K-Pop Pick Of The Day: Heartbreaker
Okay, I admit it: after listening to Lies over and over for yesterday’s column, I got sucked into a black hole of Big…
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K-Pop Pick Of The Day: Lies
I’ve used a lot of words to describe a lot of songs in this column, but I rarely call songs iconic—because words have…
K-Pop Pick Of The Day: All Night
Out of all former Sistar members, Soyou has probably been the most successful at striking out on her own, thanks to a…
K-Pop Pick Of The Day: First Love
Does any song capture all of the shy, timid flutterings of a schoolyard crush as well as First Love does? I’m inclined…
K-Pop Pick Of The Day: Cider
Norazo has gone through some changes since the last time we featured them, but the central concept has remained the…
K-Pop Pick Of The Day: How People Move
Get up and dance, because Akdong Musician’s How People Move is all about—you guessed it—dancing. Plus, it’s Friday. Do…
Trend for Female Geeks: "Painful" Anime Bags
In Japanese, they’re called “ita-bag” (痛バッグ) or, rather, “painful bag.” And for the country’s female geeks, they’re one…
K-Pop Pick Of The Day: Love City
Nine Muses is one of the most mature-concept, refined girl groups active right now, so it wasn’t surprising to see them…
K-Pop Pick Of The Day: Day By Day
While I normally try to link to official music videos whenever possible, today is an exception—because the music video…
K-Pop Pick Of The Day: Lightsaber
Yes, that Star Wars—the one from a galaxy far, far away—made a K-Pop song.
K-Pop Pick Of The Day: Together We Can
Idol groups don’t only promote cell phones and hair products. Sometimes, they produce entire songs for various PSAs,…
K-Pop Pick Of The Day: Lollipop
This intensely catchy song was a promotional track for the purposes of marketing LG’s Lollipop flip phone, which were…
K-Pop Picks Of The Day: Chocolate Love & Chocolate Love
This is Brand Song Week, where we pick out some of the best songs to come out of K-Pop endorsement deals.
K-Pop Pick Of The Day: Turned Off The TV...
Going into the weekend, one craves for a melodic, optimistic pick-me-up from the workweek. I can’t think of a better…
K-Pop Pick Of The Day: Illa Illa
It’s a bit late for a spring-themed acoustic track, but what the hell, it’s a good song. And good songs are always in…
K-Pop Pick Of The Day: Up
It’s Tuesday, a.k.a. Honorary Hump Day. Let’s perk ourselves up a little bit.
K-Pop Pick Of The Day: IDOL (feat. Nicki Minaj)
Uh... hmm, okay, so this is a thing now? Cool. Cool cool cool.
K-Pop Pick Of The Day: Lil' Touch
Girls’ Generation just doesn’t know when to stop. That’s a good thing.