With the popularity of Katseye and recently the groups from the Kpop Demon Hunters movie, a lot of official outlets (think news sites, charts accounts etc) have been referring to these groups as “K-pop”.
I was thinking of this recently because I was in the K-pop ON! Spotify playlist looking for some recent songs I haven’t heard yet, and the songs from KPDH were filling the top 20 of the playlist. I guess I hadn’t really thought that they would ‘officially’ be considered kpop songs and be competing with other kpop groups in those spaces.
These songs have also been surpassing milestones that were considered ‘Kpop’ milestones, for example I think Saja Boys became the “first kpop boy group” to reach #1 on US Spotify chart.
I’m not 100% against it or anything, but I do think maybe this is the start of kpop being considered more mainstream in western cultures? I always assumed it would be the other way around, i.e. kpop songs being included in standard ‘Pop’ music spaces, not pop songs in kpop spaces.
Does anyone else have any opinions on this?? Or do you think kpop is already considered mainstream in places like the US?? I’m interested to see how the cultural opinion of it will shift after the massive popularity KPDH & Katseye.
Edit: I didn’t mean to imply that the KPDH groups aren’t kpop, I just never considered they’d be included in all the spaces where ‘typical’ kpop stuff is – playlists, records, etc – because they’re fictional.
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