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So about the girl of the month
There’s this thing that happens when something gets very popular very fast and people don’t stop talking about it: there’s a high chance that, no matter how good they say it is, you will not want to join the crowd.
The more vocal said crowd is, the more likely that is to happen. Of course, that same vocal people will bring people in, because not everyone is the same, and some people will be curious and the thing they are excited about has something that pulls people in.
Most of the time, the thing keeping people from the very popular thing is the people who like the thing than the thing itself.
It doesn’t happen to everyone. It doesn’t always happen. It’s not good nor bad. It just happens.
Specifically, it sometimes happens to me.
It happened to me with kpop, which no matter how many of my friends started to like it, I didn’t bother even paying attention until a very good friend lured me in softly, and in an environment I was more comfortable in. I had been avoiding it for years, and even more years later, here I am.
It happened to me with a lot of other stuff — and a lot of the time the pattern is the same: once the noise is gone, and once I can see it on my own terms, I usually end up checking the thing. And a lot of the time I end up liking it. (That also means that I might get late to a lot of parties, but that doesn’t bother me as much as it should, probably)
It’s what happened with LOONA.
Despite them not having a lot of following in Korea (which is something I didn’t know until I was already a little into them) their fans on the internet were very… vocal. And usually not the good kind of vocal. Not the worst, but not exactly the best either. They have quite an aggressive behavior, to speak. So, in spite, I refused to know anything about them. I am quite the childish person, sometimes.
Time passed, and like with everything I don’t like, I avoided whatever had to do with them.
Then, one day, I followed someone on twitter who liked quite girl groups I like. And it wasn’t until it had been a couple of months later that I noticed that they also liked them. There was some comeback happening and I started seeing some retweets here and there. But that was all I saw. That was something I could handle, and I liked most of what this person posted to unfollow them over this, or deactivate ALL of their retweets. It was the occasional RT. I could deal with that.
That must have been around the time XXYX was announced.
I still refused to listen to them, but I learned a lot of them during that time: I learned that everything I had seen up until then it wasn’t the whole group (no wonder it was all so confusing!) and that they had yet to officially debut (and yet they had such a vocal following!). I learned Olivia Hye existed, and that she was a big deal, and then her solo came up, and there were a lot of mentions about self love. I watched Egoist when it came out, out of curiosity, but I didn’t felt as thrilled as these people were. I mean, it was okay, but it wasn’t that big, and to be honest, it was a little confusing?
But I wasn’t seeing the full picture, you see?
Then, the actual debut came up. This person was so excited! It was pretty cute, and to be honest I was a little curious how this group was going to be. So I watched the MV. Like with Egoist, it was nice, but I wasn’t feeling it as much as that person was doing. But something happened: the song was (and still is) an earworm. And I found myself singing the catchy parts during the day. At that point I already knew deep inside that I was going to go down. It took a little more to accept, but I knew.
I tried to search things about them, but they had a TON of mv’s, and apparently the order was important. They told a story, apparently. So then I was confused: what was the order? Should I watch in release order? Should I watch in story order? There are a couple videos of the same song, which one is the valid one? I needed help. There were playlists, but not every list had the same videos, and it felt pretty daunting to go through a list of 40 songs all in one go. Did I have enough attention span for that? So many questions, so little time.
Then one day youtube came to the rescue, and showed me a reaction video of someone doing exactly what I wanted to do: going through the LOONA videos for the first time. It was perfect, because it would be like seeing them with someone, and there would be some pause between one and the other. Time to digest them. I found it one quiet afternoon where I didn’t have anything better to do, so well, no better time than the present.
It was such a trip. In the best sense of the word, truly. I love stories and the videos, although each with a different style, did manage to tell a story. Good or bad, more or less confusing, but it WAS telling a story. Everything was actually connected. I noticed the colors, and the animals, and later on, the fruits. I needed some help from other videos to notice the cities and the powers, and some of the details, but I saw enough to be captivated. And then I got to Egoist, and got chills at the last seconds of the video.
And I got to Hi High, and fell in love. It made All The Sense. It was weird, yes, but the more I watched, with what I knew now, the more sense it made. The choreography made sense. It explained the story, on its own way, but wrapped in a catchy song and a cute choreography, showing their story. Sure, it didn’t make sense if you hadn’t watched the rest, but the effort was there. And I liked what I saw.
I still do.
So very much.
I might not join the group of people going to stranger’s mentions to talk about this group I like, but if you ask me about I will tell you a hundred (and then some) things I like about them.
(Also it’s so very cool that there can be fic written of the girls and about the characters in this story. This extra layer is very very nice. I have not explored it yet, but I am sure someone has and I find the idea very interesting)
All of this has been sponsored by The Carol 2.0. and how weird I find that unlike The Carol 1.0. doesn't feature Yeojin, Kim lip or Jinsoul, and goes from Vivi to Choerry and Yves. And how it might be because it has something to do with the fact that, canonically the three of them know each other, in a way, even if each of them it’s in a different subunit/world.
How it might have an explanation, that we just don’t know yet.
