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Where's The Originality? Up Your Ass.

I thought I would do another editorial/thoughts post in between all of these music video reviews to balance everything out. Youngjae is hinting at the next mv review for those who want to skip this. Rather you're a fan of K-pop or not, the obsession with originality is real no matter what you listen to. Yes, pretty much every genre (unless you listen to indie, but I'm sure they have this issue too), has that one set of pretentious assholes that constantly bitch and moan about the "lack of originality" in music and how what they listen is "so much better" because it's "100% original." Even though having lyrics about mental illness, rape, murder, love, hate, world peace, world destruction ect... isn't inherently "original" in any sense. Inserting random bits of electronica isn't inherently original, nor is not inserting random bits of electronica. Everything on paper has pretty much been done on paper. As a writer, and someone w...