I saw a post recently about a recent release that isn’t really relevant to my post at all, so I didn’t comment under it. But some of the comments got me thinking …
I’ve found that when it comes to girl groups with younger members having sexualised choreos, while it usually gets initial backlash, people end up brushing it off, calling people antis, saying “let them have fun”.
What you have to keep in mind is that idols are *performers*. When they are doing these choreos, whether recording or performing, they are working, not just having fun. And the people who will see these performances are not just other teen girls, even amongst *fans* there will be grown adults who will sexualise them; not to mention they are celebrities and these performances are encouraged and guaranteed to reach a wider audience than just fans.
This is just absolutely not comparable to school friends playing around or anything of the sort. It is made for people to see, to record, to be uploaded on youtube forever. To blow up and hit 100m views.
The management who make these choreos or lyrics even, who clear them, who assign positions or lines to minors or barely legal adults, are willfully exposing young people to ill meaning adults as a cash grab. And the idols do what they’re told because its their job. Maybe they are having fun, but it will never negate the fact that the adults in the situation, the people in power, are encouraging and allowing them to be sexualised.
I’ve seen the arguments that certain dance moves maybe don’t have the same implications in SK … while K-pop companies are actively pushing to popularize their groups internationally and have absolutely researched Western trends & interpretations of various things? Yeah, they know what they’re doing.
We acknowledge that the K-pop industry is predatorial, so we absolutely do not need to be ignoring some of the worst of it.
I havent been in the kpop space much for a solid year, but I’m around the age of the girls I’m talking about so I’m also factoring in how I’d feel — which is, uh, certainly not great in the long run. There’s a certain effect that comes with being sexualised at a young age, that people seem to conveniently neglect to consider with celebrities in particular.
Maybe more people are acknowledging these facts than I see, but it still needs to be said for as long as people are willfully ignoring or excusing it.
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