Frank Kogan

Is it because girl groups are more exportable, and so more money/attention/care is going into capturing their voices and incorporating them into the music? Like the domestic market revolves around variety show appearances, but the international market is more driven by music videos?

Like, I read somewhere that boy groups are in fashion this year, but there are still slightly more girl groups (something like 55% of Mnet performances) in part because they tend to sell better overseas (because, you know, Asian guys are effeminate/misogynist but Asian girls are hottt).

And then there's also the "guys writing cute songs for cute girls to sing cutely" thing going on, which you can see over in Japan with vocaloid music.

Anyway I still disagree; I think it has to do with how much you like the super emotional ballad style of singing, or Very Manly rap.