How many songs until you stop stanning a group? (1 Viewer)

[the101]

No matter how much you like a group, there's always a few songs that aren't it for you. How many tt that you don't like does it take you to stop following a group's music? Or do you balance that out with still liking bsides? What happens if you don't like any of it? Do you give them 1 cb, 2 cbs?

 

[GOJOSWIFE]

depends on how much i like them. there's one i stan but if they have two more bad ones i am pulling the plug istg. get it tf together company. jfc.

 

[StirFriedPanda]

I don't really stop liking a group, I just stop liking what they release. But I'll always be a fan of previous music I like. BP has sucked since Lovesick girls for example.

 

[litc]

No matter how much you like a group, there's always a few songs that aren't it for you. How many tt that you don't like does it take you to stop following a group's music? Or do you balance that out with still liking bsides? What happens if you don't like any of it? Do you give them 1 cb, 2 cbs?

If I like less than half of their music overall I’ll stop being a fan

it hasn’t happened yet bc the groups that I didn’t like some comebacks in a row from made it up after that

i would definitely pay less attention to them tho, like tbh exo

 

[MK3AM]

3-4 comebacks ill stop stanning

 

[Sanumi]

I will still stan a group if I dislike their title tracks. For example, I haven't loved a RV title track since 2019, but I still stan them. As long as I like most of their music, then it is fine for them to have a weak album

 

[VillageIdiot]

2 bad albums then I'm out.

 

[Yelena_Belova]

Infinite. When they release bad music, I just look away and pretend I never saw it. I’m into them for their personalities.

 

[velvet]

2 to 3 comebacks

 

[ani07]

when the songs I dont like on an album are more than the songs I like.
and that over a certain period of time.
shinee dont disappoint though.

 

[ichigohon]

3 to 4 comebacks is what I experienced with ITZY

I still love ITZY but woo lord have they been given some "interesting" song choices. If I was in ITZY I genuinely would've completely refused to cooperate with Sneakers and that would've been my final straw. If they wouldn't let me leave then I'd completely be stubborn as hell and completely refuse to record the song or attend any of the choreo like y'all can either kick my ass out, place me on hiatus, or change the song completely because I ain't singing about no damn sneakers like I'm 13.

 

[lexus]

I had this problem with Red Velvet. I think it was 3-4 comebacks that I started to unstan. It feels like their music quality has dropped quite a lot since back then

 

[Soogi]

it hasnt happened to me (yet?), but i dont think i could unstan even if svt started going a very different direction with their music to the point i dont like most of their new releases. i would probably just get less hyped for their music but im too attached to the boys to drop them, at least right now

i guess the fact that theyre the only kpop group im so into plays into that as well, because its not like i have a "backup" group i could just focus on instead. i've tried getting into other groups but they never keep my interest for long enough

 

[hoshiagenda]

if i stan a group i fall in love with the members, i'd just stop liking those releases tbh. i don't think anything would make me stop stanning unless i just fall out of love with them as a group in general

 

[butter]

It depends on the history of said group and how long I've been stanning them. A group like EXO, whom I've been stanning for over 6 years, could release the worst songs known to mankind from now on and I would never unstan them: their back catalog is too strong and I love the group too much. But if it's a group I started stanning recently (like LE SSERAFIM), I think 3 disappointing cbs in a row would make me consider unstanning.

 

[the101]

I was thinking about this due to a discussion in Czennie twt where some people are saying they haven't liked anything from NCT 127 in several years and a number of other people are like "if you haven't liked anything in several years, why are you still stanning?"

(It was certainly strange to me because I think in general their skills have gotten stronger as rappers, vocalists and performers, making the songs stronger IMO, and the disco is very vast, spanning many different genres, so it's odd to me for you not to have found ANYTHING in 3 whole damned years. I mean I'll let you have it that maybe you haven't liked a title track in a minute, but nothing? With those bsides? Plus it's odd to me that you want a group known for constant innovation and boundary pushing to go back to what they did four years ago..like that's contrary to the group's whole ethos.) But it did get me thinking..at what point do you tap out?

I think there are some great points made in this thread about the way you're more forgiving for groups you've been with for awhile. Like ok, maybe the next one vs groups you haven't built that trust up with. Or maybe I'd just drop into casual superfan vs stan, like I am with RV. I don't like the Red songs so I've never felt I could stan the group when I dislike half of their music. Yet RV is also the gg I have the most songs of in my playlists because I do like them a lot - I have 49 RV songs in my playlist, which I think makes me more than just a casual fan.

What I usually find is that even if I don't like some songs, there are usually good enough songs to still keep me interested - I was disappointed with Glitch Mode as a whole (because Hot Sauce was so exceptional!), but there are still some phenomenal tracks on that album like Arcade and Teddy Bear. (Tbf tho, if NCT Dream keeps trucking in the Candy direction because it's so successful, I might be back to stanning all of NCT but them. Although even on that album with a tt I genuinely loathe, there is the fantastic Tangerine Love!)

 

[ProudOrbit]

No matter how much you like a group, there's always a few songs that aren't it for you. How many tt that you don't like does it take you to stop following a group's music? Or do you balance that out with still liking bsides? What happens if you don't like any of it? Do you give them 1 cb, 2 cbs?

Well
i actually don't know how to answer this
but B-sides are either hit or miss and im extremely intrested in the group then i will listen to B-sides and thats only for like, 3ish/ 4ish groups
Loona and TXT i listen to mounds of discography, and the other 2 is Treasure, Stray kids and maybe Ateez now as well

as a Orbit, nobody slam your head on the table but theres only a few Songs from loona i dont like ( pre debut orbits please dont kill me)
i dont like D-1 ( Yves), Girls talk ( Yves and Chuu),
most of the OEC discography, i love the songs there but i don't remember much of them, i can remember all of the 1/3 and YYXY discography tho
i dont like Wow ( somedays i do, some days i dont) but The whole luminous album was pretty bad, it doesnr stand on its own compared to hula hoop and starseed

 

[Selfmate]

none since I can like a group even if some of their music isn't my cup of tea
and usually there are some great bsides for me to find as well

 

[Ahsoka]

There’s too many factors involved. How long have I stanned the group? Do I like the bsides? What are my feelings towards the members? What are the chances that their songs will improve? And so on.

 

[centen]

It kind of depends on how quickly I jumped into stanning them, which I've learned from and normally don't immediately go beyond being interested until at least a few comebacks. But probably 2-3 is the normal range, enough to solidify that it's not just a one-time change but a consistent change away from what I liked about them. Some groups do wildly fluctuating concept changes, so I still check them out regardless, but I don't tend to stan those groups either because they aren't consistent enough in the first place.