Thank You, Weeekly! ššš
Iāve been meaning to write this for a while now but I think giving myself a whole month, has given me enough time to go over all my feeling related to the groups.
Weeekly have been my first for basically everything in K-Pop.
- My First Kpop Group
- My First Ult Group
- My First Ult Bias
- My First Group Content
- My First K-Pop Discography Run
- My First Idol Live
And god know how many other firstsā¦
Iāve have followed them since the day of release of Play Game: Holiday, which is 4th August, 2021, it was the time when i got back into K-pop after a brief stint from Nov 2020 to Feb 2021. All thanks to a Youtube Ad. I was prepping for my college entrance exam during that period and i was totally disconnected from kpop at that point. Like, I hadnāt watched/listened to anything K-pop for months at that point.
Iāll be honest with you, I found Holiday Party annoying at first listen š. IāM SORRY I WAS A FOOL I KNOW. Even tho that was how i initially felt, something still pulled me towards the group. Canāt really put my finger on it tho. I eventually found out about After School, and the attraction just accelerated from this point onwards.
I usually just listen to a groupās music, I rarely being a regular watcher for a groupās content but with I started from their content, behind the scenes footage and performances, instead of music.
I watched an episode of Weee:Kloud (this one!), and the moment when Jaehee incorrectly (and very confidently) says āģ°ė¦¬ ģ”°ģā while it was actually Soeun will forever be not funny to me, and it has stuck with me since and I remember it randomly every now and then.. Another moment being the one where Soeun kept asking Jimin if the Kimchi was correctly salted š (this one!!), but she didnt answer is also one which is stuck with me forever.
I kinda got into them at the wrong yet the correct time??? if that makes any sense. When I became a Daileee, I had a regular stream of content and engagement from them. We had post album content, covers, memberās solo schedules, and augruble their of their best cover, song even. Yāall can fight me if you want but Call is a fucking banger, I can loop it endlessly without getting sick of it. Check it Out (lol) here
Their next release after Play Game: Holiday was Play Game: Awake, which was another new chapter for me cause it was around this time that I joined stantwt. š I made so many new friend all because of Weeekly, which I cherish so much. I remember watching all of their Live performances on K-Pop music shows live back then. I even voted for each preshow voting.. š Whatās heartbreaking is that sometime after this comeback, one of their member, Jiyoon left the group because of personal reasonsā¦ š
This comeback was also kinda big for Weeekly cause they tried a whole new concept. Sadly, the āgeneral publicā, didnāt appretiate this and affectly just abandoned them for this release. It was their most money-making album. YET their company put them on a LONG ASSS HIATUS which was as long as mandatory military conscriptions for korean malesā¦ Whatās even worse is that they barely got any solo schedules in between. It likes their company was punishing them for nothing being able to make Ven Para a hit.
Even with the drought, they came on live every now and then and Iām pretty sure i tuned in 90% of them š„ŗ Well, bad times donāt last forever, and neither did the haitus. They came back with their best EP by fucking parsecsā¦ ColoRise is literally PEAK K-Pop. the release of the pre-release track, and the Album was around the time when i started college. I remember the day, Colorise was supposed to release, I had my Chemistry practical exam at the time of the release. The release time was 2:30pm (in my timezone) and my practical was between 2pm-4pm. I was one of the good kids, so I asked my professor if she could let me complete my assesement first. She fortunately agreed and I literally got out of the Lab at exactly 2:30pm ššššš I perfectly remember that moment, when i was trying to un-tangle my earphone with my bang half-hanging from my should and me barely holding onto my labcoat and my phone. š Iāll be very honest here. I was hooked from the moment I played the play button.
After this, they went on a NA and Europe tour, which was again such a good time for me and all the other Daileees. Iām still so that I was never able to cop of the Weeekly University varsity jackets. š
Things become rocky again after this and they went on a hiatus again. This came outta left field cause ColoRise did really well (in terms of music quality) and they just went on a tour.
They came back next with their final release (yetā¦), Bliss. Bliss holds a very special heart in my heart cause of the timing of it all. I donāt really like stay at home. I wish I could go out and roam places but canāt cause i have the broke virus, plus asian parents. I was fresh out of my summer vacations, which i wasted on league, I was just depressed cause of broken attempt at a relationship in the previous sem, and idk for some reason, i alwsy get depressed in April-July time period.
