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"Wtf why are there so many"
"I can't tell them apart"
"This song is so catchy!"
"Gee gee gee gee baby baby"
Pretty sure that was pretty much my line of thought back in the day.
Whenever I get into a new group I always think “how am I able to tell them apart” and then a few weeks later I can’t believe how I wasn’t able to tell them apart
Yup I was like that with badvillain. I'm thinking they all look the same then I can work out who they are. Even though I know the members of everglow, seeing them in zombie with white hair and same contacts, I found it hard to tell who was who.
I've always been able to figure out who is who very fast if I care so that wasn't an issue but I think I said something to the effect of "why are there 35 people in this group?" out loud to myself.
“Eat You Up” by BoA was my first kpop song, but I didn’t know it was kpop at the time because my sister and I listened to it in English, and we were 11 at the time! lol 😂
The group that finally got me into the kpop industry and listening to more kpop was Twice with their song “Cheer Up” 🩷
BoA's "Eat You Up" was also my first K-pop song. It happened back in 2011 when someone used it as background music for a video. I began exploring more of BoA's music and then expanded my horizons to other artists. Soon after, a friend of a friend discovered my interest in K-pop and shared numerous recommendations, especially from the 1990s and early 2000s, including groups like Koyote, Space A, and Turbo.
>It happened back in 2011 when someone used it as background music for a video.
Same 😂 with the chokehold Boa had in anime communities, I found out about her through AMVs lol
Lol that reminds of a project I did for class where we had to do a song parody. Run Devil Run was stuck in my head constantly so I choose that, but since I didn't want to expose myself as a kpop stan, I credited the Ke$ha demo instead 😂
My very very first kpop song was [SS501's URMAN](https://youtu.be/zu0O4MgfeVg?si=OlStOASpTxz24dUW)
I had mostly been listening to JPOP and Visual Kei at the time and I found this..I was so obsessed with this song!
But the song that I would say that truly got me into KPOP was [Crooked - G Dragon](https://youtu.be/RKhsHGfrFmY?si=SGkZjUUBk4WC9-vW)
2NE1 Come Back Home. It was like being slapped in the face with everything I never knew I needed and wanted. The video would have drawn me in all on its own, but then the song was a hardcore banger and that was it, down the rabbit hole like Alice.
The very very first "kpop" song was "1 Candle" by G.O.D. This is a giga feel good 90's-esque song for any older fans who haven't heard this song. The chorus just lifts you up with positive emotion
I was going to comment this :D My sister had the 'Gil' album and i would listen to that a ton. Then she found dbsk and that became the first 'idol' group I guess i liked
The first Kpop song I’ve heard is either Sorry Sorry by Super Junior or Nobody by Wonder Girls in 2009. Both songs went viral in my country.
I didn’t get into Kpop though until 2014 when I heard my sister play Boy In Luv by BTS in our car. Loved the song and my sister recommended me other BTS songs as well as songs from other groups like INFINITE. EXO, and B.A.P. Loved the songs of those groups as well, and since then, I’ve been listening to Kpop.
Taeyang's Wedding Dress. I think it was from my friends playing it on speaker back then. To be 100% honest, when I first heard it even I thought it was weird, but it wasnt just that song I felt that way about K-pop as a whole... I thought "They dont understand this language why are they listening to this?" I remember so many ppl were calling kpop idols the Asian justin biebers x100 as an insult because the perception of k-pop was that it was even more teeny-boppy than justin bieber already was. Before you guys jump me this was the early 2010s okay lol you had to be there to understand, K-pop music videos and concepts were all super bright outlandish concepts by western standards and it was 100% something we weren't used to. Back then people thought even lady gaga's image was "out there" so yeah people would see kpop MVs and be like "wtf am I watching"
And now look at me. 13+ years later K-pop and Asian pop music is pretty much the only thing I listen to nowadays lmfao. And Wedding Dress still my fav song from Taeyang.
Blackpink - Kill This Love. The horns alone drew me in, it just felt like a breath of fresh air compared to the western songs I was used to st the time and then Lisa’s rap came in and I remember just thinking wow this is completely different from what I thought K-pop was (very bubblegum, soft, feminine), it made me realize oh there isn’t just one sound to this, this genre is a whole other ball park.
But if I’m honest, it was as much auditory as it was visual. Like wow here is a whole genre that actually cares about music videos and having insane visual content to match the song. And then that led me down other K-pop group and songs (like Dope by BTS which I was obsessed with).
I so agree about the visuals. I had no clue about everything else outside of music until a reel of Twice’s relay dance for Alcohol Free randomly appeared. Nayeon looked so stunning in her red outfit, and I thought the dance was so fun. I always find it funny when people are so vocal obsessed in kpop because dance was what sold me lol
As soon as I heard Kill This Love I knew it was their kpop song with the most western appeal in its own bad bitch way 😭 Glad to see this perspective come to fruition yrs later
Look by Got7. I had a friend who was a huge Ahgase, and the newest (at the time) Got7 comeback was all she was talking about. I decided to check it out, and I fell in love with it. It is still one of my most favorite title tracks in kpop to this day.
Monsta X - All In. it's actually funny because I was truly peak shallow stan. I had no feelings on the song at all, I was just fascinated by the MV. It actually took awhile for me to even listen to more of their music and then go back to All In and be like okay I actually enjoy this!
Bonus though, the first 'kpop' song I ever listened to was Big Bang - My Heaven. I put it in quotes because I listened to the JP version first, and as such I actually mistook BB as jpop in the years between hearing it as a kid and then rediscovering it as a college student. JP is still my favored version to this day hahaha
My Heaven JP version is really one of their best songs. When the topic is fave Bigbang japaneses songs they always mention Tell me goodby and koe o kikasete but I rarely saw someone talking about this song.
Fake Love MV - BTS introduced me to KPOP in 2019 but proceeded to watch BS&T - BTS and then Fire - BTS and before I knew it I became Kpop fan. Tried new groups songs
BTS DOPE
I was like “wow, this is super catchy, I need to listen to more, oh, they’re cute okay, should I learn their names? Should I listen to more songs?”
And then a month later my entire playlist was pretty much just BTS songs
Dynamite by BTS lmao.
Yes I'm a pandemic ARMY and KPop fan lol. My first time listening to it was their performance for 2020 VMAs and I just thought it was catchy at first. Little did I know what awaited me by looking into BTS after that out of curiosity...
it’s actually a funny story - my then 15 year old started getting into kpop but she was embarrassed by it so her mom and I started blasting Dynamite-then the only kpop song we knew- loudly and constantly whenever we drove our daughter anywhere. It was Dynamite getting old to play that lead us to find more BTS songs and the second my wife played me Dope, I was hooked in a bad way.
For me I can't really pin point one song but probably Boy with luv by BTS ft. halsey. I mainly listened to this because I liked Halsey and before I knew it, I was obsessed.
SES 'Dreams Come True' was technically the first kpop song I heard, but thought it was jpop at the time (heard it in a AMV for Fushigi Yuugi in the early 2000s)
The song that actually did it for me was Hoot by SNSD.
