Is High Quality or Catchiness more important in the KPOP community?

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WYR

Just curious...would you rather have an amazing and well-produced song but antis would complain that it's "forgettable" or "boring"

OR have a really catchy song that gets stuck in your head a lot but antis would complain it's "overused/basic" or "a bad song"

Technically a lot of groups that are nugu are getting catchy songs but do not blow up.

To do well on the charts? Catchiness.

For me to listen? High quality.

a song needs to be catchy. it needs to capture people's attention and make them play it again and again.

a well-made song is... a well-made song. but that doesn't mean i will replay it or add it to my playlist. perhaps music producers will compliment it. but in kpop you need to appeal to the mass.

catchiness but then again what i find catchy others migh not and vice versa

I’d have catchy song. That’s the reason I got into K pop in the first place, because a song was catchy and some of my favourite songs are ones that fans said were a group’s worst.

I like when a group has a balance between both? a catchy song might be high quality too.. hm its difficult to choose absolutely but i think i listen to what is definied as "high quality" way more than "catchy" but still its so difficult for me to define

Quality is subjective whereas catchiness is objective

so catchiness for me

They are singing in Korean most of the time anyway

I mean high quality song that is not catchy is just boring.

Quote from Rainbowpop2

Just curious...WYR

Have an amazing and well-produced song but antis would complain that it's "forgettable" or "boring"

OR have a really catchy song that gets stuck in your head a lot but antis would complain it's "overused/basic" or "a bad song"

High Quality: Respected

Catchiness: Popular

Also, everyone's taste is different. Ones high quality could be another's catchiness and vice versa.

catchy >>>

I can respect the quality of a song and still not enjoy it lol

i prefer hq over catchiness tbh. it takes more time to digest and enjoy the song.

catchy songs most of time age easily for me.

Honestly? Being a small group

small group = their title is such a bop, they're so underrated

big group = this sucks (despite the title being a big hit)

unless you're IU

idk what "high quality" means and chances are you don't either

catchiness >>>

if i like the song i like the song

maybe it's because my iq is -2 though

It depends lol.

There are tons of songs I think are catchy but I don't listen to them because I don't like it.

There are a lot of songs that are produced well that feel Bland too.

I'll go for well produced, catchy songs.

Catchy song but low replay value will fade fast. But they are the backbone of kpop which is like fast food where groups comeback few times within a year unlike the western artists

I will choose quality song over catchiness. But will listen to catchy songs while waiting for quality songs

I feel a healthy mix of both!