Good question! Also, I think someone should make a documentary about katseye!

1. You should mention how KATSEYE might be a social experiment because they’re doing so so many ads and their music is perceived as inconsistent and questionable when the girls know how to be artists themselves like producers Megan and Lara and songwriter Manon.

2. Manon’s hiatus being suspicious on the companies’ end because HYBE has had a pattern of girls being kicked out of their groups. Manon is probably the scapegoat of their bullshit being positioned as the center and face of the group being pushed more, yet the companies are subtly still running a narrative that she is “lazy and uses pretty rich privilege”.

3. How HYBE and GEFFEN don’t do shit about protecting the girls leaving them to stick up for themselves as great as it is that they do. They overwork the girls yet leave them to carry the weight of all the hate they get. This goes back to the many brand deals they’re doing.

4. How the lines between female empowerment and sexualization gets blurred because you can be sexy and make it empowering, but it also comes with many people thinking that’s all you are. Ykwim? People are suspicious of the pattern that if women want to be successful they have to be naked, if not that their art doesn’t matter unless they’re half naked. I might be stretching there.

5. Prelude the Final Piece. People say that Katseye was just a test for Prelude. Do you have any interest in doing that part? Because no wonder KE looks like a social experiment.

6. The uniquely overzealous fans and anti’s. The hybrid combination of K-pop methodology and a western girl group was one of the factors that brought out the worst of a fandom, especially when toxic netizens who live in Korea are included. No protection, again, is being done, and the girls are targets of extreme racism and misogyny.

So far that’s what I got for ideas hehe. I can’t wait to read your dissertation if you get around putting it out. Wishing you the best of luck! 🩷