(requires knowledge that i am chinese american, and do not tolerate anti-chinese racism well.)
my ACTUAL first kpop song was shinhwa’s ‘yo!’ (long story, involves anti-chinese racism by anime weaboos, and me deciding well fuck them imma use a korean song [this is bc chinese music was not easily accessible by american internet] lots of international hoodoo anyway)
didnt know what kpop was for a long time until a friend sent me the dance vid to sherlock by shinee, and instead of focusing on the dance (which looked silly to me lol SM’s choreographers are always high) i was like yo this song is a bop
so when i got to college i told ppl i was into kpop lol which wasnt even true in the sense that i know it is now
my dormmates got me into exo, and like i... kinda pretended to like them bc it was wolf/growl era lol and the lyrics ‘naega wolf awoo saranghaeyo’ werent the most... yknow hahaha
at this time i got into the schools kpop dance group and we danced to both growl and wolf and my hand spent a lot of time in my crotch it was a new experience for me lol
fun story: my dormmates who were actual real kpop stans asked me for my bias and i didnt know what a bias was, so, lying through my teeth, i said the name of the first member i could remember (D.O.)
they then got me into vixx, and i followed g.r.8.u, hyde, voodoo doll... i also got into b.a.p, starting with power, then badman i think, and one shot.
but the kpop stans at my college were cough racist cough and had some really mean things to say about chinese music to me ("stuff from china just isnt good”), a chinese person who unashamedly loves chinese culture, so it left a bad taste in my mouth and i just quit kpop altogether
fast forward a few years, and i discovered SVT - got into them via jun&the8′s ‘my i’ bc i was unwilling to trust the korean members (who turned out to be the sweetest to their chinese members out of any group ive seen so fuck you SM ent), then i listened to SVT leaders ‘change up’ and i was gone haha - followed them through shining diamond, pretty u, mansae, don’t wanna cry... to now! around the same time a friend tried to get me into monsta x, which i did kind of like but didnt care about that much lol; my first song of theirs was shoot out
then i quit for a while bc kpop beauty standards were making me feel bad about my body (im tall and have love handles you do the math).
i returned to kpop just last year, really, with wayv! i’d listened to take off when it came out bc i was ecstatic about a chinese group but i didnt like it, so i gave up, but then i heard moonwalk and i was like :O oh this is lit
i reconnected with SVT, discovered pentagon (first song - sha la la i think) discovered mamamoo (first song - 1cm), discovered VAV (first song - poison, runway) rediscovered exo (love shot, lotto, butterfly effect psa xiumin is ruining my life thanks)
then i found tao, luhan, and kris again! tao and luhan wrote a delightful little song together called ‘sensitive’ which i love and is on my daily rotation of songs, and i love tao’s ice cream!
and thats it until now! hopefully i’ll continue to discover more things as time goes on!
theartofmadeline
yousharknotpass
vaporwave
areudirty
annaxmalina
gummygunk
pixelskylines
