𝑴𝒊𝒏𝑻𝑻 ! is the first comeback single album of South Korean girl group Soda Bubblez. The single was released the 20th of February 2020 to instant success, becoming a viral hit among the Korean public that cemented Sodabubblez's place as one the 4th generation's groups to watch out for. They promoted the single for 4 weeks and held a special mini concert series, the girl's hard work this era earning them their first win and All Kill on the korean charts !!

𝐓𝐈𝐓𝐋𝐄

𝑴𝒊𝒏𝑻𝑻!

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𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐕

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐕 picks up at the same point where we left off in BABYFACE, showing the girls at the magic beach now at night surrounded by glowing aqua blue waves. They chat happily around a bonfire, roasting bright pink pitayas and playing with fireflys, but suddenly thunder drums through the beach and rain starts to pour. The girls ,afraid of lightning, seek refuge in a small grotto beside the shore. They squeeze themselves into the cave and Bo notices a neon mint liquid dripping from the stalactites. Curious, she brings the tip of her finger to it and the cave moves, the ground opening to a mint colored underground tunnel filled with soda straws, a type of shining tubular stalactite. The girls foolishly go down the tunnel amazed by it's bright glow, they look around lovesick until Jiusi makes a sudden stop.

The tunnel leads to a huge underwater cave filled with greenish aqua blue water, and at the center of it is an old scary mansion that smells of mint and red liquorice. Guckhyeon innocently walks to the house and knocks on the door, behind it they find a mint green Frankenstein monster. The creature looks unhappy and growls at them, but Soda Bubblez's eyes turn into red hearts and Guckhyeon kneels down and takes it's hand to kiss it. As her lips touch his hand, a bright thought bubble that says " MINTY ! " appears above her head and the heart eyes turn into red spirals, similar to old mint candy. The monster realizes the danger he's in and sprints into the house. The MV then follows as the girls chase Frankenstein through the house, daydream about sharing mint milkshakes decorated with his ears with the monster, try to capture him with liquorice rope and win his affections with frosted cake. The music video was highly praised for it's use of horror movie framing and jumpscare devices in such a cute situation as being chased by SodaBubblez. The comedic aspect of it combined with stunning sets, high quality effects and some really adorable A+ acting skills made it into one of kpop's most iconic MV's.

𝐄𝐑𝐀 𝐒𝐓𝐘𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆

𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐓𝐓! 𝐞𝐫𝐚 : 𝐚 𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐲

𝟬𝟭.
𝙘𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙞𝙚 𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙩 !

   💞˶ᵔᴗᵔ˶ ➮ This is the era they started doing their monthly Fan Game Nights ! Instead of being just a normal fansign, Sobubz's Monthly Fan Game Night is a monthly meetup event where the girls get to play games with the fans ! The first night resumed of them playing a mix of Mafia and Charade where the fans had to help them find the mafia by acting out clues and splitting into teams with the fans for a Soda Bubblez Themed Trivia Quiz. In the end the losing team had to sing a aegyo version of TT and the fans visibly lost their minds having to do it while the girls laughed their ass off. The event was highly exclusive but not too pricey and it quickly became a staple of Co2 fan culture and a huge lure for the new fans who hopped on the TT train.

𝟬𝟮.
𝙘𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙞𝙚 𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙩 !

   💞˶ᵔᴗᵔ˶ ➮ TT got on the official song student's studying for the SAT cant listen to and korean parents talked so much abt the "pls how can i stop my child from listening to tt " thing that two days after the korean sats took place they held a special performance at the Seoul National University. A news site came to cover it and a bunch of clips of the students going crazy went viral. Dude who did the choreo sleeping under the auditorium bench  we will never forget you

𝟬𝟯.
𝙘𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙞𝙚 𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙩 !

   💞˶ᵔᴗᵔ˶ ➮ As they promised for their first win encore, they ate super spicy mint gums and nearly died. It was funny cause they were crying a lot and suddenly everyone was spitting mints and laughing at each other's faces. After their first win turned out that they got a LOT other wins so they tried to keep the promises going and smashed Bo''s face in a mint pie when they won on her birthday week, sang the encore drinking brain freezing green slurpees on their sixth win, had a water gun fight in the middle of Inkigayo for their triple crown, and finally with their seventh win , gifted the fans with a special TT stage where Aoi, Hina, Bo and May were dressed as snowmen.

