Kpop Indurstry
by MARIO ANDRES JIMENEZ ARANGO
1. Song Lyrics
1.1. All the time kpop songs have a deep meaning or something more simple, a clear example are the lyrics of BTS songs, which touch on issues that are difficult to comment on in society, or the songs of Blackpink that talk about empowerment and not depending on anyone.
2. Impact in the U.S.
2.1. The impact of the United States is due to two groups in my opinion, Blackpink and BTS, these for me are the ones that have the most impact and the ones that opened the doors to this foreign market.
3. Idol mental health
3.1. The mental health of the idols is very important for the fans, but not so much for the companies that always exploit their idols constantly, making songs, performances and music videos every little time, a great example is BTS and Twice, they are always exploited by their company, although the company tries to deny that saying that it is love for their work and music, it is still exploitation.
4. Many songs or discographies have a different multiverse, Red velved Albums always tell a different story, All Blacpink music video songs tell a story from their debut song to their most recent song.
5. The songs always have a great variety of rhythms to reach different audiences, for this reason the idols' positions become important, the rappers are a clear example giving a rougher touch to the song, or adding difficulty to it.
6. The tiwce company always exploits its idols, Twice in less than a year they can debut 5 mini albums and almost 7 music videos, and for each music video in Korean there are approximately 5 to 6 performances, and for albums the primary song has M/V and the secondary has a fance practice or a private preformance, but they all end up recording more than 200 videos per year of just music videos, dance practice, performances, programs, and some interludes that can be considered as harassment.
7. The BTS company also exploits their idols, and they try to cover the exploitation with passion to their work, but fortunately they have more dominance with their work but they have almost no vacations or downtime, they only had a vacation about 2 years ago.
8. Contracts
8.1. The contracts are very large, and can be too stressful for the idols, and also these are about 5 years but can be extended for more than 5 years.
9. Generations
9.1. There are only 4 generations of Kpop, each one has its own impact and most of them have at least 10 important groups for each generation.
10. Entertainment agencies
10.1. The entertainment agencies are in charge of finding people to train and then turn them into idols, after that they have total control over the group, managing it absolutely.
11. The rules may be not to know how to mock, not to show a bad attitude on camera, not to have partners, but it all depends on the company.
12. Generation 3 This generation is the one that has more impact, with groups like BTS, EXO, BLACKPINK, TWICE among others, but these 4 are the ones that have more impact in the industry at the moment.
13. Generation 4 This is the newest generation of kpop and many call it the privileged generation, because kpop was already popular when this generation was created, and the groups are famous much faster than the previous ones, the most important groups are TxT, StrayKids, Aespa and Itzy, itzy are the leaders of the generation having the biggest impact.
14. Generation 1 and 2 These generations are important, because they made kpop more popular inside korea, and only a few groups got popularity from abroad like BigBang or 2ne1.
15. The most important companies were only 3, JYP Entertainment, YG Entertainment and SM Entertainment, but to these 3 was added Hybe, making the big4 entertainment.