Do Idols Dislike Their More Popular Groupmates? Stars Gets Brutally Honest About Resentment

Though it is an unfortunate truth, there are often idols who are more popular than their groupmates. Recently, an idol spoke about her real feelings about being one of the “less popular” members of her group.

EXID‘s Hyelin, Ex-F-ve Dolls‘ Seo Eunkyo, and Raina were guests on the YouTube channel This Is Really the Final, where they spilled on their lives as idols.

Later in the video, the topic of members being more popular and less popular in the group is discussed, with the host asking if there was discrimination within the group. Hyelin admitted that it wasn’t exactly the case, but that she felt some type of way about the results of the differences in popularity.

She gave the example of the member saying she didn’t want to do a show schedule that Hyelin really wanted to do, leading to feelings of resentment.

Raina speaks up next, sharing she felt anger and disappointment about how the camera would focus on another member, After School‘s Uee, even as she sang the entire chorus.  She says that the member was not at fault for this, but that things were often built around that member and affected her.

Raina says that she had to work on her mindset to keep it from weighing on her; otherwise, it would make things much harder for herself.

You can take a look at the full episode below.