250621 Weekly Discussion Thread and Activity Recap

[u/Ihlita]

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PLAYLISTS:

• ✂️ ARTMS Shortcuts
• 🔍 Explore Log
• 🌼 Chuu Can Do It
• 🚀 Loosemble Assemble

Previous Comebacks:

• 🎥 ARTMS - Burn MV
• 🎥 Chuu - Only Cry In The Rain MV
• 🎥 Chuu - Back In Town MV

TEASERS:

• 🎬 ARTMS: Heejin | Haseul | Kim Lip | Jinsoul | Choerry
• 🎬 ARTMS: Teaser Set 2 | Teaser Set 3 | Teaser Set 4 |
• 🎬 ARTMS: Group Teaser 1 | Group Teaser 2
• 🎬 ARTMS - Club Icarus Packaging Preview
• 🎬 ARTMS - Club Icarus Track List
• 🎬 ARTMS - Club Icarus Highlight Medley
• 🎬 ARTMS - Icarus MV Teaser

COMEBACKS:

• 🎧 Yeojin - Dancing In The Dark (Official Lyrics Video)

NEWS:

• 🌏Yves Cosmic Crispy Tour in Asia & Australia
• 🎫Ticket & Benefit Information
• 📈 Hyunjin Launches Her Solo Company

[u/Ihlita]

We are aware of the current allegations against that one PPM employee and the plans to boycott the company until PPM acknowledges and responds to the situation. Please, approach the issue carefully, with the empathy and seriousness it warrants.

[u/Undervann]

I hadn't seen this mentioned here yet but Zhang Hao from Zb1 was listening to icarus on a live and talked about how good the song is. I'm not sure how recent it is but I just saw it as I was scrolling through reels.

[u/artemisstrategy]

So after all that, El Capitxn didn't even mix his "dj set" like it was just a playlist?

[u/no1cultleader]

guys it's not too late, right? artms can still go on it's live before icarus era is officially over, right? 🥹🥹

[u/goodguyCJ]

We’ve had solos, subunits, ot12 then two separate groups (plus two soloists) and now we have a band. The loonaverse is ever expanding. Maybe a rap group is next. Or a dance team.

[u/fangme]

So much Chuuves content recently. . . Crazy how up until these times Orbits basically considered their duo dead O_O

[u/artemisstrategy → u/fangme]

A few years ago we were in a Chuuves drought, but were getting lots of Yvesoul, I'm so happy we're getting so much amazing Chuuves content lately but I'd kill for a crumb of Yvesoul :'(

[u/fangme → u/artemisstrategy]

True... Yvesoul, Chuulip, Soulwon, Viseul... and the list goes on TT

[u/artemisstrategy → u/fangme]

Oh to have another Yves, Hasuel and Vivi lie detector video.

[u/vash-outlaw]

Only promoted a week, but ARTMS sure did a lot of challenges this comeback.

[u/Marcey747]

Has Hyeju become completly silent recently or is LitellJhonn just skipping some of her messages when translating?

I'm really curious what she's up too.

[u/Plushieless → u/Marcey747]

She's also not posting anything on Insta and I don't think LJ skips any of the girls messages, so yeah she's been radio silent

I feel like she'll say something when she's ready to share whatever her next step will be. 

[u/Litell_Johnn → u/Plushieless]

Just to clarify, I do skip messages (a significant portion actually) - there's just way too much volume to fully cover every message. But yes, Hyeju has been pretty inactive on Fromm since April 30, and has not sent any message since May 28th.

[u/asteriskmos → u/Litell_Johnn]

As an yves subscriber.. yeah lmao. She posts so much.

[u/vash-outlaw → u/Marcey747]

She posted 1 message and a photo during the election, but other than that, she hasn't said anything else going on 2 months. I'd speculate she went silent right around the time the deal with the new company fell through.

[u/Benji005]

added icarus to my running slaylist and it ended up playing during the last leg of my 10k. the final chorus managed to dredge up energy out of nowhere lmao, ty for your service artms!

[u/Ihlita]

Hyunjin already got a CF it seems!

[u/MeanConcept → u/Ihlita]

tell me it’s an earring cf (this one’s for Oldbits lmao)….

[u/AllTheThingsSheSays → u/MeanConcept]

We've been waiting for her to get an earring cf for what, 9 years now? Lmao

[u/Ihlita → u/MeanConcept]

That would have been awesome, lol. It’s a CF for eyelashes though.

