Two ROCK Fans REACT to A2K eps #1 

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She’s incredible

Thank you god bless.

Also to add onto why Kpop survival shows can be very tense: Not only is the training a lot harder but certain actions/words will sometimes be purposefully edited out of context for the sake of a "good show" and it will have some trainees/contestants go from top rankings to elimination in the snap of a finger.

So the show put you onto new groups?

I love it.

Thanks we’ll check them out

Awesome 🤩 Thanks for your support 😊💜😊💜

Oh ok thanks 👍

Great info. Thanks for letting us know how the show works👍🙏

Thanks for the recommendations. I’ve got so many great pieces of content to watch

Zerobaseone is really good

@@lizlyrics3399 👍👍

Good to know

It was filmed around September of last year , not two years ago.

Thanks for the info 🙏👍

She is a Mong ethnic minority from Southeast Asia. The Mong people are people based on blood, not countries.

@@tolerance1 interesting fact. I didn’t know that. Learn something new everyday.👍

Lexus is hmong. We are a minority of the ethnic miao tribe originally from China & the hill tribes of Northern Vietnam, laos & Thailand. Refugees that helped Americans fought in the secret war.

​@@DANDJREACT if you watch the Clint Eastwood movie "Gran Torino", the kid and family he befriends is Hmong.

Not a lot of people showed any interest. You are the first person that’s mentioned anything about this video since we posted it. We aren’t continuing this series. However we are new. We have done a few different KPOP groups in our playlist.

Yeah we’ll definitely check out that show. Interesting information. Thanks for the breakdown 👍👍

We’re working on it

Hey we got you don’t worry. We just scheduled it for august 9th because we prerecorded videos up until then. So august 9th at 4am it’s coming out I promise 🙏❤️

We will get to it.

i dont believe it is required per se- but they are providing language lessons for the few months the trainees are in korea (this info isnt on the website anymore however i almost auditioned so i know all the details of it haha) since they will be mainly promoting in america, i think it will be encouraged but not required, the same way learning english is for kpop idols who are korean :)

I would bet that’s part of their training if they make it to Korea.

​@eeeeeeeriesu that is so cool that you almost auditioned. What is your emphasis? Singing, dance, or rap?

@@LalaH-23 I do all three! Though ranked by ability singing is first, dance second, and rap third ^^

​@@stayville-connectionsthat is really impressive. Wow!!

Yes. I know it’s taking a while. We officially have the next SVT guide coming out on August 9th at 4AM.

I will look into them👍

@@DANDJREACT going to be a trip that will blow your mind; you guys won’t regret it! Subs to see it!!

@@ductdang 👍

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No one was interested in it. Sorry 😢

@@DANDJREACT Wdym? This got like 15k views, bro? Was it not doing that good back then? Do you have Patreon or anything? I'd pay to see your reactions to A2K.

She’s pretty good 👍

저작권때문에 노래가 정해진게 아쉬움. 그냥 자유곡으로 추고싶은 춤으로 하면 더 재미있었을건데 전부 달라달라만 추니깐 나중에 지겨움 ㅋㅋ

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Thanks 😊💜😊💜

Yeah we already notice that but we are not solely a BTS only reaction channel. We enjoy exploring all types of music, genres and various artists.

@@DANDJREACT I understand, I'm a massive rock music fan but BTS are my light. Having discovered them during the pandemic. I am always a little annoyed with fans of other kpop groups always try to lead reactors away from BTS when they have barely scratched the surface. You realise lots of these other fandoms group together to try stop BTS especially vile to BTS are blackpink fans know as blinks. They are always in the comments of any BTS song saying ridiculous things like BTS flopped. Its all so immature but this is what BTS is up against. Arny see everything. They are so dedicated fending off and protecting the professional reputation of BTS.

@@mrsta8233 ARMY are loyal, dedicated and passionate about protecting BTS.

We did. It’s coming out Aug 9th

We’ve done 1 of them

I’ve seen like 1-2 videos. They are in our playlist

Yea they have huge market shares over here. Especially Taylor. 🥵

While I've seen a couple good singing auditions and a couple good dancing auditions on the show, none have been "full package" performers, unfortunately. I sure hope we see some big improvements and shoring up of weaknesses during boot camp week. It's hard to believe there weren't any truly great candidates, as there are always some stellar standouts in the other various talent competition shows we have here in the States. Gotta wonder if some quirk got flagged during the earlier rounds of auditions that weren't shown, or if they're embracing the Japanese notion of an idol, where you want to start with an imperfect framework and the public gets to follow along and see the improvement, as opposed to the polished "perfect gem" that comes AFTER all the training in the Korean system. It would be an interesting angle to expose those struggles, and it's something that has been done several times before in the States with the Making the Band series. If that's the case, I don't really agree with that reality show model personally, especially with how young many of the contestants are. JYP and team got a lot of criticism for the harshness the girls faced during Sixteen, and it's clear that a more gentle approach was taken during Nizi Project. I had felt that "failing" auditions were specifically cut from being aired on A2K to save these youngsters from undue criticism in the public eye, but I do think that JYP always having some comment is the production setting up "storylines" for each girl for the audience to follow in subsequent episodes. Meanwhile, things have been more impressive out of the gate on the boys show, Nizi Project season 2.

That makes 3 of us

No just 2 of you

Eww

Why?

Also, JYP said at the start, k-pop has its roots in Western music, thanks to the influence of the music halls and dance clubs catering to the soldiers during and after the Korean War. Many of the artists of the first generation of k-pop were Korean-Americans who either went over themselves or were recruited by Korean entertainment agencies. As you can tell here, though, they’re looking to have a significant non-Asian ethnic makeup of the group, since they’ll promoting in N. America (and maybe other western regions), where a less homogenous group makeup is more actively desirable to better connect with and represent the fans of various ethnic backgrounds.

Interesting 🤔 We’ll check it out

@@dafunkk12 good points

JYP is a solo artist, not from a group. These days he’s mostly focused on artist development and writing/producing for groups under his label, but he still puts out his own song around once a year. He most recently won an award for his solo work in 2015 as MNET’s Asian Music Awards’ Best Male Artist (equivalent to MTV Video Music Awards). If you want a taste of his work, a couple years ago he put on a solo concert called JYP No 1 x 50 (which can be watched on RU-vid) where he performs the 50+ songs he either performed, wrote, composed, produced, or choreographed that hit No. 1 on the music charts. He’s got a personal connection to the heads of the other top k-pop agencies: In their youth, he used to be a dance rival in the clubs with Yang Hyun Suk, head of YG (Blackpink), and they maintain that friendly rivalry today by pitting their boy band trainees against each other in pre-debut battles. (Yang Hyun Suk is also a member of what became recognized as the very first k-pop group, Seo Taji and Boys.) Then for SM Entertainment (Red Velvet, NCT), there’s an apocryphal story where he auditioned for its head, Lee Soo Man, who failed him because JYP wasn’t handsome enough but still wanted to buy the song JYP wrote, leading to the founding of JYP’s on company. It later came out Lee Soo Man wasn’t actually present at that audition. And then Bang Si Hyuk, head of BigHit/Hybe (BTS), was JYP’s producing partner in JYP Entertainment’s early days, so a lot of the original artists were handled by both of them.

@@dafunkk12 hey this was great info! Thank you for taking the time out of your day to educate us on the background.