You know that I have nothing to do with the being "trapped", "forced" afraid to escape, etc theories.
I've talked in the past how BTS isn't the only case of young boys hyping over being cheered. I mean...isn't it like the coolest thing for a kid who doesn't have to practice all day long like a classical musician, ballerina, or even a "nerd" in mathematics (which starts early in school)...to be suddenly hyped for basically just standing there on a stage and all girls, no matter what you do, fainting over how "cute" you are?
Children fight for attention, they wish attention.
Bang seemed to have constantly lead a psychological manipulation over them by making sure they believe they have no future without him. The way they always thank the staff, etc. It's their job. BTS don't realize even normal common things. It's a staff member being paid for what he's doing. Not that you don't have to be grateful for having people around you that you can trust, when you are famous, the trust is basically to not leak private things, but even this trust has been broken. Whether the rumor is real or not, BTS seemed to have gathered together after a show surprised about something private that has been leaked, wondering how it got outside.
Well...look around you, the people you "thank" are the ones who leaked information only they could have had access to.
They don't understand the importance of their image. Even if they don't, it's a manager's job, yes a MANAGER, to cover your BEST interest.
The whole thing it's a fraud, because a manager gets 10-20% of your fee for a concert. A lawyer works either on a annual fee or gets a percentage (5%) from everything else, things like all the commercial they sign up for.
The situation itself it's a fraud - you can't have your manager dealing everything, because that guy, especially someone like BANG, will do things based on what's in HIS best interest, especially since he also has a company.
To go even further - a manager is NEVER the guy working for your record company, or lawyer, or associated with anything else, than covering your best interests. A manager is the one who goes to BigHit and Bang and says - it is in Yoongi's best interest for this year to have a solo CD, the requirements for signing a new contract are as follow.....
Bang as a manager things not just against each of the individual's best interest, but also against the interest of the band. The only thing that matters for him is himself and his company.
When David Geffen (THE worst gay p***phile in the industry) took over Michael as his Lawyer/Manager he ruined him. Michael's former manager was Branca who Geffen hates.
Geffen fooled Michael Jackson who was desperate similar like BTS for attention and obsessed with going into movies, with the promise of making movies for him through Disney (along with Spielberg and Katzenberg), as such MJ fired Branca but they only used him.
During his time, through Branca, MJ purchased ATV (today Sony/ATV) for 47 millions, a company owning copyrights of many famous bands and singers, among others...all the BEATLES catalogue.
After his success over MJ firing Branca, Geffen at one point eyed probably the most valuable possession anyone in the music history could have had as a single person - the ATV catalogue. He offered MJ 75millions and even MJ, as blinded as he was, had a bad feeling so he called Branca.
In the end the catalogue sold for 1B, though it's worth more than that, with the last 50% MJ owned being sold by his estate to Sony.
p.s. Beatles also don't own their catalogue/copyrights, but people still hype them and buy their music.
What I want to say is that, even someone like MJ was utterly obsessed with people's attention and superficial things.
The King of Pop once took some business advice from Paul McCartney—and used it to buy all of the Beatles song collection.
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It is obvious that BTS are pathologically in need for attention and wooing/worshiping from their fans. They also get a considerable amount of money and benefits (free merch, clothes, entries,etc).
They are incapable of making any decisions, because they gladly let those kind of things in the hands of the people working for BANG (which is important because the staff doesn't have a contractual obligation towards BTS, but towards Bang).
If they never were in a position to make the smallest decision - not even such as....should I copy at tomorrow's test rather than spending one more hour learning ? ...for sure they are comfortable with this situation, which for them it's perfect.
They are still getting paid a salary, like any other BigHit employee, their name is still featured all over the place, the most important thing for them, their face is all over the walls, all over the shows, and they even live in the fake world created about them.
Believing they are singers, or important, or "idols".
They are only afraid of loosing the fake bubble of fame around them.
If they don't even care about at least improving or correcting their singing mistakes.
The only "fear" is the one they don't notice - the one of facing reality. Like I have written once - their crying on stage, especially Taehyung's regarding disbanding, was the fear of loosing this bubble around them and facing reality.
The feat that after 10 years when despite their lyrics, they were the ones partying and having fun, while other people their age were studying, they would loose all this "summer-camp" lifestyle and would actually have to do something.
Yes, I am at peace with my decision, after I've been through those 5 stages of grief before I started knowing more and more about how things work in the industry and in the world in general. I was afraid over my future, trying everything possible in order to "make it" , though not in a BTS way, just living with concerts and performances, whatever the size of the stage, but practicing my profession for which I've worked for and not playbacked, I thought more or less my life is over until I realized that it would have been over if I would have been part of it by giving up my copyrights, especially singe I write all the material, including when working in a group of people. That's how I make my living.
I am not the only case. When you are young/ish, without much knowledge, you have no idea about this profession and who is making it at the top.
If a average music writer is making 6 figures yearly from copyrights, you can imagine that BTS's copyrights are worth more than the Beatles, probably a considerable amount of a few billions, because, like the issue with Taehyung's purple color and Samsung I have mentioned in the past, copyrights aren't limited to music.
They go into logo, style, video, photography, quotes, and many others.
If my song, I believe it can be as much as 30 seconds, doesn't have to be full played, is streamed once in a Radio, depending on the show's traffic/time/audience, I can make 50 EUR. That's about 60 us dollar.
How many billions of times have BTS been played monthly all over the world? How many times featured for a few seconds on TV, train stations, billboards, how many times their brand used in commercials, editorials, etc..
Now time the 60 dollars x 4 x a few billions, because they get paid just for being mentioned in a TV show, in a 30 seconds clip , copyrights for image, audio, video, performance.
They are so caught in this childish desperation, because yes, they never grew up, they are uneducated and ...not the brightest in the sky, Bang knows it, as long as they are cheered and talked about, the fact that they are even paid additionally, for them must be a big thing.
I doubt some of the members here, who are the same age as BTS, would find pleasure in being superficially worshiped by little children while you are not doing a thing. I am not talking about teaching children. I am talking about doing nothing with your life except playing children's games, sitting on a stage doing playback when you know damn well that you can't sing, yet cry over some creepy 16 old BOYS (cause with them is the opposite sex cheering) obsessed with you, wearing, doing and expressing the most embarrassing stupid thoughts, similar to the brain of a 7 year old, but being PROTECTED at the same time from any corrections by anyone, since BigHit is sueing you, so you think that you can say whatever stupid thing is going through your head with NO consequence, and afraid of loosing the fun of THIS life.
That's what they are afraid of, living in a world they don't realize it doesn't exists.
If they would have read ONE book, one single important book, like Crime and Punishment, maybe they would have realized how bad it is what they are doing to themselves. and the evilness of their parents..except Jin's.
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