[enter-talk] HONESTLY, ISN'T K-POP GETTING INCREASINGLY BIZARRE?

I feel like K-pop is heading in a very wrong direction right now. Sales are reportedly declining both domestically and internationally.

For starters, there's no real singing ability. Since they can't sing, stages are either lip-synced or AR-heavy... The music itself is mass-produced short-form tracks with 80% English lyrics, so you can't even understand what they're saying.

It's also bizarre how they cram every possible sales tactic into albums and merchandise to fleece fans. Concert prices keep climbing too... It feels like they've given up on attracting new fans and are just determined to milk the existing fanbase dry.

Girl groups are getting more revealing, with showing off their thigh gaps becoming a trend, while boy groups all wear identical outfits... They care more about their faces and dieting than their performances, so they're all skinny as sticks, and their faces are full of double eyelid surgery, nose jobs, lip fillers, just faces that look unnatural.

Anyway, I feel like the K-pop industry itself is getting increasingly bizarre and tacky. It was like this before, but it feels worse now... I wish groups would emerge that actually make real music, not just obsess over every marketing gimmick, dieting, plastic surgery, and milking fan money.

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1. [+86, -4]

The idol industry is becoming increasingly similar to Japan's. Both the idols' skills and the fandom's tendencies are the same. It's been a long time since it became a pseudo-romance lucky host industry whose main goal is to suck money out of discarded single women and men

2. [+66, -4]

I totally relate. It's not even music, it's pure metallic noise. Why would anyone pay money to consume performances or content like that?

3. [+54, -10]

They need to fail more to get in their right mind~

4. [+50, -2]

It's not the idols that are the problem, it's the companies. They inflate prices through hoarding and bubbles, so people don't know any better. On top of that, they keep treating fans like suckers, only thinking about how to squeeze money out of them

5. [+, -54]

Second-generation haters, you old farts who can't understand K-pop now, don't try to make it seem weird. I'm not crazy about the short-form songs either, but cut the boomer talk about the outfits and stuff

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