/siberia/ - Off-topic

>>772446
if you ask me, it is pretty much an extension of the american music industry. it exists to sell upper middle class white women something to fawn over that isn't a blonde-haired-blue-eyed-barbie-doll-bimbo straight out the factory, i.e. something exotic and foreign but not so exotic and foreign that it'd scare them away. it's like some degree of exoticism but also with familiarity.

in short, the mainstays of the american music industry, such as sex appeal, but packaged in a thin veneer of exoticism. but what the hell do I know desu.

I don't see it sounding american, it sounds more soviet imo. Can perfectly understand why it's becoming more popular, it has some catchy tunes. That's why I enjoy listening to Voice of Korea from time to time
https://listen7.myradio24.com/69366

US CIA psyop slop in worst korea to recreate the "Beatles Effect" for a new generation. get teen girls so addicted to LE HECKIN CUTE BOY BANDS that they ignore the human trafficking and slavery that underly the "industry"

>>772491
nothing makes me sicker than the way my 60 year old mother in law fawns over k pop bands and follows their lore like religion. like if a guy did that with girls that age it would be considered incredibly creepy or even borderline pedophilic.

>>772494
It's literally written and produced by Americans you retard. LMAO. I've applied for some open calls for submissions before. They're specifically looking for songs that sound like Pussycat Dolls, Britney Spears, etc. etc.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/29/entertainment/bts-blackpink-kpop-american-producers-trnd
== You know your K-pop stars. Now meet the American producers and songwriters behind them =
>>772446
Same thing with the recently popular "City Pop" which is just Japanese RnB and they brought a lot of Black American RnB songwriters and musicians there to produce those records.


>What's the deal with kpop?
Literally just the "thing Japan" meme. Some people have a serious asian fetish. Usually autistic nerds, they find the homogenous Asian twinks and waifs less threatening then the big scary American music.

>>772502
That's a good point too. It's shamelessly manufactured and parasocial in a way Western boy bands and girl bands could never be. They have a "band" of 48 fucking softcore pornstars and the whole point is just to collect photos and believe the made up story about each of the characters. Has little to nothing to do with music.

>>772503
>Same thing with the recently popular "City Pop" which is just Japanese RnB and they brought a lot of Black American RnB songwriters and musicians there to produce those records.
I've noticed to there are a lot of people who want to listen to Black music just with the Black people removed lol. I had this friend who got really into the jazz soundtrack of Cowboy Bebop of Watanabe and the Seatbelts, and I was like "Why don't you try giving some of the legends of Jazz a spin?" I mean I like different cultures giving their interpretation of whatever. It's interesting for sure and there's good stuff out there. But it's like getting really into Joe Haisaishi(the Ghibli composer) and refusing to listen to anything in the Western classical tradition lol. It's weird.

>>772446
>Its basically just secondhand American music.
Thats exactly why people like it.