BTS or something I don't know the actual name of it BTS. BTS. Ah BTS
Nope.
You don't like it? Nope.
No, I can't stand it
I tried to learn Korean but um I quit it was hard
In my last video I asked Australians what they know and think of South Korea but I thought I
would follow up with a few questions about kpop to find out if the average
Australian listens to kpop or even knows what it is
Do you know what k-pop is?
yeah it's Korean pop
I do
I'm familiar with kpop
Yeah yeah
Yes. Korean pop.
I don't. You've never heard of it? Kpop? Nope.
Yeah unfortunately I know what kpop is
I know what k-pop is, many of my friends are very much obsessed with kpop
and it's like all they talk about
I do know what k-pop is I'm a music producer
Can you explain it for someone that might not know?
I guess it's sort of
their version of an American Americanized pop sound that you know is
catered and marketed to well it was originally marketed to the Korean fans I
guess but now it sort of made its way into mainstream pop culture especially
Western culture you're starting to see a lot of our Western sort of
anglo-saxon people following following k-pop and really investing into the
artists that are coming out of the country which is you know it's good
It's just like a hundred percent Taylor Swift style Korean lyric pop music yeah it's
the best words I got for
Dancing singing in Korean
it's like Korea's Korean music essentially Korean pop hence kpop
It's like Japanese pop but Korean pop
Ohh yikes
no no no no no no no okay don't put that in
It's very bubbly and happy I guess I don't really listen to it too
much but it's pretty cool
It certainly has very little in common
with more Western pop music it's I think their music itself is tends to have a
lot more melody based and a lot of it's um the building of each of the songs and
it's always a lot of these like boyband kind of stuff girl bands all this very
much it's very theatrical on the on the stage these big performances with all these very
crazy effects in music
Do you listen to kpop or have you listened to it?
I don't listen to it myself but I have heard some some stuff
I've listened to kpop
Do you enjoy it? It's good for what it is it's just that little bit of happiness
that you need when you've been drinking for a few hours
I don't actively listen to it I know there are many and I like I always see a
lot of BTS fans a lot of BTS fans yeah they're crazy K army
I do not like it I would not listen to it voluntarily
No I do not listen to kpop at all
Oh look I don't mind it when I'm watching a box box clip but like 10 seconds of it's
enough
I listen to kpop because like there's lots of like deep meanings in
the lyrics and people just think it's like I don't know like why do you
listen to it you can't understand like I always read the lyrics and everything and it's
like, I like k-pop.
No, I can't stand it. No.
Why not? I listen to post-punk and no k-pop
just definitely not for me I don't listen to really English pop so
No I don't listen to it, I have a lot of friends that do and I guess it's more of like a it's less of
like being Korean and pop music but more of like the specific culture of kpop
I don't actually listen to kpop I've seen some of the video clips and the
girls are a bit are they're nice on the eye if I can say that but uh yeah no
it's still, as a music producer I believe that there's a time and a place for
every sort of music and kpop is you know welcome
I've heard a bit on the radio like just that really main song that was by I think it was like BTS
I don't know the actual name of it but it was something about love like I've seen the film
clip the film clips are like so over the top and really cool
I watched a little bit a few years back yeah on SBS And you liked it?
Yeah it was great and then it got a little bit scary scary yeah just like it was
just like a massive massive institution
Not really no no I don't I don't listen
to pop in general I'm more like a rock indie guy
No no I don't like k-pop
because I speak Japanese and I'm yeah my Korean is not so good but yeah I lived in
Japan for seven years so I'm probably more biased to j-pop and j-rock and that
sort of thing
I've heard like maybe two songs Do you like it? It's okay
Are there any k-pop artists that you could name BTS BTS I just know BTS oh
there's like black pink that's like a chick version of BTS I think babymetal
BTS that's it. BTS cos my sister had a kpop phase I know that one yes I know
there's BTS and I think there's X O oh yeah BTS is like the really popular one
BTS oh yeah BTS is fire. BTS is actually really fire.
Like EXO is one of them like one of
the girl ones BTS exactly like I feel like that's one of the exceptions though
because like so many people from Australia even though they can't speak
or understand much Korean the like BTS is still really a big boy band in
Australia I would recognize Luna I would recognize them because you see a
lot of them on kids social media and whatever BIGBANG BTS 17 I like this
underrated group vixen I can't say victin black paint. So are you
learning Korean or it's just enjoyable anyway? I tried to learn Korean but um I
quit it was hard. But you still listen to kpop? yeah, I don't know. There's subtiles you know
Um I don't speak Korean no. So why is it still interesting, is the language not a barrier?
It just sounds cool No no definitely not because I listen to music
in other languages and I don't know language. I don't know the words but it
is pretty enjoyable got some friends who are learning Korean so they tried to
explain it and most of the time I just told them to shut up and just let me
listen I think a lot of people still enjoy it without knowing the language
because I know a lot of my sort of Chinese friends they love kpop and
they're not Korean but then again there are I have Korean friends who also love
kpop so I think it's a bit of both I guess yeah one of the reasons why I
wouldn't it wouldn't be my go-to choice of music would be because of the
language barrier it is quite kind of hard to understand what the context or
the themes of the songs are You don't need to know Korean to like kpop when
I first heard of kpop I like hated it I was like what the hell like then if I
gave it a try and listened to it like there's so many like different variety
shows like all these like funny things it's like it's like it's confusing it's
like a whole different like world.