My Beginning of Kpop

Admin
Jan 14, 2017
3 min read

[Big Bang 'Fantastic Baby' Era]

How My Decent into the World of Kpop Started!

I think that for most people the way into the Kpop world is typically the same. There is one of two ways of finding it, it's either a friend drags you into the life or you randomly find it and start to look into it of your own accord. By randomly find it, I mean you come across it on Youtube, or on the TV or even somewhere in your everyday life.

For me it was the the latter.

One day I was just boredly flicking through the TV channels and I came across the show PopAsia which plays on SBS 2 in Australia. It was some time when I was about 11 or 12 years old and I watched the show purely out of curiosity and boredom. I remember it very clearly the song that had come on just as I had started watching was Super Junior's 'Sorry Sorry'. The dance and the amount of members really intrigued me, I continued to watch and realised that they weren't singing in English and that they were Asians but I didn't know what the language was. Still being curious I sat and watched the rest of the show, a number of song and groups played but for some reason I only really like the Super Junior song. After the show had end my interest was still peaked, so I had asked my cousin to do a computer search for me. Later he left the computer to me to search to my heart's content. I found multiple different videos of YouTube and i sat there watching the videos that came up in the recommended.

I can't recall all the videos I watched but there were ones I found funny, silly and one that I didn't really like. There was one though that I still love to this day and I remember it as the song that really started my love for Kpop. I think it was because the song and video is so catchy and colourful. It's obvious who I am talking about, it was Big Bang's 'Fantastic Baby'.

I think the reason I really like Big Bang's 'Fantastic Baby' is because even at 11 or 12 I knew what type of music I liked and 'Fantastic Baby' was perfection to me. It was just so fun both to watch and to listen to, one of the songs you wanna sing along to(even though you don't know the language). I also remember watching and not being able to take my eyes off Jiyong (GDragon), I really don't what it was back then maybe I was fascinated by his silly hair style or his beautiful face I really don't know.

Even though I was so intrigued with Kpop, I think I only stayed interested for about a couple of months replaying the same couple of Big Bang, Super Junior and SHINee songs.

I rediscovered it in I think, 2014 when I was in Grade 9. When I (was bored Youtubing) randomly found BTS's Boy In Luv(상남자) and Just One Day(하루만) and it rekindled my love for kpop. This time though it was a little different, I researched more into the groups which I hadn't done before. I searched for more groups and different styles. I started to fall into the deep dark hole that is Kpop and I was loving it.

At that time I was embarrassed about it because it made me different, but after a while I started to not care as much. I would tell my close friends about it and they iffy at first but they accepted it. It wasn't until a year later in Grade 10 when I met my first fellow Kpop fan. She was in my Business Class and when we found out that both of us liked Kpop we freaked. We became immediate friends and started to hang out all the time. Then halfway through the she transferred into my music class. I then became friends with more people in my music class because of Kpop, I never spoke to anyone in my music class before that.

I sunk further into the hole as I discovered more groups and more groups debuted. I bought my first album which then lead to my large collection of albums and merch I currently own.

In 2016 I went to my first Kpop concert which lead to attending even more concerts but that's a story for another time.

Till next time, Let It Consume You!

Valkyrie out!