Goo Hara is dead!!!??!?!
OH GOD!!!
Young Asians and suicide...
Can’t grasp it.
Seems like over the past few years a lot of pop/rap performers are meeting an early demise.
Seems like over the past few years a lot of pop/rap performers are meeting an early demise.
Lot of early death in K-Pop. It seems to chew people up.
I thought 27 was the age for pop figures to check out.
Lady Kajagoogoo?
Aw man!
I liked her...
Very pretty! Sad to see someone die so young! K-Pop is an acquired taste but I’m a fan of Korean drama and rom-com.
I remember going to a Goo Goo Dolls concert some time ago. I didn’t think I knew the band so much but pretty much every song they played, I heard on the radio. So they, in a deceiving kind of way, actually had a lot of hits.
They have extremely hard lives and almost neeeever get rich.
Long hours, low pay, zeeero privacy, weird contracts.
A very normal condition is to have no boyfriend during the contract period.
With a name like Goo, I’m surprised she lasted this long.
28 years old is pretty young for a home. Mine is around 36.
Poor girl. :-( RIP.
Clinton?
These big entertainment industries are all the same.
What is K Pop?
Dump social media. Can the young contemplate such action?
This generation is really into suicide
Sadly, this one wasn’t surprising. She attempted suicide a few months ago and took a fairly short break from the industry. Girl-grouping/Boy banding has always pretty much been a “pay your dues” job with a limited-time contract. Some one cuter and younger is going to come along and be the trend, otherwise we’d all have Duran Duran and Leif Garrett dolls in Target, not BTS.
The most control an idol might get during a group’s run get is whether their ears are actually pierced. I saw an interview with a 15 year veteran who said that “the company” picked his hair for every promotion until then. Even groups that write and produce their own music get have to defer to the company on title tracks, engineering, styling and the promotion schedule.
I think in her case and the late Kim Jong-Hyun, they’ve been freed from most of the structure and were in a position to own their careers. Most people/groups do fine once they have more latitude. Neither had the personality to cope with that. Think people who are model prisoners or soldiers who don’t do well once they leave prison or the military.
That being said, I think there needs to be a consistent, realistic message about the trajectory of a pop-career and how to prepare so you aren’t, at 27-28, thinking that your best option is to stop living.