#so nothing ever gets truly copied directly it usually get's synthesized into a new form. anyways ill stop this is way too long

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orville peck released new stuff?? btw i was wondering why we didn't really get a fully colorful glitter cowboy in kpop as far as i remember... with all of the western adjecent styling it would make sense but maybe that would become to costumy them

hell fuckin yea we sure did anon!!!!

he also dropped a trailer for the full album which is gonna be released in april!!!!

as for why there hasn't really been a lot of spectacle country styling in kpop........well. it's pretty long answer that has to do with several factors like:

golden era country as a genre just isn't popular in the way that it would need to be to catch international attention

country music pretty dramatically changed post 9/11 and the pop country that gets media attention + play nowadays portrays a particular nationalistic message that is viewed uh......distastefully outside of the us. it's also pretty wrapped up in right wing rhetoric and while this is absolutely not true of the majority of the genre and definitely not true of golden era country, it all gets painted with the same brush; country's 'tacky' and 'only about trucks and beer and girls and conservatism' because that's what the image of country music has been to the general public for the last twenty years.

despite a lot of country music's themes being very universal, it's a folk genre, an intrinsically american one at that (i'm not going to get into too many semantics here but it's not totally specific to the us there is canadian country) and folk genres are visually rooted in personal and cultural experience. so a lot of the aesthetics that come with folk genres often will not hit with people who haven't lived that experience because they just don't understand what the markers mean.

the 2000s were super homophobic. like so homophobic. i don't know how to explain this to anyone who didn't experience it firsthand or is not from north america but men do not know how to dress here specifically because the 2000s were so homophobic. like we really made up a whole new word to politely (derogatorily) call men who knew how to do their hair and wear clothes that fit them well. yes it was that bad. and now combine that with my second point. so men wearing bright colours and rhinestones? definitely a no go. it's only now in the last few years that nudie suits have made a (semi) comeback in popular styling in the west which is i think, mostly thanks to lil nas x and post malone/his stylist cathy hahn (who, fun fact, has also done styling for orville peck. i love when things come full circle). but the reality is that the domestic environment just has not recovered enough for them to be popular internationally.

all that being said: there are still a couple of comebacks that have, in my opinion, done a pretty good job of integrating + synthesizing that golden era aesthetic. mx's fantasia, which i think everyone just forgot about? these two stages (it's the same outfits but one set in black and one in white) especially have a lot of the right shapes and ideas, and they also imo do a good job to capture the more casual/workwear aesthetic too. they then managed to do it again with rush hour, but with much more of a talladega nights bend, which is a pretty specific niche to pinpoint, but i thought it was great because it made my top styling list. and nobody is gonna like me for this but sticker maybe actually got it the best? the mv is really great and a lot of the stage styling is not exactly referential to country music in specific but is absolutely based in gaudied up old western (the genre, not the geographical area) aesthetics, which you can see here, here, here, and especially in these purple outfits.

tldr: i don't think people outside the us really understand what and where the 'country' aesthetic comes from and the prevailing us domestic disdain for the kitsch of the aesthetic and the genre as a whole means that it's not likely to get picked up directly by kpop stylists.