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it's been a long-ass ride
Jul. 30th, 2017 12:20 pm Since getting into Kpop, I've ended up backtracking on a few groups that I thought I didn't like, but there's one I'll never negotiate on. Well, two I suppose, but the other one hardly counts since they're defunct af. Anyway, so lemme splain.
1.2PM - I first heard them when they first came on the scene and they sounded just like the same style I already didn't like. To this day I do not like their first couple of albums, so honestly, they just started making better music. There wasn't anyone I didn't like except maybe Jay Park and he's not there anymore so there lol. I really love Junho's solo and I like both him and Taec as actors. I also like Jun.K's solo, so I basically fell into them from liking those three's solo activities honestly.
2.SHINee - Honestly, the same situation as 2PM. Their early music is not my taste, but it seemingly changed when Kpop as a whole started to change into the sound that I now like. Tbh, I'm still not super into them though. I like Taemin solo better and he's the only one I really have interest in, though Minho is p.hot.
3.EXO - again, did not like XOXO and I definitely have issues with SM and how the Chinese members were treated, except for Yixing for whatever reason. In GENERAL, I have issues with SM, but like Cube, they train good vocalists these days. Anyway, I love the War and I like about half of their other two repackaged albums. For some reason, their ballads bore tf out of me so I deleted all those from my playlists lol. I also like Baekhyun as an actor and his voice tbh.
Ok, so DBSK is the group that doesn't matter. Big Bang is the other one. Sort of by proxy I also hate YG lol. But mainly, I knew some completely annoying Big Bang stans back when the Kpopopularity started seguing into the Jrock fandoms I was in at the time. I heard some of their music and definitely do not like. Furthermore, I find all the members HIGHLY annoying. You don't know how thankful I am that Hyunseung never ended up in that group. But yeah, they're extremely try-hard and ridiculous and honestly, really fugly besides. C'mon, Kpop is at least half about being shallow, so I'm allowed. I also admit that their super popularity bugs me, but it's just part of the rest, bc obviously I'm not put off by BTS and Exo for the same reason.
There's also two Kpop member standoms that REALLY annoying me. One is Kai from Exo and the other is TOP. Like, I do not fucking get why so many ppl lose their shit over these two and so THAT annoyance definitely colors things too. I'm not saying that ANY of these are GOOD reasons necessarily, only that they're MY reasons why I will never renegotiate on Big Bang.
Unlike the rest of Kpop fandom, I don't judge groups or members on some kind of hivemind standard. It's my personal standard lol and I make no secret of that. That's why, for example, the only problem I have with B2ST is that I don't know how involved they were in Hyunseung's departure. Even though I know the rest of fandom hates them for various other reasons.
1.2PM - I first heard them when they first came on the scene and they sounded just like the same style I already didn't like. To this day I do not like their first couple of albums, so honestly, they just started making better music. There wasn't anyone I didn't like except maybe Jay Park and he's not there anymore so there lol. I really love Junho's solo and I like both him and Taec as actors. I also like Jun.K's solo, so I basically fell into them from liking those three's solo activities honestly.
2.SHINee - Honestly, the same situation as 2PM. Their early music is not my taste, but it seemingly changed when Kpop as a whole started to change into the sound that I now like. Tbh, I'm still not super into them though. I like Taemin solo better and he's the only one I really have interest in, though Minho is p.hot.
3.EXO - again, did not like XOXO and I definitely have issues with SM and how the Chinese members were treated, except for Yixing for whatever reason. In GENERAL, I have issues with SM, but like Cube, they train good vocalists these days. Anyway, I love the War and I like about half of their other two repackaged albums. For some reason, their ballads bore tf out of me so I deleted all those from my playlists lol. I also like Baekhyun as an actor and his voice tbh.
Ok, so DBSK is the group that doesn't matter. Big Bang is the other one. Sort of by proxy I also hate YG lol. But mainly, I knew some completely annoying Big Bang stans back when the Kpopopularity started seguing into the Jrock fandoms I was in at the time. I heard some of their music and definitely do not like. Furthermore, I find all the members HIGHLY annoying. You don't know how thankful I am that Hyunseung never ended up in that group. But yeah, they're extremely try-hard and ridiculous and honestly, really fugly besides. C'mon, Kpop is at least half about being shallow, so I'm allowed. I also admit that their super popularity bugs me, but it's just part of the rest, bc obviously I'm not put off by BTS and Exo for the same reason.
There's also two Kpop member standoms that REALLY annoying me. One is Kai from Exo and the other is TOP. Like, I do not fucking get why so many ppl lose their shit over these two and so THAT annoyance definitely colors things too. I'm not saying that ANY of these are GOOD reasons necessarily, only that they're MY reasons why I will never renegotiate on Big Bang.
Unlike the rest of Kpop fandom, I don't judge groups or members on some kind of hivemind standard. It's my personal standard lol and I make no secret of that. That's why, for example, the only problem I have with B2ST is that I don't know how involved they were in Hyunseung's departure. Even though I know the rest of fandom hates them for various other reasons.
