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big bang officially introduced KPOP to all of the world with winning the award for worldwide act, the first korean speech in EMA's history. it's a little funny how this kind of thing can bring people together. we all have our favourite groups, but when one of them is taking on the world, we drop everything and support them, even though we don't have their songs on our playlists. it's almost like a family. a guy named silas explained it pretty well;
"Man, K-pop fandoms are just like siblings. We fight 98% percent of the time over completely stupid shit, but when one sibling needs support, all of the civil wars come to a halt, and everyone is supportive. And by this time next week, we'll be stealing each other's hairbrushes and tattling on each other again."
it's not a thing that everyone understands, because it's different for all types of music, but I like this side of KPOP, the supportive one. this group dominated the tweets for the EMA's, and MTV hardly gave them any cred for it at all, only showing the numbers for justin beiber and lady gaga, but hey, people are afraid of what they don't know. maybe this is the start of an new era for KPOP, or maybe it didn't make much difference, but it felt good to be united about something for a few hours.
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