TWICE's Momo, Mina and Chaeyoung to be guest judges on "King of Masked Singer"
TWICE、モモ＆ミナ＆チェヨン「覆面歌王」のゲスト審査員に
Korean girl group "TWICE" Momo (21), Mina (21), Chaeyoung (18), Seo Ji-suk (36) and "BTOB" Eunkwang (27) visited "King of Masked Singer" as celebrity judges.
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On the 15th broadcast of "King of Masked Singer", a duet stage of eight masked singers will be revealed, competing against "East Undefeated", who have won four consecutive contests and have been ranked as long-time singer kings.
On the celebrity judging panel that day, TWICE's Mina, Momo, and Chaeyoung, who are currently No. 1 on the music charts in real time, Seo Ji-seok, who showed off his unique charm by appearing as a "masked man," and BTOB's Eunkwang joined them.
Among them, the performance of the three members of TWICE was particularly eye-catching.
They repeatedly made specific and confident statements such as, "Your tone sounds like a singer from SM Entertainment," and "You sound like an idol group member who worked with us." They also showed off their diverse charms with their dance for "Cheer Up" and their special skill, ballet, breathing energy into the studio.
Meanwhile, Seo Ji-seok showed a competitive spirit and concentration like she was on a quiz show. In particular, she is said to have attracted attention with her unique powers of deduction. It will be interesting to see how many of her deductions turn out to be correct. BTOB's Eunkwang also made aggressive deductions, drawing on his experience as an active idol for seven years.
(From K-POP News)
The comeback title song "What is Love?" is also increasing in views at an incredible pace. It is breaking records that TWICE themselves set.
As of 6 p.m., four days after its release on April 9, the number of views has exceeded 33.4 million.
Only a handful of popular girl groups can surpass this number.
TWICE debuted in October 2015. At that time, K-POP was in a slump. EXO and BIGBANG were at the forefront of boy groups. Apink and AOA were girl groups.
It is easy to measure the popularity of K-POP by looking at the activities of girl groups. It is easier to get an idea of the scale of the glamor of girl groups than the plainness of boy groups.
At that time, Apink was performing hall-class concerts in Tokyo and Osaka. KARA was also performing their last concert as a five-member group. I think AOA also performed about three times with an audience of 2,000 to 3,000 people. They too had a tough start, with only a few hundred people attending their first event. If TWICE had debuted a year or two earlier, they may have had the same tough period of activity as AOA.
However, in 2015, the year TWICE debuted, BTS (Bangtan Boys), who debuted in June 2013, was finally starting to stand out. When I first saw them on "Waratte Iitomo," hosted by Tamori, the members showed off their sharp body movements.
I thought, "Wow! They're cool!" Their image overlapped with that of the boy band "2PM," who introduced backflips and other moves to their stage. Some of them looked "really young." That was when they were just starting out. There wasn't much interest in the boy band, so I thought they'd disappear soon... If I'd known this would happen, I should have kept a closer eye on them.
As the summer passed and TWICE was about to make their debut, BTS, who had topped the Oricon rankings, began to dominate the charts in Korea and were treated as a representative young boy band.
Looking back, this was the beginning of today's rekindled K-POP boom. In the boy bands, EXO and BIGBANG are at the forefront and are showing their desperate perseverance. They can see that they need to break through something, but they don't know how. They want to aim and deliver a pinprick of impact punch. They can't make a hole no matter what they do, so they can't jump out.
BTS and TWICE were the ones who played that role, but BTS was just a young boy band about to go on a world tour, and TWICE was just a girl band that had just debuted.
2016 began just two months after TWICE debuted.
2016 was the year that leveled the ground for K-POP, heading into 2017, when a boom bigger than the last one will hit.
It was a whirlwind year for BTS as they embarked on their American Dream world tour, and for TWICE as they aimed to become the number one K-pop girls.
The following year, 2017, BTS achieved their American Dream, while TWICE was active as the girls who traveled between Japan and Korea and pushed K-pop to the world.
Mina, Momo, and Chaeyoung sat on the celebrity judging panel on the "King of Masked Singer" show, saying things like, "Your voice sounds like a singer from SM Entertainment," and "You sound like an idol group member who worked with us," but it's unclear whether they'll ever get such an easygoing job in the future. They'll likely be busier with their main jobs in the future. Maybe years from now, the other members will come out wearing masks, either on a whim or out of a relationship.
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