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[floraone]

IT LOOKS SO FRIGGIN STUNNING OMGGG

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[beautifulpersonpeach]

Have you seen the latest shitshow of the CBX SM drama bpp? When you said you expect the drama to drag on till May/June I was surprised, but it seems you were right --- again. Baekhyun just revealed SM hurried him to renew his contract despite some time left, because of the Kakao deal. He also said SM kept all the artists in the dark and they had to find out about HYBE's offers from the news. Bang PD was apologizing to the SM idols, while Chris Lee treated them like they were invisible, but Exols, Mys, Shawols, NCTzens, Reveluvs, and the whole kpop, claimed no company was more evil than HYBE. Armys were called every name under the sun for pointing out how many things from SM didn't make sense and now less than 1 month later, CBX are exposing their slave contracts and fighting for transparency. I feel so bad for the idols but SM stans don't even care? I was in a space yesterday and all they were saying is HYBE is worse, HYBE is a slave company, HYBE is this and that. And I'm just like ---- when do they fandom feuds end? IF THE WELLBEING OF THEIR IDOLS ISN'T ENOUGH TO MAKE THEM STOP HATING BTS ARMY AND HYBE, WHEN DOES IT END?

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Hi Anon,

Before getting into it, I want to be clear about one thing: HYBE has its own problems.

BigHit was an efficiently run company that balanced artist wellfare and development alongside commercial targets, very well, and Bang PD has managed to bring over many of those best practices to HYBE. Also, HYBE’s acquisition of American music labels early on the company’s lifetime, necessitated it being in-line with international corporate governance best practices under SEC guidelines - something no other k-pop agency has had to do. So at the most basic level, HYBE is easily the best run k-pop agency in Korea and this has been true for a long time.

But even then, the expansion of BigHit to HYBE meant pulling manpower and staff from other k-pop agencies especially Big 3, and there was a huge hiring of ex-SM staff that happened in 2020 - staff who brought over their own bias, work practices and culture. They’d have to adjust to how things were done at HYBE, but culture flows both ways so I suspect it also affected many things in HYBE, and it’s no secret there’s been an uptick in issues for BTS since HYBE’s creation that weren’t there under BigHit. But again, overall, HYBE is still one of the best run companies in Korea.

Here’s an excerpt from a proprietary research done on idol contracts in Korea basically showing as much (though HYBE isn’t explicitly named, also note the share of revenue SM takes from their artists relative to other companies):

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A lot of this information is old news, but as I keep saying, nothing in k-pop can be understood outside of the context of this being an ultra-, hyper-competitive space. That alone should explain the crux of k-pop stans’ behaviours to any issues that arise if something connected to BTS is involved. For as long as I can remember, BTS / BigHit and ARMYs have run counter-cultural to the norms here (until recently), and that has earned them being enemy numero uno. Nothing is more important in this space to k-pop stans, than hating the scapegoat - BTS and anything related to them by proxy and no that’s not an exaggeration.

ARMYs don’t make it any easier for them though (lol) when too many people are using this situation as a gotcha, but it’s also true there wouldn’t be a gotcha to be had now if k-pop stans had put aside their fear-mongering over ‘monopoly’ and whatnot in HYBE in the first place, to just think for a bit when Chris Lee was peddling tales of Pink Bloods in alliance, while Bang PD was drawing attention to the abysmal corporate governance in SM.

Everything SM is doing now, they’ve done before, many times, successfully, because the stans would rather excuse it and redirect blame on every other company, than on SM. The only exception to this pattern was in 1st and 2nd gen where fans supported the idols without compromise so SM had to change a bit. But lol, that was also before BTS - once BTS was introduced into the mix and it was clear they were an anomaly, the priorities of many stan communities in k-pop changed, and this has only gotten worse over the years. Everybody who has been here long enough knows it, including SM, and these behaviours have only been reinforced by most companies in this space because they know it takes the heat off them.

I mean, you all witnessed that this is exactly what SM did during the takeover drama.

