J-POP VS K-POP (the neverending comparison)

If you have read my older posts, you would've realised that I'm quite biased. And I write based on my opinions (that are based on facts), so try not to take it too seriously. I know everyone has different music tastes, so I respect that, so if you get offended, note that I didn't mean to offend you, okay?

So I want to write about an interesting topic that somehow keeps coming up. It is the endless debate of which is better between Japanese pop music and Korean pop music that people just love to talk about, for some reason. So I want to settle it once and for all, to end this endless comparison between the two music genres.

Before I start, I want to tell you a fact, okay. "J-Pop" was named by their own Japanese people to separate their own pop music from normal pop music. "K-Pop" was named because Korean people copied off of J-Pop to separate their own. Okay? Got that? Let's start.

I already said I grew up with Japanese stuff, but J-Pop didn't come into my life until like, when I started watching anime. But actually it wasn't until I reached my teens was when I began listening to J-Pop. I then would love to look up the lyrics to the songs, and, since I'm familiar with the Japanese language, even try to sing it.

With K-Pop, I didn't even know it was trending until around 2011 (LOL), and since it's so popular, I would look up K-Pop to see if there's any good songs. When I say "good" K-Pop, I mean pretty boys and girls dancing in wonderful constumes while in some futuristic setting. So to me, it's all about the pop dance tunes and watching music videos with good-looking people in them.

I think when people mention K-Pop, they are mentioning "idols". (If you don't know what "idols" in Korea and Japan is, they are basically manufactured talent stars that are promoted to be hearthrobs.) I think with K-Pop, people are too indulged in idol music that they completely forgotten what true music should be. To everyone, K-Pop is basically idol groups or solo acts who dances in most of their songs, acting all sexy and beautiful, and sometimes heartbroken, while singing about love. That's all there is to it (LOL).

In J-Pop, they have what they call "J-Pop lyrics", where artists sing meaningful songs that are sometimes not about love at all. And even though in Japanese pop, idols are probably the most popular right now, what's with Arashi and AKB48 dominating everything, it is pretty wide range in terms of artists and sound. Japanese pop music is not all about the idols. They have real musicians in J-Pop too. So J-Pop is not about the good looks. At all. They are actually about the music. To me, though, Japanese idol music actually doesn't really deserve to be called real music. Okay, we live in this current generation, so I could say that, and yes, idol music in Japan used to sound like real music, before, in the 80's. But in this generation we live now, idol music it's just about the looks, and nothing else really.

And I like to mention something, can they actually sing? No jokes. Idols can't sing for shit. And I say that to all of K-Pop. And J-Pop idols. Since K-Pop is basically idol music now, I'll say none of them can sing for shit. And J-Pop idols are probably even worse. To me, a singer who can actually sing are those who have power vocals, like they have amazing breath control and can stretch melodies in high degrees. That's what a true singer is. And since idols are supposed to be public hearthrobs, they basically lack basic talents to be a true music artist.

If you ask me which one I prefer, J-Pop or K-Pop, huh, of course J-Pop. Duh. J-Pop has real musicians, K-Pop don't, simple as that. And I also hate, and I mean like burning hatred kind of hate, Koreans. I just hate everything about them. They haven't done anything to me, obviously, but I just don't like them for some reason. I hate their dramas, like when I see Korean dramas I'm just like "REALLY??", I really don't like K-Pop either, not because they are bad, it's just I really hate the Korean language, it sound so bad, it's like a mix between Chinese and Japanese I don't even know what I'm listening to. So Korean dramas AND K-Pop are ruined by their horrid language. Okay, I'm going off topic AND being a bitch, but it's kind of relevant in what I think about K-Pop. K-Pop is also too Americanized. They are like Americans but Asian. WTF. I just... I can't.

So, anyway, this post, even though it's kind of my opinions, you cannot deny that what I said is true. It's just true. That K-Pop is all there is to it. But J-Pop is wide range, and more meaningful. Also, K-Pop is more international whereas J-Pop is more national, and yet Japan still has the biggest music industry in the world, and they are not even international. Otherwise why would K-Pop venture into J-Pop? Because they know they can't beat the amazingness of J-Pop. I also prefer the melodies in J-Pop more than K-Pop. With K-Pop, they get kind of repetitive after a while, to the point where I just don't know what I'm listening to anymore.

To sum it up, people only like K-Pop because they are more Americanized and has good-looking plastic surgery type faces with nice bodies (okay, and can actually dance too), but J-Pop is more down-to-earth and touching, is why J-Pop is so much better than K-Pop.

But in the end, Japanese pop music and Korean pop music are both from different countries, culture, and of course, industries. So stop comparing, okay? You don't see people comparing American pop with British pop, do you? (Even though they are both the same, LOL.)

Don't argue with me.