WARNING : SPOILERS FROM KPOPPED.
This is coming from my reaction to watching the first season of the show kpopped and how some western artists act like kpop idols are not worthy of respect. I’ve only watched a few episodes, really the ones with the groups that interested me, but so far there have been two incidences where there was disrespect.
For the most part the western artist totally respected the idols and fully engaged with what they had for there segment of the show, but you had artist like J balvin absolutely disrespecting the hell out of ATEEZ and Vanilla Ice disrespecting Kepler. I’m not fully familiar with what happens with Kepler, but with Ateez they were trying to get j balvin to do a small dance for their performance and he had the audacity to be on his phone and act uninterested. It got to a point where the members had to ask if he was ok multiple times. When their episode ended and they sang bouncy, only Kylie minogue sang along with them and tried to engage while j balvin stood around half smiling and once again not engaging. Ateez took the time to even learn Spanish for HIS song but he couldn’t have the energy to do a simple dance or pretend to sing their song.
When ATINY were talking about his rudeness online you had a lot of Spanish speaking defenders making excuses for him saying ” oh well he’s 40 ” , ” he hasn’t danced before ” , ” oh his type of music doesn’t require dancing like Ateez does ” , and ” maybe he has anxiety and didn’t know how to act ” yet all the other western artist who came put in at least SOME effort, some who are even older than him.
Some western artist truly think that just because they’re kpop idols that they aren’t actually true artist and don’t deserve to be in the same music sphere as them. Especially if the idol doesn’t speak English that well.
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