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Everytime tripleS is mentioned on the main subs it's something negative so I've decided to be the change I wish to see and make a positive post.

Starting with vocals

Dahyun, Jiwoo, Shion, Kaede are often considered the main vocals and they are exceptionally good. I'd even put Dahyun and Jiwoo among the best vocals of fifth gen. Shion and Kaede are not too far off either. Their vocals are really great.

Their most recent comeback "Baby Flower" really does a good job at showing off the vocal line's skill, the outro is heavenly. We also have Hayeon and Mayu as good vocalists, generally considered the leads. Seoah, Joobin and Chaeyeon are also really good as leads and it's been great watching Seoah (the maknae) getting her flowers for her vocals.

Hayeon also got to show off her vocals in the baby flower outro.

Shion and Kaede also got their moment with "cameo love" and "dream dress"

Dahyun, Jiwoo, Kaede also had "Door" and Aria subunit as a whole.

**Dance**

Now I'm not the most well versed when it comes to dance so I won't say too much on that. But I do think that the dance line is good. Kaede, Nakyoung, Hyerin, Nien, Kotone, Lynn, Sohyun, Yubin, Hayeon, Jiyeon.

**Rap**

tripleS songs don't really have that many raps but looking at their covers Nakyoung, Kotone and Nien are really good as well. Especially Kotone in the fake love cover they did at the KMA.

Onto their actual songs

I have enjoyed every tripleS title track so far. Some of my favourites being "Generation", "Rising", "Girls Never Die", "Girls Capitalism" and "Cameo Love". Aside from being catchy the lyrics are good. "Are You Alive" often leaves me with a mixture of sadness and hopefulness. It makes me think even though things suck now I can remain down and get back up later.

Onto their bsides, I'm going to segue way in to talking about my number bias, Park Sohyun. Sohyun is the producer of the group (not in the literal sense but she is known as the one most into writing and producing). Sohyun has participated in the writing of some of my favourite bsides "Moto Princes and "Deja Vu" being my favourite overall bsides and favourite co-written by Sohyun.

Aside from the bsides where Sohyun participated I really like "Atmosphere" (VV version) and "Cry Baby" LOVElution

Fan Voting

I think non fans tend to think it'll mainly be popular members and ships making it into units I do think WAVs do a good job at voting the right units.

Looking at the 2 units that required a specific skill, Aria which was the ballad unit and Visionary Vision, the members in the units were well chosen.

Aria had Dahyun (not voted on) plus Nien, Chaeyeon, Jiwoo and Kaede. Those were the ones generally considered the stronger vocalists (not all the members had been revealed yet)

Then Visionary Vision. Of the 12 members in the unit, 9 of them were the dance line. Again I'm not really that good at dance so I can't analyse them.

Plus even though (playful) shipping being pretty big in the fandom and among the group msnz has shown that WAVs aren't always going to vote based on the ships they want to see. Despite Ppotoz being a big ship and fans wanting crumbs between them, they were not in the same unit. In fact only two of the main ships (Seoyeon+Nien in neptune, Jiwoo+Yubin in zenith) were in the same units. I think each unit was balanced.

Learning the members faces

I personally did not put that much time into learning the members faces. But I'm like that with all the groups I stan. The way I personally did it, I would just watch content and stages and learn the names as I go. If a particular member catches my eye then I search them up. I managed to passively learn the entire group's names and faces in a month only searching up my initial bias line.

With that being said actively learning the members faces isn't that hard either. You can watch their reveal teasers and Haus move in videos (there's playlists on YouTube).

You can also choose a unit and start from there.

And of course "Badge War". It's great for learning their names and personalities. Season 1 only has the first 16 members. The later seasons (2+3) has all 24. Unfortunately Yubin was on hiatus while season 4 was being filmed so it only has 23 members.

Even if you don't stan tripleS I'd still recommend Badge War. The members are genuinely so funny. You have the ones who take it super seriously, the ones just trying to get screen time and then the ones who could win but are too kind to go all in.

So yeah that's it. I'm not expecting anyone to go out and stan them cause of this, I just wanted to finally put something positive of them out there.

So I've been subscribed to Kotone's Cosmo talk (alongside Sohyun, Yooyeon, Kaede, Lynn, and Hayeon) since the beginning of the beta period. I got the Sohyun reward objekt (the victory fairy one and not the summer DCO for some reason) but not Kotone's one from yesterday's objekt drop despite the fact that I kept checking the Cosmo app. Is it too late for me to get it? Did anyone else miss theirs?

I'm not trying to start a who missed more situation, I'm genuinely curious. I feel like the way people talk about it is a bit exaggerated.

So far what I know:

1. The first MAMA performance

2. Gabriella performance video

3. Summer Sonic day 1 (then attended day 2)

4. A day or two of the beautiful chaos tour (during the final days I believe)

This is just something that I noticed. I remember doing a concept analysis when someone asked about Illit's lore. In "Magnetic" each girl has their own distinct powers. The powers weren't showcased in a very distinctive way for "Cherish" and "DTD" (unless you count the girls floating in the air in the DTD as Iroha using her telekinesis to keep them afloat). But they were showcased in "Toki Yo Tomare" where we saw two members, Iroha and Moka use their powers. Iroha was sitting at a table and making things float. Moka used her powers to extend the last day of summer. There is a scene where we see something that implies magic being used but I'm not sure who's it is between Wonhee and Minju. It's me also does not really showcase their magic.

In "I got your back" we do see the girls use magic but not the original magic they had for magnetic. Moka is the only one who used her original powers with the time stop at 2:02. This is more implicit but you could interpret Yunah and Minju levitating at 2:16 as Iroha being the one controlling it. It's not as obvious but it still felt significant to bring up.

It's not like they couldn't have used their powers in the IGYB mv. In fact that would have been the perfect time to use them. Telekinesis, super strength, teleportation and light manipulation are all very useful powers when fighting a godzilla/dinosaur mutant (idk what that thing was) but they didn't. I do find it interesting that in the two Japanese comebacks it's the 2 Japanese members who get their og powers highlighted. It was also a nice way to highlight Moka. She doesn't get that many lines but she always stands out in other ways. Obviously it could have just been a stylistic choice but it's one that worked out pretty well either way.

My bias line is Sohyun, Kaede, Lynn, Kotone, Nien, Nakyoung. I don't really have anyone to talk about tripleS so I thought this would be a good question. I usually pick my biases based on the stage presence I like the most. So far they've been in various combinations making 6 units altogether.

LOVElution- Sohyun, Kaede, Nien

EVOLution- Nakyoung, Kotone

Aria- Kaede and Nien

Visionary Vision- the entirety of my bias line (fun fact they make up 50% of the unit)

Alphie- Nien, Kotone, Lynn

moon- Kaede, Sohyun, Lynn

neptune- Nakyoung, Kotone, Nien

I lucked out big time with VV actually.

I think people are getting a little too comfortable talking about the girls bodies. Yes we're all sad Danielle isn't returning, yes we all know that going back to Ador is a contractual obligation, but that doesn't mean we should be so comfortable talking about the girls like that. 2024 to 2025 have been stressful years,stress can cause weight loss. Not to mention there has been a big gap between when we last (officially) saw them, much less getting full body pictures.The last thing the girls need is people calling them sickly and skin and bones when they're already dealing with so much. Yes be concerned but for the love of god can we find ways to express that concern in constructive ways.