Is boyband Dear Alice really Kpop or just a British boyband?

  • They're going to be huge in the UK and likely the west too.


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  • Even SM don't even label them as kpop


    But as a " UK BG going through the kpop training"


    They have the potential to be huge in UK, BBC is a big channel, the boys are charismatic and fun to watch, they have great personality


    And even if i understand SM pushing the "kpop experience"

    They need to stop it because they'll just end up being label as a kpop bg from UK if they continue


    They don't need to make kpop idols appear in the show


    They need to promote them as a UK BG and just rip this KPOP tag they are trying to put on them

  • I still think Vcha, Katseye and now Dear Alice are kpop groups! Why? Because all the support to them comes from kpop fans! They dance like K-pop idols, live to some extent as a K-pop idols, and are trained as K-pop idols! The only difference is they release songs only in English(K-pop groups nowadays are releasing too) and usually don’t have Korean members, and they don’t promote in Korea of course

    I think that they can be called global groups because the word kpop means Korean popular music but why can't it be popular in other countries as well, why can't they just be called pop if they're boy band/group that is partly owned by korean entertainment company. If they can't speak Korea, understand the culture, or sing in korean then what makes them kpop. Vcha and Katseye are more kpop than dear Alice are or could be. Vcha, Katseye and other global groups have experienced being a trainee and knew the culture before they became one otherwise they wouldn't have decided to audition for an international company, whereas dear alice just became lucky and got chosen and learnt anout the culture during the few months they trained for. I'm a multi kpop Stan and I also like other non kpop songs from coldplay or sometimes nsync, but why can't they also be called kpop if they were partly owned by a korean entertainment company.

  • They're a British boy band.

    They're going to be huge in the UK and likely the west too.


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    ... the UK is in the west.


    :pepe-shrug:

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