Singer Gain 4's Contestant No. 50: Controversy and Jadoo's Declaration of a Reset
Singer Gain 4's Contestant No. 50 at the Center of Controversy
A Mix of Delight and Shock: The Uncomfortable Truth Behind Jadoo's 'Reset Declaration'
"I'm Jadoo, a singer who needs reconciliation."
JTBC's 'Singer Gain 4' is, as the name suggests, a stage for unknown singers to try again. But there, Jadoo of 'Good-bye~♬' appeared.
Viewers were all saying the same thing.
"Isn't that... cheating?"
Jadoo appeared as 'Contestant No. 50' on the show that day, revealing her honest feelings, saying, "My teens were rock. My dream was to be in a band. But I was suddenly sold off like an idol with the song 'Good-bye'."
"I hated that song so much. I wanted it to fail. I thought that way I wouldn't have to sing this song."
Her confession was earnest, but viewers' reactions were mixed.
"Unknown? Everyone knows her!"
She defined herself as "not unknown, but I haven't lived as the person I wanted to be," but the subtitle of the program was clearly "Battle of Unknown Singers."
In the end, the viewer bulletin board and online communities caught fire after the broadcast.
"Why is a legend coming out in a battle of unknown singers?"
"If that's the case, Jo Yong-pil and Kim Gun-mo should come out as 'unknown' too."
"This isn't an audition, it's a fan meeting."
"Shouldn't Jadoo be on the judging panel?"
Even judge Kyuhyun said, "This feels like cheating. She killed the stage."
In the end, viewers' reactions were summarized as 'the stage was acknowledged, but the eligibility for appearance is controversial'.
"I wanted it to fail"—The truth she spat out, and uncomfortable sympathy
Jadoo confessed that she was "never really unknown, but I couldn't become the person I wanted to be," and that she was an 'icon of success' and at the same time a 'prisoner of identity'.
This is not a simple 'reset', but a real 'Jadoo Reset Declaration' to "love my name again."
But the public was cold. Because Jadoo's presence was too big and too familiar to share the weight of the narrative of 'unknown'.
"Singer Gain 4, has it lost its direction?"
'Singer Gain' was a stage to call the name again as the name suggests. But if the first big topic of Season 4 is 'controversy over the appearance of a singer who is not unknown'—that's already a sign of concept collapse.
Viewers ask.
"Is it really a stage for the narrative of 'unknown', or has it deteriorated into a 're-spotlighting show for celebrities'?"
Snack's Comments
To be honest, Jadoo killed it. The stage, the emotions, and the presence. But... she's not unknown.
The stage was 'Singer Gain', but in the hearts of viewers, "Singer Again?"
Source :https://blog.naver.com/snack_blog/224057617199
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