![]() ![]() ![]() it's almost like I don't want to grow up. She's very girlish and she said, 'People told me, you're getting older, you should stop wearing hair bows.' And I was just like, 'Oh, I guess I should. But a few years ago, I spoke to one of the Girls' Generation members, Tiffany, and she always has had a reputation that she loves pink. So there's a hierarchical background to all of this. These beauty standards should not even be considered for the average person, because that's not our day-to-day life.Īlso you have to remember that most of these K-Pop groups, male or female, they're not the ones making the decisions about what they look like or what they're singing. įrom a visual aspect, there was just an article from BuzzFeed that was looking at eating disorder relationships among K-Pop fans and how there's a big community of fans formed around this. There were over a thousand police confronting this much smaller group of women. A group of about 300 students assembled, and they were facing down the riot police sent there to remove them. Students were really upset at the way that the administration had made changes to requirements and programs, and they thought that they should be heard as students and as stakeholders. On their debut song becoming a protest anthemĬHO: This originates with a protest that occurred at Ewha Women's University in 2016. Every performer is performing, so I don't know why you would suddenly have misgivings about how performative performance is when you're looking at K-Pop. Often male artists are assumed to be totally authentic and transparent and they're not doing any kind of performance whatsoever, and that's clearly a fantasy and not true! So I think expecting to be entertained by celebrities without any artifice – that they're just being themselves – is kind of a silly expectation. Or it can be the attachment people have to an idea of artistic authenticity that's usually only expected or applied to the western genius. I think the reason why they're targeted can range from nefarious stereotypes about Asian bodies being duplicitous or foreign or inscrutable. On the criticism of K-pop idols being " factory-made "ĬHO: I think that K-Pop can get unfairly criticized for that perception that K-Pop idols are these empty shells and that nothing they do is authentic. They were the first nine-member K-Pop girl group, everybody could find someone that they relate to. ![]() HERMAN: debuted in 2007, which is around the start of YouTube's global expansion, and they're not the only K-Pop girl group from that era who really got a boost from it. Actual contact in real-life is built into schedules. This is influenced by the J-pop industry, where idols are people you can go see and shake their hands and talk to them. The other thing that was happening was a redefinition of idols as aspirational but also performers that are responsive to fans with a more accessible image. But the second generation of K-Pop idols, which Girls' Generation is said to be of, the industry starts to systematize, taking young hopefuls and putting them through idol school. What came before 2006 to 2007 was an industry that had successes but wasn't systematizing a production model. On the timing of their stardomĬHO: They reflected what was going on in the industry. So you think of Gee and you think of colored skinny jeans. So a music video for Girls' Generation almost always has something that's very distinct about it. K-Pop in general, the singles are seen as an audiovisual experience you're not supposed to experience it without one another. There were a lot of visual and dance elements that were very trendy and eye-catching. The dance has you making a capital G with your fingers. It also showed the members' distinctive vocals. Gee is a song that starts off really sweet, has a spoken intro, and then it just kind of goes off. HERMAN: The one that everybody associates them with is probably Gee. These excerpts have been edited for length and clarity. Y0u can listen to the full episode at the top of the page, on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Guest host Elise Hu discusses their legacy with culture writer and longtime K-pop fan Tamar Herman and Korean film and culture scholar Michelle Cho. Since they came onto the scene, the then 9-member group (Taeyeon, Sunny, Tiffany, Hyoyeon, Yuri, Sooyoung, Yoona, Seohyun and Jessica) laid the groundwork for many subsequent K-pop groups and even protest movements. The Chosunilbo JNS/Multi-Bits/Getty Imagesġ5 years later, the K-pop group Girls' Generation is still making music and remains iconic in the industry. Girls' Generation performs onstage during the Tencent K-pop Live Music at WAPOP Hall in Seoul, South Korea on August 31, 2015.
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