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I went into the documentary expecting some more insights into the making of these albums, why Kylie chose to release them, her thoughts, etc. We got a look at Indie Kylie but like they really skipped over 80% of it, lol?

Body Language is what I consider to be Kylie’s first attempt at breaking into America’s market, so I’m surprised she skipped from Light Years and straight into her cancer diagnosis. Granted, this album didn’t really make much of an impact in her career but this is my fave Kylie album as an R&B fan lol.

Kiss Me Once… yeah, I wanted to know everything happening in this album’s collaborator’s brains. Literally everything about this era was a hot mess.

A few days ago, they were on Seungkwan's talk show to talk about like, literally everything and shittalk Pledis in between. Seungkwan then pointed out, "It's been a long time since your debut. You still don't feel old, though."

Chaeyoung then replied, "Because we haven't released many albums" which resulted in a brief awkward silence lol. It's the honest truth though. 2022 was the year I want to say they came closes to being "overexposed", they were active on Tiktok, they had two successful comebacks and they were HYBE's golden girls for a few months.

I think her explanation summed it up: "Seeing someone four times a year VS seeing someone once a year. It's so refreshing! And sometimes, we appear once every two years. A bit of mystery, perhaps?"

This strategy ordinarily would not work for most groups, as we can see what happens when you shove most groups into a hiatus/other non-comeback activites after a big comeback/year. (Viviz, Weeekly, etc.) But for fromis_9, the 2019 hiatus and 2023 hiatus reset their image. Many Koreans actually thought Supersonic was their debut song because they've never heard of them prior to that point lol.

I don't think it's just about music quality. It's really about how the public sees you and how your branding is viewed.

Not a Lovelyz stan but after seeing the fuss with Jin on Xitter, I want to bring the discussion onto Reddit. I don't know if she showed signs of being right-wing pre-2026, but so far we've got:

- She reposted a post on her Instagram story supporting the protests around the election. The best TLDR I can do is that there were a shortage of ballots to avoid wastage and the Korea far-right accused the government of fraud because, get this --- conservatives are more likely to vote on Election Day rather than vote early like progressive voters. This meant that there are more ballot shortages in conservative areas.

- Afterwards, she followed Trump on Instagram. Like, what? I can get people giving her the benefit of the doubt for the first part. Maybe she's just centrist or reallllly "concerned" about political rights. This just makes her look straight up like a conservative nutjob combined with the first part. Her instagram is @/myungnee_ if you want to check for yourself.

I’ve been noticing that ASND has been catering to mostly Korean fans, which is fine. But with Melon introducing their Global chart (which tracks Japan, Korea and China’s streaming stats), I realized that fromis_9 has a rather meh Chinese fanbase compared to their peers.

I also check their Spotify profile and realized that there’s only one single Southeast Asian city in their top five cities (Bangkok).

As a Southeast Asian myself, I gotta admit, 70% of fromis’s exposure to the SEAsian fandom came entirely from being under HYBE. They’re one of the biggest company stans out there. Not that the girls aren’t under the company anymore, I feel like their exposure has been limited. Not to mention, they didn’t tour here either.

Do you guys think ASND will make a move to cater to Chinese/Southeast Asian market? They’ve already scheduled fromis for the Hanoi festival which is a good idea. They’re one of the most popular acts in the lineup so it’d be big exposure. But I think they could push for a lot more promotions.

Inspired by the thread on popheads.

Which KPOP group’s most popular song is their hardest to sing in their discography? Off the top of my head, so far I have Hearts2Hearts’s Rude! (an actually exhausting song to sing somewhat?) and fromis_9’s Supersonic (lots of high and low notes and whistle notes). I wanna also go with IZ*ONE’s Panorama, a super high song for no reason.

I think this trend is less prevalent in recent years because easy listening music is preferred a lot by the masses.

On the yearly news of idols correcting a misunderstanding during Korea's election season, fromis_9's Jiheon started her live on the app Fromm in a blue jacket. After doing the live for a bit, she quickly realized it's election season and had the most wide eyed look before rushing off screen to change into a black jacket.

For context, the color red represents the conservative party while the color blue represents the liberal party.

The clip already went viral on Twitter so I'm not that surprised that around this evening-ish, Jiheon made an appearance on KBS news with Lee Youngji for political color-related mishaps. (For context, Lee Youngji posted her new hair color with a red shirt on her Instagram story and made a quick apology on her story after.)

Her reaction was what made it hilarious tho LMFAO, her quick wide eyed look with "It's election season, isn't it?" before running off screen.

During fromis_9's mandatory yearly university festival tour, they've been performing their usual hits in Korea (DM, Supersonic, We Go, Like You Better). Except this time, they've replaced their third summer song (Stay This Way) with their Christmas remake of a 1st gen song (White Memories) that was actually very big in Korea. It went to the top ten of every charts.

It's funny to see them performing a song about being lonely in the winter season during the month where literally everyone is burning hot from the summer heat. Granted, they're probably obligated to perform it as it's now their second biggest song in Korea. I don't think even they expected White Memories to be that much of a hit since they were mostly known for their summer songs.

But you know what, get that bag, fromis. They allegedly earned 18k$ per university appearance according to a rumor early 2024. It's probably a lot higher by now.

Welcome to the arguably second most shocking fromis_9-related news this week. One Hundred's CEO (Cha Gawon) has been sued for lying to Fromm, a messaging app company, that fromis_9 was joining the agency and joining Fromm as artists. Fromm offered One Hundred an advance of close to 800k-900k dollars and was scammed out of it basically.

Ironically, fromis_9 would join Fromm but as artists in ASND. But, the details of this lawsuit gets even weirder. Apparently, One Hundred told Fromm that fromis_9 was joining them in October 2024, a month before the contract news were publicly released. There's a chance that fromis_9 could've gotten the news from HYBE even earlier that they weren't gonna renew the contract, and started searching for agencies, but still.

It's important to note that on January 17, 2025, there was an article about how fromis_9 OT5 was going to join Big Planet Made (a subsidiary of One Hundred). At the time, everyone dismissed it as misinformation or misreporting but there's a chance that fromis_9 could've considered joining the agency a while ago before deciding not to join for whatever reason.

This is such strange news to read a few days after their second full album was announced. But it checks out. Cha Gawon is a major A+ scammer who got away with this scheme for two years.