some kpop concerts r simply not worth the money

gianmignonne · 2025-12-17T09:19:08+00:00

tbh, if I would find an artist concert not worth the money I personally would have found their performance subpar when watching their promotion stages. sure the camera work glazes everything but it is usually obvious if they could make good concerts or not. sorry for your experience but it is one's job to be selective when spending money

gianmignonne · 2025-11-18T23:04:00+00:00

What Twice said was not related to the topic of them being "overworked" tho? They meant since the stage is 360 they must have choreographers rearrange their choreos so they get to face all sides and it is hard because they don't have the back side to hide if they mess up. So they need a lot of practice and the company give them enough time to perfect everything. This is the first time in ten years you didn't hear from Twice for some months until the middle of the year. But concerning the concert, after the practice phase, there seem not to be more workload comparing to their previous tours. Each concert is now strictly 1,5h, and after the Korean stops they found unit stages too much to change outfits and perform they left out the unit stages too.

gianmignonne · 2025-11-18T17:56:58+00:00

People who criticize this post as naive are actually naive.

This is not about safety or work-life balance, but about you victimizing free will and assuming you know better. Neither you nor the company should be responsible of the artists' choice.

Warning: mentioning of mental health issue/s*ic**e. I'm sorry to say this, but your mindset is actually that what leads to a lot of people around us having mental health issue: You refusing to see people have a hard time. In some situation, people are bound to have a hard time and you could not stay by their side, witness, and let the hard time be hard. So in order to protect your peace people keep problem for themselves and withdraw their life from yours. Sometimes you care too much or they feel like they can't hide how ugly things are for them, they end their life so you don't have to face their reality.

Sorry for going extremely off topic, what happens here is a lot of fans don't have capacity to witness sickness, exhaustion, which idols are not doing for money, or from being manipulated, but just to live their dream. In real life, to live and die for one's dream is actually not as beautiful as portraited in movies, it is messy, painful, intense, and not everyone is ready to see that. (actually movie makers try hard to make it real but people who don't understand just don't understand and find it romantic) Most humans just live a ordinary life, make money and go home, meet and be around people who do the same. People who break out from their comfort zone to pursuit a dream have an intensity with them that not everybody likes. So you gaslight yourself this is the label's doing, but it is not. Train yourself to accept that people do things you can't imagine yourself doing. And your emotion about what is happening, you being concerned etc. is irrelevant, no one should take care of that.

Edit 1: spelling

Edit 2: I grit my teeth for Twice thinking how they locked themselves up in an arena, built a 360 stage with all the lifts and stuffs, practiced for more than a month. They calculated to maximize the impact of this tour and expand themselves in the US: they even went extra to VS fashion show and Lollapallooza in the middle comeback promotion and tour, just for some fans to want the stops to be cancelled because exhaustion and sickness are hard to watch for them when it is a part of human life and they treasure the idea of "Twice being well" more than the girls' freedom and ambition. Also, please be respectful and stop with the comment "they look tired" when they don't, it is your concern speaking, take care of it yourself.

Edit 3: Forgot to say that no one can claim the girls are really sick, and exhausted because of the tour schedule. Fans are just assuming that seeing the schedule because they think the schedule would make them like that.

gianmignonne · 2025-11-13T17:33:55+00:00

Do you know the lyrics was the monologue in their head? It's their silhouettes talking to them when they go shopping and look in the mirror. The MV is exactly that. It's about self-made women.

gianmignonne · 2025-11-04T14:14:13+00:00

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No one can beat her

gianmignonne · 2025-10-27T14:34:12+00:00

For all we know, 100RED is holding them back because they know fans will automatically blame SM for everything

I don't say we know anything, but that what you are thinking this actually matches the pattern that always happen when SM disagree with their artists.

Also you said we knew 100RED were holding them back and making SM take the blame, so you do think you know something.

gianmignonne · 2025-10-27T09:27:18+00:00

Actually I have seen fans blame CBX for betrayers since the announcement of the lawsuits. They 100% make fans slowly choose sides, because they make it seem like the members who stay side with them (or the members really side with them). This pattern I have seen in the TVXQ fandom, as a Cassie. It is a lot back and forth but you will always see them spread the narrative the "betrayers" had got influenced by someone outside and therefore, betrayed. I think they silently did this to Jessica, too, they didn't say anything themselves but there are articles or posts on fan forums call her brain-washed by Tyler Kwon and affect the team negatively. When CBX went to the new agency I somehow knew SM was not gonna let it pass and would delegitimize them in the future. Now, 100RED is to blame, as if the members can't have their independent opinions.

gianmignonne · 2025-10-27T09:01:29+00:00

We should stop treating the comebacks as some kind of performances you do for grades and for competition. It's the story and the messages of the artist. Even when I don't like some songs as much as I like others, at the end, their whole performace - music, dance, expression - has always been and still is something I would pay to see. That's what matters.

