SM Ent Releases Debut Teaser For Girl Group Aespa

[miuratenshi.livejournal.com]

Source: aespa's YouTube

Welp a lot of y'all called it in the Irene post.

Edit: *all online buzz points to this being a girl group. However SM has not officially confirmed it.

Comments

[dior-chic.livejournal.com]

Lmaoooooooo history keeps repeating itself. I have to laugh otherwise it’s just sad.

So what does Aespa mean? Lol @ the dramatic music. Also unrelated but Dawn’s song autoplayed after this, I never heard it before and had to stop it since my ears didn’t like it lol.

[goshipgurl.livejournal.com]

I immediately thought of "vespa" (the italian scooter) when I read the name but someone on Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/kpop/comments/jhvsz5/aespa_sm_entertainment_coming_soon_teaser_image/ga2nk6a/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) suggested that it may stand for

Astonishing

Emergency

Scandal

Protection

Association

[goldenrosalie.livejournal.com]

i'm gonna pay sm (5$ max) to do this to at least one of their boy groups

[setsuna16.livejournal.com]

Omona be knowing stuff.

[belintuchiha.livejournal.com]

It’s all the years of experience in this hell hole lol

[nefertitii.livejournal.com]

the bells toll for RV. rip it was a good run

[ironmangina.livejournal.com]

Man it sucks seeing RV go out this way. Time is a circle.

[line-genrou.livejournal.com]

I do wonder how Irene feels though, knowing she fucked up the careers of her bandmates.

[mishiro-san.livejournal.com]

Lmao..classic SM

[dior-chic.livejournal.com]

I do feel for RV fans right now (...not obsessive fans though). Seeing an idol you like really show her ass and then realize your favorite group is now going to be put on the back burner. They can just see how f(x) fans turned out especially the constant begging for any new release to begging SM to finally announce it’s over...

I don’t wish that on anyone who is a fan of a group that has brought them a lot of comfort or happiness over the years. I’m for some reason leaving myself out of this when I’m one of those fans lol, even though I don’t follow their promotional content closely they’re one of my most listened to kpop groups...

[goshipgurl.livejournal.com]

History repeats itself. Older kpop fans have been trying to warn newbies for YEARS that their faves won't be on top forever and every company is full of shit but they choose to ignore all the advice.

[kcaomei.livejournal.com]

wow and SM ent said... life goes on lmao

[radowan.livejournal.com]

right? The thing is that SM crunches out so many popular groups it can afford to shelve anyone who becomes troublesome. ESPECIALLY if they're "older women" (using "older" here very very very loosely)

[tsubaki874.livejournal.com]

I like how the 'ae' makes a butterfly. I'm gonna miss RV dearly

[frequency.livejournal.com]

history always repeats itself, doesn't it? 😔

what is that name supposed to mean tho??

[adenar.livejournal.com]

I literally can't believe they're being this fucking blatant about it lmao. It's been what, two days? Holy shit.

Good luck girls, make sure you don't have any attitude controversies or leave the group under difficult circumstances!

aespa makes me think of 'esper' from the final fantasy series

[labovm.livejournal.com]

some ppl on twitter were trying to say it's the female version of superm bc i guess the ae showed up on something dealing with superm (idk idc about that group) & taemin called it a spoiler but like sm doesn't have enough female artists to actually do a female superm. but good luck to this new gg. also rv fans just know you have a bigger discography than f(x) so at least you can listen to more of their stuff.

[goshipgurl.livejournal.com]

Lol, who would they even put in the female Super M? SM only has BoA, a half-dead Soshi and 3/5 of Red Velvet to choose from.

[belintuchiha.livejournal.com]

Idk why the name reminds me of Vespa 🙃

[goshipgurl.livejournal.com]

Me too! First cf for the group already locked in

[jyushimatsu.livejournal.com]

Well RIP Red Velvet...

[ggumd.livejournal.com]

Damn I really feel for the women in SM. Its funny though you would never expect SM do do their boy groups like this lol

but I gotta say my favorite reactions thus far have been the sm bg stans celebrating this due to rv being ~exposed~ as assholes as if superm/nct/exo havent made repeated body shaming, racist, xenophobic remarks/actions themselves lol with the most recent body shaming/racist incident being just a few days ago lol whew the lack of self awareness

[radowan.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I'm totally pro-exposing assholes in the industry, but I wish that men were held to similar standards and as aggressively punished and shelved when they do problematic shit.

