This is even more surprising when you realize they’re debuting under a subsidiary of HYBE, our new overlords of K-pop. I hadn’t even heard of NewJeans until today. Sign up for the Teen Vogue daily email.The K-pop industry must finally be moving at rate so fast that I can’t keep up. “I thought about changing it to the #KickItChallenge tweet, but then I was like ‘I think everyone has seen it already, I’m going to keep my Q.’” The pinned tweet on her account is still a photoset of another idol she loves: Q from The Boyz. “We stan almost everybody so we might as well!” they laugh.Īmid all this excitement, Kia remains a humble multifan. I really want to show people that we’re grateful for all their support.” They’re also going to start a YouTube channel for K-pop music video reactions. “We’re gonna try to reply to as many people as we can. Kia says that advocating for their culture is an important part of how the girls express themselves online, but that “most of the time I'm just screaming about my faves” and that they’ve been touched by the outpouring of positivity from fellow fans over the past few days. They look fine without them! We like them the way they are.” You can be a rapper and a hip hop artist without, you know, the ‘look.’ There are a lot of rappers in K-pop that don't need all the extra stuff to show that they know what they're doing. We just don't want to be silenced,” Kia continues. “These are things that we hold dear to us. “Having to prove time and time that we belong here” is exhausting, says Ariana. Somebody had this before black people, get over it,’” Kia explains. It is frustrating, however, when other fans discount their concerns over how idols are styled. “We don't want our idols to get hate for that.” “If gets out to a wider audience of black people, it can be negative,” clarifies Kia. “We just want to educate our faves the nicest way we can,” says Ariana, because they want their idols to be seen for their talent, not for their mistakes. “There have been incidents of cultural appropriation and, you know, just ignorance,” she says, referring to K-pop’s long history of borrowing from black culture, but the girls see it as an opportunity for growth. “You get to meet new people through it and learn about other cultures.” But sometimes, the burden of educating others falls on them. “I love K-pop because it expands my horizons,” says Kia. The girls now have a “concert family” of other fans from Twitter that they meet up with for Chicago shows. I found K-pop and that helped fill the void it was there for me.” When the friends reunited, Ariana decided to give K-pop a chance, so Kia would “always have someone to talk to,” and they soon discovered that Georjay stanned Seventeen. “I'm pretty shy, and I don't make friends easily,” she said. She first got into K-pop in 2015 when she saw the bright, whimsical music video for GOT7’s “Just Right.” That was also around the time that she and the girls became more distant as they all entered high school. This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.įor Kia, this moment has been a long time coming. The video currently has more than 2.9M views across Twitter and Instagram, and the group texted NCTzens on Thursday, asking them to try the challenge themselves. They imitate the girls as Johnny covers the lens with his hand, and they return in flashy, embroidered bomber jackets, ready to hit the stage for their performance at the Houston Rodeo, where they performed “Kick It” live for the first time.
In the video, Chicago native Johnny crouches in the front as Kia while vocalists Doyoung and Jungwoo flank him on either side in place of Georjay and Ariana.
ET on Wednesday, members of NCT 127 posted their own version of the challenge.
“I was trying to like or respond to everybody because they were saying such nice things and I don't like leaving people on read!” Sometime that night, NCT 127’s official Twitter liked the post and then, a little after 9 a.m. Kia added the #KickItChallenge hashtag, posted the video to Twitter, and was so distracted by its popularity during dinner that she ended up taking her meal to-go.
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