HallyuPlus Interviews Ryu Sera On Her Music, Miss Back, The Kpop Industry & More

[dior_chic]

Ryu Sera recently did an interview with HallyuPlus.net! It’s quite in depth and really interesting hearing her insight on her music. I left out some of the interview, so definitely check out the source to read the rest!

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[lightframes]

I am so ready for jazz Sera

Characteristics of women changed a lot over the years in a better way. But the competition got harder. There are higher standards and emotionless outputs. I guess everything has positive and negative sides.

If I'm understanding this correctly, and she means the standard of perfection has risen so high that performers aren't really allowed to show much character on stage, I... kind of agree and I think that's sad. That's less fun for everyone (performers and fans) and it's too much pressure for the performers. But if that's not what she's saying then nevermind.

[dior_chic]

Ahhh interesting! I think the first part made me think how when Sera was in Nine Muses, so much was focused on being appealing to men. There was tons of sexy concepts and a conversation I had in another post was about constantly wearing high heels on stage made it limited in what the girls could do on stage. So that’s a positive characteristic, that more girl groups are lessening the male gaze a bit and showing more range

But in return, there’s just a lot more pressures to be perfect. Posing cute and sexy on stage isn’t enough anymore. And the quest to be perfect can cause the idol to hyper focus on it and their personality gets lost in the shuffle. Plus fans don’t help, so much discourse online about ‘my group is the best because of xyz!!!!’ Just being a group that makes fun music isn’t enough either. So there’s definitely pros and cons like she said

[lightframes]

Yeah I definitely agree about that first part. If Nine Muses debuted today it would not be with the No Playboy concept (even though I love No Playboy, that sexy model concept is not what's popular for girl groups in K-pop right now). Which gives more room for different types of performance. To be honest. I still think there's a lot of pressure to appeal to men, just in a different way.

I feel like companies don't trust their groups on stage anymore. Like a lot of groups have a super loud backing track so even during lives I can't really tell how they sound. (I know it's popular to say "4th gen can't sing!" and I'm like how can you tell? I can't hear them lol) Companies being like "yeah... you can't sing this live" OK, then why didn't you give them a different song? You debuted them, you can't complain about the result now. Somebody's voice cracks once during 4 weeks of 4 shows per week - it's fine, life goes on, I'm not going to quit being a fan of the group. But that's not good enough, it needs to be perfect all the time.

[broadcities]

her voice would suit jazz so well! love her supporting other girl groups and in general how close she still seems to be with 9muses members.

[myungung]

I didn’t finish Miss Back, but the first few episodes were very warm fuzzy feelings with the interactions and support they gave each other. Hoping things get better for her!