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120429 [NEWS] K-POP: 5 Bands Looking to Smash UK/US Charts
SOURCE:http://whatculture.c
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Shared by jenny1+ @ AbsoluteMBLAQ
ABM blog post by liliceprincess @ AbsoluteMBLAQ
If you take a look at the music charts today, its rare to see a Top 10 that isnt filled with glossy American popstars who just want to dance on the floor/party rock/put their hands up/raise their glass (I could keep on going) so sometimes its healthy to take a look at things from the other side of the world. Over in South Korea, China and Japan it is very rare for any of the artists we take for granted to dominate the charts considering these countries are each filled with their own pop culture. Cracking the east Asian market is the equivalent of British musicians trying to crack America near on impossible. You may think Whats the point? Ive never heard of any of these people and the only ones listening to them are those crazy asian kids who stay on chatrooms all day but with a higher company revenue rate from digital sales that the USA plus South Korea becoming a huge base for homegrown talent (currently the 11th biggest music market in the world and gaining fast) as well as interest from American producers, it wont be long before the Popstars of East Asia become the Popstars of the World.
K-Pop or Korean Pop as is its full name, is perhaps the biggest musical genre in the Asian markets and its startling to see how pop music is made here not to mention how good it is. Largely girlbands and boybands, theyre trained from a very young age and nurtured in terms of singing, style and dance so when they do hit the big time theyre fully fledged triple threats (plus many of them can pop-rap quite convincingly too). The girls generally fit one of two moulds girly or sexy (but not in a look-little-girls-im-a-hooker kinda way) whilst the guys tend to be highly androgynous (which definitely isnt in the USA or UK mainstream mindset when it comes to male representation) and all of the videos are extreme high-gloss affairs with dynamite dance routines which would have bands like The Saturdays or One Direction quivering in fear. Most try to break into the Japanese market and sing whole albums in Japanese as well as their native Korean plus the ability to sing in english now the Western markets are in their sights. Fan culture is a huge huge thing in K-Pop and has been for years before everyone over here cottoned on to it no, Lady GaGas Little Monsters werent the first big fan group with their own identity you silly sausage. GaGa is in fact one of the few to crack this market because she gets it; what some here feel is OTT and attention-seeking is totally normal for fans of K-Pop. With that in mind, let me give you a heads up heres three girlbands and two boybands big in K-Pop you could very well be hearing more of in the future:
(*unrelated to Mblaq ommitted)
If youre looking for a more conventional boyband MBLAQ fit the brief, being relatively new on the scene like 4MINUTE. Mentored by K-Pop legend Rain (who you may have seen in the film Ninja Assassin, but probably not), this team of five guys are making waves in K-Pop and have been particularly successful in the Japanese market with their singles releases. Songs to look up include Mona Lisa, a latin tinged uptempo with some interesting man-skirt outfits in the video, the extremely 90′s sounding ballad Scribble and recent comeback single Its War which features a startling 5 minute video involving assassins, choreographed fight scenes and an actual cinematic storyline unseen in most pop music videos these days. Yeah sure itd never get pass our TV censors what with the blood and death and that but its certainly interesting to watch. The song itself is a marching drum, piano filled, strings laden affair which sounds like a much grander version of Blues I Can from last year. Theyre also regular guests on the Asian Reality TV show circuit (not as much a statement of terribleness that it would be if attributed to a UK or American act) and are continually providing music for TV and film soundtracks. With a toughening up of image and a couple of hits on Billboards new K-Pop Chart in the USA under their belt (the fact they have a chart dedicated to it suggests how much its grown in the public consciousness), MBLAQ seem to be going from strength to strength.
(included bands were Girls Generation, Bigbang, 4minute, and 2NE1)
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