[ SECRET POST #2015 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2015 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 085 secrets from Secret Submission Post #288.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[outstretched]

Dear everyone who has no idea why OP feels bad about this, here are my two cents (at least):

• SM Entertainment is a skeevy, awful company, as previously noted. Yes.


• It's probably not related to SJ's fandom. Super Junior fandom can indeed be insane, but it's definitely not worse than some of the other ultra-crazy k-pop fangroups out there—at least we didn't put glue in an idol's drinking water, all right? Anyway, Super Junior =/= its fans, and most people are able to make that distinction. I side-eye a lot of what goes on in SJ fandom, but that doesn't mean I love the boys any less, and it's because I love them that I'd consider buying their albums? Here's a fascinating discussion of this topic (read part 3, especially).


• Besides the fact that SM is a skeevy, awful company, the main reason that I couldn't ever bring myself to buy an album (though I've gone to see them in concert, and was too excited to be ashamed) is because seriously, Super Junior's music can be pretty awful. Speaking for myself and many others, we didn't get into this musical group for the music (as weird as that sounds)—we got sucked in because of the members themselves, a lot of whom are amazing human beings in startlingly unexpected ways. Yes, even the ones who occasionally say terrible things. But...there's a difference between loving a group that also happens to make bad music sometimes, and having an album of that bad music on your shelf. That jump can sometimes be hard.

I also totally agree with the anon right above me who offered context. Context is really important, especially with a group that comes from a different culture, etc. :/

ANYWAY. Dear OP, as a fellow SuJu fangirl, this secret made me laugh and I feel you so hard. But if you had to buy an album, Sorry, Sorry was the one to buy!—it's their best album by far imo. My boyfriend bought me Bonamana as a present because I came into the fandom during 4jib, and after he listened to it, he's...never quite let me live it down ;_;. Sometimes he just starts doing the awkward chicken dance at me and I'm like STOPPPPP ;_;. I can't actually believe their new album exists—who was responsible for this nonsense?? The boys almost manage to save it because they're such professionals, but...there's just no saving this one, guys, I'm so sorry.


Disclaimer so that other SJ fans don't gut me: Obviously some people do like SJ's music (and even though 6jib is astoundingly strange, in my opinion, there are a lot of SJ songs that I do like, especially off of 3jib!). If you like SJ's music, more power to you! It's just...not always what lures people into the fandom and/or makes them stay, that's all. Also, I love Super Junior enough to make a fandom primer about them, so don't even start with me, okay. :/ And this tiny disclaimer is why this secret is indeed a secret, I think! Maybe! orz fandom is complicated. I'LL SHUT UP NOW.