What is this BTS nonsense?

Welcome to like 5 years ago
BTS is a korean boy band, and k-pop was a big time pop music fad among hs students about 3 or 4 years ago, so I’m sure there’s more than a few college aged girls that are excited to hear new music from them. I dated a girl a couple years ago for whom BTS was a serious dirty pleasure favorite.

Also, these k-pop bands becoming popular in teen culture here in the U.S. helped make a lot of Japanese and Korean slang become mainstream. For example, “stan” is Korean slang for fan. So, American kids obsessed with k-pop are called “k-pop stans”. Along with k-pop going mainstream, anime culture has gone from being the fringe domain of ostracized nerds to being widely popular, especially among black male jocks. A lot of that Asian slang had once only been popular among serious anime fans (known as weeaboos), but all of that nerd culture is now mainstream, much how comic book culture became mainstream in the late 2000’s.

If you think BTS is weird, look up the J-pop/metal group “baby metal”.

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BTS is a korean boy band, and k-pop was a big time pop music fad among hs students about 3 or 4 years ago, so I’m sure there’s more than a few college aged girls that are excited to hear new music from them.

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KPop is bigger than ever, and only getting bigger. BTS had a Hot 100 #1 single in September. Blackpink's Netflix "documentary" is currently a massive hit, and they're releasing songs with popular western singers like Dua Lipa. So, yeah, more than a few college girls are excited to hear new music from acts like BTS.

To op, it's pop music. It looks and sounds like pop. 9