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Mamamoo Deep Dive #2/2: Do Controversies Make A Band?
Here are my credentials (again): I would consider myself a casual fan of Mamamoo. I know…
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Bol4 Deep Dive #1/2: Growing Up Through Song
Bol4 is short for Bolbbalgan4, which means “blushing youth”, and is considered a classic act that…
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Chung Ha Deep Dive #1/2: Why Don’t You Know Her?
Chungha first debuted in 2016, through the temporary group I.O.I., which also launched the careers of…
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Onew Deep Dive: SHINee’s Hidden Gem
Onew is one of the five members of 2nd generation group SHINee, along with Key, Taemin,…
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Kim Sejeong Deep Dive: Business Proposal To Soloist
Kim Sejeong, like Chungha, got her start in k-pop through the project group I.O.I., in 2016.…
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Key Deep Dive: Comedian, Open Book, and Underrated Artist
Key first debuted with SHINee (which also includes Taemin, Minho, Onew, and the late Jonghyun) in…
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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…
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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)…
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OnlyOneOf Deep Dive #1/2: Queerbaiting VS Representation in KPOP
OnlyOneOf debuted in 2019 with seven members: Nine, Yoojung, Rie, KB, Junji, Mill, and Love (the…
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Jonghyun Deep Dive: A Tribute To The Greatest Writer K-pop’s Ever Known
(TW: mentions of death, mental illness, and suicide) Kim Jonghyun was—and, let’s be clear, is—one of…
5 responses to “Mamamoo Deep Dive #2/2: Do Controversies Make A Band?”
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[…] and newer boy groups XONIK and DIGNITY. Tomorrow there’s Yugyeom of GOT7 and Moonbyul of MAMAMOO andWednesday there’s Stray Kids and Hearts2Hearts. Later in the week, there’s soloists […]
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[…] Tuesday, there’s soloists Hanhee and COOING, while later in the week we have Solar of MAMAMOO, newer boy groups DAYCHILD and XLOV, ATEEZ, LOONA’s ARTMS, and a collab between BAE173 and […]
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[…] rapper, though she does, of course, also sing. I admit that I’m not really a fan of them (read more about that here), as I find it hard to look past their many controversies, including cultural appropriation and […]
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[…] Where Are We Now by Mamamoo […]
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[…] where we’ll leave off for this week, a bit earlier than halfway through because next time we’ll start with the most famous project in Mamamoo’s career. […]
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