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Smithington
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 Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2014 6:53 pm Post subject: Synchronized dancing. Make it go away. |
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I heartily dislike synchronized dancing. K-pop is lame enough without the dancing. Why must every group do it? What's the friggin' appeal. It was popular in the West for about ten months in 1986 then it (justifiably) went he way of disco. It's lame, repetitive and just plain annoying. Is that all K-pop has? Is it a cultural thing where everyone must e doing the same action at the same time? Is it confucianism with a beat, the utter terror of doing something outside the groupthink? Will they still be doing it ten years from now? Personally, I hate looking at it. It's on the tv on the bus, the screen on the subway, and the television in my elevator. It's bad enough that I have to listen to K-pop involuntarily, but combined with the uber-annoying dancing it's a most unwelcome assault on the senses.
I implore you, make it go away.
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optik404
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2014 7:03 pm Post subject: |
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| It's not just Kpop. Pretty much every pop act has backup dancers. If you don't like it you could, I don't know, not look. |
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Smithington
Joined: 14 Dec 2011
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| Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2014 7:26 pm Post subject: |
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| optik404 wrote: |
| It's not just Kpop. Pretty much every pop act has backup dancers. If you don't like it you could, I don't know, not look. |
They are hardly 'back-up' dancers. They are the main act. It's tiresome and lame beyond words. Enough with the dance lessons and pick up a friggin' guitar. |
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matthews_world
Joined: 15 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2014 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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| You never did the "Electric Slide"? |
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optik404
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2014 7:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Smithington wrote: |
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| It's not just Kpop. Pretty much every pop act has backup dancers. If you don't like it you could, I don't know, not look. |
They are hardly 'back-up' dancers. They are the main act. It's tiresome and lame beyond words. Enough with the dance lessons and pick up a friggin' guitar. |
The main act or group dances along with them. My boy justin timberlake, lady gaga, Gawd himself beiber. Aren't you the guy who says Kpop is an exact copy of western pop? I know this is a troll thread but whatever. |
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nicwr2002
Joined: 17 Aug 2011
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 7:00 am Post subject: Re: Synchronized dancing. Make it go away. |
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| Smithington wrote: |
I heartily dislike synchronized dancing. K-pop is lame enough without the dancing. Why must every group do it? What's the friggin' appeal. It was popular in the West for about ten months in 1986 then it (justifiably) went he way of disco. It's lame, repetitive and just plain annoying. Is that all K-pop has? Is it a cultural thing where everyone must e doing the same action at the same time? Is it confucianism with a beat, the utter terror of doing something outside the groupthink? Will they still be doing it ten years from now? Personally, I hate looking at it. It's on the tv on the bus, the screen on the subway, and the television in my elevator. It's bad enough that I have to listen to K-pop involuntarily, but combined with the uber-annoying dancing it's a most unwelcome assault on the senses.
I implore you, make it go away. |
Did you sleep through the 90s? Backstreet Boys, NSYNC, and many more all had that type of dancing. |
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NohopeSeriously
Joined: 17 Jan 2011
Location: The Christian Right-Wing Educational Republic of Korea
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 7:06 am Post subject: |
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I only enjoy Soviet VIA pop songs. Less slutty and less annoying. I also get to enjoy South African songs in the heart of 1930s-70s after my business trip. 
To the OP. Don't listen to pop songs if you are very serious about it. |
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andrewchon
Joined: 16 Nov 2008
Location: Back in Oz. Living in ISIS Aust.
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 1:36 pm Post subject: Re: Synchronized dancing. Make it go away. |
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| Smithington wrote: |
I heartily dislike synchronized dancing. K-pop is lame enough without the dancing. Why must every group do it? What's the friggin' appeal. It was popular in the West for about ten months in 1986 then it (justifiably) went he way of disco. It's lame, repetitive and just plain annoying. Is that all K-pop has? Is it a cultural thing where everyone must e doing the same action at the same time? Is it confucianism with a beat, the utter terror of doing something outside the groupthink? Will they still be doing it ten years from now? Personally, I hate looking at it. It's on the tv on the bus, the screen on the subway, and the television in my elevator. It's bad enough that I have to listen to K-pop involuntarily, but combined with the uber-annoying dancing it's a most unwelcome assault on the senses.