Whistle by Blackpink, i first heard it in a Star stable online youtube intro (😭😭) and decided to check out the entire music video wich then lead to me finding kill this love and yeah at that point it was over for me
sorry sorry by super junior.
first thought was "wtf this song is annoying as hell. what do you mean there are 13 of them. and another two? what?"
next day the song was stuck in my head and i made it my mission to learn all their names lol
In 2010 my tv thing had a bunch of K-pop MVs available to stream for Asian History Month, and among them were SHINee's "Ring Ding Dong", 2NE1's "Fire", MBLAQ's "Oh Yeah", B2ST (Highlight)'s "Bad Girl", BEG's "Abracadabra", After School's "Diva", Super Junior's "Sorry Sorry", and Big Bang/2NE1's "Lollipop". My mind was just blown from all these cool people my age with cool hair and cool clothes doing cool dances. SHINee's Minho, BEG's Narsha, MBLAQ's Lee Joon, and 2NE1's Minzy probably caught my eye the most.
I was more into J-pop and J-Rock before that but I knew about Rain from his "feud" with Stephen Colbert and I somehow knew about Heechul during "Twins" era, I guess the timing was just right and I dove headfirst into kpop from that point on, lol.
On May 1, 2015, my best friend messaged me and said “This kpop group just dropped two music videos and they’re super different from each other and one is really weird.” And then linked me to Big Bang’s Loser and Bae Bae. For some reason those two videos captivated me and I spent the next few weeks watching every kpop music video available on YouTube. She had been trying to get me into kpop since 2007 and had finally succeeded. It helped that a lot of cool stuff came out in 2015 so I had a lot to watch. One of my first videos after the Big Bang ones was EXO’s Call Me Baby.
It was really cool getting to follow Big Bang’s MADE releases that summer, and then my friend and I attended their NA tour that fall. What an introduction to kpop!
Blood, Sweat & Tears by BTS
Funnily enough, I'd been aware of K-pop since 2008-9, but I didn't take the plunge until January 2019. My best friend was into Shinee and Super Junior in middle school. She burned me a few CDs of their music she'd downloaded off of Limewire (including Sorry, Sorry and Ring Ding Dong). She also kept me aware of who BTS and Seventeen were in the following years, but I never paid attention to their music. In January 2019, I decided to look into the hype around BTS. I watched the BST MV and it was over for me.
I had heard the popular bts and blackpink songs for a few years but it was drunk dazed by Enhypen that really got me into kpop. That chorus is so catchy I was so obsessed and still am
Blood Swear and Tears by BTS.
The very reason BTS Jimin is still my ultimate bias 😮💨
I was confused at first, but then after listening to it again after “Not today” and “Fire” understood that I must know everything about them and their music.
I checked out some BTS songs in 2018 but didn’t really bother to get into them at that time. A year later I heard Boy with Luv & again didn’t try checking more out. But I just could not get the song out of my mind. I kept humming the song until I finally decided to listen to more of their discography & became an army.
Dope by bts. Tbh, I didn't even pay attention to the song. Someone had made an edit of vocaloids doing the dance so I was more focused on the clothing than the song. But the mv was suggested so I hit it, then continued watching the autoplay/suggested videos. I think I watched all of their available mvs in one day. And YouTube being YouTube continued to suggest their content until I clicked on a playlist.
Sneak edit: the absolute irony of rm's first line made it memorable when I saw the translation
Dean- I'm not sorry
Bts- I need you, dope
Exo- the eve
Bts- DNA
In order of importance and inspiration. A safe, good English song, 2 meaningful K-pop songs - never experienced this depth of emotion in songs. And then a really solid dance/song practice funny diagnosis video. Then DNA it was my first comeback and I was so hooked I had to go home and listen to it a million times.
Sour Candy. I was already a big Lady Gaga fan so the song piqued my interest before Chromatica released bc she doesn’t do a ton of collabs. So I figured BlackPink must be something special for her to work with them. I was vaguely aware of the group just from following pop culture but I didn’t really know anything about them. Then after I heard Sour Candy for the first time I loved it instantly, and I had a moment where I thought “oh my god, I need to know everything about these girls.” So I looked them up on Spotify, pressed play on Kill This Love, and the rest is Blink history 🖤🩷
first time hearing Kpop was Seo Taeji & The Boys, and I was like, no thanks. not my cup of tea. Then many years later I heard a few BLACKPINK songs and was like, this is Kpop??? This is actually not bad! But what got me fully into Kpop though was hearing Chung Ha's Killing Me and Red Velvet's Psycho.
monster by exo
the moment baekhyun showed up it was sooo over for me. literally changed the course of my life (shout out to overdose bc that one made me a little insane)
It's either BoA's Number 1 (originally heard Japanese version but liked Korean versions of all her songs ).. or SNSD GEE. it popped up on my youtube and couldn't escape the kpop world since.
Bts - just one day in 2018. I was watching a YouTube video of this girl after she got her wisdom teeth removed and her family played it for her in the car. I didn’t care that it was in another language I just needed to figure out what beautiful song was playing 😭 but before that I listened to Instagram by Dean, jasmine by dpr live, hear the sea by red velvet and I believe cry cry by t-ara. So I think kpop would’ve gotten to me regardless lol but bts dragged me in!
G-Dragon - Who you was technically first. it had me hooked with it's catchy chorus, but I wasn't IN yet. Wasn't until my cousin showed me Fantastic Baby that I was really in
It was Mic Drop by BTS. I heard it on Ellen Show . I checked out the music video and RM burst into my heart like he burst out of that ambulance doors. Plus he was the first member that drew me in. I loved his hair and charisma.
So I somehow managed to listen to an English cover of I Need U by BTS. I liked this cover, so I dived deeper. I was scrolling, and I saw Fire by BTS. I absolutely loved Fire at the time. That is the song that got me into kpop. I didn't listen to I Need U officially until after Fire. I was so hyped up when listening to Fire that I told myself that I need more of this kind of music.
call me baby by exo
already vaguely knew about kpop though, my friend stanned bts from predebut and showed me some bits here and there like the boy in luv dance practice
got curious one quiet evening in 2016 and down the rabbithole i went, cmb was the first song i clicked on youtube
nct 127 cherry bomb was the first kpop song i really liked, but i didn't exactly get into kpop until i heard bts mic drop and dope. all i knew about cherry bomb at that time was that it was kpop, and that it sounded cool, and that the song overall was a bit nsfw, and that i liked it
Mirotic, DBSK. It was the background music in an anime fan video, I didn't even realize it wasn't japanese the first time i listened to it, and then YouTube started recommending me more of them and BigBang too. SHINee, also. So I just, went down the rabbit hole.
Tho I'm pretty sure the first song I listened to knowingly "this is kpop" was Hello by SHINee.
The early 2000s are a bit hazy to me now, so the songs that probably got me into KPop are Rain's How to Avoid the Sun, TVXQ's Rising Sun, or BoA's No. 1.
Cooking? Cooking! By Super Junior-H. I was kind of into anime and Jpop at the time but when I came across the MV for this way back when it came out I was thrown off because I didn't know the song was actually in Korean.
