BIGHIT Music / Shervin Lainez
K-Pop might be an industry dominated by Korean artists or alternatively, those born in Asia, mostly China, Japan, Thailand and Asian diaspora but a lot of it is sustained on the backs of American / Western songwriters, African American producers and more. At the same time, there are also a whole host of Korean songwriters and composers that work alongside others on your favourite K-Pop bops.
In recent times, K-Pop has become more than just a variation of music. It can no longer be dismissed as a "genre" that is defined only by its separation from English language music. K-Pop, as the Western world knows it today, is actually made up of a hundred other genres and sub-genres and "K-Pop" is nothing but a convenient umbrella term for the same.
Some of the most popular K-Pop songs are worked on by a team of innumerable amazing artists, who come together to bring us the perfect concoction of lyrics, melodies, beats and more that are then taken to completion by the execution of the K-Pop groups or artists they are made for. While it is true that the idols themselves are often directly involved in the whole behind-the-scenes process of writing, producing and composing, other times, the cre
