Fromis_9 ended their contracts with pledis ent. on New Year’s eve. They have technically “disbanded” but it’s been a recent k-pop thing of groups continuing their activities even after ending their contract with original company.
I’ve known about Fromis ever since I got into k-pop back in 2020 (I actually got into k-pop in august of next year tho). Talk & Talk was their first comeback which i listened to. I loved the track so much that I set it as my mum’s phone ringtone and it stayed for almost 2 years 😂. I only changed it cause I got annoyed of listening to it 😭 but my mum was sad that i did that, oops. But after that comeback, I never tried to actively explore any other release from them. I’m not really sure why tho. The next release which I listened from them was their first and only 1 studio album, Unlock My World. I honestly don’t remember my exact impressions of that album from back then but I remember liking it.
Side note: I thought their concept was related to forming relationships over phones as gen-z, cause their title tracks which I knew at that point were, Talk & Talk, Airplane Mode and DM. I only found out in june(?) last year that DM is for doesn’t matter and not DM as in direct message, lol.
Coming back, I listened to some of their tracks while shuffling some music from one of my playlists. I enjoyed a couple of them but the nail really hit the coffin when Love Me Back started playing. I’m telling you, if you haven’t listened to it yet, don’t be a fool like me, listen to it now!!!
I ended up listening to them a bunch in july-august, before taking a 3 month-ish gap, well, it was not actually a full gap where I didn’t listen to them at all, I listened to them in smol amounts, you get the point!!. Until I was back on the grind in december.
As you can see in the image above, they are at 426 scrobbles and twenty one pilots are behind them by 60-ish scrobbles. So it’s safe to say their music is stuck in my mind lol.
Looking at all this made me think about how many artists am i sleeping over as i slept over Fromis. I wish I didn’t have college or the worry about making money, then I could listen to all the (good) music there is in the world. But i guess i can only dream about it. From now on, I’ll try my best not to sleep over any artist which I find mildly interesting to me. 🫡
- at the time of writing↩
