Why Kpop? Just because. I know many of you would be like "Do you know the korean language? Oh you don't? Then why do you listen to kpop songs? You don't even understand what they say." But, believe me, before lyrics there is music, true music.
Since the beginning there was only music, no lyrics, just pure music. Listen to Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin and many other musicians and answer this question: Do you feel it? Do you understand it? I'm sure you feel all the emotions the musicians mentioned above, put in their songs, and I'm sure you understand every damn note you can find on the music sheet, and there's not even one single lyric added to that music. For me, music is the melody and how it sounds in the end when a voice is added to it. The lyrics are just something present in a song, something that doesn't need to be known because I already understand the song. For example, I love ballads that are sang by someone with a powerful voice, and, here is my guilty pleasure, I absolutely love rap songs sang by someone with a deep voice.
I'm usually changing between different music genres, and the differences between the music genre that I like are really big (I listen to rap, rock, dance, electronic, r&b, scream, ballads etc.). Since kpop is a combination of dance-pop, pop ballad, electronic, rock, hip-hop, R&B, that is why I listen to kpop. I don't need the lyrics, I just need music. Plus, there are many korean translation groups that will sub the songs really fast :).
But really, kpop is just a beautiful combination of music genres, a well-done blending or mixing and let's be honest. Beside the fact that the lyrics are in korean, kpop is actually european-american music, since most of the songs are produced by europeans or americans. So please, next time you hear someone say they listen to kpop, don't judge and give a chance to this beautiful genre.
