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KPOP 2025 – part five
K-POP IN REVIEW 2025: PART FIVE – Post-LOONA Two years after the members of LOONA won their freedom from BlockBerry Creative, their phoenix rise has been spectacular if uneven. The five who were operating collectively as Loossemble, HyunJin, YeoJin, ViVi,…
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K-POP 2024 – 10 best videos
This list contains what the title suggests; the ten best K-pop videos in 2024. It’s important here to distinguish between best videos and best tracks, because sometimes unusually good album tracks will not receive any video treatment, or sometimes the…
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K-POP 2024 the return of LOONA
We’re holding fire on the December review until at least the 25th. In the meantime there will be some special topics in K-pop studies. Way back in 2016, Blockberry Creative, a subsidiary of a large South Korean arms conglomerate, launched…
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K-POP 2024 november
BIBI – DERRE. We like BIBI. Her Lowlife Princess a few years back was one of the most fully-realised solo K-pop albums ever. Her output since has been eclectic, never making safe choices, and with DERRE we are enchanted by…
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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…