because americans are too spoiled and at large aren't checking for anything either out of their preferred genre or in other languages foreign acts will be longshots more often than not. It would be great if it started a k-wave, but I doubt it.
If anything, it indoctrinated a few newbies into the world of k-music and those who are most interested will stick with it. Everyone has a gateway song (mine was j-pop, 'lonely in gorgeous', before WG & 'So Hot' came along) and 2NE1 or Psy are perfectly nice places to start.
OMG TommyFebruary6! Lonely in Gorgeous was such a great song~you're taking me back lol. My first J-Pop song was w-inds. "pieces" followed by Ayumi Hamasaki's "appears." My intro to k-pop was big bang's "dirty cash" and battle's "luv u."
That would be why he was there. I'm actually kind of shocked that the various kyopo idols don't get roped into talking in English more than they do. It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize that SNSD had two girls from LA.
This shit is boring - almost all of these have to be well-paid PR statements. Almost all the music magazines within the past year are seriously making my eyerolls with this.
They're not paid if they don't mention that they're sponsored content. More likely everyone and their sister label are sending out press releases and it was a slow day at Fuse so they threw something together.
When it comes to the magazine write ups, do you seriously think that being paid is the only reason a music journalist would write about K-Pop? They have to write a minimum of words per issue if they want to keep their jobs, and American music is fairly awful at the moment. There's a much greater depth of musical influences in K-Pop, and it's something that is new and different if you're not already down the rabbit hole.
I don't know...it could be the start...Psy opened a gateway so... Plus...I just saw on Tumblr about Jill Scott tweeting about Big Bang. I don't think about kpop hitting BIG here but it's a slow start.
imo, if kpop was ever going to "hit" America, it would have done in last year with the Gangnam craze. I'm positive that most Americans are now done with their "kpop faze" and don't care about learning more about other kpop groups and what they can bring to hiphop and rnb in the U.S.
Psy is not a case study in why kpop will succeed in america. but the taeyang translater voiceover killed me.
insert "i am a pressed blackjack" sentence here. does anyone know when the YG Family documentary/Discover Channel thing is happening? i think it said Spring 2013?
lol remember that random article in like The Guardian heralding Chanyeol as the future of kpop; Fuse must have read it. that was funny
I don't know if it ever becomes anything more than a niche in America, but certainly more people have at least heard about kpop: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=kpop&geo=US&cmpt=q
But in any case if we look at world map: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=kpop&cmpt=q It's South East Asia and Mongolia (and probably also China and Japan, it's just people don't use much of google there) where it's really popular. And Peru seems to be only country outside Asia that's truly starting to take interest.
psy will be the only one to be largely known in america while other artists (such as snsd) will only be known throughout their current american fans. most americans like psy because they see him as a joke, his song is catchy & funny, whereas a song by the wonder girls will just be a pop song sung by little asian girls. i'd love for k-pop to become big over here, but sadly it never will. k-pop will fade along with psy for the americans.
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Date: 2013-01-22 03:13 am (UTC)and yes, I agree with the comments so far - lol.
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Date: 2013-01-22 03:16 am (UTC)If anything, it indoctrinated a few newbies into the world of k-music and those who are most interested will stick with it. Everyone has a gateway song (mine was j-pop, 'lonely in gorgeous', before WG & 'So Hot' came along) and 2NE1 or Psy are perfectly nice places to start.
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Date: 2013-01-22 03:21 am (UTC)....yeah, overshare lol.
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Date: 2013-01-22 03:31 am (UTC)All I see is Kris is speaking English and being flawless. /biasedforever
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Date: 2013-01-22 03:42 am (UTC)Korea, stop trying to make Hallyu happen =/
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Date: 2013-01-22 04:08 am (UTC)When it comes to the magazine write ups, do you seriously think that being paid is the only reason a music journalist would write about K-Pop? They have to write a minimum of words per issue if they want to keep their jobs, and American music is fairly awful at the moment. There's a much greater depth of musical influences in K-Pop, and it's something that is new and different if you're not already down the rabbit hole.
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Date: 2013-01-22 03:57 am (UTC)insert "i am a pressed blackjack" sentence here. does anyone know when the YG Family documentary/Discover Channel thing is happening? i think it said Spring 2013?
lol remember that random article in like The Guardian heralding Chanyeol as the future of kpop; Fuse must have read it. that was funny
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Date: 2013-01-22 04:17 am (UTC)God, it was such a hilariously random article lmao.
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Date: 2013-01-22 04:13 am (UTC)major flop zone
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Date: 2013-01-22 04:14 am (UTC)It would be nice, but nope.
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Date: 2013-01-22 04:17 am (UTC)But in any case if we look at world map: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=kpop&cmpt=q It's South East Asia and Mongolia (and probably also China and Japan, it's just people don't use much of google there) where it's really popular. And Peru seems to be only country outside Asia that's truly starting to take interest.
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Date: 2013-01-22 04:30 am (UTC)but kpop will never happen here since Americans don't like listening/watching stuff they don't understand
still mad at the fact that there are people who don't want to watch foreign films cuz they don't want to read subs...so fucking dumb
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Date: 2013-01-22 04:31 am (UTC)my dad. i've tried getting him to watch some amazing films but he refuses to because he hates subtitles. so stupid.
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