Not paid. No studio to practise in. Yet week after week, members of K-pop dance cover crew Z-Axis will show up in public spaces to flaunt their moves. Started in 2020, the crew now has around 60 members, all volunteers. It has over 160,000 subscribers on YouTube.
Formed in March 2020 by three members of Nanyang Technological University’s K-pop Dance Programme after their graduation, Z-Axis is easily Singapore’s most well-known K-pop dance cover crew, with over 160,000 subscribers on their YouTube page.
Cat caretaker Nadiah Lam, real estate agent Alerie Huang, digital marketing specialist Jasmine Ng, art educator JungA, and full-time artiste Estelle Fly, recording a dance cover at the MBS boardwalk on July 6, 2024. Miss JungA is making herself up to look like NewJeans’ Hanni while Miss Ng is to be the group’s Hyein.When performing a cover, Z-Axis members not only have to learn their moves, they must also recreate the outfits, hair and make-up of the K-pop idols they are emulating, often spending their own money on wigs and clothes to achieve the complete look.
She, too, was a graduate of Nanyang Technological University and a KDP member. She is one of five members of Z-Axis’ production team, which films and edits the videos. Z-Axis is completely voluntary and as they use copyrighted K-pop songs in their videos, they cannot receive money for their content – not even when its videos get over a million views like the crew’s cover of NewJeans’ OMG , which received 1.8 million views, or its cover of Ive’s I Am .
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