TWICE's Chaeyoung Denies Smoking Rumor, Says It Was a Drink
someone clipped her at an FKA twigs rave and decided a beverage was a cigarette — she is NOT having it.
no bc leave Chaeyoung ALONE challenge (apparently impossible). the TWICE member hopped on her fan platform on August 12 to shut down claims that she was smoking indoors, and the exhaustion in her tone was palpable.
here's the plot: a video from FKA twigs' rave party at Seoul's Dongdaemun Design Plaza started circulating, and because she raised Something to her mouth, parts of the internet decided it was a cigarette. Chaeyoung says it was literally a drink. "It's a drink, not a cigarette. Look closely," she wrote, adding that she's tired of it and was just having fun.
she also went full 'be so for real' mode, pointing out there were tons of people around and asking why she'd ever do that so openly — she's not that careless. and honestly? the logic is logic-ing.
meanwhile Chaeyoung is fresh off TWICE's THIS IS FOR world tour finale at KSPO DOME and has her solo era in motion after dropping LIL FANTASY vol.1 last year. the girl is booked, busy, and apparently just wanted a sip in peace. let her live. 🥤
Reported by kbizoom. This article is Aegyo Arena's own write-up of that reporting.
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TWICE, Stray Kids Invited as Grammy Voting Members
the Recording Academy invited TWICE, Stray Kids, and JYP’s Park Jin Young to join as voting members. the girlies and the boys officially have a say now.
the Recording Academy sent out its invitations and JYP walked away with eighteen of them. eighteen. artists and executives, one label, one round. it's the group project everyone actually wanted to get picked for.
the names that matter: all nine of TWICE, all eight of Stray Kids, and Park Jin Young himself, all invited as VOTING members — meaning an actual ballot in who takes home a grammy. the label's CEO Jeong Wook and CSO Shin Hyun Kook came in as professional members, which is the category for the executive side of the house.
for scale, the academy extended more than 4,000 invitations in this round, so nobody's pretending this was a personal coronation. what it IS: a bloc of K-pop's biggest working acts now sitting inside the body that decides the outcome. that's structural, bestie. that hits different than a nomination.
to be extremely clear before the timeline spirals — this is a vote, not a trophy. nobody won anything today. they were handed a say in who does.
the culture spent a decade knocking politely on the door of an institution that's been running since 1957. this year it got keys. slow-burn takeover, fully in progress, no notes.
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after the Tzuyu reports, Jihyo, Chaeyoung, and Jeongyeon are now reportedly weighing their options at JYP too. nothing’s confirmed — but the speculation is spiraling.
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