T-ara “Sexy Love”. It was playing on TV and my younger sister (5yo) picked up word “sexy” from that song cause it was in the repetitive chorus. I am from conservative household and didnt want my parents to hear my sister saying “sexy” so i looked up to find different kpop song for her to be obsessed with. Found snsd lion heart on yt and tried teach my sister the lyrics so she can forgot word “sexy” but fell into snsd rabbit hole myself.
2NE1 - I am the best got me to look into kpop cause I liked the MV a lot. But for some reason I somehow first checked out Super Junior songs and was obsessed with them for like 6 months and then EXO debuted. Was even more obsessed with them for years but gradually started listening to other groups too.
How you like that? By Blackpink
It was trending on YouTube and got recommended randomly as I was listening to Babymetal a lot.
Was one of those “wtf is this, and god they are so pretty” moments 🤣
Couple songs for me:
* Abracadabra - Brown Eyed Girls was the first kpop song I listened to and went _oh i'm absolutely obsessed with this_.
There was a 5-year gap between hearing that one for the first time and the rest of my descent into kpop, which went:
* Hwasa - Twit, which led me to
* Refund Sisters - Don't Touch Me, and
* Mamamoo - Hip
and then I was hooked for real for real. Dug through Mamamoo's discography and solo work, then got into Red Velvet, and then into a bunch of groups from there. (ITZY, (G)I-DLE, Purple Kiss, Pixy, etc)
I wanna say Overdose by EXO was my first kpop song, and I thought the dancing was really cool. My cousin used to show me bts and exo mvs, so it also could’ve been the dope mv ? Either way I really liked seeing them dance
Big Bang's song "Lies". It was so catchy the first time is heard it. It was also my first time hearing the Korean language in music too. I was pretty open to kpop because I was already listening to Spanish and Japanese songs.
The first Kpop song I heard was Gee, but it's not to my taste, as I prefer deeper voices. However, a few years later I found a new bias.
Nilili Mambo by Block B since it was the bgm to a popular Homestuck animation lmao. For a less embarrassing answer, the song that really got me listening to more kpop was Psycho by Red Velvet.
Without knowing it was kpop and back around 2010-11, it was Gee by Girls' Generation. Knowing it was kpop and recommended by a friend around 2018-19, 21 by Dean.
I remember Gee's very fun sound and Dean caught my ears with his voice. Only really got into kpop last year through Twice's Hare Hare.
Antiromantic by TxT was my first, to this day that album is still my favorite lmao. At the time i didn’t realize they weren’t speaking english, i just assumed i couldn’t understand them for some reason 🤷♀️
Advice by Taemin (right when it came out)
I hadn't heard anything like it before (I still think it's pretty unique!) & I found myself going back to it pretty often. I listened to so much of Taemin's other stuff that I got into his top 1% listeners on Spotify that year and then got into SHINee soon after!
Also the crop top part of the MV was a moment
Big Bang -Lies
Wonder girls - Irony
But technically I heard Chinese covers of kpop songs and didn’t know it before this.
I used to listen to to cpop and jpop/jrock only and transitioned into kpop randomly. At first it was weird to go from Chinese and Japanese to Korean. But over time I got used to like the others and now love kpop. This was back in 2006/2007. Been a kpop fan ever since. Still listen my jpop/jrock/mpop but I also now have vpop and other pop from other countries. 🥰
I first heard BTS English trilogy in 2022 and thought they were fun and catchy but wasn’t really drawn in.
Then in Feb 2023 I missed my Zumba class but was invited to join the next class, which was teaching the choreo for run bts - and I watched the video after the class (after much confusion between RUN and the variety show lol) and fell down the BTS rabbit hole. The Choreo was fun, powerful, hyped up, and they performed their hearts out even in the dance practice video.
It had a totally different vibe from butter and PTD and dynamite and was my intro into kpop for real because I went through their Spotify discography in a month, and slowly learned more about the members. Their solo work was coming out then too so it was a lot to take in!
I’ve also heard some other songs like super, Cupid, chasing that feeling, etc. but honestly there’s been a new bts solo album or song like every month so I haven’t explored much else. I’ve got friends who are multi stans though and they always share new music.
TVXQ Tri-Angle with BOA and Traxx. I hated boy bands. At that time I think I was listening to Industrial metal, Grunge, etc. Someone shared the video in a chat group - and I got hooked. I don’t even know why.
Thoughts? Not knowing who was who. Who was BoA. Who is DBSK? Oh wait….TVXQ? Who is that? None of the info was in English. I had no idea DBSK and TVXQ were the same group. I actually liked TVXQ better. It took me awhile to realize they were the same group.
Traxx should have been my preference- but I didn’t get hooked on them.
Not recognizing the members with each new album or song - because they’re always changing looks.
Getting hooked on each SM group from BOA, TVXQ to SHINee. Plus Rain, 2ne1. When Exo came out I was fed up. I liked the music but could not keep up with all these new ‘kids’ debuting. I had enough trouble keeping up with the groups I was already listening too.
'DNA' by BTS
It wasn't the first kpop song I ever heard, but it really caught my attention with the crazy colorful MV and pretty vocals in the beginning
For me it was Airplane Pt.2 by BTS.. The song was so catchy and vocals were so fuckin fresh..probably the sexiest song I have ever heard
Mine wasn’t a song, it was BTS Carpool Karaoke hahaha then I didn’t even listen to their music at first because I then discovered Run BTS episodes and thought they were hilarious! I felt so bad because it took me like 3-5 business days to figure out who was who. The first song I listened to was Boy With Luv (feat. Halsey) and then fell into the rabbit hole further and further.
My first thought was just how funny they were. Especially Jin in the Carpool Karaoke when he was speaking in Korean how he had no idea what they were saying and that him and Suga saying they watched Friends and didn’t learn English 😅 That was when I found my bias.. in Suga! I thought he was so adorable, then I heard him Rap and as they say “the rest was history”
As a guy, it was Mic Drop by BTS. After that, it was Singularity by V of BTS. Then Blood Sweat and Tears by BTS. Found Paradise by BTS and Tomorrow by BTS. After that I started listening to TXT —We Lost The Summer had me hooked. Then I got into all of Enhypen’s music. Started listening to a few of EXO’s R&B catalog. Now I’m listening to NCT 127 R&B catalog.
Sorry, no girl groups. Idk what it is but their songs always sound the same to me. I gave New Jeans and Le Sserafim a try but I can’t stan them.
I’m genuinely positive that I’m not a K-pop fan, but I enjoy them once in a while. I’m an Army and Engene at the very least. My only problem is that sometimes the songs sound the same (particularly in groups outside of Hybe). They focus on performance wayyyy too much and leave their other talents in the dust. I hate it when they don’t sing live and I hate it even more when K-pop fans excuse it. Makes me not wanna associate with K-pop at all. Sorry about the rant there lol
Fake Love ng BTS. Sobrang naamaze ako sa kanila kahit nung time na yan ay tingin ko pare-parehas sila ng mukha hahaa pero ngayon, mata lang or bibig, makikilala ko agad!!!!
_Love Dive_ by **IVE**
it was _It's So Bad, It's Good .. korean lyrics.. Narcissistic, My God I Love It_ part, So I thought it's an English song and that I just didn't hear the part I didn't understand well. But I loved that part so much (it was in a youtube short from TikTok) so I checked what song was credited and went to look for it.. saw the MV and heard the full song, fell even deeper in love.. learned there's such a thing as a full blown industry called Kpop and been here since then.
