Hong Kong Cantopop boy band Mirror is navigating a difficult panorama after its meteoric rise to fame just a few years in the past, with its members now pressured to compete with all sorts of on-line leisure and the native showbiz scene grappling with broader headwinds, market observers have mentioned.
In addition they mentioned that, regardless of immense public expectations, the band’s human vulnerabilities, paired with a neighborhood business that distinctively lacks the rigorous pre-debut coaching like that of Okay-pop idols, created distinctive challenges.
They wanted help to develop and develop past their preliminary novice enchantment and that may have been missing, business observers mentioned.
Fashioned by means of ViuTV’s actuality expertise present in 2018 and swiftly hailed as Cantopop’s saviours, Mirror rapidly amassed a large fan base together with loyal model partnerships and advertisers.
However the band now faces renewed public scrutiny after fashionable member Keung To was rescued following his fall into the ocean on Tuesday.
The 26-year-old singer later revealed he had consumed alcohol and painkillers earlier than the accident.
Keung, together with different members comparable to Anson Lo Hon-ting, Edan Lui Cheuk-on and Ian Chan Cheuk-yin, blossomed into multitalented stars, excelling with their solo music careers, appearing roles and selection reveals, additional cementing the band’s collective and particular person enchantment.