𝟬𝟰.
𝙘𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙞𝙚 𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙩 !

   💞˶ᵔᴗᵔ˶ ➮ They made such a mess an inside joke started in the fandom that Music Core's Manager Unnie was planning their demise

𝟬𝟱.
𝙘𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙞𝙚 𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙩 !

   💞˶ᵔᴗᵔ˶ ➮ As soon as they got home after their first win they got on Vlive to thank the fans and just had this really emotional talk about all the doubts and hardships they had throughout the debut process and how relieved and amazed they were that finally good things were happening for them

𝟬𝟲.
𝙘𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙞𝙚 𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙩 !

   💞˶ᵔᴗᵔ˶ ➮ Shortly after their promotional period they had a series of small concerts in different cities all over Korea and at the end of each of them they would record a video of them teaching the crowd how to do the little TT dance. Koreans were really moved by the attention they paid to small towns and underprivileged areas and it just cemented the song's popularity, real Koisuru Fortune Cookie style.

𝟬𝟳.
𝙘𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙞𝙚 𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙩 !

   💞˶ᵔᴗᵔ˶ ➮ During one of these concerts Bongcha got a forearm injury and a fancam of her happily performing with a cast on went insanely viral with the image of " hardworking idol " really sticking to her

𝟬𝟴.
𝙘𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙞𝙚 𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙩 !

   💞˶ᵔᴗᵔ˶ ➮ When the cast came off they made a mini vlive livestream where Aoi nearly decapitated Bongcha's arm cutting off the cast titled " BONGCHA ARM FREEDOM " and when it came off they all danced in a little circle

𝟬𝟵.
𝙘𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙞𝙚 𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙩 !

   💞˶ᵔᴗᵔ˶ ➮ FINALLY SODA COMPANIES GAVE THEM CLOUT. As TT grew all of a sudden it was like the word spread around soda companies' corporate espionage nets and they were all on their doorstep asking for CFS. They got partnerships with H2OH, Milkis, Watermelon Soda, and even Korea's number one soda drink Chilsung Cider. The day they got their first deal they went on Vlive to show off the box of cans they received and were like ' WE GOT IT BOYS ". It was a great victory as they had been dreaming of scoring a soda sponsorship since pre-debut , but it did almost get their Vlive channel taken down. Watermelon Soda sent Guckhyeon special watermelon pins with her name on it and she was soooo happy. They even put her face on a can and asked her to be a regular on their ads.

𝟭𝟬.
𝙘𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙞𝙚 𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙩 !

   💞˶ᵔᴗᵔ˶ ➮ Once they were shooting in Insadong and found a newsstand with a huge Watermelon Soda Guckhyeon Ad on the door and a million Watermelon Soda's with Guk's face on it inside , Guckhyeon went into a catatonic stage was not able to go in or look at the newsstand cause she was so deeply embarrassed. The girls immediately started yelling at the poster in a mix of clowning and standing up for her at the same time.

𝟭𝟭.
𝙘𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙞𝙚 𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙩 !

   💞˶ᵔᴗᵔ˶ ➮ May went out for a break at Mcountdown and the fansites caught her and she slipped in the wet street, she was so nervous to be caught in such a pathetic moment she just looked at them and coughed " this didn't happen ", got up in a very cringey uncle trying to play football way and ran inside......the clip went viral and actually made a lot of people who hadn't come around liking her yet see her as more than a stoic unnie and warm up to her

𝟭𝟮.
𝙘𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙞𝙚 𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙩 !

   💞˶ᵔᴗᵔ˶ ➮ That and that Vlive where Jiusi and Pinhan decided to watch Buffy The Vampire Slayer for the first time and May just passed by them wide eyed looking VERY distressed and they just started going like " WOW...theyre summoning an ancient evil...i wonder if it works in real life " and watched May's blood pressure go up

𝟭𝟯.
𝙘𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙞𝙚 𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙩 !

