Has K-pop Hit a Plateau? Is It Slowing Down? What's Next?
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Lately, the general consensus seems to be: K-pop is bigger than ever before —and that's to be celebrated— but it's also ... different. The music trends are changing and, depending on who you ask, it's not always for the better. Especially among multi-stans, there seems to be a newfound sense of overwhelm and fatigue due to the relentless amount of content churned out by K-pop.
All of this has us thinking: Are we entering a new era of K-pop? Is K-pop's rapid growth stalling?
Dare we ask: Has K-pop Hit a Plateau?
To help us understand where K-pop is today, we're joined in a roundtable discussion by friends of the pod, DJ Peter Lo of the Kpopcast podcast and Tamar Herman, a longtime K-pop journalist and author of the newsletter Notes On K-pop.
We don't promise to have all the answers, but maybe we can share some good thought starters!
Let us know what you think of the state of K-pop today by tagging Alexis and Theresa on Instagram @IKPTpod.
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It's a K-pop Thing is hosted by two journalists and longtime K-pop stans, Alexis Hodoyán-Gastélum and Theresa Avila.
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