I cannot wait to find out.
The more vocal said crowd is, the more likely that is to happen. Of course, that same vocal people will bring people in, because not everyone is the same, and some people will be curious and the thing they are excited about has something that pulls people in.
Most of the time, the thing keeping people from the very popular thing is the people who like the thing than the thing itself.
It doesn’t happen to everyone. It doesn’t always happen. It’s not good nor bad. It just happens.
Specifically, it sometimes happens to me.
It happened to me with kpop, which no matter how many of my friends started to like it, I didn’t bother even paying attention until a very good friend lured me in softly, and in an environment I was more comfortable in. I had been avoiding it for years, and even more years later, here I am.
It happened to me with a lot of other stuff — and a lot of the time the pattern is the same: once the noise is gone, and once I can see it on my own terms, I usually end up checking the thing. And a lot of the time I end up liking it. (That also means that I might get late to a lot of parties, but that doesn’t bother me as much as it should, probably)
It’s what happened with LOONA.
Despite them not having a lot of following in Korea (which is something I didn’t know until I was already a little into them) their fans on the internet were very… vocal. And usually not the good kind of vocal. Not the worst, but not exactly the best either. They have quite an aggressive behavior, to speak. So, in spite, I refused to know anything about them. I am quite the childish person, sometimes.
Time passed, and like with everything I don’t like, I avoided whatever had to do with them.
Then, one day, I followed someone on twitter who liked quite girl groups I like. And it wasn’t until it had been a couple of months later that I noticed that they also liked them. There was some comeback happening and I started seeing some retweets here and there. But that was all I saw. That was something I could handle, and I liked most of what this person posted to unfollow them over this, or deactivate ALL of their retweets. It was the occasional RT. I could deal with that.
That must have been around the time XXYX was announced.
I still refused to listen to them, but I learned a lot of them during that time: I learned that everything I had seen up until then it wasn’t the whole group (no wonder it was all so confusing!) and that they had yet to officially debut (and yet they had such a vocal following!). I learned Olivia Hye existed, and that she was a big deal, and then her solo came up, and there were a lot of mentions about self love. I watched Egoist when it came out, out of curiosity, but I didn’t felt as thrilled as these people were. I mean, it was okay, but it wasn’t that big, and to be honest, it was a little confusing?
But I wasn’t seeing the full picture, you see?
Then, the actual debut came up. This person was so excited! It was pretty cute, and to be honest I was a little curious how this group was going to be. So I watched the MV. Like with Egoist, it was nice, but I wasn’t feeling it as much as that person was doing. But something happened: the song was (and still is) an earworm. And I found myself singing the catchy parts during the day. At that point I already knew deep inside that I was going to go down. It took a little more to accept, but I knew.
I tried to search things about them, but they had a TON of mv’s, and apparently the order was important. They told a story, apparently. So then I was confused: what was the order? Should I watch in release order? Should I watch in story order? There are a couple videos of the same song, which one is the valid one? I needed help. There were playlists, but not every list had the same videos, and it felt pretty daunting to go through a list of 40 songs all in one go. Did I have enough attention span for that? So many questions, so little time.
Then one day youtube came to the rescue, and showed me a reaction video of someone doing exactly what I wanted to do: going through the LOONA videos for the first time. It was perfect, because it would be like seeing them with someone, and there would be some pause between one and the other. Time to digest them. I found it one quiet afternoon where I didn’t have anything better to do, so well, no better time than the present.
It was such a trip. In the best sense of the word, truly. I love stories and the videos, although each with a different style, did manage to tell a story. Good or bad, more or less confusing, but it WAS telling a story. Everything was actually connected. I noticed the colors, and the animals, and later on, the fruits. I needed some help from other videos to notice the cities and the powers, and some of the details, but I saw enough to be captivated. And then I got to Egoist, and got chills at the last seconds of the video.
And I got to Hi High, and fell in love. It made All The Sense. It was weird, yes, but the more I watched, with what I knew now, the more sense it made. The choreography made sense. It explained the story, on its own way, but wrapped in a catchy song and a cute choreography, showing their story. Sure, it didn’t make sense if you hadn’t watched the rest, but the effort was there. And I liked what I saw.
I still do.
So very much.
I might not join the group of people going to stranger’s mentions to talk about this group I like, but if you ask me about I will tell you a hundred (and then some) things I like about them.
(Also it’s so very cool that there can be fic written of the girls and about the characters in this story. This extra layer is very very nice. I have not explored it yet, but I am sure someone has and I find the idea very interesting)
All of this has been sponsored by The Carol 2.0. and how weird I find that unlike The Carol 1.0. doesn't feature Yeojin, Kim lip or Jinsoul, and goes from Vivi to Choerry and Yves. And how it might be because it has something to do with the fact that, canonically the three of them know each other, in a way, even if each of them it’s in a different subunit/world.
How it might have an explanation, that we just don’t know yet.
I cannot wait to find out.
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Bless the patient friends that wait for us to be ready :D And I am very glad I am not alone in this, thank you ♥