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Rant: Double Standards: Male vs. Female Idol Bonding
Throughout the years, it's been revealed numerous times by male idol groups such as SHINee and Big Bang that all the members aren't 'best friends' with each other nor have a strong and intangible 'bromance' (in fact, SHINee's Onew revealed that his feelings for his fellow group members doesn't exceed beyond 'co-worker' level). Most male groups put on a brave face, perform a good show then, later in the evening (whether or not they've been together for years and years, through the sweat, blood and tears of training and the sasaengs, hard schedules and painful diets), still don't look at each other as 'brothers other mothers' nor have those little fandom terms like 'SHINeeBond' or 'Power of the Thing Scientists Claim Started the Universe'. Yet still, after all these somewhat shocking secrets of a lack of bonding within the male group are released for the world to see and hear, full fandoms continue to stay strong by the male's side, caring for them and protecting them with every last bit of their strength (which is most of the time, annoying) however, on the other side, when a similar or even lesser 'incident' happens within a female group in which there is the slightest bit of controversy or drama going on amongst the members, it weighs so heavily on them that some even get attacked with death threats and petitions for disbandment... everyone wanting to get to the bottom of why the girls aren't getting along and who's to blame for the 'disruption of peace' within the group. And though everyone is so caught up in what seems like petty arguments between members, the question people should be asking isn't 'Why is this girl group fighting?' and instead, 'Why is there such a double standard?'.Whether you like it or not SONEs, Taeyeon and Jessica either are not the bestest of friends currently or have had a long awkwardness towards each other before. In fact, it goes to show that a lot of Girls' Generation aren't exactly the bestest of friends (whether it's simply one day's arguments or just a prolonged indifference towards another member) and don't skip and fart unicorns in their dorms 24/7, don't constantly talk about their 'girl' (since of course, they don't age) problems while scooping a thousand scoops of Gangnam Style-flavored ice cream from sugar-coated rainbow spoons and having to deal with with the heartache of singlehood (since of course, they've never dated before, either), indigestion, menstrual cramps and anything else a typical female deals with during her lifetime.
Is that a shocker for some of you?
Really, it shouldn't be, the struggle to be friends 'forever and ever' with fellow group mates already exhibited or hinted by few groups, specifically in T-ara where Jiyeon, maybe didn't admit to bullying however, admitted there was less bonding with ex-member Hwayoung--which turned scandalous--, whereas in B.A.P, Zelo vented his frustrations of always being picked on or thought less of because of his age from the rest of the group members--which turned not so scandalous.
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But why is it so hard for female groups to not be goody-goody, lovey-lovey with each other if they group truly isn't--females getting into controversies over simply not smiling or loving each other with all their hearts and esophagus while males idol groups having the ability to have hatred and disputes amongst their members (exhibited by B.A.P Youngjae vs. Zelo in Killing Camp) and get the get-off-scot-free card. Really, why? What's with this double standard?
I think it's because most people have the belief that girls (regardless of mood swings, periods and of course, simple proneness to spread gossip and seriously just wanting to smack a bitch every five seconds) in the idol industry are perfect and have no problems at all--or at least are marketed that way--and when even the slightest thing is revealed (for example, Girls' Generation Jessica and Hyoyeon almost got in a fight! Oh no, stop the presses!) it's so outrageous yet guys have always seen to be tougher and less caring of one another therefore having the ability to not care for one another and no one gives a shit. Regardless, though women and men are marketed differently in the industry, people should maybe try to understand that maybe one day CL won't like Bom because she ate all her corn, or maybe the next day, Jaekyung feels the need to slap Woori for stealing her boyfriend since the boyfriend prioritizes tits and ass over her and that there's always going to be conflict even with friends for years and years... it's just human nature. Female idols are not locked in a happy prison in which they have to smile and wave like puppets on strings all the time because they're human-beings just like me and you... and if surely one side of the coin can do it, the other side should be able to do it, too.
