Part 2 of The Unfortunate Shift in the K-Pop World

           It seems like the busy world of K-pop is moving and evolving almost each second. And by moving and evolving, I mean getting to be more and more inappropriate. I said in the first part of my, well, rant about this issue, and that this is especially more concerning given the fact that a majority of these K-pop fans are young.

          These fans -no matter how young or, for this matter, old they are- can have the right to like whichever K-pop group they want to like. So knowing that the young ones are free to like whichever girl group or boy group, shouldn't the producers in the K-pop industry be particularly careful about what they're trying to sell?

           What really brought me to write a part 2 about this is that I heard that some girl group released a rated 30+ music video. 30 as in age. In Korean standards, a rated 19+ is like r-rated here in America and so a rated 30+ is huge. I didn't even know there was a 30+ rating! This scandalous music video has gotten just about everyone wondering what could possibly be in that music video that makes it so bad. Is it something sexual? Violence? Only a very limited amount of people will know. Speaking of which, there's my problem: who among that girl group's fans can watch their rated 30+ MV? Where is the aim in all of this scheme? To get people talking about them? How pathetic.

            There's too many new groups coming out with similar, sexy concepts to count but never mind them, what about the groups that have been around for a while and are pretty popular? That's a lot of exposure to a lot of fans. And even in the age requirement for a MV or even the original song lyrics isn't as high as 30, even the 19+ ones are super questionable. Elementary students can't even view those music videos, or can they? We can all agree that we have easy access to a lot of things nowadays thanks to the Internet and YouTube is a great way to look up those explicit music videos. What's the point of slapping on a 19+ on a music video when it will be viewed to the general public online anyway? But back to the more popular groups that have taken up sexy concepts - what kind of message are they sending to their many, many fans?

           It's makes me cringe to get on news sites that exclusively deliver news relating to K-pop, because a lot of the articles have inappropriate pictures and of course they all include in the title that it's rated 19+. In the midst of all the excitement of following the K-pop flow, meaning listening to all the new hits and checking out a hot new idol group, we all need to slow down, stop and see how sex appeal is being so painfully overused. 

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