On Friday, June 4, 2021 at 3:53:12 PM UTC-10, Dave Smith wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Jun 2021 18:02:23 -0700 (PDT), dsi1 >
> wrote:
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> >On Friday, June 4, 2021 at 2:16:10 PM UTC-10, Dave Smith wrote:
> >> On Fri, 4 Jun 2021 17:06:04 -0700 (PDT), dsi1 >
> >> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > As I said I use the standard American usage. It's irrelevant who I
> >> > idolize, the only thing that matters is how Americans use the word
> >> > "Asian." If you're saying that Americans idolize Japanese, Chinese,
> >> > and Koreans, you're pretty much out of touch with the United States.
> >> I didn't say that at all.
> >> > OTOH, I guess you could say that American youth idolize Koreans. It's
> >> > pretty much that way around the world.
> >> Because of that extremely nasty K-pop scene?
> >>
> >> Is a Thai an Asian in your vernacular?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Not Dave Smith
> >
> >BTS is #1 on the Billboard top 100 charts at the moment. That don't mean much to you but it's kind of a big deal. This group is bigger than Jesus. That don't mean I idolize BTS or the Koreans. My wife probably does. She says that she wishes her Korean mom could have lived to see this.
> I've seen a documentary about the Korean pop scene. It's extremely
> nasty. The young artists are complete slaves to the record companies.
> I don't think stuff like this happens in the western music industry.
> At least not THIS bad. That's irrelevant to girlies who like to jump
> around to that music, of course.
>
> --
> Not Dave Smith

It's a bad scene alright. OTOH, life for the professional musician has always been tough. It's probably a better life than being out of work for over a year and living in your car.