Do you think KPop will continue to maintain its reaches in 2024 when IU becomes the ranking act , shoving off the 4th Generation?

In 1553, England's king Edward VI was about to die.

The 16 years old King had no heirs and he feared when he died his Catholic older sister Mary would take over and undo everything, including the foundation of Anglicanism, with cold blood, knowing Mary was very, very, very angry about what was done to her mother and herself.

So he summoned his distant relative Jane Grey, and named her the next Queen.

Although Mary had a higher claim to the throne, he knew what would happen when she became the Queen, and wanted to prevent it as much as possible so he had to find someone who was at least not going to launch a bloodbath.

Jane , at a young age, was married to Guildford Dudley, a son of the Duke of Northumberland so she would have a viable backer.

However that actually led to disasters. The nobles feared Northumberland more than Mary, because Northumberland would use this opportunity to become the effective ruler of England and punish his many enemies.

So the nobles organized a coup, fearing Northumberland more than Mary and probably not thinking too much about the future, and removed Queen Jane and Northumberland who were later executed.

the Catholic Queen Mary was installed, and she paid those who put her to throne by executing them as well. Her bloody and revengeous reign was only interrupted by her own illness, and if she had been healthier and could leave children(she couldn't), Anglicanism would have been a word only found in old dictionaries. (Catholic writers tend to write sympathetic pieces about Mary, but it can't be denied that she created a huge divide in England which was only kind of pacified 200 years later when the last Catholic attempt to take over England in 1745 was stopped, after two centuries of religious and civil wars.)

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It seems YG appears to be negative about BlackPink re-signing and will launch a final world tour to milk whatever it can from it.

If BlackPink does not re-sign next year, as predicted by many, have you thought about who would be the ranking person in KPop?

IU.

https://www.allkpop.com/article/2022/04/btss-jungkook-psy-and-g-dragon-are-the-most-popular-male-soloists-in-the-2022-global-hallyu-trends-survey-by-the-korean-ministry

01. BTS

02. BLACKPINK

03. IU

04. BLACKPINK’s Lisa

05. PSY

06. TWICE

07. EXO

08. BIGBANG

09. Girls’ Generation (SNSD)

10. BIGBANG’s G-Dragon

The figures speak for themselves.

With BTS gone from competition and BP possibly going next year, and all others in the list either related to these acts or older generation acts, there is simply no one who will have the power to stop IU. Even though most of her numbers come from China, the newer acts have a lot of spaces to catch up to remove even her.

The days I have feared for years have finally arrived.

Next year, the afterglow of BTS will be strong so the individual members will rank high. However, BTS was always an act where the sum was more than the individuals, unlike Beatles where John Lennon and Paul McCartney were always prominent.

The newer acts are rising,

2024 will be a different story, and 2024 is now only 18 months away.

Someone who never believed in KPop, and always tried to undermine it as often as she could, and someone who can't even hold a world tour is about to become Korean Pop's ranking act , if BlackPink does not re-sign next year.

You can only imagine what will happen after that, since she will show no mercy on the 4th Generation, filial duty or not, and will begin to promote vocalists like her as much as she feels like. With she gaining an absolute power like Cho Yongpil in the 1980s, and with the burning desire to end Kpop and re-design Korean Pop according to what she feels like with the full backing of Kakao, I can only imagine the hardship coming to the 4th Gen of KPop which might be the hardest gen of all.

The only way to avoid it is the fans of 4th Gen uniting and driving IU and her followers out of KPop, ignoring the opinion of the K-O-R-E-A-N-S who have repeatedly shown that they don't deserve KPop.

Maybe the 5th Gen , which will come online after the vengeful Senior singer enters her late 30s (human age) , will have it better but I don't think the halcyon days enjoyed by the 3rd Gen will come back after IU takes over.

List of leaders of Korean Pop

Wonder Girls, 2007

SNSD, 2009

Psy, 2012

Exo, 2013

Big Bang, 2015. It was prominent for long but it reached its biggest extent in that year.

Twice, 2016

BTS, 2018

BlackPink, 2022. Again it was prominent for long but it reaches its biggest extent in this year.

and

(if BlackPink does not re-sign in 2023) IU, 2024

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man

i like IU

but you try really hard at making people not like her

Because she will never really gain any fans outside of Asia, and her influence does drive people away from KPop

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Boy, that was long.

Great essay👍

I have to explain why I reached my conclusion which is why it is long

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The longest running soap opera - English Royal history, as an analogy for Kpop.

Phew..

Whyknock has this template stored since 2012 (?)

1st paragraph: Historical factoid.

2nd: Some tenouse comparison to K-pop

Replace dates 2012 to 2022, 2014 to 2024

Replace groups: SNSD to IVE, Bigbang to Text.

Constant prediction: K-pop is in danger from IU.

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Groups come, groups go. Yet K-pop grows and IU continues unhampered.

Whyknock sad.

Then another group debuts or retires, whyknock gets the template out again. Updates and tries again.

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If someone writes a history of KPop, IU's section would be the longest since she has been influential from 2010, and has outlived SNSD, Big Bang, EXO , BTS and probably BlackPink, and will fight people like Ive and Le Sserafim with her bare hands.

Her opponents all made huge marks in the world culture, and she managed to outlast them all.

Like the french impressionist painters who are usually featured (usually Manet, van Gogh(not French but worked in there) and either Monet, Degas, Renoir or Mary Cassatt(mentionable because she was an American and a woman) are mentioned) in world history books, it is likely that SNSD and BTS will be mentioned in world history books describing world culture in early 21st century, so their biggest opponent will also be probably mentioned as well.

IU is remarkable that she enters world history books by undermining KPop for so long.

And for the first time in her entire career, in 2024, for the lack of anyone else this influential in Korean Pop, she gets to call the shots which can only mean negative to the progress of KPop to the entire wold.

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AH but alas if Queen Lisa is indeed freed from the Blackpink Guild then she can mobilize her talents towards her solo aspirations and quite possibly conquer IU. Never underestimate our Thai savior!

Or, more likely, she will say goodbye to KPop and strike on her own in another country.

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you cant force people to care about something they dont want to care about

it comes from within

kpop rn is mostly about tryhard and sex appeal, IU is not what the crowd wants

that said, those who know her all acknowledge her as a great musician and actor

should be enough

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Yes, but KPop needs a better leader who can lead it to a new renaissance. Someone who is against everything Kpop strives for will not lead it to anywhere big

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Only you can can overestimate IU in one aspect and underestimate her in another, within the same statement.

Aspect overestimated - that she can retard K-pop's expansion to the West.

Aspect underestimated - Her impact and contributions to K-pop.

actually 2014-2016 were the 'dark ages' of KPop. 2014, following the infamous ferry incident, made Kpop depressed, and until Cheer Up KPop was heading back to the dungeon.

So she did hinder KPop's expansion to the west.

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My friend BP is not going anywhere ✔️

That is up to what the members and the Yang brothers are on.