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the world is getting smaller a lot of things are transcending all these cultures you know it doesn't matter where you live if some people start enjoy something a certain type of music or a culture I think people will catch on I think that's exactly what's happening right now I can't keep all the kpop going new like every day and there's like one to like 20 members just so this will be variety now a lot of the new bands that are forming are formed with Chinese members members from Thailand fluent English speakers so like this isn't my accent they are keeping the international audience in line so they're trying to reach out to the international even have entire songs being sung in English now so that's like a huge change for us my name is Simon and Martina you make videos about life in Korea and slowly we started getting a following but we had no idea why the first time we we left just to get some like vlogging footage of what it's like to be at kcon and we were totally like swarmed by people and we were just completely shocked I'm like is there k-pop man behind me our plan today was to make a video of this whole thing but we can't actually get anywhere without being surrounded so we have security that escorts us only to miss necessary places but it's really really shocking in America right now well of course with YouTube it's just so easily accessible now whereas in the past before YouTube and you know internet really kind of booth into this phenomenon it was kind of hard you have to go to the traditional Korean video stores to rent these music shows and dramas my name is JD relic and I'm a songwriter and producer I started out on YouTube I was making English covers of kpop songs through that I met the people I'm working with now they asked me to come right for their company so that was it I mean I didn't have any prior songwriting experience before that so I just kind of dove into it about two and a half years ago YouTube is absolutely crucial to the role of cake hop spreading I think sigh that did Gangnam style very clever the Americans took oppa Gangnam style pretty well it's very different gum themself from the rest of kpop because there's a lot of you know irony and humor in that video we don't see that in other kinds of kpop but we still see a vast amount of success happening on an underground level when it comes to Kayla scary if I was an artist in Korea I'll be nervous because the pace of the popularity of music is quick your discover when you audition for like a record label when you're like 12 years old and then when the label thinks they're ready they'll start bringing them out into bigger bands videos and kind of like debuting them in the background and stuff as an extra as an extra and then the fans kind of get to know them and then the fan group starts forming even before the band releases its first single so by the time the beta releases its first single it has a fan group it usually has a fan color it'll have fan chants everything fan colors seriously they pick colors they're running out of colors fan involvement is really popular among k-pop fans in Asia you know karaoke is so huge and one thing that I've noticed is that if you have a song that's really singable then it's more likely to be a hit because people can go to you know the karaoke lounge and sing your song I think was a gay thousand people here you know they just want to be able to get up close and personal with you know these artists the fans are so extremely passionate there's no moderate fan in the crowd here screaming their guts out kpop has definitely evolved a lot more over the past four years when we first came kpop was very just Korean Korean people singing Korean songs it's obvious that it's becoming more and more global all the time you'll see groups coming out with English versions of their songs and promoting it here I could see it from now being pretty big and seeing this right now cake on there's so many different ethnicities out here and races which that I think is most shocking to me you