As I say every year, this year-end shows are only interesting for special stages, and KBS Gayo Daechukje at least had one that drew my interest. Purely for musical purposes, …
Read More »SBS Gayo Daejun featured special stages, highlighted by a collab between TWICE & Red Velvet
Merry Christmas! I’m completely stuffed and feeling rich. I also need a nap, but the special stages at the recent ‘SBS Gayo Daejun‘ were still worth taking the time to …
Read More »[Review] Red Velvet’s “RBB” is ambitious but all over the map and never really comes together
The first time I heard Red Velvet’s “Dumb Dumb“ back in 2015, I thought it was a complete mess, but the song has since gone on to become one of …
Read More »[Review] “Hello Tutorial” unfortunately doesn’t give its stars Zion.T & Seulgi much to do
Zion.T’s release schedule has slowed drastically since signing with YG Entertainment subsidiary The Black Label, but Korea seems poised to enthusiastically embrace his material all the same. As if his …
Read More »This Is So Stupid: YoonA’s photoshopped right boob, now set to a soundtrack
A fan recently highlighted that SM Entertainment photoshopped YoonA‘s right boob in a teaser picture for SNSD unit Oh!GG (nothing new, amusingly enough), and then promptly saw the opportunity to …
Read More »My dissertation on the lazy, thoughtless, and unprofessional actions of Red Velvet’s Irene
The recent actions of Red Velvet's Irene have been shocking to say the least, and it's ridiculous that such a famous idol could...
Read More »[Review] Red Velvet go back to ‘red’ side and come up with surprisingly bland “Power Up”
Red Velvet is coming off an excellent 2017, with four of their songs (“Peek-A-Boo“, “You Better Know“, “Talk To Me“, “Red Flavor“) ending up as my favorites of the year. …
Read More »‘Produce 48’ Episode 4: Group performances completed, setting up dramatic eliminations to come
We continue the ‘Produce 48‘ recaps with episode four, which resumes the drama stemming from the group performances and sets up the sure-to-be-messy eliminations. Watch The Episode Here —— To …
Read More »TWICE cover Wonder Girls’ “So Hot”, Red Velvet tackles SNSD’s “Gee”, Chungha does Lee Jung Hyun’s “Wa” on ‘Music Bank’
Special stages are always fun, and TWICE and Red Velvet participated in them recently for ‘Music Bank‘ with the former covering “So Hot” by the Wonder Girls and the latter …
Read More »[Review] Red Velvet debut in Japan with “Cookie Jar”, which eventually wears down any resistance to it
To be clear, there is no reason for a pop song to be preceded by a hashtag, and under no circumstance whatsoever should that hashtag actually be part of the …
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