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I think it's because most people have the belief that girls (regardless of mood swings, periods and of course, simple proneness to spread gossip and seriously just wanting to smack a bitch every five seconds) in the idol industry are perfect and have no problems at all--or at least are marketed that way--and when even the slightest thing is revealed (for example, Girls' Generation Jessica and Hyoyeon almost got in a fight! Oh no, stop the presses!) it's so outrageous yet guys have always seen to be tougher and less caring of one another therefore having the ability to not care for one another and no one gives a shit. Regardless, though women and men are marketed differently in the industry, people should maybe try to understand that maybe one day CL won't like Bom because she ate all her corn, or maybe the next day, Jaekyung feels the need to slap Woori for stealing her boyfriend since the boyfriend prioritizes tits and ass over her and that there's always going to be conflict even with friends for years and years... it's just human nature. Female idols are not locked in a happy prison in which they have to smile and wave like puppets on strings all the time because they're human-beings just like me and you... and if surely one side of the coin can do it, the other side should be able to do it, too.
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Rant: Double Standards of K-Pop: PSY vs. Girls Generation
Numerous people (mostly SONEs) continuously express their obvious butt hurt of PSY being number one, by already preaching that PSY would be a one hit wonder whereas if their unnirs made it into the US market, they'll be in the eyes of Americans until disbandment--which will never happen; SONEs show their butt hurt when simply hearing rumors of a SM Entertainment's new girl group debut. At first, I would shrug it off and just accept that some fans are more butt hurt than others, however, now, after seeing the redundancy of that statement, I question why others think it will be Girls Generation who becomes the reigning global icons as opposed to PSY who will only reign in our memories after all the Gangnam Style hype goes down and I can only bring myself to one reasonable answer.
Double Standards.
For starters, I've heard repeatedly that people only like Gangnam Style because "it was funny". However, there's obviously more elements to Gangnam Style's popularity, because if it were true that only the comedy made PSY a global star, not only would every single funny video previous to PSY's advancement and after would have grasped the hearts of nearly 1 billion viewers, but also PSY wouldn't have reached almost one billion viewers, became most liked YouTube video, became most viral video and reached #1 in almost every single country in only the matter of 5 months.
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Crazy No - Musiche aka very funny video released October 5, 2012
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Seeing that there has not been any other funny videos topping charts within the last few years (if there are, you can disprove me), I would like to bet my entire life savings that Gangnam Style received all the popularity due to it being distinct and unique than comical. Furthermore, seeing a video in which has a memorable horse riding dance, sung only in Korean with the exception of "Hey, Sexy Lady" with a video with obvious effort put into it would appeal more to me than 9 girls walking, twisting and turning, singing in fluent Engrish with the exception of Tiffany (who's starting to get an Engrish accent) and Jessica dancing in a large box.
In addition, I've seen numerous amount of times that Gangnam Style only became popular because it was catchy. I find no logic in that statement, because isn't that what a song's supposed to be? Catchy? Easy to listen to? Not reiterating how they'll bring the boys out with a half-assed video to add the icing to the cake of a half-assed excuse for a song?
So why must there be a double standard for PSY in YG Entertainment when it comes to K-Pop fans, when if the same recognition were to happen to Girls Generation in SM Entertainment, no one would hear an end to the SONE boasting. Girls Generation - The Boys was nothing but a product of the garbage songs SM Entertainment has been throwing out ever since 2009 when they experienced their downfall in quality music but gullible 8 year old fans still continuously catch. The composition was by no means even acceptable for South Korea and well-established K-Pop fans to listen to, so why should the world have to love a song that was remade into an Engrish, a horribly pronounced Japanese version and a maxi-single in which 7 of those 8 remixes sucked and the only somewhat tolerable one was Teddy Riley's, in which wasn't even that audible either.
Why can't everyone be happy for PSY, the already established and having been there longer than Girls Generation, singer, rapper and songwriter (Girls Generation barely even has good singers, let alone rappers or songwriters) who has achieved more than even American artists have let alone Korean artists.
Is it simply just because Flop Generation lived up to their name? Is it because ol' Snoop lost his sheen?
Or is it just because the jealousy that an actually good artist made it in the eyes of Americans whereas might-as-well-be-4-member Generation didn't?
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