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 …
Read More »SME announces female supergroup Girls On Top consisting of BoA, Taeyeon, Hyoyeon, Wendy, Seulgi, Karina, Winter
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 …
Read More »Street Woman Fighter Finale: Mnet gives itself a long, hard pat on the back for capitalizing on the personality of SWF’s cast
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.
Read More »BoA’s debut classic “ID Peace B” gets the SM Remastering Project treatment, song still as fresh as ever
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. …
Read More »Street Woman Fighter Episode 4: WayB is out in an elimination that no one wanted
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.
Read More »Street Woman Fighter Episode 2+3: Dancers cook beefs, but Mnet can’t stop / won’t stop with controversy
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.
Read More »‘Street Woman Fighter’ Episode 1: ‘Unpretty Rapstar’ but for dancers will anger nerds, is already a gold mine
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.
Read More »BoA cleared of having street cred
Back in December of last year, BoA was investigated for alleged smuggling of drugs, or at least that’s what the headlines read. As it turns out it was Zolpidem, probably …
Read More »Ballad Roundup: ChoA, Lee Suhyun, CHUANG2020, Red Velvet
Manifesting in 2020 Sorry for being away for a couple months, summer is not a particularly fruitful time for main-stage ballads, plus we’re all going a little COVID crazy, plus …
Read More »Super M (and BoA) star in Korean Air’s new air safety video, complete with choreo & rapping
Super M (and BoA) have paired with Korean Air to produce new air safety videos for the airline. You know those things that everybody ignores? Well, now they’re providing incentive …
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