Personally, I love idols, and it breaks my heart to think that there are almost zero idol groups here the west.
There are many many groups in Asia that I love, I find them super pretty with their sweet visuals and I really enjoy their music, but everytime that I talk to someone from my country about it, they absolutely dislike them.
So, why can't we have idol groups in the west?
Examples:
The only one that comes to my mind is Dolly Style from Sweden (and in fact, I love them)
They only like hipster alternative music now. Nothing fun most music nowadays is very monotone and the singers mumble under a super minimalistic beat. Music is dead to me.
They only like hipster alternative music now. Nothing fun most music nowadays is very monotone and the singers mumble under a super minimalistic beat. Music is dead to me.
I know, and I consider that trash honestly. I like when songs have a lot of production behind + a choreo, basically nobody dances in MVs anymore outside Asia
In Japanese pop culture, an idol (アイドル aidoru?, a Japanese rendering of the English word "idol") is a young trained star/starlet marketed as someone to be admired, usually for their cuteness. Idols are intended to be role models. They are supposed to have a good public image and be good examples to young people. Idols aim to play a wide range of roles as media personalities (tarento), e.g. pop singers, panelists of variety programs, bit-part actors, models for magazines and advertisements
Violetta could be considered an idol imo, even if that's the character of a TV Series.
Have you given that "is it racist to dislike K-Pop" thread a look yet? I imagine half the posts in there are how a lot of other people feel, unfortunately.
GOT7 will break the barrier, though, once everyone gets a dose of Jackson
Have you given that "is it racist to dislike K-Pop" thread a look yet? I imagine half the posts in there are how a lot of other people feel, unfortunately.
GOT7 will break the barrier, though, once everyone gets a dose of Jackson
Fifth Harmony and Little Mix in my opinion can be considered as Idol Group
They are manufactured, have a choreography and try to attract female teens market
For cutesy group, I think many western doesn't like it
Masculinity and "strong, independent girl" are the main theme for western BG/GG
Have you given that "is it racist to dislike K-Pop" thread a look yet? I imagine half the posts in there are how a lot of other people feel, unfortunately.
GOT7 will break the barrier, though, once everyone gets a dose of Jackson
The "I don't like listening to something that I don't understand" is embarrassing, there are so many great artists (outside Asia too, obviously) who make AMAZING music and do not sing in english, so they're basically deleting a good percentage of good music from their knowledge, their loss.
Fifth Harmony and Little Mix in my opinion can be considered as Idol Group
They are manufactured, have a choreography and try to attract female teens market
For cutesy group, I think many western doesn't like it
Masculinity and "strong, independent girl" are the main theme for western BG/GG
Maybe FH could be considered idols somehow, but Idk.
Yeah anyway I was trying to refer on cute visuals, and I know what you mean about the fact that many western people don't like, I guess it's because of the models that western teens have nowadays
Because the idol industry (both the japanese, korean and the rest of asia no one cares) is exploitive as ****, though the music industry is exploitive as **** in general, the idol industry is just more obvious
Maybe FH could be considered idols somehow, but Idk.
Yeah anyway I was trying to refer on cute visuals, and I know what you mean about the fact that many western people don't like, I guess it's because of the models that western teens have nowadays
yeah cutesy visuals is kinda acquired taste
Let them be like that and just enjoy the music sist