KPop in 2010 had achieved some kind of singularity.
All other genres had been eliminated , even trot, and KPop reigned supreme in Korea.
Now the next steps would have been Japan and China, and companies were expanding here and there.
Highlights of 2010
CNBLUE - Loner
SNSD - Oh!
2AM - Never let you go
T-ARA - I Go Crazy because of you
KARA - Lupin
BEAST - Shock
SNSD - Run Devil Run
Rain - Love Song
Lee Hyori - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
f(x) - NU ABO
DAVICHI - Let The Time Stop
IU&Seulong - Nagging
miss A - Bad Girl Good Girl
SHINee - Lucifer
Homme - Still Eating Well
DJ DOC - I'm this kind of person
Secret - Madonna
Whee sung - Even thought of marriage
SNSD - Hoot
IU - Good Day
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Since all other genres of KPop had been eliminated, there was exactly one single holdout against KPop on Dec 09 , 2010,
namely a high school junior.
If the last holdout was defeated, it would have marked the end of an organized resistance against Kpop once for all in Korea.
Knowing very well that she will have exactly one chance to turn the tables, she struck with the song below, 15 years ago exactly on this date.
(the music bank clip, the first known perf of this song, has been taken down. I chose this since it is less known)
Although the rest of the world paid absolutely zero attention to this, Korea exploded because of the three notes at the end of this song.
The impact of this song , all negative against KPop, cannot be calculated.
This song basically made the Korean local music scene relevant, something which lasted until APT. by Roseanne Park, MBE, and Bruno Mars finally ended the Korean local scene once for all.
Until then, for the next 14 years, all the Kpop act had to fight the local scene and eliminate all trace of its negative impact for 14 long years.
Without the only blemish against KPop's unification of Korean music scene, KPop would have expanded to the rest of the world without having to worry against a stab on the back , without inhibition.
This song led Kpop's Greatest Anachronism to be held in the same regard with BTS, which had conquered the world. An anomaly which is hard to understand by non Koreans.
When she struck against Kpop in Dec 2010, there were no shortage of foes to check her. There were Sistar, Kara, Big Bang (GD&Top) and DBSK waitin in the wings to fight her,
but she overwhelmed all of them and stopped the unification of Kpop, threatened to end Kpop once for all more than once, and as late as 2021 she seriously hindered BTS' world domination back home, leading to their implosion in 2022.
The negative impact she had caused against Kpop is simply too much to be ignored, and the release of this song was the beginning of this rebellion of old guards against KPop.
