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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  • 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…

  • SHINHWA Deep Dive #3/4: Racism, Protest, and The Messy Legacy Of 1st Gen Kpop

    TW: mention and discussion of cultural appropriation, racism, and the n-word. Deeper discussion in a separate post. Here are my credentials (one last time): uh…none? I can name about three SHINHWA songs off of the top of my head, which is slightly embarrassing. I know of course about their incredible legacy, but similarly to BTS,…

  • LOONA Deep Dive #2/3: Twelve Until The End

    Here’s are my credentials (again): LOONA first appeared on my radar thanks to my Orbit friend, who showed me Paint The Town a few years ago, and while I didn’t know what to think of it the first time, it grew on me, and it’s joined my regular workout playlist. I became a fan myself…

  • TWICE Deep Dive #4/4: A Ten Year Journey From Teenage Love To Fully Fledged Idols

    Here are my credentials (one more time): TWICE, as they are for a lot of people, were one of the first groups I knew at the beginning of my getting into k-pop in the early 2020’s, and I would consider myself a fan. I know a lot of their singles, since they’re pretty inescapable, but…