why are kpop song titles in english?
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Most overseas Kpop listeners can't type Korean, so they type the English title. For the sake of SEO, having an English title lets everyone easily find the song and MV. SM songs have a trend of having a Korean title with a different English title in parenthesis.
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Etymology. Korean 가요 (gayo), 歌謠 (gayo), meaning pop music, including K-pop, trot and any foreign pop music.
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Most of SNSD is conversational in English. Obviously Tiffany and Jessica are fluent. Seohyun and Sooyoung are also known to be quite fluent, with Seohyun having many American friends (seen in the TaeTiSeo) and Sooyoung even interviewing Rosie Huntington-Whitely all in English.
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Traditional Korean Music - Folk Music. Korea's folk music tradition, with its generous use of bright rhythms and melodies, offers a more energetic and capricious contrast to the nation's collection of classical music works.
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K-pop idols rarely sing live. Lipsync is the norm, and is more common in girl groups than boy groups. Currently, the only groups that sing live in most of their performances are BTS, BTOB, and MAMAMOO. ... BTS usually does this, although the stamina of certain members allows them to sing while dancing the choreo.
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In Kpop, groups are the more dominant act. Not soloists. That's why there are so many people, they're groups. The most popular ones are groups,the ones you get into first are groups, the ones winning the big ones are groups.
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Pop and traditional forms can be used even with songs that have structural differences in melodies. The most common format in modern popular music is introduction (intro), verse, pre-chorus, chorus (or refrain), verse, pre-chorus, chorus, bridge ("middle eight"), verse, chorus and outro.
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this is EXO during an interview in English with iHeart Radio. So basically none of them are fluent in the language. The only two people who I think have a slight understanding of English are Suho and Lay.
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A book title is written in italics, as is the... title of a musical album. Chapter names and songs are set between quotation marks. ... Although Chicago style is to put titles of albums ...
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To the surprise of many, K-pop group BTS has managed to become one of the biggest musical acts in the world without making an English-language song, instead sticking to Korean and Japanese. ... “Like if we sing suddenly in full English, and change all these other things, then that's not BTS. We'll do everything, we'll try.
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While the group's album and song titles are mostly in English, and they incorporate a few English words or phrases into songs, the bulk of their lyrical content is in Korean.
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BTS is arguably *the* most popular K-pop group around the globe, and with good reason. Their accolades include: Reaching number one on iTunes in more than 65 countries, have held first place on Billboard's Social 50 chart for 114 weeks in a row, and absolutely crushed a U.S. stadium tour.
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Korean is a lot like English in this sense. We have a lot of words for good game, bye bye, see ya, etc. ... In English, 'good game' is abbreviated with 'gg'. When you sound it out, it sounds like gee gee. Well in Korean, the sound is basically the same.
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This is what's referred to as a “fan chant” by members of the K-pop community, and they normally take place during the beginning of, typically, upbeat songs. At the start of songs like “DNA,” “Idol,” “Boy With Luv,” and “Save Me,” fans chant the names of the members, in the order: “Kim Namjoon! Kim Seokjin! Min Yoongi!
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All the Itzy members speak English. They all learned it in their own way so it can be used while communicating with international fans. Lia is the most fluent English speaking member because she had lived in Canada for several years. She returned to Korea to continue her music dream.
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The real difference is in the software. Korean versions have a lot of bloatware pre installed that is not usable outside of Korea, and it cannot be uninstalled unless the phone is rooted. Plus they have text message character limit of half the characters than the international version.
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K-Pop albums aren't always the cheapest thing to buy in the world, especially for international fans who usually have to pay for shipping as well. K-Pop albums are usually cheaper in Korea because there are no shipping fees, but there's a store that takes this to the next level.