Tag: newjeans
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K-POP 2024 – 20 Best Tracks
No particular order, and not necessarily the best videos of the year, but these were earworms all year for us and it’d be impossible to imagine 2024 without any one of them. And yes, there are two NMIXX numbers in…
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K-POP 2024 newjeans vs hybe
The second in our series of special topics in K-pop is devoted to the biggest news story of the year. Two years ago NewJeans appeared, apparently out of nowhere, and shook up South Korean pop music. They were fresh-sounding, yet…
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K-POP 2024 may
TripleS – Girls Never Die. Before Modhaus had reassembled the former LOONA subunit ODD EYE CIRCLE, Jaden Jeong had been busy working with a new modular girl group called TripleS, in which fans could vote for members and tracks for…
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K-POP 2024 april
Things heat up a bit in April. BABYMONSTER – SHEESH. Launched last year, YG Entertainment’s latest girl group follow on from BLACKPINK and 2NE1 before them. Sure, there’s a contemporary 4th gen streamlining to the production, but it’s recognisably a…
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K-POP 2023 – part one
This year has been huge in K-pop. South Korean pop culture is at a pivotal point where the new fourth generation of groups is making a definitive impact on the landscape. The most notable act to break the mould last…
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k(raut)pop?
What if K-pop but Krautrock? What if Krautrock but K-pop? Here is some bad Photoshop that shows how these extended ensembles might play out.