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meowzers-mayhem · 8 months ago
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konglish is a thing. it is a word in the english lexicon. apparently.
basically in korean there are a lot of english loanwords that have been modified in some way
from what i understand konglish is used mainly to describe words that have been abbreviated or have had their meaning changed? one example of a loanword that's had its meaning completely changed is 원피스 (won pee su/one piece), which is "dress" in korean
im just sitting here like. who exactly decided that KONGLISH would be a good name for this??
konglish sounds like it'd be a conlang using exclusively sprites of donkey kong 64 collectibles for the writing system or something
now i have this burned into my head whenever i'm studying loanwords 😭
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spenjelly · 7 months ago
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Thoughts on English names in Korean
I have been trying to Konglishify English-speaking-people’s names and it has come to my attention that most of the traditional spellings that are provided are not how the name owner would prefer it spelled.
I think the issue is that translators are prioritizing the spelling over the pronunciation.
Also people just have preferred variations to how someone would say their name if the normal lettering is unavailable.
Examples of preferred spellings, from ppl i have asked:
Diana: 다야나
Robby: ㄹ오비
Jessica: 제세카
David: 데옏
Keep in mind that not all ppl would necessarily prefer this, this is just individual preferences.
Thoughts?
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likeliteralee · 1 year ago
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awaaaaan · 5 months ago
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best rapper in the WORLD!
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bbina · 1 month ago
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no fr both k-briizes and c-briizes are getting crazy 💀 i've seen some really rude comments ... especially on wvs, that app smells TOXIC asf today
TY FOR THE EXPLANATION BTW I THINK I GOT IT
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wvs stinky wbk 🥴 ngl some of the tweets r lowkey funny bc of how dramatic it is so im jus reading through them rn trying to see if there are any sane kbriizes .. so far theres only 1 😭 i saw one talking about how they dont want their fav to be next to sh AS IF HE DIDNT SAY THE MEMBERS REACHED OUT TO HIM FIRST??? but whatever they'll get used to it eventually
i cant wait how riize will be up on wvs later today or tomorrow 😭 hit everyone with "what is briize doing~~ just landed in madrid~~" 😭
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msburgundy · 4 months ago
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Hangul inspired English is a thing
not if i can help it
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ryoumensan · 6 months ago
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this is such a jam
anyone know more vocaloid rap like this?
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miserye · 1 year ago
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I desperately need KAT to learn korean so I can gossip in public AHH
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nicecurves · 2 years ago
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superfluouskeys · 11 months ago
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in honor of prev flashback to the time i saw stray kids written in korean for the first time and had no idea what it said until i copy-pasted it to look it up 😔😔
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alachii · 2 years ago
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최치열 really said do y’all need a malnourished pathetic wet cat of a 주인공 and made him the most lovable character ever
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bellaaae · 9 months ago
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Yn speaking KONGLISH for 7mins straight! [108k views]
>Notes!:Korean in italics
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— clip one✰
<newjeans in New York>
“Yn what do you want?” Minji asked yn who was in her own world.
“Huh?” Yn asked as she came out of her zone.
“What do you want to eat?” She repeated the question.
“Chicken…..” she started trying to remember the name.
“Chicken….Nugget?” She asked trying to get the English name because she had heard of it on the internet.
“One chicken nugget” Minji told the waiter who nodded and went to tell the chef the orders.
— clip two✰
Comment:Yn can you please speak English?
“Speak English?” Yn asked to confirm.
“Sure!,but I’m not that good” she warned the viewers.
Comment:What did you do this morning?
“This morning…When I woke up…I-i umm prayed to God,Then I….….” She paused trying to say the sentence.
“Went on my phone” she said fake pressing her phone to the camera illustrating to fans who didn’t understand.
“Minji unnie called me for breakfast” she said making an eating gesture.
“After breakfast I did my morning Skin care then had my shower before coming to do this current live” she spoke with a Korean accent then applauded.
— clip three✰
“Who’s the tallest between Hanni unnie and yn?” Hyein read out a comment.
“It’s me!” Yn said making Hanni raise an eyebrow and look at yn.
“How tall are you?” She asked yn.
“I’m about 160cm tall” yn said making Hanni laughs softly.
“Yn you’re shorter than me….” She said making yn tilt her head.
“I am?” She asked confused.
“But I’m 160cm tall are you about 2cm taller?” YN asked making hanni realize what’s going on.
Yn had mixed up shorter and taller in English.
“Yes you are your mistaking taller for shorter”hanni explained and yn made an ‘oh’ before nodding.
