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2PM has made another splashy summer comeback with My House! It's not quite as smashing as ADTOY, but it plays one hell of a second fiddle. At first listen, the song’s lyrics are kind of creepy, like serial killer levels of creepy, but getting deeper into it explains that illusion and between the gorgeous set aesthetics and the glorious slide of musical panache, this is one of my favorite 2015 releases, and certainly my favorite from JYP so far this year. Read More...
With their fantastic So Too Very Much release in February, and their March activities in Japan, I wasn't expecting anything new from these guys for a while yet, and I certainly didn't expect a release this AWESOME. Seriously, this is one of the best tracks released this year and it's certainly the most impressive thing that MYNAME's ever produced. The lyrical story, and the visual exploration of that story, goes above and beyond anything that I would have expected from this release. It's really quite the incredible feat and I'm THRILLED about it.
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Girls Gen Spins a Sweet Story with Lion Heart!
I absolutely ADORE several of the tracks on this release, which is it’s own rarity as usually I’ll like one or two, but not more than three. Additionally, I like this album as an ALBUM, particularly how each song in the tracklist is placed among the others. There's a synthy swing of sass, a layer of funky charm, sweeping slides of harmonic swells, and a glorious spread of sweetness and spice.
SM had me worried with Catch Me If You Can, and honestly Party wasn't a pre-release single that gave me much confidence in the album, but over all SM did gloriously! READ MORE |
The VIBE Ent's pretty little ballad singer has an upbeat pop track out and it is actually quite lovely. Ben's bright voice suits Looby Loo perfectly and it's a song about moving on and being happy after a breakup. The words literally discuss congratulations on breaking up, and why moving on is not only healthy and wonderful, but can genuinely be fun. She's like the post-break-up-life-revitalization fairy and I think it's absolutely fantastic. Read More.
Top Media has been having a few really good years here and with UP10TION's smashing arrival on the scene, things are looking even better for the agency. The Choreo's epic and on-point and the track is hella kickin'. Beyond all that, the endless list of stylish shimmer effects and the uniquely spun scene switches and, of course, the camera work and editing in general are all absolutely flawless.This is a fantastic debut and it deserves a ton of praise! READ MORE
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As Part of UMW's Asian Cultural Week Celebration "Taste of Asia", I made a presentation on Asian Music with Dr Steve Rabson (Adjunct Professor at Mary Washington and Professor Emeritus of East Asian Studies, Brown University; author of Righteous Cause or Tragic Folly: Changing Views of War in Modern Japanese Poetry, and translator of Okinawan literature). I created this Documentary Film as part of the presentation; an introduction to the Kpop Industry for anyone interested in Kpop and how it is so much more than "Gangnam Style". Read more and watch the video HERE.
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South Korea is the pinnacle achievement of multi-media internet communications in the modern world. The current reality of the situation is that South Korea is a fully wired world, the State’s citizenry is continually bombarded with digital media. For many of South Korea’s industries, this has posed a serious problem. Adapting to the sudden demand of the market that a product be everywhere at once, all over the internet, has been difficult for the slower-moving companies, especially the ones like grocery stores that had never before needed to advertise.
Now, nearly every industry is clinging to the one industry that boomed under the new pressure: Kpop. Read HERE. |
Announcements:
Due to the rigors of Job-Hunting and my involvement in various Special Projects, I'll be city-hoping on rather short notice, so updates may be delayed and irregular.
I may even be entirely absent for extended stretches of time, but I'll be back and posting eventually!
Wish me luck! (Or better yet, get in touch with me personally.)
I may even be entirely absent for extended stretches of time, but I'll be back and posting eventually!
Wish me luck! (Or better yet, get in touch with me personally.)
Also, in case you missed it, I am now on Pintrest!
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