4th generation K-pop is unlistenable

Quote from icyruios

Girl crush? Where?

I felt like I was reading a post from the time when ITZY/Aespa/Gidle were still popular and Nmixx just debuted

i get your point, i mean 2nd gen has gee, genie, i am the best, abracadabra, mister, roly poly, something etc kpop songs back then are incomparable

You’re just nostalgic and have lame taste

Tbh 4th gen gg have some really good songs but they're very forgettable. I'll listen to them for a week and then get tired of them.

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4th gen will never have their ‘Gee’, ‘Growl’, ‘Cheer Up’, ‘Rough’ type of GP relevance

That's true. The closest we got to this is Wannabe, Next level, Cupid and Hype boy.

There are some groups that are unfortunately sorely missed, like f(x) and Gfriend.

But thanks to the fourth generation, K-Pop has become more diverse. Maybe there are too many releases, so that it sometimes seems overloaded.

We also have the 3rd generation Dreamcatcher, who have played a major role in the massive increase in popularity of harder rock music in K-Pop. And I like listening to rock and metal.

For me personally, the 4th generation also has the best boy groups like Stray Kids and ATEEZ.

different strokes for different folks?

it's ok to have a preference and the OP's preference is obviously not the 4th generation

Diversity is not a 4th gen things, they just learned from the best

there's good music everywhere you look, it's not exclusive to generations, they were blasting pure trash back in the day as well, sometimes people become fond of what they miss

I would say it have been more of a trend going on during the years going from the fun, poppy and catchy type of kpop during the 2nd generation to the more main stream a bit more mature and boring kind of music of today. It's of cource a generalisation, but at average the kpop was a bit more fun during the 2nd generation. That don't mean there is good songs today, but just feeling they are a bit fewer of them.

listen to TXT, they do a little bit of everything.

dissing a whole generation is eh

There's a little bit for everyone.

Maybe they don't have for now as many iconic songs as 2nd gen but they don't have something 2nd gen has : nostalgia/time passing.

Lot of great 2nd gen tunes for sure like Bang Bang Bang, Mirotic, Fiction, Tonight, Ugly, The Boyz, Rum Pum Pum, So Hot (although some of these are better as covers performed by Izone, Twice, etc).

But nobody but a clown would consider 4th gen to be unlistenable. I could list 50 fourth gen songs that rate a 10 or 11 out of 10. Can't come anywhere near that with 2nd or even 3rd gen tbh (which was carried solely by Twice, BP and Oh My Girl).

4th gen is ancient now. we are quickly moving to the 6 once SM's girl group debuts

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4th gen is ancient now. we are quickly moving to the 6 once SM's girl group debuts

We are still in 4th generation technically but it's the 4.75 generation phase with IIIIT, Baemon, RIIIZE, TWS, ZB1, and nugus like KissofLife.

I think Teddy's new GG or the SM GG will mark the 5th age of Kpop.

we're moving to the AI gen

let that thought sink in