SEOUL—Label representatives confirmed Wednesday that popular teenage idols HaeNa and SaeHa are going through that awkward stage between comeback concepts of being aegyeo teens and hyper-sexualized young adults.
“They just turned 16 (Korean age), so they’re at that difficult age when their audience has dwindled to just a few of her fellow female teens and a frightening number of male incel sasaengs,” explained TWICE-member Nayeon, who chuckled as she recalled going through her own girl group growing pains, which she described as flirting between the two extremes of “sweet and innocent” and “fresh, eroticized fodder for the male gaze.”
“As second through fourth generation girl group idols will tell you, you can only do a dozen aeygeo concepts or so before you have to move onto your next ‘dark’ or ‘sexy’ concept.” Wrapping the onsite press briefing, label representatives assured the press that the middle schoolers will take comfort in knowing that they’re only a couple years away from becoming a lucrative object of sexual desire suitable for mass consumption.
Comeback plans were later complicated as KBS, MBC, and SBS networks threatened to ban the group from performing on any televised music shows for the group’s provocative lyrics advocating for women’s rights on the basis of equality of sexes.
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