Hi guys, there’s a thing I’ve been thinking about Kpop lately and I just can’t find an answer I can satisfy and I wonder your thoughts.
I don’t wanna make this a personal post so I won’t naturally give so many personal details, but as a person who’s been listening to one spesific kpop group for the last year, I can’t really understand why I find comfort in this thing. I love aespa and my bias is WINTER. I discovered their music so randomly and after watching and listening to Armageddon and Supernova MVs, I was in love with their concepts. Plus, their ages were close to mine (22), which was easier for me to feel a connection with their concepts and the members. Then, I’m guessing that like any fan on this planet, I just dug it and listened to their other music, learned about the members, started to follow them on socials, and WINTER was the idol I like most.
Don’t get me wrong, I also listen to other groups sometimes and I really like spesific songs from them but aespa is special for me and I’m not really a kpop person in general. I don’t really understand or participate the whole fanbase fights, comparing charts, hating others to praise your favorite group, etc. I really respect people who love this kpop culture since I got the taste of it thanks to a spesific group I love, but I just can’t understand why I love them.
Yes, probably their concepts aren’t so “unique” or so “original”, their companies naturally want them to be mainstream, I know I probably found THE group that would appeal to me in the industry I’m not even interested, and I know that their main reason is to sell these things to me or else they wouldn’t be this popular, but knowing the “probable” things doesn’t help me understand it. Like, I mentioned WINTER, right? I find comfort watching the records of her live streams, in her look, and I obviously love other members too, but at the end of the day these are the things that companies have shaped them for fans to love and buy them. I don’t mean to buy as spending money. Like, I choose to believe it as if it’s real, continue to find comfort and the companies get what they aim. Why do I feel the need to buy their photocards, watch their videos, listen to them everyday despite knowing that probably every kpop stan feels like that too and I know I’m just one of the consumers that feels the same thing that other million fans are feeling…?
I know behind the curtains they wouldn’t even look at my face or care about me, not that I’m worthless but that they’re just human beings who naturally don’t even personally know their fans. I’m sure they’re not entirely fake and I believe they would care to some degree but, I deeply feel and know the concept or personality I find comfort in are not the real them.
My intention is not being an annoying sophisticated person who “knows” the real face of the industry, I don’t even know most of the kpop terms among fans, as I said I just love one spesific group and I’m sure that the things that make them appeal to me doesn’t change the fact that I’m just a fan like any fan that stanning any group in the industry. I know that probably there’s so many WINTERs that I could find comfort by watching or listening to them. But I’m just trying to understand why I love or attracted to these things and I can’t find answers even if I sort some “bad” reasons on why would I shouldn’t.
Could it be that I see a part of myself in the personality they show/act? What are your thoughts? Why do you love your favorite kpop groups and your idols? I wanted to think and understand about this more.
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