it has always bugged and puzzled me why tlc
have never received their flowers and recognition from the world of kpop they
can recognize black american artists but it seems to be really selective
no comments
since the naughties i've heard k-pop artists and agencies acknowledge whitney houston bobby brown
beyonce missy elliott and people like m.c hammer
but they don't acknowledge the people who inspired
the rap vocal dance element of k-pop and worse still people think it's this man
k-pop fans often forget that k-pop is a business if it didn't make money it wouldn't exist
nothing in k-pop happens by chance or by accident
or organically it has all been planned let's go back to the 90s
yes
the blueprint for k-pop idol bands from the 1990s to the present day is a group tlc
to all the newbie k-pop fans and some of you may be racist
if tlc had never existed neither would your favorite k-pop idols let that sink in
and that is the reason why you have years and years of
idol training in south korea and you don't have idol training in america
while people do get trained in america that performance skill set happens organically
young south korean producers and performers of the 1990s were also aware there was a risk of
borrowing from black american culture it could work but it also could turn into cheesy novelty
so a good 20 years before alex was high to being black swan sangmin hired mikey to be in rural ways
it just wasn't cost effective to hire black american people
to give you swag on stage so the kiddies had to be trained from a very young age
to have all aspects of that tlc blueprint vocal dance and rap
while all embryonic k-pop agencies of the 1990s
took the tlc blueprint one agency in particular took the piss and took the liberty
is
like i'm in the is zone
there are k-pop fans that exist that think left eye copied h.o.t well just as i thought trash
why just have a boy group copying tlc when you can also have a girl group
well just as i thought trash i never had a problem with the artists i had a problem with the agency
but why do i always feel like i'm in the twilight zone
well just as i thought trash
as ses were ses and not tlc no one could rap so they added male rappers instead
well just as i thought trash
is
the passengers
no one is asking sm or any other agency to worship at tlc's feet but just give these ladies credit
the k-pop fandom reminds me of the old rock and roll boomer fandom where people were born
lived and died not acknowledging the black artists who created rock and roll
the fact the fandom behaves identically shows how far we have not come
we now know the rock and roll fandom was racist because the management and decision makers
were racist things do not drip up things drip down
so using this information we need to look at the management and the decision makers
in the world of k-pop who create this environment yg jyp sm watching these two men closely for
over a decade i've concluded that they're more narcissistic megalomaniacs than they are racist
like big hit management they could do more and they have made mistakes but they give the black
artists that they have copied their flowers and acknowledgements whereas this one doesn't even
acknowledge that black artists and entertainers exist while simultaneously stealing from them
so if you want to kick racism out of the fandom you have to address the management that is the
only way you've got to watch what they are not saying and who they are not thanking
when you get numb skulls in the k-pop fandom that say black women can't do
k-pop and they are actually the blueprint the gold standard for idol groups and the people
who know this and have created k-pop sit down and say absolutely nothing that has to be addressed
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