Golden email #1: The sound of K-pop

When listening to K-pop songs it's obvious they use the same philosophy as their music vidoes. It's never quiet. Always loud. No pauses. Always bright loud vocals right in your face, and ABSOLUTELY NO 2 minutes long guitar solos or other pointless detours that steals the focus from hearing your favorite member sing...

The songs are perfectly mixed so you can't mistake it for being an amateur song. Everything screams professionality. And professionality is, apparently, all about having THE LOUDEST volume all the time so there's no room for variation in sound volume. That's how you know an artist/groups is good before even listening to the whole song. You just hear that this isn't an amateur, because everything is loud...

Even if k-POP is a pop genre there is still room to experiment. The instrumentals are pretty crazy compared to a lot of non-K-pop pop. It doesn't matter if it's a famous group or not, they are often way more wacky than they have to be. And this norm of wackiness inspires to more wackiness. In K-pop you can be dark, edgy or experimental if you want. But after all, it always has that pop strucutre, no matter how many guitars, techno drums or flamenco beats you add. It's all just gimmicks that you put on the pop structure as a pair of clothes. Which is good, I guess, or bad, maybe? I don't know.

/kbrecordzz, 2022-10-26