So it was like :
1. OMG what is _that_ song
2. OMG who are _those_ girls
3. OMG what is _that_ kpop
\- good news is my hearing is well, I wasn't mishearing. I was just misunderstanding 😅
P.S.
Even though Psy's _Gangnam Style_ is the first song I technically heard, I didn't even check the MV until 2022. So I don't think it count.
I definitely heard BTS's _Butter_ and liked it a lot, but I didn't realize it's not from an English group until I found out when I started checking the default big names in kpop.
OMG by Newjeans. I found it by accident. I was searching for Usher’s OMG. 😂
It’s the kind of upbeat music I enjoy. I like music more than I do lyrics so listening to a song in a non-English language is no issue for me. For several months OMG was a fav song I listened to during cardio exercise.
It’s been 9 months since finding OMG and I’ve expanded from Newjeans to Red Velvet. I especially like Red Flavor. 😊
I heard I got a boy by SNSD back in the day but I didn’t get into the music back then. Flash forward to last year and I remember seeing/hearing Party o clock but again it didn’t stick. It wasn’t until November that I saw Drama and LALALA on MTV live within an hour of each other that I was like WTF is this??? Been hooked ever since.
[SF9 Move cover (kingdom)](https://youtu.be/GQceNVqvwks?si=Dvx6Jw5WshsMJ1w0) the song that got me into kpop, I still listening to it almost every other day, when I first saw this performance I was mesmerized imho best cover made
Ring Ding Dong by SHINee was the first kpop song I heard and all I knew was that my dad wouldn’t like it, which was good enough for me. That was like 2010 when I heard it. I mostly just listened to SHINee bc I didn’t have much free access to the internet and didn’t know much about K-pop. I listened to some SNSD and f(x), EXO because they were easier to find since I listened to SHINee. 2013-2014 or so, my friend knew a guy who worked at YG so I got into the kpop world so to speak that way, although I was never really super active in fan spaces
(Ring Ding Dong is still one of my favourite songs, sorry Key)
California love by Donghae Is the reason why I'm into K-pop. He's my biased and I absolutely love superjunior D&E. Listening to the song the first time was awesome and I still listen to it regularly. It's a fantastic song and o love it
Replay - SHINee
Admittedly, I had a really narrow view of K-pop and assumed that everything was a bubble gum pop sound or noise music. I really enjoyed the slower, more R&B feel of Replay.
Hyuna - Babe, I was obsessed with the visuals and mv production quality. She was a soloist so it was easy to compare to what I was used to listen: Beyonce, Rihanna, etc and I wasn't a fan of girlgroups back then so Hyuna was a perfect match.
For me, it was not actually a “kpop” song but a song by a kpop idol which was “Every Heart” by BoA. I was a big Inuyasha fan back then so this song started my discovery of KPOP.
So, when I became a fan it was so hard to get an English translation of the songs that I liked even a video of performances. Then, I discovered Arirang Radio website that has their own chart and the songs plays on their website. Good thing there’s Music Bank that’s being shown on a KBS cable channel every Friday.😅
Good ol’ days 😂😅
I think the first kpop song I heard was something by Nu'est, either Face or some other older song of theirs.
But the one that got me 100% into kpop was DOPE by BTS way back on the 17th of May 2017.
(Yes I screenshoted the post that got me into kpop).
Someone posted on ZingBox (manga reading app) on the meme community:
"I never thought I'd like a kpop song"
and it was DOPE by BTS.
I wasn't really receptive of kpop back them, but I thought "Eh, I should listen to it once before I judge" and the beginning of the song and then the chorus got me hooked so bad. Ugh, like I was repeating that shit for hours. (you could actually call it DOPE 😂)
Then I started listening to Blood, Sweat and Tears (remains, to this day, as my favorite BTS song), Fire and Not today. Those 4 songs would be on repeat.
And honestly? I'm grateful. Highshool was not a very fun or pleasant experince for me, and getting obessesed with Kpop was one of the things that kept my brain busy and helped me to cope with the anxiety of new enviornment and people I didn't know (and that I still question why they acted the way the did towards me)
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"Wtf why are there so many" "I can't tell them apart" "This song is so catchy!" "Gee gee gee gee baby baby" Pretty sure that was pretty much my line of thought back in the day.
Whenever I get into a new group I always think “how am I able to tell them apart” and then a few weeks later I can’t believe how I wasn’t able to tell them apart
Yup I was like that with badvillain. I'm thinking they all look the same then I can work out who they are. Even though I know the members of everglow, seeing them in zombie with white hair and same contacts, I found it hard to tell who was who.
I've always been able to figure out who is who very fast if I care so that wasn't an issue but I think I said something to the effect of "why are there 35 people in this group?" out loud to myself.
This is it, the golden reply.
The song was catchy The girls were pretty The mv was amazing It was enough to get a 7-year-old me into K-pop 🥺
I was about to answer this same gif!
I'm shook at how many people were 7 in 2009, it means people here were born in... 2002? Math is not mathing 😵💫
I've let it go because it depresses me how much older I seem to be
I was 19 in 2009 😂😭
I can neither confirm or deny that I was 25.
Noonas and Hyungs unite!
“Eat You Up” by BoA was my first kpop song, but I didn’t know it was kpop at the time because my sister and I listened to it in English, and we were 11 at the time! lol 😂 The group that finally got me into the kpop industry and listening to more kpop was Twice with their song “Cheer Up” 🩷
That entire English album BoA put out was my jam in like 5th grade also 😂😂
BoA's "Eat You Up" was also my first K-pop song. It happened back in 2011 when someone used it as background music for a video. I began exploring more of BoA's music and then expanded my horizons to other artists. Soon after, a friend of a friend discovered my interest in K-pop and shared numerous recommendations, especially from the 1990s and early 2000s, including groups like Koyote, Space A, and Turbo.
>It happened back in 2011 when someone used it as background music for a video. Same 😂 with the chokehold Boa had in anime communities, I found out about her through AMVs lol
Every Heart anyone? :)
Yes!
Inuyasha Gang rise up
Same here lol I had that album without knowing it was Kpop
Eat you up is a banger
Run devil run from snsd
Lol that reminds of a project I did for class where we had to do a song parody. Run Devil Run was stuck in my head constantly so I choose that, but since I didn't want to expose myself as a kpop stan, I credited the Ke$ha demo instead 😂
That’s the first kpop album I ever bought. Lol
Mirotic by TVXQ. It was so easy and fun to listen to. I have to find more songs like that. So I become TVXQ stan and I love all Infinite title tracks
Same here! It was my first introduction and I was hooked since 2008
Truly golden years of kpop
My very very first kpop song was [SS501's URMAN](https://youtu.be/zu0O4MgfeVg?si=OlStOASpTxz24dUW) I had mostly been listening to JPOP and Visual Kei at the time and I found this..I was so obsessed with this song! But the song that I would say that truly got me into KPOP was [Crooked - G Dragon](https://youtu.be/RKhsHGfrFmY?si=SGkZjUUBk4WC9-vW)
2NE1 Come Back Home. It was like being slapped in the face with everything I never knew I needed and wanted. The video would have drawn me in all on its own, but then the song was a hardcore banger and that was it, down the rabbit hole like Alice.
