The Dr Luke/Kesha debacle exposing how egregiously backwards and corrupt the western music industry can be but "omg kpop is so manufactured and contrived! "
the music honestly sounds cheap to me, like the quality of the production. the most glaring example is that Red Light song that (for whatever reason) gained a lil bit of traction last year even tho it's a reductive and terrible mess
the beat sounds like something straight out of the pits of 2011 David Guetta generic hell, but it's praised to the high heavens because it's apparently the best representation of mainstream foreign pop music...... idk i didn't understand at the time and still don't
That's funny, because it was produced by Western producers… so, if anything, that wasn't the best representation of K-Pop, production-wise… for you…
I don't understand how you can dislike K-pop when it's not even a real genre. There's different types of pop songs so one Korean pop song could be a ballad, another a dance song, another urban inspired, etc.
And not all K-pop songs are cute and bubbly. If Britney sang this in 2011 or 2012 when it came out, everyone on ATRL would love it.
the music honestly sounds cheap to me, like the quality of the production. the most glaring example is that Red Light song that (for whatever reason) gained a lil bit of traction last year even tho it's a reductive and terrible mess
the beat sounds like something straight out of the pits of 2011 David Guetta generic hell, but it's praised to the high heavens because it's apparently the best representation of mainstream foreign pop music...... idk i didn't understand at the time and still don't
K-pop artists can deliver some thumping bops. SNSD are really generic/unappealing to my ears, but there are other artists who lean all the way into urban and have the beats to match.
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