B-Side Spotlight: January 2024 (TWS, (G)I-DLE, YENA, SISTAR19, VANNER, B1A4, OnlyOneOf, SF9, LIMELIGHT, more)

Hello, playlist darlings, how are we all?

Maybe it’s due to my recent important birthday — or possibly due to the seasonal change currently happening — but I’ve found myself thinking a lot lately about how much K-pop as a (collection of) genre(s) has changed in the time I’ve been a fan (about 14 years now, yikes). K-pop fandom has changed even more, and I’m not going to sit here and be all ‘in my day it was better because of x, y, and z’, because that’s unfair and not even particularly true. However, things are just hugely different, that’s for sure. Some of it I like, some of it I don’t.

But, I could go on for thousands of words about this. And just so I don’t, let’s get into some B-sides!

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DXMON – “Very”

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TWS – “Unplugged Boy”

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Jeong Sewoon – “Singer-songwridol”

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B1A4 – “PAUSE”

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SF9 – “Superconductor”

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8TURN – “WE HERE”

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LIMELIGHT – “Baby Maybe Crazy”

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Kyuhyun (Super Junior K.R.Y.) – “Thanks To You”

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OnlyOneOf – “give me the lOve bitxx”

What is this track name? Christ.

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ALL(H)OURS – “ALL HOURS”

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YENA – “Good Girls In The Dark”

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Hui (PENTAGON) (Feat. Park Hyeon Jin) – “MELO”

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SISTAR19 – “SAUCY”

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EVNNE – “K.O. (Keep On)”

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(G)I-DLE – “Doll”

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VANNER – “CIRCUIT”

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And, as always, that’s it!

Be sure to let me know all your favourite B-sides from January, and please check out the extended playlist.

About Ells

Full time journalist & former boy group trash. (Not) full of bees. I like Epik High more than you do.