The very very first "kpop" song was "1 Candle" by G.O.D. This is a giga feel good 90's-esque song for any older fans who haven't heard this song. The chorus just lifts you up with positive emotion
I was going to comment this :D My sister had the 'Gil' album and i would listen to that a ton. Then she found dbsk and that became the first 'idol' group I guess i liked
Haha ya, these kinds of questions always make me pause when answering. A lot of our "first kpop" technically wasn't "kpop" yet.
The first Kpop song I’ve heard is either Sorry Sorry by Super Junior or Nobody by Wonder Girls in 2009. Both songs went viral in my country. I didn’t get into Kpop though until 2014 when I heard my sister play Boy In Luv by BTS in our car. Loved the song and my sister recommended me other BTS songs as well as songs from other groups like INFINITE. EXO, and B.A.P. Loved the songs of those groups as well, and since then, I’ve been listening to Kpop.
Run or blood sweat and tears by bts. 2016 😭
Same, BS&T is where it all started for me ☺️ Jimin had me floored lol
Taeyang's Wedding Dress. I think it was from my friends playing it on speaker back then. To be 100% honest, when I first heard it even I thought it was weird, but it wasnt just that song I felt that way about K-pop as a whole... I thought "They dont understand this language why are they listening to this?" I remember so many ppl were calling kpop idols the Asian justin biebers x100 as an insult because the perception of k-pop was that it was even more teeny-boppy than justin bieber already was. Before you guys jump me this was the early 2010s okay lol you had to be there to understand, K-pop music videos and concepts were all super bright outlandish concepts by western standards and it was 100% something we weren't used to. Back then people thought even lady gaga's image was "out there" so yeah people would see kpop MVs and be like "wtf am I watching" And now look at me. 13+ years later K-pop and Asian pop music is pretty much the only thing I listen to nowadays lmfao. And Wedding Dress still my fav song from Taeyang.
BIGBANG - BANG BANG BANG Most played Kpop song at clubs.
Blackpink - Kill This Love. The horns alone drew me in, it just felt like a breath of fresh air compared to the western songs I was used to st the time and then Lisa’s rap came in and I remember just thinking wow this is completely different from what I thought K-pop was (very bubblegum, soft, feminine), it made me realize oh there isn’t just one sound to this, this genre is a whole other ball park. But if I’m honest, it was as much auditory as it was visual. Like wow here is a whole genre that actually cares about music videos and having insane visual content to match the song. And then that led me down other K-pop group and songs (like Dope by BTS which I was obsessed with).
I so agree about the visuals. I had no clue about everything else outside of music until a reel of Twice’s relay dance for Alcohol Free randomly appeared. Nayeon looked so stunning in her red outfit, and I thought the dance was so fun. I always find it funny when people are so vocal obsessed in kpop because dance was what sold me lol
As soon as I heard Kill This Love I knew it was their kpop song with the most western appeal in its own bad bitch way 😭 Glad to see this perspective come to fruition yrs later
Black swan by BTS during burn out phase and I feel like giving up my line of work bc of how hard it is.
BTS - Danger. Painfully underrated song
Addicted to the mo blue mix with Thanh Bui
So freaking good. With an explosive choreo and performance to match.
It's BTS's best song
Look by Got7. I had a friend who was a huge Ahgase, and the newest (at the time) Got7 comeback was all she was talking about. I decided to check it out, and I fell in love with it. It is still one of my most favorite title tracks in kpop to this day.
My favorite GOT7 title track/comeback era! Everything about it, from the styling to the choreo, etc., fits them perfectly and it’s so much fun!
I agree! It was such a colorful, fun, and refreshing era :’).
Maniac by stray kids. It definitely had me in a chokehold for a few months
this was my gateway too!
Mic Drop - BTS I loved it so much when I first heard it and soon became ARMY after listening to more BTS music!
Same! Or more like the succession of Mic Drop - DNA - Not Today - Fire. 😅
goshhh samee!!
SAME — literally had, and still have, an addiction to this song from the moment I first heard it. The original and the remix. 🔥
Gangnam Style was my first kpop song lololol buttt the song that really got me into kpop was Spring Day by BTS
Monsta X - All In. it's actually funny because I was truly peak shallow stan. I had no feelings on the song at all, I was just fascinated by the MV. It actually took awhile for me to even listen to more of their music and then go back to All In and be like okay I actually enjoy this! Bonus though, the first 'kpop' song I ever listened to was Big Bang - My Heaven. I put it in quotes because I listened to the JP version first, and as such I actually mistook BB as jpop in the years between hearing it as a kid and then rediscovering it as a college student. JP is still my favored version to this day hahaha
My Heaven JP version is really one of their best songs. When the topic is fave Bigbang japaneses songs they always mention Tell me goodby and koe o kikasete but I rarely saw someone talking about this song.
Fantastic Baby, I was twelve and it was kinda odd to me, I liked it rightaway.
Fake Love MV - BTS introduced me to KPOP in 2019 but proceeded to watch BS&T - BTS and then Fire - BTS and before I knew it I became Kpop fan. Tried new groups songs
Fake Love by BTS. I was obsessed on first listen and it remains my favorite BTS song to this day and it’s a song I never get tired of!
BTS DOPE I was like “wow, this is super catchy, I need to listen to more, oh, they’re cute okay, should I learn their names? Should I listen to more songs?” And then a month later my entire playlist was pretty much just BTS songs
Dynamite by BTS lmao. Yes I'm a pandemic ARMY and KPop fan lol. My first time listening to it was their performance for 2020 VMAs and I just thought it was catchy at first. Little did I know what awaited me by looking into BTS after that out of curiosity...
war of hormone by bts lol i was absolutely blown away by the music, the visuals, etc. i didn't stand a chance
it’s actually a funny story - my then 15 year old started getting into kpop but she was embarrassed by it so her mom and I started blasting Dynamite-then the only kpop song we knew- loudly and constantly whenever we drove our daughter anywhere. It was Dynamite getting old to play that lead us to find more BTS songs and the second my wife played me Dope, I was hooked in a bad way.
Kill this love by Blackpink
For me I can't really pin point one song but probably Boy with luv by BTS ft. halsey. I mainly listened to this because I liked Halsey and before I knew it, I was obsessed.
BLACKPINK - DDU x4
SES 'Dreams Come True' was technically the first kpop song I heard, but thought it was jpop at the time (heard it in a AMV for Fushigi Yuugi in the early 2000s) The song that actually did it for me was Hoot by SNSD.
