“I am proud of the fact that my practice yielded results and people recognised my efforts.”
“I am honestly the worst dancer in EXID and that fan cam of me was truly the product of great practice,” she told Cosmopolitan Korea, per Koreaboo. Once again, that incident might seem like pure luck but, as Hani herself acknowledged in 2017, it would never have happened if she hadn’t put in the work to improve her moves. In 2014, a fancam of EXID’s Hani performing ‘Up & Down’ went viral, giving the group a vital boost when they were struggling to make a big breakthrough. They’re not the first group to be given a much-needed lift from internet fame. As that now-infamous video shows, though, the members never phoned in their performances, even if they weren’t satisfied with how the rest of their careers were going. They’ve performed at over 100 of these events, often in remote places, and typically for very little money. Instead, Brave Girls have been a fixture at entertainment shows held for the Korean military. But, upon its original release, it failed to connect with music fans and the Korean general public. The song has always been bright and bubbly, a slice of sunkissed, summery perfection that lodges itself in your head.
Then the unexpected happened: Their 2017 single ‘Rollin’’ suddenly went viral, thanks to a fan-made video that collated the group’s performances of the track at various military barracks across South Korea. They’ve been left to languish with no new projects and were almost about to disband earlier this year. They’ve suffered from bad decisions by their agency, long hiatuses and poor promotion. The original members all gradually left and were replaced with the current four-piece of Minyoung, Yujeong, Eunji and Yuna. The lineup now is completely different from the one that took its first steps a decade ago. It’s fair to say that Brave Girls have been through a lot in the 10 years that the group have been in existence. READ MORE: Brave Girls – ‘Summer Queen’ review: resurgent girl group make a euphoric bid for the throne.But, as life in the fickle music industry often goes, the bubble burst fairly early on and the girl group were beset with obstacles and issues that saw them quickly descend from that early high. When they made their debut back in 2011, they made a promising start, scoring a Top 20 hit on the Gaon Digital Chart with ‘Do You Know’ and racking up more than 650,000 downloads for each of their next two title tracks. It seemed like Brave Girls were destined to go the way of many a K-pop group, falling into obscurity and quietly disbanding.
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