- ♪ Fancy you ♪
♪ (pop music) ♪ - ♪ Rum pum-pum, pum-pum-pum, pum ♪
♪ (playful intro) ♪
- (FBE) So we know a lot of times people wonder why we show
certain things to kids, and in this case,
we have covered this music genre for years now with every age group
except kids, beyond a Kids React episode all the way back in 2012.
- Is it K-Pop?
- (FBE) The genre is called K-Pop! - (screams) Yes! K-Pop, I love K-pop!
I love K-Pop so much!
- It's like a genre of music,
with like different genres of music inside of it.
- (FBE) So all the artists today we have covered before
with other generations, but for the first time
we get to get a kids' perspective, and we're sure we'll cover them again
with other people down the line. - Okay.
- (FBE) So we're gonna start with a girl group called TWICE.
- Oh my gosh, I love TWICE!
Oh my gosh, they are literally amazing!
I have to breathe, I have to breathe!
Oh my gosh, I'm so happy!
- Let me count. One, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight, nine. Nine girls!
They look pretty! - That's a band?
Pretty big band. - Twice means double.
It's nine, but like if they had eight, then I would understand
why TWICE would be the name, because four times two equals eight.
- For K-Pop, that's like a pretty average number, I would say.
'Cause there is like big groups.
There's like NCT, they're 17, like, hmm.
It can really vary, so nine's not that bad.
♪ (pop music) ♪
- Whoa!
- ♪ (singing in Korean) ♪
- Mmm...
- ♪ (singing in Korean) ♪ - What the heck?
- ♪ (singing in Korean) ♪ - I like it!
Especially chocolate ice cream!
- ♪ (singing in Korean) ♪
- I notice that K-Pop videos have so many colors in them,
and it's like a big festival all the time.
- Oh my gosh, this song is such a bop!
Like literally, I heard it and I was like...
- ♪ (singing in Korean) ♪ - The beat!
- They're good at dancing, it's just I really don't get the song.
- ♪ (singing in Korean) ♪
- Tight! But they're speaking a different language,
so I have to read.
- ♪ (singing in Korean) ♪
- Oh my gosh! - ♪ Fancy you ♪
♪ (singing in Korean) ♪
- They're like the songs you would find in an arcade,
and then you do the dancing where you have to put your foot
on the different pads. - You think it's gonna be
completely different from what they usually do,
but it still has like elements of TWICE.
- ♪ (singing in Korean) ♪
- Love the outfits though.
- ♪ (singing in Korean) ♪
- Paperclips? Wow.
- ♪ (singing in Korean) ♪
- I liked it, I like that one a lot. - That might be my favorite song.
- It's full of like-- - So people who speak their language
get their language like, kinda understand them,
and people who speak English can understand that.
- I love their outfits. It just, they all look amazing.
There's like nothing I don't like about it.
It's just really good! - It's so good!
It's literally such a bop! On repeat! On repeat all day!
- (FBE) The band GOT7 is up next with their single, Eclipse.
- Wait, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
I think it's called GOT7 'cause there's seven people?
- I've heard of GOT7, but I haven't really listened
to a lot of their music, really. There's Jackson, there's BamBam,
and that's all I know.
♪ (GOT7, "Eclipse") ♪
- Why are they sad?
- ♪ (singing in Korean) ♪
- Okay, I love that leaning room effect.
All, it seems like K-pop bands have the best music video effects.
- ♪ (singing in Korean) ♪
- I like this song better than the first song.
- ♪ (singing in Korean) ♪
- Ready? The beat is about to drop.
- ♪ I'm afraid, here I go again ♪
♪ (singing in Korean) ♪
- I think I could understand the girl band more well
than this one.
- ♪ (singing in Korean) ♪
- Their dancers are just so cool.
- ♪ (singing in Korean) ♪
♪ I'm gonna win this fight ♪
♪ (singing in Korean) ♪
- Why don't they do this? He just covered his face like this.
- Why are they covering their eyes?
Is there like something we're not supposed to see?
