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gwg
Profile Joined August 2011
Finland92 Posts
August 16 2013 15:45 GMT
#97721
Well i dont blame them since sexy concepts are often more popular/$$$ than cute (someone posted a link about this earlier).

Damn Dual Life was one of my fav songs and now this...Stopped half way through
Girls Day/Rainbow/Nine Muses
zeru
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
8156 Posts
August 16 2013 16:36 GMT
#97722
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SojoX
Profile Joined September 2012
United States111 Posts
August 16 2013 16:38 GMT
#97723
I don't know where others are coming from in their disgust with this cultural shift in K-pop MVs but I'm coming from a position that sexy (as portrayed in the Bikini video) is no longer sexy but just crass. The dichotomy between Dual Life and this video is a perfect illustration between sexy (though even then I think it was slightly gratuitous) and crass. In Dual Life Sori is pulling off all sorts of sexy maneuvers to a rather catchy dance tune while Bikini is basically a rapid fire series of cleavage and crotch shots set to the scratchy sounds of whatever that was. Knowing how well Sori can actually dance (she has done ballet after all) it's a shame to throw that out the window for blanket titillation. Titillation I might add that doesn't even really work in today's age where we're bombarded with these sorts of images all over the place.

So if K-pop wants to me sexy, fine. I think we all harbored a desire to some degree of watching these women let loose. But you're gonna have to also accept that a LOT of people came to K-pop because of it's cute nature as a welcome reprieve from the absolute CRAP modern pop music has become in Western Civ. And that group of people who did help spread K-pop to more people will probably fade away.

To sum up, well you shouldn't think that all people view it as "OMG sexy is the devil!" or "These are women who can do whatever they want! Stripper poles for everyone!" There's more nuance there and I think we paint it too black and white. All the same I think the K-pop industry should take a longer view of this to ensure the long term success of their industry. Being the same as the rest of the world will get you lost in it mighty quick.
andyrau
Profile Joined December 2010
13015 Posts
August 16 2013 17:03 GMT
#97724
On August 16 2013 13:04 Murdco wrote:
New Bumkey
+ Show Spoiler +

i only like this because it reminds me of early 2000s r&b and that shit was dope

On August 17 2013 01:36 zeru wrote:
That Kim Sori MV had such deep lyrics, complex plot and was just very interesting overall.

nobody will ever understand kim sori ;o;
"Zai is legitimately not as good as bulba." | kaipi ti3 champions
polgas
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada1764 Posts
August 16 2013 18:04 GMT
#97725
Haven't seen Seungri's teaser yet, but doesn't it seem like he has one of the sleaziest reputation among idols? What with the reports of bad treatment of women. And I don't see the other BB members hanging out with him much.

Kim Sori's latest doesn't top her previous MV in terms of sexiness. Female President is also better at it.
Leee Jaee Doong
Murdco
Profile Joined June 2011
United States745 Posts
August 16 2013 18:50 GMT
#97726
new duble sidekick project, sung by Mikey of duble sidekick


previous singles
+ Show Spoiler +


Maluk
Profile Joined August 2011
France987 Posts
August 16 2013 21:29 GMT
#97727
Korea just killed its own charts. I always thought Gaon/Instiz were not even the most decisive thing to determine the popularity of a song but from now on it will be straight up meaningless. I cannot see the good old month long all-kills happening if you gotta top downloads for a month in order to get them. No "artist" ever does that, the good songs sell instantly but are listened (streamed) for a long time.
Nesserev
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Belgium2760 Posts
August 16 2013 22:16 GMT
#97728
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Maluk
Profile Joined August 2011
France987 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-16 23:30:36
August 16 2013 23:19 GMT
#97729
On August 17 2013 07:16 Nesserev wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 17 2013 06:29 Maluk wrote:
Korea just killed its own charts. I always thought Gaon/Instiz were not even the most decisive thing to determine the popularity of a song but from now on it will be straight up meaningless. I cannot see the good old month long all-kills happening if you gotta top downloads for a month in order to get them. No "artist" ever does that, the good songs sell instantly but are listened (streamed) for a long time.

