Kpop Is Not All Sunshine and Rainbows “Kpop” is short for Korean pop music, it is a musical genre consisting of electronic, ballad, R&B, hip hop, rock, jazz, and pop music originating in South Korea. Kpop has spread like wildfire across all of Southeast Asia countries such as China, Vietnam, Thailand, etc. Kpop entered the Japanese market at the beginning of the 21st century and immediately became a big hit, as well as the Chinese market. Until today, a large number of teens in the US and in most European countries know of Kpop through the power of the internet. Many Kpop music videos on Youtube exceed by the millionth views. Fun fact, guess what is the most viewed Youtube video ever? A kpop video, Gangnam Style by a Korean rapper PSY …show more content…
Some companies prefer pure talent, some prefer beauty, some prefer uniqueness in styles, and some prefer personality. After all, it’s about competing for popularity. Depends on how fitted they are for the company, the longer or shorter they must train to make a debut. The ideal time to train for each trainee is three to five years. Park Jihyo, a member of girl group Twice, was trained for ten years since the age of eight. Twice is now one of the most successful Kpop groups in terms of popularity. Within the time of training, trainees will have to follow strict practice schedules, heavy diets, crazy sleeping and resting time. Jackson Wang, a JYP entertainment idol shared that his agency has dance lessons, vocal classes and other types of “star academy” classes where each lasts up to three to five hours a day, and each trainee is required to attend all classes despite school hours. These classes can cost up to $2000 per month, and they are to be paid as soon trainees become successful, if they choose to drop out, they’ll have to pay the company out of pocket. Some trainees can choose to continue with middle school or high school alongside with training. But most of the times, they can’t handle the physical and mental stress of balancing both schedules so a lot of them drop out since a young age. Mark Tuan, a member of boy group GOT7, dropped out during his sophomore year at a high school in Los Angeles to fly to Korea Ly 3 and become a trainee. Some
This kind of subculture emerged originally in the 1960s when pop music first arrived on the scene. It was during a time when teenagers wanted to rebel against the system or just wanted be different to everyone else and this kind of music allowed them to do so. The first fan bases came about because of groups like The Rolling Stones and the Beatles, these particular groups especially had an impact on mainstream culture as many teenagers spent a
In the novel it stays “achieving great happiness requires traveling to far off places”. I agree with this statement because no one can be happy if they never go anywhere. It is crucial to venture off to far places when trying to be happy whether one physically travels or mentally goes on a journey of self-discovery.
The chapter "Find the Bright Spots" by Chip Heath and Dan Heath, appears in a book Switch: How to change Things When Change is Hard asserts that information that rather than focusing on what is not working and trying to fix it, we should figure out what is doing a great job and focus our energy on applying and replicating it to improve the weaknesses. The chapter is summarized below.
Even Asian groups such as H.O.T. became popular in America. As of late 2000’s, pop music started to blend in with R&B as showed in the music of Nelly Furtado, Rihanna, and Pussycat Dolls.
On the first day, the views of Pop Parade sat at 120 thousands, which was three times more than that of Music Choice. Over the first 11 days, Pop Parade’s popularity steadily decreased to 40 thousands views on the 9th day and then increased dramatically to 150 thousands views on the 11th day. The number of views of Music choice fluctuated between 20 thousands and 60 thousands views then stopped at slightly above 20
Music and Media satisfies the human world in many ways, it can vary from listening to music as it is or catching up on a tv episode that was missed. Although these two surround us in everyday lives, as mentioned previously, it comes with its downsides as well which corresponds to many topics to have in mind. The fact that music is widely popular and is used every day, one needs to take in mind as well the messages that are being expressed throughout the song. Relating to one of the most popular genres listened to, rap. Although it may be enjoyable at times, it consistently uses explicit content in the music that relates to wrong actions such as violence, crime, drugs, etc. In the article, Changing Images of Violence
The media have targeted rap music over the years for the reasons of the urban issues and also the global troubles such as religion, and the decline in urban schools. Hip-hop is an urban movement, born during the crisis of an urban city and rooted in the 1970’s of poor and working class African Americans in New York City. Can we understand hip-hop as politics that plays a role in the urban citizenship? Hip Hop has a complex relationship with the urban communities and also has a great impact on the religion in the youth. I use four sources that stretch across discussing how popular rap music affects the urban culture in a positive and a negative way. Each of the texts has similar ideas. The first text Washington Post is going to explore how rap
Hip-hop is one of the far-reaching cultures in the world at the moment. Over the years, Hip-hop has tremendously grown into a big industry. For example, most of the advertisements for stylish clothes and shoes in the US are currently done by hip hop artists. The aforementioned and hip hop music itself generates a lot of money to the hip hop artists yearly. Additionally, Hip-hop is one of the highest selling music in the US (Chang). It has also become exceedingly popular in other countries both developed and less-developed.
