I liked it at first, but now all the songs are like carbon copies of each other. Now people seem to think that if you want your song to be successful, that an electronica beat is the magic formula. It's so not unique and EVERYONE is doing it. A few good songs are still in there somewhere in that trendy mess, but most of them are shit. And I'm not talking about people like Clazziquai or House Rulez who actually have been doing their thing. I'm talking about people like Jun Jin, Kim Dong Wan, Son Dam Bi (she's hot though), etc. and the REALLY k-poppy singers who are essentially singing the same songs they did before, with a little more trance-sounding sound effects added to the chorus or something.. this fad all started with Big Bang's "Lie" (who actually does it pretty well, thumbsup! to Taeyang's solo album) and I've heard it in DBSK's "Rising Sun" for a few short seconds..
..but then again. Kpop, and Korean pop culture in general are all based on heavy waves of trends and fads, everything from hairstyles to singing styles that all pass on by real quickly. I remember seeing regular silver hoop earrings at a Korean gift shop that was labled "Hyori earrings," as if she originated that shit and innovatively melded her own steel to patent those. Or that old school fat scrunchie called the "Kim Hee Sun" scrunchy. There's ALWAYS some item that is associated with some celebrity in order to increase sales. I don't really see nothin wrong with that, besides the fact that these items are NOWHERE NEAR anything original or even REMOTELY something that the celebrity actually deserves ANY credit for.
Koreans would stop their habit of idolizing and crazy obsessing over everything that's supposed to or seems to be popular, only to move on the next. It's as if we have empty souls, freakishly trying to fill the void and further losing any sense of identity. Always changing our values on what you like and don't like based on the opinions of a MARKET absolutely CANNOT define anything of your character as a person, and if one relies on an industry to determine their interests that's a pretty sad, sad, life. And more and more youth are becoming subject to such dehumanization.
And that goes not just for kpop or Korea. I started this rant due to something specific and stupid like kpop songs, but I realize that I can say the same criticisms about America too, of youth popular culture in general, all over the damn place. It makes our children become less and less human beings and more and more numbers and figures for the markets/industries to toy with while rendering huge amounts of profit. Society sucks and this world needs a change. (Although I too am slave to it all.....) Look at all the dumbass kids obsessed with Myspace. Look at people like Ali Lohan. We were dumbasses too, but at least we had some better outlets than useless Youtube videos and playing with crazy high-end mobile devices that a kid could not possibly fucking need. I have a little sister who becomes 13 years old tomorrow. She's my one connection to the creepy new breed of kids and youngstas that will one day become adults and rule this world... and it's not pretty. Luckily she's like me and she ain't that dumb ;], but plenty of her peers are your average spoiled brat dumbfuck kids that you see on MTV. Very scary.
Whoa this text got long. And it all started cuz I just somehow saw Kim Dong Wan's new electronica wannabe music video just after seeing Junjin's electronica wannabe music video. Both are old kpop celebrities tryna stay up and compete with the young and fresh. (tho I was once the biggest Shinhwa fan back in the day)
