Oh, didn't know this was back.
With KPop, has any really badly translated English lyrics hit meme status yet? There are a few videos on YT that show bad English lyrics.
There have been a couple of minor memes, but I can't think of specifics at the moment. Nothing huge. One of them caught on on YTMND for a time (though, as IOTL, YTMND is in decline as of 2008).
Well, BoA is starting to get quite popular in this TL, and some of her songs would make a high school English teacher want to set himself on fire. I'm sure there'll be memes aplenty.
On the other hand, K-Pop hitting the mainstream a decade earlier means that decent English will become a priority, and those South Korean singers that already speak fluent English (more often than not, due to actually being Asian-Americans that hit it big in South Korea instead of being native South Koreans, but those native to the country that studied abroad and then went back home are included as well) might end up with a massive advantage over their colleagues, to such an extent that the Asian boom might end morphing into an Asian-American boom instead, but that's just a theory.
Gina Choi becoming popular in her native Canada instead of being grossly mismanaged by a South Korean label and having to resort to prostitution (yes, prostitution) in order to make a living would be a very welcome development, tbh.
It's true that a lot of the K-Pop and J-Pop stars will be working to get more English into their vocabulary as they crossover into the West, and you're also right about the Asian-American boom (season 8 of
American Idol in particular will see MAJOR ripple effects from the Asian pop boom with its winner but that's all I'm going to say for the moment, you'll have to wait for the 2009 TV/music updates to learn who wins that year but it is someone famous IOTL, just not necessarily for singing).
I just want something like Necrocracy. That game sounds so good it hurts no one's making anything even remotely like it, both from a gameplay and story standpoint.
Interestingly, I got the idea for
Necrocracy from misreading a topic title on this board! I thought it said "necrocracy" but it said something else, I forget what it said though, but I couldn't help but think that it would make a good title for a game and then I came up with the idea around it!
And now a little bonus... I've recently commissioned sketches of the main characters of
Thrillseekers, and three of them are done! A couple quick notes, these are black and white sketches only, and the artist draws in an anime-ish style that doesn't really reflect the more realistic style of the games, so this isn't EXACTLY how they'd look, just a general idea (in universe fanart, perhaps?). I have an artist in mind to do more realistic fully colored drawings of these characters in the style of the games, however, he doesn't take commissions at the moment and may not ever take them again. Maybe someday! Still, these are great sketches and I'm glad to be able to show you these.
Stacy Summers: (this one came out the best, I think it looks pretty much exactly as I envision her, just think of her in a more "real life" style for the actual game)
https://i.imgur.com/xUL8cEM.jpg
Alex Levesque: (this one came out really good too, a good mix of real life Avril and some original flourish and attitude):
https://i.imgur.com/YgXo1hB.jpg
Marina Hirano: (this is the one that least looks like what I have in mind for her in-game appearance, it's just a bit too "generic" compared to my vision for her, but still a really good drawing and captures her fairly well, it's just tough to do Marina's look with this art style)
https://i.imgur.com/4UewiJm.jpg
Vivian, Elissa, and Kirsten forthcoming next month!
. At least it won't be Santorum who's POTUS 44 (although that would have been fun to see).
