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Originally Posted by ILoveGeniuses
^I think they also lost that unique fierceness thing that made them stand out from ABSOLUTELY EVERY OTHER Asian artist around. It's like they decided to take the "safe route" and go back to just being the average Korean KPOP Group. I'm not sure if I phrased that correctly or not, but I hope it's close enough to get across the right feelings I'm having. What gets me most is after getting some decently good praise from the rest of the world and working SO HARD on their English and everything else in those areas, they just decide to run back to Korea and ONLY focus on stuff in Korea. Even on recent interviews for Billboard and other such Western places they used to try and speak as much as English, but now they've given that up and always reply completely in Korean. I'm not hating on them for their background or anything. It's just that WHY OH WHY Did they go to ALL THAT trouble and work just to give up on it? They had plenty of International Opportunities waiting for them.
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I would definitely agree with this, their recent performances for 'Do You Love Me?' remind me of regular K-Pop groups where as when they promoted 'I Am the Best' every performance was like INSANELY fierce, unique, and badass. This was to the point where I thought the stage would explode at the end.
And I agree with the International promotions. I feel like they just cheated and did it to gain exposure for their world tour and had no intentions of giving the international fans much of anything in terms of English-language music.
They could have seized upon the global tour as a chance to generate buzz about 2NE1 and then followed it up with English-language music.
I don't count 'Take the World On' and 'Gettin' Dumb' or whatever that crap song was.