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oncloud999 · 4 years

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The dreaded e word...

ok, so no one really likes to talk about bts going into the army but i think it’ll be hard to get out of. it’s interesting tho because jin’s recent answer to that question is a lot more evasive. of course he says he’s ready to serve when he is summoned but he also says nothing is decided yet. clearly they’re still negotiating something... idk how i feel about that because koreans are so touchy about this subject. people are honestly bitter that they might not have to go. which i totally understand because why would they be exempt? and there’s no way for idols to get out of it like classical musicians apparently. idk, i’m sure there’s a way to find a loophole but i don’t know how since i’m not korean.

the best scenario is that they get to delay until they have gone past their peak which would make sense since they apparently actually make like 0.3% of the korean gdp which is nothing to sneeze at.

if they have to go now, the best option is still for all of them to go at the same time to minimise the time they are away from the spotlight as a group because as we can see from all the other groups, you can never quite hold on to all the fans even if you have subgruops and individual activities. and the seven of them together definitely make more bank than any small combination of them.

except...

it’s never really been a secret, though people refuse to talk about it, the popularity disparity between the hyung line and the maknae line. i think it’s just the fact that the three of them are just so charismatic as performers and 2/3 of the visual line is also in the maknae line. jimin is not conventionally good looking but the boy knows how to use what he’s got to his advantage is what i’m going to say.

so if the hyung line goes, the maknae line can definitely hold their own. v i can see might even go do some more acting while jungkook and jimin will probably release more songs as a unit or as solo. or all three will be in a subunit together. but then when the three of them go, will be awks. while the three rappers can definitely continue doing their producing/writing/releasing music, they will not have the same success as the maknae line. they do quite well now (jhope seems to be esp popular in latin america) and will still do decently well as solo artists, but they definitely will need the bts brand more than the younger three. jin will most likely finally do some acting or variety. he’ll do pretty well there cos he has this character he plays for laughs and he doesn’t take himself too seriously and he is actually pretty smart.

but honestly, i feel like bighit will hate to lose the younger three all at once cos the hyung line unfortunately just can’t hold the fort as well, sorry to say. so i think the smartest choice is still for all of them to go at once and then comeback after 1.5 years together. will make for a much better story. they’ll still lose some steam but it won’t be dragged out.

it’ll also be interesting when they go because they are just so far above the rest now. the only boy groups that come close are exo, but they are going through their own crisis right now and big bang who i honestly don’t see having another korean comeback tho they might come back as solos or subunits. top is so far gone now i don’t know that he’ll want to do much more as bigbang. there are several bands i see who are up and coming that i can see may take over some of their popularity - ateez, nct 17 and stray kids. in that order. ateez definitely have a similar vibe to their earlier days and nct 17 are already building steam in america. stray kids are definitely marketed in that direction as well. the thing that i think will stop all of them getting to the same height of popularity is that... bts is a bit of a unicorn. i dont even know what has made them so popular even though i’m a fan. like to be honest, they are not that different from a lot of other boy groups other than the fact that they had to learn to market themselves and rely heavily on their fandom to push them forward. someone once said that it’s because they were at the right place at the right time, being around with one direction broke up. and i think that does have a lot to do with it. but i still don’t know what it is. i’m sure they probably don’t eitehr. lol

the other problem is the size of all those groups. they’re too big. like foreigners aren’t gonna be able to tell them apart. they already can’t tell the other bands from bts. i can imagine how they’ll go around and people wills till think they are bts. because i’m not delusional and i know bts, while are dfeinitely big, are not household names the same way katy perry or justine beiber are. so you can imagine other people aren’t going to be able to tell them apart. just like how i have trouble differentiating the newer bands apart cos i don’t know them.

what about after bts... i think jungkook and jimin actually will do quite well, either as solo artists or as a duo. they’ve definitely proven themselves with their recent solos which weren’t even promoted. it’s quite interesting. i knew jk had a huge following in us and jimin had a huge following in korea but the two of them just pulled ahead so much is kind of surprising, both in us and korea. i actually don’t want them to push for the us market like us artists because a big part of promotion for us pop artists is having scandals and being on the news all the time and no matter how messed up the korean industry is, i feel like they’re still probably less predatory than the us industry. jimin really needs to get some vocal lessons tho. at least to stop himself from ruining his voice further. he’ll do fine as a solo artist because other main dancers have made careers out of less skills and fanbase but yeah, for his own sake really...

taehyung will probably go into acting, and probably release music here and there but focus on acting. jin will probably do the same. and maybe do some variety. part of me can also see jin just retreating a bit from the public eye. he doesn’t seem to love the spotlight as much as the others.

rm, suga and jhope will also definitely release more solo stuff but i can see at least rm and suga doing a lot more behind the scenes stuff as well. jhope has such a distinct style of his own i think his career will be pretty interesting. though he seems to really fail to capture the larger audience sometimes. but yeah he’ll be popular in latin america which is a huge market.

there’s no purpose to this post. just like all the posts lately, they’re all just random thoughts.

speaking of solos though. there’s been so much crap about all the solo songs. idk why people are so mad at jikook’s solos doing well. someone even said that v and jin’s solos sound like afterthoughts. i don’t think so. inner child is very in line with v’s own work, esp winter bear. and moon seems to be in a similar vein as epiphany, though not as good.

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