It is ok to acknowledge that kpop is targeted towards young teenage girls

I agree with this sentiment. It's okay if teenagers listen to K-pop. It's okay if anyone listens to K-pop.

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yeah... i mean its pretty obvious when you consider those college/boyfriend concepts for photoshoots with a lot of boy groups. i don't think its the same for girl groups though...

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According to this breakdown of album sales from a Korean retail site, even GGs end up appealing to more women than men. It's basically Izone/Brave Girls and several nugu/mid tier groups for the men, and everyone else is for the women, including the most popular groups like Aespa, StayC, MMM, Blackpink, RV, Twice, Gidle, etc.

KPOP as a genre is basically boyband music, and whether it's a BG like Backstreet Boys or a GG like Spice Girls, this entire genre appeals mostly to women judging by the data.

If its targeted to teenage girls then why do so many adult men and women get into it? I'm genuinely curious.

kpop is targeted at anyone who has the money to support it. that is often young women, not "young teenage girls"

im gonna say in general terms yeah, but any opinion of this kind shared directly will be taken as personal attack to every teenage girl out there so its best left unsaid

just like you said with kpop, know your target audience and what they like/dislike

edit : to explain further, it is full of elements that are very easy to sell, and teenage girls just happen to be the majority of people who buy them

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If its targeted to teenage girls then why do so many adult men and women get into it? I'm genuinely curious.

kim possible and totally spies were 2 tv shows which were originally made and targeted towards only girls but surprisingly gained high viewership among boys too. Why? Bc the shows were that good lol and managed to attract more than just its targeted audience, simple as that. People like what they like, regardless of whether they’re supposed to or “targeted” to or not lol. The targeted audience doesn’t have to be the only consumers of a product

Well, yeah, it's pop music.

There's an interesting paradox here though:

The intended target audience is teenage girls.

The composers & other creatives, however, are often (not always) men over 30.

So there's a level of artificiality and projection going on, like with all children's media.

When it's done well, it has universal appeal.

But when it's done badly, it goes beyond cringe: It's insulting.

The fact of k-pop having a target demographic of teen girls is not in itself a bad thing, but it makes it more likely for a certain kind of bad product to exist.

If you write with no definitive target audience in mind, you're much less likely to condescend or talk down to your audience.