I think I generally agree. I think GD is kind of an exception, because GD was going to be successful no matter what. Like his success wasn't dependent on YGE making him nice music, and he wasn't dungeoned when they got bored with him. I think if he had wanted to release another album in between...
lol, that does seem like the half-ass nonsense SME would do for their "don't worry, SNSD is still totes top priority!!!" thing they were doing after Sooyoung, Seohyun, and Tiffany left. Wild to me that they still broke top ten with zero promotions with this song, and SME couldn't be bothered to...
Yeah, in general, I don't think companies seem to care much about their artists' long-term career, especially if it was potentially outside of their company. Maybe part of that was the fact that, for a long time, idols realistically only really had the 5-10 years and then the public moved on...
Finally. Absolutely insane to me to put a bunch of idols through the pressure of a competition show just to do nothing. Their string of releases in 2022 showed they were developing a solid fanbase.
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