I’ve been thinking about this for a while, and I hope this doesn’t come across the wrong way because I don’t mean it as a knock on any of the members.
I just don’t think global groups created by K-pop companies are a great idea. My biggest issue isn’t with the members themselves. It’s more that the K-pop trainee system is incredibly demanding, and I sometimes wonder if it’s the right environment for everyone.
The training system involves years of evaluations, long hours, constant improvement, and a level of pressure that’s very different from what a lot of artists outside Korea might expect. Watching groups like KATSEYE and VCHA, I sometimes get the feeling that companies are trying to fit people into a system that may not be the best fit for every trainee.
Part of why I feel this way is because most Western pop artists today don’t come up through anything like the K-pop trainee system. In the ’90s and early 2000s, you had acts like the Spice Girls, Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC, and even some Disney artists who went through intensive rehearsals and development before becoming stars. That kind of artist training is much less common in Western pop now, so I can imagine the adjustment to the K-pop system being a huge culture shock.
This isn’t me saying they’re untalented or that they don’t work hard. If anything, it makes me wonder whether some of them would have thrived even more under a different training model instead of trying to adapt to the traditional K-pop system.
TL;DR: I don’t think the problem is the members. I think the K-pop trainee system is so demanding that it isn’t always the best fit for artists coming from countries where that kind of training is no longer common, which is why I’m skeptical of global groups created by K-pop companies.
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