SOMETHING Disturbing is Happening - WE NEED TO TALK #kpop
#seoeve #malatanghulu #babymonster #kpop #idols #서이브 #마라탕 #sigmaboy Subscribe! / @breakaway2x Seo Eve 서이브 Malatanghulu 마라탕후루 - KPOP JUNIOR IDOLS , BabyMonster, Sigma Boy Russia How Young is Too Young? How low can you go? Kpop we need to talk. I'm a huge fan of talent regardless of age and gender. In fact, I've always wanted to get into the music entertainment business as a producer or some capacity in talent agencies. Kpop is a massive lucrative industry that has taken over the world literally. This applies to boy bands as well but I'm going to just specifically address girl groups in this video. I'm no stranger to seeing young and talented performers making it onto the big stage. We all remember a 16 year old Britney Spears shock the world mainly because of her age of being only 16 years old. Justin Bieber also started to get noticed around 12 years old, and there's many more. Kpop has always dabbled with young talent in their teens and we're talking fresh out of middle school to start and the age is getting lower where you start to see elementary school girls getting noticed or attention on their social media platforms. Kpop recruited young talent from SouthEast Asia and other parts of Asia to form the newly hit girl group "BabyMonster" which featured a bunch of 10-13 year old girls and now they are one of the biggest girl groups in the world with millions of followers and views. Seo Eve at just 11 years old, still an elementary school student to middle school debuted with her viral and trendy song and video "Malatanghulu" in mid 2024. Since then she's gone viral and appeared everywhere, but at such a young age, how young is too young? How low can you go? For obvious reasons which I don't need to state, young girls have massive marketing power and appeal. They can generate enormous amounts of revenue for these companies and the industry but at what point is it bordering on the line of exploitation? Their age, their youth, their appearance and their innocence is part of the marketing power and that is being exploited for the bottomline which is money. They won't stop here. It'll continue to go lower as long as there is no regulations or mandates. Child youtubers are one of, if not the biggest money generating niches and parents are even starting early getting their children in on the action to get their piece of the pie! It's very lucrative but also oversaturated. Japan has a popular culture of "Junior Idols" which is another story entirely for another video one day perhaps :) There are so many more to name, but you get the idea. It's happening and it's booming. It's not like we haven't heard these issues before in the early American pop culture days of MTV and teen idols fad and trends. But Kpop is on a whole another level. It's reach is far greater than anything we've ever seen before thanks to the internet/social media/influencers (that didn't exist in the past). Young girls all over the world are emulating and patterning themselves after these young and famous child / teen idols or starlets that Korea and its Kpop industry is churning out at a frantic pace. The rewards are massive but the drawbacks are also there but mostly swept under the carpet or kept in the closet and dark. Where do we draw the line or is there none? Should everyone just exercise their own self-discipline and expect the market to govern itself? Are we getting dangerously too close to exploitation of children and youth? I would say we are already doing it. It's just not worded that way but branded and polished as a very nice entertainment product for everyone to enjoy. There's much more to unpack and talk about, so feel free comment down below! Please don't forget to like and share this video. Subscribe if you like to see more content like this. Thanks for watching!