Should SM stop making songs with bridges or should HYBE start making songs with bridges?

I’m in the minority but I hate most bridges in music, Kpop or not

SM bridges are phenomenal, and often the the best part of their songs.

There are also songs where they are the only thing that saves the song.

For me personally I love the switch up that a bridge can bring, songs without a bridge can get boring fast.

There was a time when pop music was inventive, interesting, full of passion and soul, when songs were allowed to breathe and grow. Songs would start off with a whisper and a flicker of candlelight, then slowly build towards an inevitable emotional all-consuming fireball of a climax that rewarded listeners patient enough to stay with the song for 5, 6, 8, even 10 minutes.

There was artistry that transcended some of the genre's most banal elements to become literal modern day opera, modern day Mozart.

Now pop music is nothing but background dreck, simple, generic autotuned noise appealing to the lowest common denominator, all passion, soul and human emotion ripped out of the song. Till all that's left is the infernal trap high hat, the infernal synth percussion, the infernal autotuned zombie vocals. Singing nonsense lyrics about nothing, for nothing.

Compare the 2.05 minute noise that we call songs these days to MAGNUM OPUSES like this. There is more heart and musicality in this one demo song than the entire Hot 100 combined omfg

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I don't like sm bridges, they are one of the reasons i don't like their music

Having said that: bring back bridges! Stop with under 3 minute songs bs.

The only song that's perfect without bridge is bts - black swan, bridge is unnecessary there

I don't think bridges carry that much importance in a song compared to the chorus and verses so whatever if hybe doesn't have bridges in their songs who cares

I do not think not having a bridge is what makes hybes songs replayable though

Their groups also can't carr vocally so their bridges would be raps or chants I guess

Bridge is often highlight of the song. It can even save the song like Everglow slay would be bad without it IMO

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Having said that: bring back bridges! Stop with under 3 minute songs bs.

Speaking of song length, I just recently noticed that Fake Love was 4 minutes long...

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Speaking of song length, I just recently noticed that Fake Love was 4 minutes long...

bring back those times, the times when virality and number of streams weren't important

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I don't think bridges carry that much importance in a song compared to the chorus and verses so whatever if hybe doesn't have bridges in their songs who cares

I do not think not having a bridge is what makes hybes songs replayable though

Their groups also can't carr vocally so their bridges would be raps or chants I guess

Have you even heard any of hybe songs they don't have chants and (talking) rap in bridges or in general lol

Eta: enhypen has in one song, bite me, and it's pre chorus. And that's it, no other examples. Or at least in title tracks, didn't listen to complete discography of their groups i don't listen to

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Have you even heard any of hybe songs they don't have chants and (talking) rap in bridges or in general lol

Eta: enhypen has in one song, bite me, and it's pre chorus. And that's it, no other examples. Or at least in title tracks, didn't listen to complete discography of their groups i don't listen to

did i say they did? i was just wondering what their bridges would sound like

The bridge is often my favorite part.

I want bridges, intros, outros...

I want songs with more variety and interesting parts.

Songs that are juste verse->chorus two times are often pointless to me, I just skip after the 1st chorus since it will just repeat, there is nothing else to look forward to in the song.

That is one big reason why i struggle to vibe with most Newjeans and Lesserafim title tracks.

Lesserafim have some sort of bridge everytime but it is very bad (like the "we can make it" part in Antifragile or just repeating the "Unforgiven I'm a villain" part for the 4th time in Unforgiven or whatever was that "bridge" in Fearless (I hate the entirety of that song anyways)) so it doesn't really bring anything.

Newjeans straight up don't have it except OMG I think.

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did i say they did? i was just wondering what their bridges would sound like

Given that they don't have chants in general, let alone bridge, means that they definitely wouldn't sound like that lol

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Given that they don't have chants in general, let alone bridge, means that they definitely wouldn't sound like that lol

okay

Bridges are often the only decent part in sm songs so I wouldn’t stop with that

Personally I like bridges, variety and surprises in songs. But let every company do what they do best and feel good at

Also, when it comes to bridges it's not about the bridge itself but the implementation and execution of it that makes it shine.