If you go on YouTube right now, you’d see 10s of videos made about...

how HYBE is a monopolistic hydra of an evil company intent on ruining k-pop;

about HYBE having a girl group curse (not the companies that blacklisted female idols who have written books about abuse under SM, not the companies that female idols took to court over pimping, drug use and coercion, not the K-pop companies working with R Kelly to groom female minors, later having agency executives marry former female trainees, and so on that happens in Big3);

production and audio mixing problems (that none of these critics can actually explain);

about rumours of enslavement in BigHit for BTS;

...from 10s of accounts by k-pop stans, not just one source, based on barely cohesive fan theories, common vanilla business practices, and vibes. You won’t find anything nearly as close to this on SM, JYPE, or YG - even at the height of the Burning Sun scandal.

Selective amnesia is a coping mechanism for many k-pop stans, and a part of me is sympathetic towards some fans since many of them just want to support their fave idols and may feel like they have no choice when SM is involved. And like I've said before, all corporations have their own issues, but again, there's levels to this madness, and it has been clear to anyone with half a brain that SM is the worst of the bunch. And so it's also true SM stans have enabled a lot of this insanity.

CBX seem to be in good hands, so I hope it really works out for them. Their stans will find ways to cope by latching onto any mildly negative news out of HYBE for the next 12-ish months (again, we saw SM encourage this sort of thinking during the takeover drama), and things will chug on as they do here.

#sm entertainment #sme #hybe #bighit #bangtan #fandom discourse #fandom behavior #fandom behaviour #kpop #kpop fandom #kpop music #kpop industry

[moonlightink7]

Specific music edits side of tumblr HELP ME I want to recreate tonight. Almost (Sweet Music) except it's the end of your shift as a dishwasher and you're rinsing the last dishes and there's a LOUDASS JACKHAMMER against concrete that doesn't quite overpower the music but only because you have that one earbud in. It is the right ear btw. Thanks.

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[thekpopgossip]

EXO and SM...

I remember when I started this blog, one of the biggest stories to hit the news was EXO’s China line leaving the group and SM Entertainment (minus Lay). Now we’ve come full circle, the tradition continues and Baekhyun, Chen, Xiumin are also filing for contract terminations to get out of SM, signaling the end of EXO. This one is going to be a long read...

I knew SM never stopped mentally and financially abusing their idols (especially considering how all their idols magically stayed for +10 years). A little more backstory. After half of TVXQ left SM in 2009 because of those now infamous slave-contracts, and basically getting paid pennies when they brought in millions, SM blacklisted the boys, as well as Hangeng from Super Junior, who also left for similar reasons, but promised to change (a lie).

A few years ago, Girls Generation’s Jessica (who got kicked out in 2014) wrote her “fantasy book” about the shady contracts all the idols were forced to sign (rookies sign a 7-year-contract plus an additional 3-year-extension-contract, meaning the idols couldn’t freely negotiate better terms after the first one was up). Then in 2014, EXO’s Chris, Luhan and Tao left for the same exploitive contracts (proving SM hadn’t changed but found a loophole around new labor laws).

All those idols, Jaejoong, Junsu, Luhan, Jessica, etc. are still not able to promote their solo material on music shows, because SM threatened to not let their remaining idols visit those same shows. So cowardly, the TV stations backed SM and blocked everyone who filed a lawsuit to rightfully terminate those terrible contracts. Let me repeat that, the idols won against SM and were allowed to get out of those slave-contracts, but were punished for it by almost losing their careers. This was SM’s tactic for a long time to stop idols from leaving them (”backstab us, and you will never promote on TV again”).

Well, it’s 2023 and three EXO members just filed a lawsuit to get out of their slave-contracts with SM. Yes, SM never stopped financially abusing their idols, even though fans kept denying the incredibly unfair +10-year-contracts. We already know that Red Velvet have those long contracts, because there was zero news about their renewals after 7 years, like with pretty much every other k-pop group. And I’m pretty sure all of NCT and aespa were forced to sign those terrible contracts as well.

