Congrats on your first post

 

I like some K-Pop; it's rather catchy.

 

well

let me please play devil's advocate and say that I heard many of the songs are plagiarized from other cathcy songs. Plagiarism in K-pop is rampant.

 

let me please play devil's advocate and say that I heard many of the songs are plagiarized from other cathcy songs. Plagiarism in K-pop is rampant.

Out of curiousity, do you have SA or something similiar? or did you make an account just to post this "delightful" thread about K-Pop?

 

only have this to post;

No more fanta! ****! The loony bull**** ! - best lyric

 

I had no idea that K-pop was even known here...:sus

 

what the **** is K pop??

 

Korean pop music.

 

I don't give a flying **** about k-pop,but i love me some K-girls!!!

 

I thought you were going to talk about why the music sucks.

Anyway I prefer listening to lesser known bands/singers.

 

what the **** is K pop??

Haha that's what I was thinking too

 

I liked kpop once. :b
Don't you dare laugh at me.

I grew out of it. What I liked I only half-liked anyway. The girls are attractive, but that's about it. The music is usually really terrible (to me, anyway). Too much cultural difference for me to understand it.

 

I like BoA, and that is pretty much where my K/J Pop music library begins and ends.

 

Glad to see this thread provoked such passionate debate about the human rights violations in the K-Pop industry.

 

It does suck now, but it didn't a decade ago.

 

It's fake, poor and lifeless...
A piece of wood would sounds better.

 

I don't know if GD&TOP qualifies (probably more hip-hop?) but I love it.

 

My only thought with K-pop music and culture in general is that it is just trying to model after the Western pop culture. To native Korean market I could see it being their stable. But to western markets, it's nothing but just what Western countries did with the pop scene back in the 90s and early 2000s. This is why when a few Korean artists try to tap into the Western markets, they failed. Because they are just something that was already long deemed obsolete and watered down to western markets, and they are singing with heavy Korean accents in their English language songs. BOA was a good example. When she tried tapping into the U.S market, most listeners just see her as another Britney Spears but with a korean accent. And by then the Britney Spears esque pop genre was so in the 90s.

Psy was an exception however and become a major hit in foreign countries because he was different. Gangnam Style kind of gave the flash mob mentality, which was a big thing in the Western countries at the time and this was the stereoptype western countries sees of foreign asian countries. Quirky, corny, cheesy flash mob esque shenanigans. And Psy's hit fits right into it. Back in the days, Macarena and Who Let The Dogs out were similar examples.