#im annoyed that tactical became a default bg styling bc it makes the cbs that actually justify its usage feel lazy yanno

[sanstropfremir]

does it feel like quite a few comebacks have really dropped the ball styling-wise this year? you've mentioned Taeyong's Shalala with the recycled NCT wardrobe, but i feel like i'm seeing so many jeans and tee shirts on music shows lately and it just looks so lazy. Like I was shocked at how for P1Harmony's Jump for example, it felt like the stylists had made zero effort at all (which is a shame since the song is throwback in nature that we could've gotten a riot of 2012-kpop looks).

yea there kinda has been a drought this year on styling, at least in the first half. it's been oddly consistent in a way though, if that makes sense? i'm looking through my first half styling playlist and it doesnt seem like there's as many cbs as there usually is on there, but there's still around the same number of videos bc the stylings that have been good have HIT with pretty much everything. just scrolling through its like. every halazia stage every rose blossom stage every xg stage every tic tac stage every sweet juice stage etc etc. lots of stuff's been pretty meh all around and therefore doesn't make the initial cut, but there's comparatively few of middling missed opportunity ones. i think the biggest ones there for me are shalala and rover, which i think i did publish that ask about......i think.

it especially feels like a dirth rn i think bc may and some of june were pretty slow for good releases in general, so now that there's more groups in the summer cb swing it feels more obvious that the styling has been pretty bland. also it doesn't help that ateez kicked off the season with an absolute slammer of a hit, both styling and song wise.