[ SECRET POST #2125 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2125 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 05 pages, 124 secrets from Secret Submission Post #304.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat x 4 and counting. Bets? ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

ok but.....why? why don't you like girl groups? as an avid girl group fan, most of the reasons people give are ridiculous and make me side eye so. i'm interested.

[levache]

I'm not the one who made the secret, but I feel the same way. My reason is pretty simple. When I first was getting into k-pop, I tried out both girl and guy groups. I didn't like the focus on being cutesy and overly sexy that the girl groups had. The boy groups seemed "cooler," and I tend to avoid things I find trying too hard to be sexy. The songs themselves didn't have the same impact (though that point is probably because I wasn't looking too hard). So my initial experiences have basically dictated how I feel about boy and girl groups. I don't know the reasoning the OP had, but that's just my experience!

I'd be interested to hear from the other side though (so to speak).

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Why I feel guilty is because there's no good reason for it. I don't think the male groups are in any way superior, and I often like the girl's music just as much, I just... have a harder time staying focused on them, I guess?

That's why I feel bad I guess, is apparently my brain is just less good at paying attention to / remembering girls. ._.;

[(Anonymous)]

Different anon. I like a whole lot of girl group music, but other than one or two members (in each band) I find it harder to remember names/get really invested in all of the members of a band. It seems like a lot of the sub-vocalists and suchlike aren't given as much of an opportunity to distinguish themselves?

Like, it's hard to avoid knowing Himchan's name, despite the fact that he has very little to do in any given B.A.P song, because he's The Guy With The Freaky Eyes and has at least one moment in each song where he gives the camera the crazy eyes, but the fourth girl in Secret (The one who isn't Hyosung, Jieun, or Zinger) has never had enough of a stand out moment that I remembered 'Oh yeah, that's Sunhwa.' (I just had to look up her name, hopefully this conversation will help me remember it.) And I feel bad about it, because I like knowing the names of people, but she just doesn't stick out?

Like, I don't experience it as a failing of the girls so much as their styling and style of performance tends to be a lot more "look at all of these pretty ladies" rather than each member having a specific schtick and sticking to it, which is how I more or less got to the point that I can ID all of the members of Infinite. (God, why are there so many members in Infinite.)

[(Anonymous)]

(Same anon)

The reason I don't like/get SNSD is because they ping all of my horrid creepy expoitation of girlishness as a sexualized category feels. I really like all of the members I've encountered in other formats, and really enjoyed the TaeTiSeo promotions, but every time they show up in a full-group performance with, like, pigtails and short-shorts I get majorly creeped out.

Nothing on the girls themselves, everything to do with how SM promotes and styles them. Early Britney Spears freaked me out for exactly the same reason. (Which is super sad, because early SNSD was super cute, and then at some point it stopped being cute-cute and started being sexy-cute and I got majorly creeped out. Sigh.)