Long post ahead, PLEASE READ THE WHOLE POST BEFORE YOU GET IN THE COMMENTS, SO WE CAN HAVE CIVIL AND KIND CONVERSATIONS IN THE COMMENTS. I WILL NOT IN ENGAGE IN BAD FAITH ARGUMENTS! I will post my collage as a reply to myself to show you what I mean! I want us all to show our love and fandom for kpop! I want to first say that when BTS was coming out I tried to get into them and i liked a few songs but I could see where the fandom was headed when I was watching the Just one day dance practice and I saw a comment where someone tearing into another fan when they mixed two of the members up, you could read from thier comment that they were trying to memorize faces to voices, but this dingbat went out of thier way to bully them over something not that deep. I just knew that I didn't want to ever be associated with the fandom, when it was a dumpster fire from day one! 😮💨🤧😤 It pisses me off when people say BTS is the standard because let's just be real, thier fame and notoriety makes absolutely no sense when you actually look at them for more then five minutes, and actually look at their merit and talent level. I know way more old and new kpop acts that deserve a piece or all of thier fame, it also jacks me up because I can honestly say that they had potential to be a good group if Bighit actually got them proper training in everything but they have always been half baked, and i always felt like I was being gaslit when people just run up the walls and gush over them and talk about how they are the standard. They maybe the "Standard" but they won't EVER EVER EVER be the PROTOTYPE. The reason why i got into kpop in the first place is because i could see from the beginning that it is a full-blown production/machine, where everything and everyone has to flow together to make the machine work and give the fantasy and whimsy and ummmph to it, and if everyone is not in full to almost full alinement, the fantasy/ machine breaks down. BTS in my opinion have never been a machine, they have the production, budget and team to be a well oiled steady and sturdy machine but alas... When I think of who is putting out art, are true artists and should be the standard when it comes to K-pop, I think of the first exposures I had of it, and who I saw, and who got me to see K-pop as a full-blown genre. Aka My mamas, papas, aphrodites and eroses, they made a lonely girl with self-esteem issues, and no friends life bearable... I mean it, it's not a parasocial party, I just grew up on their music and they raised me with their music to where a good chunk of this list is my life soundtrack so far, and their music made my childhood and current adulthood bearable. They are truly the reason why i still listen to K-pop and I want the absolute best for them and their life, whether they stay a idol or not, and I am willing to square up verbally and defend them if anyone blantly disrespects them and their contributions to the genre. Also, I hear their influence in the new acts i like/ love today, and i hear them and the influences in their music My muses, THEE PROTOTYPE. 🥹😮💨🤧😤🥹 First K-pop song: Nobody by the Wonder Girls - i saw the English version of the mv on my family's computer in 2008/2009? It's hard thinking back to the exact year. First group(s)/solo artist I followed to make sure I didn't miss new releases: the Wonder Girls/ SHINee/F(X) First Kpop song purchased: 2 Different Tears by the Wonder Girls - I got my mom to buy me the song off of Amazon Music for my mp3.🥹 First fave gg(s): The Wonder Girls / F(X) First fave bg: SHINee First fave solo(s): HyunA ( ya know before shit hit the fan)/Gain/ BoA/Sunmi First bias(s): (WG)Yenny, Sunye, Yubin/ SHINee:Onew and Key/ F(X)- Luna and Amber First kpop album(s) I listened to in full: Wonder World by the Wonder Girls/ Hello by SHINee First comebacks after becoming a fan: WG- Wonder World/ F(X)- RPPP/ SHINee- Everybody/ BoA- KMl/ Gain- Hawwah/ Sunmi: 24 hours Turned me out/ Fave Concept/ Was never the same after the first listen: WG- Reboot/ SHINee: Everybody/ The misconceptions series/ F(X)- NU ABO/RPPP/Red light/ 4 Walls/ BoA- KML/Camo/Woman/Better/ Gain-Talk about S(Bloom in particular)/ Fxxk U/ Hawwah/ Sunmi- 24hours/Noir/Tail/Sunburn/Stranger. submitted by /u/Shineepurlsandgems [link] [comments]
