#wannabe itzy

[ryujin-nara]

RYUJIN - Wannabe japanese MV

[starluluh]

medium 𐙚 bios.

ꕤ 𝐈𝗍'𝗌 𝗃𝗎𝗌𝗍 𝗆𝖾 , 𝗉𝗋𝖾𝗍𝗍𝗒 𝖻𝗎𝗍 𝗇𝗈𝗍 𝖺𝗍𝗍𝗋𝖺𝖼𝗍𝗂𝗏𝖾.

❀ 𝐈𝗇𝗍𝗋𝗈𝗏𝖾𝗋𝗍 , 𝗇𝗈𝗍 𝖺𝗇𝗍𝗂𝗌𝗈𝖼𝗂𝖺𝗅.

❅ 𝐘𝗈𝗎 𝖺𝗋𝖾 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝗀𝗂𝗋𝗅 𝗈𝖿 𝗆𝗒 𝖽𝗋𝖾𝖺𝗆𝗌.

❆ 𝐘𝗈𝗎'𝗋𝖾 𝗉𝖾𝗋𝖿𝖾𝖼𝗍 𝗂𝗇 𝗆𝗒 𝖾𝗒𝖾𝗌.

[thelovesickgrls]

Ryujin + music videos part 1

[keromuffin1]

[kpop-girlsworld]

ITZY

[chocolatkpopidols]

WANNABE // LIA [KCON LA 2022]

[c-cw-f-saeko]

asami kobayashi (oc)

another seiryo student, senior so she's at her last year at the school

18 years old

idol trainee and is set to debut after graduating

tall (~180 cm) and orange ball enthusiast !!!!

chose the basketball club instead of the dance club (bc dancing is all she does outside of school.......)

has a bit of an intimidating aura but is quite chill actually

she's the type of people who is fine being a loner at school, mostly keeps to herself

people say she is standoffish but actually just doesn't go out her way to be a social butterfly

she just wants to fly off the radar, and move on with her life

hard worker in everything she does

yua met her for the first time while she was street performing with other trainees (a bit before tesso enrolled her at seiryo)

and she thought she looked quite cool !!

so, yua was a bit surprised to find her at school....

they met through koda

favourite activity of them is to share snacks after school and practice dancing (yua is an enthusiast but too embarrassed to join the actual dance club. asami helps her out since she used to be a weak dancer)

tesso knows asami to be yua's closest friend and wasn't weirded out by the fact he's in the mafia (😭 lol)

[snowddeong]

I hate complaining when a video has just come out but

I'm so frustrated with whoever chose Wannabe to be the song for their First Take. The whole point of First Take is to showcase their live vocals. This isn't even Ringo recency bias talking but that song has a lot more going on vocally and showcases a lot more of their growth as singers than Wannabe does, partially cause Wannabe was kinda made to be performed with choreo and all lmao. Heck Loco would have been a better option too cause that is also very much enhanced by the choreo and all but they do a lot more in that vocally than Wannabe.

There's this very irritating cycle of being a midzy where the girls will grow musically and we see all this growth in b-sides and JP tracks that aren't even promoted as much but when there's a chance to finally show off what these girls can do and how insane they are div 2 fumbles and we're back to square one. Then they'll grow even more and release masterpieces like the Ringo album but will div 2 ever capitalise on that? Nope.

And it's happened again. ITZY gets invited to a show where they can sing without any filters or anything and they're told to do Wannabe despite the fact they just released a Japanese song with more complexity just a few weeks ago that they could be promoting. Did they maybe change wannabe's arrangement, maybe add a new melody here or there to compliment the girls' growth? Nah it's just wannabe with a different instrumental. Why? Probably cause wannabe is popular and it will get clicks. Which is weird because how many times have the girls gone viral for other stuff as well 😭 specifically them singing stuff they wouldn't usually sing in a title track 😭so why are we acting as if that's the only way the girls can get eyes on them?

What pisses me off the most is that despite all the sabotage and lack of consideration the girls always fucking devour but I can't even be happy about how well they did because I'm just so upset about how often they get held back. They're not allowed to contribute to their music, they're not allowed to ever do covers or post self made songs, they don't go on all the shows that used to rake in millions of views just because and even the times they get acknowledged for their vocals they're not given an opportunity to really flex the way the album the not even two weeks ago proved they can. My greatest wish is they can leave that fuckass company because as complicated as it'll probably be they deserve so much better

[nayeonline]

wtf is going on with ITZY? (an essay)

Itzy has had an… interesting year. They’ve released five singles and two mini albums this year, including two japanese singles - and yet they have somehow made very little (good) impact on the industry at large. ‘Sneakers’ and the ‘Checkmate’ album  was arguably their most talked about comeback this year, but it was almost unanimously hated to the point of exhaustion. Itzy’s second Korean comeback, ‘Cheshire’ was met with marginally less hatred than its predecessor, but along with their two Japanese singles - ‘Voltage’ and ‘Blah Blah Blah’, they slipped under the waves within days of their release.

