as long as kpop artists don't go full english with every song from now on to try and appeal more to a global audience, i don't think kpop will ever lose it's quirky musical charm that distinguishes it from other styles of music. probably has a lot to do
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Be happy, Japan is going to take this away allready
I mean the amount of English songs made in Japan is higher than never before, even full English version albums of songs do exist in Japan
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50/50
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this ratio Korean to Eng is great
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Lets see if we will have more groups like XG in future
Going by Korea, there were Z-Boys and Z-Girls before - They somehow randomly disbanded and nobody ever knew what let to it. Also many of Eric Nam's songs are in English.
Going by any other Asian country, than there would've been INTERSECTION in Japan - However after 3 of the member apeard on a Chinese survival show and one of them even won a place in the final group it was later on revealed in 2022 that INTERSECTION would've disbanded trought 2 members not having renewed their contracts as they ran out, however 1 of them is still in the company but switched to release music in Chinese instead of English.
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Going by Korea, there were Z-Boys and Z-Girls before - They somehow randomly disbanded and nobody ever knew what let to it. Also many of Eric Nam's songs are in English.
Going by any other Asian country, than there would've been INTERSECTION in Japan - However after 3 of the member apeard on a Chinese survival show and one of them even won a place in the final group it was later on revealed in 2022 that INTERSECTION would've disbanded trought 2 members not having renewed their contracts as they ran out, however 1 of them is still in the company but switched to release music in Chinese instead of English.
I mean groups that can actually compete from the top spot. XG have over million subs on their channel and they are not even big3/4 group, so they are doing relatively well.
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Yeah and it often dosn't even helps when there is a member who is good or even fluently in English... I mean we have so many KPop-groups with members who are almost to fully fluently like Bang Chan, Han , Hyunjin and Felix of Stray Kids, Johnny, Jaehyun, Ten, Yangyang and Mark of NCT, Mark, Bambam and Jackson of GOT7, ... and so on but at the end some of them still sing stuff where I wonder who even aproved that ...
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quirky musical charm? The current popular songs are by NJs which are carbon copy late 90's early 00's western r&b.
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And it still gets me and some other people who know their company how as a fully English singing group XG menaged to do so well while INTERSECTION, who debuted 4 years before them had almost no recognition in Japan or internationaly and people know new them for either having apeared in a Chinese survival show or cause their only ever Japanese song was a anime-intro
Also the style of both groups is super different, where some people thought that going the "oh its just a nice pop song but the artists are Japanese" was too standart for Avex, because they do sound like what you expect when you know Avex's artists and than hear "English song" added to the mix, but when it came out that XG was also from Avex people were very confused since it's a very huge style change and something no other artist in that company ever did before
Another thing to ad to it, before XG existed the try to go into English music with INTERSECTION was only cause the member are fluently in English trought how they were rased, I mean 3 of them are half US-American of wich 1 grew up in Hawaii and the 4th one is half Irish but even tho he grew up in Cuba he was only surounded by English speaking people since he was born and raised at a American army-camp. And back when they debuted sure they were marketed to Japanese people was "American boygroup" it was quit different to what Avex later on did with XG
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