— clip four✰
<Newjeans live>
Gaurr_16:Can you all please say I love bunny’s in English?
“Sure why not” Danielle said and looked at the rest of the members who agreed.
“I love bunnies” Minji said in an American accent making hanni and Danielle coo
“Oi Laurve bunnies” Danielle said in her thick Aussie accent.
“I love bunnies” both haerin and hyein said at the same time making them look at each other and laugh.
“I…love….bunnies” hanni said word by word
“I saranghae bunnies” yn said making everyone look at her and laugh.
Her words were completely different from every one else.
“Yn in English saranghae is love” Danielle corrected yn who looked at her not understanding what she said.
— clip five✰
“Yn what’s going to be your representative emoji?” Hyein asked yn who hadn’t come up with her representative emoji yet.
“A cat would fit you because of your eyes” Danielle suggested.
“I don’t want to be a cat,I want an animal that has chubby cheeks like me,and fans already use cat emoji sometimes for Haerin unnie” yn explained.
“A hamster has cubby cheeks?” Hanni also suggested.
“But that’s already Haerin unnie representative emoji” yn pouted.
“I know! A mouse!” Yn exclaimed smiling.
— clip six✰
Q;What position do you want in newjeans?
“I actually have positions,my position is main rapper,main dancer,Centre and Maknae” yn stated to the camera.
✰𝐍𝐄𝐖𝐉𝐄𝐀𝐍𝐒
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a-pop-of-korean · 2 years ago
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One-Page Masterlist
안녕하세요! Hey everyone! I recently got an ask about my old masterlist, which is the same as my broken-down masterlist except it has all of my lessons on one page, rather than on multiple separate posts. Some may find this expanded version easier to navigate, so I’ll keep this up for y’all! My broken-up masterlist, of course, will still be available for those who find that more helpful :)
Hangul Lessons
Consonants
Vowels
Writing/Reading Korean Syllables
Some 받침 Rules
Diphthongs
Stroke Order
Some More 받침 Rules
Irregular Verbs
The Basics
Common Phrases
Numbers
Sino-Korean vs. Native Korean Numbers (Instagram Post)
Sentence Structure and Particles
Present-Tense Conjugations and Formal Language
Adjectives
Questions
Honorifics and Casual Language
Beginner
Negative Sentences
잘 and 못
Past Tense
Future Tense (-ㄹ / 을 것이다)
-ㄹ / 을 까요? (Shall we…? / I wonder…?)
-(으)세요 (Giving Commands / Asking Questions)
Telling Time
-고 싶다 (I want to…)
How to Say “And”
-지만 (However)
아/어/여서 (So…)
Negative Commands
Spacing (띄어쓰기)
Adverbs
ㅂ Irregular
Comparatives and Superlatives
난, 날, & 내가
Upper-Beginner
 -(으)면 (If…)
아/어/여도 (Even though…/Even if…)
(으)면 되다 / 아/어/여도 되다 (I can…/You may…)
-아/어도 되다: Asking for and Giving Permission (Instagram post)
-(으)면 되다 & -(으)면 안 되다 (Instagram post)
아/어/여야 되다 and 아/어/여야 하다(Have to / Should)
Present Progressive (-고 있다)
How to Say “Or”
-아/어/여하다
All About 중
How to Use -(으)로
Before & After
-ㄴ/은 채로
Intermediate
Describing Nouns with Verbs (-는 것)
Describing Nouns with Verbs - Past & Future Tense (-ㄴ/은 / -ㄹ/을 것)
Nominalization
것 같다 (I think… / It seems…)
-러 가다 / -러 오다
-(으)려고 (In order to…)
-기로 하다 (to Decide to do Smth)
척하다 (To Pretend)
-게 되다 
-군요 / -구나
아/어/여 보다 (to try…)
-은/ㄴ 적 있다 / 없다 (I have / have not)
-ㄹ/을 게요 (Future Tense)
겠다 
-ㄹ/을 수 있다/없다 (I can / cannot)
-ㄹ/을 때 (When…)
-ㄴ/는다면 (If)
-(으)면서 and -(으)며
-(으)니까 (Because / So)
-아/어/여주다
-(ㄴ/는)다 (Narrative Form)
Quoting
Let’s…
Quoting continued
(으)ㄹ래요? (Wanna…?)
