Korean Music Discussion - Page 2628

Honestly, it's varied for me from time to time. I've went through some periods that's been a little over-distractive, like having Jessica's hair burnt onto the inside of my eyelids for nearly a month, along with other similar stuff for other girls later on. Right now... I'm probably a little obsessed, yes; I check a bunch of different websites concerning Nicole nearly ten times a day for updates etcetetera, so yeah that would probably count as a bit of stalking. Other than that though, I currently just casually follow all my other biases (Nothing creepy that is), but I can keep my self-control about them. All of this will probably change in time yet again though.

Essentially whenever I don't have anything to do for a few minutes, or I've alt+tab'ed down from whatever I'm playing, I have about 7-8 different tabs constantly open on my browser, all concerning news from different locations (Not only kpop related that is.), then I just hit F5 all over the place. About half of these are about Nicole, so I guess the constant need for updates would be considered an addiction, however the main reason I do it so often is not because I can't stop thinking about her every single second, but rather because I have the tabs open, so why the hell not check for updates right away, it takes like 2 seconds. Then again, despite that, every single letter of the alphabet whom has one of Nicole's fansites as it first letter are my most visited website for that letter, so I guess I'm visiting them more than I realise the regular way as well... oh well, I can live with that.

Well I sure hope so! I don't want to have gone through all this fandom only to find out afterwards I didn't like it enough. I'm not too worried though. As I said in my 5k post/blog quite extensively, kpop means something else to me, it's a passion in itself. Whether that extends to my biases is a matter of perspective, but I would say it does; the performers are the pillarstones after all. If I look back let's say 5 years or so, in other words before I started the grand adventure of Team Liquid/StarCraft Progaming/Kpop, this so-called passion of mine would seem impossible. But it's not. Kpop... well it has this magical aura of happiness about it, I guess you can say. I mean, regardless of how much you're actually enjoying whatever you're watching/listening to, it's nigh impossible to not at least walk away with a smile on your face. Thus, if it no longer is a question of Kpop being positive or negative, but rather of how much of a positive impact it'll have on you, then it litterally can only be a good thing. Because of that, I see absolutely no reason as to why I should not be proud of being a fan of all this and, in extent, without a doubt call it a passion of mine.

That depends on how you see it. On one hand, it's obviously a huge time-consumer. Also, these kind of addictions are always a bit risky as to how your friends will react to it. On the other hand, like I stated above, kpop is a beautiful thing that makes you very happy with life itself quite simply. As far as individual obsession goes, then that might be a little harder to convince your friends of it being normal, as it can be seen as a little creepy, however you have to remember that if you ignore the fact that your bias is kpop related, then it will be totally normal. I mean celeb-crushes in general are common, musical ones especially. Just because yours come from a little different background, that doesn't change anything really. As for me, well I was fortunate enough to be able to win over about half a dozen friends of mine to kpop after maybe a year since I first showed it to them. Sure, some of them don't really listen to it on their own that much, but they can respect that I do it anyway. As far as my bias-obsessions go... well that's a little harder, but there's still a couple that think it's cool, and you know what? That's all I really need to confirm that this is all good; I can't expect everyone to be as crazy as I am, so if acceptance is all I can get, then that's fine with me. Thus, nowadays, I spend a lot of time on this thread along with other kpop related fansites, I have a lot of wallpapers in my desktop rotation containing Korean celebs (Mostly SNSD), I have Nicole as my cellphone background, the list goes on. In other words, I'm victim to constant exposure to the Korean wave these days... but I love it. I refuse to see it as an unhealthy passion if it brings me this amount of happiness. Admittedly, the very same argument could be said for drugs,alcohol and whatknot, but this is different. This is poetry in the making, and me becoming involved in it has been one of the best decisions of my life. Call it addiction, obsession, or even stalking, what do I care, all I need to know is that I'm not hurting anyone with my actions, and I love what I do... because in the end, that's what you're really looking for... to be happy... and that is something that my "passion" definitely succeeds in doing, so I would without a second thought call it a very healthy obsession for my sanity.