Asian Junkie Asian pop. Without discretion.
For better or worse, Apple TV+ has announced a new show called KPOPPED, which is billed as a song battle series starring by PSY and Megan Thee Stallion.
In each episode, western icons reimagine one of their biggest hits, collaborating with top-tier K-pop idols to deliver spectacular battle performances, with a live Seoul-based audience picking the winner of the best new K-popped song.
It’s filmed in Korea and Miky Lee of CJ ENM is involved in this, so getting participation from the K-pop side of things shouldn’t be hard at least. On the other side, Lionel Richie and Eureka Productions take charge.
The series is executive produced by Moira Ross, Richie, Miky Lee, Megan Thee Stallion and Greg Foster, alongside Harry H.K. Shin and Jake Hong, with producer Ki-woong Kim for CJ ENM Co., Ltd., with its unparalleled expertise in music variety shows and content production. Chris Culvenor, Paul Franklin, Wes Dening and David Tibballs executive produce for Eureka Productions (a Fremantle company), alongside Bruce Eskowitz.
By “star”, I assume they mean PSY and Meg are hosting, unless they are just the first two participants or something.
This could lead to some interesting crossover performances and collabs … or be an absolute cringe mess, but hey it works for them either way because I’ll be tuned in to find out.
