From aespa x STAYC “2022 GDA” Newcomer Award
aespa x STAYC「2022年GDA」の新人賞受賞から
★ The music awards ceremony “36th Golden Disc Awards” was held in a non-face-to-face format at Gocheok Sky Dome on January 8th. aespa and STAYC won the “Newcomer Award”
♦ STAYC ➡"First of all, thank you to our fans for always being by our side." "We debuted during a somewhat difficult time, and we haven't had many opportunities to perform in front of an audience yet, but it's gradually increasing. This year, we hope to perform with many audience members and become STAYC, working hard."
♦ aespa ➡"First of all, thank you to all the fans who made it possible for us to receive the Newcomer Award. This was our first time performing at the Golden Disc Awards, and we're happy to receive such a big award. We'll become aespa, so please look forward to it as we continue to grow."
aespa was the most active K-pop girls last year. The Newcomer Award was a natural choice.
They could have won other awards as well.
With this momentum, aespa will continue to be active this year.
What concerns me is that while Winter and Karina are showing off their entertaining charm, Ning Ning and Gisele's performance seems to be overshadowed by Winter and Karina's.
Gisele made a strong impression by demonstrating her language skills during her trip to America. If the group can become more active worldwide, they could approach Winter and Karina in terms of popularity.
Ningning has great singing voice, and her double parts with Winter and her solo are strong, but she needs some other appeal (even a lot of cuteness) besides the support from Chinese fans.
There is nothing to complain about with the overall performance.
When I watched their New Year's collaboration with Taeyeon (Girls' Generation) and others, I felt that although they have high skills, without Karina and Winter, the impression was a little lacking.
That's how much of a "brilliance of the season" they were. Without them, the performance would have remained a skilled performance by veteran idols.
STAYC's debut from a small agency left a strong impression of "trying hard" and "putting up a good fight". It's fair to say that it was the culmination of their single-minded efforts.
However, this year has been a test for them from the very start.
This is because big new girls such as "IVE" appeared at the end of last year, and "Kep1er" appeared at the beginning of this year from the audition program "Girls Planet 999: Girls Festival".
"IVE" debuted in December last year, and secured the position of national new girls in less than a month.
"Kep1er" is also showing momentum to surpass "IVE"'s record in the early stages of their debut.
Both girls are starting with engine horsepower that cannot be compared to STAYC.
For STAYC to continue to be active alongside aespa and the two girls who preceded them, they will need to improve their singing and dancing skills, and probably work hard to fill small spots in roller skating in addition to public activities such as TV appearances.
Unless they take such an approach, it seems that they will have no choice but to compete with the three above and expand their fandom (especially the efforts of popular members such as Yoon and Seung, "especially all of them" are needed).
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