Yes, the fan club hostilities immediately grabbed my attention. Also the fact of the diaspora input ("diaspora" mostly meaning the U.S., I assume).
I wonder if you could tell me what you think is going on in the melodies. They seem Westernized to me, though I'm not schooled enough in Asian melody to really know what I'd mean by non-Westernized. But despite being Westernized, they don't seem to match with the melodies that actually hit in the U.S. and Britain and Europe, and the difference in melody... whatever it is... is a barrier to my engaging immediately with what I hear of Korean popular music. Of course, I realize that there is a range of melodies, just as there is in U.S. popular music. And I haven't heard enough of the Korean to even know what the range is. (And I wouldn't say I could explain what's going on in the melodies of Euro-American pop, even.)
Don't apologize for digressing, since I don't see where you're diverging from any established topic on this thread. I did post a K-Pop video, after all.
(By the way, is "K-Pop" the right term here? And is there some Korean pop music that's emphatically not K-Pop? I mean, not counting stuff that's emphatically metal and so on, some of which I'd bet is popular if not "pop," going by what happens in other countries.)
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I wonder if you could tell me what you think is going on in the melodies. They seem Westernized to me, though I'm not schooled enough in Asian melody to really know what I'd mean by non-Westernized. But despite being Westernized, they don't seem to match with the melodies that actually hit in the U.S. and Britain and Europe, and the difference in melody... whatever it is... is a barrier to my engaging immediately with what I hear of Korean popular music. Of course, I realize that there is a range of melodies, just as there is in U.S. popular music. And I haven't heard enough of the Korean to even know what the range is. (And I wouldn't say I could explain what's going on in the melodies of Euro-American pop, even.)
Don't apologize for digressing, since I don't see where you're diverging from any established topic on this thread. I did post a K-Pop video, after all.
(By the way, is "K-Pop" the right term here? And is there some Korean pop music that's emphatically not K-Pop? I mean, not counting stuff that's emphatically metal and so on, some of which I'd bet is popular if not "pop," going by what happens in other countries.)