But how the hell did we get here? Three years ago it was itzy’s world - they were JYP Entertainment’s newest girl group after Twice, and marked the shift between 3rd generation kpop to 4th generation. Arguably, Itzy set the tone for what 4th gen girl groups would be, and their comebacks were events. Their debut, ‘Dalla Dalla’ was a smash hit, and was the perfect balance between controversial and addictive in its sound that it got people talking about them, and brought in an immediate fanbase. ‘Icy’ continued their legacy, but it was ‘Wannabe’ that broke the ceiling. ‘Wannabe’ ruled 2019, and it was Itzy at their best. The hip dance, the chorus, the love yourself theme, the aesthetics, RYUJIN, this was everything Itzy was amazing at, and it handed them the coveted ‘4th gen leaders’ title on a silver platter.

Some people argue Itzy fell off around the ‘Not Shy’ era, but I would have to disagree - while it did fail to top the legacy of ‘Wannabe’, it was still a very successful comeback. However, ‘Not Shy’ was the first Itzy single to stray from their self-love concept, and while some were excited for Itzy to explore new territory, others were frustrated that Itzy was ‘abandoning’ what made them stand out in the industry. With Itzy’s next comeback, ‘Mafia In the morning’, the frustration boiled over into anger. Gone were the rainbow concept of releases past, and here were Itzy, clad in black leather, performing to a song that could only be described as… girl crush. I loved this comeback, and its album is one of my favourites from them, but many midzys were pissed. Had Itzy completely forgotten themselves? It remained a successful comeback, but the unrest in the fandom was growing. JYP Entertainment decided to take a step back, regroup and come back again when everyone is good and ready.

And so, five months later,  we were given ‘Loco’ and Itzy’s 1st full length album, ‘Crazy In Love’. ‘Loco’ was a return to Itzy’s roots - the music video was colourful and chaotic and insane, the chorus dance heavily featured the groups iconic crown choreography, and the production was maximalistic and full of personality. But still, many fans remained frustrated. For some, the song just wasn’t sticking like ‘Dalla Dalla’ or ‘Wannabe’, and with SM’s latest girl group, aespa, dominating 2021 with their highly talked about comeback ‘Next Level’, it appeared Itzy’s crown was slipping.

But let's talk about another group that entered the scene shortly after - JYP’s next girl group, NMIXX. NMXX’s ‘O.O’ was one of the most controversial releases of the year - maybe of all time. It was criticised for its structure being a ‘worse knockoff’ of the aforementioned ‘Next Level’ by aespa, and for sounding like two songs rolled into won. But the talent in this group was undeniable. All seven members were insanely good dancers - something Itzy were noted for too - and INSANELY good singers - something Itzy has often been criticised for not being - and their whole concept was arguably an offshoot of Itzy’s at debut. But JYP debuting NMIXX couldn’t really affect Itzy right? Wrong. ‘Sneakers’ was Itzy’s next comeback, and, as I said before, was unanimously despised - but something else was wrong. The quality of the music video was significantly worse than Loco, and the teaser rollout was a mess. It appeared that JYP had almost forgotten Itzy in the haze of NMIXX’s debut - despite Itzy’s debut significantly outselling them. And with ‘Cheshire’, the quality downgrade was even more obvious. The choreographies had become more lazy and weren’t nearly as complicated as Itzy were once known for, and even the song’s quality had taken a hit. Why wasn’t JYP capitalising on the success of girl groups in 2022? Why was Itzy stumbling when most previous groups were soaring in their 4th active year? And why was Itzy, ITZY, fourth gen leaders Itzy, Twice’s juniors Itzy, taking a backseat to everyone else in the industry?

I don’t have the answers to these questions, other than pointing the finger at JYP’s consistent incompetence when it comes to managing groups. But what can Itzy do now? If I were their manager, I would say take a break. Itzy has been everywhere and nowhere this year, and with the insane domination and oversaturation of new girl groups like Le Sserafim, New Jeans and IVE, Itzy needs a time when fans are truly starved for something that only they can offer, with their experience and talents. And when that comeback happens, it will have to be a smash hit, up there with their greatest, or Itzy may succumb to irrelevancy. It should have a unique and catchy choreography that’s both difficult and addictive, it should embrace the modern kpop sound that Twice have been exploring, and it should show the industry at large that Itzy are a force to be reckoned with, not a group condemned to be ‘washed up’ on their fourth year in the industry. Can JYP do it? That remains to be seen.

