I’ve been a fan of TVXQ for the last few months and the more I learned about their history and watching music performances of them and viewing Reddit threads about how great of a group they were, they’ve become my favourite K-pop group. I love how incredibly well they sing and dance, especially when they sing. I mean, all of them are lead vocalists or main vocalists to my knowledge. I saw a ‘Love in the Ice’ performance and was amazed by their singing and when they sing together. It’s outstanding. I thought to myself, “Wow, this shouldn’t even be considered K-pop” (please don’t get upset, I still love K-pop). I think even someone that doesn’t like K-pop would admire their vocal abilities. Prior to them, I was super into BIGBANG, the legendary second generation K-pop group that was the first of their kind to surpass one million in concert touring numbers. Now back to what I was saying, during this time, was also the time I became less and less interested with BIGBANG. And over the even less few months, I became annoyed with seeing BIGBANG on my Instagram feed. It’s because I’m upset that it was them that became the biggest K-pop group of second generation, not to mention, their incredible longevity especially when compared to their former rivals. Please keep in mind, I do not hate BIGBANG, let alone dislike by the way. Now, with that said, I want to talk about why I find TVXQ OT5 so legendary apart from me glazing them prior. I could be wrong with the stuff I’m about to say, please keep in mind. With that said, one of the reasons is that they were the first K-pop group to make it mainstream in Japan. Although to my knowledge, they were viewed as J-pop artists from Korea, in my book, because they had strong K-pop roots, my point still stands. What’s so incredible about them is that they started from scratch in Japan and worked super hard to get to where they were. In a few years, they became from being niche to mainstream, which I find so incredible. And I believe they are one of the key reasons why K-pop is so popular in Japan ever since them. The second reason is the impact they had on pre-Kpop idols and K-pop idols. SNSD’s Taeyeon joined SM because of TVXQ. EXO’s Xiumin wanted to become an idol because of TVXQ. Now what I find even more incredible is that during BIGBANG’s rise, Taeyang and G-Dragon praised TVXQ in the sense that they observed the way they performed and their music. The other reason is that they were already popular in East and Southeast Asia, becoming the only K-pop group at that time to achieve such a milestone. They were touring in Malaysia and Thailand as far back as 2006 and drew an immense number of fans. Which K-pop group was capable of doing that back in 2006? None that I can think of. They also performed at the Seoul Olympic Stadium, not once, but twice. However, both were showcases, but still impressive. The other reason is that they had a spot on the Golden Disc 40, which I believe is the basically the GOATs of the Korean music industry. The only other K-pop acts of second generation were BoA, BIGBANG, G-Dragon, and SNSD. I’m not sure what the metric is for being on the list, explicitly, but it’s insane how they appeared on the list. It could’ve been another very popular K-pop group of that time like Super Junior, but nope. If they had never split, they would’ve been the second biggest boy group or biggest boy group of second generation K-pop from what I’ve learned. So, that means, they could’ve been bigger than even BIGBANG. I’m really sad that TVXQ never got the astronomical potential that they could’ve achieved. They were already achieving so much during their short time as five. I can only imagine how much more they could’ve achieved if they never split. From more daesangs, to having world tours and getting record-shattering numbers, to becoming a major inspiration for people that want to become K-pop idols like BIGBANG did for other idols.
submitted by /u/ElectrifyingMegatron
[link] [comments]
