Daaaammmnnnn. That's GROOVY!
God. Even the vocalists of this era. So much soul and emotion in every line sung.
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I'm in love with Gayoon.
Agreed. 2nd gen was a perfect storm of sorts.
Big enough that us international fans could participate. But local enough that it kept its own feel.
I miss that period.
Daaaammmnnnn. That's GROOVY!
God. Even the vocalists of this era. So much soul and emotion in every line sung.
I know. AFTER SCHOOL is god tier.
I'm still nursing a crush on Uee lol.
Did you ever watch Birdie Buddy? If you ever run across it on Viki or somewhere check it out. Uee is the lead. One of my all time favorites.
The main thing with current Kpop is that it feels like half western music but in Korean and half creating music that’s more suitable for short TikTok’s, instas etc with less melody and singing but more noise music and experimental elements to grab attention. Something Nmix 00 epitomises this, a bunch of short contrasting sounding parts hastily glued together to create a full “song” but individual parts don't sound bad on their own.
Give it a few years when there’s a new trend/style and current songs will sound very dated like how Kpop groups jumped on the dubstep bandwagon years ago and just as quickly dropped it lol. You could even argue it's happening already with Korean charts dominated by more standard structured songs.
I'm in love with Gayoon.
Same, she became my bias in 4Minute after this. Sohyun came a close second.
Agreed. 2nd gen was a perfect storm of sorts.
Big enough that us international fans could participate. But local enough that it kept its own feel.
I miss that period.
I guess they were still finding their sound. Kpop back then used to sound dated compared to the music in the West. But unique anyway.
True.
Same
The main thing with current Kpop is that it feels like half western music but in Korean and half creating music that’s more suitable for short TikTok’s, instas etc with less melody and singing but more noise music and experimental elements to grab attention. Something Nmix 00 epitomises this, a bunch of short contrasting sounding parts hastily glued together to create a full “song”.
Give it a few years when there’s a new trend/style and current songs will sound very dated like how Kpop groups jumped on the dubstep bandwagon years ago and just as quickly dropped it lol.
Yes, I see as kpop finally catching up with everything going on in the music worldwide, no new take in old sounds or anything like that.
True.
Agreed. 2nd gen was a perfect storm of sorts.
Big enough that us international fans could participate. But local enough that it kept its own feel.
I miss that period.
With BTS (sort of) gone, I'm also starting to drift away from kpop. It just doesn't seem of have its uniqueness as before that drew me in years ago.
agree
When i found Kpop in 2019 i was left as a casual cause it seems all the groups i like were allready gone. 😭
Luckily Brave Girls poped up so im save for now. 🤗
Same happened to me once the groups I am a fan of started to be less active.
I see you're a soshi, I was too! I lost a bit of my enthusiasm after Lion Heart...
I see you're a soshi, I was too! I lost a bit of my enthusiasm after Lion Heart...
Lion Heart was the control damage album after Jessica's removal; one album to prove Soshi was still going strong, which wasn't exactly what happened because then they went on unofficial hiatus and Holiday Night was a fiasco for whatever reason it was. Soshi was one of the groups I first fell in love with and made me want to dig deeper in kpop. Never really moved over from them because no group had made me enjoy music like them, even though I have newer groups I enjoy and I like listening to kpop from other acts, Soshi stays supreme. Only EXO has come side to side with them, for me.
Yep, even as a Gen Z young one I keep finding myself going back to the 2nd and early to mid 3rd gen music. There was just something about it that was captivating. The only thing similar to that style right now is Nayeon, which is one of the reasons Pop! is so universally liked. People missed that undeniably kpop sound. I hope JYPE keeps taking inspiration from the 3rd and 2nd gen for her future releases. I need SOMEONE to turn too for that type of music.
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