yall are lying badly thinking the rest of the group talks like martin 😭😭 ppl have said james sounds australian, keonho when he speaks english clearly doesn’t and juhoon just has a deeper voice speaking english. it’s mostly martin and sometimes seonghyeon
look, tbh, i love martin sm but there is a difference in how he speaks in english vs the rest of the members, and i think it’s entirely fair for black coers to be upset and want him to be educated
but there’s multiple types of blaccents due to the area you’re from. there’s los angeles, new york and atlanta etc. which is a part of the problem, when he’s using it. you’re not from any of those places, you didn’t grow up around those areas. so it sounds like mockery.
how are even black coers mixing up aave use and the use of a blaccent…you’re misleading the rightful discussion. martin’s use of a blaccent which is the CADENCE is the problem. aave use would mostly only be a problem by misusing it
juhoon, keonho and james never used a blaccent, what they have used is aave which is not a problem unless they were misusing it. meanwhile seonghyeon (sometimes) and martin uses a blaccent which can come off as mockery because the cadence is from black people.
yall are lying badly thinking the rest of the group talks like martin 😭😭 ppl have said james sounds australian, keonho when he speaks english clearly doesn’t and juhoon just has a deeper voice speaking english. it’s mostly martin and sometimes seonghyeon
here’s my thing with martin and the blaccent, it’s not just him. it’s the entire group that needs to be called out but since martin is the face of the group he gets dragged the most unfortunately + we know how kpop stan’s drag english speaking (also mixed idols) the most.
plus none of their songs sound alike, go and fashion were already on the same record as wyw, and redred isn’t like go nor fashion. though cotl was more genre shifting while GG is heavily rap…i do want them in their pop punk bag again
but i don’t like how some of the comments are sounding, while some are trying to shade them for trying to be black by doing rap (even though black people also helped create rock…..) it’s also started to sound mirco aggressive like rap is less than…
especially since coers who swore they’d be different are getting overly parasocial with them, and breaking into their dorms…now if this only happens with james and they go back to doing birthday stuff with the other members then that’s weird but otherwise this is good
sad but i’m actually fine with this, there needs to lowkey be a certain level of privacy which privacy is the biggest difference between western artists and kpop artists
it's not just no ot5 birthday lives, it's no 12 am surprises planned specifically for each member, no photo dumps, not even a small vlog showing how they did the surprise... im so fucking sad