Married To The Music: K-pop Discography Deep Dives & Random Thoughts From A Longtime K-pop Fan (And Occasionally Her Friends)

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  • Kpop’s Best Albums: Gen 1

    Kpop’s Best Albums: Generation #1 Simply put, the most cohesive, most unique, and most moving EPs and LPs from the industry, across all genres. This list will hopefully grow a lot longer as I continue doing my reviews. The 1st Gen was the beginning of it all, taking from American hip-hop, rock, R & B,…

  • IU Deep Dive #1/3: Korea’s Little Sister Grows Up

    IU has been called “Korea’s Little Sister” since her debut in 2008 with the song Lost Child, and in the years after, she’s been a soloist, an actress, and a radio host, although unlike most idols, she’s never been a member of a group. Here are my credentials: I would definitely consider myself a fan…

  • K-pop Genres A to Z

    K-pop, Genres A to Z Though “pop” is in the name, k-pop actually covers dozens of genres, from country to metal to jazz. Take a look! A: Afrobeats More of an umbrella term for West African music, including Juju and Zouk. Think Tinnitus by TXT, BTBT by B.I., or The Other Side by Fatou. B:…

  • You’re Wrong About K-pop

    (This is an article I originally wrote for a school newspaper, but I decided it would get better reach if it was here too.) K-pop. I bet I’ve got one of a few reactions out of you right now: excitement because you love it, ambivalence with slight interest or slight disinterest, or a full-on groan.…

  • KARA Deep Dive #3/3: Seventeen Years Of Sweet Melodies

    TW: discussion of mental health, assault, depression, and suicide Here are my credentials (again): While I only became a k-pop fan after KARA went on hiatus, I of course heard of them, and have heard a good handful of their title tracks. I know a bit about some of their members, having seen Youngji in…

  • KARA Deep Dive #2/3: Seventeen Years Of Sweet Melodies

    TW: discussion of mental health, assault, depression, and suicide Here are my credentials (again): While I only became a k-pop fan after KARA went on hiatus, I of course heard of them, and have heard a good handful of their title tracks. I know a bit about some of their members, having seen Youngji in…

  • KARA Deep Dive #1/3: Seventeen Years Of Sweet Melodies

    TW: discussion of mental health, assault, depression, and suicide KARA was one of the most important groups of k-pop’s second generation, and though their name is not as well known now as, say, Girls Generation or SHINee, they’re also still going strong. They debuted in 2008 with four members: Sunghee, Nicole, Gyuri, and Seungyeon, but…

  • KARA’s Goo Hara: A Special Post

    TW: mental health, depression, sexual assault, suicide (Edit, 8-28-24) I was struggling to decide what to do with the Moon Taeil news this morning. Posting as normal didn’t seem right. Neither did going silent. So I decided that it was the right time to publish this piece, if only to give some insight, the only…

  • F(x)’s Sulli: A Special Post

    TW: Mentions of mental health, depression, and suicide. By the time I was a k-pop fan, F(x) hadn’t had a release in a couple years, and so I never really got into them. I am a fan of Amber’s solo career and I know a bit about Krystal through her sister Jessica, a former member…

  • ASTRO’s Moon Bin: A Special Post

    (TW: mental health, depression, suicide) Hi everyone. This is a special review, so I’m starting with a personal note. I admit I didn’t know much about ASTRO before last year, until Moonbin, one of their members, passed away, but as a ShaWol (SHINee fan) and a huge fan of Jonghyun, who left us in the…

  • Yena Deep Dive: K-pop That’s Gonna Make You Smile

    Yena first debuted in the huge project group IZ*ONE (whose other members included IVE’s Wonyoung and Yujin, Le Sserafim’s Sakura and Chaewon, and current soloists Jo Yuri, Lee Chaeyeon, and Kwon Eunbi) in 2018 at age 19. After their disbandment, she became a soloist herself in early 2022. Here are my credentials: I first became…

  • Stray Kids Deep Dive #3/3: Proving K-pop Can Be Self-Produced

    Here are my credentials (one last time): If my stan card was a 2012 FaceBook status, it’d be labeled “it’s complicated”. I’ve been a k-pop fan since early 2019, and Stray Kids were one of the first groups I knew and started liking. But, despite still occasionally keeping up with their work and being a…