Really audacious statement, but part of me genuinely thinks that Cortis was made to appeal to the teen boy experience in the same way that New Jeans did for the girls.
I’ve seen lots of discussion that people have mixed opinions on their songs, especially with how abrasively auto-tuned it is, almost like Carti or Travis Scott. But that’s just precisely because kids, especially boys, like Carti and drain gang and w/e.
Furthermore, their styling has been incredibly grounded, and makeup super minimal. Their music videos for Go and What you Want give like side questing with the boys filtered through the lenses of Tik tok, and “fashion” gives heavy moto, opium vibes, which is just every aspiring fashion guy online. All of these observations together make Cortis feel distinctly like a boy group via the ‘masculine’ lense with much less attempt at courting a female fan base besides the fact that these guys are 100% conventionally attractive.
I think it’s interesting that they’ve seem to really take their male idols seriously as teen boys that want to be cool, aggressive, and flamboyantly boyish in their own way that doesn’t pander to creating more believable boyfriend material for Delulu fangirls.
Hopefully Cortis might court a new audience of more teen boys in Korea and the west that might give them a new outlook on adolescence like what new Jeans undoubtedly did for the girlies.
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