Trivia / GFRIEND

• Acclaimed Flop:
  • A spike in interest from the international audiences happened during the 2020 series. The trilogy was praised for its excellent quality, but the singles were their worst digital performance to date domestically. It still charted well, but it didn't as well as their past releases.
  • Despite Labyrinth and Song of the Sirens being some of their best-selling albums (only behind their second full album Time for Us), Walpurgis Night couldn't reach the same amount of sales. However, it's the most celebrated album from the trilogy, if not overall. Some reasons could be that it has "MAGO" as single as well as unit songs, and all members participated in songwriting. Most people just assume the fanbase didn't have the buying power for three albums in a year, especially during the pandemic.
• Blooper: There is a compilation from when they recorded the intro for the live stage on Music Bank with "Crème Brûlée" as background song.
• Completely Different Title: "Rough" is running through time, "Navillera" is you and me, "Me Gustas Tu" is from today, we are us, "Time for the Moon Night" is just night, “Fallin' Light" is angel's ladder, "Fever" is a tropical night, "Love Whisper" is if you listen carefully and so on.
• Development Hell: After they finished the 2020 series, they talked several times about their next project and were rumored to release a new album during June to August (Korean summer), but then the group couldn't get through the contract renewals and broke up without any updates about their previously shared plans. There are contents that have not been revealed due to the abruptness of their ending since the company cleared all the upcoming activities as soon as the news was leaked.
• Fan Translation: As a Korean group, this was a must. From song lyrics to daily content.
• Life Imitates Art: The narrative for their 2020 series was a perfect ending for the group, even though it wasn't intended as such. Ironically, the ending for their story in the mini books is a revenge arc after the girls felt betrayed.
• Meaningful Release Date: The "Solar and Lunar trilogy" release dates. "Time for the Moon Night" (April 30, 2018) was during a pink moon and Walpurgisnacht. "Sunny Summer" (July 19, 2018) was when the moon was in a First Quarter phase, when it's one quarter of the way through its orbit around the earth, hence half the moon will be illuminated and the other half dark. "Time for Us" (January 14, 2019) was another moon in a First Quarter phase.
• Presumed Flop: After their peak in 2016, people assume this about their career. However, "Time for the Moon Night" from 2018 was a Sleeper Hit in the Korean charts, getting a chart reversal during their promotional period and becoming one of their biggest hits with "Me Gustas Tu" and "Rough." "Fingertip" is also deemed this for not following the overwhelming success of its predecessors, but it also did well.
• What Could Have Been:
  • If the company had met their expectations for the second contract, the group could still be together.
  • Their photobook "Choice" was supposed to be the concept for their World Tour, scrapped due to the pandemic.
  • "Mamma Mia" is a song that MIO produced with the group in mind.
  • Some say the group was meant to be since there were so many changes and delays. The girl group was supposed to have seven members, a perfect number for choreography, but two members left. Source Music even sued one of them, so Eunha was recommended by Lee Riwon, and they debuted as six. All members were from different companies as well, but somehow they managed to have pre-debut stories to share, even being trainees from different agencies.
• Write What You Know: Basically all songs they have participated in. "Eye of the Storm" was based on one of Yuju's diary entries from the most chaotic period of their career, Eunha and Yuju decided on writing different perspectives as their own singing lines for their duet "Night Drive," Yerin wrote about her friendship with Sinb in "Secret Diary," "Stairs in the North" is based on Sinb's thoughts about their career and Sowon and Umji shared their own experience (flowers that bloom in their own time) in "Better Me."

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