Uhm, context pls?


Because of the witch hunt that has been going on about some companies alledgedly "cheating" by using hacks to stream songs in order to make their ranking go up, Gaon modified the way the chart works. It was heavily based on streaming counts before, and now the main Gaon chart ("National single chart" or something along those lines) is more or less a copy of the download chart, which already existed before as a separated category.
The new chart is obviously meaningless as it will not be able to determine whether a song keeps going strong for an extended period of time (which is the whole point of the charts' existence).

Gaon chart's categories before the witchhunt :

Gaon Chart National Digital Singles Ranking (heavily focused on streaming numbers although downloads had some impact on the ranking)
Gaon Chart National Physical Albums Ranking
Online Downloads For The Week (that category already existed lol)
Online Chart - Streams

After the witchhunt :

Gaon Chart National Digital Singles Ranking (more or less the same as the downloads for the week)
Gaon Chart National Physical Albums Ranking
Online Downloads For The Week
Top 10 songs sung at Karaoke
Gaon Social Chart (wtf is that)

I expect Instiz to follow the same trend since Gaon revamped their chart "to match the ministry of culture's suggestion".

Fortunately melOn's top 10 system seems to remain unchanged so there will be at least that to know if a song is really doing well or not.
Craton
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States17274 Posts
August 17 2013 00:06 GMT
#97730
On August 16 2013 18:31 evilfatsh1t wrote:
what a joke. embarrassing to see what kpop has become. used to be fun innocent songs but it has become an industry so obsessed with physical attractiveness and sex. when will companies wake up and realise they are corrupting younger generations. have they no shame

It hasn't changed. You just had your eyes closed.
twitch.tv/cratonz
Sc2zero7
Profile Joined February 2012
United States574 Posts
August 17 2013 01:07 GMT
#97731
+ Show Spoiler +
On August 17 2013 01:38 SojoX wrote:
I don't know where others are coming from in their disgust with this cultural shift in K-pop MVs but I'm coming from a position that sexy (as portrayed in the Bikini video) is no longer sexy but just crass. The dichotomy between Dual Life and this video is a perfect illustration between sexy (though even then I think it was slightly gratuitous) and crass. In Dual Life Sori is pulling off all sorts of sexy maneuvers to a rather catchy dance tune while Bikini is basically a rapid fire series of cleavage and crotch shots set to the scratchy sounds of whatever that was. Knowing how well Sori can actually dance (she has done ballet after all) it's a shame to throw that out the window for blanket titillation. Titillation I might add that doesn't even really work in today's age where we're bombarded with these sorts of images all over the place.

So if K-pop wants to me sexy, fine. I think we all harbored a desire to some degree of watching these women let loose. But you're gonna have to also accept that a LOT of people came to K-pop because of it's cute nature as a welcome reprieve from the absolute CRAP modern pop music has become in Western Civ. And that group of people who did help spread K-pop to more people will probably fade away.

To sum up, well you shouldn't think that all people view it as "OMG sexy is the devil!" or "These are women who can do whatever they want! Stripper poles for everyone!" There's more nuance there and I think we paint it too black and white. All the same I think the K-pop industry should take a longer view of this to ensure the long term success of their industry. Being the same as the rest of the world will get you lost in it mighty quick.



I just want to say that I dictionary.com'd 5 words while reading this whole thing and I'm not ashamed.

I haven't watched the MV yet but I'll always be okay with classy sexy.
Scarecrow
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Korea (South)9172 Posts
August 17 2013 02:26 GMT
#97732
On August 17 2013 09:06 Craton wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 16 2013 18:31 evilfatsh1t wrote:
what a joke. embarrassing to see what kpop has become. used to be fun innocent songs but it has become an industry so obsessed with physical attractiveness and sex. when will companies wake up and realise they are corrupting younger generations. have they no shame

It hasn't changed. You just had your eyes closed.

