SM Trying something new for once?

I hope this doesn't get overused like those dumb matrix shock or shakey cameras.

 

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K-pop "Sluts"

In k-pop, there are a "special few" who are labelled with the title "slut" in the international k-pop community.
Slut is defined as:

A person, especially a woman, considered sexually promiscuous.

I feel like the term slut is used too loosely to describe any women who wears revealing clothing or does anything that would be considered sexy.
I hate the this derogatory term is used to mention any female idol these day by fangirls.
The whole dynamic of girls hating other girls is nothing but surprising.
Female idols and actresses alike have it tough.
That is not to say that there aren't any bad apples, there are definitely some two-faced bitches but it doesn't mean every girl is.

They are more prone to be sexually exploited in the entertainment business.
They are called ugly when they are not found conventionally attractive.
They are called plastic when they try to meet the demands of the company and the public.
They are forced to do cutesy or sexy dances to get the public's attention while boy groups get stronger and more powerful dances.
They are more likely to be valued by their appearance than talent.
The company puts more money into boy groups then girl groups.
If a guy is rude he's called rude, if a girl is rude she's called a bitch.

Even though some of these examples can apply to guys, girls are twice as likely to be judged harshly. Guys, on the other hand, get off easy. Put a guy in many of these situations and fangirls get all defensive, making up all these excuses.
Girls aren't human apparently and excuses don't matter.
The double standards infuriate me.
Why are fangirls promoting gender inequality?

I guess this is simply a case of girl on girl crime.

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Things I hate about the Big 3

The biggest and most influential companies in the Korean pop business consist of: SM, JYP and YG.
Lot's of people hate SM but I don't blame them either. JYP and YG aren't all that great either.

JYP - I don't follow JYP artists avidly so I
guess that's why I have the least to say about them. Their artists, I have no real complaints about. Right now it seems like exporting their idols overseas is their top priority and in the end they are the business, so making the biggest profit is in their best interest, nothing truly surprising there.

But honestly, WG's crossover to the U.S market is pretty much a big disaster. WG is really not what America wants or need to see in their overly sexual pop industry. 

A flop despite having Akon comissioned to help.

The bubblegum pop that they are so famous for back home isn't "in" unless their demographic are disney tweens, heck they even had their own movie based on themselves. What I'm trying to say is WG aren't mainstream enough, they cover a very niche market (I guess most groups do). If they had stayed in Korea they probably would've retained their popularity like SNSD. They lost to f(x) during their comeback, a hoobae group and f(x) aren't extremely popular so it goes to show how much their popularity has dwindled during their absence.

Also they way they handled the Jay Park scandal was hardly decent but I guess I don't really need to delve further into old news...
2PM are also venturing to foreign markets (specifically Japan) since I guess it's the everyone-else-is-doing-it mentality and there's big money in Japan if you make it. In saying that, 2PM have got to make a comeback soon or they will be written off as irrelevant in the now over saturated k-pop market and JYP will only have Suzy I mean Miss A to mooch off (and JJ Project aren't big yet). I'm guessing they will though since in 2013 apparently price of music has changed and they can make more money out of it or something (research it yourself, I have a very vague understanding of it...).

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