K-Pop is one of the most influencial things that has dominated the worldwide mainstreams. It’s huge success has opened a door for young artist to showcase their talents. Now here’s a question; What makes K-pop so Popular?
Unique Concepts: K-Pop groups are known for their unique concepts. This also gives a certain group an identity, one which makes them known and recognizable.Concepts as Girlcrush, Cute, Sexy, Teen Crush, Innocent and many more. This also impacts they’re popularity as every group has a different concepts that they have portray. This doesn’t stick, though, as concepts change over time.
Choreography: K-Pop is also know for their unique and distinctive dance steps and choreography. The idols’ flawless performances makes it look easy but in reality, it isn’t. They spend hours and hours of rehearsals just to complete a song. There are other times that some idols tend to injure themselves while performing due to the complexity of the dance moves or in other times, idols almost faint during performance.
Catchy Beats: The most common assertion about music is that you can’t really understand and love the without knowing what the song means. Well, Kpop proves them wrong because there are many K-Pop stans who don’t even speak or understand Korean. Why is that? A study says that one element that makes a song catchy is that a song consists of “Long and detailed musical phrases” and K-Pop has just that.
One example in particular is BTS’s ‘IDOL’. [Source] https://www.zmescience.com/research/studies/what-makes-a-song-catchy-science-explains/
Visuals: South Korea is known for their Beauty Products and K-Pop isn’t any different as the Idols has to follow beauty standards that are set by Korean Netizens. These standards includes: Double eyelids, Slim face, Fair Skin and many more. This element is so important that they even have the position for the most aesthetically beautiful out the group.
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