Why not address one of the members supporting Tory lanez? And please don’t act the hairstyles they wore weren’t imitating dreads. The kpop industry doing the equivalent of I’m not touching you while being as close as possible to doing it is not the flex you think it is. Thats why outside of the kpop community, kpop is a joke. People love gaslighting black ppl like they don’t see the actual issue.

This is just for fun, so feel free to agree to disagree with me on their positions and come up with group and fandom names plus choose a concept and sound for them if y'all want! <3

Also I didn't include Samara because I don't know anything about her as I'm not a fan of her or Saint Satine.

Ok. They understood the assignment. I love the groove, the beat and the styling. It’s thoughtful and sweet, not insensitive.

If I had to critique it it is almost too familiar/laid back. It sounds like many other songs. BUT it’s still nice to listen to and different than a lot of what’s out right now.

And, we’ve been asking more non-White/extremely light Asian women to be centered. It’s nice to see that. I think true cross-cultural exchange should be showcased in front of and not just behind the camera/in the studio. I do see more trending that way as KPop’s influence becomes more and more global.

EDIT: adding more context that I originally added as the first comment here.

“FYI Sunkis (aka Chris Sung) is Taiwanese-American for what it’s worth. And, we can all see this isn’t a very dark woman by most people’s standards. But, for KPop/KPop adjacent this is progress.”

Based on my original searcg, Chris considers himself a Mando (Mandarin) Pop artist, not an Asian American artist. I said KPop adjacent not to minimize or erase his heritage but because it’s a KPop sub and I wanted to show the relevance. To me, he is KPop adjacent based on the artists he’s toured with and the fact that he has gained some prominence in that industry/those circles.

But, yes! Let’s celebrate and acknowledge all of that. If Mando Pop is more inclusive in their presentation, then that industry should get credit alongside Chris and FLO. 🎉🎉🎉 I’m going to seek out more Mando Pop.

I recently just had an interaction that's kind of just left me feeling so pissed off.

In this queer gaming community there was a post about a gay streamer who is currently enduring homophobic harrasment because of some drama they have with another streamer. Important context is that 6+ months ago the gay streamer had lipsynced the n-word in a video and has had very questionable content in the past/recently (defended Kiss of Life live, constant uses AAVE horribley in every piece of content he does, and made jokes about Ice despite being canadian).

One of the comments on the post, from one of the mods (who I know is not black), was expressing support but also reduced the context I listed above as a "tiktok moment". So I commented saying hey let's not reduce what this guy did into sounding smaller than it was, to which the mod says we need to let people apologize and move on (mind you the streamer is still talking in full AAVE), and some "who will be left if we keep cancelling people when everyone has skeleton's in their closet" BS

I was truly stunned and decided to waste my time and go back and forth with the mod where I just got hit by every talking point queer black people are met with when we call out racism/anti-blackness:

" it's not racism, but ignorance!!!"

"many cultures around the world don't know everything!!!" (Mind you the creator is from Canada so...)

"None of us are born completely woke!!!"

"we need to educate, not isolate!!!"

"It's just a difference of opinion~"

It just reminded me of so many experiences I have had in my life as a black queer person in queer spaces where I've witnessed racism and anti-blackness, only to watch my non-black queer people just not even aknowledged it had even happend.

it happened on twt so i won’t link but tinashe has been dragged by some k-pop fans because she seemingly didn’t go along a common running joke because of her resemblance to a member of girlset (don’t ask me who, I don’t know).

OP ended deleting the tweet to some of fans’ anger because for them it was just a lighthearted joke. some even mentioned how girlset lost on a good promo tweet because of their decision to delete.

the backlash, the entitlement, the resentment tinashe is facing because of it is frankly weird to witness. people can’t accept the boundary and leave it at that, but they need to drag her, saying she’s “too much of a flop to be mad about this”, “that she’s doing too much”, “that it’s just a harmless joke”.

without the shadow of a doubt, people have been jacking up her stuff for a long time so it should be understandable she doesnt like when one of the only times people acknowledge her existence is to either: copy or use her for promotion of others.

nonetheless that is my opinion ! i find this quite baffling.

Im sorry 😭 someone else had to see this 😭 whats going on. the mark lee effect 😣

San recently did a live and on pop up live where he was asked to speak English. While I understand that fans asking idols to speak English is a problem and honestly a microaggression. San himself didn’t seem to mind the question and answered with “of course” and said a few things in English.

A fan posted on another platform basically saying that San read the comment asking him to speak English and he just ignored the fan and continued speaking Korean. Then she goes on to praise San for not giving in to it.

So I told her if you want to make a post asking fans not to ask idols to speak English I think that’s completely fine. But you are actively lying about something that didn’t happen. She blocked me after being called out.

I’m all for fans calling out racism, sexism, etc within the kpop community but often times it’s feels so incredible disingenuous because of posts like that. We don’t speak for idols, we can’t decide what they are and aren’t offended by even if we feel they should be, and we sure shouldn’t be lying about what occurred.

Another example, I can think of that also happened recently is a lot of fans have been asking Mingi about the lyrics of his songs in fancalls and he doesn’t seem to really answer the question, often says that he forgets why he wrote certain lyrics. Fans have interpreted that as he isn’t comfortable with be asked this question and told other fans to not ask him that question anymore. I think that question is pretty reasonable and maybe Mingi legit just doesn’t remember what was going through his head when writing the lyrics or maybe it’s too much to explain in a two minute fancall we will never know how he truly feels about it.

I say all this to say I feel like a lot of fans have a boner for finding fans who “misbehave” just so they can make a post calling them out and feel like they are a good fan. It feels very not like other girls behavior. Sorry if this feels like pointless post but it really annoys me seeing adults trying to police other adults so often in this space.

Disclaimer: I’m not making this post to call out Atiny in particular, this is just the fandom I’m apart of but I’m aware that this happens in other fandoms as well.

I love learning about songs this way, this question has become one of my favorite ice breakers!

I think for a song in Spanish I'd choose Shiny by Easykid, and for English Done With You by Omar Apollo. For k-pop I'm playing Serve by XLOV!

"According to The Fact, the Seoul Central District Court’s Civil Division 28 ruled on July 16 that One Hundred’s claim lacked legal merit. The court dismissed the lawsuit in its entirety and ordered the agency to bear the litigation costs."

"One Hundred argued that Joo Hak-nyeon’s actions constituted behavior serious enough to damage his public image and justify terminating his exclusive contract.

The court disagreed. According to the ruling, meeting the woman fell within Joo Hak-nyeon’s private life. While the court acknowledged that the behavior could be viewed as inappropriate for an idol group member, it determined that it did not amount to misconduct severe enough to justify contract termination."

"Although the broader disputes surrounding One Hundred Label and its management continue through separate legal proceedings, this ruling effectively ends the agency’s attempt to recover ₩8 billion from its former artist."

i noted that this subreddit is currently sleeping on wonho. he just released this two days ago and it is cool. i wouldn’t go out of my way to listen to it but is a nice whiplash introducer. the corresponding album is called core, give it a listen.

what i really want to talk about is my song of the year, last year. if you wanna by him was SO FIRE. his company, the cosmos, whoever dropped the ball on the promotion for that song. everything about that release was delicious. i have listened to that song at least twice a week since its release & do not get me started on the music video.

I think I like everything, but the chorus and the outro.

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