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⌈ Secret Post #5153 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

So, as secret provider, Welcome to my TED talk.
This isn't to say that the four girls in Blackpink are bad in any way. The reality is they are each very talented and lovely and have very little control over music releases, marketing, etc.
My resentment stems from Blackpink being positioned to be the one and only girl group held up by the Western mainstream when they didn't produce the quantity or quality of other similar girl groups.
Theoretically, having one super popular Korean group shouldn't crowd out other Korean groups; but in the real world of non-English media, until it hits critical mass, it's basically Highlander rules. There can only be one. If someone in Western media wants to do something with a female k-pop group, it's always Blackpink that they go to. That is changing a little bit with other groups starting to make the push but for years it was like, BP or nothing, even when they weren't really releasing music.
Since many of their songs were essentially (sometimes literally) 2NE1 songs, they weren't doing anything original. But they did create monster hits, no denying. And then dropped two new, nearly identical songs each year, and each year the songs have felt more dated. I'm happy that with the Album, they finally have more material and they were allowed some tracks that let them grow but other girl crush groups have been evolving and growing in the four years as Blackpink stayed the same.
So not the OGs, not the innovators, and, with Twice's sales multitudes higher (and Red Velvet's I believe), not the best selling.
So, it has just been a bit frustrating to watch a group who hadn't even released enough songs to make up a full album get booked over and over mainly for being at YG.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah this is what confuses me about BlackPink. I am only peripherally into K-Pop, I enjoy BTS, and when GOT7 and 2NE1 and stuff were around, I enjoyed their stuff, but BP doesn't have much volume compared to other groups (I really only know of like 4 songs??) so it's weird to me that they're the 'go to'.

Like... how do they do a concert with less than an albums worth of songs?

I don't begrudge any group ever whatever success they have (I've heard the same arguments about BTS, that they've 'stolen' success from other groups, when really they've worked fucking hard for the success they have and still get grossly undervalued in the west), but for BP to be the go to girl group just baffles me.

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt. I don't understand it and that's what frustrates me

Yeah, the BTS one I don't follow the logic. They have been prolific producers of good, varied music and vastly outsell other groups and other male groups have been featured in popular Western festivals and shows. I can count like 10 different boy group collaborations with Western artists without any problem. I can't say that about BP and the other girl groups. *sigh*

[(Anonymous)]

Not AYRT - This is what I was talking about, and I don't get either but it sure seems like a collective middle finger to soft femininity from the West to me lol.

Maybe it's not our tastes' fault. Maybe it's the fault of SME and JYP who have been historically bad, or at least worse than YG perhaps, at promoting their groups outside of Asia - because they don't want to? Because they don't care? Who knows. Or maybe because their concepts ARE underappreciated in the West? Maaaybe.