for its poor live performance and the Coachella disaster.
LE SSERAFIM was called a “national embarrassment” for its weak performance at Coachella
Sakura
and Kazuha are two members who are often criticized for their singing
The fact that HYBE let their chickens compete on iconic international stages like Coachella but couldn’t sing well has become the most “scorned” topic of the year. LE SSERAFIM is also called “national shame” by Koreans. Furthermore, the new generation girl group ILLIT also caused controversy because of their weak live singing. The representatives who were “sacrificed” the most in the group’s live singing controversy were all Japanese idols: Sakura – Kazuha (LE SSERAFIM) and Moka (ILLIT).
Sakura’s “successor” is Moka (ILLIT)
In addition, Kpop has a few representatives who are always “named” by Korean people every time they talk about bad female idols. Among them, the two most familiar names are Momo (TWICE) and Shuhua ((G)I-DLE). They are all veteran idols, but the live skills of these two names have never convinced the audience.
Shuhua – the idol rated as “the worst singer of generation 4”
TWICE’s Momo was also “called names”
Combined with HYBE’s “Japanese line”, people think that a “deaf tone” contest should be held for these female idols. Sometimes it even creates a ratings fever thanks to exposing the dark side of Kpop. Competing on a survival show based on the “tone deaf” motif is also an opportunity for the above idols to improve their singing ability. Sometimes it even helps reverse negative reactions.
Male idols are constantly involved in concussion scandals
If female idols lack skills, then male idols give people headaches because they are constantly “stuck in scandals”. Among the rookie idol group, many newly debuted idols have been making noise. Typically SM’s RIIZE. Having made an impressive debut with products that suit the public’s taste, RIIZE has been called a controversial rookie because of a series of personality scandals among its members.
RIIZE – SM’s rookie rookie debuted with a 7-member lineup
Seunghan – a piece of RIIZE was suspended after only 2 months of launch due to a series of serious scandals
After only 2 months of debut, Seunghan – a piece of RIIZE – was suspended due to revealing sensitive photos, smoking and many attitude scandals. Recently, Anton was suspected of dating his girlfriend in America. At the same time, 5/6 members were unreasonably dragged into a sexual scandal related to hot and philandering girl Han Seo Hee. Even though he quickly denied everything, it still caused a lot of noise.
Fantasy Boys – rookie scandal but musical achievements are “poor”
Or most recently, Fantasy Boys’ activities also made Kpop fans bored. Coming out of the survival program but his musical achievements are completely “invisible”. The group’s name is all over the news because of “scandal”.
Among them, the loudest was the fact that 14-year-old member Kim Gyurae dated a 22-year-old stylist, center Hong Sungmin had photos of him having fun revealed during promotions, a member went on a livestream to expose a colleague,… Knet criticized Fantasy Boys have no respect for their career, the whole group is impulsive, thoughtless and especially criticizes the role of management companies PocketDol Studio and M25.
The public was fed up when SM let Lucas – the idol who was involved in a scandal – re-debut and promote heavily
Furthermore, idols who were involved in controversies like SM’s Lucas also returned to promoting as usual. The public criticized the entertainment company for letting a bad image like Lucas promote widely, even investing in a more spectacular solo debut than veteran stars. Lucas was a former member of NCT/WayV.
In 2021, this male idol was accused of defaming his colleagues and having an affair with fans. NCT fans repeatedly protested asking Lucas to leave the group. Despite everything, SM still maintained the contract with the controversial idol and also opened a new career path for Lucas.
If there is a “controversial” male idol chart, Kpop will surely have many representatives competing for the number 1 position. Although it is just an idle joke from netizens, this also reflects the current sad situation.
Knet reaction:
– I wish there was a tone-deaf contest for female idols. The rating must be very high. Shuhua, Sakura, Kazuha, Moka, want to see this girl group of 4!!!
– Reading this comment on YouTube, just imagining a tone-deaf band makes me laugh.
– Then let’s do a scandal contest for male idols.
– But it sounds good, right? If idols can show effort and change through the show, they might be able to change public opinion.
– It must be very interesting, full of drama.
