Teaser roundup featuring HA:TFELT, Kim Namjoo, YooA & UP10TION

[waves-of-light.livejournal.com]

HA:TFELT "La Luna" Preview

[HA:TFELT] 💡
'La Luna' Preview 🌙
2020.09.10 6pm (KST)
_#핫펠트 #HATFELT #라루나 #LaLuna #200910_6pm pic.twitter.com/cdzldBiEIu

— amoebaculture (@amoebakorea) September 6, 2020

Kim Namjoo "Bird" MV teaser #2

YooA "Bon Voyage" MV teaser

UP10TION "Light Up" teaser photo

UP10TION [Light UP] SPECTRUM PHOTO Ⅰ 200924#업텐션 #UP10TION #Light_UP pic.twitter.com/g70EPH0JuQ

— 업텐션(UP10TION) (@UP10TION) September 6, 2020

source: amoebakorea, Apink, OH MY GIRL, UP10TION

Comments

[inwazyja.livejournal.com]

Idk about La Luna, it sounds like a generic Latin-inspired kpop song, especially after 1719.

Please let it not have a problematic video, at least.

[pikapika217.livejournal.com]

Yeeun and Namjoo sound incredible!!

and oof - at the styling choices for YooA, not that OMG doing something cringe and maybe appropriative - but definitely inappropriate is all that surprising. If nothing else, I'm glad I wasn't anticipating YooA's solo because HONEY

[sciencebottle.livejournal.com]

Yeah ia about YooA. I don’t know much of anything about where that face paint comes from but I feel like that pattern is used by certain tribes? I don’t want to scream CA without knowing much of anything (I clearly am unable to name even the country that I’m thinking of) but I’m glad to know I wasn’t the only one thinking that lol

[pikapika217.livejournal.com]

Oh My Girl has a track record of Casual cultural insensitivity that until recently seemed to be left in the past so this is just yet another thing LOL

[tsukino.livejournal.com]

I see YooA and OMG stans already being a mess and trying to explain it away as the concept of a forest girl or jungle spirit. Like using those descriptions make it any less culturally insensitive or appropriative.

[epona.livejournal.com]

what culture is being appropriated? genuine curiosity, not snark

[tsukino.livejournal.com]

Kind of like sciencebottle said above, it's hard for me to pin point it. With this teaser the songs sounds kind of polynesian(?) and given the tribal patterns I'm inclined to say this feels like appropriation. idk it's hard to explain but seeing it as a whole package with the beach and the music that starts up at 15 seconds in and the markings, it just starts to feel like them trying to mimic Moana. And I don't think YooA is polynesian, is she? Even if you take the music out of the equation, the outfit looks like what you'd find if you googled white girl pocahontas forest witch princess instagram aesthetic. Vanessa Hudgens would wear this to Coachella. That's why I'm inclined to pre-label this appropriation.

[volume1995.livejournal.com]

why... would WM entertainment constantly fuck up their biggest income? but it doesn't matter since i/k-mercury's are still gonna eat everything up cause ~she looks good and its from princess mononoke~

[dior-chic.livejournal.com]

Yea her racist fans in Korea are going to eat this up

[myungung.livejournal.com]

I'm interested in how the ha:tfelt song will be like, but it kinda feels very 2019 with the Latin inspired beats.

Namjoo's one looks like there's some Cleopatra influence with the queen part, I'm just hoping she doesn't do it too overboard with the "appreciation". I wanna be excited for her solo debut.

Yooa... I don't know what to say because I feel like everything they do is just gonna turn me off, but I also want to check it out for the sake of it? I know I'll be disappointed though. I'm just glad the MV music teaser does not sound promising, because the album medley sounded interesting

[mntsuklaa.livejournal.com]

It would've been so easy to keep YooA's concept in a general forest-nymph-whatever category and yet here we are. Shame, because the album medley sounded really nice.

Very much looking forward to Namjoo's solo!

Wooseok is the only Up10tion member I know and I'm sad he doesn't seem to be included in comebacks anymore :(