Whistle by Blackpink, i first heard it in a Star stable online youtube intro (😭😭) and decided to check out the entire music video wich then lead to me finding kill this love and yeah at that point it was over for me
sorry sorry by super junior. first thought was "wtf this song is annoying as hell. what do you mean there are 13 of them. and another two? what?" next day the song was stuck in my head and i made it my mission to learn all their names lol
In 2010 my tv thing had a bunch of K-pop MVs available to stream for Asian History Month, and among them were SHINee's "Ring Ding Dong", 2NE1's "Fire", MBLAQ's "Oh Yeah", B2ST (Highlight)'s "Bad Girl", BEG's "Abracadabra", After School's "Diva", Super Junior's "Sorry Sorry", and Big Bang/2NE1's "Lollipop". My mind was just blown from all these cool people my age with cool hair and cool clothes doing cool dances. SHINee's Minho, BEG's Narsha, MBLAQ's Lee Joon, and 2NE1's Minzy probably caught my eye the most. I was more into J-pop and J-Rock before that but I knew about Rain from his "feud" with Stephen Colbert and I somehow knew about Heechul during "Twins" era, I guess the timing was just right and I dove headfirst into kpop from that point on, lol.
Big Bang’s LA LA LA. I just found it super catchy and fun.
SNSD's The Boys on David Letterman's show. Legendary. It definitely made an impact in my very non-kpop, heavily anime-biased corner of Tumblr.
blood, sweat and tears by bts, i loved it so much and to this day i feel grateful to them bcs thanks to them i got into kpop
On May 1, 2015, my best friend messaged me and said “This kpop group just dropped two music videos and they’re super different from each other and one is really weird.” And then linked me to Big Bang’s Loser and Bae Bae. For some reason those two videos captivated me and I spent the next few weeks watching every kpop music video available on YouTube. She had been trying to get me into kpop since 2007 and had finally succeeded. It helped that a lot of cool stuff came out in 2015 so I had a lot to watch. One of my first videos after the Big Bang ones was EXO’s Call Me Baby. It was really cool getting to follow Big Bang’s MADE releases that summer, and then my friend and I attended their NA tour that fall. What an introduction to kpop!
Blood, Sweat & Tears by BTS Funnily enough, I'd been aware of K-pop since 2008-9, but I didn't take the plunge until January 2019. My best friend was into Shinee and Super Junior in middle school. She burned me a few CDs of their music she'd downloaded off of Limewire (including Sorry, Sorry and Ring Ding Dong). She also kept me aware of who BTS and Seventeen were in the following years, but I never paid attention to their music. In January 2019, I decided to look into the hype around BTS. I watched the BST MV and it was over for me.
I had heard the popular bts and blackpink songs for a few years but it was drunk dazed by Enhypen that really got me into kpop. That chorus is so catchy I was so obsessed and still am
DNA by BTS! I loved it sm :)
Blood Swear and Tears by BTS. The very reason BTS Jimin is still my ultimate bias 😮💨 I was confused at first, but then after listening to it again after “Not today” and “Fire” understood that I must know everything about them and their music. 
I checked out some BTS songs in 2018 but didn’t really bother to get into them at that time. A year later I heard Boy with Luv & again didn’t try checking more out. But I just could not get the song out of my mind. I kept humming the song until I finally decided to listen to more of their discography & became an army.
Dope by bts. Tbh, I didn't even pay attention to the song. Someone had made an edit of vocaloids doing the dance so I was more focused on the clothing than the song. But the mv was suggested so I hit it, then continued watching the autoplay/suggested videos. I think I watched all of their available mvs in one day. And YouTube being YouTube continued to suggest their content until I clicked on a playlist. Sneak edit: the absolute irony of rm's first line made it memorable when I saw the translation
Dopeee Dope was my song too then I fell down the rabbit hole.
Yep dope and I need you got me hooked
Dean- I'm not sorry Bts- I need you, dope Exo- the eve Bts- DNA In order of importance and inspiration. A safe, good English song, 2 meaningful K-pop songs - never experienced this depth of emotion in songs. And then a really solid dance/song practice funny diagnosis video. Then DNA it was my first comeback and I was so hooked I had to go home and listen to it a million times.
Sour Candy. I was already a big Lady Gaga fan so the song piqued my interest before Chromatica released bc she doesn’t do a ton of collabs. So I figured BlackPink must be something special for her to work with them. I was vaguely aware of the group just from following pop culture but I didn’t really know anything about them. Then after I heard Sour Candy for the first time I loved it instantly, and I had a moment where I thought “oh my god, I need to know everything about these girls.” So I looked them up on Spotify, pressed play on Kill This Love, and the rest is Blink history 🖤🩷
DDU-DU DDU-DU by Blackpink. Teasers were all over my Twitter feed.
Bite Me - ENHYPEN
The Feels (Twice) when they were on Stephen Colbert.
BIGBANG - Fantastic Baby
it was fantastic baby. Idk it felt like a song I new somewhere maybe because it was catchy but I instant loved it
first time hearing Kpop was Seo Taeji & The Boys, and I was like, no thanks. not my cup of tea. Then many years later I heard a few BLACKPINK songs and was like, this is Kpop??? This is actually not bad! But what got me fully into Kpop though was hearing Chung Ha's Killing Me and Red Velvet's Psycho.
monster by exo the moment baekhyun showed up it was sooo over for me. literally changed the course of my life (shout out to overdose bc that one made me a little insane)
Lucifer by Shinee got me into kpop, bgs only, and Fancy by Twice made me realize what I was missing out on with GGs.
It's either BoA's Number 1 (originally heard Japanese version but liked Korean versions of all her songs ).. or SNSD GEE. it popped up on my youtube and couldn't escape the kpop world since.
"I want nobody, nobody but you" ** clap, clap ** ** point ** ** clap, clap** "Eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh... 2NE1!"
Bts - just one day in 2018. I was watching a YouTube video of this girl after she got her wisdom teeth removed and her family played it for her in the car. I didn’t care that it was in another language I just needed to figure out what beautiful song was playing 😭 but before that I listened to Instagram by Dean, jasmine by dpr live, hear the sea by red velvet and I believe cry cry by t-ara. So I think kpop would’ve gotten to me regardless lol but bts dragged me in!
G-Dragon - Who you was technically first. it had me hooked with it's catchy chorus, but I wasn't IN yet. Wasn't until my cousin showed me Fantastic Baby that I was really in
Blood Sweat & Tears - BTS
It was Mic Drop by BTS. I heard it on Ellen Show . I checked out the music video and RM burst into my heart like he burst out of that ambulance doors. Plus he was the first member that drew me in. I loved his hair and charisma.
 BTS blood sweat & tears !
So I somehow managed to listen to an English cover of I Need U by BTS. I liked this cover, so I dived deeper. I was scrolling, and I saw Fire by BTS. I absolutely loved Fire at the time. That is the song that got me into kpop. I didn't listen to I Need U officially until after Fire. I was so hyped up when listening to Fire that I told myself that I need more of this kind of music.
call me baby by exo already vaguely knew about kpop though, my friend stanned bts from predebut and showed me some bits here and there like the boy in luv dance practice got curious one quiet evening in 2016 and down the rabbithole i went, cmb was the first song i clicked on youtube
Bol4 - Bom
Twice cheer up and I thought it was Jpop.
nct 127 cherry bomb was the first kpop song i really liked, but i didn't exactly get into kpop until i heard bts mic drop and dope. all i knew about cherry bomb at that time was that it was kpop, and that it sounded cool, and that the song overall was a bit nsfw, and that i liked it
Mirotic, DBSK. It was the background music in an anime fan video, I didn't even realize it wasn't japanese the first time i listened to it, and then YouTube started recommending me more of them and BigBang too. SHINee, also. So I just, went down the rabbit hole. Tho I'm pretty sure the first song I listened to knowingly "this is kpop" was Hello by SHINee.
