SM Entertainment‘s official remixes are almost universally worse than the original, and many are just straight-up fucking terrible. So I was pleasantly surprised by a remix of (EXO) Kai‘s “Peaches” …
Read More »BoA’s 2004 image change produced a classic in “My Name”, which gets a remaster from SME
In 2004, BoA was about four years into her career, and her image could probably be explained best by the title of her last Korean release, “Atlantis Princess“. It sounds …
Read More »“Perfect Man”, one of Shinhwa’s signature tracks, gets the remastering treatment
It’s still nuts to me that Shinhwa debuted in 1998, left SM Entertainment before it was cool, and remains together to this day. After a rather slow start to their …
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 »BoA’s debut classic “ID Peace B” gets the SM Remastering Project treatment, song still as fresh as ever
SM Entertainment‘s SM Remastering Project is gonna expose a lot of … questionable choices in K-pop history, but BoA‘s 2000 debut single “ID Peace B” is not one of them. …
Read More »BoA cleared of having street cred
Back in December of last year, BoA was investigated for alleged smuggling of drugs, or at least that’s what the headlines read. As it turns out it was Zolpidem, probably …
Read More »Red Velvet’s Joy makes solo debut with remake/cover of Park Hye Kyung’s “Hello”
Joy of Red Velvet recently made her solo debut, which for whatever reason SM Entertainment decided should also be a remake album. The lead single for that album is “Hello“, …
Read More »[Review] Aespa remakes “Next Level” from the ‘Hobbs & Shaw’ OST, which ends up just as tiresome as the original
Being an SM Entertainment girl group, Aespa obviously arrived with a lot of fanfare and expectations. Their “Black Mamba” debut had some odd choices and didn’t impress, but hey that’s …
Read More »SME & MGM team up to launch American audition program to form NCT Hollywood
Just yesterday I thought it was rather laughable that HBO Max was giving CJ E&M an audition show in Latin America to make a boy group, but boy did that …
Read More »SME’s ex-A&R head suspended after being caught adding wife’s name to songs as a lyricist to collect royalties
The former head from the A&R department of SM Entertainment was recently caught adding his wife’s name to the credits of song in a scheme to collect royalties. According to …
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