#XG look beautiful as they make history, becoming the 1st Japanese Act ever to attend the American Music Awards!💪💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻💃🥇🇯🇵🧑🎤💥🇺🇸🎼🏆👑❤️🔥
@XGOfficial_
It’s going to be a long thought about all of this. My personal opinion.
I think originally this tour was planned as something massive. A long Japan leg with 200k+ attendees, then a China leg with a similarly huge audience, followed by the rest of Asia\Australia with one stop in each key country. After that NA, LATAM, and Europe — following the same principle: fewer stops but bigger arenas. And an epic finale with several dome shows back in Japan.
But then China fell through, so they extended the Japan leg by 3 shows. Then… well, you know what happened. The group was left in limbo for almost a month, and I believe some venue owners started canceling their bookings. Since these weren’t small clubs but major venues, rebooking them on short is extremely difficult — sometimes outright impossible. As a result, a certain number of shows were cut from the schedule. Supporting my theory is the fact that the Taipei concert is all the way in October — I think that was likely a rescheduled date they managed to secure later. Plus, there were some leaks (I won’t say who or when — IYKYK) that a certain concert in SEA was supposed to happen but apparently canceled after the scandal. Still have some hopes for additional stops in Korea, Singapore, Malaysia. And ofc. LATAM.
And honestly, it’s probably hard to blame Avex for much here — maybe just for being too slow and for burying their heads in the sand after things happen.
Life is incredibly unfair to XG. They chose an extremely difficult path from the very beginning (basically route finder for the future global groups from asia), and on that path they’ve faced constant obstacles that would have broken anyone else — but not them. That’s why I love comparing them to the hobbits from LOTR so often: they look so small, cute, and fragile on the outside, but they’re capable of enduring things that even the big and seemingly strong ones often can’t handle. I really hope this story also gets a happy ending.🥹
I`m allready happy that the still going and will attend bigger venues outside Japan this year. And big rock fest alognside HITC. And they will be healthy and together🙏