k-pop is a freaking miracle
BLACKPINK IN EVERY AREA
I first learned of K-pop in college when a friend begged me to learn a K-pop dance with her for a dance performance. “It will be so fun,” she said, “I’ll learn all of the choreo and teach you guys.”
I liked dancing and I loved hanging out with her, so I said yes. Over the course of the semester, we met weekly to learn the dance and rehearse. I was surprised by how quickly she taught the choreography. She had only begun performing in college, yet she managed to come up with more 8-counts every week than my high school dance team coach had.
When I asked my friend how she was coming up with the choreography, she told me that she was learning from YouTube. This confused me, because I knew from experience that trying to learn dances through watching and rewatching music videos was a rapidly joyless task. Because of how U.S. music videos intersperse singing/lip syncing/acting in between the dancing, i…