-죠
-대로
More Quoting - 대 & 래
잘하다 & 못하다 vs. 잘 하다 & 못 하다 
-아/어 가지고
-(으)려면
-는 길에 & -는 길이다
-(으)면 vs. -ㄴ/는다면 (Instagram Post)
-았/었을 것이다
-느라고
-는 데(에)
-ㄹ/을 뻔하다
Upper-Intermediate
-ㄴ/는데
-(으)ㄴ/는지 (Whether or not)
-(이)라는…
All About 아무리
-잖아요
Expressing Surprise
-시 (Honorific)
Making Comparisons
-아/어/여지다
I might…
So that…/To the point where…
Causative Verbs
시키다
Passive Verbs (part 1)
Passive Verbs (part 2)
-ㄴ/은가 보다 & -나 보다 (I guess…)
-ㄹ/을수록
Other Meanings of 싶다
-자마자 & -는 대로(As soon as…)
-긴 하다
-치고
-김에
차라리 (Rather)
-(으)ㅁ Nominalization
-기는 무슨 & -기는 개뿔
-고 보니까
-듯(이)
버리다
-(으)면 좋겠다 & -(으)면 하다
-길 바라다
Advanced
-거든(요)
-줄 알다/모르다
-ㄹ/을 테니까 and -ㄹ/을 텐데
-았/었던
아니라 and 대신에
-ㄹ/을 리가 없다
편이다, 별로, and More
-지 그렇다 (Why don’t you…?)
-ㄹ/을 걸
-ㄹ/을 까 보다
-다면서요
-다니 part 1 
-다니 part 2
뜻이다 & 말이다
-다가
-더라고(요)
-더니
Some colloquialisms: 아니시에이팅 and 뭐 이렇게
-(으)ㅁ Sentence Ending
 -다 보니까
What does 따위 mean?
-ㄴ/는데도
Korean Idioms
Vocabulary
Must-Know People
Must-Know Places
Must-Know Things
Must-Know Verbs
Must-Know Adjectives
Countries
Months, Days of the Week, and More
Clothing (옷)
School (학교)
Autumn (가을)
Autumn (w/Pictures!)
More Questions
House / Apartment (집 / 아파트)
Emotions / Feelings ( 감정)
Animals (동물)
Loan / Konglish Words
Food and Drink (먹을 것과 마실 것)
Parts of the Body (몸)
Counters
Modes of Transportation (교통 수단)
Colors (색깔)
Colors (with Pictures!)
Weather (날씨)
Winter (겨울)
Music & Instruments (음악과 악기)
Baking Gingerbread Cookies
Emergency (비상)
Hygiene & Bathroom (위생 & 화장실)
Indefinite Pronouns
Work / Office (일 / 사무실)
Spring (봄)
Coronavirus Prevention (코로나바이러스 방역)
How to Wash Your Hands (손을 씻기)
Time (시간)
Korean Cuisine (한식)
Summer (여름)
Summer (여름) w/Pictures!
Graduation (졸업)
Identity (독자성)
Korean Text Slang
Similar Words
Makeup w/Pictures! (화장품)
Family (with Pictures!)
Pronouns
How to Say “Still” and “Already” in Korean
Tastes & Textures (맛과 질감)
K-Pop Audition
K-Pop Fandom Terminology
Different Ways to Say “Change”
Flower Names
What Does 원래 Mean?
What does 오히려 Mean?
College
Hanja Lessons
부 & 불
과 
특 
후 
Charts
Present, Past, and Future Tense
Question Words
잘 vs. 못 and Negative Conjugations 
Future Tenses 
-았/었던 vs. -던 (at end of lesson)
Particles
Some 받침 Rules
Gifving Commands
Conjunctions and -아/어/여서 vs. -(으)니까
-(으)면 vs. -다/라면 and Different Ways to Say “And”
How to Say “Or” (at end of lesson)
Telling Time (at end of lesson)
Comparatives and Superlatives
잘하다 & 못하다 vs. 잘 하다 & 못 하다 (at end of lesson)
Comparing 잘하다/못하다, 잘 하다/못 하다, & 수 있다/수 없다
Irregular Verbs
Pop Quizzes
Level 1
K-Pop Breakdowns
TXT - “Cat & Dog”
Twice - “Feel Special”
Enhypen - “Fever”
2NE1 - “Go Away”
Lee Hi - “Only”
“기억을 걷는 시간 (Time Spent Walking Through Memories)”
KCM - “An Old Love Story (흑백사진)”
Taeyeon - “Can’t Control Myself”
Epik High - “Lost One”
Colde - “A Song Nobody Knows”
IU - “My Sea”
Enhypen - “Polaroid Love”
유라 (youra) - “하양 (RAL 9002)″
BTS - “Ddaeng”
Stray Kids - “For You”
Woozie - “어떤 미래 (What Kind of Future)
TXT - “Eternally”
LOONA - “Heart Attack”
Stray Kids - “Muddy Water”
LOONA - “Girl Front”
Pentagon - “Daisy”
BTS - “Sea”
Semester in SK
Nami Island (남이섬)
Things to Buy at Daiso
Shopping Phrases
Ordering Coffee
Signs in Korea
Ordering at a Restaurant
Riding the Seoul Subway
Things at the 편의점
Korean Curse Words
Etiquette in South Korea
Drinking Culture
Hanja in Real Life
Holidays in South Korea
Korean Cuisine
Concert Ticketing in South Korea
K-pop Comebacks in Korea
Summer in South Korea
What I Learned
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baenxietydad · 11 months ago
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@justkeepdancing-nemo
"Okay then if you're not mad then what are you?" Mu-yeol hissed, throwing up his hands. "It's like, why do I ever try talking to you?"
