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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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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