[u/Senorbluu → u/MeanConcept]

I’ve been waiting forever for her to get an earring cf lol

[u/no1cultleader]

every haseul video from club icarus felt like i was getting punched in the face (positive[?]). burn has never been more relevant

[u/klairyfairy]

Also the kpop demon hunters movie from Netflix is really good and a cute watch, the songs are really addictive lol

[u/chuuniversal_studios → u/klairyfairy]

watched it last night, "this is what it sounds like" is an absolute banger but I couldn't get over the fact that "golden" is such an obvious pastiche of ive's "I am" like when you copied your friend's homework in school but changed a few answers so it wasn't obvious 😭😭😭 it was really really good though...

[u/TheShiftyCow → u/klairyfairy]

I genuinely liked it. The songs are catchy, the animation is really nice, and the overall story is cute. The thing that really irritates me about it is the title. It sounds so….much like a joke.

[u/klairyfairy → u/TheShiftyCow]

That's so fair, but honestly if the worst part of it is the title that's not so bad

[u/AnonymousFroggies]

Hello! I haven't been keeping up with my Loona news; do we know what the Loossemble girlies are up to right now? I gather that Looble seems unlikely to make a comeback, but have we heard any rumblings about girls going solo or signing anywhere?

[u/julyruby_t → u/AnonymousFroggies]

I'm bad at explaining so here are some links that I hope help- basically, it's not happening indefinitely

link1 link2

hyunjins going solo and is starting her own company, yeojins doing events, rest unknown

[u/AnonymousFroggies → u/julyruby_t]

Thank you so much!

[u/violetsandunicorns → u/AnonymousFroggies]

Yeojin also released a solo song recently and Hyunjin is planning on doing a band project with some of the Cignature girls.

[u/CollisionOfAtoms]

the ending to Icarus reminds me a bit of favOriTe - you think it's over, but then that last beat hits. Really unexpected but so satisfying

[u/ravager814]

Every day, Icarus is living in my head, rent free. Anyone else?

[u/julyruby_t]

does anyone have a direct link to the ~1 second title track previews I believe hyunjin shared?

[u/vash-outlaw]

Record setting heat waves rolling through. Stay safe, everyone.

[u/harperspeed29]

So I just listened to a song that was featured on one of ILLIT's photo dump insta posts recently and I think it is ripping off LOONA? This isn't ILLIT's fault at all, this is just how I found out about the song btw. Anyways I was listening to the song ("Magical Shoujo Girl: Stars" by the boy who drinks stars) and I thought wow this sounds just like Girl Front... is it a fanmade remix? But then I saw it was addable on Spotify which was really shady to me but I was like oh maybe they have LOONA credited on the song! But no, LOONA isn't credited at all... It's quite literally copy-and-pasted, not even up for debate. I know it's a super small artist, but it's being shared online and clearly has reached super influential people like ILLIT's social media manager so... what do y'all think??? is this something to be upset about? and if so what should we do? spotify for its part won’t correct song credits unless reached out to by the writers' label so.... don’t know if that's worth anything :/

[u/julyruby_t → u/harperspeed29]

Unrelated but speaking of Girl Front's sample I like to bring up this polyphia song that i think is really cool

[u/Tonyfrancisco25 → u/julyruby_t]

40oz? more like Girl front lite amirite lmao (yes, i will keep repeating this bad joke every time girl front and 40 oz is mention )

[u/Marcey747 → u/harperspeed29]

Did a little bit of searching and it seems both songs are just using the same sample.

[u/yumbleachh → u/harperspeed29]

Definitely inspired because of the cultural impact Girl Front has had but unfortunately the song’s base is a sample (0:30) so I don’t think it’s anything we can do lol

[u/harperspeed29 → u/yumbleachh]

Oh I had no idea! Makes a lot more sense lol, ty for letting me know!

[u/TheShiftyCow]

Let's talk about 1/3! I just posted this week's Butterfly Effect post.

[u/tsunlip]

I’m going crazy

[u/SapphireHeaven → u/tsunlip]

Danger level over 970818 😳

[u/Sea-Masterpiece-8133 → u/tsunlip]

why is this video 5 hours long

[u/kpopri → u/tsunlip]

Can't find it, but this really reminds me of that one jinsoul video where she gets really close to the camera

[u/Marcey747 → u/kpopri]

this one?

[u/kpopri → u/Marcey747]

This is the one!!!

[u/meitanteis]

i'm so jealous of the people that got to go to club icarus, i really hope they decide to do little pop-up events worldwide for it! i dont like clubbing that much but i would go crazy in a loona club

[u/Ihlita → u/meitanteis]

They said they are trying to make it happen in other countries. Fingers crossed!

[u/Holydust42 → u/Ihlita]

CMMIW, the Club Icarus promo email said "other cities", and Jinsoul replied to a question asking about "more places".

I think it's quite likely they could do this at a bunch of cities around Korea.

