I was into pink hair girl who obviously knew all the moves but wasn’t that good of a dancer but was joining in as much as dude in jeans.
I saw her, I think she’s pacing herself. She knows the secret that jeans dude does not. That this is a marathon not a sprint…
CUBE Entertainment already fucked up a whole bunch. It looked like they were making a tiny comeback since (G)I-dle is somewhat successful.
Then they shit the bed. Threw the bed out the window. Set the bed on fire. Then jumped out the window and into the fire.
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I recognize HyunA. She’s in… I think, Gangnam Style. Also Bubble Pop! but the former is way more popular in the west.
Yes, she is extremely famous and cool.
So I’m pretty new to the wider KPop scene outside of like SNSD and PSY so I’m going back and listening to popular stuff of times past. I noticed something today. I’m not really interested in the discussion of whether or not something is plagiarized or inspired by and whether or not it’s ok, Just if (the royal) you think these sound similar enough to be inspired/plagiarized/whatever:
BAAM vs. Booty Swing
They sound similar with a different tempo at the start and then they diverge a bit. Completely different genres.
I already discussed BAAM and possible plagiarism way above.
I’ve never seen it compared to Booty Swing, though.
I didn’t remember seeing BAAM mentioned way back when but I’m human with a fallible memory. Still interesting to me. They sound like they are exactly the same with a tempo shift at first then they move to being just inspired by with nutty swing-y horns but not the EXACT same rhythm, just close.
Also related, BAAM has like, one of the funnest dances in kpop. Light running man ftw.
Oh it was boom boom last time. I mean, come on! They basically released the same song twice.
It’s fun dances you want, eh?
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When I think fun dances, my mind always goes to Mamamoo. 
Wow, I love that! Now I’m just imagining the possibilities of a Twice series.
Someone did something in a similar vein for Loona, but it’s in the style of a BBC/Sci-fi (a la Orphan Black) opening, which I really liked as well.
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I feel like a bad Kpop fan, but I just… don’t understand the BTS phenomenon, in that I’m truly confused (not that I think they’re a bad group!). I was out of the scene from about 2011 to last year, and I’m fairly familiar with boy groups getting ultra-popular (for example, it was TVXQ or Big Bang back then, then I think EXO). I’ve tried playing catchup but still feel like I must just be missing the quality in this group that fans see sets them apart.
I’m super happy KPop is reaching this mainstream American audience - it’s obviously a genre I love and the more the merrier, but I’m confused over how popular they’ve become. They have some awesome songs but to become such a worldwide phenomenon…? I would love to hear if anyone has any context or perspectives here. Maybe I’m just too much of a lesbian to get it; for obvious reasons I’ve always been an almost-exclusively girl group fan.
Michael Strahan and BTS. What world is this?
Here’s an interesting thing. I pretty dogmatically avoid listening to any live recordings of anything because I can’t stand the noise of the crowd. Every now and then my ears are assaulted anyway with this noise and when it’s kpop (I also remember this from the early 2000s when I was marginally into JPop), I can’t help but notice the crowd seems coordinated in some way.
How does this happen? Do they all meet up beforehand and agree when the correct time to yell out the bands name is? Is it some strange emergent property of crowds in Korea? It’s not like a chant or anything, I’m familiar with chants from baseball. No it’s something else, just like on some beat of the song they all yell the same thing at the same time. Not always the bands name either. This mystifies me.
It’s a fan chant. They are organized by the official fan clubs.
Do they like all practice beforehand?