Korean Music Discussion - Page 4608

I haven't posted much here but I wholeheartedly agree. I started listening around 2008+ in the heyday of ss501, big bang, SNSD, etc. and maybe its just nostalgia glasses but I feel like a lot of the older stuff is just plain more re-listenable. Nowadays I can't even go through a whole music show because of the glut of mediocre boy and girl groups with the most forgettable names/concepts in between the stuff I actually want to listen to (like currently Rainbow, Shinee, Sistar, etc.). I don't want to make this sound like a "back in my day things were better" kind of post and maybe it is but I think there's something wrong when something like 50 new groups debut a year and maybe only a handful of them are still relatively popular the next. Entertainment companies are just throwing darts at a board and hoping something sticks. I don't doubt that the Trainees put in just as much effort as their more lauded peers but their companies need to take a second and actually come up with memorable songs/concepts so that their group isn't just another dance track to an electropoppy background. Other concepts are certainly memorable but are just plain unmarketable (like that ridiculous group whose only merit was having D-cups or something). I think 2011 was still fine as I still listen to a lot of groups that either debuted in '11 or continued from '10 like Girls Day, Apink, BEAST, Mblaq, etc. Something about the huge influx in 2012-13 just made me lose a lot of interest in keeping up with Kpop.