u/llamacana

i was listening through an old playlist and remembered how this song carried me though my high school years lol. does anyone have recs to similar songs? genre or structure? i don't have preferences for kpop or not, or girl groups/boy groups/soloists. thank you :)!!

i am a massive esc fan and a massive kpop fan. i love the showmanship, the absolute spectacle of performance, the insane choreography singers can pull off while singing their lungs out. but last night (or, well, nine hours ago) i was thinking something was missing this year from the esc.

some of the songs that were meant to be heavy hitting and all about big, overwhelming performance fell a bit flat for me, and the potential in the whimsy/artsy/creative staging for the rest was also just missing something. i was thinking at a point after cyprus went, "kpop could have done some of these better," which is wild to me bc eurovision is known for their staging for the performance, but something just wasn't clicking this year. there were probably 5-7 performances where the staging and the song fully meshed and the singer pulled off a truly astounding performance.

i know it isn't a fully fair comparison, but even comparing eurovision staging to a kpop tour, i feel like the kpop staging just. works better? they utilize props, dancers, bands, lights, and flares in such a creative way (obviously depending on the group, i feel like im not articulating this thought well lol.) but even for music shows, the background props and lights work in a way to emphasize the song and choreography to the fullest extent. it's different with esc, with no lipsync and less intense choreo for the singer as a result, but i thought it was interesting. kpop commits to fulfilling a concept and making a perfect spectacle of a performance, and can do this well. that was missing for most of esc this year :(

anyway!! id to hear thoughts on this :)