This guy is literally the white version of me when he shades all your faves lol.

From 7:24 to 11:00, this guy, who has one of the best technical music channels on YT, summarizes literally everything i've complained about when it comes to pop and Kpop. Particularly from about 8:52 onwards.

The whole video is a goldmine, from the song choice from legend Adele to this guy's hilarious reactions and his on point commentary.

Let's all hope his commentary starts to sink in to the Gen Zers who are now the main demographic targeted by music labels. MAKE POP MUSIC GREAT AGAIN.

Kpop is still way ahead of the curve compared to our shit music in the US, so much more musicality and thought put into Kpop, but even Kpop still has TONS that it can improve on. Less focus on "krazy koreo" and more focus on choreo that allows idols to actually sing with support instead of having to shout their lyrics. Instead of spending 100k, 200k, 300k, on repetitive green screen MVs, how about sparing half of that to hire bands during promotions so that our idol stages dont sound like karaoke night at the local bars with their canned music.

But to do stuff like this, we need a sea change in the general audience and among Kpop fans. We need to change our tastes in music to recapture the glory years of our past.

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You all complain about vocals, but keep stanning every shit served by BIG4. We see it again with the new hybe show which presents us with these new idols all unable to sing and without the slightest talent for music.

Look at your badge : Twice, Blackpink, Everglow, Lesserafim, IVE, Newjeans

and you come here to complain about vocals. Don't you realize you're part of the problem?

The real problem is the stupidity of the fans consuming this shit. And all continue to play the hypocrites by continuing to say that the voices in kpop are less and less good, while refusing to mention these groups because you prefer to delude yourself by continuing to play the good people.

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What is with the shade for all my faves?

You realize those groups you listed have great vocalists like Mina, Jisoo, Lisa, Yiren, Mia, Chaewon, Sakura, Wonyoung, Yujin, Leeseo, Minji, and Danielle right?

And my point isnt about quality of vocals and that wasnt the point of the dude in the YT video either...it's about the music and production of music.

Like this song is an example of how "stripped down" really works. Modern pop "strips down" songs by removing all musicality from them and leaving us with the same repetitive instrumentals, same repetitive trap beats, same repetitive emotionless autotuned chanting oops i mean vocals. This video shows that you can have a stripped down sound (one bass, one vocal, one piano, one prgrammed drum) and still come up with something magical, emotional, mindblowing.