gonna word vomit my speculations post pado concert ( keep in mind ive only watched day 2 but kept eyeing translations for day 1)
1. pentagon's situation with cube :
will steal this observation from a friend but with cube's TERRIBLE financial situation:
• only made 6B won in profits this 1H
• saw a 66% drop in idol / entertainment gigs and activities
• two latest releases ( out of 4 total this year ....) handled by another label ( warner jp and 88rising)
so its safe to assume cube has no funds and are pulling the plug on every group that isnt idle . im assuming no one will make a cb until next year which is an issue since ptg's anniversary is coming up and their hiatus is getting ridiculous. they're aware of it and kept thanking fans for staying with them and in an apologetic sense asked them to wait for them (?)
PADO as an album feels rushed in a sense they took random old songs and mashed them in album to give shinwon a release and opportunity to meet fans before enlisting . im assuming they had to fight to get this release green lit it would explain the non existent album distribution and warner handling everything ( chaotically) and the pado special clip dropping on Warner's channel unlike shh
basically cube has no money and will for a while until either kakao buys them or go bankrupt refused to give them a cb this year and would explain ptg taking their concert waaaay heart to heart
changgu kino and hongseok all mentioned the "8 of them going forever and staying as pentagon"
no need to be a genius to guess 8 of them renewed to avoid whatever dirty copyright under the belt hit they'd try
and for yananie...... well its obvious he wont be and and much as it breaks my heart its for his best looking at how massively mistreated he was even for cube's standard tho i would like to get this clear THIS IS NOT BECAUSE OF THE GUYS
these boys love each other so much beyond just being co - idols it goes way beyond an entertainment contract for his solo fansign last month yanan did the Pentagon sign while for the eternal flame encore they let yanan's voice be heard intentionally and clearly ad a statement abt their stance with the little freedom they have atp. they definitely discussed this long and large from all the possible angles and came out to this so please avoid making anyone other than cube the big evil