I randomly watched an episode of a YouTube show with Kara for their I Do I Do promotions. I don’t know much about Kara, except for STEP and Hara and Youngji (I watch a few variety shows). Well, from start to finish, I was laughing. I couldn’t even focus on eating, it was so good I set the food aside and just watching it. Gyuri is hilarious! The girl had such spunk and attitude, and it would be so easy to come off rude with that but she didn’t come off rude at all. It was just perfect! Where was she all my life? YoungJi I already knew was hilarious. Her show’s episode with Lee MiJoo had me cry laughing.
When I want to watch YouTube content, I often opt to watch second generation stuff or a few third gen groups (TWICE, Dreamcatcher, sometimes BP, Apink) and basically the only group from 4th gen that has managed to be somewhat entertaining to me LSF. I get why 4th and 5th gen aren’t good at it: there’s simply no more variety shows like what it used to be: star king and radio star and idol championships and invincible youth and running man (they’re all like 45+ now), idol school, etc etc. I get that companies do their own variety shows, but most of the time they’re tame and just there to show the idols in a good light.
We had SNSD girls rank themselves from prettiest to ugliest without makeup and getting roasted on National TV lmao. I’m pretty sure Sunny (or maybe someone else) once kicked a male idol in the nuts on running man lol. We had we got married and idols going on retreats to couple up like a dating reality show. I miss that crazy energy. It’s so nice to see some of these 2nd gen idols making appearances on different shows. I think 2nd gen may have also had variety members…? Like as an actual position.
There are a couple of great variety talents in 4th gen onwards – but sadly they don’t get to do much: Yujin IVE (she said she was a fan of Jeon SoMin, I can see the influence lol), Lee Youngji and Lee Chae-yeon. In fact, I’ll throw in Chaewon and Sakura from iz*one in here too. Maybe Eunbi too. I’m not familiar with boygroups, but aside from seventeen, I really haven’t seen any boy group members being fun at variety past 3rd gen either. The 2nd and 3rd gen boy groups were also impeccable.
Will we ever get to see more of the old vibes of variety instead of the YouTube shows with food and interview style? It’s nice to know the idols – but those variety shows were just pure entertainment.
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