Alrighty, got a bit lazy/busy and apparently haven’t done one of these for almost a month. Oops. Well, I covered most of the releases I wanted to in reviews, there …
Read More »THE FIRST TAKE welcomes Avril Lavigne, who performs “Complicated”
THE FIRST TAKE welcomed Avril Lavigne to their studio recently, where she perform her 2002 hit “Complicated“, which also served as a reminder/realization to me that she’s still under Sony …
Read More »BoA’s music video for the ahead-of-its-time “Girls On Top” gets remastered
Almost 17 years before SM Entertainment missed the point about “Girls On Top” with GOT The Beat‘s debut, BoA released a hit that became namesake of that project, and now …
Read More »Lim Chang Jung sold his land & 160 song copyrights to fund his upcoming girl group mimiirose, who we might as well talk about
If you hadn’t yet heard star singer and actor Lim Chang Jung recently revealed on Radio Star that he sold land he invested in and the copyright to 160 songs …
Read More »[Review] Billlie adopt pop punk for “Ring Ma Bell”, which closes with an amazing flourish
Billlie seem to be a group on the rise, perhaps not in terms of being general public darlings (aside from Tsuki’s virality), but at least with a growing fandom that …
Read More »The Hankyoreh dive into K-pop company execs sexually exploiting idol trainees
A case of a company CEO taking advantage of trainees has made headlines recently, as has discourse over the morality of minors being in the industry’s system to begin with, …
Read More »[Review] Key goes big and delivers on anthemic “Gasoline” and its beautiful music video
While I’m quite frankly still not over the stellar B-side “Another Life“ off the same ‘Gasoline‘ album, Key of SHINEE has returned with the title track of the album today. …
Read More »AKMU’s Chanhyuk secured the Crush collab as soon as he got out of the military, legendary stuff
Crush was only just discharged from the military a couple weeks ago, but he already has his most important collab of his career completed, teaming up with AKMU’s Chanhyuk on …
Read More »ADOR release statement that desperately continues to deny NewJeans’ “Cookie” has any sexualized connotations
Despite it being blatantly obvious to anybody who understands anything that NewJeans‘ “Cookie” included sexual innuendo and was suggestive throughout, some fans and CEO Min Hee Jin have maintained that …
Read More »‘Street Man Fighter’ dancer issues apology for mocking NewJeans’ “Hype Boy” choreo + Mnet apologizes for ‘SMF’ press con mess
Well, I guess it was more than a day without Street Man Fighter being involved in some kind of sexist mess, so here’s dancers that includes a competitor for YGX …
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