Are Ok-Pop artists constructed just for short-term success?
Owing to the intensely aggressive construction of the Ok-Pop business, idols are sometimes arrange for under a restricted interval of success. Even the preferred artists of their time are sometimes changed by new faces, and followers, too, are often anticipated to maneuver on.
So, when a first-generation idol’s latest comeback broke into the home charts of South Korea, netizens had been left baffled. The idol in query is none aside from Lee Hyori.
Lee Hyori was one of many earliest “It ladies” of Korea, dominating your entire leisure business along with her music, model, and attraction. Within the early 2000s, she was one of many highest-paid feminine singers in your entire nation. After debuting in 1998, Lee Hyori loved a profitable profession span of over one and a half a long time earlier than saying her hiatus from leisure for 2 years in 2015.
She returned in 2017 with a brand new album, a profitable selection present along with her husband, and has been slowly taking her spot again within the limelight by means of her appearances in a number of leisure packages.
But it surely was solely in 2023 that she made an official comeback as a musician, along with her first single in six years! Her new monitor “Hoodie E Banbaji” was launched on October 12 (KST), and to the shock of many, the tune entered the Melon charts on its first day straight away!
The tune reached the 19th place on the Scorching 100 chart of Melon, one of many greatest music streaming platforms in Korea. Whereas Lee Hyori continues to be very a lot a well-liked public determine, the truth that her music managed to push by means of a lot competitors and survived each stereotypical hurdle of an idol’s profession, together with lengthy hiatus, extended absence from social media, marriage, and so forth, left netizens in awe.
Whereas they agreed that the tune itself was very catchy and deserved this success, in addition they felt that it was a reaffirmation of how undefeatable Lee Hyori’s star standing is.
- “Wow, superb.”
- “Whoa, loopy.”
- “Wow, nonetheless acquired it.”
- “Oh, was it immediately? I gotta hearken to it.”
- “Wow?? Lee Hyori’s nonetheless acquired it!!”
- “Loopy. The tune is de facto good.”
- “Woah.”
- “Wow, that is superb, LOL. I didn’t know the tune was already out. I’ve to hear.”
- “I actually thought releasing music wouldn’t be that straightforward for her now. However as anticipated, she’s superb.”
- “As anticipated of Hyori.”
- “Oh, she launched a brand new tune. I’ve to go watch the music video. Combating!”
- “The tune is de facto good for straightforward listening. It brings out somewhat *shake shake* out of me as properly.”
- “She’s actually a celebrity, wow.”
- “Ah, so there’s a Scorching 100 and a Prime 100.”
- “She’s a eternally celebrity.”
You’ll be able to take a look at the tune right here: