Which K-pop group made the first English song?

BTS, currently one of the most influential pop music groups in the world, released their first all-English song titled “Dynamite” on Friday, August 21. The seven-member South Korean boy band has continued to break records and create a bigger pathway for Asian representation in mass media.

Why are K-pop songs in English now?

It makes lyrics catchier, and it sometimes attracts international fans. Also, English is a universal language, while Korean is not. Koreans learn English in school, and will usually take a course to learn English during middle and high school.

What is inside SM’s K-pop concert venue?

The lobby walls are covered with framed black-and-white headshots of SM’s “idols,” as K-pop stars are known. By the elevators are hundreds of Polaroid-style portraits of the same artists in a more candid light, albeit with skin so touched up it appears carved from marzipan.

Why is K-pop music so hard to date?

And even though many, many K-pop songs are about relationships and breakups, labels often discourage dating. What the music loses in edge, it more than gains in marketability. Korea and Japan are conservative societies in many ways, and China, a nascent market, often bans foreign acts it deems negative influences.

Are K-Pop Songs About Love and relationships?

While female groups employ the usual male-gaze clichés—the flirty schoolgirl, the doe-eyed ingénue—the frank sexuality of a Rihanna or a Lady Gaga would be unthinkable. And even though many, many K-pop songs are about relationships and breakups, labels often discourage dating.

Is K-pop shifting South Korea’s culture and economy?

Given K-pop’s titanic cultural and economic significance—the revenue of the four largest K-pop companies in 2018 was about $1.1 billion, according to music export agency DFSB Kollective—a real change in how it operates could shift attitudes in South Korea as a whole.