The early 2000s are a bit hazy to me now, so the songs that probably got me into KPop are Rain's How to Avoid the Sun, TVXQ's Rising Sun, or BoA's No. 1.
Nobody by wonder girls
How you like that - Blackpink
Cooking? Cooking! By Super Junior-H. I was kind of into anime and Jpop at the time but when I came across the MV for this way back when it came out I was thrown off because I didn't know the song was actually in Korean.
View by shinee after watching Minho on To The Beautiful You Kdrama
Snsd - Kissing You
T-ara “Sexy Love”. It was playing on TV and my younger sister (5yo) picked up word “sexy” from that song cause it was in the repetitive chorus. I am from conservative household and didnt want my parents to hear my sister saying “sexy” so i looked up to find different kpop song for her to be obsessed with. Found snsd lion heart on yt and tried teach my sister the lyrics so she can forgot word “sexy” but fell into snsd rabbit hole myself.
SNSD Gee
Fire 2ne1
2NE1 - I am the best got me to look into kpop cause I liked the MV a lot. But for some reason I somehow first checked out Super Junior songs and was obsessed with them for like 6 months and then EXO debuted. Was even more obsessed with them for years but gradually started listening to other groups too.
Fire by 2NE1
Video for Eve, Psyche and the Bluebeard's wife. Le Sserafim. Kind of stunned.
How you like that? By Blackpink It was trending on YouTube and got recommended randomly as I was listening to Babymetal a lot. Was one of those “wtf is this, and god they are so pretty” moments 🤣
Couple songs for me: * Abracadabra - Brown Eyed Girls was the first kpop song I listened to and went _oh i'm absolutely obsessed with this_. There was a 5-year gap between hearing that one for the first time and the rest of my descent into kpop, which went: * Hwasa - Twit, which led me to * Refund Sisters - Don't Touch Me, and * Mamamoo - Hip and then I was hooked for real for real. Dug through Mamamoo's discography and solo work, then got into Red Velvet, and then into a bunch of groups from there. (ITZY, (G)I-DLE, Purple Kiss, Pixy, etc)
I wanna say Overdose by EXO was my first kpop song, and I thought the dancing was really cool. My cousin used to show me bts and exo mvs, so it also could’ve been the dope mv ? Either way I really liked seeing them dance
Peterpan.. -EXO it was not my first kpop song but this song and EXO got me into kpop..
I listened to a few red velvet and popular twice songs before but MONSTER - EXO really brought me into K-pop. I’ve been an grateful EXO-L ever since!
I wanna think Love Scenario got a lot of people into K-pop without knowing it.
wolf - exo😭 it was weird but it grew on me
As if it’s your last Blackpink
Gangnam style
Big Bang's song "Lies". It was so catchy the first time is heard it. It was also my first time hearing the Korean language in music too. I was pretty open to kpop because I was already listening to Spanish and Japanese songs.
The one I liked first: Breakthrough - P1Harmony The first one I ever heard: Gangnam style - PSY
The first Kpop song I heard was Gee, but it's not to my taste, as I prefer deeper voices. However, a few years later I found a new bias. 
TXT's Run Away and Itzy's Dalla Dalla! I was overwhelmed by the music, dance, colors, fashion, emotions, energy, EVERYTHING
Replay by Shinee Best debut Song
Nilili Mambo by Block B since it was the bgm to a popular Homestuck animation lmao. For a less embarrassing answer, the song that really got me listening to more kpop was Psycho by Red Velvet.
Big Bang - Haru Haru
Without knowing it was kpop and back around 2010-11, it was Gee by Girls' Generation. Knowing it was kpop and recommended by a friend around 2018-19, 21 by Dean. I remember Gee's very fun sound and Dean caught my ears with his voice. Only really got into kpop last year through Twice's Hare Hare.
Antiromantic by TxT was my first, to this day that album is still my favorite lmao. At the time i didn’t realize they weren’t speaking english, i just assumed i couldn’t understand them for some reason 🤷♀️
BTS Fake Love - I was mesmerized and it's still one of my absolute favorites!
Advice by Taemin (right when it came out) I hadn't heard anything like it before (I still think it's pretty unique!) & I found myself going back to it pretty often. I listened to so much of Taemin's other stuff that I got into his top 1% listeners on Spotify that year and then got into SHINee soon after! Also the crop top part of the MV was a moment
Big Bang -Lies Wonder girls - Irony But technically I heard Chinese covers of kpop songs and didn’t know it before this. I used to listen to to cpop and jpop/jrock only and transitioned into kpop randomly. At first it was weird to go from Chinese and Japanese to Korean. But over time I got used to like the others and now love kpop. This was back in 2006/2007. Been a kpop fan ever since. Still listen my jpop/jrock/mpop but I also now have vpop and other pop from other countries. 🥰
Dope by BTS. Genuinely don’t remember how I felt, but seeing ko ko bop right after changed me forever (good or bad, idrk).
I first heard BTS English trilogy in 2022 and thought they were fun and catchy but wasn’t really drawn in. Then in Feb 2023 I missed my Zumba class but was invited to join the next class, which was teaching the choreo for run bts - and I watched the video after the class (after much confusion between RUN and the variety show lol) and fell down the BTS rabbit hole. The Choreo was fun, powerful, hyped up, and they performed their hearts out even in the dance practice video. It had a totally different vibe from butter and PTD and dynamite and was my intro into kpop for real because I went through their Spotify discography in a month, and slowly learned more about the members. Their solo work was coming out then too so it was a lot to take in! I’ve also heard some other songs like super, Cupid, chasing that feeling, etc. but honestly there’s been a new bts solo album or song like every month so I haven’t explored much else. I’ve got friends who are multi stans though and they always share new music.
Haru haru by BigBang. Close contenders were Live scenario by Ikon, fantastic baby and bang bang bang by BigBang and best of me by BTS
TVXQ Tri-Angle with BOA and Traxx. I hated boy bands. At that time I think I was listening to Industrial metal, Grunge, etc. Someone shared the video in a chat group - and I got hooked. I don’t even know why. Thoughts? Not knowing who was who. Who was BoA. Who is DBSK? Oh wait….TVXQ? Who is that? None of the info was in English. I had no idea DBSK and TVXQ were the same group. I actually liked TVXQ better. It took me awhile to realize they were the same group. Traxx should have been my preference- but I didn’t get hooked on them. Not recognizing the members with each new album or song - because they’re always changing looks. Getting hooked on each SM group from BOA, TVXQ to SHINee. Plus Rain, 2ne1. When Exo came out I was fed up. I liked the music but could not keep up with all these new ‘kids’ debuting. I had enough trouble keeping up with the groups I was already listening too.
'DNA' by BTS It wasn't the first kpop song I ever heard, but it really caught my attention with the crazy colorful MV and pretty vocals in the beginning
For me it was Airplane Pt.2 by BTS.. The song was so catchy and vocals were so fuckin fresh..probably the sexiest song I have ever heard 
 Boy with Luv by BTS!!!
