As an unapologetic fan of Apink the past month of May has been tumultuous. The girl group guilty of hooking me on Kpop have gone through major changes to say the least. And everything that’s been happening connected to the recurring process of resigning contracts with their agency Play M entertainment with a prominent and well known member, for all we know, dropping out.
Mentally I wasn’t on a slippery slope, I was in a free fall only minimally slowed by the near vertical walls of a sinkhole with nothing to grab hold of to slow my fall. The video started with a sprinkling of lounge piano playing with the familiar rasp of vinyl over it. Then the intriguing spoken lines of “I’m so sick of lying, you gotta know that…”
Leader, Maknae, Center, Visual… these are just a few of the bewildering terms of the hierarchical orderliness and structure of Kpop. Learn all about positions in Kpop groups.
