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Ask Asian Junkie gets a question on MAMA today and expands the topic to Korean music awards, in general.
So I have this weird conspiratorial feeling about MAMA. The voting system has no logic and the registration is easily manipulated. This award is considered one of the most prestigious awards or some shit and I have my doubts that it’s worth that label.
Well … yeah.
I don’t think this is conspiracy theory territory at all, really. For years and years, all of the Korean music awards, sans maybe the Golden Disk Awards, have been accused of bias. Basically, the thing was that if you showed up, you would get an award. If you didn’t, you wouldn’t get shit. Naturally, this led to some pretty loltastic results, which didn’t get put past fans. As such, I feel as though it’s been common knowledge for a while now.
At the end of the day, who decides what’s credible and what’s not? Whether it gets respect, right? Well … MAMA doesn’t get much.
Yesterday, I saw an article come up about actual artists that attended the MAMA complaining about how they were mistreated and how MAMA gave preference to other artists.
A few minutes later, Mnet came out with their own statement trying to clarify the complaints saying that the traffic in Hong Kong was to blame for everything that went wrong.
That’s fine and all but when I came home a few hours later and checked my tabs, Mnet had apparently requested for the first article to be deleted and taken off Nate. Not cool AT ALL.
Although it’s gone now, the replies were similar to what’s in the second article. People basically complaining about how MAMA is a useless ceremony.
2. [+113, -34] MAMA is just a ceremony for SM and YG because they’re both close with CJ and CJ actors. They try to make it seem all important by including all of Asia but we see right through them and that crap won’t work with us.
All of the netizen reaction to whatever MAMA does is basically carryover from the fact that they have been biased for years, and you’ll see the same for the other awards events.
Again, it’s not really a conspiracy theory as much as it’s simply reality.
To their credit though, looking at the MAMA results in 2012, they seem to have started to give awards to those who skipped performing there, but the issue with destroying your credibility from the start like MAMA did is that even if you do take steps towards becoming legitimate, nobody is going to believe you, and I would argue that’s completely understandable skepticism.
Fool me once…
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I can’t think of a single award show that isn’t a joke.
Even supposed “prestigious” award shows like the Oscars are really silly when you think about it. Basically you’re receiving an award from a bunch of old people who didn’t even watch all of the nominated movies and performances. Other than the publicity and possible career boost, the award itself shouldn’t mean any more than those silly “people’s choice” awards.
Yeah, there’s a reason certain movies are labeled “Oscar-bait”.
Actually the people that get nominated in the Oscars are being nominated by people in their field. So, those people have to watch and critique what they did. I think the Oscars is one of the few award shows that’s still credible.
There’s a lot of politics involved in the process. It’s not a simple merit-based system.
The Weinstein Company is notorious for using various tactics to turn the odds in their favor:
http://www.cinemasight.com/oscar-preview-the-ultimate-campaigner-harvey-weinstein/
I actually like the Oscars. I appreciate it’s fairness towards all actors, films, directors, etc.
Just imagine if ‘Twilight’ won for best picture, that’s just too scary.
Twilight wins on awards shows that don’t matter like the MTV Movie Awards.
But the MTV Movie Awards are more entertaining than the Oscars. :S I used to watch those – not sure if they’re still as funny.
You know it’s biased and fake when f(x) gets an award for “Best Dance Performance – Female Group”. Yeah.
Or just when f(x) gets an award.
^This
I think F(x)’s fans voted nonstop for them to win.
They have fans?
Yes, surprisingly.
This.
Sad that After School wasn’t even nominated for that category. Though, Flashback sucked musically, but the choreo was one of the best this year.
The choreo is what made me like the song TBH.
I love for that comment!
I knew it was rigged when Crayon Pop didn’t win anything
Rookie girl group of the year, IMO.
Still think this is one of the best things I saw all year:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbyHypI81_M
Wow… that actually is the best thing.
I need to pee
At school this girl told me girls don’t have to wash their hands after they pee, because you all don’t touch anything
Not touching anything meaning, not touching your pussycat
……maybe…..
I touch my pussycat every possible occasion. So not washing my hands doesn’t work.
The fuck.
Omg ignore that- tool bag frand thinks he’s funny
And about this article, like Tap said, if f(x) wins an awards you know there’s something up
If MNet really put the blame on Hong Kong traffic, they would have made the statement before the show. What a weak excuse.
Saying Godzilla attacked would have been more acceptable.
People actually cared about MAMA???
Any entertainment award show that let people vote in, I dont care about it.
This
Some do that. That makes me carry around sanitizer because I might touch something else they touch later
Plus, they have to touch doors to get in and out- you don’t know if other chicks who touched the same doors touched something else while in the stalls, like presents 2PM received from their crazy fans
DX
That was to koreanboo
-.-
I swear the female toilets at my work are sometimes disgusting as fuck. I have no fucking clue what those bitches are doing in there.
Playing rodeo with their tampons and shit.
THIIIIIIS- SO FREAKING MUCH
The only thing I like about the MAMAs is the voting portion because it keeps certain fangirls occupied, creating numerous Mnet accounts to vote endlessly for their idols. I figure the people stupid enough to waste their time doing stuff like this deserve to be disappointed (and they always are.)
Best part about the votings are the endless bitch fights on kpop sites and forums.
I couldn’t even count anymore how many threads called “Do you think XY deserves an award at MAMAs”?
Fanwars tend to be quite entertaining.
MAMA is a dumb piece of shit anyways. I doubt Koreans give a shit about it… probably why they didn’t vote. It cracks me up when fans spam for MAMA voting when the votes don’t mean shit half the time. Personally, I like the melon music awards because there’s more variety… but in the end, I’m convinced that 99% of award shows in any given country are likely to be rigged at least somewhat.
I usually just watch them for the performances or if they have funny hosts / guests.
Don’t care about the actual awards at all.
I do check out some movies that won an Oscar when I am in the mood for melodramatic films that make me cry – but that’s about all the attention any award gets from me.
Awards shows have always seemed fake and tacky to me. It’s interesting how even though the US and South Korea seem so different, they still have biased, fake awards shows, people watching them anyway, then other people questioning the show’s legitimacy. It’s like, no matter where you’re from, we all have the same problems to deal with in the end.
Btw, is it alright if I promote my website just this once? I’ve just added a forum to my site MusicTea.org, and I need help getting it started. So if any of you are bored and have extra time, please come check it out and talk about K-Pop and random things! (but nothing super perverted, okay? ^_^;;;)
What do you mean by “nothing super perverted”? My brain can’t process that sentence.
Mama is so fucking long..I couldn’t even sit through the 2-3 hrs something long award show….
I did managed to catch them giving BAP and EXO some made up awards because they didn’t want to piss off fangirls for giving Busker 2x the award for rookie award lmao~~
Yerp
To be honest, I wasn’t even interested in MAMA since I already got an idea of how predictible it would be. I only watched Epik High’s performance on YouTube and it was SPECTACULAR. Those costumes man.
Block.B should’ve won, but with all those controversies…
Awards shows are dumb.
Yeah pretty much a joke of an award show. They should just go back to being MKMF at least we knew that was all about korea. Stop trying to fake like you want to be an all asian awards when you just cater to korea.
Yeah, lol.
Nobody believes it’s about all of Asia.
AS IF the Koreans will give the Japanese or Chinese any award over their own lol.
“Give us the island, then we’ll give you an award.” Trollolol
They actually do when they think it benefits their goals or markets.
:o
I was sorta pissed that SHINee Sherlock won over Infinite’s The Chaser! Like seriously!?