Kpop 2008-2020 was better than what Kpop is currently.
This is probably an unpopular opinion and maybe it's because I grew up listening to Kpop during that era (during my teens), but I was wondering what everyone else's opinion is.
During 2008-2020, there were a lot of groups, but a lot of them were hits. SNSD, Super Junior, 2 PM, BTS, Blackpink, Exo, Twice, Wanna One... the list keeps going on. There were even groups with smaller fandoms but had good songs and were recognized certainly domestically but also internationally like Gfriend, BAP, Sistar, AOA, Day6.
Post coronavirus, I feel like Kpop has become more towards globalization, which isn't a bad thing, but you can see that a lot of the songs have more English than Korean (which certainly wasn't the case pre 2018ish). Nothing wrong with it, but it feels like it's losing the K and just going with pop. Of course there are popular groups like Ive, NJ, Le sserafim but it isn't anything like what Kpop groups from previous generations were like in terms of popularity domestically and maybe even internationally. Feel like in Korea, trot and ballad has become more popular than Kpop itself, but that's a seperate debate.
My unpopular opinion is Kpop from 2008 - 2020 was better than what Kpop is currently.