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Unpopular kpop opinions
I know I'm super late but here they are (and maybe some of them are not unpopular I'm not sure)
• I think Lisa's rap is cringy especially in boombayah and so hot.
• Asking if you are welcomed in the random is kinda dumb. Like, nobody's gonna stop you. But I do understand asking for names under mv because this can be really helpful.
• It's okay to be slow joining the kpop community. I, myself for the first month only liked bts and later I started exploring more. If someone is only an army give them time. After watching bts gayo it is impossible not to be interested in other groups.
• Both love scenario and ddu du ddu du won't win the song of the year(mama) not because they aren't good but becouse they are under yg and mnet and yg aren't exactly in a good relationship.
• And about band award. Day6 will hopefully win, the rose will be nominated and maybe drug resrestaurant? Not sure.
• It's hard to tell if blooming days will win mv of the year. Even though it was beautiful, aesthetic and stuff I'm not sure if it had that impact on the kpop community. But I do hope it will win.
• Shinee HAS to win something. Whether it is the artist of the year, song or dance I don't care.
• I honedtly don't like girls generation. I respect them but I wouldn't listen to them. Before I started to like kpop I saw snsd party and thought it was super cringy. The only song I could listen to is gee.
• Telling twice to change the cute concept is pretty damn disrespectful. Nobody tells blackpink to change theirs. Maybe it's becouse twice has got more songs but honestly i don't think they are cute they rather are happy.
• Rosè gets the least attention in blackpink. Lisa and Jenni are the most popular and everyone talks how Jisoo should get more lines so nobody really talks about Rosè. This opinion is becouse I'm kinda salty about it couse she is my bias.
• I feel like gwsn will be really successful in the future couse they debuted like 2 weeks ago and puzzle moon has already got about 7-8 million views.
• Jyp may be the best company out of big 3. They treat their idols good and if needed let them go(sunmi, somi) and quite regular comebacks. Sm's big plus is that the idols stay active for long and yg gives us some good hip-hop vibes I personally find jyp the best.
jus one thing the xenophobia thing for why western audiences dont respond as well to kpop as some would like.. is kind of played out in an age of spanish music/afrobeats
where tons of english mixed with other languages are flooding the airwaves ( ps it has been for decades sort of thai rap, japanese rap has developed interest across the globe for it's unique contribution to the genre) music and art is still spreading and growing its idol culture that is waning in popularity but it's being framed as people just don't like any asian artists period which isn't true.
Plus it can't be said people just want to listen to music in a language they can understand. THIS IS NOT TRUE. Yes the radio has it's people picked but that is simply big money controlling what it monopolizes. That isn't reflective of the real world and how people feel. During times where black and white communities were almost completely seperate black motown artists were very popular on the radio
They don't push kpop because they don't have a financial stake in it it's little to do with what the people want. Though the public doesn't really like kpop all that much either compared to say regular pop, but the you cannot say it's due to language and cultural barriers. Because that exists in the us. There are towns that can be up to 80 percent one race, many people live mostly amongst their own race and immediate culture in some small towns and even large towns in america. It isn't the multicultural paradise it's framed to be. Someone who lives up north can be completely ignorant of southern culture/slang and verbage up to the point where they literally don't understand what their "fellow american" is saying.
There are people in america that can't even understand what 90 percent of what us rappers are saying by proxy of heavy heavy accents especially dealing with southern rap I'm from the south my brain has to recalibrate sometimes trying to figure out what they saying. People are simple they like stuff that makes them feel good and soundwaves that give them butterflies. kpop is simply not investing money into good producers and too many untalented nepo babies running the kpop industry. Lsm is gone, jyp is old and out of touch and yg is in jail these young club new rich chaebol kids are now doing the producing with absolutely none of the respect and admiration the old heads had for real music.
They are so in a tizzy with what to do next they are trying to make a korean one direction you can't make this stuff up
No surprise this is how kpop has survived this long mimicking and changing just enough to stay alive and outlive it's competition.
They can make a hit but not a classic. Many kpop fans are into the cult of personality completely disregarding the quality of the music the baritone, rifts, originality are unimportant, loud belting is impressive autotune can fix the rest. So ofc in the age of ai kpop will be targeted 1st. Many mainly care about the fanservice and wanting to interact with idols more so than the music everybody knows that. Particularly in places like Korea where this is apart of the band's marketing.
Whereas American promotion is more focused on western forms of promotion
because of these different promo styles you are getting different deliveries but in the end it's still a show being put on either way. Making music the backdrop and making the way companies secure their bags less obvious. It's hard to see a group of coworkers that hug, kiss, and spend every waking moment together as a company project. They are a family. They are also dolls that can be paired with one another or other dolls from different play houses.
Which isn't anything new but it's something we as consumers don't think to deeply about. If it's in front of you it's a product even if you don't spend money on it.
Where energy flows money goes. Interest in relationships lead to interest in albums
and when fans across borders and languages don't get there dopamine boost from these relationships they revolt.
I liked kpop for the theatrics in america its mainly the theater kids that like kpop and the artsy kids. The music and visuals is even loosing that appeal and becoming more tame and predictable(I assume I don't listen to music like that anymore.) But I wonder how they will usher in the ai idols thing, through tv and movies, anime, my guess is 1st realistic high grade chat bots and since they have a 360 deal they can use there voices and images as well I believe the best sell to these fans is interface.
lmao. man if they can up the programming and personalize it a real deal smart celeb bff lord.......they will have the souls of many.
This may be why so many group members are being allowed to leave without a war breaking out. Once they introduce this into kpop fandom wise this will change everything. After that experiment it will spread to different parts of the world slowly but surely. everybody gets their own person demon in an angel's body inside a screen..sigh. It's the closest the common person would get to having an actual robot I believe that would be way way to expensive but I won't doubt some people taking out loans to get one. The new wave of capitalism emotional money laundering.
blackpink will be having a vr concert on the 26th
Aespa already had one and since the concept is ai metaverse in it's inception this is most definitely not a one time thing
Sm has been ready for this for quite some time but because of gossip and company public distractions few paid attention of the bricks sm has been laying for the company and its artists future
"Addressing the tie-up in a statement, SM Entertainment CEO Sung-su Lee indicated that his company can “see the opportunity for our artists in the metaverse.” “SM is excited to expand our market to include metaverse content for artists using AmazeVR’s industry-leading VR technologies and proprietary concert creation tools. We’ve had a great interest in this market and see the opportunity for our artists in the metaverse,” the SM Entertainment head said in part."
This was a thought of mine awhile ago but it seems fans intense care for the idols has successfully allowed the companies to move the fans blindly into the next direction. I shouldn't have to say this is way bigger than music. Mark Zuckerburg has been pushing for the metaverse for a very very long time and it's no surprise that companies such as kpop one's who are always looking for new sponsors fell right into this global agenda.
Multiple movies have already been made
and it's interesting to see how people will respond, reject and eventually except this new reality since it's their favorite people pushing it to them
