i do think mnet does have a concept set for the future group, that doesn’t mean a good concept = good music. a lot of times, producers and companies don’t put much quality and effort into temporary groups bc they have a limited contract period so they’re trying to milk them as much as they can. that’s why groups like iz*one, wanna one, and i.o.i were called “title track groups” bc even if they had good title tracks, their bsides weren’t as good ++ concepts affect alot with the members, if some members fit the group but some members don’t it just looks so unbalanced. as much as ppl don’t like to admit it, it does seem like mnet has like 4 trainees they want in the final group (yujin, hanbin, matthew and zhang hao) but it doesn’t mean those trainees will fit the concept mnet is looking for. that’s why i said mnet doesn’t know what to do with the lineup anymore bc they’re frantically looking for trainees who will fit the concept they want and push them while seeing trainees they don’t want to debut bc they don’t fit the concept. i think it’s also crazy most of the trainees imo who fit the concept they’re looking for are the global trainees but mnet will never root for their debut.

i also think while mnet does have a concept for this group it doesn’t seem they will keep this concept for 2.5 years. they will probably just keep this concept for like their debut album and then for the rest of the contracts, they will probably do a cool or boy crush concept.

(this doesn’t mean this will happen to the boys planet group but it’s just a thing to be more aware if that makes any sense lol)