#for irl reasons this'll be the only criticism/complaining for now

[snowddeong]

Okay now that my excitement has simmered down a bit, some thoughts:

Gonna go through my worries here and get them out of the way because for one I don't want negativity to ruin my hype and for two I probably have more articulate negative things to say my brain rn is kind of just too fucking excited to do more than just scream at how happy I am that ITZY IS COMING BACK.

So the most obvious thing lmao, the timing of this announcement is so fucking laughable I actually can't believe they deadass decided to drop this on the day midzys are sending trucks to JYPE. I talked about this with Kas and after that convo I'm less convinced this is a coincidence. Even the way they announced it like first dropping that article saying they have no clue when the cb is then dropping a teaser and a tracklist to manage our expectations because we've all been waiting for a full album pfff it's hilarious how obvious it is that they're covering their asses.

I could be wrong and they were planning to actually drop this shit today but if ya'll were all done preparing why couldn't you start by dropping a graphic poster or something since when does itzy release the tracklist this early? It's such a calculated move lmao. The buzz for the cb is most definitely going to drown out most of the press about the trucks.

The next thing sigh, what happened to the girls having involvement in this album? Why have we been waiting 8 months for only 6 songs? This feels like they were maybe 7/8 of the way through finalising and decided to just cut off the rest to release at a later date and I really have to ask if the girls' hard work matters so little that they can push forward shit just so they don't look bad in the press it's so fucking vile and quite frankly not all that surprising for div2 atp. I just feel bad like if there was stuff from them meant to be on the album then fuck div2 for holding it off because their own incompetence pissed off the fandom to this point and if there was none of their stuff then fuck div2 even more. A group in their 4th fucking year and to this day they have not been given an opportunity to have hands on credited involvement in their albums when they clearly want to have it. All the inputs and creative stuff they do do, specifically Ryujin, is never given credit or just taken and flanderised until it barely recognises the vision that you could clearly see was going somewhere lmao.