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Eric Nam Deep Dive #2/2: A Singer-Songwriter and the Confessions of A Lonely Heart
Here are my credentials (again): Like a lot of people who became kpop fans around the 2019 / 2020 era, I first learned about Eric Nam through DIVE Studios’ interview program The Daebak Show, where he’s interviewed a lot of my favorite artists, both in English and Korean. Though I’ve known he was a singer…
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Eric Nam Deep Dive #1/2: A Singer-Songwriter and the Confessions of A Lonely Heart
Intro Ladies, gentlemen, and assorted forest sprites, I’m back! My little break for the last month was very much unplanned but very much needed. Life just got away from me a bit, but I’m happy to report that I’ve returned and I’m so excited to get back to music. One of these days I’ll get…
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idle’s Soyeon Deep Dive: A Genre-Bending Idol, An Unpretty Rap Star, and A Songwriter For The Ages
Jeon Soyeon, or, really just “Soyeon”, requires very little introduction from me, but here’s one anyway. She first came into the kpop world at age 17 on the TV competition show “Unpretty Rap Star”, and though she didn’t win her season, she never really left. Differently from the vast majority of idols, Soyeon debuted as…
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KATSEYE Deep Dive #2/2: A Kpop Blogger And Her Eyekon Best Friend On The Good, The Gnarly, and The ‘Girl Power’
Here are my credentials (again): So, like a lot of kpop fans, I’d consider myself at least a casual fan of KATSEYE. I know a decent amount of their songs, a decent amount about them as people, and a sprinkling of context surrounding Dream Academy and online conversation about them. I’ll be talking a little…
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KATSEYE Deep Dive #1/2: A Kpop Blogger And Her Eyekon Best Friend Take On The Good, The Gnarly, and The ‘Girl Power’
KATSEYE: An Intro KATSEYE was formed by HYBE Entertainment in 2024 through the 2023 survival show Dream Academy, and yes, I can already hear you screaming, they are not technically a kpop group. They have six members (Sophia Laforteza, Manon Bannerman, Daniela Avancini, Lara Raj, Megan Skiendiel, and Jeong Yoonchae*), who represent four countries and…
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ONF Deep Dive #2/2: Turning An ‘Ugly Dance’ Beautiful, Beautiful
Here are my credentials (again): So, cards on the table: I know next to nothing about ONF. I’ve heard a total of two songs by them, at most, and I can’t say I know much about the members either. ONF first came on my radar when the video of them all together in the military…
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