#by 'most western sounding' i mean like gd covering this love and fantastic baby basically being the party rock anthem of kpop

[undyinglantern]

"how much were you into kpop?" well just like every single interest i had in my adolescence, it was extremely surpressed. given more that 5 seconds to express myself, id start shaking like a distressed chihuahua and feel my entire face and body heat up and break out in sweat

i had a friend in middle school and i can still remember vividly how when we came back from summer break at the beginning of 8th grade one of the first things she asked was if i was still into or if i still liked "those korean boys" or smth like that and the way my soul left my body like 💀💀💀💀💀

my sister herself wasnt into kpop but she did have a friend who was so she was vaguely aware of it. even then the only group i ever dared to bring up to her was big bang bc they "had the most american sound" in my mind. we both agreed taeyang was hot and im pretty sure that was the last we ever talk about them