http://www.wakesidevision.com/2010/09/how-kpop-could-break-outside-korea/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-kpop-could-break-outside-korea Korean & Japanese music of all genres Tue, 21 Feb 2012 04:15:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.wakesidevision.com/2010/09/how-kpop-could-break-outside-korea/comment-page-1/#comment-1095 Jaeho Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:14:13 +0000 http://www.wakesidevision.com/?p=3657#comment-1095 Careful planning and awareness of music trends in the US will certainly help a Korean artist's debut in the US, but it just seems that global popular music trends, like everything else in the world, are beginning to become quite similar. Korea went into the mid-tempo dance phase somewhere between 2001 and 2002, and it was stuff the US did about a decade earlier with N'Sync and Backstreet Boys and Destiny's Child and whatever other groups. 7 years later BoA made her US debut. Like you said, her music was the trend 2 years before, so the time gap became smaller, and Korea's starting to keep up with US trends. There are certain aspects of American music that Kpop artists will have to make adjustments for, such as being more liberal, in a sense. Kpop is pretty conservative, in sound and in appearance, compared to American music, so artists will have to learn to be less...inhibited, I guess. Well eventually globalization will make societies and cultures similar enough so Koreans could debut in the US fine as well as Americans debuting in Korea. The main obstacle in any case, is learning to speak English well (I attribute part of Koreans' lack of success to their accents. Idk about you but it makes it a little hard to take them seriously, like William Hung). Careful planning and awareness of music trends in the US will certainly help a Korean artist’s debut in the US, but it just seems that global popular music trends, like everything else in the world, are beginning to become quite similar. Korea went into the mid-tempo dance phase somewhere between 2001 and 2002, and it was stuff the US did about a decade earlier with N’Sync and Backstreet Boys and Destiny’s Child and whatever other groups. 7 years later BoA made her US debut. Like you said, her music was the trend 2 years before, so the time gap became smaller, and Korea’s starting to keep up with US trends. There are certain aspects of American music that Kpop artists will have to make adjustments for, such as being more liberal, in a sense. Kpop is pretty conservative, in sound and in appearance, compared to American music, so artists will have to learn to be less…inhibited, I guess. Well eventually globalization will make societies and cultures similar enough so Koreans could debut in the US fine as well as Americans debuting in Korea. The main obstacle in any case, is learning to speak English well (I attribute part of Koreans’ lack of success to their accents. Idk about you but it makes it a little hard to take them seriously, like William Hung).

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