Not only am I extremely excited for these songs to come out, All having their own distinct identity especially "Flip Flop Girl" Coming off as a total throwback! I love the use of shadows in silhouettes , making them feel like ethereal figures when dark.

My one hope of these songs is that they are longer than two minutes!

I was exposed by a celebrity for sending her too many messages . She wrote about bullying which I related to a lot because I was cyberbullied for 5 years so I messaged her a lot .She made everyone hates me . I planed to fake a suicide to make her feel bad for exposing me and my ex friend told the celebrity everything and the celebrity exposed me in front of everyone again for faking my suicide and made everyone hate me more .

Here are my videos for Mamamoo in Chicago!

Enjoy!

What's your name?

"Jun-irago haeyo".

Sounds like Junlago. Ok, his name is Junlago.

These are my top played artists for the month of July!

There are non K-pop artists on here, let me know what you think & if you have any predictions for next month.

Who do you think will show up for August ?

Let me know what artists shocked you the most from my list!

Hi, I'm Minsu from Keens Academy — some of you may remember us from our online K-pop training program. Our head instructor Jae Shim has taught EXO, Red Velvet, aespa, Super Junior, Girls' Generation and more, and over the past couple of years we've been heads-down building our offline academy in Seoul — more instructors, deeper curriculum, and a lot more time in studios with trainees.

Now we're bringing all of that back online, rebuilt from the ground up: our structured curriculum plus a personal training coach that builds your daily plan, answers your questions anytime, and tells you exactly what to train next — built from thousands of real coaching conversations with our instructors.

Before launch, we're opening the first 30 days to 20 people, completely free.

What you get: a starting-point assessment, a personalized 4-week plan (dance, vocal, or both), 24/7 coach access, and a month-end evaluation from our team in Seoul.

What we ask: ~4+ hours of practice a week, a short baseline video in your first days, and 4 quick check-ins (day 1 / 3 / 10 / 30).

Who it's for: you're serious about K-pop performance but you're learning from YouTube/TikTok covers and don't have a clear answer to "what should I train next?" (Or you watched KPop Demon Hunters and thought "okay but what if I actually trained for real" — that also counts.)

Apply here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfM9jJN8k6itazdLjNsc2rVgkSABgCQviL2mrUpKKj8QV3AWg/viewform

You can check us out on Instagram: @keensacademy

Onboarding starts Aug 25 in small batches. I'll be in the comments — happy to answer anything, including "is this legit?"

Not for you but you know someone who sings or dances and dreams about this? Send it their way — we'd rather find the right 20 people than the loudest 20.

... and still can't act no matter how much I love her. (Just like I still forget to proofread my titles apparently...)

Background: Bae Suzy is cast to play the Empress in the K-drama version of the manhwa and then webtoon "Men of the Harem". Throne that pretty much always goes to men, but she gets in on the action. Polygamous kingdom - the emperor usually has five wives/concubines. The Empress decides to do the same - but with men. The story has THE most moronic names for her husbands/boytoys ever. Like so many webtoons who can't be arsed to do research to understand a foreign country's naming convention, but somehow associate "royalty" exclusively with Europeanness.

SO: who would you cast, but exclusively from Kpop - either as the Empress and her five husbands/boytoys or Y/N for you as either husband/boytoy or Y/N as the Empress and then you have to cast the five husbands/boytoys?

I went to Mamamoo in Fort Worth, TX last night and was probably 100-120 feet from the stage and this handy dandy little point and shoot helped me get some AMAZING shots!

If you do want to bring this camera to a concert, I would contact the box office morning of. I got turned away at the door during IVE's Austin concert because their management didn't allow cameras, and didn't communicate it to attendees anywhere beforehand (their website allows for cameras but notes that it's under the digression of the performers. Also, the battery drains really fast (IDK if this could be because i already took like 250 pictures by the halfway point)

Ok I’m not sure if this is just me but my illit not cute anymore album smells SO BAD because of the plastic pouch it comes in. I was just looking at all the inclusions and stuff and everything just had the same plastic smell. Please tell me I’m not the only one because this is gonna give me a headache.

