K-Pop Fans Notice A Frequent Trend In Girl Group Music Videos These Days
Trends are constantly changing and evolving in the K-Pop industry, and with the music industry as a whole. Whether it’s a trend in the kind of music that’s popular at a given time, to styling trends, or something else entirely, there are plenty of instances where a trend takes off and is used repeatedly among different artists.
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Recently, a post was made on an online forum that discussed such a trend that seems to be used heavily in current K-Pop girl group music videos. With the popularity of the girl crush concept still going strong in K-Pop, seeing female idols act tough and cool is a common trope in music videos these days.
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More specifically, the trend that fans noticed was the inclusion of one or more members riding a motorcycle or some other kind of vehicle in their music videos.
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There are numerous music videos of third and fourth generation girl groups featuring at least one scene with a member looking intently at the camera while wearing a motorcycle helmet.
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And if they’re not riding a motorcycle specifically, then there’s usually a scene of them driving something else, even a quad!
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This kind of scene definitely gives a tough-girl aesthetic to a music video, making the members look effortlessly cool (even though many of them don’t even have a driver license yet!).
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A futuristic aesthetic is often paired with these kinds of scenes, which are also popular in music videos these days.
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Here’s how K-Pop fans are reacting to the online post in the comments!
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Given the success of many music videos that use this trope, we doubt that it will be going anywhere anytime soon!
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