145: Katseye (ft. Allison Mills)

Why are we talking about this? What is Cat's Eye? Cat's Eye is a quote-unquote global girl group that was assembled by the record labels HYBE and Geffen.

Geffen being a long-time American mainstream record label, like Olivia Rodrigo was on Geffen.

And HYBE is a big K-pop record label that has BTS and groups like that.

So kind of like a big collision.

And The thing about K-pop groups that's different from your typical Western group is that there's a whole system around training where they have trainees for certain labels and those trainees will spend years practicing singing and dancing.

learning english in some cases if they don't speak english but are catering to a western audience like it's basically just like pop star boot

camp

but also it seems very toxic just in general across the labels like it seems kind of scary

yeah i think yeah seraphim and illit are also both with high they are and they

did do a song with cat's eye

That is what brought Cat's Eye back onto my radar.

I should say, I don't really know anything about Cat's Eye, but I do know things about some K-pop bands, particularly

girl groups.

See, this will be useful because...

I knew nothing about K-pop aside from just like generally being aware of its existence and like knowing BTS songs because I don't live under a rock.

But I was never really

like embroiled in the K-pop world

in any way until Cat's Eye.

They do this training program.

They have a reality show called Dream Academy where the top 20 girls from around the world in this training program are put into a competition against each other where they didn't know there was going to be a reality show.

They were not told that there would be any sort of survival show where they're fighting against each other and trying to get their spots.

which is plot relevant.

Eventually in late 2023, six girls from around the world are chosen and they become Cat's Eye and Dream Academy.

Then like that was airing as like I think it was like airing through Hive or something.

Like it wasn't huge.