JYP Entertainment apologizes over controversial choosing of Twice members

[cinoire.livejournal.com]

JYP Entertainment has issued its second apology regarding the controversial choosing of its upcoming girl group Twice after the initial finale episode aired on July 7th.

The controversy arose after previously eliminated trainee Momo was unprecedentedly added to the final lineup of Twice by J.Y. Park.
After choosing its seven members, which many viewers understood the number to be the amount of members Twice would carry at the beginning of the SIXTEEN broadcast, the producer shockingly revealed during the airing that he was choosing an additional two members.

J.Y. Park chose Tzuyu as the 8th member of Twice, and shockingly chosen netizen-eliminated trainee Momo as the 9th.

JYP Entertainment issued its second statement reading:

“Hello. This is JYP Entertainment.

Regarding the SIXTEEN selection process.

We would like to show our deepest thanks to all the feedback we have received. We apologize for failing to clearly communicate the selection process, and we’d like to explain in detail the selection process.

Openly recruited 7 + Specially chosen 2

The final member selection criteria of the program were carried out through missions shown to viewers, and the JYP staff, viewer votes, and the audience’s votes overall was used to select the members. Even before the final episode, it was already decided that the seven members would be elected through a selection process but the thought that it may leave some regrets, one member was chosen solely by viewers’ voting (Tzuyu) and another was chosen by J.Y. Park PD (Momo).

As a result, the final decision became 7 openly recruited and 2 specially chosen, we apologize that we did not relay this method to viewers properly, and humbly accept all the criticism we have received for the show’s controversial items including its harshness.

While trying to get the audience closer to the show through a new format, and trying to find harmony of both the broadcasting station and our company’s goals, there were a lot of shortcomings. We ask for your understanding, and in the future, we will do our best to give you more satisfying results.”

The final lineup is Nayeon, Jungyeon, Dahyun, Mina, Sana, Jihyo, Tzuyu, Chaeyoung, and Momo.

source: osen via koreaboo

Comments

[lysblack.livejournal.com]

JYPE should apologize to me for all the emotional distress they are making me go through for the past five years, but in particular this year has been full of utterly bullshit.

[obscureauthor.livejournal.com]

lol

[huanyia.livejournal.com]

so true man. watching this competition has been brutal.

[lysblack.livejournal.com]

nah, this competition was your average, but super watered down imo, group survival show.

my comment was be being sassy over the miss A situation.

[sra-interesante.livejournal.com]

what if netizens keep complaining and they bring back all girls??

[donutism.livejournal.com]

Alright JYP, maybe you should apologize for how there is no good vocalist in this group

[timetobegin.livejournal.com]

My thoughts exactly. I was pleased my faves made final line up but there seems to be only one proper vocalist and that is worrying.

[iigoru.livejournal.com]

Come on now. Jihyo is very good and I can see Nayeon and Jungyeon improving a lot with training. They're going to be their TTS.

[donutism.livejournal.com]

Jihyo, their best singer, is average at best and trained for more than 10 years...

[iigoru.livejournal.com]

"Average at best"? lol ok. But then again, I don't think we have enough to judge her vocals. The songs she sang in the show were songs to "average" vocals, so...
She's definitely main vocal material imo

[mamamoos.livejournal.com]

too little too late jyp. at least this mess is over now and hopefully all the other girls will get their chance, perhaps at companies that treat them better.

[tree-star123.livejournal.com]

not surprising that they get backlash for bringing back momo but they never should have eliminated her in the beginning.

[murderistx.livejournal.com]

momo never deserved that elimination so it was right to bring her back. jype fucked up when they let a whole mission's result rely solely on a biased audience's opinion.

tbh, i think dahyun shouldn't have debuted. she just sounds like she's speaking really fast and has such weak vocals (which twice has plenty of.) Chaeyoung is sufficient for the rapper position.

[torontok.livejournal.com]

mte, Jiwon should have Dahyun's spot

[magicpineapple.livejournal.com]

Agree re: Dahyun. She's just... idk, boring, to me, plus the super weak vocals & sub-par dancing don't help her case either.

[pastelpinklace.livejournal.com]

But dahyun brings attention to the group, since day 1 people talked about (good or bad) her. She's definitely going to be an it girl and jyp was smart enough to realize that.

[lettace.livejournal.com]

omg i was like apologize for what???

but fine. they still should've included jiwon. this group needs vocals and even a couple are "decent" you still have like 5 deadweights

[smilla-sini.livejournal.com]

I hope they also apologized to Momo as well, girl looked like she's gonna pass out. Can you imagine all the stress it caused her????

