>>3617561I began as a hardcore SNSD fan, then realised everything they released from The Boys onwards was shit so now I just wish they'd hurry up and disband already and let Taeyeon fly free as a solo artist (which honestly she already seems to be doing, and they're so inactive they ma yas well have disbanded). I was juuuust getting into T-ARA pretty deep when that all went to shit, so not much came of that in the end. Like you said though most of the old guard is dead so there's not many I /still/ pay attention to.
My main favourites now and ones I pay most attention to are TWICE, Red Velvet, AKMU, Bolbbalgan4 and WINNER. GFRIEND, Oh My Girl , BTS and LABOUM generally release some great stuff. Really like Kim Sungkyu from INFINITE's solo stuff too. Still enjoy some of the oldies like IU and APINK, although APINK is getting even more samey than they were before. I wanna like BLACKPINK cus the girls seem pretty cool and fun, but just can't get myself to like their music all that much, especially as most songs feel like 2NE1 rejects and their rapper literally
sounds identical to CL. Generally a fan of most groups/stuff out of SM. FT ISLAND and Day6 are really good out of the 'band idols'. There're a fair few others I'm rather fond of and probably forgot to mention cus this is just going off the top of my head, and I still like a lot of the older groups but rarely listen to their stuff nowadays, but I'm not going to go listing every single idol/group I have a positive opinion on haha.
Most of the Korean music I actually listen to on a regular basis isn't really the cutesy idol stuff (like Bolbbalgan4, AKMU, Day6, Kim Sungkyu solos, WINNER, rock/indie groups), that's just for fun colourful MVs with qts and catchy choruses. I'll maybe download the title songs of idol comebacks if they're good, but I never bother with the rest of the albums.
