#i would say most of the blame i wouldnt pin on bts themselves but more on their company and fans

[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 :/