#but weird premise songs are also iconic. see: im blue dabba dee dabba di. i e i e i im ur little butterfly.

[britneyshakespeare]

whenever ppl make haha funny shitposts about “what if instead of kpop it was (insert another non-anglophone country, usually eastern european) pop and girls were making all these thirst posts about (insert ethnic masculine names that are supposed to sound funny)”

that’s super racist. if u think asian men being the focus of desirability is normalized in our culture, youre extremely wrong. as if kpop fans aren’t cringed about at length as it is. there’s nothing funny about liking music that isn’t made by english speakers. there’s nothing more or less strange about ‘stanning’ pop stars outside of one’s own culture. ppl who aren’t americans/english-speaking do it all the time.

and there’s still a level of ethnocentrism at play in these posts. theyre specifically designed not to seem racist and that’s why they usually use european countries (i’ve mainly seen russia and germany as examples). but to act as if there are no european cultures that are negatively stereotyped in the west, just. like. wow. no. not even gonna start there w the historical hierarchies throughout europe. but there’s nothing funny about ppl being from these countries either. popstars or not. and do you know how much genuinely interesting pop music comes out of continental europe? it is every bit as worth listening to as kpop.