>>213671367 (OP)
Ultimately K-Pop is the only music out there that isn't about doing hard drugs and having a good time. Parents don't want their kids listening to songs about snorting coke and doing molly and drinking cough syrup.
So K-Pop and Taylor Swift became generational for Zoomers.
You add Squid Game being the best thing on Netflix due to Netflix executives having no actual taste for films, so when they found a hit, it became a big hit (and they subsequently ran it into the ground)
But generally Hollywood is a town of Followers. If somethings a hit, they'll make copies of it until it stops being a hit, whether it's capeshit or Korea Slop.
If BTS gets all the teen girls to act like they're the Beatles in 1964, they'll bring more K-Pop bands over.
If Squid Game makes Netflix money, people are gonna want more Korean TV shows. If Oldboy is doing well in streaming, studios are gonna look around more in Seoul for some action movies.
It'll fade in a few years. Once K-Pop and Korean Cinema become boring, American and European Pop become cleaner and some other country's TV shows get caught by viewers on a big streamer.
But really, not enough can be said about how much of Western Pop music destroyed itself with honesty.
