#blacktwice

So now about the other two mentioned groups, I’m personally not very fond of comparisons if they are just being used to bring down one side. I mean sure we all analyze things based on others, like above I compared RV and BP but once you go down the road and search for mistakes or the differences, then you will be endlessly occupied, don’t get to worked up in it because it can quickly become quite toxic. There is this very accurate saying, “The grass is always greener on the other side.” Meaning, we all have that one person we envy, we think is prettier, or wealthier, or luckier, has the perfect boy/girlfriend or wife/husband, or family. We are all guilty of it, and we all have that moment of envy, without realizing that person has its own package to carry, its own resentments, its own worries, its own things she/he is nitpicking about her/himself. Both Mamamoo and Twice have their own antis, and mismanagement to deal with, maybe not right now, just perhaps not so obvious, but nothing is all perfect and shiny. 

So now why it makes no sense to compare Twice and BlackPink,

because they come from two different companies, different image, different music and fashion style. The only similarities are that they are both girl groups and debuted relatively close to one and another (~ a year). Yet even their debut circumstances were different, let’s not forget Twice had a survival show leading to their debut. The public already knew those girls, their image, and part of their personalities. They didn’t debut to be the unknown super rookies, full of talent,  they debuted to be the next generation of a national GG. Cheerful, bubbly girls, cheerleading the public on with their charms. And I don’t see twice having much of a say in their songs or concept either or else signal wouldn’t have happened. So they are as much under their companies say, and mercy as BP is.

At the moment JYP may give them more comebacks, but Twice is at their peak and the company needs to milk that as much as possible. Because with more members there is always a risk of imbalance - one member could suddenly shoot to stardom as they probably slowly start to do solo works soon, but also fights or scandals may take place. I’m not saying that either of this has to happen, it could be a smooth run like SNSD had, but seen with AOA and also 2ne1 girl group scandals (no matter how small and harmless they may appear) can become quite immense and devasting.  And I know AOA career isn’t done yet and (OHH that’s another group I forgot to mention) I really hope they come back with another bop, but the scandal they had did make them lose some of their momentum they had.So long story short I don’t see comparison material here.

Now to BlackPink and Mamamoo,

I can see why you would compare them - 4 girls vs. 4 women. Even though Wheein and Hwasa have the same age as Jisoo with Jisoo actually being the oldest of the three Speaking of the wonders of an image. Mamamoo appears far more grown up and mature, but judging by their past recurring inappropriate actions towards poc, they are not. Now different here is Mamamoos company is smaller, obviously. Their CEO personally searched for girls with outstanding talent and vocals to perform his own written songs. So the CEO from the beginning on choose trainees he could work with, hence he values their opinion. And no matter what you personally think about Mamamoo, there is no denial that they have some of the strongest most impressive vocals, not exclusive of course they are other great vocals, but they are extremely talented and sound beautiful together. Important to note here is the CEO writes the songs for them himself, so there isn’t much of back and forth between production, songwriters, and artist.etc. It’s easier to work together and give valuable inputs when you can work on a song with all the people involved being present or in one company. It also means fewer costs for a song, because the producers don’t need to be extern hired. And yes I know, I know, YG has Teddy working under YG, but he still needs to pay him royalty fees, and song rights, since it’s a job he is doing for YG, being under the company doesn’t mean he does it for free. And Teddy is an old stager he has worked for many and with many stars and also he has quite many people he needs to work with, so naturally, he probably hasn’t as much time nor interest to train every other group YG comes up with ( who may not even debut) to work with him. I also think it has a lot to do with the way it’s cultural to respect seniors in Korea, I don’t think a newbie rookie group has much of a chance to have a lot of say in their songs, no matter how they were trained, the seniors would end up having the more say in it. So again two different situations, and relationships between producer and idols. That being said that doesn’t mean BP can’t earn teddys respect and in the future work closer together with him, and have a lot more say in what they release and what’s not or even produce themself. That is: IF YG LETS THEM OUT O THE DUNGEON

So Twice and Mamamoo image was set to be more public appealing, while BP target audience, are young adults and teenager the typical idol target audience, by trying to be a niche group but at the same time appealing with going the save cute route most girlgroups aproach because it’s morepublic friendly then just being badass. So when breaking YG thoughts down you see the buisnes behind it and that their was indeed a plan behind the group and concept.Hence we can’t really compare the popularity of each group, because first that’s a matter of luck and how much a company is willing to pay for the popularity.