key is trying to leave shinee rn, but the first one to leave will be jonghyun
he will absolutely leave sometime before this day next year, probably late spring 2011 though
once he leaves that will pretty much seal shinee's fate and they won't do group activities anymore
and there is a good reason they're not letting key leave so easily, even though they did minimize his singing,
and if shinee releases anything again before jonghyun leaves then he will probably only get the chorus
he first thing you have to do is get rid of the idea that the artists have any freedom whatsoever.
if jonghyun wanted to be a composer, so what, he might as well have wanted to be a brain surgeon
i know of a few specific examples, but here is a good one that was long enough ago: when h.o.t broke up,
moon hee jun came out with a rock solo project right?
and everyone thinks that sme let him do that because he was in h.o.t and is marketable by association, right?
well go back to my first sentence, nothing is the artist's decision.
so then why did they put something out that was completely unmarketable?
and then, they reported a profit on it. but if that's true, why didn't he stay with sme?
another one: zhang liyin. they said they debuted her to boosts sme's popularity in china right?
they said the chinese music industry would soon be the same as the american music industry in profitability.
not only was that dead wrong, it's not even common sense. and they say that she is making them money.
if they wanted to use her for china, why did they debut her in korea first? does that make any sense?
think about this too, the biggest flop in sme at the moment is csjh, but they went to japan almost immediately.
why did they do that, but shinee hasn't released anything in japan yet after almost three years?
sme makes a LOT of business decisions that don't make a whole lot of sense to the general public
but they are the wealthiest company...think
if it makes you understand more easily,
stop thinking about jonghyun's potential profitability, relevance, and talent, and just think of
him as a pawn on a huge chess board with a net profitability that is VERY high.
his potential sales are not even on the table, in this specific case
as for key, his "personal reason" is the same reason why, if he left sme, they would make his life hell.
and he wants to leave sme BECAUSE of this reason, making it more complicated.
what if he left, but then mysteriously never revealed why or was never even interviewed?
that would make everyone look suspicious.
but don't think they are buttering up to him so he will stay, remember nothing is the artist's decision
they wouldn't even disband trax or csjh after being inactive for so long with a small fanbase.
what makes you think that shinee will disband soon, especially when they still have a solid, good-sized fanbase?
that's the thing, they won't disband shinee when jonghyun leaves, they will just go slowly inactive
and later disband due to inactivity/low profitability as their public reason, is the most typical thing in these cases
Amber:
the reason why amber went missing IS because of a dispute...
actually it's similar to key's situation but they are keeping her from coming back right now, until it's settled
