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Why don't Koreans like ROCK music?


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I feel like the current state of Kpop is severely lacking in new ideas/concepts and one of the reasons being is the industry limiting themselves from genres of music that has yet to be explored such as rock. You might argue that rock music is dated and isn't trendy anymore but Kpop is obsessed with retro concepts anyways so why not revisit the genre? All we have nowadays is Dreamcatcher and Day6 and it's very noticable they reduce the heavy drum beats in these songs to suit the taste of the typical Korean listener.

 

I'd rather have Kpop do rock more than Hip hop. Would u like to see Kpop try out rock themed music/concepts?

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I think koreans like rock music just not anything too heavy it seems.

 

I like the hip hop ones so no. But I also like the rock ones so yes. Stray kids have a combination of Rock + hip hop I think, that's interesting and nice to me

 

same, i hope this is an aspect they keep in some of their music for a long time.

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Isn't it kinda the same in the west too tho? rock used to be huge and bands were mainstream popular in the 2000's but it feels like rock music isn't that popular anymore.

 

Hip hop, pop, edm and indie music dominates the charts while most rock bands/artists aren't very mainstream popular and are more of a niche now.

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Korea doesn't care about variety, unlike the Japanese. You have acts like Bz, Mr Children and many others still pulling millions of sales per year, and still highly relevant in any other areas (concerts, music shows, charts etc). This is not something that you can see happening in Korean music scenes, it's like people don't care about you once you are over 40' or something.

 

When was the last time any other veteran acts (like Cho Yong Pil, SeoTaiji etc) pulling 400K sales for example?

 

The term Kpop exists to represent Korean-Popular musics/culture, not just idols. But the term has been used and associated with idols for a while now.

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The korean main stream rock music scene flourished from the mid 90s to the mid 00s before dying out on a mainstream level.

 

That's just how it goes sometimes.

 

The planet isn't monolithic in their music preferences.

 

 

For instance, Neither Japan or Korea is as high on EDM as China is.

 

And neither China nor Japan is as high on Hiphop as korea.

 

Cultures like different things.

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Korea doesn't care about variety, unlike the Japanese. You have acts like Bz, Mr Children and many others still pulling millions of sales per year, and still highly relevant in any other areas (concerts, music shows, charts etc). This is not something that you can see happening in Korean music scenes, it's like people don't care about you once you are over 40' or something.

 

When was the last time any other veteran acts (like Cho Yong Pil, SeoTaiji etc) pulling 400K sales for example?

 

The term Kpop exists to represent Korean-Popular musics/culture, not just idols. But the term has been used and associated with idols for a while now.

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Korea doesn't care about variety, unlike the Japanese. You have acts like Bz, Mr Children and many others still pulling millions of sales per year, and still highly relevant in any other areas (concerts, music shows, charts etc). This is not something that you can see happening in Korean music scenes, it's like people don't care about you once you are over 40' or something.

 

When was the last time any other veteran acts (like Cho Yong Pil, SeoTaiji etc) pulling 400K sales for example?

 

The term Kpop exists to represent Korean-Popular musics/culture, not just idols. But the term has been used and associated with idols for a while now.

 

Cho Yong Pil's last album did 250k in 2013. Which is insane numbers for Korea(Especially for a soloist) post the collapse of the physical market.

 

And his singles always do well on the charts

 

The fuck you talking bout?

 

He's one of the few artists besides IU that people go out of their way to not comeback around.

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Cho Yong Pil's last album did 250k in 2013. Which is insane numbers for Korea(Especially for a soloist) post the collapse of the physical market.

 

And his singles always do well on the charts

I don't know about you, 250K are average sales for me.

 

And Cho Yong Pil is probably the only one out of those bunch veteran who can still pull that average number

 

 

 

The fuck you talking bout?

The fuck are you on? Pass the weed.
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I don't know about you, 250K are average sales for me.

 

 

 

 

The fuck are you on? Pass the weed.

 

 

250k is not average.

 

There's a total of maybe 10 groups that can do that.

 

And consider that, i said GROUPS.

 

Before BTS nobody in Korea could do 1 million with a single album without a repackage.

 

250k is not average in korea. It's not even Good, It's fantastic.

 

Korea's physical market hasn't been doing consistent million sellers since the 90s and even then they were 1 million, not even 2 outside of one artist.

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i mean Dreamcatcher exists but okay. (the last one is a cover but the point stands) stan talent

 

 

 

As a metal fan, this is what I hate the most

Dull and bland music with 0 originality and character

You can take some elements of pop and some of metal a do great thing, but do metal pop? Thanks no

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