As long as it's not some rando misplaced bridge that ruins the song.

SM Bridge best part in their song

It's a shame that the songs that HYBE promotes, usually never have a bridge.

This has only come a thing since HYBE was formed because BTS had plenty of impactful bridges in their title tracks, when they were still in BigHit.

Who doesn't like good bridges

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SM Bridge best part in their song

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This is why I don't take people seriously when they say they don't like SM bridges lol

I don't understand what is there to dislike? I think people often think sm song = only high notes, when in fact their bridges are very melodic and full of harmonies.

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I don't like sm bridges, they are one of the reasons i don't like their music

But why? Lol

i love me a good over the top long ass bridge with 2 tempo changes and acapella moments

Yes to both

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Speaking of song length, I just recently noticed that Fake Love was 4 minutes long...

I was listening to crystal snow yesterday and it's 5:23 minutes long and I'm listening to ma city rn and that's over 4 minutes as well.

Anyways we can remove BTS from this conversation seeing as their bridges are better than 99% of the kpop industry

from BTS's last studio album:

Solo song that was released just last year:

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But why? Lol

Because they make no sense lol. To me it sounds like bridge and the rest of the song were composed by two different people but none of them knew what other person is doing lol. They always abruptly change the flow of the song, slow it down because it's time for high notes. I already mentioned in aespa - drama bop/flop thread that i wished the bridge didn't exist, it always throws me off. But i was obvious the only one, many liked the chorus best lol. But despite the bridge i listen to drama all the time, it's their best title track!

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Because they make no sense lol. To me it sounds like bridge and the rest of the song were composed by two different people but none of them knew what other person is doing lol. They always abruptly change the flow of the song, slow it down because it's time for high notes. I already mentioned in aespa - drama bop/flop thread that i wished the bridge didn't exist, it always throws me off. But i was obvious the only one, many liked the chorus best lol. But despite the bridge i listen to drama all the time, it's their best title track!

imo, with most of sm songs their bridges don't feel out of place as most of their songs are not got the beat kind of experimental songs. This suprises me as I thought bridges in their songs are the easiest to listen for non fans as they sound very normal. I remember during zimzalabim era everyone hated the song but everyone thought Joy part aka the bridge was good.

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I was listening to crystal snow yesterday and it's 5:23 minutes long and I'm listening to ma city rn and that's over 4 minutes as well.

Anyways we can remove BTS from this conversation seeing as their bridges are better than 99% of the kpop industry

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Finally some Astronaut love, literally the best male solo song in recent memory and nobody, not even Army, talks about it omg.

And i looked up some older songs and 2nd gen actually did have some real winners in terms of song quality and song length. Hell even Boombayah was damn near 4 minutes long, it had a ton of different parts, singing verses, rap verses, prechorus, chorus, post chorus, outro, it's like what happened to music?

I don't think SM's songs being longer is what makes their Spotify stats lower,but rather the fact that their songs are...an acquired taste a lot of times

That being said,I really hate this shift of songs becoming shorter and shorter for the sake of spotify and tiktok numbers,so I do give them credit for staying true to their craft and still producing properly structured songs that don't end by the time I sneeze.

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imo, with most of sm songs their bridges don't feel out of place as most of their songs are not got the beat kind of experimental songs. This suprises me as I thought bridges in their songs are the easiest to listen for non fans as they sound very normal. I remember during zimzalabim era everyone hated the song but everyone thought Joy part aka the bridge was good.

i don't like them, they are too jarring. from sm artists i only like kai (he's my 5th listened artist on spotify this year btw), he doesn't have out of place bridges. i really like his music.

zimzalabim is the textbook example of out of place bridge, it makes no sense, it belongs to a completely different song lol

Have them switch

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SM should change their bridges so they fit better into their songs and Hybe should start using them.

Even aespa song feels derailed completely except Illusion

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