To accumulate up with the fast affective apple of K-pop, it’s no best abundant to chase your admired boy or babe band. These days, admirers accept to accumulate clue of an ever-changing arrangement of abate groups that appear calm about as fast as they breach apart.These abate groups are generally formed from an already accurate success, with bands like Cool Junior and Afterwards School giving acceleration to newer and sometimes bigger versions of themselves afore they are captivated aback into the aboriginal bandage or spun off afresh into addition duo or trio.
Orchestrating this beachcomber of connected combinations are the ball agencies who alternation and accounts the bands until they about-face out a profit.
By breaking bottomward groups and repackaging them, the companies can spotlight alone associates of K-pop cool groups, which can abide of as abounding as 10 associates or more. Associates of the abate groups are featured for added than aloof a few abnormal anniversary per song and the companies body a stronger fan abject for the aboriginal group.
Trouble Maker, consisting of Hyun-A from 4Minute, left, and Jang Hyun-seung from Beast. Their hit song is additionally Trouble Maker. [JoongAng Ilbo
According to pop music analyzer Kim Jag-ga, pop groups charge to consistently advance in adjustment to accomplish a accumulation for the huge companies that alternation and accounts the bands.
SM Ball was the aboriginal to try this action aback it bankrupt the 13-member boy bandage Cool Junior into four abate groups anniversary with its own actualization and concept. Two years afterwards the group’s admission in 2005, the aggregation alien admirers to Cool Junior T, a six-member accumulation accepted for amble music hits, Cool Junior M, a seven-member accumulation with two Chinese nationals and a hit anthology appear in China and Japan, and Cool Junior Happy, a sextet accepted for its celebrating tunes and the 2008 EP “Cooking?Cooking!” But the best acknowledged accumulation by far has been Cool Junior-K.R.Y., a leash of balladeers absolute the three best choir in the group. Their anthology “Fly” from aftermost year has topped archive and the accumulation has toured Japan three times.
The success of these sub-groups has led added above bands to chase their lead, with some of the abate groups alluring alike added absorption again the originals.
That was the case with Orange Caramel, a quartet featuring the four youngest associates of the babe accumulation Afterwards School. The accumulation was formed in 2010 and got their aboriginal aftertaste of acclaim with an EP they appear that June. They won admirers over with their doll-like actualization and beautiful performances and they’ve topped online music archive with songs such as “A-ing,” and “Shanghai Romance.”
One of the newest groups to appear is Rainbow Pixie, which debuted with the song “Hoi Hoi” and consists of three associates of the babe accumulation Rainbow.
It’s gimmick is bright costuming and choreography with lots of bouncing abracadabra wands.
In added cases, the sub-group directs admirers aback to the aboriginal group.
The duo that is Sistar 19 won acclaim for its fast songs and abbreviate skirts, bound before the acceptance of the four-member accumulation that gave it its name. In its aboriginal incarnation, Sistar was accepted for ablaze and airy songs.
Sometimes, the new groups are formed with associates from added bands from the aforementioned ball agency.
Cube Ball acclimated this tactic to anatomy Trouble Maker. The accepted accumulation was a duo consisting of Hyun-A from 4Minute and Jang Hyun-seung from Beast and its self-titled EP went to No. 1 on assorted music charts.
But in a absorption of how bound these groups appear calm and achromatize away, Trouble Maker is already allotment of K-pop history.
