2NE1 cancels upcoming single + announces plan for new album in October

[benihime99.livejournal.com]

YG Entertainment has just notified allkpop of some changes in upcoming plans. Unfortunately 2NE1‘s upcoming single, which was scheduled to be released on July 28th originally, has been canceled. However! The girls will be returning in October with a new album instead.

According to original plans, 2NE1 had intended to release their second single three weeks after the release of “I Love You” back on July 5th. However, as their ‘New Evolution‘ tour will kick off in Seoul at the end of this week, followed with performances overseas in August and September, it was decided that the double promotions with the tour and music program performances in Korea may take too much of a toll on the girls. Thus, after an emergency meeting, YG Entertainment has announced that they will be scrapping the plans for the new single coming up, and will instead be focusing on a new album release in October.

Although they are aware that some fans may be disappointed with the sudden announcement, they stated that this decision had to be made in order for the girls to focus more on their first world tour and give the producers in the agency more time to produce a higher quality album.

Source: Allkpop

Comments

[blkjck.livejournal.com]

#mess

[patentpending.livejournal.com]

Between the unfortunate tragedy that really kept them from promoting and this, what a disappointing "comeback".

[periodpains.livejournal.com]

flops

[in-noctem.livejournal.com]

it was decided that the double promotions with the tour and music program performances in Korea may take too much of a toll on the girls.

Did that thought not occur to a single person working at YG before they made their comeback?

[blkjck.livejournal.com]

mte!!
none of this makes sense

[burger.livejournal.com]

how sloppy :(

[toshi830.livejournal.com]

Who the hell planned that mess of a schedule to begin with honestly

Should've seen it wasn't gonna work a hella long time ago

[crazyxcami.livejournal.com]

they seriously just threw in I LOVE YOU for the Tour tbh~ lol.
whatever the KOREA concert is this weekend and i shall party with em fancams and pics~ lulz

[pikapika217.livejournal.com]

I say it's nice that they'll get time and, if nothing else, Min will get all the time she needs to heal. Sometimes things just don't work the way originally planed and that's ok.

[asnindie.livejournal.com]

YG didn't realise this before? Wtf, I was really looking forward to the singles too.

[blkjck.livejournal.com]

ikr they had nothing going on those months and it would have been qt seeing them go head to head with sistar/4minute

[hurtmybones.livejournal.com]

they obviously can't handle more than one artist at a time. flop management

[montauks.livejournal.com]

like i said before, only self-functioning/managing groups/people can succeed at yg

[kiminikaeru.livejournal.com]

lol they're so lazy

[hideandplaydead.livejournal.com]

Everything about ilu comeback is a mess. Im dissapointed.

Rant!

[ashiva.livejournal.com]

TBH YG made a huge mistake with scheduling of 2NE1's tour. Instead of tour they should have tried to promote them as much as they can - put Minzy in Immortal Song, Bom in some variety show, Dara in some drama, and CL should have had a solo song, and 2NE1 as a group should have released bunch of new songs and promote them much more via different platforms and thus establish more secure fanbase for them inside Korea and at the same time gain more fans internationally (music video that goes viral in youtube gives you much more new fans than some hastily arranged concert that is attended only few of their already existing fans).

Now they will probably just get bad press about poor ticket sales for their concerts in US (lots of people can't afford to go to both Big Bang's concert and 2NE1's concert, and are thus choosing Big Bang instead of 2NE1). Also I don't think 2NE1 was ready for a tour with a live band as their singing/rapping technique is far behind Big Bang's. I'm expecting announcements of vocal chord nodule problems for the whole group. And I kinda fear that people might be disappointed with their vocals in Seoul concert (they sounded super shitty in last Inkigayo because the stress their vocals have been put in due to way too many rehearsals) as I fear they don't get their vocal chords in good condition by the time of the concert.

So yeah this tour should have happened somewhere in next year with tour dates being announced months and months before actual tour and probably should have been done without a live band. And this year the girls should have been concentrating on increasing their fandom via another forms of promotion.

Also when the fuck YG is going to debut their new groups?

Re: Rant!

[inurbed.livejournal.com]

this so much

[chibiyunie.livejournal.com]

I typed this out so many times already, but here I go again.

