In the fourth generation, aespa's leader Karina has consistently made headlines due to her formidable dance skills and stage presence. During their "Drama" era, Karina trended due to her bounce move during the dance part in the song's chorus.
This also led fans to praise the aespa member for her dancing, as well as upload their takes on the viral bounce move on social media platforms.
This dance challenge blew up to the point where Karina took notice, causing her to join the trend as well. MYs were beyond ecstatic to see the OG join her own trend.
However, a new move from Karina is brewing to virality online.
Earlier on May 27, aespa officially released their first-ever full album "Armageddon" and the music video for its title track of the same name. The MV received rave reviews from K-pop fans due to its musicality, concept, and aespa's performance.
To promote the song even further, aespa performed various stages for the song, much to the delight of fans.
On TikTok, fans uploaded several clips taken from aespa's 'Armageddon" performance at the Sungkyunkwan University on May 30.
Among all the clips shared by MYs, Karina's focus became the center of attention.
According to the clips uploaded online, Karina was shown "popping" off the choreography. Fans then expressed how satisfying the move was, specifically the vibration caused by the idol's popping move. This only highlighted Karina's dancing prowess. Watch the clips below:
Many praised Karina's commendable body control and some conveyed how much of a main dancer she was. Meanwhile, some fans revealed that they've tried the powerful popping move themselves. Read their reactions below:
"Her control is crazy."
"She's the main dancer for a reason."
"Popping plus a little bit of vibration. That's our main dancer."
"I tried to do the popping technique and almost broke my back from doing it."
"Her popping and facial expressions, bro."
That's a whole level of popping."
"I'm so obsessed with that part of the choreo I wish I could make my body move like that
"I swear that vibration is so hard to do. I always end up looking goofy as heck."
"It's incredible. I don't even understand how it's done."
"That's mad body control."
"She's on the beat of the "drum" thingy, that's so cool man."
"Every time I do the pop, I feel like my brain's disconnecting from my skull."
THATS NOT VIBRATING BECAUSE OF THE POPPING THATS HER HITTING ALL THE BEATS WTF KARINA KEREN BGT 😭😭 THATS A SMALL BEAT AKU GA DENGER KLO GA LIAT KM GERAKIN SHCKSDJCKSBF pic.twitter.com/Zzwus1LTp6
