My Problem With Kpop Right Now (2 Viewers)

[Yseki]

Am I the only one that thinks these groups really need some defining characteristics to distinguish them? I feel like they are very similar. I feel like if they covered each others songs they would all sound the same lolz.

 

[Bopper]

True, but it also links into another problem within kpop. Nowadays unless you’re a more established group, companies feel they have to give their artists more comebacks in order to still feel relevant. It gives them less time to come up with something more original or creative.

 

[blueberries]

There is less stands outs from new groups for me as well, but maybe it's just because how many new groups there is. You need really different idea and sound to properly stand out from the rest.

 

[Darkyoda47]

It's the immense saturation the market is going through right now. Before, there were so little groups around that each of them could pick and choose the styles they wanted to define their group. Now however, being stylistic or rather, being innovative is difficult because almost everything has been done before or, is currently being done.

Also, these days, and you can definitely see this with BGs and GGs, the music has been shifted to secondary. One can argue that, that's always been the case with Kpop. However, before, you can tell that a group's primary focus was to get a hit or keep getting hits. Therefore, the groups would try to different concepts and styles to keep producing the hits, which can be seen with SNSD, T-ara, Big Bang and Beast, to name a few. Fandom build up, was secondary. Now that fandom build up is brought to primary focus, companies will just give their groups music they know fans will appreciate or, are comfortable listening to occasionally. They won't try to experiment, which is why we have groups, like the ones you listed, having interchangeable music. Or even groups like TWICE, BP and GFriend keeping their current music, regardless whether it sounds similar to their previous releases, because they don't want to turn fans away.

I have to stress that this does not mean the music is bad. It just means that nobody is doing anything different because I mean why should they? Hits are not the main goal anymore. The main goal is for you to stan these members and spend money on them.

 

[GloriousHavoc]

Tbh you could say the same for all the 'dark' heavy EDM bgs.

In any case, I wish for more musical diversity, gimme some punk, jazz, surf-rock, anything...
And more unique (rare) concepts. But not just that, I noticed that most MVs have the same camerawork & editing,
which can make good concepts look boring.

 

[Ahsoka]

Well there are so many groups now that the number of concepts that havent been done is tiny, so they're kind of stuck trying to find something that gets them any attention at all.

 

[RainbowDevil]

Tbh you could say the same for all the 'dark' heavy EDM bgs.

In any case, I wish for more musical diversity, gimme some punk, jazz, surf-rock, anything...
And more unique (rare) concepts. But not just that, I noticed that most MVs have the same camerawork & editing,
which can make good concepts look boring.

I know your shading Monsta X with this

 

[RainbowDevil]

I see what you mean, and I've also noticed this, it's companies trying to get the "young" concepts out before their artists get old af and stop being cute in that way, at least that's the reasoning I find. Besides that, I'd exclude Tag Tag Tag from that, cause they are obviously aiming for a new concept right after this and the song itself is actually pretty creepy. The rest are pretty similar tho in that sense. That's just the industry tho... I just try and enjoy em even if they could all do the same thing basically. Cause they don't even if they could.

 

[GloriousHavoc]

I know your shading Monsta X with this

Honestly, this was a win for humanity
And I know it'll never happen, but I can't help and wonder how the fandom would react if they went full Rammstein once...

On the other hand, this was lovely too, I genuinely like the song

 

[RainbowDevil]

Honestly, this was a win for humanity
And I know it'll never happen, but I can't help and wonder how the fandom would react if they went full Rammstein once...

On the other hand, this was lovely too, I genuinely like the song

You like the only song that I don't
I'm legit just waiting for a group to go full on Metal or something like that too but Shoot Out seems to be the closest we'll be getting

 

[Evergreen]

I don’t find them that similar. Each of them have different musical signatures and a different way to deal with this concept.