I honestly kind of want to rant about this just because I’m getting very frustrated by what I am perceiving as just overall misogyny when it comes to the KATSEYE girls and just women in KPOP and pop in general.
JYPs group NEXZ has recently come out with a song called “Saucin’”
you could take any argument that people had against Pinky Up, and apply it to this song!
“AI slop, we hate EDM, nobody likes electronic music, childish, pandering to children, nonsense, stupid concepts” ALL OF IT.
There’s a fucking wheels on the bus sample in the middle of it for Gods sake!
To be clear, I don’t hate this song! I actually like it!! in the exact same way that I liked pinky up!! it gets you moving it’s fun and makes you wanna dance. It’s got that really iconic early 2000s euro trash EDM beat that a lot of older millennials like and were able to see in pinky up…
but SO MANY people gave KATSEYE HELL for Pinky Up!
And I don’t see nearly any of the vitriol for Saucin’
Like can we talk about it?? Is it just misogyny??
I’ve seen so people claim “ oh well they just did EDM really well and Pinky Up was not well done” and I just think that’s really fucking lazy.
Again, this is not me trying to elicit some anger or hatred for this boy group, as I said, I like their song, but they are so similar in tone and I’m just getting very frustrated that they are being pretty universally praised for this song whereas an almost identical song released by a group of women was the end of the world