So, I am going to talk about my view of THAT genre of music. K Pop. People have asked me how I got into K pop so why not? By the way the grammar is probably going to be disgusting. So tired but need to get this out my system :P
I have been meaning to get back on writing for a while and I am finally doing it and what other worthy subject is there to talk about than K-pop. Okay, so you are probably wondering how me, Coco, who loves RnB, Hip Hop, and Grime among others can get into KP but let's not stereotype let's establish one thing: Good music is good music. Doesn't matter what genre, country person it is from if its good? Its good. Don't get me wrong I have heeell of a lot of love for my UK scene but I like what I like. The fact that there are people (including many I know) are prepared to dismiss music because it's; Rock fan: "Hip Hop. Ew" or Hip Hop fan: "It's rock man -___-" (or insert any genre and genre fan) or "I don't understand what they are saying" (BTW there IS translation websites tut.) or "But they're white why are they trying to act black (by rapping and dancing well e.g....)" is beyond me to be honest. You're missing out on gooood shit man.
Anyways, my journey into Kpop or dipping my toe into the k pop ocean started when a side suggestion of the most random video I was watching on Youtube came up last year/beginning of this year some time. I've always admired oriental people, I think they're swag is off the hizzy and the fact that they can wear bin bags and still look swagged out ( yeah I said it) than the average person is a one of life's great wonders so obviously when I saw a thumbnail of picture of four HOT girls I obviously clicked that shit. Don't act like you don't click on the thumbnails of dirty looking photos HA! This thumbnail led me to the discovery of Miss A - Breathe.
And I have never looked back. If you look back on the blog, I quickly posted the video of these girls and said if I remembered correctly "say what :O" (I couldn't write what I really felt as I was in Media lesson) but those 3 words and that emotion basically summed up my feeling. What I felt was pure joy, admiration, entertainment and most of all shock. How can these oriental girls be singing some mad catchy song and be pulling out these fierce reggae inspired tunes? Anyways, safe to say I watched that video and the music video and could recite that dance and a couple lyrics after about 2 weeks of watching it non stop EVERYWHERE. But my infamous curiosity was poking at me and I did a lil bit of the good ole Google and found out they were a "K Pop" group ooh okay I thought, if this is what Korean music (btw gangnam style is on the radio, how nuts!?) is then I am SOLD.
So my poking my head through the door into the KP world led me to my second song - the classic 'Gee' by Girls Generation or SNSD. When I say I loved that song even though I was 2/3 years slow on the uptake of that song, that is an understatement. Gee was my muthaf*ckin Jam. Time went by, and after telling my friend that I liked Korean Pop music instead of getting the 'Coco are you serious roll eye' that I was expecting I got a AAAAHHHHHHH SO DO I. After that, no more dipping my toe into the KP ocean, this girl literally THREW me in it. She showed me different songs groups. I was in a ditzy. A new culture, new music, new scene, new way of doing things in one of the countries I admire was making my head whirl but in a good way. Like the way you it does when you see your bias. My friend said to me "Have you seen any boy bands yet?" "Nah I'm still high off Miss A, Sistar, SNSD, and the rest" I think even one time she showed me her biases and I have to say the HAIR and the "gay" looking outfits, make-up etc was a bit like woah, okay but it interested me more than put me off. However time went by my interests went on to other things, or become not there at all.
Rekindling my love for Kpop, was done through Psy. Yes Psy. I was on Youtube about to watch one of my fave comedians (DavidSoComedy <--that guy man) and saw a parody he did. I'm not usually one for parodies but I thought this is David So Comedy so its going to be hilarious. I was right of course and my curiosity poke came back and I decided to look up the original.That led me to the infamous Gangnam style obviously like the rest of the world K-pop or not, fell in love with the tune and I had the horse dance on lock after a day, at this point I was drenched in the wave but still able to hold on to a rock or "reality". So I decided to type in Kpop into Tumblr tag search. One guy, unfortunately I do not remember his name said my back has stopped hurting after watching G dragon One of a Kind proof GD is a God so I decided to look at that up it was either that or That XX. Let's just say that was the wave that pushed me into the middle of the sea.What I saw was some of the most amazing creations I have seen in my life. I literally got a headache beause I was trying understand what i was seeing, GD in One of a Kind literally made me fall in love. No joke. I don't think I have been the same since LOL. Now GD is my ultimate bias in the K-pop world and in real life. Soo, again my curiosity stick kept prodding making me and I delved deeper into the ocean eventually finding Big Bang, 2ne1 and the rest of YG and learnt about the Kpop industry.
That is more or less, maybe I missed out some details of my journey into Kpop but those are the changing moments I remember of getting caught up in the Hallyu wave.
And to be honest, I am still not out.
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