SONG MIN HO, Win YG Junior BOBBY [Show Me The Idol①]
[마이데일리 = 전원 기자] Everyone wants to be the “second BOBBY”. It is known that rappers of different idol groups have participated in the preliminary competition of cable channel Mnet’s rapper survival audition show “Show Me the Money 4”. They are resolved to break prejudice and bias against idol singers and to prove their talent. However, that kind of resolution may not be the best strategy. If they fail to prove their talent, they will be criticized that they are not good because they are just idol singers, while they will be compared with iKON’s BOBBY who is the winner of the last season of the show, if they manage to prove their talent.
My Daily has analyzed who those brave idol rappers who threw their gauntlet for “Show Me the Money 4” are, and what kind of appeals they have.
※SHOW ME THE IDOL! SWOT Analysis
▲ Name : SONG MIN HO
▲ Birth : Mar. 30, 1993
▲ Recognition : ★★★★☆
▲ Strength : SONG MIN HO won “WIN: WHO IS NEXT”, a survival audition show for debut of YG trainees, in 2013 and then debuted as idol group WINNER. WINNER made a grand debut. Thanks to the survival audition that drew keen attention, WINNER formed a big fandom even before their debut, and swept the No.1 in music shows and rookie awards of the year.
▲ Weakness : In fact, SONG MIN HO made his initial debut not as the member of WINNER. In 2011, he made debut as “Tagoon” of idol boy group “BoM”. Of course, he failed to gain popularity or be recognized for his talent at that time. It is a kind of his “dark history”. “BoM” was disbanded and SONG MIN HO became a YG trainee once again. After a long time of training, he finally came to be a popular idol singer as he is now.
▲ Threat : He is the optimal one to be compared with BOBBY, the winner of the last season of the show. The two are both YG artists and have already competed against one another in “WIN”. In “WIN”, BOBBY who belonged to team B was beaten by team A of SONG MIN HO. SONG became the winner and have grown into a top idol singer now. If SONG fails to show his talent that exceeds that of BOBBY, he will not be able to avoid criticism that team A is not better than team B.
▲ Opportunity : He is highly likely to get higher-than-expected scores. The on-site vote in “Show Me the Money” is a kind of trouble for viewers and a factor that hinders a fair competition to a certain extent, but is a very important opportunity for an idol singer who has a lot of fans. If his fans all vote for SONG, the result will be favorable for him. Fortunately, SONG is known to have been well recognized for his underground career before his official debut. Insiders even say that he could be graded up with ZICO who joined “Show Me the Money 4” as a judge. SONG may feel hurt by the fact that his past colleague ZICO now judges his rapping, but that is unavoidable as SONG himself applied for participation in the audition as a general contestant.
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