K-Pop is ten years ahead...but is that a good thing?
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2024
- K-Pop is the P**n of the Music Industry.
00:00 - Introduction
02:20 - the Money
03:40 - R&D
05:30 - Artist treatment
10:40 - Promotion
14:13 - Live Events
18:30 - Tech
22:00 - Merch
26:22 - Fans
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Hi there! My name is Derrick Gee - radio host, DJ and creator who likes to talk about music, hifi and ideas. Thanks for reading this - you really didn’t have to. Much love
I really liked your summary of the Kpop Industry and it's "World Domination Strategy".
What i found more refreshing in Kpop production and business model, is it's unashamed *wink wink* honesty. There's - up to a certain point - openess to the way they work. The way they recruit talent; they shape the talent; they produce the music and the concepts; they prepare the final product - everything has a highly controlled "behind the scences - making of" that lures the fan in on the action, making it feel "part of the team" responsible for the success of their Biases.
It all reminds me of another huge marketing operation - Pro Wrestling. There's this constant interaction and relation with fandom, with the Keyfabe (in wrestling parlance) or Universe in which the Idols exist and the companies operate, informing the way the music is consumed. It weaponizes the workings of the machine to produce content and a narrative for the artists and the promotion of the end product, the music.
This has already existed though lol, this is how the industry used to work for everyone. All the popular artist where highly controlled and shaped by the labels down to the personalities
Love the comparison. What I find most baffling about pro wrestling is how amped you can get over what is essentially theatre. Unless…ppl are in on the gag and just go with it?
Dude your passion is magnetic
i also wanna point out that, japanese virtual/anime idols franchises are huge hits in japan even as early as 2000s and grow even larger in 2010 to this day (to name a few: Vocaloid, Love Live!, THE IDOLM@STER, BanG Dream!, etc2) which also shares so many similarities with K-Pop & J-pop idol industry when it comes with how the music industry caters their fans (promotion, events, merchs, tech, how fans engage etc), but most notably, how they sell stories about friendship, teamwork, diligence, and perseverance debuting as new idol, in a form of anime, manga, video game, light novel, etc.
this podcast content are really something, i enjoyed listening to this while working!
Really nice breakdown, thank you!
Fantastic episode.
Really enjoyed this - thanks :)
You could have mentioned the T.V. music shows and award shows, also the T.V. shows the groups appear on like Men On A Mission and how a lot of the group members appear in Korean dramas...
52 likes??! honestly shocked, should be 5.2k Incredible content.
Much love Matt. We grind away!
To be honest you should stick to the original title and hope it goes viral, there's no shame on some light clickbait