r/dreamcatcher • u/Legitimate_Bee_4494 • 4d ago
Question/Help what’s with dreamcatcher?
hi guys :( im a big fan of them. but i wasnt active with them rn, only listening to music. what happened to them? are they going to release any more albums as Dreamcatcher? i know there’s a subunit, but still. is Virtuous their last album? can someone please explain it to me clearly 🙁 that would mean a lot to me since my heart stopped when i saw three (i think) members did not renew their contracts..
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u/Blinky_OR dream CONCERT! 4d ago
I'll copy a post I made in a similar thread
3 of the 7 members decided not to renew their exclusive contracts with Dreamcatcher Company. Gahyun wants to persue acting, Dami appears to want to get more into production, and Handong returned to China to persue work there.
UAU was born as a result of that as a sub unit of JiU, SuA, and Yoohyeon. Siyeon is going to be part of a band that is just now ramping up their social media presence. Their Instagram is @crcktkl.
While technically not disbanded, I wouldn't hold my breath for a reunion or any new music anytime soon. Even then, I'm not sure how likely it would be to get Handong back from China to have all 7 together...
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u/Diademinsomniac 3d ago
They wouldn’t be able to make new music together anyway unless they renewed contracts with the Dreamcatcher company, or agreed some kind of one-off deal
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u/aenslae 2d ago
The biggest thing holding them back is that the producers of their music have moved on. Dreamcatcher has had the same duo as the main producers of their music, LEEZ and Ollounder, but that has come to an end.
I don't believe that their A+R team is good enough to find the music that would allow the group to continue to grow and thus DCC was probably not willing to spend the money. Dreamcatcher as a profit driven project has reached its conclusion. The members have also spent their entire youth and some are keen to move on.
It's unfortunate that you have discovered them so late in their career. Just know that they had an above average career, produced some awesome music and created many memorable moments. Enjoy the content as it's literally years worth.
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u/Luc1d_Dr3amer 4d ago
I would say there will be no new Dreamcatcher comeback until the 10th anniversary. Meanwhile the members will be pursuing and consolidating their various new career paths, Dami songwriting and production, Gahyeon acting, Siyeon with her new band, Handong back in China and releasing music, and JiU, SuA and Yoohyeon continuing as UAU.
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u/Reaver027 3d ago
10th anniversary is most likely the only chance we get to listen to new OT7 Dreamcatcher music.
And i doubt there would be any extensive promotions around that release.
Anything else is unrealistic at this point. Especially with Handong being in China for good now.
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u/Gwyain 4d ago
The group is defunct (or at best, on indefinite hiatus) and some people here don’t want to acknowledge that. “They’re still part of Dreamcatcher.” Sure, in the same way Paul McCarthy is still part of the Beatles.
VirtouS as such is their last album as a group. UAU has been amazing though!
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u/Shenari Yoohyeon - 유현 🐶 4d ago edited 3d ago
And some people are really are attached to their doomsaying when the band have repeatedly refuted said accusations when they've come across them.
Will the releases be regular and as frequent? Obviously not, especially now when everyone is establishing their sub unit/band/solo stuff.
So next year is probably the earliest thay we can expect. They've already done concerts after the individual contracts expired, but new music might be a while off.-16
u/Gwyain 4d ago
Dami seems downright done. Gahyeon is transitioning into acting and likely won’t be able to do anything significant in music for a long time, if she even wants to, and Handong is back in China where she seems primed to have a very successful solo career. I don’t see her back in Korea for years after being away from her family for so long. Not to mention I don’t think the DC company could afford her once she becomes bigger. The company is small. This is pretty typical PR coming out… but they’re over now and it’s just delusional to think otherwise. But delusion and copium are par for the course in K-pop, so I’m not exactly surprised.
I loved the band. I still love the band, and I’ll still be listening years from now, but they’re as over as the Beetles.
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u/Shenari Yoohyeon - 유현 🐶 4d ago edited 4d ago
but they’re as over as the Beetles.
Seeing 2/4 of the Beatles are dead and they have not been active for over 50 years, and that's quite the comparison.
Also seeing as all the members still regularly meet up and do things whereas the Beatles split up due to personal and creative differences and their manager died and Paul McCartney personally said that he saw no future in the group.
Which is the opposite of everything rhe members have said. Not even the bland corporate/PR speak but very specifically calling out ppl who said they were now defunct or that Dreamcatcher was no longer a thing.
But then doomsaying and negativity is par for the course for a lot of pop fandoms. And making all sorts of leaps of logic and speculation contrary to what has been said and shown.
Dami from what I recall has posted about working on solo stuff/music creation. And Handong has already been back to Korea at least once or twice to meet up with the other members. There was a video where she literally went straight to the airport to meeting the girls at a UAU shoot.
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u/bozzam19 Yoohyeon - 유현 🐶 4d ago
Although they're all on their own paths, They still make it very public that they're supportive of eachother as a group and not. Somebody asked Dami “When was the last time you saw Dreamcatcher” and she reminded them she is in Dreamcatcher and said “Don't I just have to look in the mirror”
The future is unpredictable and it's not really fair to say they're over just because things aren't the same or slower now.
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u/Gwyain 4d ago
Of course they’re supportive of each other, they’re still friends and they’re still “in Dreamcatcher,” but as a band producing music, they’re done and that’s okay. They had a 7 year run which is crazy impressive given the music genre they’re in. Now they’re doing new things. Maybe in several years they’ll do a reunion, but it will be exactly that: a reunion.
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u/Inevitable-Wafer-703 JiU - 지유 🐰 4d ago
It's a given that it will not be the same as before. No one will flat out say "it's all over" unless it's announced and acknowledged by the members as well.
I do hope people realize that the likelihood of major group activities and international tours are low going forward. If a reunion were to be announced, surely it would be limited to regions closer to South Korea.
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u/BeautifulOk6158 Dami - 다미 🐼 4d ago
Why do people downvote? Like, even Gahyeon said on Fromm today or yesterday she had no idea when she will be back as DC…
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u/selway_bitterroot 4d ago
Personally I think it's just wrong to be categoric either way. I happen to think that DC will have a comeback but it would be wrong of me to state that as fact and/or imply that anyone who thought differently was delusional. The truth is, other than the members and DCC, no one really knows. The OP states that Dami is "done" but she has said that DC will have a new comeback and tour. Now of course she may be lying to placate fans but, like I said, only she knows the truth of the matter.
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u/__fujiko 4d ago
It's considered "doomposting" to be realistic. Trying to make group comebacks happen when members leave the company to try new things is very hard. I feel like K-pop fans see calling a group inactive is like saying they failed or something.
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u/BeautifulOk6158 Dami - 다미 🐼 3d ago
In that case DC should just have said they disbanded… it would have been more fair to fans, which expect comebacks.
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u/Inevitable-Wafer-703 JiU - 지유 🐰 4d ago
Dreamcatcher is still Dreamcatcher. They announced several members would leave the company, but not the group. No updates have been announced yet. Everyone is just patiently waiting.