Church Girl Sunye gives up Jesus for K-pop, with “Just a Dancer”

When Sunye made a return as part of Mamadol, I genuinely thought that everybody else in the group would probably make some form of solo comeback EXCEPT Sunye. I saw it as a chance for her to feel her K-pop oats again for a minute, remind people who she is, and then let it be. But, nope. The first Church Girl of K-pop that is Sunye’s made herself a comeback.

Sunye told Jesus ‘I’mma put you on hold’.

I’m not a big fan of the song, but I do like it. Sunye looks great in the video. The look with the jeans was giving me big BoA “Better” vibes, whilst the entire package felt very reminiscent of what I’d expect from f(x)’s Luna were she still with SM Entertainment.

Sunye’s departure from the Wonder Girls always felt very premature to me. But I get it. When Jesus and some good dick comes into your life, your priorities change. Also, JYP was dragging his feet with the Wonder Girls. They should have done far more and been far bigger than they were by the time that Sunye left. She probably thought ‘This is as good as it’s gonna get’ when she decided to leave, and she wasn’t completely wrong. Whilst the Wonder Girls would go on to release their fantastic third studio album Reboot with Sunmi back in the line-up, it didn’t do all the things for them that it would have done with any other girl group. Because, again. JYP. He seems to have learnt his lesson though, from the looks of how things are going for Twice. And as for Sunye, she has seen that there is life and great success after Wonder Girls thanks to Sunmi’s incredible success as a solo act.

I hope we get more from Sunye. The K-pop game is really light on ‘older’ K-pop acts. K-pop doesn’t really revere acts from previous generations as much as see elsewhere, and it’s shitty. The younger K-pop fans are in such high numbers and so active, that they frequently end up creating false narratives and erasing the achievements of earlier acts. You see it all the time with BTS fans - constantly making out that BTS are the genesis of K-pop, and that nothing that anybody did prior paved any form of way for their success. Talkin’ about how nobody released English songs until BTS did, like Wonder Girls hadn’t released “Nobody” in English back in 2009, before anybody knew what a BTS was.

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