I was hardcore fan of KPOP since 2017 until 2022. The best times. BTS got me in. MIC drop sounded a banger to me. Then explored other groups and boy the musics were fantastic! The visuals, choreographs, stage performances, their own reality shows, dance practices man i loved it all. BTS wasn’t overhyped back then, but it was certainly getting a lot popular. Their music is still fascinating to me. Other groups like EXO, GOT7, MONSTA X, Super junior, ikon, Astro, Wanna One, 2pm, Seventeen, Big bang, stray kids, WINNER, The Boyz, Pentagon, JBJ, X1, ONEUS you name it i was fan of it all. NCT kept growing but i think when i first started Lucas joined. Miss those days when i used to wake up and i watched all those songs and wondered why didn’t i find these sooner. Heck i even thought Taekook was real and Blackpink and BTS dated each other. Lmao.
I listened to girl groups too. Blackpink, Twice, Mamamoo, Dreamcatcher, Apink, Gfriend, Loona,G idle, Girls generation and many more. Loved all of them. The peak year in my opinion was 2018-2022. Every song was a hit. Every show mainly Produce 101 S2 was a hit. M2 relay dances were so fun to watch. Until after pandemic.
I am not sure where it all went wrong for me. Too many new fans started overhyping BTS and Blackpink. In my personal opinion, BTS deserved it. But honestly, Blackpink didn’t yet. DDDD was super nice, and the songs before that. But after that Blackpink didn’t really gave energy, it seemed like they didn’t love performing. At that point i grew out of my shipping phase or saying the oppa noona phase. I just loved them and listened to their songs with excitement. Every groups. But man the new fans started to put other groups down. Saying only BTS or Blackpink is the best others are bs. It annoyed the shit out of me. I loved other groups too. As much as it made me proud of their accomplishments, it made me sad that the biased fans put the other groups down and they deserved the praise too. I hope other old multi stans agree with me.
Gradually over the next years, new groups came. But somehow the songs weren’t that much of a bop anymore. Aespa was way overhyped, there were other groups too. BTS stopped singing korean songs and focused on more english pop, it kind of made me miss the old songs. Blackpink barely dropped anything, Exo too, GOT7 left JYP, Wonho and Soojin and Lucas left the groups for the rumours. KPOP wasn’t like before anymore. I didn’t like Butter or Dynamite that much, heard it and enjoyed it but it wasn’t even on the level of Boy with Luv or Fake love. And the new fans just kept on bragging and overhyping. And then along the way, i stopped staning. I wasn’t an ARMY or Blink or Ahgase anymore. I was just a fan and an old lover of Kpop.
I think the biggest reason or flaw of BTS or Blackpink rn is their new fans. And overall the whole kpop is leaning towards how much short clothes they can wear or how many English lines they can add. I might get backlashes for this. But it’s fine I can fight. I still listen to old songs and try out the new songs here and then. I still watch RUN BTS whenever i feel down. I love those boys. So happy for them. But i honestly want them to come back and release the korean bops they did. Together. I miss the old K-pop’s. 2012-2021 were the best years of kpop and it’s the truth. I hope there are some multi stans who can agree with me. My advice for the new fans is don’t overhype it, listen to other group’s songs too, BTS or Blackpink aren’t everything. BTS did make Kpop popular but trust me the old songs are better compared to the new ones. You might think it’s nostalgia but really, the lyrics were so deep. Don’t insult other bands. Try other bands, they are so good too.
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