{"id":1038,"date":"2025-12-20T19:27:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T18:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2025-12-20T19:38:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T18:38:36","slug":"kpop-2025-part-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/uncategorized\/kpop-2025-part-three\/","title":{"rendered":"KPOP 2025 &#8211; part three"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>K-POP IN REVIEW 2025: PART THREE &#8211; The Boys<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Okay, time to get back into this annual review, and now we&#8217;ve got a special issue for the men in K-pop. We know they&#8217;re never as good as the girls, but they deserve some attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SUPER JUNIOR: these lads started twenty years ago, and have been a consistent element of the K-pop landscape pretty much the whole time. But we&#8217;re not just stanning them out of respect; the contemporary SUPER JUNIOR are still a set of super-super men. The pick of their new album is Express Mode, and it is indeed a 100% certified slapper as advertised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SUPER JUNIOR \uc288\ud37c\uc8fc\ub2c8\uc5b4 &#039;Express Mode&#039; MV\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pykdDgWX7-M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KAI: He&#8217;s always been this enormous lunk of a superstar, the front boy of EXO, and his solo career has been worth watching for a long while, but on his return from military service he has rewarded us with a new album, Wait on Me, which is what the kids call a no skip classic. This being the case it&#8217;s hard to choose one track, but Walls Don&#8217;t Talk should give you a sense of the quality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"KAI \uce74\uc774 &#039;Walls Don&#039;t Talk&#039; MV\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qTwJH5M7zfE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>TEN: Once again we&#8217;re choosing from the SM Entertainment top drawer of boys, and TEN is to die for. Gay as the day is long, Thai, and a key figure in crucial NCT sub-units including their Chinese WayV franchise, and the supergroup Super M. Chittaphon Leechaiyapornkul, as his mum calls him, can out-dance and out-sing pretty much anyone from Freddie Mercury to Michael Jackson, and on this basis, his solo career has long been a concern here. He put out two solo albums this year, one in Korean and the other in Japanese, but we&#8217;re going with the Japanese release, because it&#8217;s just fucking amazing. Listen to the whole thing, but SILENCE is very very special.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TEN \u30c6\u30f3 &#039;Silence&#039; MV\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P0oX9MvbBN4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>K-POP IN REVIEW 2025: PART THREE &#8211; The Boys Okay, time to get back into this annual review, and now we&#8217;ve got a special issue for the men in K-pop. We know they&#8217;re never as good as the girls, but they deserve some attention. 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