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The origin of K-Pop: the musical genre that has dominated the world
In recent times, K-pop has become one of the most unmistakable patterns on the contemporary music scene. Among us, the most popular wonders are BTS (which had it not been for the pandemic would have presumably sold out both dates at the Barcelona Olympic Stadium in late spring) and Blackpink (which filled the Palau Sant Jordi in 2019).
Although the current bunch of youth meetings is perpetual (and not in all cases easy to articulate), with names like EXO, Twice, Itzy, Ateez, NCT, (G) I-dle or SuperM, to give a few examples.
Today, this genre that has caused great impact worldwide rises above the melodic, having become a true social development with a global occupation.
We can discover from specific stores in which music is the most insignificant (as I found in the famous You Liang bookstore in Madrid) to moving studios to try to master their complicated movements, such as the one presented in Barcelona by Espai Jove La Fontana.
What is K-pop?
K-pop is an amazing social movement that originated in Korea with a focus on music, yet it cannot be perceived without a visual style, a social (and culture industry) foundation, and deep global fan making. It rises above the basic brand of fly made for teenagers and has provided astonishing social and surprisingly political ramifications.
It is also called " Korean pop " and is a "local" style of music from South Korea that has the idiosyncrasy of being composed of various types of music. Although it is made up of a wide assortment of well-known South Korean music types.
The term is regularly applied to the music business which is described as featuring Western types of music and styles, such as stone, jazz, hip-bounce, reggae, national and traditional music, far beyond the roots. melodic songs native to Korea.
The most current sample of this style arises due to one of the main K-pop groups, called Seo Taiji and Boys, made in the mid-90s. The gratitude to the various tests they did with varied musical styles.
It established a change in what the music of that nation was, as a result, the coordination of an extraordinary assortment of melodic classifications of unknown nations became extremely normal, done by a large number of specialists about this culture.
How did K-Pop come to be such a global musical genre?
This Korean music genre began to have its first effect in 2010, two or three years before its worldwide explosion with the surprisingly rare achievement of the melody Gangman Style, but also with BigBang's Fantastic Baby.
Today, the style is more homogeneous, supported by recipes driven to success and coordinated efforts with global pop specialists such as Lady Gaga, Dua Lipa or Flo Rida.
One of the keys to the current diffusion of this incredible genre It is through YouTube and a broad organization of proposals that allows meeting new encounters, even reaching the class from different interests of Asian culture.
It is worth mentioning that another component is that the gatherings usually have numerous individuals, with different jobs and styles: some more committed to movement, others more with the main voice and others with rap. An extremely normal component in a K-pop tune and one that adds to the assortment without relying on coordinated outside efforts.
Beyond the music, this magnificent genre would not be what it is without the movements and musical recordings: both have become progressively complicated, jaw-dropping, and dazzling on the outside.
In case we go back 10 years, this last era of animators that Sara encountered, like Shinhwa, BigBang or 2NE1, was more impacted by hip-bounce, as well as by metropolitan music and the feel, and their prominence it came hand in hand -as we have seen so far- with Psy's Gangnam Style.
This obvious release from 2012 shares an important part of the qualities of the genre: suggestive dance music of assonance music and disco music (especially the Euro-disco of the seventies and eighties common to nations such as Italy, Germany or Sweden. ), sung in Korean with regular appearances in English and, obviously, upbeat musical recordings and choral movements.
Gangnam Style was a K-pop assignment, taken to the silliest humor to ironize an affluent area of Seoul. As the class-engaged scene in Netflix's superb narrative series more or less indicates, we must go much further back in time, to 1992, when Seo Taiji and Boys set the stage for a style that would make an extremely incredible industry: a Boys band, with an avant-garde, carefree style and in which the movements and a transcendental mentality with the moderate Korean culture associated with an entire era of youth.
Today, YG Entertainment, Big Hit Entertainment or JYP Entertainment are huge organizations that, in a real sense, function as an industry of skill: they test their own institutes, which train exceptionally young and hopeful specialists for quite some time, through particular cycles, looking for the following progress equation. This is nicely shown in the new Blackpink narrative: light up the sky.
What has surprised me the most about the Netflix narrative is the unmistakable attention paid by the celebrities of the group of four to doing their job "well" (which stands out strongly from the individualistic vision of the ordinarily Western virtuoso innovator) and how they readily recognize that their second may pass or even be impersonated. All these factors have made K-Pop one of the most listened to and idolized genres worldwide and its influence is increasing exponentially.
