They have been delaying their debut for two years now. Seriously, the average age range of the trainees isn’t looking nice too. I’m not saying to debut teenagers or what but the oldest member is literally an 03. We know kpop’s main appeal in SoKor is on middle schoolers too. Let’s be honest, most people tune in on Cortis because they’re in the same age range as them and can relate a lot (just read korean forums). Aside from that there’s mandatory military service, the career of these adult trainees are gonna be cut short if they keep delaying it. It’s not like they haven’t promoted them enough.
Before anyone call me weird for following aa trainee group, SMTR25 literally had their own variety show, their own variety show song, a freaking fanmeet tour in SoKor, Japan, Thailand, Macau, youtube contents, and even performed in kpop idol award shows. I don’t think this is a budget problem because they honestly went full blast into promoting this group like months ago to the extent other kpop idols probably know of them already. They didn’t even do this much with EXO marketing during their peak lol.
I also think they found their members already. Justin Jay is a former Hybe trainee famous for being well a hybe trainee for the western fans. He can sing and can definitely dance. Hamin had a ton of articles about his visuals when he was first revealed and it’s a known fact that he spent his childhood in the Philippines so SEAs locked in too. The top trainees like Songha, Hamin, Hyeonjun has more followers on weibo than currently debuted idols which is insane to me because they don’t even have a chinese in their group yet China’s tuned in. This group gained a lot of traction in Korea, Japan, in the west and would probably do well in SEA too so the delay is just stupid, the hype would soon fade away.
This is also a group where I would say everyone is good at dancing and are pretty synchronized. I don’t know about vocals yet because the freaking backtrack is so loud during the fanmeets but I’ve watched predebut singing of the trainees and they’re nice. Charlie which is a Thai actor and model has such a soothing voice that reminds me of Anton, only a lot stronger and smoother I would say.
I really don’t understand why they just won’t debut them already. Popularity and skills aren’t a question anymore. The delay is just doing more harm than good. This is why SM always fail in reaching wider audience. Once they gain traction, they become complacent and don’t take advantage. Such thing that Hybe is really good at.
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