BROKEN BY THE SCREAM (BBTS) is a unique crossover idol/metal group that debuted in January 2017, an outfit that can be described as the perfect chaotic mix of low and …
Read More »NewJeans, “Hurt”, and the Min Hee Jin discourse
I was going to include the latest NewJeans release “Hurt” in the Rundown, as I found it to be their least compelling release thus far. Though I did note that …
Read More »Nobody knows what’s going on with LOONA’s Chuu
The saga of LOONA member Chuu has continued to drag on without any definitive clarification, the latest news being that she will not be participating in promotional activities for LOONA’s …
Read More »[Review] PURPLE KISS return to form in dark & delightful “Nerdy”
After lavishing praise on PURPLE KISS for their 2021 debut for securing their place as my favorite rookies of the year, they started 2022 by kicking me the nuts by …
Read More »[Review] NewJeans makes surprise introduction by telling us what they want on “Attention”
When it was announced that former SM Entertainment creative director Min Hee Jin would be debuting a girl group under HYBE‘s sub-label ADOR, I expected the standard big company long …
Read More »[Review] COOING delivers one of 2022’s best with “ONE LAST TIME”
COOING is an indie singer-songwriter that debuted back in 2020 and is under Star It Entertainment. I’d be lying if I said I ever heard of her before stumbling across …
Read More »[Review] H1-KEY “RUN” toward a brighter future with this pop-rock comeback
With a pre-debut member controversy and then an “Athletic Girl” debut that was cringe enough to even put off a veteran cringe-tolerater like me, things didn’t start out great for …
Read More »[Review] WINNER hit a single iffy note in an otherwise lovable summer jam with “I LOVE U”
Reading some of the build up to WINNER‘s comeback has been amusing, if only for the rhetoric that this is like something that’s been delayed by a hiatus caused by …
Read More »[Review] WJSN provide actual, real, sincere dance-pop greatness with “Last Sequence”
WJSN were deemed the winners of Queendom 2 for whatever that’s worth (not much), but the most important thing it signaled was that they’d have another comeback on the way. …
Read More »[Review] The Nth Room case gets the Netflix documentary treatment in ‘Cyber Hell’
Cyber Hell: Exposing An Internet Horror is a Netflix documentary covering the Nth Room case out of Korea that came to light in 2019 and continued on throughout 2020. The …
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