#he knows selling himself out to the music industry is wrong. he doesnt like doing it and would much rather be making music he wants to make

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"Prostitution is the world's oldest profession..." and "The "i" in lie" are great songs because they both talk about the same thing -- selling yourself out in the music industry-- from two different viewpoints

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To tell the truth, Taeil is always at the bottom of selling chart out of the group (MDs, CN bars, digipacks, merch, etc) and his fans doesnt have buying power. If SM give him solo album right after successful debut of DJJ and it doesnt sell much, it will be hummiliating for him personaly and as someone with high pride he wont able to face another post-KoMS moment. Taeyong bar is the biggest bars in nct so far, if for group comeback they can bought 50k+ albums, imagine the number they willing to spent for his solo. He has a more advantage to make his solo debut success (good networking, have a lot of friends in the industries, rich and loyal fansbase).

Good point about Taeil's pride.

How to put it accurately. Taeil had a strong voice from the beginning. He doesn't sing much outside of recordings. In comparison to Taeyong, who came into the company knowing nothing, Taeil "had it easy" (not really, he sacrificed his uni, he has his own problems of being compared to others, the pressure of imposed values and how success looks like). Taeil is the oldest in the group and plays an important role as the main vocal, so he is loved and valued. Others push and advertise the group, put in additional hours, while his role is to provide vocals, and he is good at singing. Basically, he is in a comfortable position. Small effort (relatively to other neos) and big reward. Doing something outside of the group puts him in danger of a failure. And that will be only on him, he will be faced with unpleasant truth of lacking. KoMS was such a case. His singing ability wasn't enough. He didn't touch the crowd emotionally, maybe he chose wrong songs to perform as well.

Taeil is a prideful person, you can see it in how he defends himself in trivial matters (I'm not a bad drinker, I'm not short I'm just surrounded with tall people). People often don't do something out of fear of performing badly or failing. They can even sabotage themselves just to avoid a new challenge (it's not me, it's the circumstances, I would have been great if not for...).

Wishing Taeil to go act or go into variety is wishing him to jump into torrential cold water. If he is ready, he will do it. If he isn't, it is nicer for him to stay "just" the main vocal of a successful group. It already brings him huge stadiums to sing at and the money he needs to provide for himself and his (current and future) family.

Success have different forms. Different people find happiness in different things. Fans should look at their bias and accept the way he is instead of trying to push him into the mold. Taeil is a musical nerd, he is not a flashy performer. I personally wish him to get a solo album in the genre he wants to sing, maybe with his own songs included, and not change his image, fake his public personality and overstress himself with promotions in pursue of big sale numbers.

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Queerbating and Harry’s image

Harry Styles tm (brand and image) has let to people thinking he has been trying to “queerbate".The term "queerbating” refers to a marketing strategy used in order to  attract the LGBTQ audience into a specific product. it is important to mention that, for example, usually hints about someone sexuality are thrown, and, at the same time, that person is being painted as possibly being queer so as to indeed, attract queer people. But the subject’s sexuality is never openly addressed. So, via queerbating, the marketing agents or creators are able to appeal to the LGBTQ market, while avoiding any backlash from the homophobic market.

So, now referring to Harry, the general public has this idea he is this straight white man, and some people tend to be confused by why so many hints are given by him about his sexuality and about him possibly being queer or for example, bisexual, given the fact people noticed that the fine line cover and his outfit in it might be the representation of a bisexual flag. So he seems to be giving all this hints about queerness by dressing a certain way and by saying things like “(…) female(…) not that important” and throwing all these hints, without actually admitting anything. This way he would be getting the queer public’s attention, as they could be drawn to him because of the representation and support he appears to be showing towards the LGBTQ community.

But, when asked, he doesn’t give a full on answer about where his sexuality lies, and about his preference regarding a partner. Harry often says “who cares” and does not answer a question with "yes im queer”  or "no, im in fact straight" (pardon the pun). Needles to say, Harry, after throwing all these hints toward his sexuality and towards him not being straight, and after waving and signing pride flags, he is constantly rumored to be dating models throughout the years. So, its understandable why people, who are not so into Harry and who do not know everything about him, might be angry.

He is giving the impression everything feminine thing he does like wearing dresses, and all the references he gives about the LGTQ community are only to attract people who belong to that community into the fandom. Of course this idea is wrong, its safe to assume harry styles would never consider doing that, the thing is, Harry is found in a position where i think he cannot come out properly and say “im gay”, “im bisexual”, “im whatever”, because of his management team (jeffrey and irwin azzof) and because of the repercussion that would have. I believe he was probably advised to say (when asked about his sexuality) that it doesn’t matter, that its not an important topic, and that its something he doesn’t want to discuss. In other words, to avoid answering wether he is straight or wether he is queer. I believe if it were up to harry, he most definitely would not have a problem admitting or sharing where his sexual preferences lie, but, because he is immersed in a multimillion dollar worth industry, he does not get to choose what he can and what he can’t say, as some things he says might affect his image and the way the public see him, immediately having and effect in the sales and in the economic part of his career. of course its not only his career who would be jeopardized, it would also impact every single person behind his brand, like his record label and his management team.

The image an artist has takes long to form, but its a very fragile one. Harry has been portrayed since a very young age (since being a minor) as a guy who fancied older woman, and a “womanizer”, and has been rumored to date numerous famous women, so this story about him always dating hot models has been pushed since he was 17 years old. Of course, the people who look closely into it can see that story is not completely true so as not to say completely false. Besides, in the late moments of one direction and onwards, a CLEAR change in harrys image happens. We no longer see “frat boy harry” always surrounded by women, but we see a more delicate and slightly femenine harry, but of course, who continues to constanlty date woman. I believe this change in image was allowed and was posible because of the success in the portrayal of harrys persona of being a womanizer. This idea was so well imposed that him, dressing with a bit of more colorful clothes, would not bring doubts towards his sexuality.

The thing is, if Harry Styles came out, he could easily become one of the biggest icons for queer people in the world nowadays, helping a lot of young people accept and come to terms with their sexuality, seeing he himself might be queer as well. But instead, he appears to remain quiet and doesnt address his sexuality.

Basically, what i want to make clear is the fact that harry is NOT queerbating, but his marketing makes him seem like he actually is. My belief is harry is a queer man, but is not able to state it publicly for various reasons, being a better option just to remain ambiguous and silent about the subject. The term “glass closet”, which is known in the fandom, can apply to Harry’s situation, as he might be in a position where he shows himself as being queer, he dresses in a stereotypical queer way and has queer mannerisms thus everybody assumes he is queer and everyone is aware of his gender identity because its made clear and obvious, but nobody actually acknowledges it. 

Another important point in this is that Harrys fandom is immense. Thats why its natural that its divided into many groups of people that believe different things. Its safe to say that a big number of people who like harry and like his music are also physically attracted to him, and its true a lot of times people tend to sexualize him and everything he does. Basically, a big amount of fans want to f*ck him, meaning, sex is selling in this occasion. “Sex sells” is a well known marketing strategy, and because his team constantly pushed this womanizer image on him, this strategy actually did work.

So, by remaining silent towards this topic (his sexuality) harry is able to keep the large amount of fans who are physically attracted to him, and therefore listen to his music, and the queer fans who feel represented and feel safe listening to him and having him as an idol.

Thank you for reading, sorry if some parts are not as clear, english is my second language