Nick Wilson/The Dream Adoptersīehind: BTS’ “Boy With Luv,” “ON,” “Euphoria,” Twice’s “Trick It,” I.O.I’s “Crush,” TXT’s “Crown,” EVERGLOW’s “Bon Bon Chocolate” Melanie Fontana, Lindgren (center), and their manager Justin Garza. One was for Girls’ Generation called ‘ XYZ,” Yip said. “We played them a bunch of records and they took two songs. And it’s just like, ‘What are we going to do?’”īut an opportunity to delve into the world of K-pop presented itself when executives from SM Entertainment visited them in LA. “The checks aren’t coming in and all the checks that do come in are going to rent. “We had conversations between each other like, ‘Dang, what are we going to do?’ Yip told CNN. The Stereotypes might have started out of Yip’s spare bedroom in the early 2000s, but they’ve become one of the hottest producing teams in LA, working on tracks like Justin Bieber’s “Somebody to Love,” Chris Brown’s “Beg For It,” and Fifth Harmony’s “Deliver.” They won two Grammy Awards in 2018 for their work on Bruno Mars’ “That’s What I Like” and even brought Asian faces to the forefront of the US music scene with Far East Movement’s “Girls on the Dance Floor” in 2008.īut after “Girls on the Dance Floor” became a hit, the Stereotypes hit a slump. This production and songwriting team consists of Jonathan Yip, Ray Romulus, Jeremy Reeves and Charm. Electric Feel Entertainmentīehind: Red Velvet’s “Bad Boy,” BoA’s “Kiss My Lips,” Taemin’s “Press Your Number,” Super Junior’s “Devil,” Jessi’s “Gucci” Here are some of the biggest US songwriters and producers in K-pop right now:Ĭharm, Jonathan Yip, Ray Romulus and Jeremy Reeves of the Stereotypes. “We could’ve quit plenty of times … But we got the opportunity to go to Korea and they embraced us,” Yip told CNN.įrom Taeyang’s timeless “Eyes, Nose, Lips” to the latest BTS hit “ON,” these American songwriters and producers have brought their talents to help create the songs that we love. It’s tough to survive in this thing,” said Jonathan Yip of the production and songwriting team, The Stereotypes.
“In this music industry, the highs are really high and the lows are really low.
With K-pop being one of South Korea’s biggest exports ( BTS alone accounts for $4.65 billion of the nation’s GDP), entertainment companies are recruiting the best songwriters and producers to make their next hits, and many of them happen to be from the US.Īnd while these American producers and songwriters have worked with some of the biggest names in the States like Bruno Mars or Justin Bieber, many of them credit K-pop as their saving grace when they struggled to stay afloat in the US. These are extraordinary feats given the fact that the world didn’t even know about K-pop just ten years ago.
Blackpink’s music video for “Kill This Love” racked up more than 56 million views on Youtube in the first 24 hours. Last year, a BTS concert at London’s Wembley stadium – which can hold 90,000 people – sold out in just 90 minutes. But within that small country, something revolutionary was born that has taken the world by storm – Korean pop, aka K-pop.
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