My personal ranking:
1.Yum Yum
2.24h
3.In the same place
4.Dont manter
5.fingertips
Malu Lahnel
2024-09-23 16:48:22 +0000 UTC
Very late to this, but this was a really enjoyable episode. Mainly because of the focus on performances.
My personal ranking:
1. 24 Hours
2. In The Same Place
3. Don't Matter
4. Fingertips
5. Yum Yum
I enjoyed all of these except Yum Yum tbh, both in terms of performance and song. It just seemed like an endless, not particularly strong chorus IMO, but maybe that's just me. Good performance overall but I can't really enjoy it if I don't like the song.
Damn, two episodes left. This went by so fast, can't wait to see the final lineup completed.
Since a few commenters mentioned Girl's Re:Verse... absolutely can recommend. Must watch. Absolutely hilarious with some great performances to boot... would love it if you check it one day, I'm sure you'll enjoy it.
newcarsmell
2024-03-27 01:56:18 +0000 UTC
- Mave and Plave aren't "AI" groups, they're virtual groups. There's no AI involved in their productions, it's all real people behind the virtual avatars. The animation is done with mocap.
I see them a bit as Kpop versions of something like Gorillaz for example.
But ChatGPT and Midjourney have absolutely nothing to do with this.
- But boy, do I have the survival show for you! Girls Re:Verse is a show that featured 30 already debuted idols. The twist is that the entire show takes place in a fully virtual environment and all contestants are playing virtual characters, so no one is supposed to know who's really who.
Though of course some were identified pretty quickly by their voices. But from what I've heard, the show is super chaotic and unhinged because the idols don't appear as themselves :D
- Oh no, the voting to kick members out :/
I know they gotta readjust the groups but man...
- A surprising number of people voting themselves out. Huh.
- I already know Seokyung from her own group GWSN and it's like you say, seeing them lose their confidence like this is always sad.
- omg Yoojung having a crush on Jinyoung is adorable π₯Ί
24 Hours
- Wow, a practice run that goes by pretty smoothly and without any major issues? I didn't even know that was possible π
- Good news, all the songs from this round are indeed available on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/23WQRmPCr2qacsex7NWgkL
- The mixing was a bit off with the vocals being a little too quiet but other than that, this was great! Super fun, dancable, perfect for festivals! Love it.
Fingertips
- You heard βLionβ because L and R are the same letter in Korean.
- Ah, we're back to business as usual. Messy practice runs.
- Chungha pls stop
- To be honest, the song is really not my vibe. But the girls look amazing and holy moly, Chungha. Jesus π₯΅
Don't Matter
- San-E is a pretty big name in the Korean hiphop scene so it's pretty cool that they get to work with him here.
- That was amazing! Probably my favourite song of the three so far. The vocal quality that Juna brings here is just so fucking good. That deep tone!
Yum-Yum
- Reminder that Somi is younger than you'd think. This was her 15th birthday we just saw there.
- Did they not provide an interpreter for the girls when working with a producer that doesn't speak Korean? Or why is Somi doing the translating here?
- Good performance but like with Fingertips, the song itself really isn't for me.
In the Same Place
- They did well! I could tell that Sohye was still nervous af but they pulled through very nicely. And the song itself is amazing.
And Hyeri is just unbearably adorable π
So my personal ranking would be:
1. Don't Matter
2. 24 Hours
3. Fingertips
4. In the Same Place
5. Yum-Yum
Between places 3 and 4, I like In the Same Place more as a song but Fingertips had a better performance imo.
I'm okay with In the Same Place winning but as for the rest, what was that live audience smoking when voting π
But now I'm reevaluating if I really did like Fingertips' performance better or if I'm just a thirsty bitch for Chungha π
Marcel Wannieck
2024-03-25 23:52:03 +0000 UTC
- Your original thought was "how can you make a survival show without biases whatsoever", which made you think of AI as a solution. Well, you were not alone in this thought process, because this is exactly why there was the show "Girls Re:verse". There, 30 (ex) idols were avatars in a virtual world. So, the original idea was very good. And even though the graphics took some serious effort of getting used to π¬, once you did however, it ended up being one of my fav shows! β€οΈ
But once ppl figured out which idol was which avatar, I'm sure some bias-voting came with it as well.
- Virtual groups like Mave and Plave I'm ok with.
From a consumer perspective: They make music pretty much in the same way as real-life idols do, they provide cool mv's where now sky is the limit. Even some forms of interviews and music show performances are possible. They can have personalities of their own, so there are things you can get attached to as a fan. The interactions are limited of course, so I think you will always lose a bit of the "human touch".
From a business point of view it has a lot going for it: no idol costs, no scandals, no dieting controversies, no managers, no live vs lipsynch debates, etc. This list is quite large. I'm not sure about the costs of full virtual vs humans and green screens (+expensive camera's, etc).
Aespa isn't virtual imo. And yes, Naevis is still about to debut iirc.
KDA is virtual, but it's not really idols imo. If anything, they're idolizing the LoL characters.
- And here we have the consequences of this dumb setup of learning a song before vote results π
- Soyeon choosing Juna over her label mate Eunbin π
- YOU HATE PANCAKES?? π
- Yeah, the audio volume is very low at times. Is it just me, or is it always during times that members aren't that sure of themselves? As if they are emphasizing that π€
- A tip to remember Yeon-jung's [yeon-jeong] name is that it is a bit of the reverse of Twice's Jeon-yeong.
24 hours
- I get what you mean about the vocal line (verses) reminding you of Brown Eyed Girls. It really has that 2nd gen vibe / sound. Even the beat does tbh.
- All these song are on Spotify π:
https://open.spotify.com/album/23WQRmPCr2qacsex7NWgkL
Fingertips
- Ryan in romanized korean is Ra-i-eon, so there already is the "ion" of lion, and the γΉ is both r and l so it's totally understandable to get lion.
- Chungha chose violence, and Nayoung...saranghae π
Yum Yum
The pinnacle of ear-worms π Just like Pick Me this has been living rent-free in my head ever since.
So far, I liked every song and performance.
In The Same Place
Sohye messing up (during practice), crying and needing extra attention again? Just like the first time when I watched this, at this point I got a little tired of Sohye. I'm sure she works hard, but I think everyone else is too. We are reaching the stage where we are losing very talented girls while she remains.
We might be a broken record but yeah, Hyeri's voice is so cute π₯Ή
Song was just ok for me. I think it was very high (pitched) though, so it was my least favorite. Strong high notes but a bit out of the blue for me. So I'm a little confused why this song won. I suspect being the last performance might have had some influence but it's more likely that it struck a cord with the audience that I'm not getting π€·