Zico is performing away…
And doing his show (a random audience member who looks like Psy entertains!).
It’s all chugging along despite AllKPop’s efforts. There’s a little more interest than usual in this post, but that’s to be expected, and it’s nothing especially exciting. To be perfectly honest, while I don’t love the effort to drag Zico into it, I do think things like that BBC documentary are necessary: There is this idea in some circles that K-Pop really is sweet & pure and filled with the most decent humans ever, so I think it’s important to point out that the K-Pop industry is just as seedy as any other entertainment industry anywhere else.
And as a long-time fan, I’ll say that this is what you see: Zico has a monster hit, and then there’s some pushback that becomes increasingly desperate and absurd (he was a mouthy kid!). But Zico just keeps on making the music and cranking out the hits, and if that makes a certain segment of the population miserable, that is their own choice. They could always opt to get themselves a life.
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