Ping.
I’ll never understand this stuff, to me it looks and sounds like a zillion other manufactured pop songs with the cliched video, but to each his own I guess.
"Had to..." ?
I do try to keep up with it and try to have an open mind.
I keep in mind that when The Beatles first hit it big, most older folks at the time thought their music was crap and joked about how they couldn't even play their instruments properly (they thought they were "out of tune").
Not only were The Beatles great musicians (and very polished performers) but they wrote some of the greatest pop songs of the 20th Century. But the older folk wrote them off.
With all the Rrr-up-bup-pups and rapid shifts it is reminiscent of Israeli Netta Barzilai’s Eurovision-winning song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CziHrYYSyPc
K-pop is fine but there are big misconceptions about the stars:
They neeeever get rich. A lot of them never even make average incomes. Developing them into stars is expensive —it’s like a loan.
When they make it (unlikley), the vast majority of their income is confiscated.
The contracts are totally crazy, far beyond the leverage common in Hollywood.
Again I have no problem with K-pop and I LOVE Korea.
But, yeah.
I discovered “Gangnam Style” on youtube a few years ago and have watched it a few times.The song is very entertaining...the video is kinda weird.
By comparison, KC and the Sunshine Band were the Pink Floyd of their time.
This is disposable, like Alka Seltzer tablets.
How many laptop farms is that?
Bekuh Boom is my grand daughter. They say she is a genius songwriter.
She competed in American Idol at 16, finished in 69th place, was signed to Warner but that has gone nowhere.
At 20, Teddy Park brought her to Seoul to work with YG, then later his own company.
Just added a view. Silly fluff, but inoffensive and better than a lot of other crap out there.
now at least 128,881,328 views
I prefer Chloe Wang now known as actress Chloe Bennett “Uh, Oh”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S96Yqzg6JHU
Gangnam Style, 2012 sensation from South Korea has 3,325,990,674 views. And counting.
I know a Chinese teenager who went through a phase where she was so utterly obsessed with K-Pop videos, she wanted to become Korean. She learned Korean, dressed Korean, watched only Korean TV on her computer, which her mother eventually took away from her.
Who?
Fighting!