I dont stan any kpop artists nor have i ever listened to any kpop song ever, but to be honest, Im quite suspicious of people who justify their hatred and criticisms of kpop with “Kpop artists are heavily exploited and overworked by the hands of their labels,managements and the music industry!!1!″ when like, thats not something that is exclusive to the KPOP music industry and happens as much in the western music industry too.
Almost the WHOLE music industry IS a highly capitalistic and exploitative and misogynistic industry which usually signs artists when they are usually young and/or have little to no knowledge about contracts and the law system governing them and exploits their talents into getting more and more money for the record labels and management they have signed for.
Many artists even in the WEST are sabotaged and are prevented from releasing music or promoting their music by their labels who dont want to grant funds for either of those things , usually if the artist refuses to comply by their rules.Not only this, music artists are prevented from speaking up about their abuse because of NDAs,threats of having their careers ruined by big industry people and tabloids who have deals with such industry people to not publish,discredit or give attention to stories of people speaking up about the abuse they faced by the hands of the music industry..THIS IS A FACT CONFIRMED BY MANY MANY ARTISTS IN THE WEST.Look it up for yourself.
Kesha was literally abused and raped by her producer for YEARS but prevented from seeking aid by her label, SONY.Harvey Weinstein sexually harassed his victims FOR YEARS and prevented them from speaking up with the help of NDAs and threats of ruining their careers.Theres audio proof of lauren jauregui from fifth harmony lamenting about how “They were being made to work like slaves but getting nothing in return”.(Look it up on twitter).Little mix recently admitted that they were told to flirt with industry members to have their songs be more promoted or played on radio stations.Ryan Ross(from panic at the disco) was fucked over by his manager .(x) .The backstreet boys were fucked over by their label.Rebecca black was fucked over by her label.And dont even get me STARTED on how MANY MANY lgbtqa artists are forced/told to appear straight and cis in front of the media and fans by their labels for various reasons.
One direction’s band members were extremely exploited and overworked by being made to record and release albums and being on tour for FIVE YEARS CONTINUOUSLY WITH ONLY GETTING TWO TO THREE MONTH BREAKS IN BETWEEN.They singed to their labels when they were between the ages of 16-18 and 4/5 of them were STILL in school and since then, they rarely visited their families or got much time for themselves bc they were so busy.All this intense work and exploitation had bad effects on them and led to zayn malik developing huge anxiety disorder which started to give him panic attacks before performing in front of the public and made him cancel many of his gigs after he went solo.Liam payne and niall horan too have spoken up about the side effects of such intense work they had to do for 5 years.
Many people calling out the kpop music industry mean well and might not be aware of how much shit goes down in the western music industry too.But also i feel like most people just jump on this bandwagon as an excuse to politically justify their dislike of kpop by taking about how problematic the industry is instead of just saying that they dont like KPOP.If you really care about overexploited and abused music artists and want to “change the music industry”; apply your thoughts towards the WHOLE of it, and not only the KPOP music industry bc its not those korean artists’ fault that their dreams of making it big in the music world are exploited by horrible industry people.Stop trying to guilt people into NOT liking KPOP by this excuse bc you are going to look like a hypocrite since your western fav too might have been/is being exploted by the music industry.
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