New music show K-909 made an impression on me last week and it has kept my interest in the follow-up episode. The combination of diverse musical guests, performances of a …
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In case you were like me and hadn’t heard about this before today, JTBC debuted a new music program called K-909 that’s hosted by BoA and seemingly aims to ape …
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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 …
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In 2004, BoA was about four years into her career, and her image could probably be explained best by the title of her last Korean release, “Atlantis Princess“. It sounds …
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SM Entertainment has created a female supergroup called Girls On Top (a nod to BoA‘s single of the same name, no doubt) with members BoA, SNSD‘s Taeyeon & Hyoyeon, Red …
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net "competition" shows. Mainly in that it really doesn't matter who "wins"; just being casted has proved to be a boon to every participant's career. So to talk about Street Woman Fighter's penultimate episode as some sort of peak for the series is a recipe for folly.
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SM Entertainment‘s SM Remastering Project is gonna expose a lot of … questionable choices in K-pop history, but BoA‘s 2000 debut single “ID Peace B” is not one of them. …
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The end of episode 3 found the crews pairing off to do battle against each other, with the sudden news that the first elimination would follow. With the added pressure of elimination and the feast / famine nature of the Class Mission, crews with negative points like HolyBang and YGX felt immense pressure to survive.
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Episode 2 kicks up right where we left off, with WayB’s leader Noze experiencing a string of losses. Not to be outdone, Lee Chaeyeon also shows off her L’s, right before finally snatching a win, powered by the support of her teammates.
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If Girls Planet 999 is the story of Mnet uncomfortably trying to jam a “fair play” peg into a “scandal-infested” hole, then Street Woman Fighter is them thriving in their natural, tawdry habitat.
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Asian Junkie Asian pop. Without discretion.