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K-pop, one of the world\u2019s most popular genres, finally had some representation at the Austin City Limits Music Festival on Saturday. Seoul\u2019s\u00a0Riize debuted at the Beatbox stage, becoming the first K-pop group to play the festival.<\/p>\n
It took the boys a few tracks to get to the dancing \u2014 the first couple of songs played out like when a whole bachelor party gets onstage at Ego\u2019s and\u00a0karaokes \u201cWhere Is the Love?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\nRIIZE performs at ACL Fest in Zilker Park on Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025. (Jay Janner\/Austin American-Statesman)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
In other words, visually chaotic and charmless. Complete with lots of apparent\u00a0lip-syncing.<\/p>\n
But then\u00a0Shotaro, Eunseok, Sungchan, Wonbin, Sohee, and, of course, this reporter\u2019s favorite, Anton, got in motion. They danced with machine-like violence, perfectly in unison like pistons pumping in a V6 \u2014 like the \u201cBye Bye Bye\u201d video, but for more continuous minutes.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0K-pop faithful \u2014 about 150 passionate fans toward the front of the stage \u2014 came alive too, gleefully cheering on their idols with reckless abandon. It wasn\u2019t really about the music at all.<\/p>\n\n\nRIIZE performs at ACL Fest in Zilker Park on Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025. (Jay Janner\/Austin American-Statesman)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
On\u00a0Reddit forums, K-pop fans were excited that one of their favorite genre mainstays made it to Zilker. As a user named Kuromito wrote: \u201cThis year’s lineup is honestly so fire and diverse in genre, and I admire ACL’s team for that\u2026 Being an avid ACL attendee and native\u00a0Texan, I never thought a K-pop group would attend ACL.\u201d<\/p>\n
“Since we are the first\u00a0K-pop group to perform at ACL, many of the audience may not know K-pop well or may not know us,” Sungchan told Forbes. \u201cWe hope we can move and inspire people who might not know much about the genre, and spark their interest in us as well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\nRIIZE performs at ACL Fest in Zilker Park on Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025. (Jay Janner\/Austin American-Statesman)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
How was the music itself?\u00a0Riize\u2019s brand of K-pop R&B\u00a0and English-language lyrics that seem to be written by third-graders \u2014 \u201cI\u2019m such a loser \/ She such a weirdo \/ And I\u2019m loving the combo\u201d \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 hit you in the feels, in the bad way.<\/p>\n
But sit back and enjoy the spectacle. There is art to be considered here.<\/p>\n
As ChocolateDisco wrote on Reddit in response to a naysayer: \u201cNo. Let people enjoy Riize.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\nRIIZE performs at ACL Fest in Zilker Park on Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025. (Jay Janner\/Austin American-Statesman)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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