Thoughts Prior to the Release of T-ara's Last Album
In my previous post, I think I mentioned about T-ara (or MBK actually) planning to release their last album together as 6 in May before the end of Boram's and Soyeon's contracts. They were also expected to attend their concerts in Taiwan, Macau and Japan together as planned. However, few days before their Taiwan concert on 13 May, MBK reported BoRam and Soyeon failing to attend practices and plannings for their Taiwan concert and remained uncontactable until they showed up in Taiwan the day before the concert. This concert was the last time the 6 members gathered. The Macau concert was eventually postponed according to the ticketing website (but rumor has it that it will be cancelled) and only the remaining 4 members (Qri, Eunjung, Hyomin, Jiyeon) would attend the Japan concert. Furthermore, the supposed last album with 6 members could not be realised and it would be released in mid-June with the 4 members. I was pretty much enraged about the whole fiasco since I had been looking forward to purchasing their last album with the 6 of them. I think I had overestimated MBK in thinking that things could come to a good end for T-ara. Looks like I was really wrong. There are fans who claim that the remaining 4 members will not extend their contracts aft they end in December and that the 6 of them would eventually join a new company and continue on as a group. However, I am not trustful/ hopeful of that 'theory'. I think T-ara has a pretty good balance overall and they seem to get along fine but I don't think they are that close/ strong to want to continue T-ara. That path would be absolutely tough (given how MBK would probably go to great lengths to prevent that from happening) but it could be the happiest thing for me if that ever happened.:)