NewJeans‘ comeback got off to an ideal start yesterday with their self-titled intro for Get Up being a The Powerpuff Girls collab that proved to be a perfect fit for …
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The name of YENA‘s title track, “Hate Rodrigo“, generated a wave of criticism, which seems pretty clearly what it intended to do from the start. Of course, anybody with a …
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SHINee are back with the title track “HARD“, and it represents an interesting tack for the direction of their music to take, because it’s trendy in the sense that it …
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While they’ve always made performance-oriented music, which is something a lot of boy groups have adopted of late, ATEEZ have really eschewed any semblance of trying to accomplish anything else …
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Gonna be honest, I’m not exactly sure who was clamoring for a Taeyong solo, but we got one anyway in “SHALALA“. If nothing else, this debut drives home that giving …
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The year-long wait for Fromis 9 to return doesn’t seem especially terrible when measured in time, but with the departure of Jang Gyuri and some minor scandals that nobody with …
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Stray Kids had an excellent 2021 by my watch, though their results since then have been decidedly more polarizing. If nothing else, “S-Class” will do nothing to change that, as …
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BOYNEXTDOOR got off to a somewhat slow start on the anonymous “But I Like You”, though considering they had triple title tracks, I figured maybe that really was more of …
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HYBE companies debuted LE SSERAFIM and NewJeans in 2022 to much success, and those girl groups have since only grown into their roles as fourth generation leaders. BOYNEXTDOOR is supposed …
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While I’ve been doing a lot of ENHYPEN’s marketing work recently for DARK BLOOD, I have also been generous and helped to make a tiny adjustment to “Bite Me” as …
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Asian Junkie Asian pop. Without discretion.