Kpop, as far as I'm concerned, is FAR SUPERIOR to most of the crap the American industry spews out.
sooooo true! <333
And I'm not just saying this cause I'm Asian. I am in no way biased to the kpop market just because of my race. This is my honest and truthful opinion. In fact, I was introduced to the Kpop market FAR FAR FAR later than when I first began to listen to American songs. Before I even got a taste of the Korean market, I've already formed these opinions of the American market on my own.
^^^^ oh btw.....TROLLEDDDD LMFAOOO that crap above is total bs :P OF COURSE EFF YES IMMA BE BIASED TO MY OWN RACE THIS IS COMMON SENSE lmfao
Now don't get me wrong --- there are still some half-decent American artists who do not depend on walking around naked or doing drugs or having sex to get media coverage and attention. Some - just some - actually use this "magical thing" called ACTUAL TALENT to get attention and draw out fans.
The rest of them occasionally pops out one or two catchy, super auto tuned hit songs and then disappears for like a fifty-bijillion year hiatus where nobody ever hears from them again - unless its about them on the news stripping or streaking or having sex with prostitutes or some other bullsh*t.
That, I think, is the main reason why I can't stand the American music industry. The American music industry most definitely has its fair share of problems.
To be concise, the American market is just..........MESSY.
Artists come and go, dropping a few hits and then vanishing. Very few, mostly globally known super stars, keep their careers consistent, releasing albums and chart-topping singles and staying in the public eye regularly.
The other major problem is that some artists who have no real talent rely on being what I call "controversial" in order to be famous. Like Lady Gaga, who got a ton of coverage for her unconservative ways and bizarre and erotic behaviors and style. Though it's now her signature, she basically just used her "wacky-ness" to be controversial and to launch her career and capture the attention of the world by showing them something new. Lucky for Gaga, she does have a considerable amount of music talent, which is probably the only reason I have any respect for her.
It's okay when one person does it................but not when EVERYONE tries to jump onto the "controversial topic" ship.
Nicki Minaj, for instance, has come to be a great disappointment to me. When I saw her video for "Super Bass", I remember thinking, "Hmmmm she has begun to develop a "controversial" signature style of her own", eg. pink hair and spazzy, jerky eye and body motions.
oh yea and this:
B-boom badoom ba-boob job -____- smh
My, oh my...... I don't know if it was more embarrassing for her or for the audience. All I could say was, it was a stifling and torturous seven minutes.
As my biology teacher put it the following day after the performance, "I had no idea what was going on.....it looked like she was trying to perform some kind of exorcism. I watched for about 3 minutes and then just turned the T.V. off."
Take a look if y'all haven't saw it yet:
Trying to be "controversial" works.........up to a certain point. After that, even the freaks at home can't defend your work as some kind of "art" or whatever.
And Miss Minaj just bombed this one. Whatever the hell she was trying say or do or I dont even know anymore...........it just doesn't work.
Some artists can pull off the "controversial" image, but others can't. I can't quite put my finger on it and say it in exact words, but it's true.
I just think that some artists should not rely on their "controversial" reputation to be famous :/
ANYWAYS - moving onto the good stuff!
THE KPOP MUSIC INDUSTRY :DDD
The k-pop market is almost.....the exact opposite of the American market in my mind. Instead of messy and all over the place, the Korean music scene is EXTREMELY structural and organized. There is a certain image and expectation for every group/artist.
Sums up the key to kpop in one word ^^
Now as much as I prefer the Kpop market, I would be gravely mistaken to say that the Korean music industry is without flaws.
Sad, but true. It even applies to fab ppl like me :P
The Korean market has many many many flaws, just not as blatantly obvious and well-known as the American market's.
However, I shall start off with reasons why I like the Korean market :
1) UHHHHHH DUHHHHHH THE ARTISTS THEMSELVES ARE FREAKING GORGEOUS AND HOT AND AMAZING <333333333333333333333333333333333333333
the korean artists are infamously famous for their amazing, perfect traditional-beauty azn white skin, perfect teeth, skinny-as-bones build, and dolly eyes. AND THIS GOES FOR BOTH GIRL AND GUY GROUPS :OOOO !!!!
