K-Pop (ending)

Popularity and influence

Having visited many different concerts, I was amazed by Korean pop music. The staging, choreography and performance were amazing, but more importantly, I felt the soul of the music. Korean music has a bright future. Quincy Jones in an interview with a Korean magazine.

The largest consumer of Korean pop music is Japan, this genre is 7.81% of its music market, and this share is growing. In 2011, sales of Korean performers in the country exceeded $ 300 million, which is 22% higher than last year, despite the overall decline in sales in the Japanese music market.

K-pop

K-pop (Korean pop) is a musical genre that originated in South Korea and incorporated elements of Western electropop, hip-hop, dance music and modern rhythm and blues. Appearing initially as a musical genre, K-pop has become a large-scale musical subculture with millions of fans among young people all over the world.

According to the author of the music magazine Rolling Stone, K-pop is a “mixture of trendy Western music and high-energy Japanese pop” and “hunts down the heads of listeners with the help of repetitive" clinging ", sometimes in English." K-pop "follows the line of mixing styles, combines singing and rap and emphasizes action and powerful visual effects." Although in Korea itself, this term can be understood as almost any direction of Korean pop music, outside the country, kei-pop refers exclusively to music played by so-called idols similar in concept to Japanese idols, performed in a mixture of the above genres.