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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,…
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Kotaku EastK-Pop Pick Of The Day: Curious
Clazziquai Project is one of the leading band names in Korean electronic pop, with over a decade of activity spanning multiple full albums, remixes, and collaborations. While the band officially consists of four members—Alex, Horan, Christina and DJ Clazzi—not all of them participate in every song, which leads to a bit of confusion in which…
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Kotaku EastK-Pop Pick Of The Day: Days Gone By
For their latest release, Day6 decided to go retro (yes!!) with hints of Japanese city pop (yes!!!!!). Day6 is JYP Entertainment’s resident band-style boy group, analogous to Trax from SM Entertainment or CNBLUE from FNC. Bands aren’t very well represented in mainstream K-Pop, which does tend to prefer more traditional performance-style acts. In fact, I…
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Kotaku EastK-Pop Pick Of The Day: Written In The Stars
I really need to start paying better attention to what SM Entertainment is doing with their STATION brand, because I totally slept on this amazing collaboration between John Legend and Red Velvet’s Wendy—for almost three months, it seems. I’m also ashamed to report that I had never heard a single John Legend song until I…
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Kotaku EastK-Pop Pick Of The Day: Butterfly
Do you need some inspiration to get off your lazy butt and do something productive? Here’s the perfect song for the occasion. Loveholics’ history is somewhat convoluted; the band actually started off as Loveholic (singular) in 2003 but underwent a name change in 2008 after some member shuffles. Butterfly, released as a digital single in…
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Kotaku EastK-Pop Pick Of The Day: Snow
We’re in the thick of winter, so it only seems fitting to feature a track that embodies the season like few other songs do. SURL (설) is a Korean indie band that just released their first extended play last December, of which Snow is its title track. The band consists of four members: Seol Ho…
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Kotaku EastK-Pop Pick Of The Day: Snail Mail
Younha is back! Snail Mail is only a single, but her fans—myself included—will take whatever we can get. Within her fandom, Younha is (in)famous for spreading out her music to near comedic levels. Among her full album releases, her most recent album came out in 2017, following her Supersonic album, which released in… 2012. Five…
By Seung Park