So yea, Bliss really gave me those moment of happiness in between the wierd and depressive times. I was actaully a part of the Online audience for their After School Club appearance š„¹ I skipped college for that, and I dont regret it a single bit.
Around the end of the year, they posted teasers for the seasonās greetings. I never talked about this with anyone about this but they really looked very low budget and hastily put together. It all made sense later on. On the last fan-meeting for the seasons greeting, the members asked the audience to come closer so that they could cherish them properlyā¦ It breaks my heart to think that they knew it was their last time seeing Daileee as a group for a very long time. Whatās even worse is that Soojin got sick that day, so she missed the fan-meeting š
It all got quite again, until the day they made personal instagram accounts. I HATE THEM SO MUCH. I WAS LITERALLY ONE WEEK INTO MY PERMANENT INSTAGRAM DETOX WHEN THEY ANNOUNCED IT. I HAD TO REINSTALLED THAT FUCK ASS APP FOR THEM. IF ONLY INSTAGRAM PROVIDED RSS FEEDS FOR ACCOUNTS. FUCK META
Well, In K-pop, unless your a big group, making personal accounts for member is a sign of disbandment to come. Sadly it was the case for Weeekly too.
They disbanded in the middle of my mid-term exams. I literally had the exam for Refrigeration and Air Conditioning the very next day. Even tho the signs were there, It still came out of left field. It literally shattered the floor beneath my feet. I was in such a bad and depressed mood that I just able to prepare for the rest of my exams.
I began writing this post on that day, but i was never able to finish it. I somehow shaped my grief into a small project to archive their Weeeverse messages and another one for their Bubble messages. You can Check it out Here!! and Here!!
Since then, the members have been busy with their lives and solo activities. Jimin is getting vocal lessons and she streamed on Tik-Tok for a while. Jaehee and Soojin go to the same college lol. Jiyoon is doing pretty well as a solo artist now. Hyewon signed to a new company as an actor. and Soeun has been doing something, we dont know what yet.. š
Jiyoon, Jimin and Hyewon went to their birthday cafe, which never happened during the time they were active. Today too, on the day of their 5th debut anniversary, they visited three fan-cafe events.
They released one special track, all by themselves, as a goodbye to Daileee. Cause the disband was just soo sudden and out of the blue that the member never fot a chance to properly say it to us. I find it really hard to cry 99% of the times, and i wasnāt able to cry listening to the song. I was broken and destroyed that I just felt numb.
Itās hard to explain but Iāve had such a close and intimate connection to their music, their content and the group itself that their actions dictate my mood now š Me getting into Weeekly happened around the same time my cousin passed away, so I was able to procrastinate the grief for some time, and they also help me live thru the dark period which i was in my gap year.
Itās sad that I was never able to directly show my support for the girls and always looked from the shadows. I was never able to buy their album, or their merch.
Itās just that I have begun to realize that I have this sorted to disconnected relationship with everything I do. Like I am always absent in some extent. Be it my friendships (irl or online), my family relations, my projects, gaming, even my education. I hope i get around to figure this bit out soon.
Weeekly have become such a intergral part of my life, that itās hard to think what kind of person I wouldāve become if it werent for th Hoiliday party adā¦
I have procrastinated this blogpost for 4 months now, yet I just canāt give voice to my feelings for this group.
It makes my throat lump up thinking over the how much they mean to my, and all the interactions i had with other people because of them.
I have been in a bad mood cause of this today. I know itās an anniversay, I am supposed to be happy about it. But the fact that they arent together as a group is just so fucking gutting for me. I have basically spent the entire day, trying to avoid my friends cause I just donāt want to āradiateā my mood to them. I saw the Daileee Group Chat on twt bustling with messages from people and the timeline filled filled with thier pics but Iām too heartbroken to look at them now..
Either Way, One thing is for sure. That is that Iāll try to include them in some way in every project of mine cause thatās all I can do to express my love for the groupā¦
Thank You, Weeekly, for all the friends I made during these past couple year, for all the moment you made me happy and gave me the hope to carry living on.. Thank You So Much. ā¤ļø
I am your Daileee till the Endā¦ššš
