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♥ LolliPOP!

Just because I've decided to go with the flow, I will harass them too in this post. Who am I talking about? Who else if it's not those wannabes and shameless plagiarisers? So dearest readers, today's main topic is going to be about keeping your dignity on top, and not down under. -_- As for me however, I'm allowed keep my dignity Down Under because I will have to keep myself in Australia anyways for the next two years. (Australia is also known as The Down Under or The Outback for you thickheads.)

In my humblest opinion, a normal and rational mediocre would always feel slightly (or in serious cases, VERY) embarrassed when being asked to show off the talent that they have (and that is if they have them). They feel shy because they aren't confident enough that they can keep up to the receivers' expectations. That is why our people has learned to develop this thing called 'confidence' to support their inner strength so that they will be able to bring more of their talented insides to awe the audiences. However, some of these people couldn't quite control the amount of confidence they emit from themselves, and that is when they call it OVER-CONFIDENCE, which is a very very severe setback for people with enormous ambitions.

However, it isn't simply a question of confidence by itself. It is also, my friends, an issue of knowing who you really are and where you come from. All of us has different backgrounds, no one can deny that. We do have similarities that we can share, but the difference is what makes us special in our own special way. We should embrace this specialness and turn it into something even more special. But sadly, there are still so many idiots out there who would rather become a photostat machine and work hard to be someone else, someone they're not, and someone they OBVIOUSLY cannot copy at heart. Aren't they just wasting their time?

It is not simply an issue of lack of market research. It isn't simply an issue of lack of sponsorship and support. It is... the question of identity and DIGNITY, and a question of respect and morality.

What do you know about them so much that you think you can be like them? You don't even have the facts right and yet you're declaring yourselves as one of them?

Alright, let's be straightforward from here on. Here are some THINGS that you should know about KPop before you decide to become one of them.

1. Koreans love it when they look cute and younger than their age. The cuter and the younger their image is, the prouder they'll be to face the rest of the Korean community. This is totally the opposite for the Western countries, because people in the Western countries prefer to look older than their actual age. That is why we can see that Western music are more mature and more defined, and they talk lots about sex, fame, superiority and attraction in a very serious tone, and they also include all other serious issues around them in their music. But for Korean music, most of them consists of cute stuff, adorable outfits and expressions, and light music contents. And for Kpop idols to market themselves, they have to react to the preferences of majority of the audiences, who obviously likes cute things. They have to look like the cutest little Barbie dolls who can dance in prefect synch to the music, and can look cute/pretty in whatever they do (that is why the term Ulzzang exists!). That is why they like to puff up their cheeks, make cute puppy gestures and the likes to appear loveable to the audiences.

2. The Kpop entertainment industry is VERY complicated. That is why they're able to produce great kpop groups like Wonder Girls and Super Junior (I purposely set these two examples because these two are obviously who they are copying). It isn't simply by auditioning potential members that they get to form the groups. There are also the questions of YEARS of training, physical alteration (if needed), long-term contracts, and also a LOT of hardships for them to be as successful and as likeable as they are now.

Can't you see? They are trying to be the best of themselves (in being Koreans) but why can't we? When are we going to stop adapting external influences into our systems instead of creating our own? I can understand that ours is a developing country, and so we should learn from others on how to improve and do better. But how possibly lower could you go to take in things like these like a sponge? Did you know that the water that you squeeze from a sponge is dirtier than its original state? And you're still squeezing it in the hope that you could still make some money from your so-called hard work?

And what's with your recording studio? It looks like a maid's room hanged with comforters on all the four walls. -_-

Even if you don't realise it, let me tell you. All of you are already flushed down the drain with the dirty waters sucked up your nostrils. May God have mercy on you for those other things that I purposely left out. I'm out...