- ♪ (singing in Korean) ♪
- Oh my gosh, like, I didn't think I would like this as much as I do.
- ♪ (singing in Korean) ♪
- Okay, I like this one a lot better than the first one.
I feel like the first one, when the girls dance,
I feel like they danced a little better,
but I feel like the boys sang better.
- I like the whimsical-ness. - And the like shazam!
With glass, and they probably paid it a lot of money for it.
- It's so different from like things that we have in America,
like you wouldn't see that in a music video!
The choreography with the music videos it really makes you think
like why do we not step it up?
- (FBE) Up next is the group MONSTA X.
- I've heard of this group.
- Isn't that like the thing that they mentioned in We Bare Bears?
I didn't know they were actually real.
♪ (pop music) ♪
- I have no clue from this picture why they call it "Monster X".
They don't look like monsters at all.
(car engine revs)
(music screeches)
- It looks scary!
- ♪ Alli-alli-alli-alligator ♪
♪ Alli-alli-alli-alligator ♪
- Why are they saying al-al-alligator? - ♪ Alli-alli-alli-alligator ♪
- Alligator! - ♪ Alli-alli-alli-alligator ♪
- Wait, were those the Blue Men? - ♪ Alli-alli-alli-alligator ♪
♪ (singing in Korean) ♪ - Nice!
♪ (singing in Korean) ♪ - It's pretty cool actually.
- Why have I not listened to this before?
I'm not very smart!
- This song is probably the weirdest out of all of them.
- ♪ (singing in Korean) ♪
- Not bad, I wish it dropped harder, like a big difference,
but like, I'm not mad at it.
- ♪ (singing in Korean) ♪
♪ Alligator ♪ - Alligator!
- ♪ Alli-alli-alli-alligator ♪ - ♪ Alli-alli-alligator ♪
- ♪ Alli-alli-alli-alligator ♪ ♪ Hello I'm an alli-alli-gator ♪
♪ (singing in Korean) ♪ - Too much things at once, oh my gosh!
- ♪ Banger ♪ - You're right, this is a banger!
Oh my gosh, I'm like, so much stuff happening at once
and I'm like this is amazing. What's, the visuals, the choreography.
It's too much at once. There's a lot of K-Pop idols
that are trying to like break into the U.S.,
and so, I think that before, K-Pop was just like a Korean thing.
It's like their thing, but now I feel like K-Pop
has really come into the West.
- That was more of like a beat one. Yeah, I like that one,
'cause it was like (whispers) ♪ Alli-alli-alligator ♪
- It was good, but it was really weird how they just start doing,
just bumping their heads, it got too creepy.
- (FBE) And now we have the girl group BLACKPINK.
- (screams) Yes! Oh my God, oh my god, okay.
Yes Rose, Jisoo get it girl, ay!
Look at Rose, do you see her outfit? Girl. (snaps fingers)
- They all look like in flashy clothing.
- Before they came out, there was kind of like a shortage
on like girl crush concepts, I would say.
Those that were doing it, they weren't really big.
So for like YG to come out with them, oh my gosh, such a banger.
♪ (pop music) ♪ - ♪ Yeah ♪
- Jennie, killing us every day. - ♪ Yeah BLACKPINK in your area ♪
- ♪ (singing in Korean) ♪
- BLACKPINK really sets the mood.
- ♪ (singing in Korean) ♪
- This group honestly has the best like uh, music.
- ♪ (singing in Korean) ♪
- Is that cereal?
♪ (singing in Korean) ♪
- Like what is that? But it's gorgeous.
Is that coral reef on her head? But I don't care!
- ♪ (singing in Korean) ♪
- I like this song.
- ♪ (singing in Korean) ♪
- I just wish they would release a full album for once.
- This song is different from all the other ones, for sure.
- ♪ (singing in Korean) ♪
- Sounds like they're in a really hard relationship.
- I'm gonna do it, ready? - ♪ (singing in Korean) ♪
♪ Let's kill this love ♪ ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
♪ Let's kill this love ♪ - It's really unexpected.
