Korean Music Discussion - Page 3278

On July 24 2012 00:26 TuElite wrote:
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It's Seungyeon's birthday. Just thought I'd let you know.
Today also marks the 4th year of Hara and Jiyoung joining KARA.

On July 24 2012 01:25 ShmeeZZy wrote:
I wanted to start this out by saying that I am not going into a long Firehand like speel about how kpop has changed my life. I have been into kpop since about last Decemember. At first, I hated it but thought the girls were hot. Eventually I actually liked the music and now it pretty much dominates what I like to listen to. The one major problem I have with this is getting anyone else in my RL world to like it. This past weekend I even tried slipping in kpop tracks into a playlist at a party. This was met with "wtf is that garbage", "this shit sucks, change it". My question being for KMD, what do your RL friends think of kpop and have any of you had success getting people to listen to it? If you answered yes, then how did you do it?

On July 24 2012 01:34 HaXXspetten wrote:

Oh definitely, I've had lots of success without too much effort. When I started High School (just after SC2 was released), lots of my new classmates played SC2 as well, but I was the only one with any sort of BW-background knowledge-wise, so I pretty much posted Kpop stuff casually in our class' skype convo time and time again. When people asked what the hell I was linking, I just casually answered that it's a StarCraft thingy, nothing to be weirded out about. Some were just like 'okay whatevs' and didn't ask any further, whereas some others slowly but surely got won over to my side of things. Since the SC2 group (consisting of like 10-15 guys and girls in my class) were constantly on Skype after school, it wasn't all that hard to make them constantly influenced by it. Even if it didn't work, it'd be a decent troll, so why the hell not. In the end, I got maybe a third of my class to accept Kpop, and maybe a fifth to listen to it at some sort of dedicated level. (My class has 32 people in it)

Basically I would just recommend you keep at it. Not necessarily do it that much in person, that can put people in an awkward position, but just casually lead them into it over time, and there will never be an awkward transition point.

On July 24 2012 01:39 Nos- wrote:


Haxx number 1 Kpop brainwasher.

On July 24 2012 01:25 ShmeeZZy wrote:
I wanted to start this out by saying that I am not going into a long Firehand like speel about how kpop has changed my life. I have been into kpop since about last Decemember. At first, I hated it but thought the girls were hot. Eventually I actually liked the music and now it pretty much dominates what I like to listen to. The one major problem I have with this is getting anyone else in my RL world to like it. This past weekend I even tried slipping in kpop tracks into a playlist at a party. This was met with "wtf is that garbage", "this shit sucks, change it". My question being for KMD, what do your RL friends think of kpop and have any of you had success getting people to listen to it? If you answered yes, then how did you do it?

On July 24 2012 01:25 ShmeeZZy wrote:
I wanted to start this out by saying that I am not going into a long Firehand like speel about how kpop has changed my life. I have been into kpop since about last Decemember. At first, I hated it but thought the girls were hot. Eventually I actually liked the music and now it pretty much dominates what I like to listen to. The one major problem I have with this is getting anyone else in my RL world to like it. This past weekend I even tried slipping in kpop tracks into a playlist at a party. This was met with "wtf is that garbage", "this shit sucks, change it". My question being for KMD, what do your RL friends think of kpop and have any of you had success getting people to listen to it? If you answered yes, then how did you do it?

Even Akon didn't help my playlist at the party =(

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On July 24 2012 00:37 Nyorx wrote:
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New girl group called 'TAHITI'.

On July 24 2012 02:35 ShmeeZZy wrote:
I don't think I "forced" them per say. I carefully inserted some kpop songs I thought could work into a playlist with a lot of western pop songs that people hear when they go out to see what the effects were. To the people who said to play up the girls are hot angle, I've tried that before with friends in non party settings. That didn't work for me.