Spotlight:
(Check the carousel for my personal favorite reviews; check below for my most recent posts. Enjoy!!)
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The Rose Deep Dive: On The Fringes Of K-pop
The Rose was formed a bit differently to most K-pop groups, because they aren’t exactly K-pop. They fall more in the category of an indie-rock band, with Woosung doing vocals and guitar, Dojoon on keyboard, Hajoon on drums, and Jaehyeong on bass. They also met organically while busking and then joined a company already formed,…
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TXT Deep Dive #1/2: Dreams, Chaos, And Everything In Between
Here are my credentials: yeah…none. I think the amount of TXT songs I know can be counted on one hand, and besides one, they’re all singles. But like with BTS, I’ve been a K-pop fan for four years and I figured that it was about time I make an effort to give them a try.…
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Sunmi Deep Dive #1/2: Mental Health, Stardom, and Music Video Monsters
Sunmi first came onto the kpop scene at age 15 with JYP’s Wonder Girls, before leaving the group in 2010 to focus on her studies. She debuted as a soloist in 2013, and left JYP in 2017. Here are my credentials: I would consider Sunmi my favorite kpop soloist, which is tough competition in a…
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Purple Kiss Deep Dive #1/2: Kpop Meets Jennifer’s Body
Purple Kiss debuted under RBW Entertainment (the home of ONEWE, Mamamoo, KARD, and Oh My Girl) in 2021, with a dark witchy concept and seven members: Goeun, Ireh, Chaein, Dosie, Yuki, Swan, and Jieun (the last of which left due to undisclosed health reasons in 2022). Here are my credentials: This is actually a redo…
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Taemin Deep Dive #1/2: The ACE Of K-pop
(This is on my list for a re-do, as I first wrote it back in 2023) Taemin has been an important figure in k-pop (to say the least) since he debuted in 2008 as the youngest member of 2nd generation group SHINee, with Jonghyun, Onew, Minho, and Key. He was the first of them to…
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Red Velvet Deep Dive #2/2: Ten Years Of K-pop Outside The Box
Here are my credentials: Red Velvet was the first k-pop group I ever loved, even though Blackpink was really my introduction. I became a ReVeLuv in 2019, because of Russian Roulette, and I’ve been a fan since, including of the members’ solo careers (Wendy in particular). But as I’ve gotten more into k-pop and since…
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