So today there is no music review and nothing cultural either, sorry.
Have many assessments that need to take care so I will be uploading quickly today.
Today will write about the scandal of Kris, member of EXO.
So for the ones who are not familiar with Kpop, EXO is a very popular Kpop idol group, they have good music and EXO has 12 members...yes 12
Kris is one of the twelve, he is Chinese and is leader of the subdivision EXO-M (Mandarin)
Not very long ago the web portals have being insane publishing what it was the sahocking news of him leaving EXO and rising a lawsuit to SM Ent.
So SM Entertainment is the big shark of music or better said Idol industry. The big idol groups are under this label, like Super Junior, Girls Generation, DBSK, SHINee, F(X), Henry, BoA and ofcourse EXO.
But if you are familiar with these groups then you know that the lawsuit scandal it is not new at all! For the recent generations I will just two of the most popular cases.
First from DBSK, three member left the group and law suited SM. Those three members now are known as JYJ. And well the law was on their favour and they won the case (which means they were right).
Then we have Super Junior's Hangeng case.
Both cases were similar, the law suit stating that SM didn't treat them as people, but as objects (a slave contract) the time stipulated on the contract is insane, 13 years under the company!! and also money matters, they didn't receive the right amount of many they should actually be receiving. So in conclusion the company make them work like slaves, they don't care about their health and if you read about many artist of that label you can notice that they faint, look incredible skinny and despite that they keep promoting. I remember once I read a female idol fainted while practicing for a performance and despite that the staff waited til her regained consciousness and forced to keep practicing and perform and keep performing exhausting hour work, until it was too much and her body reacted and she had to go to the hospital but again SM asks their artists to be professional, which means even if you are dying to have to work, if you vomiting blood you need to speak properly and no matter what pain you may be suffering you smile.
So SM is not famous for being the greatest entertainment industry in Korea and thank you to the few brave ones, we know a bit of how honest and fair policies run around the company.
So know Kris is another brave one, who despite his young age, is standing for his rights!
The reactions in the Kpop fandom are diverse. We can't deny that the new surprised everyone (fan or not fan) then we have the one who don't want to see the reality and are still asking that Kris will come back as nothing, we also have the ones who feel betrayed (?!) who are hating him and writing that he is a treatior. But that is not all we have some support him and are hating EXO and SM. And other who support both.
The reasons why Kris is doing what he is doing are not clear yet, some say is health issues and that he hasn't being treated in a fair way under SM. Both very acceptable reasons but again SM is not famous for being nice.
The interesting it has been the EXO members reaction.
First everyone noticed how Kris was unfollowed by his member on Instagram, which caused great shock. Many fans say was SM staff who took their phones and did this and there are even pictures but we cannot be sure. But that is not it, then we have the messages left on Instagram by fellow member Tao, which is treating Kris as a traitor, a lot of hurtful words towards him and maybe we can say an inmature message.
But that is not all, recently we have words from EXO K's leader Suho where he say how surprised and shocked they were and that they don't have any issues with the label and that Kris should go back and apologize with everyone and calls him irresponsible. Now we don't know really if this message was true or not, because the source is not very liable and there is not proof. And again the reactions are many, some support Suho, some others are now disappointing on him and the interesting ones say it is all SM's fault who forced him to say such things.
Then the most recent I read, was from EXO M's members, all the messages quite similar, they don't have any issues with SM, they feel shocked, they didn't expect that, they will focus on the concert and betray feelings.
The interesting about all of these and is here where I wanted to come to, is that the famous "we are one" statement is being questioned by many fans. They were shocked, they didn't know what he was thinking, he didn't discuss with them. Then how true it is that they were such close friends?
Let's be honest of many idol groups all this friendship almost brotherhood is fabricated! all their image is under a concept, if there is actually a friendship close enough I think it is quite rare. So with this case we can see that the image is portrayed is nothing more than a fake edited picture.
In an group where there are 12 members there must be a lot of rivalry, I mean some members usually have like 3 seconds on a song, and yes unfortunately Kris is the member with less participation when there is 12 and ofcourse it is ideal if everyone is friendly and live happily ever after, but let's be real, the less you participate the less you gain. So of course everyone wants more seconds in a song, appear in the most TV shows possible, etc... Can you blame them? no! it is survival after all!
In conclusion, I will give my very very personal opinion but I guess you can already guess it.
I do support Kris, he is standing for what he is believing it is the right thing to do, and standing against a big company as SM is not easy, he is young and so far very brave!
I also do support EXO members, I do understand it must have being shocking for them to know that all the sudden they are nor 12 anymore and have to continue and have a big step as it is a concert coming. I do undertand if they feel a bit betrayed and disappointed but I think it hasn't been smart or mature at all to manifest it they way they had. In this case I think silence is the best. Imean is never good speaking when feelings or emotions are burnng in your skin because we may say hurtful words and is never a wise choice.
Specially because there is still not enough information out, we still don't know how SM is going to act and probably this case will take a long perior, hopefully not so long as it happen with JYJ though
What I want is that things end up well fro Kris and EXO members. What I really wish is that Kris doesn't go back to SM because after what he has done if he does comeback he won't be treated nicely at all. I will love that some other EXO member follow Kris and go too, they might do with time though because after all it is a matter of time but also I suspect that there are some really loyal members too.In conclusion just let be what is best for everyone.
