Today is October 6, 2023. I just discovered this group. I put words like "foreigners' and "K-pop" in the search box and out popped BLACKSWAN. This group consists of four (4) lovely ladies and none of them are Korean. “There is Gabi from Brazil;NVee from the United States; Sriya from India; and Senegal-bornFatou, who now lives in Belgium.” These are not people with Korean ancestry who happen to live in a country outside of Korea. These young women are NOT Korean. Yet, they sing in Korean and in English, just like all of the popular K-pop groups.
Will they succeed? Uuuummm … I can't predict.
But I can say that when I was growing up in the USA:
I remember a group called “The 5th Dimension”. Do you know what was so different about them? They were BLACK but sounded WHITE! Their music was being played on white radio stations. It was such a shock when people saw them in person.
I also remember Teena Marie and Bobbly Caldwell. Two WHITE singers that sounded BLACK.
All of these artists were popular and successful. To what do they owe their success? Hey! They made good music!
I can't predict the success of Blackswan. There is an article published by CNN, and some criticize this group by “accusing them of cultural appropriation”.
Cultural
appropriation? You got to be kidding me! Might as well argue the K-pop
groups culturally appropriated their music and dancing styles from
Westerners and that means none of the K-pop groups should succeed! Just saying.