He sped up a couple steps ahead of Nemo.
"Just, I'm asking you to articulate your feelings and you won't, I don't understand!"
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So We're Talking About This || The Baes
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tzuyuscloud · 2 years ago
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Translation Yunjin x 6th member
Scenario: Yunjin translating everything for y/n because they’re bad at Korean
Just a quick little scenario in this long drought
Even though you’ve lived in Korea for a year now, you still struggled with the language. Chaewon would spend about two hours daily teaching you Korean, and would only let the girls speak to you in Korean, which made Eunchae sad at times because of the language barrier when she saw your brows furrow in confusion when she would tell you about her day. Though you weren’t completely lost with the language, being able to understand it well just not speak it as well. So during interviews, live streams and filming, Yunjin had took it upon herself to translate whatever you said so that you could learn how to say certain words and so that everyone else could understand your broken konglish.
“Ah Yunjin unnie you didn’t have to translate for me” you pouted. You stood backstage with the girl as she playfully rolled her eyes. “Someone had to do it” she laughed at your attempt at speaking Korean once again.
“I’d never thought your Korean would be more bad than Kazuha trying to write in Korean” Yunjin sighed, earning a slap on the arm from Sakura who appeared behind her.
“yah! leave Kazuha alone. She’s getting better”
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roo-bastmoon · 1 year ago
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IMPORTANT INFO: issues around Jimin’s album
I have an ARMY friend (who shall remain safely anonymous) who works in film production for the music and entertainment industry here in the US. They offered me some valuable insights today into production limitations and possible issues related to Jimin’s solo album.
Below the cut is a transcript of their messages to me. I share this in the hopes it better informs our discussions around fair treatment of BTS members’ releases. It is by no means a definitive account of Jimin’s situation—simply an insider’s ideas on what likely happened around a few things.
I understand there are very big feelings about this topic, especially with the apparent differences around JK’s single, and I appreciate everyone’s viewpoints. However, if you choose to interact with this post, you will be respectful to others (including members) or you will be blocked. You are always welcome to DM me privately if you need to vent—we are all human and we all need a bit of grace, so you’ll always have that with me.
Sending you guys so much love, Roo
Anonymous Insider
Some “light reading” while you’re resting up and recovering, lol. This is all just based on what I’ve been watching and seen. Of course, I don’t have access to their production budget sheet and Korea works very differently than the US when it comes to production, but this what I’ve been seeing when it comes to their videos and particularly the promotions for FACE.
(I’m sending in sections, lol)
Alrighty - I’m still like deep in edit-land (still am two days later 😭) but I started typing this on the train between meetings, ha ha. (And am still on the train doing this, lol.) Also this rambles a bit I’m sorry! So the first thing I did was go back to the interview where Jimin talked about the music videos — it was a Japanese TV show and he’s talking with a host in Korean.
He’s talking about “wanting to do it all,” laughs and says, “I wanted all the music videos” and that “they” (the company assuming) said “무리다” which has its roots in the word 무리 which means a herd, a party, a group — basically “it’s too much,” “it’s unreasonable,” and “it’s impossible” are decent translations as it refers to something or an idea being “too much” — then the host and Jimin burst out laughing and the host goes “서리와 무리다” which I read as “sorry (in konglish) but we can’t” and they continue to laugh. So based on that —it sounds very understandable.
