Even although Lay hasn’t been in an EXO music video since “Monster,” which was launched in 2016, there has by no means been an official announcement that he’s now not a member of the group. In truth, he has participated within the group’s albums since then — together with their most up-to-date one, Don’t Fight the Feeling, in 2021. Even when he announced his departure from SM Entertainment a few yr in the past, he additionally promised he’d be obtainable every time the EXO members wanted him.

For years, EXO followers have held onto the hope that he would sometime return to lively promotions with the remainder of the group’s members, regardless of his profitable solo profession in his house nation of China and departure from SM Entertainment. However, netizens have now turn into confused about Lay’s standing with each EXO and SM Entertainment as a consequence of one thing found on the Korean leisure label’s web site.

Under SM Entertainment’s artist web page on their web site, each group and person that works underneath the label is included, from singers to actors and fashions, and even athletes. When you click on on the hyperlink for EXO on this listing, it results in a web page that features the entire members and models inside the group. Lay just isn’t on this web page, leaving solely the opposite eight members and two sub-units listed.

While one may assume he’s not included as a result of he’s now not underneath SM Entertainment, it seems that he’s nonetheless listed as a person artist on the artist web page exterior of EXO.

If you click on on his profile, it results in a web page that now not exists on the web site, so it’s doable that he hasn’t been faraway from the artist web page but. But this revelation has nonetheless left many followers confused and questioning Lay’s standing with EXO and SM Entertainment.

The picture of his artist profile was shared on a web based Korean discussion board, the place netizens shared their clear confusion and totally different theories within the feedback.

• “I think so? Lay makes so much money, it’s a win for SM too”
• “Yup, I think so”
• “He would come up on EXO’s official forum even while promoting as a soloist before, but after last year, he hasn’t, so he’s definitely left… Considering how he still comes up on SM’s official forum, I think he still has ties with SM”
• “Probably? Lay’s workshop was first something like SM China Label or something. I’m not sure if he’s under main SM, but I think he’s still in SM somehow”
• “Omg!! I thought his contract with SM expired… I see”
• “Oh, so you’re saying that his contract did expire, but he transferred to an affiliate label?”
• “I saw that one of the Boys Planet trainees was in Lay’s agency. Does that mean that agency is a retained label under SM?”
• “Wow, when did he leave [the group]?”
• “Wow, but it said in the statement about him leaving the group that he was parting ways with SM”
• “SM later released a statement saying that they renewed his contract in a different way, and he renewed his contract with the agency”

International followers are additionally bewildered over the scenario, with many hoping for some clarification from SM Entertainment or Lay himself in regards to the scenario.

We’ll have to attend and see if both celebration does communicate up about Lay’s standing earlier than we all know what’s happening!

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