K-Pop has taken over the world like a storm and has impacted the music industry tremendously. Some popular bands right now are BTS, Black Pink, SEVENTEEN and EXO. Most of these bands started their careers around 2011-2012 and K-Pop singers are mainly in female, male or mixed gender bands.
1. The Music Videos
K-Pop is currently known to have the most colourful and well thought out music videos, where they dance and sing based on a theme. The Korean music industry spends time on the costumes, choreography, makeup and effects instead of just focusing on the song itself. By incorporating all of these elements, the singers accomplish their goal of grabbing their viewers’ attention.
2. Collaborations Across The World
After K-Pop started trending, it made several Korean bands become famous instantly. Soon American artists started to release songs with some Korean verses in them and had certain bands feature in them. A prime example is when Dua Lipa, the singer of the song New Rules released a song called Kiss and Make Up featuring Black Pink.
3. Ability
Unlike many American singers who can only sing or only dance, K-Pop singers are able to do both quite well. Each idol does training for upcoming performances and are trained by professionals. Most K-Pop bands join about a few years before becoming public as they are being trained on how to be an idol and how they can perform better at concerts.
4. The English Involved
K-Pop stands for Korean-Pop so most people think it only has Korean lyrics but Korean singers usually always add in a few words of English into the song. This makes people who don’t understand even a word of Korean at least perceive a few words.
5. Increasing Popularity
K-Pop is growing in its popularity quite fast and are causing a question of “Should K-Pop be considered its own genre?” Spotify, a music streaming platform, has K-Pop in its own genre. Each band has several fans and on several social media platforms it has become apparent that K-Pop is going to stay for a while. One example of K-Pop increasing their popularity is EXO as it is made up of two groups – EXO M and EXO K. One sings in Korean while the other group sings the same lyrics in Mandarin. This increases the bands potential audience greatly.
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