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Kotaku EastK-Pop Pick Of The Day: I’m Not Laughing
Leessang was one of the greats of mid-to-late-2000s Korean hip-hop, and one listen to any of their title tracks is enough to make you fall into the well of their rhythmic and strangely powerful music. While many of Leessang’s later releases would abandon a lot of traditional hip-hop for a more mainstream, conventional sound (compare…
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Kotaku EastK-Pop Pick Of The Day: Love Options
Korean indie music is all well and good, but sometimes you’re in the mood to listen to slickly cheerful popstragavanzas injected straight into your veins. BESTie’s Love Options may be your best, ahem, option. BESTie was a relatively short-lived group, even by K-Pop standards; they debuted in 2013 and released their final songs in 2015.…
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Kotaku EastK-Pop Pick Of The Day: So Sorry
In the middle of my first listen of So Sorry, I found myself wondering: how have I never heard of Joy o’clock before? For the first minute and a half of So Sorry’s runtime, it’s a fairly milquetoast piano-accompanied ballad, the kind that you might hear around episode 12 of a mediocre K-drama. Then: the…
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Kotaku EastK-Pop Pick Of The Day: Round 1
Do you want to hear a idol group named Dalmatian sing lyrics like “doggy dog woof woof woof”? Yes, yes, you do. In 2019, Dalmatian is a mere footnote in K-Pop history, but when they debuted in 2010 with Round 1, they garnered a bit of hype for not only this very catchy song but…
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Kotaku EastK-Pop Pick Of The Day: Maybe Blue
As winter starts to ebb to a slow and meandering close, I find myself drawn to more lo-fi, jazzy tracks than usual. And amidst my search for such lo-fi, jazzy tracks (because I spend far too much time scrolling through new K-Pop releases on YouTube), I happened upon Miyao’s Maybe Blue. It’s a short but…
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Kotaku EastK-Pop Pick Of The Day: Roly Poly
For a few months there in the early 2010s, K-Pop went through an unabashedly retro period. That trend started with T-ara’s 2011 sleeper hit, Roly Poly Roly Poly’s own inspiration becomes abundantly clear starting with its album, John Travolta Wannabe, a not-so-subtle hint to movies like Saturday Night Fever. Even the music video looks like…
By Seung Park