I love 2NE1, they are one of the few Korean girl groups that I actually like almost all the songs from, so when the comeback was announced, I was so excited. Then they suddenly say that the comeback is pushed back a month because they want "to make the best Album possible" and I accepted that. And now they say in this article that they have to delay because it will "give the producers the chance to make a higher quality album"? How high quality will this album be if they already delayed it one month and it will now be delayed another 2/3 months?

They announce to be on running man and I am so happy because I love that show and than they suddenly cancel that because they are so shy - which is just a lame excuse in my eyes - and they cancel that as well.

Than they come with the world tour out of nowhere. I am going to the one in Seoul, but it will probably be the same as the other concert. What I don't get is why you make a world tour with no new songs (except ILY), are they going to be doing all sorts of remixes? This will just turn out to be the same concert as Nolza, which is kind of sad. But I just want to see them live so bad.

They release the new song and do hardly any promotions for it. They promise to release a new song in three weeks and now that gets cancelled as well. They knew at YGE that planning a world tour is a lot of work, so why promise a new song in three weeks if you probably already knew that you would not be able to make that happen.

I am just so disappointed in this comeback. It just ruins it for me.

[impatiences.livejournal.com]

You've said everything I feel.

[the-erotomanic.livejournal.com]

no one really had their hopes up that yge would push through with their original plans, but it still sucks that 2ne1 is managed so poorly. :o\

[dokyungsoo.livejournal.com]

yeah, we know the girls need their rest and sufficient preparation for their tour/album, that's great, but whoever who was in charge of planning their schedule deserves to be fired tbh. it's really unreasonable to the fans (but they probably love them too much to care, lmao), plus irresponsible and unprofessional as a team.

[supplanter.livejournal.com]

yeah, we know the girls need their rest and sufficient preparation for their tour/album

Am I missing something, or are 2ne1 not one of the most well-rested kpop groups out there? I mean, they don't seem to have other jobs consistently (variety, hosting, acting, modeling, whatever), and when they actually are promoting, they only perform on a couple shows a week rather than the whole roster. And their dance routines are not that challenging, not that that's necessarily different from other girlgroups. Are they involved in a whole bunch of activities non-dedicated fans might not know about (that are above and beyond what any normal kpop group might be involved in) or is this whole line basically nonsense?

[deeinanutshell.livejournal.com]

I'm so disappointed about the way YG is handling 2NE1, I cannot even. They are not ready for a world tour. They have been out of the spotlight for a year prior to I Love You. That's like /ages/ in kpop. And I Love You.. it's like they are not promoting it that much? Idk. Other than the usual weekly shows, they are not doing much more. IMO they should've given them proper full blow promotions before the tour. And also not put it so close to Big Bang's because now I cannot afford to go to theirs (and a lot of intl VIPs who are fans of 2NE1 or vice versa are having the same problem). UGHHHH. YG >.>

Also lol at them using the same 'rest' excuse every time there's scheduling conflicts.

[mingobus.livejournal.com]

I can't understand what YG is trying to do with 2ne1...

It's always promote one or two songs then disappear for more than a year. At this rate they'll never be able to establish any sort of actual dedicated fan base.

I wonder what will happen to them the moment Korea gets tired of catchy electro-pop. And the music scene seems to be going in that direction too, seeing how many bands and non-idol singers are topping the charts once again.

[impatiences.livejournal.com]

I have high expectations of twennywan and I've been so surprised by how sloppy their comeback's been handled. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, with how poor and messy their Japanese activities were.

[markovnikov.livejournal.com]

lol this flop ass group

[frantastic.livejournal.com]

ugh, I really feel for the girls. They deserve better

[u-niverse.livejournal.com]

poor girls. i kind of felt their talent has gone to waste. Bom and Dara's age issues are also catching up. i can't believe how poorly they are managed. i hope Blackjacks do something about it...

[inurbed.livejournal.com]

Blackjacks are fighting in between themselves so they aren't helping.

[polyritsimu.livejournal.com]

Dull, dull, dissapointing and dull. YG needs new/better management and PR teams, it's not like they can't afford it. Frankly it's a little embarrassing, if that really is the reason it should never have been planned that way in the first place.