[steadypandaperson]

ITZY

[ryujin-nara]

Chaeryeong - Wannabe jap. version MV ⛓

[chaerriie]

Don't measure me by my standards alone. I love being myself, I'm nobody else, I'm different

[artscloudy]

ꪆ୧ I don’t have to be anything, because ꪆ୧

ꪆ୧ I’m perfect ꪆ୧

ꪆ୧ when I’m myself ꪆ୧

♡ Yuna ♡

🎼 Wannabe - Itzy

[shiromi28]

How LONG it took each K-POP GROUP to get their first win!

Brave Girls - 3628 days after debut SUPER JUNIOR-D&E -2685 days after debut NU'EST - 2610 days after debut U-KISS - 2378 days after debut N.Flying - 1981 days after debut Dreamcatcher - 1923 days after debut NCT U - 1656 days after debut Jewerly - 1490 days after debut PENTAGON - 1471 days after debut CLC - 1426 days after debut DAY6 - 1416 days after debut VERIVERY - 1414 days after debut Shinhwa - 1361 days after debut fromis_9 - 1322 days after debut BTOB - 1309 days after debut ONF - 1308 days after debut DKZ - 1273 days after debut BF - 1265 days after debut SF9 - 1198 days after debut VICTION - 1098 days after debut Girl's Day - 1096 days after debut ASTRO - 1071 days after debut DIA - 1065 days after debut EXID - 1057 days after debut ONEUS - 1043 days after debut OH MY GIRL - 1008 days after debut LABOUM - 974 days after debut WJSN - 950 days after debut Lovelyz - 916 days after debut MONSTA X - 915 days after debut Block B - 912 days after debut Golden Child - 850 days after debut CSJH The Grace - 769 days after debut BABY V.O.X - 761 days after debut B1A4 - 756 days after debut B.A.P - 748 days after debut Epik High - 739 days after debut KARA - 707 days after debut BTS - 691 days after debut Brown Eyed Girls - 631 days after debut GOT7 -628 days after debut MAMAMOO - 626 days after debut TEEN TOP - 603 days after debut f(x) - 601 days after debut LOONA - 570 days after debut 2AM - 566 days after debut Treasure - 565 days after debut VIXX - 561 days after debut AOA - 459 days after debut Bolbbalgan4 - 545 days after debut THE BOYZ - 517 days after debut Billie - 510 days after debut INFINITE - 487 days after debut Secret - 457 days after debut EXO - 432 days after debut MOMOLAND - 427 days after debut Crayon Pop - 408 days after debut NMIXX - 400 days after debut BIGBANG - 384 days after debut GFRIEND - 382 days after debut Stray Kids - 375 days after debut NCT 127 - 350 days after debut Seventeen - 344 days after debut B2ST (BEAST) - 343 days after debut After School - 339 days after debut Stayc - 306 days after debut TEMPEST - 273 days after debut Apink - 261 days after debut Wonder Girls - 257 days after debut 2PM - 245 days after debut ATEEZ - 239 days after debut Red Velvet - 238 days after debut Super Junior & MBLAQ - 231 days after debut Twice - 198 days after debut Sistar - 196 days after debut Everglow - 187 days after debut NCT Dream - 173 days after debut CNBLUE - 163 days after debut T-ara - 156 days after debut Enhypen - 155 days after debut CRAVITY - 140 days after debut CSR - 128 days after debut SHINee - 116 days after debut 4Minute & I.O.I - 104 days after debut JBJ - 100 days after debut SS501 - 99 days after debut TVXQ! - 93 days after debut Davichi - 90 days after debut NU'EST W - 86 days after debut Girls' Generation - 67 days after debut AESPA - 61 days after debut FT ISLAND - 42 days after debut 2NE1 - 39 days after debut GOT the beat - 27 days after debut (G)I-DLE - 20 days after debut New Jeans - 17 days after debut EXO-CBX - 16 days after debut Gaya-G (WSG Wannabe) - 14 days after debut Blackpink & AB6IX - 13 days after debut IKON & Hi Suhyun - 12 days after debut EXO-SC & Irene and Seulgi (Red Velvet) & NCT DOJAEJUNG - 11 days after debut IZ*ONE & Kep1er - 10 days after debut Itzy & Girls Generation-TTS & Wanna One- 9 days after debut TXT & Le Sserafim & Highlight & BTOB 4U- 8 days after debut Ive & Viviz & CIX & WSG WANNABE - 7 days after debut X1 & SSAK3 - 5 days after debut Winner - 4 days after debut

Kinda long list, you know? It's really sad that most of groups need to wait that long for their first win... What's your opinion about this? Comment below!

[kpop-girlsworld]

ITZY

[lyamhp]

Itzy Album Receipts!

Link To My Designs : https://www.pinterest.ph/lyaaahhp/album-receipts-girl-groups/itzy/