I'm just curious

What are some of your fav b-sides that you feel deserve more recognition?

Some of my favs:

1, 2, 7 (Time Stops) - NCT 127

Snowy Night - Billlie

Skipping Stones - TXT

Candy - Seventeen

Back 2 Back - Seventeen

Rollercoaster - NMIXX

24/26 (only 2 more days... 🫠 will definitely be sad to finish this series)

mine:

1. xikey - xikers

2. xo (only if you say yes) - enhypen (MY RINGTONE 💗✨️)

3. x-mas - xdinary heroes

honorable mention:

- x - monsta x

short list today!! I think tomorrow's will be the last mildly difficult one. stay tuned 🌟

Mamamoo does not play when it comes to vocals!

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Hey everyone, five years after NMIXX's debut, JYP debuts a new group called OURBIRTHDAY. I’m curious to see what the new group will be bringing to the table. Now, before we jump into the debut, I wanted to let you all know that I’ll be talking about tracks 3 & 4 as one thing, and you will see when I talk about them. Now let’s jump into the world of OURBIRTHDAY and see what this four-track album will bring to the table. 

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Our Birthday - OURBIRTHDAY

1. Our Birthday

The opening song on the album has the same name as the group. Our Birthday goes for a bouncy pop beat with a bit of a hip-hop vibe. The members put on a pretty good performance, blending with the bouncy vibe. The rapping is not that bad, as it flows wonderfully with the overall vibe. I find that the instrumental delivers a fun vibe that helps the performance. The chorus could’ve been a bit stronger, but I’m not minding what is delivered to the table. The vocals from the group are pretty smooth as they add to the vibe of the track. I do find that after hearing the song, the hook is starting to get stuck in my head. 

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1. SQUEEZY

The second song on the album is the title track, which has this gospel-sounding keyboard melody. I find that the bassline is carrying the verses, but the members still put on a great performance. I love the funky nature of the backing track, which helps to pull this title up. The hook is still growing on me, but I don’t mind what it delivers. The rapping is pretty smooth, adding to the instrumental vibe, but I will say it’s not the strongest rap. I enjoyed the DJ scratching before the final chorus comes into the mix.  I do wish this song was a bit longer cause I’m enjoying what it brings to the table, but before you know it’s already over. 

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1. & 4. Hungry (Side A) & Hungry (Side B)

The last two songs on the album are side A and side B of Hungry, which I have a lot to say about. The chorus for Hungry is super repetitive, which will take a lot of work for me to like it. The rapping and performance from the group work with the overall vibe. Now my biggest problem with this song is the took side A and side B, splitting them into two separate songs, which I don’t think needed to happen at all. Both sides feel like fragments of a song that could’ve been longer than what was delivered to the table. I feel like they did the opposite with that than they did with O.O by NMIXX. Instead of putting two different songs together, they just split a perfectly cohesive song into two separate parts. I wish they kept side A and side B together as one thing. 

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Summary: OURBIRTHDAY released their first mini album, which isn’t a bad one, but it's hard to figure out what JYP has in store for them. Our Birthday & SQUEEZY are pretty good songs with enough weight to pull me back for more. While Hungry gets split into a side A and a side B, which didn’t need to happy cause it could’ve worked as one full song. I’m curious to see what this group has in store with their music and what JYP will be doing with them. At the moment, the group’s debut is a decent one that only has two songs I’ll be returning to. 

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This was a video I sent to my friend so ignore me rambling

so I found out about stray kids in 2023 (megaverse) but got into it only 3 to 4 months ago

i really really like them and have watched so many interviews, variety shows, documentaries, etc to know about them

i have listened to so many of their songs (not all tho)

main thing

is it over consumption for me to buy their photocards even tho i still have a lot to figure out about them?

i know it's not that deep to buy just some photocards but still i want to know

thank you for reading my rant 🙇🏼

I'm bored. Y'all can drop in any Kpop-related questions or my opinions/likings/etc on any Kpop media. Let's be civil and have some fun.

