This has nothing to do with Momoiro Clover, just wanted to say hello. Also, here's a Dreamcatcher video which is audacious in that the it's inviting comparison to one of the most commanding girl-group dances I've seen, and of course can't hold a candle to it, but nonetheless is oddly interesting because it doesn't seem a statement of purpose (group is actually veering towards pop-goth, it would seem), just...
It's interesting that the ITNW dance has gained its mythological stature only with hindsight (outside of the SNSD fandom, anyways), as within the decade, it was so far over-shadowed by the hook dances instead. Tell Me first, and then Gee and Genie. It could be argued that SNSD themselves never came close to matching the skill on display in ITNW until Catch Me If You Can.
Aesthetically, though, with the light cool colors, and the "fresh"/"youthful" way Dreamcatcher are executing the dance, they follow a longer through-line, to ITNW itself positing SNSD as a "sequel" to SES. You and askbask also previously noted early Lovelyz and GFriend going for this image. What's interesting is that this "fresh schoolgirl" aesthetic is now historically linked to rookie SNSD, because their debut peers, Wonder Girls and Kara, did not go for this image initially. (And Kara's take on it would be
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Interesting: I'd been listening casually last year to I.O.I whenever YouTube threw them at me, with the feeling that they performed really invitingly while the songwriting and singing wasn't up to the rest of the presentation. Had no knowledge of their origin on reality TV.
Pledis's news group Pristin has seven members (out of a ttoal of ten) who were contestants in Produce 101. Two of them, Nayoung and Kyulkyung, made it to I.O.I.
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Nicely executed jump at 2:15.
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It's interesting that the ITNW dance has gained its mythological stature only with hindsight (outside of the SNSD fandom, anyways), as within the decade, it was so far over-shadowed by the hook dances instead. Tell Me first, and then Gee and Genie. It could be argued that SNSD themselves never came close to matching the skill on display in ITNW until Catch Me If You Can.
Aesthetically, though, with the light cool colors, and the "fresh"/"youthful" way Dreamcatcher are executing the dance, they follow a longer through-line, to ITNW itself positing SNSD as a "sequel" to SES. You and askbask also previously noted early Lovelyz and GFriend going for this image. What's interesting is that this "fresh schoolgirl" aesthetic is now historically linked to rookie SNSD, because their debut peers, Wonder Girls and Kara, did not go for this image initially. (And Kara's take on it would be ( ... )
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