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In a post that included some thoughts on Kpop idol footwear, I mentioned how much I disliked "the ugly overgrown foot look".

This look, I'm sad to say, has recently been sported by one of my favourite idols, Eunha, who is standing winking on the right.

What to my eyes is a less than lovely shoe style is, I suspect, one to which Eunha herself is actually partial. She quite often wears boots and shoes like this; although no doubt height equalization has something to do with the choice, Eunha probably enjoys enough seniority as an idol to be able to pick and choose, or at least exercise a veto, when it comes to styling. She could something more elegant.

She doesn't always put such horrors on her feet. I know that there have been some more graceful shoes in some recent stages, but...

#Kpop #VIVIZ #Eunha #Shoes #Footwear #KpopStyling

VIVIZ

Keeping fingers crossed for their survival as a group.

#Kpop #VIVIZ #KpopPix

VIVIZ -- Cliché
https://youtu.be/1UVuxCDPr1s?si=C_-L7fIMXYzfefjW

Although I haven't posted this fancam before, I'm aware that I have posted a number of iterations of "Cliché" previously - so many, that perhaps some will be inclined to think I am posting to live up to the song's title.

So why this post now?

-- I love the song, and I can't stop celebrating it.

-- The song was part of the set for the 260315 Sakura Festival in Kaohsiung , but the outfits and staging were low budget. This Taiwan stage is the '"real thing".

-- Some Kpop fans here might think I am a dogmatic hater of rapping. This is not the case. I think of rap in Kpop as being like a spice; a little of it, as here from SinB and Umji, makes the dish so tasty, but I cannot stomach a whole bowl of it.

-- All three members look beautiful here, but my bias Eunha is so gorgeous that the fancam MUST be posted.

-- VIVIZ are in a contract crisis at the moment, and part of me - the romantic @jemmesedi, as opposed to the scientific realist @jemmesedi - believes that this posting will somehow help the members in their distress. I know this is magical thinking, but...

"Thank you for your attention to this matter".

#Kpop #VIVIZ #Cliché #Rap #Eunha

https://www.koreaboo.com/news/big-planet-made-artists-viviz-lee-mu-jin-beo-notify-agency-contract-termination/?cb=CMflvw

I had just been watching a video of a VIVIZ photoshoot when I came across this worrying news story.

I so much hope that Eunha, SinB, and Umji can stay together as VIVIZ and find another agency.

Even if they can, I expect there to be not only a contract termination dispute with BPM but also wrangles about intellectual property and performance rights.

In addition to possible problems with past creations, a question of artistic direction in the future looms. Kany, the choreographer who was giving their dance a more provocative style, left BPM herself not that long ago; will the members be able to work with her again? Would a new agency be ready to offer not just the investment but the support and confidence for VIVIZ to continue their growth?

I dread to think what Eunha, SinB, and Umji have been going through. First, there was the failure of the GFriend contract renewal and now BPM appears to be falling apart. In addition, I doubt that THE BOYZ were the only group to have been shortchanged and shabbily treated in general. What stress the poor girls must be under!

I will be most upset if this is the end for VIVIZ.

#Kpop #VIVIZ #BigPlanetMade #BPM

VIVIZ, Lee Mujin, And BE’O Notify Big Planet Made Of Contract Termination + Agency Briefly Responds

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.soompi.com/article/1826307wpp/viviz-lee-mujin-and-beo-notify-big-planet-made-of-contract-termination-agency-briefly-responds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L-ry2SQ8rc&list=PLOPhobG11XMSIZ11lHl2NAgm2N9HEFeoj

Blessed relief as I have been missing VIVIZ recently.

#Kpop #VIVIZ #KaohsiungSakuraFestival