For people my age, a very large population including myself enjoy hip-hop/rap. From 2014 to present day, rap has been very popular for young people and teenagers and for people my age, this is their prime teen years and the time where music is listened to most in their lives. Rappers have a very big following on social media of people my age in the present clay, and there they promote their music on popular streaming services such as Spotify, Tidal and AppliMusic. All of these are subscription music services where you can download and listen to any type of music on any device and this has become extremely popular in the last few years. Artists have large connections to these services and often advertise with the services to benefit the artist and the streaming platform. Ever since around
From there I’ll give you tad bits of different forms of music. When people heard “pop music” they immediately think of talents such as Michael Jackson (known as the king of pop) or stars like Madonna and Mariah Carey. By the way popular music has long and illustrious history. Getting contributes from many races and nationalities. What is popular music? The obvious answer is music that is popular or at least created with social success in mind. The answer prompts additional questions that complicate the issues. How do we measure popularity? I have a viewpoint, and others may have theirs. Most consider Bing Crosby the most popular singer of the first half of the century, selling over 300 million record. Including 28 million copies of “White Christmas”, the bestselling single of all times. The Beatles rang up even more impressive
Throughout the years, these genres have changed and evolved into perhaps newer or better versions of their former selves. Just like those genres, what the world perceives as the genre of “pop” music has consistently shifted into new
Rap music is a music genre that has been around since the late 1970s and early 1980s in New York City and was pioneered by a Jamaican immigrant by the name of DJ Kool Herc, who started transporting simple rap songs at his parties, which was also by the Jamaican tradition of toasting. Rap has been popular since the 1990s as artists like Biggie Smalls, Tupac, and N.W.A were all iconic rap artists and P. Diddy and Dr. Dre were well known producers at the time and they still are as of today. Rap has become a popular genre of music, as it is mainly heard by teenagers. However, there have been second thoughts on the genre because of the artists using explicit language and content in their lyrics. Rap artists have been heavily criticized musically, personally, and historically by police, political activists, politicians, and even the everyday people for its explicit content. But, I say that rap music is positive.
The story "The Sky Is Gray" by Ernest Gaines is about a day in the life of a mother and son. The family is portrayed as being poor, as were most blacks in those days, and the father was recruited by the army, leaving the mother to be the sole provider for the family. On this day, James, the son, is taken to the dentist by his "mama", because he has a painful tooth. From this story, James learned three major lessons from the incidents that he witnessed that day which are; standing up for his beliefs, working hard for what he wants, and having compassion for others.
The popular culture of music has changed dramatically over the course of sixty five years. Since this time, new genres of music have been introduced, existing genres have changed, and fixed stereotypes have been associated with certain genres of music. Music has become a major part of popular culture, and is portrayed almost everywhere in first world societies, including on television, radio, at shopping centers, sporting events and in every area of popular culture. Music has become a major part of popular culture, and continues to strive and develop into more and diverse areas of culture.
Hip-hop has gained popularity among young people in many countries, such as China and Japan. There are many reasons contributing to its popularity. Firstly of all, Hip-hop dance allows people to