COMPOP 30.6 - JKPOP
Jpop is pop that is Japanese. Kpop is pop that is Korean. JKpop is pop that is Just Kidding.
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"We inheritors of Western imperial colonialist privilege like to call
Japanese pop music 'Jpop' and Korean pop music 'Kpop', which, let's face
it, is barely even one step less racist than the term 'world music'.
Still, in the global economic marketplace, it serves its purpose,
delineating the genre with exactly the exoticity it requires to sell the
product back to the other-hungry West. Buttress O'Kneel, with her usual
blend of philosophical profundity and whimsical absurdity, takes both
terms and mashes them together to form 'JKPop', also harnessing the
conceptual power of the shorthand internet term 'JK' - meaning, of
course, 'just kidding'. Which is how Ms O'Kneel has always presented her
craft to the wider community - as both a serious act of political
detournment and cultural anarchy, and as novelty pop music.
Buttress' 'JKPop' takes the best-selling music in the West - the
record-smashing Korean behemoths Black Pink and BTS - and reconfigures
it into slash-and-burn glitchfests, amen-fuelled breakcore spakattacks,
heavy rap productions, and randomised abstraction, mixing the Korean
stars with vocals by Clipping,
Metallica, Marc Rebillet, Boston, Billie Eilish and more. Fragments of
recognition fly past, versions of versions fall apart, and we're left
bewildered, paranoid, exhausted, and sore. 'But don't worry," says Ms
O'Kneel, "I'm just kidding!' "
Department of Ephemeral Overanalysis
IWML
2021
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