{"id":9322,"date":"2021-06-24T12:14:02","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T19:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=9322"},"modified":"2023-01-16T00:09:47","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T08:09:47","slug":"is-bts-k-pop-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/is-bts-k-pop-the-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Is BTS K-pop? The truth behind the genre and global phenomenon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BTS&#8217;s RM talks about the debate over the definition of K-Pop today.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;<em><strong>The truth is that I&#8217;m not really interested if people think we are part of K-Pop or not<\/strong><\/em>,&#8221; he said. <strong>BTS<\/strong> has released several songs in English since last year. Does this allow the group to still be framed in the K-Pop genre?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Member RM broached the matter in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine in Japan and believes that BTS is, today, a musical genre of its own. &#8220;<em><strong>The genre called K-Pop is expanding at a tremendous speed. For example, some of the so-called K-Pop groups in Europe, India and China are made up only of foreigners.<\/p>\n<p> Although there are no Korean members, they are doing similar things to K-Pop<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cPuFHzZEpYE\" title=\"RM | The Rolling Stone Cover\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cPuFHzZEpYE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>BTS is also growing fast. And now, the K-Pop genre has expanded considerably. &#8220;<em><strong>Some might say that K-Pop is a genre in which a Korean sings songs in the language. This is surely K-Pop. But what about &#8216;Dynamite&#8217;? Sung in English. However, all the members are Korean, so some people might call it K-Pop<\/strong><\/em>,&#8221; RM said.<\/p>\n<p> <strong><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>He also understands who calls &#8220;<strong>Dynamite<\/strong>&#8221; just pop music and not K-Pop, because it is sung in English. &#8220;But the truth is, I&#8217;m not really interested in whether people think we are part of K-Pop or not.<\/p>\n<p> The important thing is that we are Korean and we sing pop songs,&#8221; he said. &#8220;<em><strong>That&#8217;s why BTS itself is a genre<\/strong><\/em>,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em><strong>The debate over the definition of K-Pop is extremely important to the music industry, but it doesn&#8217;t make a lot of sense to the members<\/strong><\/em>,&#8221; he admitted. In the interview, RM also admitted that most of the pop and hip-hop that he listens to is American.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;<em><strong>But I think Koreans have their own community-based personality and identity<\/strong><\/em>,&#8221; the artist reflected.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WMweEpGlu_U\" title=\"BTS (\ubc29\ud0c4\uc18c\ub144\ub2e8) &#039;Butter&#039; Official MV\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WMweEpGlu_U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em><strong>So we created a completely new genre, merging the two elements of East and West. Some would call it K-Pop, some would call it BTS, and some would call it &#8216;hybrid music&#8217; for the fusion of East and West.<\/p>\n<p> Anyway, that&#8217;s what we do<\/strong><\/em>,&#8221; he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BTS&#8217;s RM talks about the debate over the definition of K-Pop today. &#8220;The truth is that I&#8217;m not really interested if people think we are part of K-Pop or not,&#8221; he said. BTS has released several songs in English since last year. Does this allow the group to still be framed in the K-Pop genre? 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