So I learned today that I'm probably the ONLY guy in my whole circle of friends(mostly asians) who likes Kpop.My favorites are SNSD and DBSK. Not a big fan of Big Bang though.(meh) Anyways with my newfound assurance that I'm a kpop fan and none of my guy friends are I wear this tag proudly and am not ashamed This love for Kpop comes after a post era of American rock and Jrock. Uverworld, Girugamesh, Linkin Park( before Minutes to Failnight came out) Alice Nine, and Incubus were all up there. Till my realization that " hey Kpop maybe plastics and dancing but aren't alot of girls into it? So thus I listened to it. Now me being very critical of peoples voices after the Jrock era of my life I noticed that, Kpop singers had pretty amazing voices, now disregard the fact that during concerts and shows they lip sync from time to time but hey, you wanna try executing advanced dance choreography while trying not to strain your throat and not be in an upright position to project your voice the whole performance and make it suck? Did not think so. Anyways, I was impressed and thus my love for Kpop stands. If this was a bad blog, I'm terribly sorry, Kpop > Loli. This has been a first blog and I'm proud of it.
Actually, let me amend that statement. All pop is bad, including the stuff in other countries, but it seems like the only music that we see from Korea that's not a rap group is a bunch of fake women who would sound terrible if their songs were actually performed live. I can get behind liking a group like Epik High but I simply can't understand people who like music that is clearly not "real" but is instead a carefully produced product that would be impossible to recreate at any live event.
Hahaha I get what you're saying about the whole fake and live performance thing completely, I respect DBSK and Epik High over other groups BECAUSE they can perform great lives. Although since I like a part of kpop I might as well like the whole.
what's the difference between hyori and britney spears? snsd and pussy cat dolls? epik high and black eyed peas? rain and neyo?
pop is pop wherever you go. the only thing i find unique about kpop to other pop is that kpop has seriously perfected the commercial formula for pop. more members in groups = more eyecandy and less musical merit required (rofl, i saw a clip of super junior (i think) and they have like 15 members each singing like two lines)
On September 04 2009 12:32 motbob wrote: Actually, let me amend that statement. All pop is bad, including the stuff in other countries, but it seems like the only music that we see from Korea that's not a rap group is a bunch of fake women who would sound terrible if their songs were actually performed live. I can get behind liking a group like Epik High but I simply can't understand people who like music that is clearly not "real" but is instead a carefully produced product that would be impossible to recreate at any live event.
pop is produced for the general public. its ear candy (though one could argue that it's starting towards eye candy nowadays..) for the sake of profit. to say all pop is bad is pushing it, but its good for what they set out to do.
also, rating music on what is performed live is utter bs. live is good in its own, but its hardly the defining standard for music.
carefully produced products have long been the masterpieces of any real artist. the ability to do shit on the fly is a style in its own.
hi five although people in my group who aren't aware of asian culture at all think the snsd wallpapers i have on my phone are my 'hot asian girlfriends' lol
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