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Oh My Girl Deep Dive #1/2: Proving Nature Has A Place In Pop
Oh My Girl is one of the pillars of 3rd generation “cutesy” k-pop, at odds with the more “mature” side that many other popular bands of the time showed. They debuted in 2015 under WM Entertainment (which also formed ONF, B1A4, and Uspeer), with eight members: Hyojung, YooA, Seunghee, Arin, Yubin, Mimi, JinE, and Jiho,…
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WayV Deep Dive #1/2: What Counts As K-pop?
WayV is one of four fixed subunits of NCT (which also includes NCT Dream, NCT 127, NCT Wish). They’re technically both a Mandopop band and a K-pop band, but for our purposes here, they’re k-pop. They debuted in 2019, with seven members: Kun, YangYang, WinWin, Ten, Hendery, Xiaojun, and Lucas, the last of which left…
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SHINee Deep Dive #3/3: How The ‘Princes Of K-pop’ Turned Into Kings
Here are my credentials (again, again): Put simply, I’m a ShaWol, absolutely, and have been since 2020. But more deeply, finding SHINee was really the final step that made me the k-pop fan (and blogger) that I am today. I was a casual fan already, through first Blackpink and then Red Velvet, but SHINee was…
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TREASURE Deep Dive: YG’s First Step Into The 4th Gen
TREASURE are a part of the 4th generation of k-pop, having debuted in mid-2020 after being formed through the k-pop survival show YG Treasure Box the year before. They debuted with twelve members, who are approximately equally Korean and Japanese: Hyunsuk, Jaehyuk, Asahi, Doyoung, Haruto, Jihoon, Yoshi, Junkyu, Jeongwoo, Junghwan, Mashiho, and Yedam, though the…
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SHINee Deep Dive #2/3: How The ‘Princes Of K-pop’ Turned Into Kings
Here are my credentials (again): Put simply, I’m a ShaWol, absolutely, and have been since 2020. But more deeply, finding SHINee was really the final step that made me the k-pop fan (and blogger) that I am today. I was a casual fan already, through first Blackpink and then Red Velvet, but SHINee was the first…
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SHINee Deep Dive #1/3: How The ‘Princes Of K-pop’ Turned Into Kings
SHINee, known by many different nicknames such as “The Princes of K-pop” were founded in the heyday of the 2nd generation, in 2008, with five members: Key, Taemin, Onew, Minho, and Jonghyun, the last of whom, if you know anything about k-pop, you’ll know took his own life in 2017. SHINee now promotes as a…
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SEVENTEEN Deep Dive #3/3: An Ode To A Great K-pop Group
Here are my credentials (again, again): I would consider myself a fan of Seventeen. I’ve heard many of their songs and like them, including some b-sides. And I know a little about the members from watching interviews. But, I decided to do this deep dive because I wanted to know more, and I felt like…
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ZeroBaseOne (ZB1) Deep Dive: Breaking Records Just Two Years Out
ZB1 is a project group formed by the huge MNET survival show Boys Planet in 2023, and have a two and a half year long contract. They have nine members: Hanbin, Zhang Hao, Matthew, Ricky, Tae Rae, Gyuvin, Yujin, Jiwoong, and Gunwook. Here are my credentials: As is becoming a theme in these reviews, I…
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K-pop BG Soloist Ranking #1: Who’s The Best?
This time, I thought I would try something different on the blog. Instead of doing a deep dive into one group, I’m doing shallow dives into a bunch of soloists and their first mini albums, then comparing and contrasting. This time is male soloists, from SHINee to ASTRO to BTS. For each, I watched an…
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SEVENTEEN Deep Dive #2/3: An Ode To A Great K-pop Group
Here are my credentials: I would consider myself a fan of Seventeen. I’ve heard many of their songs and like them, including some b-sides. And I know a little about the members from watching interviews. But, I decided to do this deep dive because I wanted to know more, and I felt like this month…
Married To The Music: K-pop Discography Deep Dives & Random Thoughts From A Longtime K-pop Fan (And Occasionally Her Friends)
Hi, I’m Anna! // Hallo, Ich bin Anna! // 안녕하세요, 저는 앤나 예요!
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