Don't believe me? Well here's Sooyoung frm the famous girl group SNSD/Girls Generation. LOOK AT HER FRICKING LEGS THEY ARE SO LONG AND SKINNY WTF ARE THEY EVEN REAL!??!?!?!?!?!? She's like freaking plastic or smthin. I heard they inject sh*t into their legs to make it skinny and Sooyoung even SAID HERSELF that the girls rub some kinda oil or w/e all over their legs to make it look long and skinny. BTW - screenshot was frm their commercial for an LG television -____-
Yes. Korean girls are expected to be ur usual, typical moe azn girl (the ones that uncle fans and otakus would prefer) : big, dolly eyes, all cute and aegyo and bubbly and sh*t and super skinny wtf -___- i just gagged a bit excuse me.
Sunny - the aegyo queen of SNSD/Girls Generation. Screenshot frm their mv for their song OH!
AHAHAHAHAHAHA SHE IS NOTHING COMPARED TO MY AEGYO :
(pic made thanks to the fab puricute.com <3333)
JUST KIDDING - THIS IS AS FAR AS MY PATHETIC CUTE/AEGYO ACT CAN GO T.T
I'm sorry. I am ALL OVER THE PLACE....ARGHHHH TOO MANY THOUGHTS !!!!
These two are Donghae and Eunhyuk from Super Junior. They are my biases :D Donghae is super cute. Eunhyuk is the ever so smexy dance machine <3333 omai <333
YEP - KOREAN GUY GROUPS ALL TEND TO HAVE A GIRLY-ISH IMAGE (its for the fan girls to oggle over them :PPPP ahahhaahaha)
It would SUCK to be a guy group member, cuz you'd have to do all kinds of fan services (tho im not complaining ^.^) One of them would be.....OH YEA........
CROSS DRESSING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This tends to freak out a lot of homophobes and American guys cause it makes them go like "WTF IS WRONG WID THESE AZN DUDES THEY AINT MANLY ENUFF!!!!! GIVE EM A SHOT OF TESTESTERONE OR W/E HORMONE MAKES GUYS MANLY AND SH*T!"
WELL SUCK IT B*TCHES!!!!!!!!!!!! This is part of their job and us fangirls will NEVER EVER LET U GET IN OUR WAY *shakes fist*
HAHAHAHAHAHA IM SUCH A HYPOCRITE - I say girl groups shouldn't use their cute act as fanservice to their otaku uncle pervert fanboys/old mans YET i say boy groups should do all their crazy cross-dressing and kissing each other fan services
THAT'S THE THING - KOREAN MARKET ALWAYS KEEP THE FANS IN MIND <333333
HOWEVER, I feel that if the boys don't like to do the fanservice, then I would be fine with it (</3 sorta D':). But if it really hurts my oppas, then I don't want them to hafta push themselves to do it. We love them as it is <3333 But, its silly and funny and they do it at their concerts , and they laugh and have fun with their fans, so rele its no biggy :/
SO STOP HARPING ABOUT IT!!!!!!!!!
AHOHOHOHO frm the popular anime/manga series, BLEACH! <333 Fave manga post later ? hmmmm ;)
2) They don't rely on being controversial - well, MOST of them that is....... -_____-''
Oh...my..... BIEBER NO CONTROVERSY TO BE FAMOUS????? :OOO WAT IS THIS @$(*&#(^@#$& !
THIS MAY COME AS A SHOCK TO SOME AMERICANS. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED - In Korea, artists are basically produced by companies like SM and YG and JYP (the big three entertainment/music companies and wtf why are their names like the same thing.....just a couple letters and call it a day) . Anyboos, these companies scout out talent across the globe and then these people TRAIN FOR MANY MANY MANY MANY YEARS!!!!!!!
That's right - they are forced to dance and sweat and sing their butts off and train and train and train everyday for years and years until the company decides to form a new group and sign them to a contract.
On top of that, THEY ALSO HAVE TO LEARN MANY DIFFERENT LANGUAGES, NOT JUST KOREAN. This is because sometimes artists debut or target foreign markets, like Japan, China, and YES, AMERICA. They do have to know English, because the hook/chorus of many songs include english lyrics. (This is because English is considered "cool" in Azn countries. LOL WTF someone should let them know they aren't missing out on much xDDDD)
Then they get to debut.
Well....maybe ......
BECAUSE if you EVER get sick of the trainee system - WELL BOOS TO YOU WHORE CUZ EACH COMPANY HAS GOT A SH*T LOAD OF TRAINEES LINED UP, so the competition is INTENSE!!!
