What was your K-pop honeymoon phase like?

  • AllKill VIP

    I'd describe the K-pop honeymoon phase as that point in time when you first got into K-pop and wanted to discover more and more about the genre. You may have even checked out K-hip-hop, K-indie, and K-R&B, possibly getting those genres mixed up with K-pop. Maybe you listened to many different groups, but didn't really stan anyone.


    I got into K-pop thanks to BIGBANG back in 2012 with their Alive album, but I almost exclusively stuck with BIGBANG and didn't seriously start looking into other groups until years later.


    But when I finally explored more, some of the songs I liked were:


    These KR&B and K-hip-hop songs were great:


    What was your K-pop honeymoon phase like?

  • AllKill VIP

    at first i was obsessed with bts and they were on tour, so i used to wait everyday for new concert clips to show up on my insta everyday. it took me like 6 months to discover bts fully then i delved deeper through kpop youtube.

    i used to check kpop song reviews,reactions, random mvs, daily kpop tea etc

    thats why i know 2-3 songs atleast from most of the grps which were active in 2019


    slowly my interest fizzled out in most grps since i did not like most off their new cbs so only bts are left and i mostly checked kpop news only for gossips and scandals

    thats how i discovered akp since they always publish the worst gossip without fact checking it



    now i'm back to checking out new cbs from grps other than my faves since i'm over kpop scandals, teas and gossips (except bts because they are dating hot people :woow: )

    it was great. Because i came from kdramas i was fan of many osts. And thats how i came to know spica my firsy kpop group and for a long time i used to listen to spica even they were already disbanded. And then 2nd gen girl groups like snsd; miss a; sistar. It was best time because i didnt knew any kpop forums or kpop gossip or competition. I was just enjoying songs from different groups

    It was great, every group was new to me. I was discovering music left and right and I spent hours and hours every single day watching things like vlives, variety shows, etc.

    Now I'm just lazy. I heard like most kpop songs already and I just slowly wait on new songs to come out impatiently...
    I'm at least a year behind on my faves content, sometimes I dont even bother opening social media notification now.

    I started listening to kpop in 2009.

    I discovered SNSD then I started to casually listen to other groups.

    I remember waiting for snsd's music video to be broadcast in TV. Fun times.

  • AllKill VIP
  • AllKill VIP

    I think my Kpop honeymoon period is now.


    I think I have a much more balanced view of how I enjoy music now than I did as a teenage noob trying to create multiple accounts to vote for EXO in some award ceremony and worrying about if I stayed up all night just to see something probably not that important but OMG EXO drop. ^^


    I very much came into Kpop for EXO. Most 2nd Gen Kpop didn’t interest me so didn’t bother nor did many other third gen groups. I certainly explored kr&b and khiphop but barely scratched the surface on a lot of Kpop.


    After a break where I still listened to the music and followed new release from my faves, the pandemic brought me back with a different perspective.


    As a twentysomething I have a better understanding of my tastes and preferences to know what to look for and I ask for recs and dig into bsides - even of groups I might have previously passed up. I also think my college years definitely exposed to more music and opened up my musical perspective.

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