Friday 6 October 2017

Converting to K-Pop - The first attempt

The village I work at, is a really lovely place. 

Picturesque English countryside, proper pub food and people smiling at each other on the street.

You wouldn't think K-Pop would fit into this image, but one thing's for sure - I'm determined to broaden people perspectives on cultures, whichever they might be. As we already know
the love for this flamboyant, over-the-top genre can bloom anywhere, even in the most abandoned corners of the world - so here is me trying to educate my colleagues.

The almost obligatory 'How was your weekend?' and 'Did you get any sleep?' - to worn out the fathers with newborns, were quickly turned into the 'Ildi did something quite unusual again, but we're sort of interested' looks. After trying to highlight the elements that could make the genre appeal to each member of our team, I felt like they got the memo. Especially after this happened:





You can tell how happy (and secretly pleased) I was with succeeding at my mission so quickly... well, it was a short-lived celebration. During lunch break the colleague who usually puts on some music, closed his computer with Apple Radio still on. And as sneaky K-Pop is, it came back with full force, bringing out the sickest, loudest beats with the most over-the top bubblegum pop hits K-Pop produced in recent months. While our designers decided to come back to the office rather slowly, the beat only got faster, and they lost their patience just as fast, since nobody could turn it off.

After this unfortunate incident there is only one person who is not discouraged - the bravest of them all, the pride of the office: Chris.

Everyone, meet Chris.

He is a patient studio manager, a designer who 'casually' runs marathons for charity. (In comparison I often get tired from going to the grocery shop for bargain hunting.) Chris is in desperate need of some uplifting, pump your fist, raise the bar - type of music, and in true champion fashion and kindly agreed to be a lab-rat for my challenge.

It's time for us to give back to Chris and help him to be the best version of himself at the next Iron Man.

Challenge everyone, get Chris to like K-Pop purely based on the musical experience! We don't have visuals, videos, tv-shows on our side this time - only music.


Go K-Pop Academy, what should we put on Chris' list?

Check out the list here, and add your suggestions in the comments!

https://open.spotify.com/user/ildi_nagy/playlist/5XuiCY0QcePZCWgigHX7XF

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