Kpop doesn’t hit the same anymore

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I really liked kpop before. I could play it in the background while doing something or I could play it to just listen to it. The songs had nice beats and meaningful lyrics (for example BTS’ Singularity, Move by Taemin, or even Icky by KARD. It’s not that old, and the lyrics aren’t really deep, but it’s actually listenable)

The only new trending song I know is Gnarly by KATSEYE and it gives me the ick every time I hear it. The beat is a total mess, the lyrics are meaningless, and it feels like it was made purely for TikTok dancing. I get that it’s meant fot that but…idk🫤🫤🫤

Is it just me or do newer kpop songs feel kind of hollow?

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  2. ScorpioRosetta Avatar

    it never hit bro lol

  3. ZealousidealAnt111 Avatar

    I never liked it to begin with. It’s always been the 1 genre I couldn’t get into

  4. nitisha620 Avatar

    Yes same goes for me.
    I used to like it, I was not crazy about it But I liked it during corona but now I don’t even listen to it anymore (except for some BTS english songs) other than that I no longer feel interested in K-pop.

  5. CreamPyre Avatar

    Sounds like your taste changed! Be grateful, that music sucks

  6. balance_n_act Avatar

    K-pop being big is just the music industry punk’ing the world. Or the world punk’ing the music industry. Either way it’s all for the sake of irony.

  7. NefariousnessBig9037 Avatar

    I used to like heavy metal, now I like death metal and death core. Tastes change over time.

  8. _antioxident Avatar

    this applies to like every genre now, also katseye is largely marketed to an international crowd so they’re gonna be a little more generic/palatable than other kpop groups.

  9. Antique-Aardvark-184 Avatar

    Why is everyone hating k pop in the comments? 😂

  10. No_Airport2112 Avatar

    There was a certain quirk to kpop that was simple and felt a little more… Wholesome maybe?, I came into it when BTS was really big and Twice and Blackpink were gaining popularity. G-Idles “Senorita”,  Momolands “Bboom Bboom”, Twice’s “TT” or even later like “Fancy”, or songs by Orange Caramel, all these aren’t exactly groundbreaking but they were very unique and charming. This era of kpop definitely differentiated itself from western pop. 

    As per lyricism, Pop music is more Andy Warhol than Bob Dylan, more marketing than poetry. So edgy and sexy is all that’s dominating now. Even groups like Illit seem to have this countdown to when they’re gonna do more “adult” songs. Kpop has to appeal much more to the world than it had to before, so no more quirkiness or boy group poetry. 
    It happened in the West too. People can’t keep using Kendrick Lamar as the reason rap hasn’t lyrically downgraded. One Kendrick Lamar doesn’t equate to Nas, Mos Def, Lupe Fiasco etc. I mean what group of artists from Gen Z even come close to the poets who came before.

  11. Annual-Market2160 Avatar

    And Henny don’t really kill the pain anymore

  12. Xepherya Avatar

    Gen 2 kpop was great