We can imagine Jimin sitting down with his team and planning out SMFP2 and LC videos, with the 30 dancers and all the party scene extras, and then Jimin saying he wants to do the music shows with 6 different sets in rented locations so they could have total control. And if Jimin in that process went “what if we made official music videos for all of them?” the team would understandably go “that’s just not reasonable!” 1) because it would give Jimin a budget no other member had gotten and 2) there aren’t that many production houses in Korea. It’s a very small scene — it may just logistically not been possible. There aren’t enough DPs and crew and editors. Sometimes, as a producer, you have to tell your creative talent “I’m sorry, but no.” — I say it every week!
So what about the music videos? Well, here’s what I know from meticulously watching all the behind the scenes for BTS videos over the years. They work with a small team. They likely own a good deal of the gear — they shoot mainly on RED cameras and heavy expensive Cooke lenses (which you can’t get this stuff easily in Korea. I lost a lens cap for a Canon CINÉ Lens in Seoul and it was like this whole big deal because getting gear there is an import challenge but anyways) they use MOVI and Ronin gimbal stabilizers and Jimmy Rigs a lot.
Recently they’ve been using technocranes but I wonder how many technocranes there are in Seoul. As I said, they likely own a lot of this gear which can help with costs. But we’ve also been told — and I’ve heard through my industry friends — that Hybe PAYS. And in Korea there’s no unions in the entertainment world, and often the rates are shit (hence Netflix investing so much there - blerg) their standard work week is also already 12 hours longer than the US. It’s a whole thing. and they spend so much money on sets. It’s incredible.
They rent these huge spaces outside Seoul and BUILD — I mean the build out for SMFP2 was astounding. They easily dropped 1million on that video. The rigging, the build-out, the custom set and the custom camera rigs to achieve the 360 shots - the drone shots. They’re astounding videos. No US label is spending that money on videos these day. Absolutely none of them are — my friend recently produced a video for John Legend. They were trying to pull the whole thing off for $100K which is ridiculous. It’s really almost impossible.  
But on the Big videos they spend a lot of money, but they also produce a lot of other stuff too (and these are often looked at as Performance Videos vs all-caps MUSIC VIDEOS) -— like RM’s video shoot at DIA Beacon… that was a much smaller, fairly single camera shoot — all shot on drones or a MOVI handheld rig. No set, they also didn’t like pay for the set because DIA: Beacon is an art museum — and similar a little bit to Letter for Jimin, which was much smaller set and easy in-house gear.
(And it was also released on Bangtan TV channel vs Hybe Labels Channel, which is a good indicator of how they categorize these shoots.) But the big videos, they go for broke. I mean they spend so much money and again they may own a lot of the equipment but there’s still so much people-power and labor involved. Take the dancers’ rehearsals. You have to pay people for all that — you have to pay them for the weeks of rehearsal, you have to pay them to be in a video. It is so expensive — like, I would not be able to budget that video for under 1 million, that’s how much it costs.  
So then Jimin wanted to do music shows —- and so because he’s Jimin and it’s BTS, Hybe rented larger venues and locations for all of the shoots. None of them use the actual Broadcast spaces or were provided by the broadcast studios. The smaller companies do though — remember when BTS first started out they went to SBS to film on the day? — but they don’t do that anymore. They rent huge facilities so that they could be a mini concerts for ARMYs to visit with Jimin and see him.
They also have to do this kind of outside of the city and they built huge sets because they’re going to want to show off if they’re gonna be on TV but that is so expensive. (I don’t think you were an ARMY then, but when ON was released, at the time it was the “biggest broadcast performance ever” and they keep upping that ante for sure!) It’s possible the broadcast companies spend some money but what BTS is doing is so outside the usual budget and given the tension with the broadcasters and HYBE — they (Hybe) wants control of their products, and so I think they pay for that control.
I can’t imagine they got out of any of those days for under $500K; I mean, there were two different sets, all the crew; they’re paying for all of it. We add it up and they probably spent close to $3-5 million between Jimin’s music videos and his music show performances, and I would be understandably like: “That’s it!” Like, that’s the budget for an EP, you know.
I don’t think Jimin could have it all because that wasn’t the case for the other members. RM got to lead videos and J Hope had pyrotechnics, which definitely costs money and safety and insurance. You know he had visual effects his first video (a lotta visual effects) and again a lot of challenging technocrane work, but I haven’t really seen them build something on the scale of what they built for SMFP2 in a very long time (or ever?).