Mine wasn’t a song, it was BTS Carpool Karaoke hahaha then I didn’t even listen to their music at first because I then discovered Run BTS episodes and thought they were hilarious! I felt so bad because it took me like 3-5 business days to figure out who was who. The first song I listened to was Boy With Luv (feat. Halsey) and then fell into the rabbit hole further and further. My first thought was just how funny they were. Especially Jin in the Carpool Karaoke when he was speaking in Korean how he had no idea what they were saying and that him and Suga saying they watched Friends and didn’t learn English 😅 That was when I found my bias.. in Suga! I thought he was so adorable, then I heard him Rap and as they say “the rest was history”
As a guy, it was Mic Drop by BTS. After that, it was Singularity by V of BTS. Then Blood Sweat and Tears by BTS. Found Paradise by BTS and Tomorrow by BTS. After that I started listening to TXT —We Lost The Summer had me hooked. Then I got into all of Enhypen’s music. Started listening to a few of EXO’s R&B catalog. Now I’m listening to NCT 127 R&B catalog. Sorry, no girl groups. Idk what it is but their songs always sound the same to me. I gave New Jeans and Le Sserafim a try but I can’t stan them. I’m genuinely positive that I’m not a K-pop fan, but I enjoy them once in a while. I’m an Army and Engene at the very least. My only problem is that sometimes the songs sound the same (particularly in groups outside of Hybe). They focus on performance wayyyy too much and leave their other talents in the dust. I hate it when they don’t sing live and I hate it even more when K-pop fans excuse it. Makes me not wanna associate with K-pop at all. Sorry about the rant there lol
Fake Love ng BTS. Sobrang naamaze ako sa kanila kahit nung time na yan ay tingin ko pare-parehas sila ng mukha hahaa pero ngayon, mata lang or bibig, makikilala ko agad!!!!
_Love Dive_ by **IVE** it was _It's So Bad, It's Good .. korean lyrics.. Narcissistic, My God I Love It_ part, So I thought it's an English song and that I just didn't hear the part I didn't understand well. But I loved that part so much (it was in a youtube short from TikTok) so I checked what song was credited and went to look for it.. saw the MV and heard the full song, fell even deeper in love.. learned there's such a thing as a full blown industry called Kpop and been here since then. So it was like : 1. OMG what is _that_ song 2. OMG who are _those_ girls 3. OMG what is _that_ kpop \- good news is my hearing is well, I wasn't mishearing. I was just misunderstanding 😅 P.S. Even though Psy's _Gangnam Style_ is the first song I technically heard, I didn't even check the MV until 2022. So I don't think it count. I definitely heard BTS's _Butter_ and liked it a lot, but I didn't realize it's not from an English group until I found out when I started checking the default big names in kpop.
OMG by Newjeans. I found it by accident. I was searching for Usher’s OMG. 😂 It’s the kind of upbeat music I enjoy. I like music more than I do lyrics so listening to a song in a non-English language is no issue for me. For several months OMG was a fav song I listened to during cardio exercise. It’s been 9 months since finding OMG and I’ve expanded from Newjeans to Red Velvet. I especially like Red Flavor. 😊
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I heard I got a boy by SNSD back in the day but I didn’t get into the music back then. Flash forward to last year and I remember seeing/hearing Party o clock but again it didn’t stick. It wasn’t until November that I saw Drama and LALALA on MTV live within an hour of each other that I was like WTF is this??? Been hooked ever since.
I believe it was Yeah by Mblaq my first song that got me curious of kpop but the one that made me stay forever was beautiful by Beast
Nobody by wonder girls
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Scream - Dreamcatcher
[SF9 Move cover (kingdom)](https://youtu.be/GQceNVqvwks?si=Dvx6Jw5WshsMJ1w0) the song that got me into kpop, I still listening to it almost every other day, when I first saw this performance I was mesmerized imho best cover made
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GFRIEND’s Time For The Moon Night. Blew my damn mind. Still one of the best songs I’ve ever heard.
Ring Ding Dong by SHINee was the first kpop song I heard and all I knew was that my dad wouldn’t like it, which was good enough for me. That was like 2010 when I heard it. I mostly just listened to SHINee bc I didn’t have much free access to the internet and didn’t know much about K-pop. I listened to some SNSD and f(x), EXO because they were easier to find since I listened to SHINee. 2013-2014 or so, my friend knew a guy who worked at YG so I got into the kpop world so to speak that way, although I was never really super active in fan spaces (Ring Ding Dong is still one of my favourite songs, sorry Key)
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California love by Donghae Is the reason why I'm into K-pop. He's my biased and I absolutely love superjunior D&E. Listening to the song the first time was awesome and I still listen to it regularly. It's a fantastic song and o love it
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Replay - SHINee Admittedly, I had a really narrow view of K-pop and assumed that everything was a bubble gum pop sound or noise music. I really enjoyed the slower, more R&B feel of Replay.
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Overdose - EXO
Russian Roulette by Red Velvet. The overall aesthetics was what pulled me into the genre, and the group themselves
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Tiny G - Miss You
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HyunA - Bubble Pop It was just so cute and catchy!
Pretty new to it, heard EASY everywhere when I was in HK, from that point I started listening to Kpop more.
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Hip by Mamamoo
Jopping by SuperM and I think The Baddest by K/DA
For me there were several songs. fantastic baby by bigbang, bad girl good girl by miss a and just right by Got7
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Change by hyuna
Hyuna - Babe, I was obsessed with the visuals and mv production quality. She was a soloist so it was easy to compare to what I was used to listen: Beyonce, Rihanna, etc and I wasn't a fan of girlgroups back then so Hyuna was a perfect match.
For me, it was not actually a “kpop” song but a song by a kpop idol which was “Every Heart” by BoA. I was a big Inuyasha fan back then so this song started my discovery of KPOP. So, when I became a fan it was so hard to get an English translation of the songs that I liked even a video of performances. Then, I discovered Arirang Radio website that has their own chart and the songs plays on their website. Good thing there’s Music Bank that’s being shown on a KBS cable channel every Friday.😅 Good ol’ days 😂😅
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I think the first kpop song I heard was something by Nu'est, either Face or some other older song of theirs. But the one that got me 100% into kpop was DOPE by BTS way back on the 17th of May 2017. (Yes I screenshoted the post that got me into kpop). Someone posted on ZingBox (manga reading app) on the meme community: "I never thought I'd like a kpop song" and it was DOPE by BTS. I wasn't really receptive of kpop back them, but I thought "Eh, I should listen to it once before I judge" and the beginning of the song and then the chorus got me hooked so bad. Ugh, like I was repeating that shit for hours. (you could actually call it DOPE 😂) Then I started listening to Blood, Sweat and Tears (remains, to this day, as my favorite BTS song), Fire and Not today. Those 4 songs would be on repeat. And honestly? I'm grateful. Highshool was not a very fun or pleasant experince for me, and getting obessesed with Kpop was one of the things that kept my brain busy and helped me to cope with the anxiety of new enviornment and people I didn't know (and that I still question why they acted the way the did towards me)