Last q first: You've got a few rnb flavored pop musicians as of late. Se7en is one of them, and he's even aiming for the billboard charts with Darkchild and Lil Kim , but his Korean work sounds just as "American". Others adapt the Black Eyed Peas/Flo Rida-ish electrofied rnb/hiphop fusion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkwPTz67sgI
More common than particular artists being particularly non-k-pop is particular tracks doing particularly non-k-pop things. Like how SNSD's 'Chocolate Love' will probably sound a lot more identifiable to you than any of their other singles.
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What I can say about the Korean pop 'sound' is that it threatened to be exceedingly plagued by J-pop bubblegum pop cloning, all familiar chords, but that it in recent years has developed its own flavour. The diaspora mix of genres in K-pop than J-pop might have something to do with it. 2009s biggest song was 'Gee', which sounds distinctly non-American, and yet also distinct on its own (and if I had to attempt to describe its appeal -- it's all in the chewy consonants dotting the verses and exploding in the chorus, less about melody). Korean pop is also getting less and less interested in ballads, and the rhythmical element is indeed often in the foreground, as with Billboard-flirting BoA:
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A couple of other good recent songs, although the melody may not be what eventually lures you over to their side:
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More common than particular artists being particularly non-k-pop is particular tracks doing particularly non-k-pop things. Like how SNSD's 'Chocolate Love' will probably sound a lot more identifiable to you than any of their other singles.
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What I can say about the Korean pop 'sound' is that it threatened to be exceedingly plagued by J-pop bubblegum pop cloning, all familiar chords, but that it in recent years has developed its own flavour. The diaspora mix of genres in K-pop than J-pop might have something to do with it. 2009s biggest song was 'Gee', which sounds distinctly non-American, and yet also distinct on its own (and if I had to attempt to describe its appeal -- it's all in the chewy consonants dotting the verses and exploding in the chorus, less about melody). Korean pop is also getting less and less interested in ballads, and the rhythmical element is indeed often in the foreground, as with Billboard-flirting BoA:
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A couple of other good recent songs, although the melody may not be what eventually lures you over to their side:
"largest boy band in the world" (-Wikipedia:
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the eurodance angle
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