The fact that SM artists voiced their frustrations about their management company is no longer strange to fans, but aespa’s move in the midst of Lee Soo Man’s controversy is getting more and more tense, making the audience very satisfied.
On February 16, aespa had an impromptu livestream to chat with fans while practicing for their upcoming first concert. Here, the members said that they are working very hard to bring the best stages to the fans. “We will reveal our new song during the concert. It’s a bit difficult because we’re learning a lot of new choreography since it’s our first concert.”the female idol shared.
The broadcast still revolved around practice for the night until Winter read fans complaining about the expensive ticket prices and having to buy tickets to watch the concert online. “What, they only have to pay to watch it online? And that’s too expensive. Ticket price is up to 60,000 Won (more than 1 million VND) to watch the concert through the screen.”, member Winter was both surprised and annoyed for the fans. After that, the members also simultaneously expressed their disappointment with the company and disagreed with the price that SM had offered for the group’s first concert.
At the rest of the livestream, aespa revealed the setlist of performances the group will perform in the upcoming concert and ended the broadcast with thanks to the fans. Although this is just the girls’ reaction to SM’s concert ticket sales, their candid attitude towards the group’s management company is receiving much attention and praise from the audience. , especially when SM Entertainment is in a tense dispute between CEOs, founders Lee Soo Man as well as “big guys” who want to acquire most of the company shares such as HYBE, Kakao…
Most recently, SM’s current CEO Lee Sung Soo posted a video presentation aimed at making accusations against former producer Lee Soo Man. In it, he said that SM’s founder was also the reason why the artist’s album release schedule was delayed a few months compared to the original set time, especially aespa. Lee Soo Man asked the group to sing about planting trees even though it didn’t fit the group’s concept. Up to now, in addition to official statements from Lee Soo Man, CEOs and related parties, SM Entertainment artists are still focusing on their music projects and avoiding speaking directly. about the case.