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      • livingperson2 [he/him]
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        I think the genre itself requires too many cultural signifiers the North Koreans aren't familiar with to even make sense of the spectacle - it's not just pop music, it's a whole extended universe of signs.

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          • 389aaa [it/its]
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            North Koreans don't have some kinda commie sixth sense lmao, how would they somehow recognize just from watching a concert how exploitative and shitty K-Pop is

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                That's fair. I tend to be wary about any kind of aesthetic judgement like that, though. It seems waaaay too common for internet leftists these days to basically just go 'everything I don't like is exploitative and won't exist under communism' which is like goldfish-tier ideology, I see no reason that music videos (and specifically pop-aesthetic music videos, to remain somewhat on-topic) are inherently exploitative and will cease to exist under communism or something. These kinds of aesthetic judgements can lead to asshole behavior towards allies or at least well-meaning people, too. Pertinent example given relatively recent threads would be people making fun of Nathan J Robinson for how he dresses because it strikes them as somehow inherently bourgeoisie.

                I might have digressed entirely from the topic there and started rambling, but fuck it, still gonna post

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          too many cultural signifiers the North Koreans aren’t familiar with to even make sense of the spectacle

          the virgin Schizoprhrenic late capitalist sujbject vs the Chad neurotypical human