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Fans have to purchase CDs to enter a lottery where, if lucky, they may get the opportunity to line up at a designated time and place to shake hands and exchange a few vague pleasantries with someone from the plus member group. J-Pop has long been notoriously elusive for international audiences when it comes to music accessibility legally at least. Because the J-Pop market is so heavily geared to a national audience, one of the very few audiences in the world that still purchases CDs , many recorded works of pop artists are trapped in this physical realm.

As mentioned, K-Pop relies heavily on an international fan base, and streaming platforms are key to reaching that fan base. Kawaii cute culture is very intrinsically tied to Japanese pop culture.

Many K-Pop stars are sexualised — as are stars across countless other musical genres — but without the prepubescent childlike symbolism. J-Pop breakthrough star Kyary Pamyu Pamyu deserves some kudos for her work in the fashion realm.

Looking at fashion influence in on a broader level, K-Pop stars like G-Dragon and CL have literally influenced the biggest names in the fashion world, having worked with fashion designer Jeremy Scott, who has labelled both the artists as his muse.

During the PyeongChang Olympics opening ceremony, the event organisers selected a handful of internationally recognised and more local K-Pop songs. On social media, there was generally a sense of pride for the acts and excitement for the modern twist on a somewhat traditional event.

If there was one final argument to rest the case that K-Pop is by far the superior form, let it be one from the professionals. A little earlier this year, a Korean pop music show , Produce 48, recruited Japanese singers to compete against the Korean contestants. You cannot perform on stage the way you just did. We and our partners use cookies to better understand your needs, improve performance and provide you with personalised content and advertisements. To allow us to provide a better and more tailored experience please click "OK".

Sign Up. Travel Guides. While J-Pop likes to march to the beat of its own isolated drum, often resulting in the wonderfully obtuse, K-Pop goes down a more mainstream route. Though both are made for mainstream consumption, the unfamiliar key changes and super sweet, high-pitched vocals can make J-Pop a little less accessible for mainstream Western pop fans. We and our partners use cookies to better understand your needs, improve performance and provide you with personalised content and advertisements.

To allow us to provide a better and more tailored experience please click "OK". Sign Up. Travel Guides. Videos Beyond Hollywood Hungerlust Pioneers of love. Lucy Dayman. Focus on marketing. Give us feedback. Read Next View. I hope this means that the popularity of K-pop has to do with general appeal and not just some submissive fantasy of Asian women. The US continues to maintain an enormous military presence in South Korea—some 30, —and this has had a powerful effect on South Korean music tastes.

The K-pop sound, therefore, has a familiar ring to a worldwide audience raised on American pop. Pucca, the oddly-drawn South Korean cartoon, achieved popularity in Europe years before Walt Disney bought the production rights and brought her to the US. Europeans, and particularly the French, love Korean pop culture with a frenzy. Part of this may be because the K-pop sound has—in addition to the aforementioned American influences—elements of big band Europop, and is redolant of old French Eurovision acts like France Gall.

K-pop bands are so popular in France that in April , tickets for a multi-band K-pop concert sold out in 15 minutes, and days later, thousands of French people protested in front of the Louvre to demand a repeat performance.

The story made the front page of both Le Monde and Le Figaro. That said, Koreaphilia in France began not with music, but with film. These days, I know a number of Parisian filmgoers who have a standing policy of seeing every new Korean movie that comes out, just as they used to see every Woody Allen before he started making crap. Independent talent agencies are insignificant; record labels do all their own recruiting.

Like the Monkees or Menudo, the bands exist before the members are picked. There is virtually no room for a Bob Dylan type to start out strumming in coffeeshops and rise out of obscurity.

No US record label would invest the resources to train performers for that many years. A lot can happen to a teenager between the ages of 14 to they could go to another label or turn to drugs. The Korean recording contract, by contrast, is airtight. The performers in K-pop bands are usually not even allowed to date. At all. South Korean tastes, meanwhile, are factory-made and conventional: the country has never had a hair band. The plot centers around an architect recovering from amnesia and re-discovering his childhood sweetheart.