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"CLC" comeback as a 7-member group

2024-09-20 07:27:38

"CLC" comeback as a 7-member group
「CLC」7人組でカムバック

"4Minute" sister group "CLC" will comeback on the 29th from a 5-member group to a 7-member group

It has been revealed that the girl group "CLC" from CUBE Entertainment will make a surprise comeback after a major group reorganization.

"CLC" (Oh Seung-hee, Choi Yu-jin, Jang Seung-yeon, SORN, Jang Ye-eun) will release their 3rd mini album "REFRESH" late at night on the 29th, and will make a comeback after a 9-month hiatus with two new members joining the existing 5-member group.

Prior to this, "CLC" announced their full-scale comeback by unveiling a silhouette teaser image of the complete 7-member group for the first time on the morning of the 24th through their official SNS.

CLC's third mini album "REFRESH", released after a nine-month hiatus, is a new work that contains a major transformation of the seven lively members of CLC, just as the title suggests.

The agency is determined to maintain CLC's lively and unique charm through the group reorganization, while creating a strong synergy between the members and strengthening their global power, and to carry out a wide range of activities with the goal of becoming a "globally popular" girl group in 2016.

In the "silhouette teaser" released on the morning of the 24th, CLC's seven girls, wearing cute one-piece dresses and showing off their slender legs, stand facing away from each other while holding hands, creating a "mysterious" atmosphere.

Closed in darkness, CLC has not yet revealed the appearance of its existing members or even its new members, and their silhouettes alone are drawing strong attention, adding to the anticipation of their imminent comeback activities.

CLC will soon begin the full-scale comeback countdown, releasing their third mini album "REFRESH" through various online music distribution sites at midnight on the 29th.

(From K-POP News)

CLC, which debuted last spring as the sister group of girl group 4Minute from CUBE Entertainment, had a great start, rivaling GFRIEND.

However, while GFRIEND made their debut in January last year and made a comeback around summer, making steady progress, CLC did not achieve any results after their debut activities, and the opportunity to make a comeback never came.

As the end of the year approached, when many famous music awards were being awarded, TWICE and OH MY GIRL were in the spotlight as rivals to GFRIEND.

TWICE, which debuted in September, won the New Artist Award before GFRIEND.

CLC is making a comeback after a nine-month hiatus.

When a new group makes a comeback after nine months, it's like making a re-debut.

Even though they still have their core fans from when they did street performances before their debut, many of their fans may have drifted away.

It's a shame.

They're making a comeback as a seven-member group instead of a five-member group...so that's what it was (the preparation period).

Many of the new girls who debuted at the same time as CLC were large groups.

TWICE has nine members, and Oh My Girl has eight.

GFRIEND had a string of hits with just six members, and quickly became a national girl group.

GFRIEND has come this far, but their agency may be sighing by now, thinking they should have gone with a seven-member group.

★If we assume that GFRIEND's popularity has swelled to about three times the number of members, then their current number of members would be equivalent to 18, but with one more member, it would have been equivalent to 21. In other words, the agency's lament is not for one, but for three.

Currently, Girls' Generation, with their exceptional talent and popularity, may have each member as popular as five.

Unlike solo artists, if a group is to sell, it is better to have a large number of members (each member has their own fan base).

As a result of GFRIEND's huge break, each member has been able to clearly show off their individuality.

When they first debuted, I thought Umji was just an ordinary girl.

I wondered what criteria they used to choose her.

Even if they wanted someone who could speak languages, I felt it was a shame that they couldn't have found someone cuter if they had looked.

But now, I've started to see Umji as a cute girl.

Now, GFRIEND with Umji has become a strangely realistic group of girls with a strong presence.

Even when she's on stage, you feel like you've found a cute schoolgirl on the street.
They seem to be overwhelmingly popular with girls, and I feel like I've touched upon the secret of girls' popularity.

CLC will be making a comeback as a seven-member group, and if all goes well, SORN may be able to take on that mysterious role.

Since they're making a comeback as a seven-member group, I hope they'll compete well with GFRIEND and TWICE.

★★★I remember emphasizing in a blog during the KARA project that from now on, groups of six or seven people would be the mainstream, and that the new KARA could just add three or four members and start anew as a group of six or seven.

There's no point in bringing up the past, but if they'd added three or four members (need: highly skilled members) instead of just Youngji, wouldn't KARA have had slightly different results?

At the very least, I feel like they wouldn't have been in such a dire situation (during the period when K-pop's popularity was expanding).

They didn't want to end things half-heartedly, so I think Gyuri, Seungyeon, and Hara would have wanted to continue with the remaining three members, and they only allowed the safe participation of Youngji.

However, if they were going to lose two members, it might have been better to bring in at least three more members and continue KARA's offensive (as there was still the possibility that a member like Hara's popularity would emerge from the later group).