"YOU WHORE-SNORE BETTER NOT STEAL MY SPOTLIGHT!!!! I DESERVE THAT SPOT IN THE NEW GROUP THE COMPANY PLANS TO DEBUT NEXT WHENEVER!!!!!"
BOOM!!!!!!!!! And just like that, you go bye bye! Seeya later, kisses *MWAH* !
The worst case scenario, however, is training and training and training and and and and and and .......
Yep. That's right. Some trainees stay and train FOR YEARS OF THEIR LIVES - BUT THEY NEVER GET TO DEBUT!!!!!!!
The horror.....of never debuting and getting a contract. It hurts bro hoe, it hurts.......
This, I think, is what I find most pathetic and sad about the Korean system . It is the sheer fact that some people work SO SO SO SO SO HARD during their trainee period, but for whatever reason, they never get to debut in a group or go solo or w/e.
There is a lot of reasons for this, including family interference or if the company thinks you just aren't ready or talented enuff to debut and sh*t. Or if they think you got fat and fugly in recent years or your "character" is too rebellious that they won't be able to control you or w/e.
OH AND ONE MORE SHIZ - ONCE YOU DEBUT, LORD FORBID YOU EVER DO ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:
1) Pig out and eat w/e shiz you want. Remeber: IMAGE IS EVERYTHING!!!!
2) Get fat. This goes hand in hand with the first one -____-''
Hahaha ironic isn't it - I found this pic right next to the one ontop of it when I googled it up :P
3) Get into some kind of sh*tty controversy. Koreans are very anti-controversy. It means bad news for any music group.
Some examples of scenarios Korean singers want to avoid:
The T-ara Hwayoung controversy shiz. Hwayoung has been kicked out of her group, T-ara for apparently, acting like a diva and fighting and being rebellious. I don't really give two sh*ts about this particular one bcuz I am no fan of T-ara.
Running over motorcyclists while you are drunk driving. This is Daesung, a member of the popular boy group Big Bang, who got into shiz for killing some poor dude.
Speaking of Big Bang controversies.....
Leader of Big Bang, G-dragon, got into deeeeeeeppppp sh*t for allegedly smoking some weed.
Next up, we have Nickhun of le 2PM for his recent car accident. Yes yes yes like the others, he too got into deep sh*t. We know. I don't care.
These are just recent ones I'm pulling out of my mind. But kpop is not without its history of controversies.
To be honest, KOREANS ARE WAAAAYYYY TOO SERIOUS ABOUT THIS STUFF!!!!!
Whenever a singer screws up to the slightest, they get are instantly insulted and targeted and criticized harshly. Their company cuts off their promotions with their respective groups, they hafta issue a ton of apologies and press releases to their fans and be all formal and sh*t about it.
They are cut out of CFs, ads, videos, TV dramas, variety shows, or other activities they may have been promoting in.
LIKE WTF KOREAN MUSIC INDUSTRY - SERIOSLY, LOOSEN UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I MEAN COME ON!!!!!! - AMERICAN ARTISTS DO WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY MORE OUT OF SHIZ STUFF, LIKE HAVING SEX WITH PROSTITUTES OR PACKING DOWN DRUGS LIKE ITS AIR OR CHEATING ON THEIR SPOUSE OR GOD FORBID ---- EVEN DATING IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(like i said, korean artists are mostly banned frm dating - it wud "break" the hearts of their fans, who believe the artists belong to them -____- the korean music companies take the fans into too much consideration)
AND THEY GET IT AWAY WITH IT!!!!!!
DO THEIR AGENCIES FORCE THEM TO STOP ACTIVITIES AND CONCERTS????
NO!!!!
DO THEY GET CHOPPED OUT OF COMMERCIALS AND ADS?
MOST OF THE TIME, NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
UNLESS IT WAS SMTHIN CRAZY SERIOUSLY SCANDALOUS, AMERICAN ARTISTS BASICALLY DO SH*T AND DON'T GET HATE FROM THEIR FANS FOR IT!!!!!!
IN FACT, FROM WAT I CAN TELL, THEY GET EVEN MORE CONTROVERSIAL AND MORE MEDIA COVERAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ARGHHHHHH ITS ALL SOOO MESSED UP!!!!!!!!
And I seriously thought i could do this post without getting all emotional Q_Q. Plz forgive </3 but I just can't go on or I'll start FUMING!!!!!!!!!
Whatever. Forgive me, loves, but I gotta finish this up.
Until the next post. Kisses! *mwah mwah*
Love,
Doll <3333
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