[Not Fade Away]

Originally Posted by & + H

^that's what I'm saying, I love kpop but instead of listening to 2NE1 I listen to other korean artists.

Same. I would say 2NE1 definitely got me into K-Pop (although, BoA unknowingly got me into K-Pop a long time ago, if I'm being honest lol), but now I'm branching out.

Originally Posted by *hearT_Place*

I did the same thing. I use to be pretty YG-biased, but they've been so disappointing I've moved on to other artists. It just shows how terrible their marketing has been recently.

Their marketing really has been terrible. Even G-Dragon, in some recent interview (can't remember the name), was like "Yeah, Big Bang needs to put out another full album because the last full album we've had was like 2-3 years ago."

Originally Posted by Dream

I don't know what artists are you guys moving to 'cause all kpop is as crappy as it gets right now... :s

I agree with that, I think they put out too many groups. Every time I blink, there's a new boy group or a new girl group coming out and it's just like......

In terms of other artists, I listen to a lot of JYJ, Big Bang, and Jay Park. I think a lot of that has to do with the fact that these three artists compose their own music/lyrics/etc and is not as close to mainstream K-Pop.

Obviously Big Bang is the exception out of the three, but I think it's more of the fact that they're really popular and when they try something new, it just becomes more mainstream.

I'm not saying I listen to underground Korean artists or even Indie Korean artists, because none of the artists I listed are either.

And this totally sidetracks but....I was kind of surprised no one mentioned the fact that Shinee put out that 'Why So Serious?' song like a few months after G-Dragon had the 'Why so Serious?' phrase in 'Crayon.' Now I know GD didn't invent the phrase (obviously the Joker did), but I was still like "Really? No one on Allkpop made this connection when people on Allkpop are notorious for pointing these type of things out?"

Anyway....back on track......LOL sorry:

I guess I'm just kind of surprised that 2NE1 went from like badass, independent females with songs like "I Am the Best" and "I Hate You" and now it's like "I Love You", "Be Mine," and "Falling in Love."

I know they said they'd surprise us musically, but I didn't think they'd go from being all one theme to a totally different theme.

I guess we'll just have to wait and see when this song comes out 2 years from now.

Alright, alright, kidding....I swear.