I like to imagine whoever produced “WA DA DA” for Kep1er saw my tweets whining about girl groups putting out stuff like this far too often in 2021 and said, …
Read More »To a happy (hopefully) 2022
Everybody spent their 2021 greetings saying things couldn’t possibly be worse than 2020. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn’t, but god knows 2021 tried its best to live up to …
Read More »Ballad Roundup: 2021 is finally over + SEVENTEEN, IU, Eric Chou, Kep1er, JENYER, KLANG
Legend has it AJ hired me on the pretense of writing about ballads on this website, something he absolutely hates to do himself. This was shortly before my brain was shattered into a million fragments by reality television. My last ballads article for Asian Junkie was uhhhh... June?
Read More »Eunbi & Juri have ‘PD48’ reunion for Epic Seven OST song, “I’ll Be Your Energy”
Imagine my surprise today when I opened Epic Seven to continue my degen gacha career and found that ex-IZ*ONE Eunbi and Rocket Punch‘s Juri were having a Produce 48 reunion …
Read More »A track with ‘BTS Suga (Feat. Dame D.O.L.L.A.)’ is now within the realm of possibility
In a recent profile by Vogue Korea, BTS member Suga showed love towards the Portland Trailblazers and picked Damian Lillard as his favorite player. [#SugaHQ_Articles] BTS on Vogue: ‘Minstradamus’ SUGA, …
Read More »Yoon Mi Rae performs medley of hits for Dingo’s ‘After Hours’, impresses kids in karaoke segment for ODG
For me, Drunken Tiger and Yoon Mi Rae were my introduction to Korean hip-hop, at least in terms of recognizing it as legitimate and not just something idol groups threw …
Read More »Jisook begins her YouTuber era with a tour of her nerdy house, and I am jealous of her husband
As mentioned before, Rainbow member Jisook has started up a YouTube channel, and her YouTuber debut is a tour of her nerd-ass house full of gadgets and what not. Her …
Read More »SME announces female supergroup Girls On Top consisting of BoA, Taeyeon, Hyoyeon, Wendy, Seulgi, Karina, Winter
SM Entertainment has created a female supergroup called Girls On Top (a nod to BoA‘s single of the same name, no doubt) with members BoA, SNSD‘s Taeyeon & Hyoyeon, Red …
Read More »Ivy singing a medley on ‘Hangout With Yoo’ is like opening a time capsule from 15 years ago
When I went back to watch Sunny Hill’s guest appearance on Hangout With Yoo, I was surprised to find out Ivy also showed up in the episode. Didn’t hear much …
Read More »Merry Christmas and all that
As the year winds down, and as I continue to work on the year-end list (yes, I’m actually doing it this year!), it’s time to continue the Asian Junkie tradition …
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