Though I am probably the last person I’d peg to fall into the K-pop fandom, in so many ways, K-pop is the perfect fandom for me. I love fanfic. I hoard information. I obsess. I like boys. K-pop has a lot of boys. A lot of them are smoking hot. Last time I showed you some of the bad boys I got into, and this time we take on the sexy sexxiness and ( Read more... )

Sometimes in K-pop , song titles, concepts and styles overlap. I looked into A LOT of boybands in 2013 and because I found "commonalities" between several of these groups, I've chunked some of them in my mind into specific tiers. This one tackles the boy-groups that start with the letter “B”.

( On to (B)oys! )

Whaaaaat - 5 parts into this Media Map for Music and we still haven't seen the end of it? I know, I'm just now realizing the scope that K-pop covered in my life in 2013 and suddenly the timeline I mentioned at the beginning of this series doesn't seem like such an exaggeration now. But, onward and upward my dear friends.

( A Brief Intermission for The Rising Gods of the East )

This is a repost from last week, with a couple of eras added to this version. I listened to a lot of K-pop in 2013, and forgot to add these in!

Well hey I am on a roll and attempting to get things done by the time the clock strikes 2014! Music was a huge force in my 2013, and if you came from this post onto this one, yay! Moving along my music ( Read more... )

It took me a while before I got curious about any of the girl groups or any of the female artists in K-pop. I've come to observe that non K-pop fans were usually quicker to become biased toward girl groups rather than the boy bands. My theory is that non K-pop fans find it less embarrassing to admit liking the girl groups over the boy bands. The ( Read more... )

K-pop fans over on Tumblr kept mentioning this group whose comeback was so long overdue that it was becoming a running joke among them ( Read more... )

...plus eleven other questions for Tomoyasu Hotei.

1. There is a blurb somewhere on the internet describing you as "one of the most intimidating figures in Japanese music". Would you think that this has to do with your prolific body of work and longevity as an artist or the fact that you are very tall and scary-looking?


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