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had no idea about the organizer!! that's so cool 😭
thank you so much for sharing your experience anon I definitely hope you get to see kyungsoo again soon 🩷🩷🩷 maybe he'll even attend the aaa
might I ask, since some of us are a bit confused ⚰️ are you familiar with the siam paragon event? do you know exactly what it is?

have there ever been crossing ways between the k and the thai industry? like have k idols ever released singles in Thai the way they do in Japanese?

"you've never seen SM pets leave or complain as much as they are doing after his departure" bingo! and it's funny because in many ways you can see who was liked and favoured by lsm vs who's got new management's favours
either way it's a fickle thing to rely on, especially when the favourites see their band mates mistreated right before their eyes and then only start crying once the winds turns onto them 🤷‍♀️

their business model is both their strength and their weakness when you think about it isn't it profiting off already existing brands allows for a guaranteed source of revenue, but the mere fact that they can profit from said brands is due to them dwindling... you rarely see groups reach their peak at the time they're due for a contract renewal

gfriend was way past their peak when they unfairly got disbanded, lee seunggi was in hot waters as you were mentioning, the exo brand they managed to taint themselves (100 and the members themselves) in the process LOL
some of the soloists (baekhyun, taemin, lee mujin?) can offer them stability re:sales which is good for them as a company fund wise (tho they don't seem to need those) but again i dont see them growing significantly - and apart from singular hits (viviz maniac, lee mujin also had traffic light and I know his cb did quite well on melon this year as well) the only constants they're known for are their horrid communication and shady methods. and thing about the big 3/4 is they're not only big groups machineswho got lucky at some point, there's also a matter of image and reputation so that doesn't rly give them a good start.

I don't think it's been confirmed, has it? lotte also has heaven:to the land of happiness lined up among others, so secret would depend on the release of that one (and vice versa) in this case

oohh okay thanks for the info anon!

he was already losing popularity before his scandal , he peaked between 2014 (where he was extra extra pushed by sm and see folks this is why you dont rely on that company cause once they decide theyre done with you... 😵‍💫) and, 2017-ish?
i agree that he definitely still has his niches and countries where he's particularly liked, like more popular members do

just fell to my knees wow
I need kyungsoo to portray a will graham like character at some point regardless

(Seems like you quoted the wrong ask here anon but I see which one this was in answer to!)

i'll do you a better one: kyungsoo was not the first exo member to act. he was not even the first exo member to get a leading role in a drama: kai did that before him. he was also pushed onto taemin's album as early as 2014, and got consistent modelling gigs very early on.

again, there's this misconception that's actually very telling among exol and other member stans lol that activity = success. thus they've kind of erased the fact that ALL exo members got to branch out after 2016 with ZERO exception.... except kyungsoo who is the only member who saw a reduction of his field of activities after that point. literally the only ppl we could count on to see him was his movies' distributors 😟 and that's when his OWN roles were parasited by sm and exo members.
as for the other exo members they all acted minus chen, got musicals, subunits, modelling gigs, variety guestings and/or permanent positions, collabs, osts.

and they sing for you

right? even the banner only has him on it I rly think it's one of those exclusive events... I just hope they allow camera recordings in case he covers Christmas songs heehee

someone talked about it a few asks down, first time I ever heard about this lol

those arguments are giving

heavy on shin hakyun!!! to ME he's kyungsoo's most underrated acting partner among dandans the way they both played off each other in room 7, especially knowing some it was completely improvised, was insane 😭

the funniest thing here is I haven't seen any dandan arguing with them for the last weeks so this is completely unprovoked, exactly what I was saying a few asks down about them sizing kyungsoo up for suho because just like their fave, they know very well ksoo represents everything he should have achieved ⚰️

even if he gets noms of whatever kind should we throw a party because after more than 10 years, sm setting him up for the actor of the group role (i know both him and sm were fuming when ksoo got iotl and cart through auditions 🤷‍♀️) for a decade, a formal training for acting he's finally stopped absolutely ruining projects by showing up in them? should we invite Bella Hadid

while there's hypocrisy in the fact that always throwing around the leader position and he benefits from it (well now he mostly uses it to pathetically whine and cry about how unfair it is to him everything that happens), I reiterate my opinion which is that it's on the whole group.
idk if ppl realise just how absurd it is the way they proceeded? I'm going off sm's biased words here but this was never refuted by either cbx or any of the other members: they entered the discussions as a team of 7, with a team of lawyers. 18 months of discussion, where they pressed for their renewal conditions as 7, thus using their conditions as a group as an advantage. in the end did the group get any better conditions? let's not talk about the delayed winter/christmas album - cream soda was a lackluster, half assed album where the only promo (I don't count music shows) was killing voice... that begs an interesting question: what did they use their pressure as a group on sm for? knowing they reached an agreement satisfying enough that they signed as early as December 2022? (which still baffles me btw... I get they're not media savvy but couldn't their lawyers tell them about the March 2023 general meeting and how it might have ousted lee sooman? ⚰️)

idk... I'd say it's becoming increasingly clear to me that the only thing they cared about was getting good deals for themselves as individuals 🤷‍♀️ which there's nothing wrong with, dgmw! but they would have done it while pressing on sm as a group. and then 3 of them had no qualms about playing around with the group's brand and activities again for their own. interesting, isn't it?

that's indeed not how it usually goes and you're right, they're suing to prove the grounds for termination were null, in which case nj stays and they get compensation.

ooh okay i see the one you're talking about! while it was indie and from what i got pretty much fanservice i wouldn't compare an actual movie with concert screenings at the cinema though

i mean that baekhyun's pineapple slice has the exact same (outdated) vibe as jungkook's standing next to you. which is funny actually lol
to me v sounds like he constantly has something hot in his mouth and he has to keep his lips from touching and exhale consistently so he doesn't burn himself 😬what's interesting is that while jimin and him were always frankly bad, they weren't that straight up horrible a few years ago

yes it is, hive use multiple distributors so unless secret would be distributed by cj then it shouldn't theorically be a problem.

january 15 at the earliest now 🤓

i don't remember him doing it. may i be curious and ask why the question?

as in they're good or they pull numbers? knowing that in the latter case, hit drama =/= hit ost.

half ot but now that i think about it i don't think i've ever seen him in anything, does anyone maybe have recs?

1. nks was the one pulling ksoo's scripts from the start so i don't see why you'd think there'd be a major difference between sm and css on that point. especially in a context where the scripts have been going to kyungsoo on their own little feet for years now. - unless you don't think ksoo has ever had a good script but that'd beg another question regarding you being a fan ig you can guess which one lol.
   
2. you might want to read this and eventually tell me what you think?
   
3. have you considered stanning a full time actor? i mean that in the most genuine way possible. or a singer-actor that doesn't dedicate as much time to their singing career as kyungsoo does cause you might have noticed when he's not acting he's not... exactly jobless. thus i don't get your point about "jobful"ness... at all🥴
   
4. as for cfs i'm gonna put my little exol cosplay on for a sec just to say that it's likely.... kyungsoo's choice 🤓 i think a little glasses endorsement would be good and a payback for what he took from us (glasses!soo 😑) but it'd definitely not that serious and you placing this on the same pedestal as acting is... a choice