We heard from the Art Dept that Jimin did not want to shoot on blue screen, so they built the set for him. This cannot be the same label that is shafting him — that allows him to spend that amount of money just because the artist said “I want to shoot in a real space!” because I’m gonna be completely honest— he could’ve done that on a blue screen — I’m glad they built a real world because BTS almost always shoots on Blue/Green Screen. They build him a huge set like that. It’s absolutely incredible.
I was also reminded this morning that people are talking about radio for Like Crazy and not supporting the song — and I just keep thinking that they did exact rollout for Butter, Dynamite, and Permission to Dance. They released Like Crazy. It had both a Korean version and English version. (Obviously that wasn’t the case for the English BTS songs.) They released two additional remixes. Then they kept releasing, like, alternate cover versions — alternate covers of the main remix, alternate cover the other remix. They were trying to maximize the direct-to-consumer store and exact same way they had tried to maximize it with Dynamite and Butter and Permission to Dance.
The way you were buying Like Crazy was the same process I took on Dynamite. They did the exact same playbook. So the fact that they were unable to get the kind of radio play they wanted or maybe they weren’t prioritizing radio because they knew that they were gonna have a better chance at direct to consumer sales... Maybe they didn’t want to fight radio. Maybe Geffen was like “We don’t have the right ‘Ins’ yet!” — I’m not sure, but the fact that they got completely screwed over by Billboard doesn’t mean that they weren’t actually rolling it out in that way, because as soon as they started doing the whole alternate cover thing, I was like: “Well, they clearly want us to try to go for number one!” You know, “They clearly think that they are going to be able to get number one on the hot 100 and we’re gonna use these sales to do that!” And clearly that’s all changed now.
They keep changing the rules on us, so — with JK, they’re obviously trying to, you know, use whatever tools they have available to them at this point.
Finally, when it comes to restocking the digital single CD. There are still albums available in the store. So why would they manufacture and ship more (likely thrown away) plastic that’s just for one song, when those CD singles only serve to raise sales for the charts? All of the other member’s CD singles are out of stock except The Astronaut, which they treated more like a proper album a bit (kinda like the Butter CD releases). Because they still have both versions of his full albums in stock, so if I were Hybe, I’d be like “No,you need to buy the album, we still have albums, we’re not going to sell you a single song when you can buy the album!” That makes more sense to me. The albums cost more.
TL:DR, haha — so I feel like this narrative around Jimin’s release has been ramped up because, from my professional opinion, he’s had the most expensive release so far (by far) and if we want to compare him to, say, Beyoncé — well she owns her own production company (Parkwood Entertainment), so she can funnel her own money into a Visual Album, I don’t know if Jimin has considered that at this point in his career, but in the future, he might!
((Not including costs for Suga’s tour because that’s a whole other thing, and the tour probably made money I would expect to balance out the cost of the tour itself))
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This isn’t to say that the other things, the part where he didn’t get the cake celebration, or the posts, the issues with the linking and this general feeling that Jimin was short-changed in these things isn’t valid and understandable. I think Hybe relied too much on D2C sales and I don’t think they leveraged their might as much as could have for JM. They could have risked more for him.
{This is an end of Anonymous Insider’s messages to me. They noted that they are an intermediate non-native Korean speaker so please excuse any translation errors. They translated things themselves using Naver tools that aligned with the video subtitles.}
So, listen, I still don’t think Like Crazy was sent/promoted to radio (which was a mistake and still is a mistake) and I am furious at the shady articles and lack of celebration for Jimin…
But after reading the way the members approach their work in the Beyond the Story book and now hearing from someone who produces these works for a living, I have to wonder if the company was doing everything they knew how to do for Jimin, but the second it didn’t work out because of the western music industry culling streams and sales, they pulled back all their resources and pivoted for Yoongi and JK. (I also wonder if leadership shut up about it all due to liability issues, or not to cause bad blood with the music industry for future releases.)
Again, I’ll never forgive the lack of celebration and the split streams (not without a great explanation), but at least now I think there’s a good chance no one was actively trying to sabotage Jimin on purpose. They seemed to have wanted that #1 and then it all went to shit because Billboard and radio want to get paid. Maybe leadership decided not to put any more resources into Face but instead pivot for all the future music coming out (including PJM2.)
Perhaps I'm a cockeyed optimist. I’m just hoping like hell they never engage in payola. I want all our boys to win, but I want us to win fairly. And even if everyone cannot have the same investment every time on every project, I hope when they come back together in 2025 that everyone feels good about their solo works and each other. This is my prayer. Love, Roo
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