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Originally Posted by Polyrhythm
Because, they're all coming off the same way and pretty soon, the "openness" will be gone. The whole "wave," if you believe in it, is being self destructive by pushing so hard for Japan. Kpop is good at promoting itself, despite revenue issues and other problems we won't get into, and it has opened up opportunities for some artists to make it big in Japan. We have BoA, KARA, basically all the early entrants. Kpop was different and fresh. Its just not going to stay this way if Japan keeps getting bombarded with the same beats, the same concepts, w/e. It's going to get old eventually and probably errode the popularity and novelty Korean acts currently have in Japan.
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lol Thank you for posting something about kpop that's not just "kpop sux" for once.
And yeah, I agree with you guys who are saying kpop isn't really fresh anymore. Two or three years ago, it was very fresh and exciting, but now the songs and groups are just repeating the same format over and over. I still like it, but I feel like the current ~title tracks~ are more like songs that would have been single/mini album/album fillers a few years ago.
Also, you guys, not all kpop sounds exactly the same. There are definitely a lot of "smaller" groups who have less standout songs and all seem similar. And while electropop, dance, autotune, hip-hop, and rap definitely dominate... there is still a lot of really different sounding stuff within that. BIGBANG's stuff sounds totally different from Super Junior's. SNSD, 2NE1, T-ara, etc. all have really different styles from each other. And then there's like 2PM, who does dance-y hip-hop type stuff, while 2AM does ballads. So it's not like... every single kpop song by every single kpop group sounds like every other one. There's still variety in there.