SHINee's Key and Yoo Jae Suk get candid about celebrity life, sharing how first impressions matter and how a bad attitude can end your career
Recently, on an episode of the popular online talk show 'Pinggyego',
Key
from
SHINee
and comedian and host
Yoo Jae Suk
got together. They talked about the importance of attitude as an idol. They talked about and shared their opinion on how bad attitude catches up with celebrities no matter what. The show, available on a popular online streaming platform, aired on May 3. Their talk about the matter has since then gone viral.
Key and Jae Suk get candid and share their experiences about idol life
The duo appeared together on the show and talked about living the idol life. They started talking about celebrity careers and how some can become extremely popular and rise to fame very fast, as shared by Allkpop.
Jae Suk, while sharing how he has met people in the entertainment industry who he thought wouldn't last, shared that their demeanour would be the number one problem in the matter. He said, "Sometimes, you can just tell when someone isn't going to last long. It's not about any specific person, but there's a certain feeling. Some people, you could say, get a little full of themselves and give off that kind of energy. But even if you tried to talk to them, would they listen? They won't."
Key then added that while it is an issue, there is not much an outsider can do in the matter being discussed. "There's nothing I can really do. If someone could change just because of a few words, they probably would've realised it on their own already," said the SHINee member.
The importance of early impressions
Key talked about the importance of impressions we may leave on other people, especially from the get-go. Stating that "Back when I was young, the staff on 'M Countdown'—they're all main producers now. Even now, I think, if I had been completely out of line back then, wouldn't that have come back to bite me? There's a part of me that wants to make them aware of this, but I hold back out of caution. It's frustrating, honestly."
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