Jay Park on being an “older” K-pop singer: “I don’t consider myself as a star anymore”

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Jay Park has opened up about his place as an “older” artist in the K-pop industry.In a new episode of URBAN ZAPAKA singer Cho Hyun-ah’s YouTube show Thursday Night, Korean-American singer Jay Park discussed his new K-pop label MORE VISON and his recent shift to producing and managing artists.“I wouldn’t say that I’m a superstar,” he said when Cho referred to him as one, per SBS Star. “I don’t consider myself a star anymore.

I’m more like a middle-aged man now. I definitely have more middle-aged man vibes than superstar vibes.”The singer went on to discuss his hip-hop labels AOMG and H1GHR MUSIC, as well as the upcoming K-pop group he is forming under MORE VISION, which he established last year.

Park shared that he has started to turn his focus to managing and producing for other artists instead of his own music career.“If you want to be part of the music scene for long, still performing when you’re older, you constantly got to think, analyse and study in order to either improve yourself greatly […] every time you make a comeback.

That’s what you’re expected [to do], and that’s tiring,” the singer admitted.“With the sexy genre that I’m doing, the older I get, the more likely that I’ll be put in a difficult situation,” he explained. “It’s not like I can’t stay sexy, but I don’t want to stay sexy.