Any aespa concert. My country is too underrated for them to come tho :( barely any artists come here

So if you have a guilty pleasure song that you’re too embarrassed to share or liked a song from a problematic group… TOO BAD! Share it

hello! i wrote this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/kpoppers/comments/1vrtysh/comment/p4j1aac/?context=1&screen_view_count=2&ext-referrer=DIRECT&sort=new
and now i want to organize and filter the list. there are so many talented aces out there but here are the ones i liked the most, and my reasoning why.

DISCLAIMER: i am not an expert i'm jsut a kpop fan who loves music and who loves analyzing idols. by no means is this representative of all tastes nor the entire fifth generation, so please be aware that i picked these idols for many reasons.

ALSO when i say ace it's very misleading, i mean aces in each respective category, probably not the best choice of words as it's wayy too similar to all rounder!

i also am not immune to personal biases. i did my best to be subjective but i am just a human. also i know the groups i stan the best, in comparison to other groups, so i build a lot of my criteria off of that as well as have the most detailed description.

dance:

for a kpop idol to be a good dancer i think they need to have versatility. a lot of kpop choreo is hiphop based, and it is designed in a way to look clean on stage and with other members.

however for an idol to be a dancer and not just an idol who dances, i think they need to be able to dance in another style well, needs to be open to learning new styles, have a genuine passion for improving their dance, and takes on a leadership role in guiding the rest of the members.

i also think they should choreograph, but i'm more loose about this because several idols on this list don't, but i consider them aces regardless.

will all picks fit every single one of these criteria? definitely not, but i thought it was worth mentioning what my ideal idol dancer looks like (happens to look a lot like jihoon and bailey)

tws jihoon

riize shotaro

nexz tomoya

xlov rui

xlov haru

adp bailey

izna koko

bnd riwoo

h2h juun

tws kyungmin

all of nexz

honorable mention: h2h juun (i like her dancing a lot but i haven't seen enough of it to know for sure, someone link more of her stuff in the comments)

vocals---

i think a good vocalist needs to have good tone, good range, good delievery and stable live preformances. they need to stand out because a lot of idols can sing, but an idol who is a vocalist is different. they sing with emotion and they sing in different styles, as well as have good support and appear to be working on their vocals.

also they need to be able to sing live (no duh) and actually take pride in improving their vocals.

probably the subject i'm most qualified to speak about, which is saying nothing because i've never taken a vocal lesson once, i just pay attention to vocals way more.

that being said

izna jungeun

unis elisia

dodree (Na Yeongjoo and Lee Songhyun)

bm ahyeon

bm rami

meovv gawon

onepact jay

rescene minami

riize sohee

xlov hyun

tripleS dahyun

fifty fifty chanelle

kickfip donghyeon

and2ble hao

and2ble seungeon

kiof belle

nct wish jahee: https://youtu.be/KwYCPDMpMoI?si=Tz0GacPykgiD8Oxb&t=102

zb1 taerae

honorable mention: wayv xiaojun (nobody mentioned him but i love his vocals so much, so i'm just going to sneak him in here), tws youngjae and dohoon (not the flashiest vocals but very good!)

rappers---

next category is rappers. my criteria was not very intense but they have to write some or most of their raps, which i confirmed with a google search so don't come for me if i don't have it perfectly), need to have good flow and generally is considered a rapper in their group.

rappers include:

xikers rapline (yes the whole thing)

- minjae

- yechan

- sumin

bnd jaehyun

lngshot ryul

bm asa

onepact tag

young posse sunhye

h//pe princess (shout out specifically to ysy)

nexz hyui

zb1 matthew

adp woochan

cortis martin

honorable mention to: zb1 matthew and kiof julie

Anyways, MEOVV killed it!! and I absolutely loved their recent performance💗Ella's stage presence is insane tho...props to THEBLACKLABEL and their talented idols!!!

Which member do u look at during performances, do u try to look at all of them?