Korean Music Discussion - Page 2900

On May 29 2012 10:13 DystopiaX wrote:

I don't feel like continuing this discussion because it won't get anyone anywhere, so just clarifying a few things:

I feel like you feel like I was replying to you (confusing I know lol) but all of that other than the edit was directed at Waterhaak, who clearly stated "Greed on JYJ's part was the cause of the breakup". I agree with what you said above, although if I were in their shoes and I'd still have done the split, you don't get on TV for performances but you're still huge and make bank and aren't required to stay with SM for 13 years (a contract which is both excessive and, contrary to what you seem to imply in your post, is not typical in the industry). But that's irrelevant anyway...

I also fail to see how CCM is a "small" agency- as a subsidiary of Mnet I'd argue they're pretty big. It's the parent company and not whatever the subcompany decides to call itself that counts.

Also I used KBS as a random name for an example of a TV station/content distributor. Either way the fact that they're government owned (which I was aware of) is irrelevant for the purpose of my example. The whole KBS thing was directed at the dude I was replying to anyway, who implied that the industry as a whole had motivation to cockblock JYJ.

Although I can't claim to have "contacts" like you, I don't think the ratio you described is atypical even for Western artists, for album sales at least. (the difference being ofc that western artists get far more of the pie in endorsement deals and shit like that). But that's irrelevant anyway. I'm not going to pretend that any idol company gives you a favorable contract cause they're all terrible. Just that if it were up to me I wouldn't sign with SM.

And I still disagree with your blog posts.

edit- @new guy/hallowed/purpl3- Not sure I'd want to be the world representative of Kpop anyway. At least foreign kpop, cause everything I've seen of it outside of this thread and like 2 IRL friends foreign kpop is comprised of annoying teenage girls and/or mentally deficient people.

@pulse- can't recognize Minah when sh'es not trying to make her eyes look as small as possible, or, as they call it "eyesmiling".

onion is both not very credible and a sm fanboy.

Edit- reading 3 of those onion posts just confirmed that he doesn't know what he's talking about. Contradicting facts and actual credible sources, sounds like an idiot.