• GHOST9 Deep Dive: Exploring The K-pop Boy Group Sound, Always, All Ways

    GHOST9 was formed in 2020 by their company, Maroo Entertainment, combining previous participants of survival shows MIXNINE and Produce X 101 with members of project group TEENTOP. As the name would suggest, they originally had nine members: Shin, Junhyung, Junseong, Woojin, Prince, Jinwoo, Kangsung, Dongjun, and Taeseung, but the last two left the group in…

  • This Week On The Blog: 6/16/25

    Happy Monday, Married To The Music readers! (Click here for an explanation of “this week on the blog”) This Week On Married To The Music: If you can’t read the image below for whatever reason, this is what’s on the board for this week of Married To The Music: 6/16: Orange Caramel (Ann.) 6/18: Stray Kids #3…

  • ARTMS Deep Dive: Greek Myths, Broken Wings, And The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy

    ARTMS is one of two groups formed of k-pop giant LOONA, which officially disbanded after they sued their company, Blockberry Creative, in 2022. Five of the twelve members of LOONA, Heejin, Haseul, Kim Lip, Choerry, and Jinsoul, then signed with Modhaus Entertainment (which was founded by their old producer Jaden Jeong and is also home…

  • Doyoung Deep Dive: A Little Light And A Lot Of Heart

    Doyoung has been a kpop idol for over a decade now, and a member of both NCT 127 and NCT U for almost as long. He’s also a part of NCT subunit DoJaeJung with fellow members Jaehyun and Jungwoo, as well as the voice behind a dozen soundtracks, but he only debuted as a solo…

  • RM Deep Dive: A Trek Through Still Lifes, Wildflowers, and Lyrics Across Languages By A Kpop Stan And Her Mom

    RM, or Kim Namjoon, is best known as a member of BTS (which also includes, of course, Jimin, J-hope, Jin, SUGA, V, and Jungkook), who I’d wager probably don’t have to introduce to you, and has been their leader since their debut in 2013. He officially debuted as a soloist in 2018, with Mono, but…

  • This Week On The Blog: 6/9/25

  • Kpop and Space: 20 Songs To Get You Through College-Level Astronomy (#2/2)

    Kpop In Space: Hello, Married To The Music readers! If you’re a longtime viewer, you’ll know that I’m not the foremost authority on science and math, but I am in fact a college student who had to take astronomy to fulfill her gen. ed requirement. So I figured that there’s probably someone else out there…

  • Kpop and Space: 20 Songs To Get You Through College-Level Astronomy (#1/2)

    Kpop In Space: Hello, Married To The Music readers! If you’re a longtime viewer, you’ll know that I’m not the foremost authority on science and math, but I am in fact a college student who had to take astronomy to fulfill her gen. ed requirement. So I figured that there’s probably someone else out there…

  • Enhypen Deep Dive #2/2: Go Big Or Go Home

    Here are my credentials: I don’t know much about ENHYPEN, but unlike what’s usually true, I actually know more about them as people than their music. I’ve seen an interview of a few of them (Jay and Jake, I think) with Eric Nam and couple learn-about-the-members videos that came up on my recommendeds. I know…

  • This Week On The Blog: 6/2/25

  • VIXX Deep Dive #3/3: Greek Gods, Voodoo Dolls, and Horror In K-pop

    Here are my credentials (one more time): this is a bit of an interesting one. I’ve heard about VIXX from outside sources, a lot vaguely fear-mongery along the lines of “oh my GOD have you heard about that weird kpop group with the chains and the blindfolds and the BDSM contract in the album—” et…

  • VIXX Deep Dive #2/3: Greek Gods, Voodoo Dolls, and Horror In K-pop

    Here are my credentials (again): this is a bit of an interesting one. I’ve heard about VIXX from outside sources, a lot vaguely fear-mongery along the lines of “oh my GOD have you heard about that weird kpop group with the chains and the blindfolds and the BDSM contract in the album—” et cetera, et…