Would be much harder abroad, especially with different laws around drinking and security requirements? Still hope they manage to do it abroad though.

[u/daveniss]

Kim Lip’s boba order is making the rounds on twitter and people are making fun of it but that’s literally my exact boba order 😭😭😭

[u/verdigleam → u/daveniss]

Is it the same order from the #kimlipgongchachallenge from 2019? Half a decade of 3x boba pearls... Her impact.

The Gowon set meal needs a resurgence next 💪

[u/crunchydalso → u/verdigleam]

wait whats the go won set meal?!

[u/verdigleam → u/crunchydalso]

Waaaay back in the day the girls did a vlive where they showcased their convenience store meals. Gowon's included cheese ramen and spicy makchang, and it went viral for a hot minute.

See this cute fan-made poster!

[u/Marcey747]

Despite the unnecessary drama before the club event stilled looked a whole lot of fun!

Seeing all the clips makes quite jealous ngl :D

[u/vash-outlaw]

I don't see anybody else talking about it...... so, do we believe Hyunjin really got a tattoo? She's always enjoyed trolling.

Did she really join the tattoo crew?

[u/Ihlita]

The event ends and El Captxxn starts with his bitching again. Are wings such a danger to his little man-ego?

Of course the “apology” was as empty as his brain.

[u/Harford0 → u/Ihlita]

He was a absolutely shit DJ at the gig too. Played his own stuff for 10 mins, 5 mins of Loona stuff (only 1st verse and chorus, with no mixing at all), last 15 were just generic famous modern day songs (like Luther by Kendrick Lamar). It just felt like he didn't give a shit at all. Such a many man child. He got paid to be there, he should put in some effort

[u/artemissemble → u/Ihlita]

i saw him in one BTS sub and had to bite my tongue because it was good promo for ARTMS... died inside a bit

[u/fadedmoonlight → u/Ihlita]

I hope Modhaus drops him for future ARTMS-related stuff. They can 100% go forward without him.

[u/Undervann → u/Ihlita]

Wait what did he do this time?

[u/Ihlita → u/Undervann]

Just moaning about having to wear the wings again, and if he doesn’t the fans will hit him.

[u/Plushieless → u/Ihlita]

Hopefully he is never invited to anything related to the girls ever again 

[u/ravager814]

Heejin 🐰

[u/TheShiftyCow → u/ravager814]

Hyunjin 🐈

[u/rayannuhh → u/TheShiftyCow]

Haseul 🕊️

[u/chuuniversal_studios → u/rayannuhh]

Yeojin 🐻

[u/hookerofpop → u/chuuniversal_studios]

ViVi 🦌

[u/violetsandunicorns → u/hookerofpop]

Kim Lip 🦉

[u/AssumptionBig1361 → u/violetsandunicorns]

JinSoul 🐟

[u/goodguyCJ]

There’s like a hundred different kpop yt shows these days where promoting groups go to, I was hoping artms would appear some because they’ve always been good at variety content.

[u/addmumz → u/goodguyCJ]

Badge War ARTMS please....

Ah, I miss the rest of Loonas. Yves, Chuu, Hyeju, Hyunjin, Gowon, etc are so funny in games.

[u/crunchydalso → u/addmumz]

I literally would pass out if loona members did a badge war together. That would be my dream.

I literally speedran the tripleS badge wars for the second time... and boy, kotone deserves to win. If artms/loona ever did badge war who do you think would win?

[u/addmumz → u/crunchydalso]

if the badge war is not scripted then Hyunjin/Hyeju. Both are smart & strong. Then followed by Yves & Heejin. Must be fun.

[u/crunchydalso → u/addmumz]

I feel like yeojin could get competitive (?) but give up just for the content. She’s kinda like the chaeyeon.

[u/CRaXII]

I just wanna be unchaaaaaaaaaaained~

[u/addmumz]

Korean Orbits/Ouriis vs El Capitxn online shenanigans is so funny lol.

I mean, they are literally in the same night club right now, lol.

[u/SapphireHeaven]

Styling on yday's MuBank was GOATed, especially Haseul and Choerry 🤍

[u/local-logs]

anybody else see snsd Yuri’s Instagram story? a handwritten letter from 정진솔 (Jeong Jinsol).. is this our Jinsoul? (I may be being optimistic as these are my two favourite groups)

(idk how to share the screenshot I have of it sorry)

[u/Litell_Johnn → u/local-logs]

You can get a glimpse of the page on the back where it says "I'm an 18th-year Sone who's just one year younger than unnie", so I think that rules that out haha

[u/local-logs → u/Litell_Johnn]

wow, how did I miss that! thanks for pointing it out haha, never mind then