(screams) Let's kill this love!
- Dude, their dancing is like perfectly synchronized and all.
- ♪ Rum pum-pum, pum-pum-pum, pum ♪ - ♪ Let's kill this love ♪
♪ Rum pum-pum, pum-pum-pum, pum ♪
♪ We all commit to love ♪ ♪ That makes you cry ♪
- Their English sounds pretty good.
- Oh, they have the soldiers. ♪ Love that kills you inside yeah ♪
- ♪ We must kill this love ♪ ♪ It's sad but true ♪
♪ You gotta kill this love ♪ ♪ Before it kills you too ♪
- ♪ You gotta kill this love... ♪
- These people like to say the word kill.
- ♪ Kill this love yeah sad but true ♪ ♪ You gotta kill this love ♪
♪ Gotta kill this, kill this love ♪ - Oh my gosh!
Holy shiitake mushrooms!
I can't, I can't do it, I can't do this.
I'm a total blank.
- Why do they want to destroy this love though?
Probably because their true love left them
and now they're back to destroy.
- This one had more coherent lyrics. I'd probably listen to that.
- They're dedicated, and you need talent, cooperation and dedication
just to get this far, and it really pays off for them.
- (FBE) So as we mentioned, we haven't covered K-Pop
on Kids React since early 2012, and we wanted to see
what opinions may have changed since then.
So how old were you again in 2012?
- Probably never even born!
- I wasn't even alive. Actually no, I was one.
- I was like four years old,
and probably in kindergarten or something.
- 2012, I was five. I didn't even know
what K-Pop was back in 2012. Like, legit, no joke.
I didn't even know what BLACKPINK was like six months ago.
- I'm so sad that I didn't get into K-Pop sooner.
Like, I had heard of it for so long, and I was like oh, I'm fine, I'm good.
And then I just like fell down the hole.
- (FBE) So back in the first Kids React to K-Pop episode,
not a single kid in that episode had heard of K-Pop.
Do you think that that's changed?
Do you or your friends know about K-Pop?
- Well, um... I don't know, they never talk about it.
- None of my friends know, but all my cousins do.
I've actually never heard any K-Pop until today.
- That's probably the most thing we talk about is K-Pop.
- Back then, K-Pop had, it was heard of here in America,
but it wasn't definitely, as big as it is now.
- (FBE) Well if you were to take a guess what or who
do you think are the two fastest videos on YouTube
to ever hit 100 million views?
- Um, probably like... Maybe sports or something?
- Is it K-Pop?
- I would probably think it's FBE or K-Pop.
- Probably BLACKPINK's Kill This Love,
'cause not even, I don't even think it was a day,
it reached 100 million views.
And I also think it was Taylor Swift's Me.
- I know that it is definitely Boy With Love is number one.
Number two is Kill This Love. 'Cause I streamed that stuff.
- (FBE) Well currently, the K-Pop group BTS
and BLACKPINK hold the top records for fastest videos
to hit 100 million views. - What? How? How?
- Well because probably all of the, they're known all over the world
and all, and that really pays off.
- I remember Ariana Grande with Thank You, Next got up there.
And then BLACKPINK was like "Hey sis, um, bye!"
- (FBE) So when you compare our Kids React to K-Pop in 2012,
when no kids knew about K-Pop, to now with the massive success
they're having online and on tour, and on the music charts,
from your perspective, why is K-Pop becoming so popular
all over the world? - Because their music is great!
- And their dancing is... - Great!
- Now you even see people in the YouTube comments,
the most popular band, I think out there is BTS,
because every time I'm like just looking at comments on videos,
somebody has a BTS picture, and everybody's commenting army!
- Their music is just so good. It reaches out to the audience.
Choreography, like you can learn it. It makes you feel like
you're more connected with the artist,
and then with things like having a bias,
and then thinking about stanning different groups
and then like comebacks, and then buying the album,
and people like showing their photocard.
It really makes you more invested in it,
to keep going throughout the years.
- Thanks for watching this episode of Kids React.
- Shout out to Kiah Brown!
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