Oh boy, what an absolute mess this is on the Internet in Korea. I’ll try to do it justice as some wanted an explainer of sort on everything flying about, …
Read More »Winners of the 2022 Korean Music Awards announced, includes Aespa, IU, BTS, AKMU, Chungha
The winners of the 2022 edition of the Korean Music Awards have been announced, and there were a lot of names that will be familiar to those in the K-pop …
Read More »Rundown: Jungkook, VIVIZ, Rolling Quartz, Astro, WONPIL, Ha Sung Woon, and others + 2022 questions
I think I kinda zoned out and assumed releases weren’t coming out because of Lunar New Year, but there actually has been a bunch of them and I was just …
Read More »BTS saves Redditor’s aunt from QAnon … a hell of a title to type out
I swear I don’t intend to make a habit out of covering K-pop adjacent content on Reddit, but this story of a Redditor’s aunt being saved from QAnon by BTS …
Read More »Weibo suspends 21 fanbar accounts for 30 days due to ‘fanquan’ regulations, reports of China blocking foreign celebs are premature, plus other assorted goodies
Chinese social media platform Weibo has begun to comply with the tightened regulations issued by the Cyberspace Authority of China just last week. On Monday, Weibo issued 30-day suspensions to 21 fan bars.
Read More »BTS’s “Butter” has a surprising soundalike on the OST of ‘Monster In My Pocket’ game, which must’ve been a cool discovery
Netizens never cease to amaze me, for better or worse, and recently they found a soundalike for BTS‘s “Butter” in an extremely unlikely place, that being that soundtrack of 1992 …
Read More »[Review] BTS churn out a cloying commercial jingle with “Permission To Dance”
There’s a fine line between polished, sugary radio pop and cloying commercial jingle, and that difference was perfectly illustrated by BTS’s “Dynamite” and “Butter“. The two songs are quite similar in sound, style …
Read More »[Review] BTS improve on “Dynamite” with “Butter” being as smooth as advertised
BTS’s “Dynamite” has become the kind of ubiquitous megahit you hear soundtrackig everything from talk shows to award show advertisements. It’s a feat I’d never thought possible for a K-pop …
Read More »[Review] BTS’s “Film Out” is a sentimental, meandering ballad
Taking BTS’s success out of the equation, it’s fascinating to trace how much their music has changed since their 2013 debut. As happens with many world-conquering pop groups, their sound …
Read More »BTS’s Suga under fire for sampling speech of cult leader Jim Jones on “What Do You Think?”, which is a lot to unpack
While I was a big fan of BTS’s Suga’s “Daechwita”, I had not got around to listening to the whole mixtape yet, as I’ve been swamped recently. As such, apparently …
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