Stupid K-pop... fap fap? (necro)

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IGemini

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Should've just opened with muting the dance video. I know Korea's definition of "pop" is wider than America's, but hip-hop and rap don't seem like they belong under that umbrella.
 

kyrax12

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I like how KPOP is massively spreading to the U.S after the "Gangnam Style" craze.

It is making Asians popular and Asians need all the popularity they can get.
 
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How did the premise that other regions music is somehow mindless get started? there is just as much talent in asia, europe, etc as there is in the rest of the world.

Because the music is manufactured by two corporations using a computer and they get women who are little more than either have big butts/boobs, and can sing in a single way with no variations other than can sing in more than a half key.

There is effectively ONE genre of music in korea.

There is no variation, everything is pre-choreographed by "experts" and there will never be anything that goes "against" the norm.

There will never be an "american idiot" type song in Korea. Not that I'm saying that that song is a pinnacle of song writing, but its more imaginative then most of korean songs for the past decade.
 
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Jodell88

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I like how KPOP is massively spreading to the U.S after the "Gangnam Style" craze.

It is making Asians popular and Asians need all the popularity they can get.
Um I'm a black guy from the Caribbean and I know about sistar long before gangnam style came out. :biggrin:
 

madoka

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Necro, I know, but I wanted to show how wrong this still active poster's prediction was.

There is no variation, everything is pre-choreographed by "experts" and there will never be anything that goes "against" the norm.

There will never be an "american idiot" type song in Korea. Not that I'm saying that that song is a pinnacle of song writing, but its more imaginative then most of korean songs for the past decade.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i32ANEa5mk

On the surface it's just another sexy video. But once you start unraveling the symbolism, it's almost mind-blowing what she was able to pack in there. Everything from the tree from the Garden of Eden on the door, how she decides to quench her thirst with the pipe in such a sexual manner, etc.

Hell, she comes out and sings how religion is fantasy made to "control you and me". How's that for going against the norm?

She also has a duet with the man who rapes her called Fuck U. She isn't some indie. She's a major pop star. What popular Western artist would ever do a song like that?
 

Cappuccino

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?annota...ure=iv&hd=1&src_vid=ovVfLancwys&v=Age3FV4v-m4

I thought I grew out of it over a decade ago. Been listening to classic rock & metal since. But this...

Now I'm just 10 years older, feeling like a dirty old man.

1:08.... fap fap fap.

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I thought they were just another mindless girl band, but this girl can SING! Absolutely blew me away:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Cvc3Jny3jcM#t=162s
u dirty old men :oops:
 

Childs

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Grey shirt is just typical korean chick with mediocre looks and zero curves. Face is nothing special.

The orange shirt got a juicy body and she has that seductive look. And she's the one with the amazing voice (2nd vid on the OP).

I would bang the crap out of her. You can keep the grey shirt.

I thought the one in orange might have been raised in a western country. You dont get a body like that eating kimchi! haha Actually, I dont know what they eat in Korea, just that kimchi sucks, but I did think she must be Asian American or had breast implants.
 

madoka

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I thought the one in orange might have been raised in a western country. You dont get a body like that eating kimchi! haha Actually, I dont know what they eat in Korea, just that kimchi sucks, but I did think she must be Asian American or had breast implants.

No, Hyorin has always been a bit curvier.

Here she is dissing Yubin about being flat chested and about her own "big size":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iSgUIG3_8E

Now Ailee was raised in the U.S.

aillllll.jpg
 

BUTCH1

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Necro, I know, but I wanted to show how wrong this still active poster's prediction was.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i32ANEa5mk

On the surface it's just another sexy video. But once you start unraveling the symbolism, it's almost mind-blowing what she was able to pack in there. Everything from the tree from the Garden of Eden on the door, how she decides to quench her thirst with the pipe in such a sexual manner, etc.

Hell, she comes out and sings how religion is fantasy made to "control you and me". How's that for going against the norm?

She also has a duet with the man who rapes her called Fuck U. She isn't some indie. She's a major pop star. What popular Western artist would ever do a song like that?

"With the man who rapes her called Fuck U", I guess "music" has become a form of "soft-porn" and trying to "out-slut" the other "musicians" is the thing these days. Nevermind the pre-programmed auto-tuned crap spoon-fed to a generation that probably has some real talent to offer but won't get any notice unless it's "outrageous" enough. Sad times indeed.
 

Yongsta

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I don't know about white but there are many non-Asian fans. The most popular kpop react people on youtube are non-Asian. The biggest Kpop conventions are held outside of Asia (in LA, NY, Canada, and Europe).
 

KMFJD

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I don't know about white but there are many non-Asian fans. The most popular kpop react people on youtube are non-Asian. The biggest Kpop conventions are held outside of Asia (in LA, NY, Canada, and Europe).

conventions? I never knew that was a thing for music, learn something new every day...

I was alluding to the fact that Capuccino said that most of their fans are caucasians which i somehow really doubt.
 

KMFJD

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"With the man who rapes her called Fuck U", I guess "music" has become a form of "soft-porn" and trying to "out-slut" the other "musicians" is the thing these days. Nevermind the pre-programmed auto-tuned crap spoon-fed to a generation that probably has some real talent to offer but won't get any notice unless it's "outrageous" enough. Sad times indeed.

where have you been the last couple of decades?