my mind is returning there. A song by (G)I-DLE was very popular during the first half of 2020, so I heard it all the time, just being in public. As has been pointed out, Satanic themes are often woven into the videos of top music acts, so in this celebration of lesbianism, apparently the first in K-pop, we have a church to hedonism and self-worship, sex as a mud-kneaded-with-blood descent into hell but celebrated as an ecstatic ascent into heaven, a white thus cleansed or whitewashed forbidden fruit, sexlessness as being fenced with barbed wire, day-to-day living as being casually dragged by thugs, a finger to the temple mimicking suicide because it’s cool and kinda fun, masked thus faceless humanity to highlight one’s supposed stardom, the Sacrament as intoxication and death, climax or fulfillment as arriving, at last, at a cemetery with many white crosses. For the record, I have nothing against lesbians. I’m just pointing out how lesbianism is depicted here as an extremely dark religious experience, in a song called, what else, “Oh my God!”
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Even if you're not religious and don't believe in God or Satan, it's weird how a lot of music videos use exactly this type of dark symbolism. The site Vigilant Citizen used to do good analysis of that type of thing.
Not to mention the awful techno-hip-hop music which increasingly sounds the same everywhere, be it South Korea, Germany or America. We are all global citizens now.
Happy New Year.
These young women will wind up wrinkled and childless having to ask favors from men to open their pickle jars or fix a broken door.
Who runs the Korean Music Scene? Is it the same tribe which owns CNN, Disney, Twitter?
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