Fenriswolf posted...
Apparently many Koreans today stopped listening to K-pop since they feel K-pop has been too internationalized and are targeting foreign audiences at the cost of domestic audiences. They moved on to other forms of pop like trot, an older style of pop that sound more like disco.
Trot boom is so stupid. Even like around 30 years ago, it was deemed a pretty dated style of song. This is like if suddenly old flamboyant hair metal suddenly became the biggest genre, and you get muscly dudes in spandex and long dry curly hair being the forefront of media
It's also silly because you have genuinely really fucking good singers trained classically also take up the genre cuz it's so popular. It feels like a waste of talent but it's not like he was earning bank on his original genre.
This boom happened because of a tv show competition (Mr. Trot) and persisted probably because it's the most Korean centric thing in the goddamn world. Also it appeals to like a 50+ year range of audience, and modern K-pop realistically only appeals to like 10-20 years of range of ppl.