Korean-American singer AleXa has spoken out on the hate she has obtained has a half-Korean Ok-pop idol.
In a latest livestream, as archived by followers on TikTok, AleXa opened up about being known as the “White lady idol”. The singer additionally touched on how she feels she is handled in another way from different half-Korean Ok-pop idols akin to SEVENTEEN‘s Vernon, former MOMOLAND member Nancy and ex-I.O.I singer Jeon Somi.
“Is it as a result of I’m American that individuals select to deal with me in another way and that I didn’t develop up in Korea?” AleXa stated through the livestream. “‘Trigger ethnically, I’m simply as Korean as the remainder of them, and but folks like to bash on me and fully invalidate the truth that I’m half-Korean.”
“Persons are gonna say what individuals are gonna say, however the truth that you guys simply wish to dub me because the ‘White lady idol’ each time there’s precise Caucasians in Ok-Pop now,” she continued. “Like, you’re taking away all of the struggles that my mom went via as an immigrant in America.
@aitrooperofficial PSA!!!!!! Alex rising up in America doesn’t make her white nor does it take away from the very fact she is half korean. It’s such a racist and and dangerous rhetoric to dismiss such a significant a part of her id. @AleXa #kpop #alexa #alexakpop #alexazb #alexazblabel #zblabel #zanybros #alexchristine #produce48 #알렉사 #aitrooper #aitroopers #alexalive #tiktoklive #tiktoklivealexa #alexatiktoklive #fypシ #kpopfyp #psa #aitrooperofficial
AleXa went on to thank those that “genuinely help” her music, whereas additionally speaking about her hope to be recognised as a musician first. “Y’all understand I’m an artist, proper? I create music, I write lyrics, I compose songs,” she stated.
“I actually want that individuals would acknowledge me for greater than identical to that one English-speaking idol, you recognize, as a result of there’s much more to me than my sarcasm and that reality I communicate English,” she continued. “Which simply leaves me again to, would you deal with a Korean-Korean idol the identical approach, you recognize?”
@aitrooperofficial It’s disrespectful how underrated her music is. She is likely one of the most unusual KPOP soloists there may be. @AleXa #kpop #alexa #alexakpop #alexazb #alexazblabel #zblabel #zanybros #alexchristine #produce48 #알렉사 #aitrooper #aitroopers #backinvogue #backinvoguealexa #alexabackinvogue #girlsgonevogue #alexagirlsgonevogue #juliette #juliettealexa #alexalive #tiktoklive #alexatiktoklive #tiktoklivealexa #fypシ #kpopfyp
Earlier this month, AleXa dropped her new single ‘Juilet’. The music follows her 2022 November EP ‘Again in Vogue’, which she dropped music after signing with California-based United Expertise Company.
Earlier that yr, The Ok-pop idol had additionally received the inaugural American Tune Contest, a actuality TV competitors based mostly on the Eurovision Tune Contest that aired on American community NBC.
