doing a deep dive into kpop youtube tbh didn't realize how much that industry had changed since when my friends were into it in like middle school
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do feel like 2010 era bubblegum pop kpop was more distinctive from american music than 2020 soft hip hop edm kpop which kinda sounds like every other soft hip hop edm song being put out in the us rn
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loona hits the same spot as girls generation did when i was like 12 but i don't understand bts sorry
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what's modern kpop i still think of tell me and gee
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much more hip hop influenced like this is the bts video with i think the highest view count and tbh to me it is an exact mashup of 2020 spotify algorithm soundshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBdVXkSdhwU …
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i am intrigued by blackpink which has taken a much harder angle on the typical kpop girl group but like. this could just be americanhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHNzOHi8sJs …
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o wow. yes. v diff. much less sugary sweet bubble gum vibe
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oh wait a korean friend was showing me blackpink. i don't think it's just american
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oh yeah they’re def korean and p big in korea too i think but just that all the styles have kinda converged to some like, generic spotify international 2020 sound that could’ve been produced in LA for all i know which has its ups and downs
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Ahhh, hmm. Yeah that’s true and I think true of mandopop too afaict from my recent foray into douyin. Chinese music still loves the R&B drama soundtrack vibe though
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oh yeah i’ve gotten my hair cut at the same place for like my whole life and the guy always played chinese pop in the background and i remember one day a couple years ago i walked in and the music was like......tropical house but in chinese lmao i was shaken to the core
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Okay that said though i forgot that China also really loves horrible electronic music that is basically just noise which they blast at like 140dB at the clubs. It clips the speakers. it’s so bad. I do not get tub
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