Tuesday, July 23, 2024

Conversations with Coworkers (2 of 2): K-pop.

At the one (Thai) restaurant where I work now, my one (chubby) (Thai) coworker says that the new song from Blackpink's Lisa isn't as big as her last song, but that a lot of people like it, especially in (Thailand).

For one, she filmed it in (Thailand) and uses (Thai) people and she's (darker) in the video, too, since she doesn't have that artificially (white) skin like she did when she was in Blackpink.

Also, she wrote the lyrics herself and she has this line about being asked to teach people Japanese, which she said was a call-out of how racist a lot of (Koreans) are to people from Southeast Asia, like they mix up all the (non-Korean Asians).

And, I said that I always suspected that they included her in Blackpink so that the K-pop company could market Blackpink more in (Thailand), since Lisa is (Thai).

And, my one (chubby) (Thai) coworker said that that's true, but she's on a different label now, and so she can say what she thinks.

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