   💞˶ᵔᴗᵔ˶ ➮ You see how many times I said it went viral, that's cause you literally couldn't scape SodaBubblez for a month and a half. it was crazy , Stan Twitter was ready to decapitate them after the eight trending topic. Their international fanbase at debut was literally just half a dozen Sugarpop Freaks who sold their souls to get subbed versions of the show so for non-korean and japanese audiences it was a real stan loona situation like who are these people and why is Twitter shoving their content down my throat ?

𝟭𝟰.
𝙘𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙞𝙚 𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙩 !

   💞˶ᵔᴗᵔ˶ ➮ Many people were mad at seeing barely debuted girls from a no name agency becoming the first 4th gen group to get an all kill and every time they won over older or more famous groups the stans went crazyyyy . The hate on international fanbases was almost as inescapable as them

𝟭𝟱.
𝙘𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙞𝙚 𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙩 !

   💞˶ᵔᴗᵔ˶ ➮ But overall this era was incredibly fruitful and important for them , Bo later said that the smell of mint now instantaneously triggers a crying reaction for her and this has been used against her by the members

𝟭𝟲.
𝙘𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙞𝙚 𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙩 !

   💞˶ᵔᴗᵔ˶ ➮ During their final concert in the series Bongcha cried thanking the fans for the love they gave the song as her father had been fired from his job of 20 years that day and the money would allow them to pay for a lawyer to demand some type of retirement for him.

↷♡ ꒱.. 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗛𝗬𝗦𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗟 𝗔𝗟𝗕𝗨𝗠 !

𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐘 𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒.

𝐔𝐍𝐈𝐓 𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑

𝐇𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐎𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐍 𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒.

𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐎𝐌 𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑

𝐒𝐔𝐏𝐄𝐑 𝐑𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐏𝐔𝐌𝐏𝐊𝐈𝐍 𝐒𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐄𝐃 𝐏𝐇𝐎𝐓𝐎𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐃𝐒

↷♡ ꒱..𝗔𝗖𝗛𝗜𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗦 !

💞˶ᵔᴗᵔ˶ ➮ minTT ! debuted at number 3 on the Gaon, Melon, Bugs and Soribada Digital Song Charts  and within 5 days of its release it reached the top of all 10 major korean charts, earning a Perfect All Kill. With that, SodaBubblez became the first 4th gen  kpop group to achieve an All Kill !!!!!

💞˶ᵔᴗᵔ˶ ➮ The single stayed as top 1 for three consecutive weeks on the Melon and Gaon's Digital Song Chart, before bouncing around in the top 3 of all streaming platforms in the 3 months following its debut. It continued on the top 5 for another 2 months and the top 10 for the rest of the year. It then remained on the top 60 for the entirety of the next year. By 2021, TT accumulated 50 million streams.

💞˶ᵔᴗᵔ˶ ➮ minTT! topped Japan's Spotify Trending Chart for 8 consecutive weeks , becoming the first single by a korean girl group to do so. It also made the Oricon Digital Singles Chart top 10 for 6 consecutive weeks, accumulating 140 thousand downloads.

💞˶ᵔᴗᵔ˶ ➮ minTT! sold 30 thousand copies in its first week and with the promotions and adding of several versions , it went on to sell 600 thousand copies by the end of the year. In Japan alone the album sold 280 thousand copies.

💞˶ᵔᴗᵔ˶ ➮ minTT! brought home 7 wins ! !!!!

💞˶ᵔᴗᵔ˶ ➮ Regardless of its financial success minTT! became a cultural hallmark and a very beloved song by the general public. It opened the gates for SodaBubblez's rise and gave them some much deserved appreciation.

𝐖𝐇𝐎 𝐎𝐖𝐍𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐄𝐑𝐀 ?
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💞˶ᵔᴗᵔ˶ ➮ 𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐀 really cimented herself as the group's center , stealing hearts left and right. She fully gave herself to the song without fear of ridicule or embarassment
and was able to bring the crowd and the other member's energy up with how much she put into her performances. A lot of her ending faeries went viral as she was embassed by the attention and gave the camera cute shy smiles. She was perfect for the song and didnt even realise it . How good she was in this era set a precedent for how the public and company would regard her in the future.