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In order of my infuriation:
Taylor Swift
The Weeknd
Morgan Wallen
Roseanne Park, MBE
Post Malone.
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ITNW is like those seasonal Christmas hits, because "political instability & protests" is frequent in S.Korea, it has become a popular protest anthem.
Supposing S. Korea enters a long period of political stability, then it relevance reduces
TTN is not dependent on any such societal/political dynamic. And ballads/lullabies always have great longevity in culture.
S. Korea with political stability is like North Korea without nukes.
But then nights do come more often from political crises so every night there would be someone listening to TTN.
Like a lullaby attributed to Mozart, the song composed by Kim Jehwi will probably be sung by someone 50 years from now.
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how far they've come
the most epic battle of the 100% Korean lyrics
yet is the most epic battle of the Anti Kpop vs Pro Kpop showdown
Senior Singer the true tyrant of Kpop indeed.
Indeed. The very fact that a nonKPopper could terrorize KPop for 15 years is simply . . I don't know what to say.
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n the game of soccer, if the game was interrupted for whatever reason, like injury , red cards or whatnot, some time is added after regulation time has expired, and sometimes decisive goals are scored during that period.
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Arguably it can be said that the most enduring song in the 2nd Generation, and possibly all of KPop, came in 2017, long after KPop's 2nd Generation was blasted away beyond recovery by Psy.
The 3rd Generation already took over, and EXO, BTS and Seventeen, as well as Twice, BlackPink and Red Velvet (with GFriend barely holding on back then), roamed the KPop scene, with BTS about to break into the entire world.
That's when the most enduring song of the 2nd Generation came forth.
Lee Jieun, the last survivor of the 2nd Generation, released Through the Night, a ballad in the torrent of dance songs, the epitome of an anti-KPop song which represented everything KPop wanted to eradicate.
A song which used not single word of English, this ultimate anti-KPop song , which did NOT hit 100M views after 5 years had passed after its release, this song was #2 in 2017, #9 in 2018, #10 in 2021, #7 in 2022 in the Gallup Polls of the most popular song of the year.
The arrival of New Jeans might have put an end to TTN but the Hybe-Min Heejin conflict occurred, which prevented New Jeans from releasing more hit songs, and after everything is said and done TTN was #6 in the Gallup Polls, charting in the august list for five years, the most by any singer(excluding trot, whose songs don't get old fast) since the polls began on 2007.
It has outlived all the hits in 2017-2021, including even Dynamite, Life Goes On and Dynamite, and is likely to be the song from the heyday of KPop, which ended last year as APT., a NZ-Hawaiian song finished off KPop, to survive the longest.
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Into the New World by SNSD, its debut song, was not a major hit when it was released in 2007.
Although it did influence every girl group since then, including GFriend whose debut song, Glass Bead, sounds very similar to ITNW (but got away with it since GFriend's then owner was a former SM employee and at that time GF was called a quasi-SM act), it was not remembered as a major song until Ewha women's university adopted it as a protest song.
Long story short, this song became the theme song of the protest against SK President Yoon Seokyeol last month, and as he refuses to pack up and continues to fight, this song is revived by the protestors.
As it has become the staple for unhappy younger people, especially women, ITNW will be relevant for a long time.
The singer who had taken a picture with an SM idol had defeated SNSD in 2011 and 2014, the second time decisively, but she probably did not expect SNSD to rise up and bite her from behind, which might have led her to support the protestors, who were singing ITNW, APT. Fire by BTS, and other songs, but not a song from her since she was the ultimate conformist, not standing up to any social issues, causes or anything, just interested upon building her own wealth and real estate holdings including acting like a miser to her brother who said she lacked humanity.
It looks like thanks to the politics of South Korea, SNSD might snatch victory from the jaws of the singer who only thought and cared about herself and was called someone who lacked humanity by none other than her own brother.
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Only the 1,346 years old is a pure soloist though
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I think the photo came a week after this interview. In any case, that is why I think she was bent on breaking her image as the innocent ingenue- talking about porn, dating and then the photo upload back to back in Nov 2012 and then coolly hosting the Gayo Daejeon in Dec 2012.
Pretty impressive for that time in SK, or even now. Again which of the younger idols today say from NJ, Aespa, Ive etc., can do such a thing and become more famous - not notorious?
Indeed it was a big break
Compared to the Karina-Lee Jaewook circus, that was incomparable
but then she was able to go thru this unlike Karina because she had no other idols in her company 9the rest were so nugu that no one knew them)
Interestingly the Inkigayo co-host, who saw the whole thing, at that time was none other than Lee Jongsuk.
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Yup, that one.
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WhyKnock can add spice..
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Magnetic's better-than-expected success did skew its plans but it will turn into a completely Japanese act by the end of the year
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No one can predict when she will come and when not, but when she comes, she brings the thunder..
She had dropped hints of new music on Yoo Inna's show, also of continuing Flower Bookmark and the fans has decrypted her typing on ASMR, as planning for new concerts.
Also given the response she has received in her tour, and the demand, she would be missing a great timing in not doing another tour, even if a smaller one.
And then there is always OSTs, she might break her self imposed rule of not singing OSTs for her own dramas
Korea is never escaping her presence.
It is unlikely that she will do a major tour till 2026 since that has to be planned ahead and she appears to be more focused on acting in this year . She might drop a digital single like Strawberry Moon.
I think when she does a drama she just wants to be received as an actress, not a singer, which is why she has not formally released Our Happy Ending to this day.
But it is true that she had kept the foreigners from occupying the Korean scene for so long, and will try to fight it as long as possible.
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I don't see Haerin's vocals being that impressive
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Looks like so
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It can join Stray Kids and join the Australian rule
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She won't be back in this year , filming something, unless things deteriorate so much in the late year
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at the end of 2024, KPop fell into a subjugation by Australians.
Roseanne Park, MBE, is technically a New Zealander but she has lived in Australia for quite a while. Her song APT., with Bruno Mars, contains no Korean except at the beginning and did not involve any Koreans but it was declared the #1 song of Korea in 2024.
Meanwhile, New Jeans, with its 2 more prominent being Australians, was declared the #1 act.
Seventeen is in a clear decline and cannot move away from Asia, while Stray Kids, led by Christopher Bang and Felix Lee, Australians (although Christopher Bang was born in Korea, something he prefers not to emphasize), will be the #1 boy act in Korea, even probably topping BTS in terms of sales on 2025.
So in a sense KPop has been conquered by Australians.
Will existing KPop acts be able to throw out the Australians in 2025 or do you think the Australians will strengthen their hold on KPop? KPop is now no more , having become an appendage of Australian pop.
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The important thing is that it is unlikely to improve next year
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K-pop yearly album sales in South Korea decreased for the first time since 2014. This year album sales totaled 92,669,650 copies, down 19.5% compared to last year.
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