Anyone remember when, up through 3rd-gen idols, there weren't any of these ridiculous reach award shows, just a clean lineup of shows held in Korea with MAMA basically the only one overseas?
The poster misses when Korea had fewer major K-pop award shows, arguing today's crowded circuit has lost prestige and stage quality.
I think this every time, but for award shows and year-end stages held in Korea, they only run giveaways for Korean fans while sending nearly all the tickets overseas. It's seriously so annoying..;
They don't even f*cking go to all these award shows, so why do they keep asking us to vote? I've been asking this since last time.
Up through 3rd gen, there weren't any of these ridiculous reach award shows.
It was just a clean lineup of awards held in Korea, with MAMA basically the only one held overseas. Anyone else remember?
MAMA, MMA, SBS Gayo Daejeon, KBS Song Festival, MBC Gayo Daejejeon << those five were basically the whole awards-show lineup, so they were so damn fun to watch. Add the Seoul Music Awards and Golden Disc Awards too.
When someone won the grand prize at MAMA, it always went to someone who really deserved it that year, so the result made sense. But grand prizes these days …
Now MMA and the three shows starting with “Gayo” are the only ones still held in Korea, seriously 😭lol. But even those give nearly all the tickets to international fans, so they've lost their meaning ………………….. They call them Korean awards, but the number of ridiculous reach award shows just keeps growing like crazy.
Just get rid of all these random junky award shows and leave one genuinely prestigious one. Or stop giving out awards and just put on GOAT-tier stages. Invest a ton in the performances and make everything varied, from the setlists to the collabs.
Old-school—and I mean really old-school—MAMA at least had stages worth watching, but everything has completely gone off the rails.
And I don't get why they're held overseas.
Ever since the number of these no-name award shows exploded, artists have had to create new arrangements and choreography for every show throughout 11~12, so the stage quality keeps dropping. And since they split the awards among everyone, they don't even feel like real awards.
+ Similar knockoffs: no-name magazines I cannot understand why magazines I've genuinely never heard of get to breeze right into concert venues. Please use those invitations to let even one more fan in.
Take us back to when they covered each other's songs for year-end stages, split into blue and white teams for voting, and there wasn't a single group—or song—you didn't know, no matter who came out.
Forget that, the ones run by the 3 major networks were the real deal...
They'd gather all the top-tier idols of the era and make a unit song just for that one day;; They'd swap songs and cover each other too 😭
Award shows these days have no suspense.
Exactly. That's why singers used to attend pretty much every award show, but now every random nobody runs one. So artists skip the shows you actually want them at and attend shows that make you go, “Who even goes to this?” There are so many that even the grand prizes have lost their prestige ~~|
I wish they'd get rid of this international-fan quota. At least let the 3 major networks hold their shows domestically for Korean residents. It's absurd that you need to use a Chinese ticket agent to attend a K-pop awards show.
The government really needs to regulate this. Entertainment media outlets keep launching award shows left and right just to make money, and this has been screwing up K-pop's image for ages. Tickets don't even sell overseas anymore, but they insist on going and end up getting called empty-arena award shows.
There are seriously so many award shows these days that it's dizzying, and I still keep seeing award shows I've never heard of before.
Artists attend because they're worried the outlets will harass them with articles if they refuse. People overseas are already talking about it too.
I don't get why so many newspapers keep jumping in to launch K-pop award shows. Maybe the Seoul Music Awards did well? That MKMG or whatever they held yesterday too, one...
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There may have even been a time when it stopped at the 3 major networks plus the Golden Disc Awards. I think things were cleaner and better then, and an award actually felt like an award........ Now there are so many that winning one barely means anything, and a whole bunch of acts you've never even heard of all get awards.
They could just give out one grand prize, but the gap between digital and physical sales is already too big. Then when they split the awards, there's another huge gap between domestic and overseas popularity, and K-pop isn't a Korea-only market anymore. Overseas fans also spend more on paid voting... Ultimately, award shows keep multiplying by following K-pop's changes and wherever the money is, so it's hard to tell what their foundation even is. But as they keep changing, that feels like K-pop too. I think one of K-pop's strengths is having no borders or genre limits and being so open to absorbing things, so maybe we need to accept changes like this too haha.
Media outlets making award shows is seriously such a joke. They shamelessly try to stuff their pockets by making fans pay to vote, then bully artists through articles if they don't attend, so the artists have to go...