Make It Pop

For one, this is not even close to what was expected. I just watched to see what the fuss was about from social media. I can see that it is related to K-pop at the weakest level.

The director/producers want to maintain the White Man Asian Woman dominance. 'the producer said "Nope! Never! Asian guys in my show, not gonna happen!", while everyone else–albeit uncomfortably–laughed it off. Come on now, it's a show about Korean pop. Half the artists from the K-pop industry are Asian men.'

As mentioned by other reviewers, it seems like the producers are perpetuating the White Man Asian Woman fetish/fantasy.

The acting and everything else seems appropriate for the target demographic. This is the only good part of this series. Its age appropriate and that it hits the target demographic.

I have been reading the reviews and think what? This is a kids show. It's light hearted fun with some really good voices. They go to extremes with the personality of the characters, but that makes it more interesting. My 12yo niece loves this show and I enjoy watching it with her. I find the pressure on Corki from her highly successful father a reflection of what Japanese culture would be like. I'm not sure about Chinese.

I don't find this show one bit raciest if anything it's very multicultural. I think younger kids will find it a show to enjoy because they seem to love musicals. Young girls will probably imagine they are pop stars, just as young boys imagine they are spider-man or whatever.

Give the show a break and just go along with the fun.

50% of ALL K-pop artists are MALE. Why is it that there are no Asian males at all on this show? Let us stop the stereotyping of Asian culture right now. This is another typical Hollywood white-washing of Asian culture- Bad music- bad story- and White Males are the only available love interests for the Asian Females. This needs to stop now.

Look at this http://www.reddit.com/r/television/comments/2y6qk6/tv_producer_asian _guys_in_my_show_not_gonna_happen/

The producer of this show said that there will never be a Korean male in this show about Korean music. Just imagine that for any other type of genre of music. This would be equivalent of making a show celebrating Cinco de mayo without any Hispanic actors, like a bollywood movie with no Indian actors, like a British TV series without any Brits. This is wrong and this type of racism needs to stop NOW.

I've watched the series twice now (both seasons) and on the plus side I find the female cast extremely attractive and the music generally pleasant and catchy. On the downside a few of the scripts seem to have been written by high school dropouts whose command of the English language is highly questionable. I also applaud the casting of three oriental ladies as the stars, it's not very common. The music is highly produced so it is hard to ascertain what vocal skills they possess but I get the impression they are above average. Another positive element I should mention is that the characters are free to date other characters regardless of their ancestry. It sets a fine example of tolerance which seems to be rather lacking elsewhere.

I completely disagree with "Leah Mckenzie" 's review. For a person not into Kpop, "she" sure writes a lot on a completely unknown and unpopular Kpop show, ranting about how racism doesn't exist and how anyone who dare to talk about it is the racist.

Pretty much the worse show I have ever seen. In THE ONE place, a show about Kpop, where they could have Asian males in it without being completely sexless, they manage to do away with it. I am actually very IMPRESSED how they managed to pull this off, without anyone pointing out how ridiculous this is.

Why is white Hollywood so averse to having any Asian males on screen, except in extremely clichéd and stereotyped roles? I have no idea. Why is having a normal sexually functioning Asian male on screen so damn hard for American media?

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Notice how the two reviews saying "there is no racism" or "racism is overblown" or "anyone who complain about racism is racist themselves" are all registered within a week and never have a single review in the past.

While the only guy talking about how this IS an example of racism (the main guy behind this show, Thomas Lynch, literally said in no unclear terms "he will never have an Asian guy on his show") has a 10 year account and tons of past reviews.