Zinni and crew hilariously not innocent on Music Bank

[koganbot]

The ever-literal and doltish allkpop.com sees the teaser photos for the GLAM comeback and opines:

The hip-hop group seems to have taken a radical image change for this comeback, choosing girly and innocent over sexy and fierce. Instead of the all-black clothes they had for "I Like That" they've opted for white, lacy clothes instead.
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[davidfrazer]

Earlier this month the Sydney Morning Herald published an article about K-Pop ( found via omona). The reporter got some face time with GLAM; Miso wasn't entirely on-message, and it seems that Stephanie Wood and the Sydney Morning Herald will now be on Big Hit's shitlist:
But if K-pop is highly contrived, it's also catchy. Listen to girl group GLAM's new I Like That, about a girl eating alone at a Korean barbecue restaurant after a breakup, and you might agree. I meet GLAM's four members - Miso, 17, Dahee, 18, Zinni, 26, and Park Jiyeon, 21 - at a Gangnam cafe, each sitting crowbar straight and declining coffee or food ("We're on a diet"). Their dream, says Miso, a bubbly redhead with black nail polish, is to be as popular as Girls' Generation

[koganbot]

Of course you're right about the contradiction, though we don't know when or why Miso got the surgery.

But the agencies: it's as if they're determined to learn nothing from all their failed attempts at spin and information control in the last several years. --Okay, so one doesn't always tell the truth to the world. But if you're concealing an easily available truth, it becomes your enemy. Truth may not always be your friend, but here the agencies needlessly set it up as an adversary. And the story becomes the coverup, not the music.

But maybe truth is Miso's friend. Maybe the interpreter simply panicked.

Of the four (or five) GLAMsters, Miso seems to have the least conventional "pretty face" anyway. Not a standard-issue cutie-pie.

(The reporter is too loose with the word puppeteer, though. It's not as if music journalism is a brimming fount of original thinking.)

[davidfrazer]

And the story becomes the coverup, not the music.
Those crazy kids on the interwebs call that the Streisand effect.

[koganbot]

Of course, we don't know how often coverups are quite successful. I assume that many are. It's hard enough for something to become well-known even when its proponents want it to become well-known. But trying to cover up something once it's being uncovered seems futile.

But then, on a slightly different subject, one never knows what to do about nasty, false attacks. If you rebut or counter them with what you think is accurate information, you nonetheless may be giving them attention they'd not have had otherwise. On the other hand, if you let them go unrefuted, the lie may become accepted as true.