kpop trends that should disappear from planet earth

i agree with the remixes. it's pretty rare that one actually ends up being good. and i'd rather have another full song than just an intro

Samples. Like it's always existed, but it seems like everyone is using them nowadays and it's made composition very lazy. Not to mention its making everything sound the same because it's literally the same melodies. Like if hear the Piri sample one more time in a song I'm going to scream

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7. no positions in groups

please just stop this. positions used to be the hallmark of kpop groups, allowing please to hail and glorify a member's talent by pinpointing their exact positions. now everyone is a vocalist, dancer, rapper........ i dont get why companies stopped assigning positions.

They stopped because there's probably no one in the group who's particularly good enough to be a main vocal/dancer and if they give them a position, they will be compared to main vocals/dancers of other groups.

This is my honest opinion, please don't hate.

For me, I'd say short songs. Most of the songs on G-idles 'full album' are 2 minutes long. It's so annoying how songs are super short these days, you play it and then it's over so quickly. I don't know if it's because of tiktok, but I miss when songs were 3-4 minutes long and actually had bridges in them.

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For me, I'd say short songs. Most of the songs on G-idles 'full album' are 2 minutes long. It's so annoying how songs are super short these days, you play it and then it's over so quickly. I don't know if it's because of tiktok, but I miss when songs were 3-4 minutes long and actually had bridges in them.

I'm feeling another rant coming on regarding the state of modern music.

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6. album tracks

wdym an album is 4 songs + intro ???? what happened to regular 6-7 songs per mini album ??? quality over quantity is such a bs excuse especially from big4 companies. also a certain company choose to only include 8 songs in a full album for a particular group, like ?????

No way do we need more filler songs lol. Kpop groups come back twice per year. Do you really want 14 songs every year for every Kpop group? It's just gonna degenerate into generic repetitive noise, there arent that many catchy melodies in the world to accommodate this many songs from the 100 active Kpop groups, like 14 songs x 100 groups equals 14,000 songs every year lol. Then you add in the millions of other songs produced every year around the world...just NO.

Just put out 8 songs per year and get 2-4 elite quality songs from them for each group and i'm happy. You could build a playlist of 100 amazing songs that way and that should be plenty for one year.

Back in the day we were happy to get 14 songs every 3 years, but as a tradeoff, we got some legendary quality, songs that were works of art that told a story or captured a feeling, not 2 minute disposable jingles.

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7. no positions in groups

please just stop this. positions used to be the hallmark of kpop groups, allowing please to hail and glorify a member's talent by pinpointing their exact positions. now everyone is a vocalist, dancer, rapper........ i dont get why companies stopped assigning positions.

Have companies really appointed members as "dancers"?, I mean pretty much all in a group need to be able to dance because all dancing is more or less done as a group. Feels the label "dancer" is more something fans put on members.

You are mostly wrong

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i agree with the remixes. it's pretty rare that one actually ends up being good. and i'd rather have another full song than just an intro

One thing that really grinds my gears on remixes is that some groups drop absolutely FIRE remixes or instrumentally backed versions of their songs, but only for 1 stage performance, usually end of year shows.

And they never, ever release them anywhere else.

Itzy is actually pretty bad for this.