#but that doesn't matter bc that whole album is fantastic too

[sergle]

as Autoheart fan...what songs/albums do you recommend for a beginner who's looking to get into them....just your thoughts queen 💟

i'm an Autoheart Truther, so I really enjoy All their work so far, BUT!!!! The first song of theirs I heard is Anniversary Robbing Banks is a banger, and My Hallelujah is a flawless EP I Can Build A Fire is the album I've had most luck converting ppl with Rabbit in a Headlight is one of my most played songs

[lesbiancarat]

I agree their album concepts seem pretty consistent with their music (lack of lore, more rooted in reality), plus i also think that more recent ones (FTS, FML, and Seventeenth Heaven in particular) matched the overall concept/themes of the albums well. Hell ive basically given a whole dissertation to my friend about FTS and FML concepts fitting into their overall narrative. I do admit I'm easy to please so i just like their faces lol but yeah its been nothing but complaints since i got here in 2020 😭 i do see people enjoy stuff so its never been 100% negative but those that are negative are LOUD. Should there be improvements? Yeah sure but like the stuff thats complained about never is what really matters half the time

I will however push my "give every kpop idol a sword" agenda tho bc i wanna see them with swords

yes exactly! and yeah that's true, it's never 100% negative, which is also why i think a lot of it comes down to personal preference and not bad design. bc there have been times i haven't liked a certain design choice or concept photo but i see others praise it and vice versa... but yeah it's just the fact that every comeback it feels like there's a loud group of ppl acting like the the album design or concept photos are the most boring things ever and it's the end of the world when it's really not that serious. and it's okay to not like things without making a big deal out of it or ruining others' fun

and i also totally think it's fine to wish for a certain concept! i too would like to see svt with swords!! but also 9 years into svt's career and they still stick to a pretty realistic concept and don't have lore... i feel like people shouldn't be shocked and upset every comeback that this is the case (and i was just using swords as an example i'm not directing this at you specifically)

like maybe it's time for some people to accept that if they want super crazy fantastical concept photos they shouldn't look to svt for that bc it's just not part of their brand. and if some day they do a concept like that i'm sure it will be super fun and cool and we will all be excited! but people shouldn't be upset when we don't get that since svt and pledis have given us no reason to have that expectation and that is also okay. and it doesn't mean the design or concepts themselves are inherently bad

[sugurugetos]

I’m sorry but kpop comebacks haven’t been that good recently especially for bgs all noisy title tracks and choreos are either borrowed from each other or too simple because they want to hop on the tiktok train and I think bts’ recent stuff is better than any recent releases from bgs

i think ur referring to this post and like i'd clarify that i wasn't saying any song was better than another 😐 like bts's releases weren't better or worse than something from other kpop groups (because u know music is subjective) but the point i was making was that bts were hyped up as industry kings (and yes they are! theyre popular / wildly successful / a huge breakthru for asian artists in the west) honestly i have a personal gripe with how twitter armies are like '#AndNothingForKpop #BTSPOP (thus implying that bts is no longer kpop and apparently too big for kpop etc and u know what? i agree that a group doesn't need to be confined to a particular industry and nothing wrong with bts branching out) but then always feel the need to compare to other 3rd gen/4th gen kpop groups to bts

'xyz kpop reached ___ sales this comeback!' 'yeah?! well bts did ____ sales!!' 'xyz kpop group won this award and will perform at a show' 'well ACTUALLY bts stepped onto this stage first'

like make it make sense! 'bts aren't kpop, bts are bigger than kpop! bts are the biggest band in the world and are apparently so much holier and authentic than every other idol' sure i mean what do i know 😭 but then no other group is even allowed to enjoy success bc god god forbid they could be copying bts. but i digress!! very much so!! all i was saying is that for bts to have built up so much hype and everyone was awaiting this great comeback and then there was only like...3 new songs. yet to come was definitely closer to the sentimental sweet sort of song that i'd put on par with we are bulletproof the eternal (and i really liked run bts i was getting jiggy to it) but it wasn't like....a fantastic cb overall and then suddenly they're going into solo activities. and ofc! they should get a break and rest and decide to pursue what they want (in terms of artistic direction) but all im saying is that it didn't live up to the hype :/ like i was fighting for my life w irl friends when ptd came out saying 'bts have really spectacular award show stages and songs!!'

also in terms of bg trends lately, i totally agree that tiktok has ruined the music industry as a whole and a lot of songs are reduced to catchy hooks but it's honestly such a disservice to write off them as noise music.

im heavily biased towards svt so i can't speak too much there but even tho 'hot' was closer to noise/bombastic/loud music, their b-sides were insanely good!! the skz album was so cleanly produced like not a single miss on it imo!!

txt and enhypen's releases have been super good too!! it's not a matter of 'is the music GOOD' because everyone defines 'good' differently, it's a matter of...'are they releasing music that actually changes' like not even just boy groups, i would say so many kpop groups (stray kids, enhypen, txt, seventeen, twice, red velvet, stayc) are at least GIVING something, and concepts that are new and eyecatching w cool choreos (a pretty solid backbone of kpop) but for a group that is the most popular in the world and has had a great discography for years, bts hasn't really given anything new :/