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Asian Junkie’s Best Of 2021 Top 100 Korean Songs Of 2021: Honorable Mentions Top 100 Korean Songs Of 2021: Part 1 Top 100 Korean Songs Of 2021: Part 2 Top …
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Top 100 Korean Songs Of 2021: Part 8
Asian Junkie’s Best Of 2021 Top 100 Korean Songs Of 2021: Honorable Mentions Top 100 Korean Songs Of 2021: Part 1 Top 100 Korean Songs Of 2021: Part 2 Top …
Read More »Asian Junkie’s Best Of 2021
Hello and welcome everybody to Asian Junkie’s year-end content for 2021. This post will serve as a clearinghouse for a year-long project where I basically listened to as many Korean …
Read More »Ballad Roundup: 2021 is finally over + SEVENTEEN, IU, Eric Chou, Kep1er, JENYER, KLANG
Legend has it AJ hired me on the pretense of writing about ballads on this website, something he absolutely hates to do himself. This was shortly before my brain was shattered into a million fragments by reality television. My last ballads article for Asian Junkie was uhhhh... June?
Read More »Fu Yaning says viral diss of CLC’s Yujin on ‘Girls Planet 999’ was scripted by Mnet
Girls Planet 999 contestant Fu Yaning revealed in a recent interview that her viral moment of dissing CLC’s Yujin was scripted by Mnet staff. According to the revealed interview snippet, …
Read More »‘Girls Planet 999’ Episode 12 (Finale): What the hell was that, why do we keep doing this to ourselves
I have to hand it to Mnet, even with dogshit ratings and the walls bearing in, their ability to pull a shit-show out of a hat far exceeds any of …
Read More »Girls Planet 999 Episode 11: The 3rd elimination, interim ranking, and the road to the finale
We are at long last in the final lap of our hectic journey through the cosmos of Girls Planet 999. For some contestants, Mnet has made it's intentions very clear, but for others, the future remains murky. Furthermore, the interim results for the final week of voting have completely torpedoed any sense of rationality remaining in the show. So without further adieu let's get on with it.
Read More »Girls Planet 999 Episodes 9+10: Kim Dayeon ascends, Mnet dabbles in class warfare, also Collaboration Mission
After the second elimination, it's time to recalibrate the groups. Team "U+Me = Love" is down to four members: Sakamoto Mashiro, May, Kotone Kamimoto and Zhou Xinyu. While Sakamoto ranks in the overall Top 9, May barely skated in at 8th place in J-Group and both Kotone and Zhou Xinyu had to be rescued by the Planet Pass. But things could have been worse!
Read More »(G)I-DLE’s Yuqi delivers impressive cover of Andra Day’s “Rise Up”
While I have only been a recent discoverer of Yuqi’s musical talent, the (G)I-DLE member certainly left an impression with her solo debut last month and now I do seek …
Read More »Girls Planet 999 Episode 8: No alarms and one big surprise during 2nd elimination ranking
More Mnet translation shenanigans, plus the 2nd eliminations and one surprise departure.
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