#nana and i have been having a very extended conversation about how solo careers often intertwined with group success (or lack of success) | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

sanstropfremir · 2 years

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do u think that twice will fall under the same curse of bts where the members are so tied to the group name, it’ll be hard for them to branch out?

not really. there already are some twice members that are well known on the variety circuit and one of them did literally just launch a very successful solo, so they're already ahead of that and they have been for a while. but also the other members that are less popular are probably not going to be able to branch out at all, but that's just the reality of the industry. tbh it's not really a comparable situation because the contexts are too different. bts is tied to their group identity because they made that their brand intentionally and heavily courted an intl audience without paying the dues back home, so to speak. twice has a massive domestic audience and are likely just to age like any other popular gg, with some members that will be more popular in different fields than others. some will have successful solo careers and some won't, them's the breaks.

#i know ppl tend to group the big number sellers together bc theyre 'popular' but there is a literal WORLD of difference between these two #tbh we covered this kind of when we were having that initial k variety conversation so i'm not going to get into it again #but yea there's more talk about the different type of popularity that bts has in that tag and i think twice members do get brought up #kpop questions #twice w #also i think what this question doesn't really encompass is that being tied to the group name is good #like ALL the shinee members still introduce themselves as 'shinee's (x)'#the group name esp when the group is popular has power. why would they want to totally buck it?#its a different story with bts bc its very clear that none of them are happy with the group broadly.#none of the twice girls will probably ever admit that in their lifetimes if any of them feel that way #and if/when more of them do go solo and go a direction different that twice than the contrast is part of the draw #that's exactly what sm did with taemin #nana and i have been having a very extended conversation about how solo careers often intertwined with group success (or lack of success)#esp in regards to wanna one and x1 and all the offshoots from those #bc both types of careers bounce off each other and have different types of popularity #anyways. long and rambly in the tags again #text #answers

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