I implore you, make it go away. |
Now that Fred Phelps has passed away, you can carry on his legacy and carry "God Hates Synchronised Dancing" placards at soldiers funerals.  |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 2:43 pm Post subject: Re: Synchronized dancing. Make it go away. |
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| Smithington wrote: |
I heartily dislike synchronized dancing. K-pop is lame enough without the dancing. Why must every group do it? What's the friggin' appeal. It was popular in the West for about ten months in 1986 then it (justifiably) went he way of disco. It's lame, repetitive and just plain annoying. Is that all K-pop has? Is it a cultural thing where everyone must e doing the same action at the same time? Is it confucianism with a beat, the utter terror of doing something outside the groupthink? Will they still be doing it ten years from now? Personally, I hate looking at it. It's on the tv on the bus, the screen on the subway, and the television in my elevator. It's bad enough that I have to listen to K-pop involuntarily, but combined with the uber-annoying dancing it's a most unwelcome assault on the senses.
I implore you, make it go away. |
Why do you care so much?
I don't care so much for some crappy hipster band whose songs are now the pathetic remnants of rock or smooth jazz, but it doesn't get me apoplectic if I hear it. I don't care much for blockbuster action movies but I don't go on rants about people's culture and link such things to the legacy of Christianity or Aristotle. And synchronized dancing is alive and well on Broadway, and I'm sure in Western pop and R&B music as well. Dancing performances, by their very nature, require some element of synchronization in order to be visually appealing.
Is the OP a student of dance, either as a serious practitioner or connoisseur? Would he care to share some of his learned insight in the world of dance?
And lastly, who is the OP imploring to make it go away? The Heavens? I mean when you're at the point of getting seriously nauseous and ill, and seeking assistance from the heroic or the divine, it might be good to seek professional therapy.
As someone who doesn't really care or notice, the best advice I can give is to not care and focus on something else. |
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Sister Ray
Joined: 25 Mar 2006
Location: Fukuoka
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 6:22 pm Post subject: Re: Synchronized dancing. Make it go away. |
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| Steelrails wrote: |
As someone who doesn't really care or notice, the best advice I can give is to not care and focus on something else. |
It is quite interesting how pervasive synchronised dancing is in Korean media, though. I remember the last time I went to the cinema in South Korea (1st Hobbit, Dec. 2012,) about 80% of the pre-movie advertisements featured synchronised dancing. Regardless of what the product was, the answer to effective marketing was teens moving in unison. Insurance? Let's dance! Flu medicine? Let's dance!
Personally, I don't care one way or the other. But, I find its omnipresence bizarrely fascinating. |
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goat
Joined: 23 Feb 2010
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 7:10 pm Post subject: Re: Synchronized dancing. Make it go away. |
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| Steelrails wrote: |
| Smithington wrote: |
I heartily dislike synchronized dancing. K-pop is lame enough without the dancing. Why must every group do it? What's the friggin' appeal. It was popular in the West for about ten months in 1986 then it (justifiably) went he way of disco. It's lame, repetitive and just plain annoying. Is that all K-pop has? Is it a cultural thing where everyone must e doing the same action at the same time? Is it confucianism with a beat, the utter terror of doing something outside the groupthink? Will they still be doing it ten years from now? Personally, I hate looking at it. It's on the tv on the bus, the screen on the subway, and the television in my elevator. It's bad enough that I have to listen to K-pop involuntarily, but combined with the uber-annoying dancing it's a most unwelcome assault on the senses.
I implore you, make it go away. |
Why do you care so much?
I don't care so much for some crappy hipster band whose songs are now the pathetic remnants of rock or smooth jazz, but it doesn't get me apoplectic if I hear it. I don't care much for blockbuster action movies but I don't go on rants about people's culture and link such things to the legacy of Christianity or Aristotle. And synchronized dancing is alive and well on Broadway, and I'm sure in Western pop and R&B music as well. Dancing performances, by their very nature, require some element of synchronization in order to be visually appealing.
Is the OP a student of dance, either as a serious practitioner or connoisseur? Would he care to share some of his learned insight in the world of dance?