[gathyou.livejournal.com]

He should have announced these two special selections beforehand, it would have spared a lot of criticism. I haven't watched the show, only read Omona's comments, so I'll wait for the debut to judge but... seems quite messy so far? Good luck for the girls, anyway !
It still amuses so much that JYP is having his "GG group" before YG, despite all the mediaplay.
I would be really happy (yeah new girlsband!) if I knew Miss A would still get comebacks but even without another girlsband, they barely release music so...

[nashaa.livejournal.com]

The 2 special selection was probably an excuse made up after the show. Like they (or most probably jyp himself) didn't think there would be this much backlash so they quickly thought up the idea for damage control. It didn't make sense otherwise to leave out imo the most important info of the whole show--the group selection process. There's a lot of explanation on other things...god knows jyp loves explaining things in detail.

[forsureyoudo.livejournal.com]

omona,you're like a week late lmao

[fabulousdoll.livejournal.com]

I'm dumb. I need to pay more attention. Yesterday I was looking at info about them and realise Sana was the girl from GOT7 A 's MV. And the worst part was than watching the final I thought there was a girl who look a lot like Gong Seung Yun, and it was because it was her and she's Jungyeon's sister lol.
This is kpop, I don't care if they sing well or not (I like more than 30 groups and only one of them for their talent). So I'm okay with this girls because pretty much all of them are natural in the stage. And JYP said thousand of times that for idol groups he's not looking only at that. For talents he has his artists too. After this show I trust a lot JYP's "eyes". I was agreeing with pretty much all he said, even if later the management of the groups can be messy.


PS: Still sad Jiwon is not in the group.

[miuratenshi.livejournal.com]

I know it's their company and they can do whatever they want, but I'm glad they apologized. If JYP really wanted Momo back in the group, I feel like there should've been an elimination redemption round because at least we would have known about it. Bringing someone back after they were eliminated kinda proved that eliminations didn't really mean anything, and it was a bit unfair to the girls that made it to the final round, especially Chaeryeong, who probably expected to be the second member added.

That being said, I am happy Momo is in the group because she seems to fit more with the selected girls than Chaeryeong would have.

[iigoru.livejournal.com]

especially Chaeryeong, who probably expected to be the second member added.

That killed me so much. She totally was expecting it to be her after he mentioned "dance and performance". And then he says Momo and when the camera shows her again, she's bursting out in tears. I was so sad for her :((((

[maknaeroli.livejournal.com]

I'm getting annoyed because you know the reason why the agency is having to apologize is because people are complaining "why didn't my favorite get in!!!111"

like the elimination thing was probably a little confusing but here's how I saw it: from the minute he said there was no one else to switch from minor to major, that was the end. everyone else was eliminated - so tzuyu, chaeryeong, minyoung, somi, and natty were eliminated along with momo, jiwon, eunsuh, and the other chae girl. by adding the two extra members, it was from the pool of the entire eliminated members listed above. it's confusing, but I see where he's getting at lol.

idk I just find this whole "controversy" unnecessary. like jinwoon was technically eliminated from hot blood but was a member of 2am anyway lol~!! IDK GUYS LONG STORY SHORT CAN'T WE JUST BE HAPPY

[djeedjes.livejournal.com]

Ah come on, the whole "controversy" and "bitterness" are getting annoying.
This outcome would be inevitable in any survival/competition show, you develop attachment with the contestants, and if they don't make it, you'd unhappy for sure.
But JYP himself said at the beginning that he won't 'throw away' eliminated members - so I think it's okay, the younger girls can use the additional years of training.

Can we just support them? They look happy in their instagram posts! They can prove to us whether they are worthy to be stan of or not later after debut, why we should doubt them from now?

[moomoo-moonstar.livejournal.com]

What a complete shambles.

[iigoru.livejournal.com]

YES A TWICE POST. I'm obsessed with them, in need of more news.
This lineup is perfect tbh (even without my fav Jiwon). People complaining about Momo are basically Somi and Natty stans being salty.

[kiki3291.livejournal.com]

I've never stanned this fast before. So obsessed. Have you seen their latest twicetagram? So cute. Loving that we already got some GoTwice this early on.

I was going to make a post about it but thought you'd make one eventually and it needed more content lol. Can't wait for TwiceTV already.

[iigoru.livejournal.com]

Yessss, I did. I check their official and fan pages like every 5 minutes lol I seriously can't waaaaaait for Twice TV.

[maknaeroli.livejournal.com]

SAME. I was not expecting to fall in love as fast as I did but I am in love full-force with the entire lineup and now with twicetv starting this week I get to see even more!!!

[sub-divided.livejournal.com]

Well he got at least one more person to follow the group... cause I wasn't gonna but with Momo back in after all the fuss, I feel like JYP did us a favor we should be returning LOL.