YG Entertainment recently revealed yet another ‘mystery girl’.

On May 11th, YG Entertainment released a video teaser featuring a potential member of the agency’s upcoming girl group on the YG-Life Blog. The new mystery girl seems to have outstanding dancing skills and, according to reports by media and fans, is rumored to be a 16-year-old half Caucasian and half Korean trainee from Thailand.

With three ‘mystery girls’ in total, including Kim Eunbi and Euna Kim, who were already known to the public through Mnet‘s ‘Superstar K‘, it seems like the members and overall structure of the new upcoming group shows several similarities to 2NE1, who made a powerful and impacting debut into the Korean music industry in 2009.

First, despite her young age of only 17, Kim Eunbi was one of the Top 6 finalists in 2010′s ‘Superstar K2‘. Many are anticipating that she will most likely be the main vocal or the ‘Park Bom‘ of this new group. During the second season of ‘Superstar K’, Eunbi showed her quirky and honest personality that captured the hearts of many male fans, which seems similar to 2NE1 Park Bom’s four-dimensional and dorky personality.

In addition, Euna Kim, who showed her talents and rapping skills in ‘Superstar K3‘ last year, could be connected to 2NE1′s CL. Euna Kim proved her potential and capabilities in rapping through her cover of Sam Sparro’s “Black and Gold” with Kim Eunbi. Other than that, her English proficiency and background in the United States seem to be similar to CL.

The second ‘mystery girl’, who was revealed on May 4th, gained attention from the public through her innocent and beautiful appearance. Although there hasn’t been much information revealed about this member, many are speculating her to be handling the ‘visual’ role of the group, which reminds us of 2NE1′s Sandara Park.

It has been said that the third ‘mystery girl’ revealed on the 11th is one of the best dancers from YG, with a fantastic sense of rhythm and powerful moves. Although she is only 16 years old, the video clip revealed shows her flexibility and skills in dancing to fast beats. This member seems to parallel with the ‘dancing-machine’ and the youngest member of 2NE1, Minzy.

These 16-20 year old girls have been taking away the search rankings on various Korean portal sites each time they were revealed through the YG-Life Blog. It seems like the marketing strategy by YG to reveal each ‘mystery girl’ one by one to build up anticipation has been a success so far.

Recently, there have been many girl groups making their debut in the industry. However, this upcoming girl group from YG Entertainment has been gaining a huge amount of attention from the media and public despite the fact that only a few members have been revealed. This is incredibly similar to when 2NE1 made their debut. 2NE1 transformed the definition of K-Pop girl groups, from innocent and cute looking to powerful hip-hop warriors. 2NE1 was a revolutionary group that swept the music charts during their debut, and now many are anticipating whether this new girl group will be able to follow in their footsteps.

YG has been trying to hide the personal information of these members and have been keeping them in complete ‘mystery’. With YG’s impressive marketing strategies, ability to set a new trend in the industry, and their top-class trainees, many are excited to see what this new group will bring to the K-Pop world.

- Allkpop

gencies such as SM, YG, JYP and Cube doesn't really "release/introduce" so many groups compared to other random agencies. That's why EXO became so big. This group will also be a big one because of YG so this is gonna be interesting.

I wonder if it will be a 5-members group or if it's gonna be more members. And YG seem to go all in, on other cultures as well. It feels like their standaard was "Just look like an an Asian and speak korean then you're in" (well and the singing, rapping and dancing part)
They should name the group "Mystery" hohoho *cheesy*

In the previous post I wrote about the girl group Hello Venus and I mentioned some Pledis groups.

Girl groups:
Hello Venus
After School
Orange Caramel
AS BLUE ( After School's project group composed of members Jooyeon, Raina, Lizzy and E-young)
AS RED ( After School's project group composed of members Kahi, Jung Ah, UEE and Nana)
ObolJange (Sub unit of After School's members Junga and Raina)

Boy groups:
NU'EST

AND! Now a new boy group that I saw on the list. They'll also debut this year (together with Hello Venus and NU'EST) O_O Why so many groups in a year? o_o
Oh well they're actually one of the biggest boy groups out there consisting 17 members!!!

Seventeen <-- group name

I was... pretty schocked. Because all the (really) big groups out there gets easily disbanded or aren't popular at all. The only big group that has made it this far is Super Junior.



Even allkpop wrote about them:




AVERAGING 17 YEARS OLD?!?!?!?! SDJAKJGBALKJGBAS THEY'LL BE BORN 1995!!! WHAT HAVE I DONE WITH MY LIFE!?!?! *miserable*

But the whole thing gives me a EXO feeling, to debut in 3 different countries... I'm not really fond of unit groups it makes the whole thing complicated xd
Just think about it, if EXO debuted in Japan too then it would be 3 different MAMA's XD Hahahahaahah The tactic can be smart in the beginning if you do it right but I don't really think that they'll succeed that well. They should release 1 song in 1 language and in the end develope it to other versions.

*lots of text over here XD*

     
Lol just imagine 17 more guys in this picture XD And this isn't all of them either...