The biggest reason is that a lot of my favorites disbanded. 2NE1 being the biggest loss. 2NE1 was my absolute 가장 좋아하는 girl group and to know that the band won't be putting out anymore 음악 is disheartening. 4Minute, Wonder Girls, and Spica are three 더 많이 that I especially miss. But then there's Kara. They (alongside Boa) were the band that got me into 케이팝 so to know that they are no longer going to be making 음악 really just sucks.
And the bands that didn't disband 로스트 my bias; before even disbanding Minzy left 2NE1. Nicole left Kara as well before they disbanded. Jessica Jung is another and SNSD is still active. I still listen to SNSD but it isn't quite the same without Jess. SHINee and 빅뱅 seem to be doing well though, it seems like the female 케이팝 bands are the ones taking the big hits.
It isn't just the constant leaving that's making 케이팝 lose some of its appeal to me either. The songs themselves just don't have that 케이팝 feel anymore. I feel like a lot of the new ones, form bands both new and old, are 더 많이 Americanized. New 케이팝 has a lot of EDM-like qualities. I like EDM well enough so I did enjoy kpop-EDM the first few times. However I wish that it'd go back to its old sound. Because, to be honest, a lot of 케이팝 seems 더 많이 formulaic now.
To add icing to the cake, a lot of the new bands just don't appeal as much to me. They aren't as unique. These companies are kind of just pumping them out, they have one 또는 two singles and then they're kind of just forgotten. Nothing remarkable. I'm not trying to hate on the new bands; I enjoy bands like Blackpink, Bulldok, and WJSN. But unlike bands such as 2NE1, SHINee, BigBang, and SNSD, I only like one 또는 two, maybe three of their songs. The rest are just okay. Whereas I used to like nearly every song on the albums and mini albums.
For this I feel like, 2009-2013 were the prime years of kpop. This was when the songs were at their most catchy and the bands were the best. Hopefully one 일 this genre will rise back up again and return to what, in my opinion, is its former glory.
