As for what I meant by "I wouldn't say this sound is gone in K-pop, but the feeling kind of is," what I wrote was vague enough to avoid any specific meaning, but it's not as extreme as I may have been implying: the "feeling is gone" isn't meant to signal an overall disenchantment with K-pop (K-pop doesn't enchant me as much as it once did, but I've not crossed over yet to disenchantment), just to say that whatever spark and lilt I've associated with K-pop's use of freestyle and Italodisco doesn't sparkle as much for me anymore, even if freestyle and Italodisco riffs and such do sometimes still show up. But of course a lot that I've loved in K-pop made little or nothing of freestyle and Italodisco — 2NE1, E.via/Tymee — and I'm not getting as much sparkle from their descendants either. I wouldn't say K-pop's openness has gone away, just that it's opening to things I don't like as much. (That's vague enough too: I either will or won't elaborate later.)
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(You'd accidentally linked Ladies Code twice.)
As for what I meant by "I wouldn't say this sound is gone in K-pop, but the feeling kind of is," what I wrote was vague enough to avoid any specific meaning, but it's not as extreme as I may have been implying: the "feeling is gone" isn't meant to signal an overall disenchantment with K-pop (K-pop doesn't enchant me as much as it once did, but I've not crossed over yet to disenchantment), just to say that whatever spark and lilt I've associated with K-pop's use of freestyle and Italodisco doesn't sparkle as much for me anymore, even if freestyle and Italodisco riffs and such do sometimes still show up. But of course a lot that I've loved in K-pop made little or nothing of freestyle and Italodisco — 2NE1, E.via/Tymee — and I'm not getting as much sparkle from their descendants either. I wouldn't say K-pop's openness has gone away, just that it's opening to things I don't like as much. (That's vague enough too: I either will or won't elaborate later.)