🔴LIVE-STREAM: Female K-POP Group Discovery (💥24 FULL SONGS!) $5 tier

Watching through the stream and was wondering if you'd catch the similarities between ASAP by STAYC and TT by Twice and you did! with the dropout bridge. Both songs have the same producers. After producing hit after hit for other labels the Korean producing duo of Black Eyed Pilseung started their own label and STAYC were their first group.

Regarding Girl's Generation, the main vocalist Taeyeon is also a solo artist, I hope you react to her Killing Voice one day, I know it was on your radar in March, she has one of the most crazy vocal technique and ranges in KPOP and I'd love to see your analysis on her!

This was fun! I hope I can catch a livestream sometime :)

Couldn't join the live (but probably for the better....having ARTMS and TripleS back to back, I would've FLOODED the comment section-the hayeon in my name is a member of TripleS). But this is a perfect time to just give some 411 of both groups really bc they are so closely tied (and not just bc they're part of the same company) We have to go back to the mid 2010s and this brand new company with this kind of crazy A&R director (Jaden Jeong, future CEO of MODHAUS) that debuted a 12 member girl group called "Girl of the Month" or LOONA. Each member got a full debut with a song and an MV around every month (which had never been done before in kpop). So long story short.....LOONA forms, a ton of money was spent to debut them, they didnt do quite as well as expected initially and Jaden was fired but they had a huge fanbase and eventually started doing alright. Wont go into their disbandment (its SUPER messy) but they disband Jaden Jeong starts the company Modhaus and basically takes his initial plan/strategy with LOONA, tweaks it, thinks outside the box (more on that....much of it on how to save money but also get the girls paid), and forms the 24 member girl group TripleS which took 2 years to introduce all 24 members. They had some first in kpop type things, most notably in the beginning they would upload a video THE DAY OF on their channel everyday of just the girls living, training, reacting to future members teasers, etc and secondly, they built an app that allowed fans to buy digital photocards (or scan in physical ones) and those purchases would give the fans "points". As someone mentioned, a pretty large % of those card sales go DIRECTLY to the members so, you are very correct.....these 24 girls probably do get paid more than many other groups and far sooner. (I just checked, just in the past 24 hours, around 25,000 cards have been made and they probably average around $1.5 a photocard? given some are free gifts, price goes down with bulk purchases, etc). Thats a LOT of money going to the TripleS and ARTMS members directly (even at a %) The fans could then use those "points" to vote on a TON of stuff.....song selection, sub unit composition, leader choosing, etc. So TripleS basically does a full 24 member comeback once a year and in between there are around 2-3 subunits and a lot of that is fan-voted (not dis-similar to your channel! lol) as far as which members go in which sub-units, what their title track will be, etc. Also, the company will do these votes where they make a performance video of many of their b-sides so there are quite a few MVs out there of their b-sides done with major studios like 1theK. The only other thing to mention about the "out of the box" thinking with TripleS.....they spent a TON of money creating this idol variety show (which isn't new, all kpop groups do variety) in partnership with 1theK and those seasons got SUPER popular (the basic gist of the series is all 24 girls compete to obtain badges through games and competitons and whatnot) and the member with the most badges wins. It went viral bc some of the more physical challenges got SUPER intense, lots of backstabbing, INCREDIBLE locations (season 3 was filmed on Jeju Island). It is, by far (maybe outside of Game Caterers) the best idol variety show going (and the money they spend SHOWS) During the intro process of TripleS, all the LOONA members basically won a court injunction to break them free of their contracts with the old company and Jaden Jeong signed 5 members of LOONA and created ARTMS. The ARTMS girls are like Jaden Jeong's daughters.....they've gone to war together and the ARTMS girls are much older, more seasoned, and thus......all of their music tends to be a little more creative (that Icarus MV was just the song MV....its actually a part of an 18 minute long....I dont even know what to call it.....performative art video?) and chance taking and a lot is focused on what each member actually WANTS to do TripleS is the money maker for Modhaus so they're a bit more traditional kpop and safe (from a music perspective). But whats notable for you is, Jaden Jeong has a handful of writers/producers that he always works with (Monotree, BADD, El CAPITXN, and himself to name a few) that work on both ARTMS and TripleS (in fact, TripleS has a member who produces as well and has written 2-3 songs for ARTMS) so while TripleS music is a bit more tradition/safe compared to ARTMS, it is still EXTREMELY high quality

Tim that was such a great livestream. Love leaving it up to the wheel. There were so many songs I recognized but never knew who they were by so that was exciting to hear.

Aaahhhh I am so happy that I-dle made it <3 All the other Songs too ofc, but since they are my fave GG I am really excited. Sadly I couldn't make it to the Livestream so thank you so much for uploading the Stream. Love how many groups got a chance to shine through the wheel. The idea is so clever.

To answer a few questions: - There are now two groups with 24 members: NCT and TripleS (NCT previously had even more members). - SMent liked to create groups with similar concepts (brother-sister groups), especially during the 1st and 2nd generations. Examples: Super Junior - Girls Generation - groups with many members (during the 2nd generation, groups with 7 members were considered very large, while Super Junior debuted with 12, and Girls Generation with 9). SHINee - f(x) - 5-member groups known for their experimental music style. that's why fx was called shinee's sister group (there's even a combined name for them, f(SHINee)) I recommended a 20-minute film about the history of K-pop in my May recommendations. This video may answer many of your questions. Defining a generation for some groups can be difficult. EXO is considered 3rd generation, having debuted in April 2012. BTOB and EXID debuted in March and February 2012, respectively, and I've seen them sometimes considered 2nd generation. There's also a term called 2.5th generation, which refers to groups from 2010-2012. Similarly, TVXQ are often called 1.5th generation, even though their debut is considered the beginning of the 2nd generation.