Written for Kurrent Music
Published on April 14th 2017
Red Velvet blog
It’s been about two years ago when I wrote a teeny tiny micro blog, so to speak, about the K-Pop genre. Pop music made in Korea. It was not enough to get me into it, but enough to get me surprised about the quality level of western pop music they are making in the eastern parts of the world.
In recent months, I’ve seen a rise of K-Pop (and J-Pop) in the tweets from western media and a tweet by Billboard caught my attention about girl group Red Velvet, whom managed to reach the number one spot of their World Album chart for the second time.
Altogether, the girls have released 4 album variations (aka a few mini albums (EPs) and one full length album), from which Ice Cream Cake and Rookie (both EPs) have reached the number one spot of the Billboard Album Charts.
Red Velvet are a great example of how K-Pop can cross over to our own mainstream pop. By mixing the Korean language with an abundance of English words and the mainly English song titles, their music is so accessible to everyone. It would even be a fun challenge to learn the lyrics to one their songs.