[tsukino.livejournal.com]

Fuck SM. This is disgusting. How many time has that one NCT boy gotten called out for being a bully? And NCT's other constant fuck ups? Yet they constantly push NCT. And all the shit Super Junior has pulled? But ok, let fuck over the last girl group we have because she has an attitude. Not saying Irene didn't fuck up, because she did. But on the grand scale of fuck up RV has not even done half as much as they guy groups. And god knows what kind of shit these guys have pulled with assistants but none of them probably spoke out because SM guy groups are untouchable. I'm so tired of this. I'm taking all of the girl groups and women SM artist I love off my spotify and pirating it because I'm not even going to give SM the 10 cents or whatever spotify gives per stream.

Also why does this sound like the dolby digital ad you see before a movie?

And Aespa? What a dumbass name. Sounds like a rip off of Aesop. Watch them have a story tale like backstory to fit it. Kind of like how exo has superpowers and that who exo planet whatever backstory.

[goshipgurl.livejournal.com]

I was just thinking about this yesterday. Irene fucked up and she deserved to be critized. But I'm surprised that her scandal blew up when we have other females that were also revealed to be bullys still promoting. Don't get me even started about the amound of men that did way worse yet still have fans and are promoting just fine.

[rockerista03.livejournal.com]

Welp, here we go. It sucks that Red Velvet had to go out this way when their boy groups have had more fuck ups. I understand gapjil is a big issue in Korea because no one likes that and Irene really fucked up, but it’s just super sad that this is the beginning of the end of RV. I feel sorry for the girls—Seulgi especially. SM can fuck right off.

Good luck to the new gg tho and hopefully they don’t get into major scandals.

[benihime99.livejournal.com]

What a surprise!!!!

[aeries-amethyst.livejournal.com]

I'm seeing comments that this is either for the new GG or for SM merchandise...I'm gonna assume it's for the GG because their debut is long overdue, but even without the delay, this timing is kind of unfortunate - today is Jongdae's enlistment and of course this is another way to deflect from Irene's scandal.

[rose-potion.livejournal.com]

Well I hope Seulgi will have the solo career she deserves.
I wonder how the girls handle the situation and if they resent Irene or support her because she must feel (hopefully) horrible.

[line-genrou.livejournal.com]

they're probably pissed af, especially if Irene have been doing this for years

[hyungmoney.livejournal.com]

not omona acting brand new like y’all didn’t hate rv when they first debuted. UR PART OF THE CYCLE

anyway always happy for women LETS GO SMNGG

and more revisionist history wendy came out as antiblack 2 days into red velvets debut y’all should be happy they even let rv last this long!!!!

[sapphiredeity.livejournal.com]

mte lol i remember omona hating rv bcs they think they will never be fx lol.

[missshallelujah.livejournal.com]

i thought it was gonna be the new gg but taemin calling the logo a spoiler for their next project and now this tweet...

apparently a chinese sasaeng is saying that aespa is a competition for all sm groups whereas the top 11 will be the ones to debut under the brand æspa??? pls! idk anymore pic.twitter.com/Sc0MZewXc5 (https://t.co/Sc0MZewXc5)

— yjღ - æspa? (@godyjm) October 25, 2020 (https://twitter.com/godyjm/status/1320431562236719109?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

sm's lost the plot so i can see it happening. they literally used islamic prayers in a performance in the morning and then dropped this at night like absolutely nothing's going on, their lack of fucks given doesn't even surprise me anymore

[goshipgurl.livejournal.com]

a competition for all sm groups whereas the top 11 will be the ones to debut under the brand æspa

lmao what???

[sciencebottle.livejournal.com]

Like....I'm intrigued and if it really is smngg then cool, but holy are they being blatant about ushering RV out the door lmao. It's also rather frustrating, because why do their GG's always end up like this despite the leagues of problematic situations their boy groups get into? Oh right. we all know why.

[myrrhcat.livejournal.com]

this is gonna be an unpopular opinion... but I DON'T think this is related to rv's scandal, or if it is, it's only partially so. SM have been saying since the beginning of 2020 that the new gg was planned to debut in q4 of this year.

and, f(x) still got out one more album and two singles after rv's debut, so rv probably isn't over QUITE yet.

[kyungwons.livejournal.com]

yeah it looks like they've pushed up the date a bit if its the new gg but they were rumoured for this quarter of the year anyway

[sodapab.livejournal.com]

The name makes me think of aesthetic spa...
After reading the comments I think (and hope) that this is related to SuperM and not to the new girl group.

edit: wait nvm lmao I'm a fool