The SM Entertainment boyband were supposed be a supergroup to change the face of K-pop. And maybe they did – but just not in the way they intended S ome may see 2019 as the definitive end to a type of life. It’s been called the ‘before times’ – the last moment before everything changed forever in 2020 when COVID-19 shut down the world, creating a ripple effect that still spreads into how we live our lives today.
But every action has an equal and opposite reaction. And while life as we knew it hurtled toward an end, another cataclysmic force was birthed into existence. It was born when two exertive movements combined like colliding stars bursting into a supernova that lit up the sky in a blinding haze.
We are, of course, talking about SuperM ’s ‘Jopping’. READ MORE: Tomorrow X Together’s Yeonjun gets experimental on ‘GGUM’, but his new single doesn’t pop The symbiotic mash-up of “jumping” and “popping” was introduced to the world in October 2019 by SuperM, SM Entertainment ’s ambitious take on a K-pop supergroup. It was made up of some of the industry’s deadliest weapons: SHINee ’s wunderkind Taemin ; EXO ’s vocal powerhouse Baekhyun and dance machine Kai ; NCT 127 ’s illustrious leader Taeyong and SM’s most-employed idol Mark ; and WayV ’s lythe and slinky Ten and booming presence Lucas .
Together, they united to create “he Avengers of K-pop”. SuperM was a two-pronged attack – they further bolstered the notion of a one-stop .