r/TheDreamAcademy

I'm happy for herrr

the song playing is aint in la also, i love how she supports all the girls post dream academy 💙

I know this post is going to get downvoted into oblivion, but Naisha is valid in her clapback at the trolls who are still bullying her over a comment she made three years ago, which she has since apologised for. They’re also accusing her of being obsessed with Manon and stealing her style over things like wearing waist beads.
After years of abuse and weeks of people accusing her of copying Manon with the waist beads, she finally responds, and now the comments are filled with abuse and death threats telling her to delete the post and stop mentioning Manon when they’re the ones who brought Manon up in the first place. They’re also conveniently ignoring the substance of her tweet that she’s been wearing waist beads since she was 11, and thin, straight eyebrows have been a trend long before Manon.

From the start in Dream Academy, Lexie introduced herself as a producer and she talked many times how she loves making music. That's why I've been hoping for Saint Satine/Prelude to get involved in their artistry, especially since Lexie is a producer and Emily is a choreographer. Lexie was indeed mentioned as a producer in the official articles when Prelude was first announced last year and she posted being at the studio with other producers before their group was made. Also, songwriting and producing were included in the category of skills that HxG looked for in the Japanese audition which is unique and rare for kpop survival shows.

When World Scout started, the trainee that caught my attention was Rinka because she mentioned in her profile that she specializes in songwriting/composing and she's studying multiple languages. She mentioned it again in her interview that she's very good at writing and composing songs, and how she will make use of that in the competition. The question was what is their "determination for the audition", the other trainees answered similarly about doing their best, but Rinka was the only trainee who answered it differently that's specific about songwriting. It looks like she auditioned as a songwriter, as if she believed that it was gonna have an integral part of joining the global group instead of the typical kpop group. In Round 1, they didn't show Rinka's singing or dancing, but they only showed her rapping and Son's comment about her was that she's the trainee with "a lot of musical talent", which was also different compared to their comments on the other trainees' performances that's usually just about singing/dancing/star quality. Another interesting fact is, in the initial Japanese casting call for Prelude, the age range was only 15-20 years old, but when the World Scout audition was announced, HxG increased it to 15-24 years old. Rinka was the only trainee who wasn't in the age range before that made it (she was 21 and turned 22 in November before she came to LA). It seems like HxG changed the age limit for Rinka who was also the closest to Lexie's age. Lexie is 2004 while Rinka is 2003 and other kpop companies hasn't been taking 2003-2004 trainees in the recent years since they're already considered old, but I think Rinka was an exemption because she has the songwriting skills. Although, HxG didn't show anything about songwriting and it didn't had a part in World Scout (When the Prelude members introduced their 2 songs that they said they worked on, people thought that they took part in the music production, but it turned out they didn't. Also, when Rinka was brought back in LA she talked again about songwriting, but it was an unreleased footage that wasn't included in the show.)

People thinks that Lexie left the group because HxG changed their concept. Adding an inexperienced minor to their group was obviously a factor that changed their dynamics, aside from the cultural gap and language barrier, there was a bigger disconnect with Lexie who was the oldest member. But the "presented vision" and "future plans" that Lexie mentioned in her letter could also mean "artistic vision" and "creative process". When Prelude was announced, Lexie joining in as the last member was unexpected since she left Dream Academy before and one of the reasons was because she wanted to be a producer. I've always thought that Lexie decided to return to HxG again because they likely made a condition that she can get involved in the music production of their group, but unfortunately, the plans for Saint Satine was changed and the direction they're going in for became different. Lexie was probably led to believed by HxG that she could become a producer, but they switched up on her and she lost her chance to do that in the group. I think this is one of the reasons why Lexie left but people don't really talk about it.

Overall, connecting all these pieces, it could have been better. There's so much missed opportunities and it just turned to waste. HxG is not smart at all and they don't care about artistry. What makes it even more sad is how Lexie joined HxG among the original trainees since 2021, but now she's gone again because they broke her trust. It looks like Saint Satine is turning more like idols who caters to younger​ kpop fans, but hopefully​ Lexie will find her right path where she can express her passion as a creative artist.​​

There's another video of Samara walking away, thinking they had just finished taking the photos lol—they all look gorgeous!!

I see two Latinas in this photo, hehe.

repost cause i messed it up. i went of the katseye wiki and put down nationalities and ethnicities listed for each contestant

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Obviously joking, but zamn the girls look so good together

I don't know what I loved more: the interaction between my favorite duo, Lara and Samara 🤍, or Yoonchae hugging Sakura and Megan looking super happy.🥹🤍