Ex-Miss A singer Min has opened up about her struggles throughout her time within the Ok-pop lady group.
Final week, former Miss A member Min launched her first solo EP ‘Prime Time’, 14 years after initially debuting as a part of the lady group. In a brand new interview with Billboard, the singer opened up about her longtime need to launch solo music, in addition to the difficulties she confronted in Miss A.
Min shared that she stays on good phrases with J.Y. Park, the co-founder of her former company JYP Leisure, regardless of being unable to pursue a solo profession beneath the corporate. “I’ve needed to launch solo [music], however it didn’t match and didn’t occur,” she stated.
“It isn’t that my opinion doesn’t matter — we listened to everybody’s opinion to determine something,” Min stated, explaining that finally the opinions of those that made extra money for the corporate “would matter extra”.
She went on to share that she additionally struggled with the general public’s hypothesis of discord inside the lady group after their final launch ‘Colours’ in 2015. Min defined that she “didn’t perceive the followers’ need for [the members] to be finest pals” and referred to as it “very unfair”.
“Every part that we had been and we did was totally beneath management, so I really feel like lots of people see me in a sure approach,” she stated of her ‘sturdy’ picture within the group. “However I wasn’t a powerful individual, so I might get damage by feedback and on-line bullying — it simply haunted me on daily basis.”
Min defined that whereas she prevented posts about herself and requested pals to solely present her constructive feedback, she would inevitably encounter detrimental feedback. “I simply couldn’t fall asleep. […] I felt my persona grow to be very small and guarded… I nonetheless battle with sure issues and sure feedback,” she shared, including that she felt “villainised”.
“It’s very unfair and unhappy, however I don’t wish to dwell previously and I don’t wish to drag anybody down; that’s not me,” Min later stated.
Earlier this month, former Miss A member Bae Suzy additionally mirrored on her time within the lady group, sharing that she is “incomparably extra content material” after leaving her Ok-pop profession for appearing.
