is kpop really just a phase?

i really haven't been following or listening to kpop for a few months now, but it just really doesn't seem to be the same.

older influential groups are disbanding or going on long hiatuses, musics getting even worse and more unoriginal, along with groups and concepts. everyone looks like a copy of each other, there are so many groups debuting it's impossible to keep track. groups become famous based solely on their looks and/or company while others that have been around for years and work their asses of are unknown and ignored. fandoms are full of rude, condescending, and stuck up people. a lot of these newer idols seem to be problematic. groups get disbanded so rookie groups who aren't very unique or talented can debut or the older group is just left hanging. all you ever hear about is bts 24/7 like other groups don't exist and they created kpop.

i don't know, kpop has basically died to me. i was slowly drifting away from it last year as music quality and originality seemed to be disappearing. then 2ne1 was officially disbanded shortly before the year ended. they were one of the older groups that still kept interested in kpop aside from big bang. other groups like miss a and after school weren't very active anymore and others i had lost interest in due to their music style changing too much for my liking. big bang is hiatus for who knows how long due to mandatory military service. there were some newer groups that i had gotten into such as madtown and hotshot but of fourse now they're barely active and have gone over year without releasing anything. topp dogg seems to be near the point of disbandment.

maybe kpop was just some little pre teen and teenage phase i went through and now i'm growing out of it because now i really can't stand it unless they're songs from certain groups or from 2012 and before hand. i've found that with even groups and people i was in love with before i really don't care about anymore. i try to force myself to like it and stay interested and sure there are songs that come out that i do enjoy, but the spark just isn't there any longer.

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chanbaekiloveu #1 Jun 24, 2017 00:08:41

I understand you and can even agree with you with your points.
My biggest problem with Kpop is the overrating and underrating. Like you said BTS is now everything (no hate) and some groups like Day6 get simply no attention, it's so unfair.
Then there are the new groups. NCT, Blackpink and a lot more I can't even remember because they are too much. Their songs are all the same, the lyrics nothing ordinary, I heard everything somewhere before and the lyrics (example: NCT 127 - Cherry Bomb) are in my opinion boring and have no quality.
I miss the times where Kpop had the originality, where they had, each group, their own style and individual thing that made them stand out.
I hate how all fandoms are hating on each other and become more and more immature, how they take it all out on the idols and people who got nothing to do with the situation! The forever war between Army and EXO-L is so annoying and it just tests my nerves because nowhere you look is peace and only competitions and hateful comments...
The disbanding of groups which happens so many tines since 2015 is saddening and makes me lose interest in keeping up with them. The Queens of Kpop disbanded, and I fear that the Kings aren't going to last any longer when I look at everything that happens, the thought alone makes me pretty depressed.
Yes there are still groups and soloartist that still makes good music but I fear that they too won't stay long anymore and soon just disappear like so many others did and I don't know if I can continue to follow Kpop then.
Actually when I think about it, I still jam to Kpop, I still laugh about their videos, I still watch the mv's, I still try to be always updated and I still watch their concerts and interviews. But mostly my mood isn't that good. Kpop was my thing 3 years ago, no one I knew liked or had known kpop, it was for me and I hoped I could enjoy it much longer on my own, but 3 years ago... Everyone knew Kpop, it was the talk and know everywhere I am I see BTS clothes, but only BTS and sometimes I think there is only BTS otherwise why would so many know them, but then I think about it again and I realize that it's completely because of the overrating. They are a group who deserves to be known yes, they worked hard even if I don't like them (sorry?), but there are groups who deserve their fame so much more. Artist who work just as much as them and don't even get half of the attention and eventually disband or stop making music and I don't want that. I mean it was probably their dream to be on stage and have fans, perform their music and this get destroyed be things like underrating/overrating. And mostly they also get a lot of hate which gets me so mad everytime.
Fans are one big problem too. The sasaengs make me want to vomit, cry and murder. They hurt the idols, who work so hard for them and do anything only for their entertainment, and the only thing they get when they actually have time to rest they are confronted with fans like that, fans who follow them around, install cameras, stalk them, call and message them, hurt them physically and other fans (non-sasaengs)too. I feel really sorry for the idols and I really want to lessen the stress and work that's on their shoulders but really I can't...
I hope I didn't annoy you with my rambling but I'm just so relieved that I'm not the only one who feels like that. I still support my faves and continue to stalk their Instagram and read many articles about them and watch every video of them... But I can't say the same for the newer artists, and that's only because they all sound the same, like really some voices aren't new to me, the same with the concepts, it's all the same...