As the veil of Mnet’s girl group audition ‘Girls Planet 999: The Girls Saga’, which will be released in August, is gradually lifted, the music industry is paying attention. First of all, Mnet is putting all its efforts into putting in CP Yoon Shin-hye, a veteran who directed the Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMA), a representative event from the beginning, and taking out a ‘wild card’ of Korea-China-Japan collaboration. The biggest issue is differentiation from ‘Produce’ series, which has produced many stars but was abolished due to ranking manipulation. As it is a large idol audition program that is coming out for the first time in two years since 2019, there are welcoming voices, but there is a cold atmosphere in some that it is ‘Produce 5’. Actually, the basic composition revealed so far doesn’t seem to be much different from the format of ‘Produce’ series. In the case of China, it has been confirmed that members of famous girl groups who have already debuted have participated and received attention, but in principle, they do not reveal their agency or group. Tiffany Young and Sunmi are the K-pop masters of ‘Girls Planet 999’. The ratio of Korea, China and Japan was divided equally among 33 people. The system will also be opened to allow online voting from overseas. In the past, in the case of ‘Produce 48’, only 3 Japanese trainees out of the 12 final debut groups went up while voting only in Korea, showing an imbalance of nationality. Allowing overseas voters to participate in voting is expected to help resolve this imbalance to some extent. Forget about ‘Pick Me’. When it comes to ‘Produce’ girl group auditions, the first thing that comes to mind is femininity and appeal. Such scenes are unlikely to be found in ‘Girls Planet 999’. The production team of Mnet said, “The spotlight will be set on challenges and growth. We will not put forth an appealing song like the past.”
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