And lastly, who is the OP imploring to make it go away? The Heavens? I mean when you're at the point of getting seriously nauseous and ill, and seeking assistance from the heroic or the divine, it might be good to seek professional therapy.
As someone who doesn't really care or notice, the best advice I can give is to not care and focus on something else. |
As someone who doesn't really care or notice, that Hollywood uses a lot of white characters, the best advice I can give is that you not care and focus on something else. Oh yes, you might also consider seeking some professional therapy.
Dude, you have some serious issues. |
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andrewchon
Joined: 16 Nov 2008
Location: Back in Oz. Living in ISIS Aust.
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 10:23 pm Post subject: Re: Synchronized dancing. Make it go away. |
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| Sister Ray wrote: |
It is quite interesting how pervasive synchronised dancing is in Korean media, though. I remember the last time I went to the cinema in South Korea (1st Hobbit, Dec. 2012,) about 80% of the pre-movie advertisements featured synchronised dancing. Regardless of what the product was, the answer to effective marketing was teens moving in unison. Insurance? Let's dance! Flu medicine? Let's dance!
Personally, I don't care one way or the other. But, I find its omnipresence bizarrely fascinating. |
That's because Korean children are taught 'Line Dance', never any Western style 'Contra dance' where male-female dance facing each other. Some do solo but that's for children who go to ballet schools. It comes a little from Confucion custom of separating boys and girls after 7 years of age. It also avoids problems of shyness between boys and girls. Hence it gives the feelings of safe, familiarity, secure, comfortable, and definately not the yucky feeling of having to do anything with the opposite sex.
Americans on the other hand are forced into un-wanted relationships in middle school or face poof-bashing. It's a little wonder that you find it bizarre, since you have 'tricked' yourself into believing that 'horrible experience' was actually 'normal'. |
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jazzmaster
Joined: 30 Sep 2013
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| Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 12:34 am Post subject: Re: Synchronized dancing. Make it go away. |
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| andrewchon wrote: |
| Sister Ray wrote: |
It is quite interesting how pervasive synchronised dancing is in Korean media, though. I remember the last time I went to the cinema in South Korea (1st Hobbit, Dec. 2012,) about 80% of the pre-movie advertisements featured synchronised dancing. Regardless of what the product was, the answer to effective marketing was teens moving in unison. Insurance? Let's dance! Flu medicine? Let's dance!
Personally, I don't care one way or the other. But, I find its omnipresence bizarrely fascinating. |
That's because Korean children are taught 'Line Dance', never any Western style 'Contra dance' where male-female dance facing each other. Some do solo but that's for children who go to ballet schools. It comes a little from Confucion custom of separating boys and girls after 7 years of age. It also avoids problems of shyness between boys and girls. Hence it gives the feelings of safe, familiarity, secure, comfortable, and definately not the yucky feeling of having to do anything with the opposite sex.
Americans on the other hand are forced into un-wanted relationships in middle school or face poof-bashing. It's a little wonder that you find it bizarre, since you have 'tricked' yourself into believing that 'horrible experience' was actually 'normal'. |
I'm not an American but I wasn't separated from girls when I was 7, and I think it has helped me overall when interacting with women. I didn't have any relationships in middle school and I wasn't 'poof-bashed', although homosexual slurs were the most commonly used insults regardless of whether you were in a relationship or not.
In fact, doing traditional dancing with a female partner actually improved my confidence with women. At an age where I felt awkward when talking to girls, awkward about my body, and awkward overall, the experience of dancing with girls helped me overcome a lot of fears about interacting with the opposite sex.
I, for one, think that girls and boys dancing together at middle school age in a safe environment is a good thing. |
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Steelrails
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| Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 1:17 am Post subject: |
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| As someone who doesn't really care or notice, that Hollywood uses a lot of white characters |
Anyone visiting Slate, Salon, or Huffpo would inevitably be exposed to such an idea. Try again to make me look deranged. |
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Sesame
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| the reason why there are so many members in the group is so at least one of them will appeal to some fan. Just like the New Kids on the Block, some liked Danny, some Donny, Mark etc. |
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