Brave Girls "Rollin" Overrated?

Quote from WhyKnock

Korean men in the 25-35 demographic, with few job prospective, housing price way out of their reach and having endured compulsive military service, pushed Rollin, because Brave Girls frequently visited military bases to cheer the soldiers.

They thought they were doing something by pushing Brave Girls which were obscure, and were thinking they were making a difference. A cruel practical joke played by disenfranchised men in Korea.

Wow that's sad.

I mean, at least their ineffectual venting took the form of a harmless pop song instead of... A reactionary politician I guess.

Really interesting insight BTW.

I know Laboum are getting a similar bump now, and I know that they're frequently playing to the military too.

I do wonder if the frustration will boil over into something more serious. Our problem in the west started with... Video-games? And that just seemed harmless and weird at the time.

Quote from tenfour

Wow that's sad.

I mean, at least their ineffectual venting took the form of a harmless pop song instead of... A reactionary politician I guess.

Really interesting insight BTW.

I know Laboum are getting a similar bump now, and I know that they're frequently playing to the military too.

I do wonder if the frustration will boil over into something more serious. Our problem in the west started with... Video-games? And that just seemed harmless and weird at the time.

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Any success Laboum might have will be modest and ephemeral. It will disband according to schedule sometime late this year.

That aside, all the energy of disenfranchised men were released into something harmless, and it is unlikely that these men will organize and do something.

As Long they top charts they can't be overrated.

Nope, I don't even like Rollin' that much but I have to thank brave girls for reviving the fresh sound in Kpop. So sick of all groups trying to pull a BTS/ Black Pink and just trying way too hard to appeal to western fans. For us 2nd gen fans, imagine how hard it is to watch our unique Kpop change path this way.

the amount of attention it got was more than it deserved. Good for the group but yea it's overrated.