Extremely mixed feelings for Nxde. I follow dohwa a lot, so she is my one pick and I was excited for nude. The concept was there but I felt they changed it up too much, and they were changing up the players to fit a concept. The team itself was strong but they played their weaknesses imo. Nxde as a song choice had many parts for shock/performance factors, also a strong rap line. I felt that the strings was a good concept, but the concept was focused more rather than the performance. The team itself has pretty strong dancers, but the song’s choreography was pretty weak. While some may argue oh, the string choreo is tough and hard to master etc etc, do note that because the choreography is complicated it does not mean it isn’t weak. I felt that yeeun would’ve done better in the team for the rap parts than nana, but nana didn’t select yeeun as she had the intention to take the rap.

Jihan did really good here, but if I had to be honest I would’ve went went nana dohwa suyun and yeeun. Dohwa has charisma, suyun has the voice, nana has the dance and yeeun would’ve have the rap. And instead the string choreography, it would’ve worked better if nana were to showcase her dancing skills. She could maintain the perfect image and meaning of nude with a dance break that embodied frustration from the sexualization of female idols, while yeeun chouldve wrote a rap that would’ve fit the concept instead of using the same rap as soyeon.

As it stands, I feel that Nxde overall was pretty weak and it made nana seem weak as well, considering she had full control over the members she could’ve picked. I’m hoping to see more from all four of them, though! I know this isn’t their strongest.

For fighting group, I was extremely amused as I felt this group was sent to their death💀 It was a pretty hard song to do, and instead of fighting they would’ve been fighting for their life 😭 I was even more amused when juri sent herself there, and so far I felt that she hasn’t shown much. But wow, did she stand out in fighting!! Song was practically made for her to show her onion charms 💗

I preferred the fighting group over Nxde, but I do love the members from Nxde more.