I think most of us were fans in time for the glorious glut of special stages at the end of 2009, when every Kpop awards/end-of-year festival under the sun included at least one Michael Jackson tribute. It really highlighted how much Kpop has been so heavily influenced by the man, both in sound and style.

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C-ute concert will be broadcast live on Youtube this Saturday 2012-6-30 18:30-20:30 JST (This will be ~5:30 AM EST.) It's sort of 10 years in idol business celebration concert ( Read more... )

3-hour Mechaike SNSD special

OH SHI--

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This is either going to be the usual amounts of epic Okamura, or it will be so disappointing I never watch SNSD in J-variety ever again.

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( Review of the perf, then Jpop pimping so I can bitch about Teddy Riley some more )

Kpop idol/group debut demographics and history

Jpop version

But who care about that, because homg apparently those slave contracts make bank for the pretty ones. Shisus, no wonder their music is shit nowadays. It's the least important part of their career, financially ( Read more... )

Some random videos of fun, or rather, random video of immense fun and then mashups:

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It's December, which means we get bombarded with the same old Christmas songs over and over again. Now I do have some Christmas songs I don't mind hearing every year, and there is an art to the holiday song that sometimes I just can't resist, just as with regular bubblegum. But like with regular bubblegum, sometimes I can't stand the lyrical ( Read more... )

So many posts in the pipeline, and a lot of them would be easier blurbs work, but I wanted to get this one out while The Boys album was still somewhat fresh.

Also because I haven't done a REAL pimp post on here in a while. Compilation posts don't count. But you have been warned. And this pimp post has a little more of the crack than usual.
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This is the The Boys album song comparison post, with some ranting at the beginning. You have been warned.
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It's gonna be a flurry of posts. I started the The Boys album comparison post a while back, but just today I started to comb through most of the more promising The Boys remixes, and that compilation will probably go up in a few days ( Read more... )