Posts by mononokean

1. I'm "Irene" years old and set in my ways. Breakthroughs either happen or they don't.

2. 2nd Gen and 3rd Gen still keep me well-fed, with 4th Gen sometimes entering heavy rotation.

That's pretty much it. #1 is especially important, because I don't typically seek out new groups. If Google Music throws a new song in my rotation, I might get into it, I might not. There are several GGs and female soloists that have been thrown into the radio mix that I've been like, Oh, I like that... but I'm still so focused on keeping up with 2, 3, and some of 4 that I put my "new artist discography deep dive" onto the backburner.

Also, I shouldn't have answered because I'm not a "stan," so I don't get too heavily involved in K-Pop spaces in the first place.

Nope.

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The person who worked on the concept photos are the same. He worked on LSF Unforgiven followed by Chill Kill, and now they are working with them again for Crazy.

I love Moon so much.

LoA is nice and I like the video, but I absolutely love Signal and listen to it more today.

*comes out of the crypt of lurking to participate*

Toxic fans are fans.

They're just crappy people and fandoms generally don't like to claim them because they don't want to be associated and/or lumped in with them.

Them being toxic doesn't make them non-fans/fake fans. Matter of fact, most toxic fans are stans

Well, depends on how long the essay is gonna be.

I think def. look at chaesoo's list and whittle it down to pick a few main groups from each "gen" to hone in on and show how they moved the K-Pop genre as a whole forward in SK, other parts of Asia (esp. SEA, China, Japan), and then the rest of the world. I say hone in on specific groups so you can give specific examples of cultural movements rather than fanning out and being too general.

Inception

Movement(s)

Cultivation

Growth

Adaptation

Musical Inspirations

And, though folks like to crap on YT/YTers, there's plenty of people who do videos on the inception/growth of K-Pop (like to loved or hated DK people). I'd definitely look at a few of those for direction, at the very least, on what points to hit.

You can end it with talking about the 4th Gen (inception and where it looks like it's going/taking K-POP now.)

I need to start reading threads before reacting, lol.

Also

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JYPaste.....

As for listening to K-Pop in general, nah. I don't see language et al. as a barrier in music, so I don't find listening to K-Pop weird.

As a fan, sorta/kinda? In a way that I know other people can be weird about it. My boss the other day was like, "Wait. You're Black. You grew up in South [insert neighborhood]...and you listen to Asian music? How did you not get beat up?" (I was cute, that's why xD) So I know how other people think about it. Like, I was hesitant about sharing Bubble Pop and Fantastic Baby to my younger cousins a few years back because even I acknowledged it was cringe/weird and would be perceived that way by the "uninitiated" (lol, dramatic, but I have no other way to put it). But then again, I'd be hesitant to show them MVs from songs I grew up on like Back That Ass Up by Juvenile because it's awkward watching that around other people (for me, lol).

I have indeed listen to Begin more than any other song on this album, though it's full of gems.

Depends on who you ask.

For me, it's not 100%, but it's 98%. 98% for the music alone. The other 2% is reserved for songs w/ good choreo (visual entertainment) -- even with this, though, I'm rarely just sitting down and watching MVs over and over, so it's not as important. Most important is the music for me.

Now, whether I have good taste or not is another conversation.

I read it T-1-4-19, lol. I thought it was some sort of virus strain or policy number xD

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I think that's just the way the culture is going right now. It's just like certain companies putting it out there that they reserve the right to copyright strike/have removed certain fan art (Disney and Capcom come to mind) if it depicts their characters in a way they don't like.

Like others have said, the Nth room comparison is faulty.

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