In the interest of my kpop education, please link pre-2013 mv's with the equivalent of an extended close-up of Sori's dripping wet crotch/cleavage.
Yhamm is the god of predictions
Craton
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States17274 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-17 02:45:10
August 17 2013 02:44 GMT
#97733
You're taking one extreme outlier and trying to treat it as if that was the norm. Even so, you could still probably find something if you dug hard enough. I wouldn't be surprised if there was some Hyori along those lines.

Meanwhile, the rest of the kpop world continues to do their cute or sexy concepts exactly the same for the past decade or so.
twitch.tv/cratonz
skyR
Profile Joined July 2009
Canada13817 Posts
August 17 2013 03:18 GMT
#97734
Just look up stuff with Hyuna -.-
nanashin
Profile Joined January 2011
United States1584 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-17 03:24:34
August 17 2013 03:19 GMT
#97735
There's always been sex, it's bloody pop music.
Might not have always been raunchy as Sori, but her career has always been a bit + Show Spoiler [special.] +

-
One of the first few kpawp MVs I'd been presented. Sori pretty good introduction, imo.


On August 17 2013 11:26 Scarecrow wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 17 2013 09:06 Craton wrote:
On August 16 2013 18:31 evilfatsh1t wrote:
what a joke. embarrassing to see what kpop has become. used to be fun innocent songs but it has become an industry so obsessed with physical attractiveness and sex. when will companies wake up and realise they are corrupting younger generations. have they no shame

It hasn't changed. You just had your eyes closed.

In the interest of my kpop education, please link pre-2013 mv's with the equivalent of an extended close-up of Sori's dripping wet crotch/cleavage.

+ Show Spoiler [Sure thing.] +






And everyone's favorite ex-pornstar

Now you must build the lies you have told. - Looking for Boram JP single trading card, have Jiyeon.
TheEmulator
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
28094 Posts
August 17 2013 03:35 GMT
#97736
Yeah to be honest I don't see the big deal. Not like it's as provocative as most Western music videos and like Craton said these things are outliers in kpop.
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moimd
Profile Joined April 2012
United States105 Posts
August 17 2013 06:05 GMT
#97737
On August 17 2013 12:19 nanashin wrote:
There's always been sex, it's bloody pop music.
Might not have always been raunchy as Sori, but her career has always been a bit + Show Spoiler [special.] +

-
One of the first few kpawp MVs I'd been presented. Sori pretty good introduction, imo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCYdXpN37Fs

Show nested quote +
On August 17 2013 11:26 Scarecrow wrote:
On August 17 2013 09:06 Craton wrote:
On August 16 2013 18:31 evilfatsh1t wrote:
what a joke. embarrassing to see what kpop has become. used to be fun innocent songs but it has become an industry so obsessed with physical attractiveness and sex. when will companies wake up and realise they are corrupting younger generations. have they no shame

It hasn't changed. You just had your eyes closed.

In the interest of my kpop education, please link pre-2013 mv's with the equivalent of an extended close-up of Sori's dripping wet crotch/cleavage.

+ Show Spoiler [Sure thing.] +

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-tD17WMg-0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGOPHUd15hE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXtwxMYfdi0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kb4YoaA5xg

And everyone's favorite ex-pornstar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCOaV2ERjtQ

This just reminded me that Hello Venus Alice was ORA.
Scarecrow
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Korea (South)9172 Posts
August 17 2013 06:08 GMT
#97738
Not quite as far as Sori takes it, but yeah I get the point, not much has changed.

And the raunchiness continues:
+ Show Spoiler +
Yhamm is the god of predictions
shin_toss
Profile Joined May 2010
Philippines2589 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-17 08:30:27
August 17 2013 08:26 GMT
#97739
IU on Yoo Hee Yeol Sketchbook :D No subs tho
AKMU / IU
Nesserev
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Belgium2760 Posts
August 17 2013 09:03 GMT
#97740
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