Thoughts about Kpop fans

I have to say that South Korea has done an excellent job in cultural export. When most countries in the world are competing for large and medium-sized industries such as automobiles, by the 1970s, Europeans, Americans and Japanese have occupied a large part of the automobile industry, but there is a field in the world where they can exert their strength. This is a complete and very open space, and no one is staring at it. They are keen to turn their eyes to "cultural industries", including Korean dramas and Han Ying. There is also the "Korean Wave" that I deeply love. They focus on "cultural sales", focusing on the music industry (Kpop), the television industry and the film industry, so that people can easily concentrate on their fields of interest and let others consume their own culture, including their own. Neither BTS, which was invited to Grammy twice, nor Parasite, which was a great success in Oscar, will appear for no reason. This is a unique effort of the Korean government and Koreans. ? Of course, Kpop has also been criticized by many people because of the drooling songs and flashy surface packaging produced by the assembly line. This is really an obvious problem.

I hope it will be better and better with more "personality" and cultural elements.

"Everyone can make excellent music and hear excellent music. I hope that era will come. " -Jinxi Town

——————————— This is the dividing line.

The following is an excerpt from the British Telegraph translated by myself.

BTS, whether it is worth it or not *, has a very clean record for the superstar who is endlessly backward. The spotless criminal record makes S Club 7' s flirting with marijuana look relatively dangerous at the beginning of the 2 1 century. But they have also achieved a certain degree of success, which makes them slightly afraid in other aspects, especially when it comes to their corporate overlords.

BTS has a very clean record among the superstars that the media pays endless attention to. By contrast, their spotless records made it dangerous for S Club 7* to occasionally smoke marijuana in early 2000. But at the same time, BTS's achievements now make them slightly fearless on another level, especially when facing its business owners.

"Soul Map: Personas" mentioned the band's disinterest in weightless pop music (Suga Yoshihide sang in the album "closer Dionysus": "Born as an idol of Korean pop music, reborn as an artist") and their awareness of drawing a clear line between the personas displayed to the public and those behind closed doors (in the introduction: Persona, RM sang: "I want to be the' me'. )

Soul map: The mask has repeatedly mentioned that BTS is not interested in empty pop songs ("artists born as Kpop idols", included in the Suga Rap part of the album Dionysus) and their consciousness of clearly distinguishing between public-oriented personality masks and private masks ("the person I want to be, the person people expect") ... the one who laughs and the one who cries occasionally ").

At the press conference before the concert, RM talked about the band's psychological dependence on their stage names (he is actually Kim Nam Jun, Jeong Ho Seok is Zheng Haoshuo, and so on). With a unique combination of philosophy student existentialism and legal insight, he talked about their importance in survival.

At the press conference before the concert, RM talked about the psychological dependence of band members on stage names. (His real name is Kim Nam Jun, and Jhope's real name is Jeong Ho Seok, etc.) He combined existential philosophy with real personal opinions, put forward unique views, and explained the importance of these stage names to their survival.

"When you grow up, when night comes and the sun goes down, a person's shadow will become longer," he began. "So if I get taller, the shadow will get longer. Sometimes it is too much, too difficult and too big for us, but as an artist, a person, a person who trusts and loves himself to live and survive, we need to be friends with the shadow. Our new album is called Masks. I have my role RM, and I have my other role Kim Nam Jun, an ordinary 25-year-old Korean. We must keep these two roles and two names. "

"When you grow up, when night comes and the sun goes down, a person's shadow will become longer." He said. "So, as I get taller, the shadow becomes longer and longer. Sometimes it is too much, too difficult and too big for us, but if we want to live as an artist, a person or a person who believes in and loves ourselves, then we should learn to live with the shadow. Our new album is called Masks. I have my role RM, and I have another role Kim Nam Jun, an ordinary 25-year-old Korean. We must keep these two roles and two names alive. "

Whether you tend to accept such wisdom or roll your eyes, this is a thoughtful statement that goes beyond the traditional expectations of pop stars, which is further reflected in the energy brought by BTS to their concerts, the elaborate myths of their works, and the empathy and introspection that directly adapt them to the needs and needs of today's pop fans.

Whether you tend to adopt this wise sentence or roll your eyes, the deliberation in this sentence really exceeds the public's expectations of traditional pop stars. This is further reflected in the strength brought by BTS to the concert, the elaborate and complicated metaphor stories in music production, and the empathy and introspection for the needs of the majority of pop fans.