The new Spotify feature “SongDNA” shows everyone who was involved in Pinky Up. Here are five composers and lyricists involved in total. If you click on their profiles, it shows all the songs they have contributed to. Just wanted to share that because this function is new to me :)
With all the posts and discussions lately (especially about Manon), I feel like a lot of people here are forgetting that the girls most likely signed extremely strict contracts.
Everything they do, say, or post is monitored and controlled by their management. Honestly, it wouldn’t even surprise me if every single post, like or comment has to be approved by someone before it goes public.
Many discussions here are framed as if the girls actually have a choice or full control over their actions. But realistically, the management should be the first ones held responsible for most of these things. And yes, people do criticize the management as well, don’t get me wrong, but sometimes I read comments like “maybe Manon just wants to do her own thing and doesn’t want to be part of Katseye anymore.”
And every time I think: do you really believe she has that kind of choice? Do you think she could simply leave the group just because she wants to?
A lot of the small “controversies” that pop up (like Manon removing “Katseye” from her bio, or the whole following/unfollowing situation on Instagram) are either intentionally managed by the company, or if the girls actually do something on social media that management considers “not allowed” there will almost certainly be consequences. These companies know how to go viral. Even if it’s bad publicity, it’s still publicity for them!
We already saw during Dream Academy how strict some of the rules can be and that there are real consequences for breaking them. And that’s probably only a really tiny fraction of what they chose to show publicly.
These kinds of contracts are no joke. In many ways, you’re basically signing away a huge amount of personal control to the company. People have discussed and exposed how extreme these contracts can be many times before (just think about NewJeans).
And this perspective can be applied to a lot of other discussions too. For example, the criticism about them not mentioning Manon during the Coachella performance, or how Lara and Megan ended the M.I.A performance.