It's Official, Alex Is Out of BP Rania

[contralilium.livejournal.com]

[OFFICIAL] DRM announces the departure of #ALEX from #BPRANIA pic.twitter.com/d7AtW1j1mp

— BP라니아_DAILY (@BPRANIAdaily) August 19, 2017

source: dr's facebook // @bpraniadaily

well, corner unnie fought the good fight, looking forward to the tell-all. also praying for the remaining five members

Comments

[miuratenshi.livejournal.com]

This is not a surprise, if she was barely in the group to begin with. She was dressed differently, she was in separate music video shots, and she was barely in the choreo. I held out hope that things would get better but they didn't. Alex deserves better and hopefully she'll get it now that she's out of there.

[lazmy.livejournal.com]

and nobody is surprised
the group should just disband

[froggster.livejournal.com]

perfect icon for this

[adenar.livejournal.com]

I'm not surprised but still disappointed, though I know this is probably for the best for Alex - she can get busy moving on to the next part of her career. At least she's probably come out of this having learned a lot, and having gained a small rabid fandom who will hopefully follow through and support her on whatever happens next.
This could have been such a great idea DR Music! We were rooting for you despite your past history!
I hope the other girls have an uneventful ride towards the end of their contracts

[musicnkisses.livejournal.com]

Good, now disband

[musicnkisses.livejournal.com]

Sad for her though, I wonder if she can make it as a foreigner in Korea, because she doesn't have any options in the US.

[contralilium.livejournal.com]

this. Like a lot of people turned their noses up at Alex in the beginning because "she could always go back to the US" but she's a shelved artist in the US with little to no chance at debuting under the company that she's signed to. This was basically a last-ditch effort for her too

[blah379.livejournal.com]

DR Music should just STOP. Their incompetence is astronomical! And there go most of BP RaNia's fans...

[a-cheshire-grin.livejournal.com]

Why did they even add her in the first place. I'm not a fan of Rania, so I never understood that.

[staaan.livejournal.com]

publicity stunt tbh

[staaan.livejournal.com]

i dunno what her contract was like but i'm surprised she lasted this long. dr music has been coming up with shit excuses for a solid two years.

i saw some fans saying that she hasn't hung out with the other members in a while (according to insta and such), i wouldn't be surprised if there was some bad blood between them. a lot of fans straight up admitted to only caring about alex (not that it's her fault ofc) which probably did breed some resentment

[contralilium.livejournal.com]

more than anything, I think the remaining members are staying away because they don't want to get on the company's bad side. I mean so many people (actual Rania fans + people who only cared about Alex) petitioned for Alex to be fully included and DR was basically like, "we don't give a fuck." Like the staff--especially Rania's manager--really does not like Alex. He even enlisted a Rania sasaeng who's known for harassing ex-members to harass and spread rumors about Alex so she'd give up and leave. Apparently, partly because Alex would criticize them/their strategies.

I really feel bad for Alex, she's been hanging on to this group for dear life because of the fans. Her American label never wanted her to join Rania and they actually didn't want her to go back for Beep Beep Beep but Alex went anyways because fans wanted her to stay.

[thomaswilmoore.livejournal.com]

now let the other girls go on idol reboot so they can have proper chances and disband this group already

[jrt131n.livejournal.com]

[luminous-wings.livejournal.com]

Being on stages with what kind of songs, what choreography couldn't be decided only by the company indeed.

What are they trying to say here? Are they trying to blame Alex for this???
I need an expose post about all of this lol. Reading some of the comments here it seems like there's a lot of messy stuff going on behind the scenes.

[contralilium.livejournal.com]

this is the same company who tried to make it look like Yina (the last original member) was only taking a hiatus after she announced that she left earlier this summer.

edit: which is to say twisting around words to lessen their responsibility is standard

[goshipgurl.livejournal.com]

Dr music is such a flop company they probably forgot to include a NDA in her contract.

[contralilium.livejournal.com]

the silver lining, tbh.

[henolam.livejournal.com]

Good. they treated her like trash. ik she'll probably just go back to the us but it would be cool if she debuted in a new group with an actual chance

[xxhna.livejournal.com]

alex deserves better. all the girls do. i hope she gets a break somewhere. she's gorgeous.

[dropthecrates.livejournal.com]

what a goddamn mess.

[myrrhcat.livejournal.com]

being a kpop fan is really hard on your sense of optimism huh
i was still praying that they'd get their shit together and, if not becoming commercially successful, at least integrate alex into the group and treat the members better

[frequency.livejournal.com]

DR seems to have done a half-assed job with everything involving this group since the very beginning, so this doesn't surprise me one bit lmao. they all deserve better tbh.

[msgrottesca.livejournal.com]

straight up illegal shit going on behind the scenes

I honestly can not imagine any way this company could still be chugging along without doing some illegal shit. Rania as a group has, as far as I know, never turned any sort of profit, yet have managed to continue putting out music and videos and promoting all this time when other groups of the same tier disbanded a long ass time ago. I'm incredibly suspicious of it all tbh.

[kwikimart.livejournal.com]

ohhhh i hate kpop so much : )

[contralilium.livejournal.com]

everyday I ask myself what the hell I'm still doing here, tbh

[confuqued.livejournal.com]

Good, this is something to celebrate. I wish she could stay in Korea. Maybe get signed under Feel Ghood Music and be alongside Tasha.

[contralilium.livejournal.com]

You and me both. Not because I want her to be in other kpop group but because there are kinda no options for her back in the U.S. The songs that she wrote for Rania were really good so I'm hoping she can become a songwriter but the language barrier will be a huge problem.

[rightclick5ave.livejournal.com]

sigh fucking mess from start to end. she tweeted something like "thank goodness I keep a diary" a while ago so I hope she's keeping records for legal action. I don't want the others to lose their careers but I also don't want this company to continue existing and exploiting them either.. :(

I'm in Korea with my friend to support them (well, the remaining five) this week... guess we came at the right time, they'll need all the support they can get :(

[uguukawaii.livejournal.com]

are they doing any busking performances or anything this week?

[minho-lover.livejournal.com]

wat a mess, sending successful wishes to alex. and prayers to the other girls

[sjtaazrz.livejournal.com]

Not surprising.

I'm still pulling for the girls left in this crap situation (maybe now ifans will at least stop flooding their comment sections with fake concern).

As for Alex, it seemed like she was kind of shelved/not doing much when she was in the states. I don't know if her career will actually take off now. If she tries to make it solo in Korea, I still don't think she's really ready for that. I'm curious to see that happens.

[ribbon2sky.livejournal.com]

i hope everything works out for the best. i wonder what alex will do now 🤔

[friedchickeneu.livejournal.com]

i really do wish alex the best.