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Kotaku EastK-Pop Pick Of The Day: Childish
Sometimes, you need a break from the flashy, whiz-bang, (over)produced pomp and circumstance of mainstream K-Pop. I’ve covered a lot of indies in this column; and yet, I have a feeling no one will complain if I cover one more today. Especially if said indie song is as chill, comforting, and heartwarming as LambC’s Childish…
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Kotaku EastK-Pop Pick Of The Day: I Don’t Need A Man
Every decent-sized agency has a “forgotten” artist: someone under their label that doesn’t quite get the investment that their bigger and more popular labelmates might. SM Entertainment had TRAX and CSJH. YG has iKon. And, perhaps most infamously, JYP Entertainment had Miss A. While Miss A had a relatively short lifespan—from 2010 to 2015—they left…
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Kotaku EastK-Pop Pick Of The Day: Honey Tea
When I was sick as a kid, my mom would sometimes brew a pot of piping-hot yuzu tea, into which she would always squeeze in a dab of honey. Runny nose? Sore throat? General listlessness? Honey tea was the all-in-one cure. Honey Tea makes me feel twelve years old again, with a mug of tea…
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Kotaku EastK-Pop Pick Of The Day: I’m In Love
I’m In Love was SECRET’s last Korean single before their premature disbandment last year. If they had to end—and in my opinion, they didn’t—I’m glad they went out with this one. There were two sides to SECRET’s coin: the energetic, brass-filled side exemplified by I’m In Love, Madonna and Poison—and the kitschy, cute concept they started…
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Kotaku EastK-Pop Pick Of The Day: Straw
Let’s balance out yesterday’s intensely saccharine, one-dimensional pick with something from the opposite end of the spectrum. Straw’s music video is unsettling, thought-provoking, and defies simple explanation. I recommend listening to Straw twice; once accompanied by the video, and once without. The song itself starts out on an upbeat note (I couldn’t help but be…
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Kotaku EastK-Pop Pick Of The Day: Q&A
When a major agency debuts a new girl group and said group’s first music video is a love letter to video games, that makes my job a little easier. Cherry Bullet is the new girl group from FNC Entertainment, and as far as girl group names go, we’ve seen worse (remember these poor ladies?). It…
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Kotaku EastK-Pop Pick Of The Day: Kissing You
The early years of Girls’ Generation contain more than their fair share of saccharine B-sides. Even among those, Kissing You stands out as one of their most unabashedly upbeat. Look at those lollipop mics! Kissing You, released in 2008, is representative—and is in many ways the pinnacle—of Girls’ Generation’s early thematic beats: innocence, naïveté, and good,…
By Seung Park