We will see how things unfold and whether the rest of EXO terminates their contracts as well, or whether more of the older idols finally speak up about their situation. Maybe even NCT members will try to get out of their contracts, it would be a glorious end to the shady, abusive company that SM is (and fuck Lee Soo Man for stealing idols money, embezzling it, blacklisting innocent singers after draining every penny out of them, and emotionally scaring them for life).

#exo #tvxq #snsd #super junior #nct #red velvet #aespa #sm #sme #lee soo man

[lee-aveyourmark]

Count your days SM Entertainment.

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[hifilounge]

Turntable Shootout, Rega Naia vs SME Model 12 vs Musical Fidelity M8xTT!

Hi Everyone,

Just thought it was doing a quick blog on a turntable shootout demo we had a couple of days ago for one of our customers, all around the £12k price point, between the Rega Naia, SME Model 12 MK2 and the Musical Fidelity M8xTT, all are stunning in their own right but which would you choose?

Cheers,

Paul.

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[mr1974]

Maria Grinberg playing Beethoven’s 32 Piano Sonatas.

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[possiblyrhodri]

This pisses me off beyond belief. Who the fuck are SME and how do I get them in the bin?

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[floraone]

#preview for the ring scene in cosmos!!!! gahhh #usamamo kisses #smc #sme

[beautifulpersonpeach]

Bpp can you pls share the source of that article? It's so fascinating how idol contracts work. Do you know the share of revenue hybe takes? They weren't named in the source but they suggest hybe takes only 20%?? Is this true?

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Hi Anon,

Normally I'm pretty open about sharing research papers (anyone still interested in that 2020 Harvard study btw, feel free to hit me up), but this particular one is proprietary so I'm afraid I can't. But you can find those numbers corroborated all over the internet - reddit, quora, twitter, etc. Like I've said, a lot of this is common knowledge for many people who have been here for a while. And yes in that study, HYBE is shown to take only 20% - 55% of the revenue split (varies by agency), and this is also inferred if you back-calculate their financials, and in staff testimonials on Blind and elsewhere - HYBE pays some of the highest in artist/personnel salaries in Korea. Here's another source of an American staff personnel saying HYBE paid even better than any job he did recently (he also met Suga lol).

This is one reason why I personally unlook when people here talk about how HYBE is money-hungry and what not. Because a good amount of that money goes directly to the artists, and that's better than the norm in the industry.

For example, where SM has the incentive to sabotage their own idols so long as those idols remain locked with the company since SM gets 95% of any revenue that comes in anyway - sacrificing near-term growth for long-term revenue stability; HYBE has the incentive to maximize revenue any way they can, because that's the only way they can grow their profits - they can't skim off more from the idols since they're contractually limited, they can only do more with those idols as often as possible, to maximize revenue to both HYBE and the artists. It's not perfect (HYBE gets more of the cut from merch I believe), but it's more win-win than a lot of what happens in other agencies.

It's another reason I ignore a lot of the mistreatment theories for HYBE/BigHit, because once you start looking at the numbers, it makes even less sense for BigHit to sabotage their artists. But like I've said, many of the narratives in k-pop come from SM stans, who do have reason to constantly worry that company enslaves their idols.

#kpop #hybe #sm entertainment #sme #bighit #kpop industry #bts #bangtan #fandom discourse

[jktpopfan]

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[comment-exchange]

298. Meetings, Farewells, and Parting Gifts (The Silmarillion)

Title: Meetings, Farewells, and Parting Gifts Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/41027976 Platform: Ao3 Creator: Erdariel Fandom: The Silmarillion Rating: General audiences Pairing: None Word count: 2,341 Warnings: None Number of comments: 14 Completion Status: Complete Summary: Morgoth has been defeated and the War of Wrath is over. Eärendil has to return to his task of sailing the Void beyond the world, but first he wants to see his sons again. Hugs and talking happen

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[matthewmoss]

I was pleased to speak with Forces News earlier this month about Ukraine's locally produced UAR-10 rifle.

Check out the video below:

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