There's something I was thinking about that I want to discuss. The thought was prompted while I was listening to Rainy Days by V, a fully in English song. I'm not someone who cares at all whether a kpop song is in English or not but I was thinking about how much it bothers other people. They hate that kpop is turning "too westernized" and want it to stay Korean. But the way I see it is, what is Korean about kpop? Genuinely, what is? Slap Rainy Days with only Korean lyrics and people would have said it's a very Korean song. Its genre is R&B/soul/pop. There is no Korean genre, there is no Korean sound. Kpop took Jpop and American hip hop and decided to make groups out of it. What about that is Korean other than the language? Lyrics often time are about nothing in Korean, why when it is about nothing in English it's a problem? Kpop does not have a specific "sound" and it hasn't since the beginning. The only trademark of kpop is that a lot of the songs have a rap and sound like they mixed several songs into one. But even then, not all kpop songs sound like that, since the very beginning. There have been trends and eras in kpop but it has never stuck to one sound. So now that it continues to evolve, the only real difference is that more songs are fully in English. But English does not equal better and neither does Korean. I guess my topic of discussion here is, what is Korean about kpop and if nothing other than the language, should it be such a big deal when a song is in English? submitted by /u/anonymous_human174
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