MVs and the gap on the concept between East and West extras
I may be butthurt and envious but that's me ._.
Dear Asian music industry,
I've internal hatred brewing in the past 3 decades. It comes and goes but let me just say it has mostly been a blessing to be able to sort of appreciate being yellow-skinned and Asian and I managed to break my personal music stereotypes, enabling myself to appreciate other genres beyond pop.
What really sucks is when I have to see oversexualisation or seriously awkward choreography. Now I know metal and hip hop generally demean women or can be utterly sexist because that's how they are though pop gets a bad rap for it too. But I got into Asian music because I wanted to get away from the dreadful stereotyping of Asian people in the West. None of that 'me love you long time', submissive flower with sexual magic bullshit. None of the abusive Asian man who only gambles and thinks women are shit or is impotent or just the geek who never gets the woman.
While those stereotypes may be true, there are other factors to consider. How about the fact that not every Asian is like that? Is every Asian born in the West really white-washed or a try-hard gangster? Not really. This brings me onto Asian music...if you're trying to prove you're not all geeks and conservative by trying to up the sex or whatever...discriminating with the Asian and non-Asian women is not the way to do it. How is it meant to help out overseas Asians who want to show their admiration for their faves? Who have had identity crisis for many years?
Notice how in GDTOP's Knock Out, the Asian dancers do some cute / awkward dancing while the white women just sit there, pose and look hot. They don't have to do anything. Their sensuality is so natural. Yet if an Asian woman has to be be sexy, the bashing is ridiculous. Are you using non-Asian women because they don't mind being hot and sexy while some Asian women are like no thanks?
Look at High High as well where GD&TOP party hard with Ang Mo Kui in a club. But then there's DBSK's Something with the white women as statue types (go read Seoulbeats' article on this). And what of Rain's LA Song with the black lady suddenly getting a bigger arse after being blown in the mouth by Bi?
I really think YG and SM are obsessed with gwei mui sometimes. Even Japanese music is obsessed with them. They're like made into Mary Sues and Gary Stus. They're exotic beings just like how Asian women are made that way in Western music videos and it only increases the white privilege all over the world. Plus the Asian women get more hell than the white women in Kpop MVs by the fans. It's always the way. You don't like her because she's slutty or cute. Yet I never really see white women get criticised in Kpop MVs. See the screenshot I made from a Jpop MV.
You just can't win as an Asian female can you? If I had to choose, I would rather have a box MV than an MV that has all the so-called cultural appropriations just for the sake of diversity. Or give me a dance MV where I can just focus on the choreography and facial expressions.
I will forever be in the shadow of my faves because I'm not an edgy Asian female with swag or style, just like I'm judged for not being British enough, not Chinese enough or not British at all because of my skin colour. Great.
Dear Asian music industry,
I've internal hatred brewing in the past 3 decades. It comes and goes but let me just say it has mostly been a blessing to be able to sort of appreciate being yellow-skinned and Asian and I managed to break my personal music stereotypes, enabling myself to appreciate other genres beyond pop.
What really sucks is when I have to see oversexualisation or seriously awkward choreography. Now I know metal and hip hop generally demean women or can be utterly sexist because that's how they are though pop gets a bad rap for it too. But I got into Asian music because I wanted to get away from the dreadful stereotyping of Asian people in the West. None of that 'me love you long time', submissive flower with sexual magic bullshit. None of the abusive Asian man who only gambles and thinks women are shit or is impotent or just the geek who never gets the woman.
While those stereotypes may be true, there are other factors to consider. How about the fact that not every Asian is like that? Is every Asian born in the West really white-washed or a try-hard gangster? Not really. This brings me onto Asian music...if you're trying to prove you're not all geeks and conservative by trying to up the sex or whatever...discriminating with the Asian and non-Asian women is not the way to do it. How is it meant to help out overseas Asians who want to show their admiration for their faves? Who have had identity crisis for many years?
Notice how in GDTOP's Knock Out, the Asian dancers do some cute / awkward dancing while the white women just sit there, pose and look hot. They don't have to do anything. Their sensuality is so natural. Yet if an Asian woman has to be be sexy, the bashing is ridiculous. Are you using non-Asian women because they don't mind being hot and sexy while some Asian women are like no thanks?
Look at High High as well where GD&TOP party hard with Ang Mo Kui in a club. But then there's DBSK's Something with the white women as statue types (go read Seoulbeats' article on this). And what of Rain's LA Song with the black lady suddenly getting a bigger arse after being blown in the mouth by Bi?
I really think YG and SM are obsessed with gwei mui sometimes. Even Japanese music is obsessed with them. They're like made into Mary Sues and Gary Stus. They're exotic beings just like how Asian women are made that way in Western music videos and it only increases the white privilege all over the world. Plus the Asian women get more hell than the white women in Kpop MVs by the fans. It's always the way. You don't like her because she's slutty or cute. Yet I never really see white women get criticised in Kpop MVs. See the screenshot I made from a Jpop MV.
You just can't win as an Asian female can you? If I had to choose, I would rather have a box MV than an MV that has all the so-called cultural appropriations just for the sake of diversity. Or give me a dance MV where I can just focus on the choreography and facial expressions.
I will forever be in the shadow of my faves because I'm not an edgy Asian female with swag or style, just like I'm judged for not being British enough, not Chinese enough or not British at all because of my skin colour. Great.