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Sometimes I will have absolutely ZERO interest in an article, but yet, immediately start reading the comments to be entertained.
 
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Can't STAND when they make them look like kids but top picture, dressed as adults, is sploooosh status

edit - ewww never mind I thought they were like early to mid-20's. One of them is like 15.
 
Opposing an entire language and culture of music is short-sighted and ignorant. That’s like saying you don’t like Spanish music because you heard one Bad Bunny song and couldn’t understand it.
They weren’t doing that, and you know it. It just isn’t their thing and they were being lamely funny. No need to try and imply dark intent.

k-pop is an interesting phenomenon originating from government encouragement and let’s face it, based on American boy bands.
And it is hugely successful on a global scale. My daughters, who are really into k-pop as well as k-dramas, inform me BTS has sold more albums than the Beatles. And TBH, if I was choosing I would rather their character is built on Korean music and TV values than hip hop culture.
 
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I see why Apple picked them. They are already brand ambassadors for luxury brands like Gucci, LV and Burberry, the brands Apple love to be associated with.
 
They should invite PSY if they’re going to open a store in Gangnam, he’s the one that made Gangnam style!
 
They should invite PSY if they’re going to open a store in Gangnam, he’s the one that made Gangnam style!
K-pop, like fast fashion, is fast idols. Nobody in Asia even listen to Psy nor Gangnam style anymore. Blackpink is still in the area, but even them will face a turnover for newer groups.
 
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Kpop is cancer
I call the J-Pop bands "dare demo ii" bands. 誰でもいい. It means 'whoever' in Japanese - meaning, you could swap out any of the members of these groups with members of another group and it would make literally no difference whatsoever.
 
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Opposing an entire language and culture of music is short-sighted and ignorant. That’s like saying you don’t like Spanish music because you heard one Bad Bunny song and couldn’t understand it.
It's cancer though. All of its boy bands are feminized beatles-mushroom-haircut-femboys, the lyrics are complete garbage, and it took a weirdo like PSY to make something propumar by being radical and taking a new approach.
The only die-hard following it has is by either western weebs (or the korean equivalent to that term) and confused korean kids who know no better and have no idea there's a whole other world out there and have just as much sense as those in the west listening to something equally ******.
Since you mentioned spanish music sure, there is Spanish music and then there's latino trash. Spanish would be, amongst other things, flamenco music, song and dance. A jaw-dropping performance is done correctly, with a deep history of cultural fusion between native spanish music and long-standing arabic influence. But then there's latino s*** that's literally 90% of all else: the badum-ta-tum badum-ta-tum beat and on too of it some tragic vato mumbling nonsense. Kinda like SP's parody of Jennifer Lopez.

Consuming bad music is like consuming human feces: surely doable. But speaks volumes of the consumer's taste.
 
I call the J-Pop bands "dare demo ii" bands. 誰でもいい. It means 'whoever' in Japanese - meaning, you could swap out any of the members of these groups with members of another group and it would make literally no difference whatsoever.
Well, there you go. I bet a sewage maintenance worker sees no difference either when working with what's down those pipes, for the same exact reason.
 
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