I was introduced to K-pop by one of my friends in 2015. As a person, who was growing up on American Pop and Hiphop, at first I didn’t like it at all. It was too colorful, music video was too fast-paced and generally there was too much of everything. After first, not so successful, approach, I tried to listen to this one particular song again and I completely fell in love. Aspects I found weird, were now incredible. I loved how it was different from western music. A well compared to most american’s music videos, in K-pop MV is like a movie. Unfortunately at the time I started listening to K-pop it wasn’t that popular, as it is now, and I faced a lot of criticism because of that. However this experience didn’t change my attitude towards Korean music, as I know that it’s natural behavior for people to hate stuff they don’t understand. I don’t know why is it like that, why we all cannot just respect everyone’s opinion and music taste.
K-pop is music genre you cannot just pass, you will love it or hate it. It definitely changed the way I think and see things. In K-pop everything is possible, artists change their aesthetic every time they have a comeback and sometimes as well completely new artistic vision every year. Korean music showed me that we have complete power over ourselves, not society we live in. It doesn’t matter if someone does not like how we look and what we wear, it’s our body and our life and we can do with this whatever we want. K-pop gave me also confidence to dream big and to be not afraid of being different.