News: What Do Artists Think of BoA?

Having conquered both the K-Pop and J-Pop market, BoA is obviously an object of admiration for those who aspire to become singers. It is also already well known that BoA is a good friend of artists such as Matsuura Aya and Lee Hyori, who last week revealed her attempt at hooking BoA up with Lee Junki, a Korean actor. But what do other artists who are not particularly close to BoA think of her?

Japanese boyband w-inds, for one, seems to think very highly of BoA. In a recent interview with Yonhap News, w-inds said that BoA's ability to sing and dance at the same time serves as a "motivator" for them, so they always monitor BoA's concert DVDs and promotional videos.

Younha, a Korean songbird who has had moderate success in both Korea and Japan, also praised BoA, confessing that she was a huge fan of BoA even when she was in elementary school. "Had BoA not cleared the way for fellow Korean artists to break into the Japanese market, then I wouldn't have had the same level of success that I achieved in Japan last year," said Younha in an interview with JoongAng Ilbo.

But she admits that being dubbed "the second BoA" by the media, presumably due to her early debut age, has not exactly been a blessing. "BoA and I have different styles of music. It is unfortunate that some people just dismiss my music because of that prejudice." She said that while she was grateful to be compared with a super star, she would like to be judged by her music itself, not by how much her music resembles that of BoA.

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