It sure is. Wasn’t it very exciting a few weeks ago when both Secret and Girls’ Generation released their new albums in the same week? No? Oh. But what gall by Secret, going up against the biggest comeback the Korean pop world will see this year. Call them brave, call them foolish, call the whole effort doomed from the start, but they went ahead with it, and released the better of the two albums in my opinion (though not as good as their previous two oh so sweet singles).
Unlike the Girls’ Generation one, i actually payed for the Secret album. I don’t think my contribution is going to topple the SNSD colossus but I chose my side – an either/or decision that i feel silly making when they say things like:
““We are a little concerned, knowing what SNSD is capable of. However for the two years that we’ve been in the industry, we’ve never looked at it as competition or wanted to win against anyone. We simply want to confidently show our fans our new look, as well everything we’ve worked so hard to put together. That in and of itself is enough for us.”
Why take sides? There’s enough love and support to go around. It’s just sad that most of it will be funneled Girls’ Generation’s way, leaving Secret ever the runner up. And who remembers runners up? Buzz who? I didn’t make a difference. The charts were swept clean by Girls’ Generation and will be swept for weeks to come. Impossible though it was, it just would have been such a fantastic thing for Secret to have come out on top.