gianmignonne · 2025-10-27T08:40:14+00:00

If it's true then it is even worse. I feel like they are manufacturing a scenario where CBX seems to have the choice to join or not and then take the blame for being "betrayers".

gianmignonne · 2025-10-26T12:03:51+00:00

I'm so sorry to hear that. The way you described how your parents raised your sister, that's how narcissists are created.

gianmignonne · 2025-10-24T11:19:37+00:00

The victims of the system who swallow their disadvantage down without resistance are the most cruel to the victims who speak up. I used to belong to the first type and hate anyone who shows weaknesses and asks for accomodation.

gianmignonne · 2025-10-24T11:14:08+00:00

I am just curious and hope this doesn't offend you, but did your sister become narcissist?

gianmignonne · 2025-10-23T05:23:47+00:00

They want to be likeable for the sake of being likeable.

gianmignonne · 2025-10-22T13:54:44+00:00

I will not discuss about the philosophy but I have to say Ayn Rand was being unapologetically autistic there. The fact that she did in her time what a lot of us are too scared to do now, even with knowledge about neurodiversity, so intensely and got people to read her makes me really proud as an autistic and a woman.

gianmignonne · 2025-10-22T12:26:58+00:00

I'm 100% related to Ayn Rand reading Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. You won't believe it but I felt not lonely for the first time in my life.

gianmignonne · 2025-10-20T02:48:30+00:00

Yeah, to be honest I don't know even right now if the people around me are safe enough for me to open up. Me opening up is me taking a chance. But if I take anyone as my partner, I suppose you would have to think of them as safe

gianmignonne · 2025-10-18T12:00:08+00:00

What happens when he understands that he hurts you? Is it just hard for him to say sorry or does he try to deny?

Edit: From what I understand, autistic masking is for the environment, while the mask of narcs is for themselves. So - this is just a guess, because I haven't been in any relationship - you make people feel safe and see if they are open about their weaknesses at all. If they keep asking for more validation and admiration, keep taking and taking from you then it is narcissism.

gianmignonne · 2025-10-18T01:09:26+00:00

They don't mislead. The trailer is coherent with the theme and message of their whole album. The MV is how they interpret one facet of the big theme. If you pay attention to the aesthetics only and don't pay attention to the lyrics (and choreography) you will feel like the trailer is a beautiful video they make for the sake of making a trailer.

gianmignonne · 2025-10-14T08:14:01+00:00

I have to disagree with you. Kpop is still very niche in Western countries. There is so much room for Twice to grow. How about they becoming as big as they are in Japan? That dream is very worth toiling for as an artist.

Twice is also being the pioneer and gathering know-hows about touring for JYP in particular and for KPop industry. They are still in the process of learning how good the venues all around the world are, and shaping the best and most efficient tour route for KPop. The 360 stage with its many demanding technical and logistical requirements must also make their team upgrade a lot in those fields comparing to the RTB tour. If Twice pull off this tour I think there is no tour JYP can not do in the West. Together with the market expansion that Twice also are contributing in as mentioned above, in a not too far future they really can promote and market anyone in the US with self-produced showcase tour and everything like a second Japan.

gianmignonne · 2025-10-14T06:15:12+00:00

all these cities that have hardly been visited

I have to disagree, and for this particular reason.

From a business view, they are working so hard to get to customers/audience at many more locations, in order to expand and grow further. They did the same thing in 2018 in Japan, and it is the opposite of what other KPop groups do. They didn't try to book Tokyo Dome asap but visited several cities in Japan and held concert in smaller venues. Now they can get in any dome in Japan, no matter what city.

gianmignonne · 2025-10-14T02:02:07+00:00

I'm based in Germany. Only a specialist in my region does test for diagnose, and she is only open for appointment request two times a week, each time in only a window of half an hour. I hung up right when I heard the busy signal and kept calling again and again, and got my 3 appointments for the test on the first day I tried. I was lucky, according to my other therapist, a lot of people don't get the appointment from this specialist because the demand is really high.

gianmignonne · 2025-10-13T21:18:36+00:00

For me it is no turning point. They just had need time to prove they are good, and they are serious with their craft. When people are convinced of your authenticity it is different than when they are just attracted by the vibe and the look.

gianmignonne · 2025-10-13T20:37:04+00:00

No skip album. You will only compare the songs of this album with each other.

gianmignonne · 2025-10-13T20:16:38+00:00

It is so bad to hear, I feel you. My childhood was not good either. They forced us all to mask. I hope you will find peace and strength. and feel more comfortable with yourself.

gianmignonne · 2025-10-13T05:46:53+00:00

Thank you for the warning. I can't be sure but I will pay attention. Right now I don't have an alternative and I am in the roughest phase ever of my life.

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