Seoul band Pop Ents says 'Anything is Fine' ... but is it?

On the Seoul-based rock band Pop Ents' latest mini-album, "Anything is Fine," released in April, the title track offers a catchy, poppy mantra, but something beneath the melodies doesn't quite feel right.

"No, but yeah, the title is ironic," David Palmer, the band's guitarist-vocalist and lead songwriter, confirmed to The Korea Times.

He explained that the song is about the current state of the music industry, and the song goes into what the band would do if they ever had a chance to level up.

"The music industry is worse than ever.

Everyone successful is a plant.

Everything is a scam.

Audiences are less engaged than ever with artists because of the insanity of the attention economy," he said.

"So as a local Seoul band that writes and plays with close friends in the audience in mind, it's just a discussion about how terrible the music industry is and how we'd love to be a part of it but if not we never wanted to anyway." The song clashes with another standout track on the album, "Mogi Saeki," that seems to be about mosquitos ("mogi" in Korean, while "saeki" is a profanity).

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