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Still working on the track list but the notes are up for Episode 79: "If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears", an in-depth look at one of my favorite groups--the Mamas & the Papas!!

Episode 79: If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears feat. Patrick — The Idol Cast and other writings

I’m joined in this episode by first time guest Patrick! We get into the weeds on one of my favorite musical acts of all time: the Mamas & the Papas. This was a group that was very important to me in...

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Not to add to the ratio but this is exactly the kind of poor journalism that we discuss in the episode I posted today. More than anything else it demonstrates how unseriously these publications and journalists take Kpop and idol music.

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Like I'm sorry but anybody who thinks Super Junior or TVXQ or BigBang in the mid-2000s were sitting around with Silver Spoons in their mouths collecting paychecks and trophies is just living in a fantasy world.

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All of the dirt leaking out... it feels like K-pop fans have finally had enough with the company's business practices and with the Hybe fandoms.

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Every single K-Pop boy group that followed, followed in their shadows. Nobody has come close to surpassing their influence. TVXQ x BigBang are the dual pillars of K-Pop.

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sm cadet junsu was shocked by yg big bang's free style

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New post on "K-Pop" minus the "K"

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1 year

I've spent a lot of time digging through 2000s K-Pop history the last few weeks and it really is sad how much of this has been completely memory-holed. I see stans today referring to "the big 3" as this holy trinity that has existed since the dawn of time and it's just not true.

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I've been following Hybe's investment in vocal AI for a while. That's where they've been investing instead of in their talents' vocals. Who needs human voices when you can just generate "good" vocal takes via AI?

The Bias List

@nickajames

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Instead of shaming idols for not singing well (which is just mean), we should be shaming agencies for not making singing a priority.

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Kpop (the genre) is not nearly as popular in America as the media play insists and the current generation of fans is more likely to be siloed into fans of their respective groups rather than "Kpop" as an industry. Like I keep saying:

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Broadway's ‘KPOP’ musical is closing after 44 previews and 17 regular performances.

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Take this statement: an outright lie. It was not unusual but rather extremely on trend. When BTS debuted in 2013, they were following in the immediate wake of extremely popular hip-hop based groups Block B (debuted 2011) and BAP (debuted 2012). Not to mention BigBang (2006).

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Tbh I think they took it more seriously before. The "K-Pop" brand has become toxic.

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@cierabyul

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ngl i went half my life not caring if the general public took kpop seriously lol

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Sadly, this is what I've found. The colonization of K-Pop fan spaces by ignorant and incurious outsiders has been unfortunate but the real awful part has been the wave of "K-Pop academia" and "K-Pop journalism" by those same types. Writing essays on nonsense and call it fact.

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@SUJI96808

2 months

The reason a lot of groups that took part in creating k-pop are now discredited is because k-pop stans are pretty much PROUD of their ignorance. You don’t know some of the biggest groups in kpop? Then you are in absolutely NO POSITION to talk about kpop history and how it

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HOLY SHIT I haven't seen an idol command a room like this in ages. This video is incredible:

MOVE - 태민(TAEMIN) [더 시즌즈-악뮤의 오날오밤] | KBS 231103 방송

MOVE - 태민(TAEMIN)#더시즌즈 #MOVE #태민 #악동뮤지션 #이수현 #이찬혁 #악뮤 #악뮤의오날오밤 #음악 #뮤직 # ---------------------------------------------- ▶ Homepage : https://www.kbs.c...

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YG Entertainment was a small independent firm when BigBang debuted in 2006; SM was a small independent firm when HOT debuted and they struggled for YEARS afterwards. All through the mid-2000s.

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Rain with Stephen Colbert in 2008; BigBang at TRL Studios in 2006; Hyun Jin-Young filming in LA in 1993; a rave from the Village Voice for 2NE1 in 2012.

❦Risa

@chaelisastoe2

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“No group would be able to make it out of Korea” just a reminder that wonder girls was the first Kpop act to enter the billboard hot 100 in 2009.

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Trax, milk, black beat... remember these? No? Nobody else does either because they're all flopped mid-2000s SM acts. They didn't have any silver spoons...

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The recent surge of K-Pop fans into J-Pop spaces has been interesting. Projecting K-Pop structure onto companies like Avex is kind of the reverse of stans projecting American industry structure onto K-Pop companies...

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3 years

With all the BigBang discourse, I'm inspired to pick back up on the MADE episode I was working on. New fans to Kpop post 2018 do not understand the extent to which we're all still living in BigBang's world. Nobody has come along to replace them as Kpop Trendsetters.

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Winner really are the "boy next door" Kpop idols in the same way HOT were. I hope I get to see them again live in the future!! Still one of the best concerts I've been to!

WINNER Live Stages

@winnerperfs

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Everyday #WINNER #위너 (May 2022, Daedongchae Healing Concert in Busan)

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I've really been enjoying the #WINNER_HOLIDAYinTheCity guerrilla concert footage today. The crowd was incredible and Winner are such great performers. In a lot of ways it feels like they've been re-introducing themselves to the public post hiatus.

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Tsuyoshi doubling down on any excuse to speak Korean

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What’s the most out of pocket Johnny's moment?

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Kun ✨

@Espressoiinggme

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So they went around in award shows preaching about "making music the right way(not cheating)" trying to shade others while they were themselve doing chart manipulation? 🤨

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Nice to see a journalist tackling this problem of Kpop cyberbullying--and the whitewashing of it by Professional Fans. We talk about it in the episode I'm currently editing.

Raphael Rashid

@koryodynasty

2 years

Cyberbullying by K-pop fans must stop. Be it intimidation, racism, misogyny, or outright death threats, trying to downplay the problem is part of it. Being a K-pop fan does not exclude one from being a bully. Meanwhile, labels keep quiet.

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"Pre-existing" idols? I'll never get over the way the dominant fandom narrative requires stans to pretend that the K-Pop ecosystem sprung forth fully formed, with the Big Three and music show voting and Perfect All Kills just invented out of thin air.

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I love the lady who was so overwhelmed she started hitting her boyfriend 😂😂

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8 months

HOLY SHIT I haven't seen an idol command a room like this in ages. This video is incredible:

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I'm sure there's more to come in the ongoing Hybe/Ador saga but what I find interesting so far is the confirmation of things we long-time Hybe watchers have strongly suspected. The extremely cozy relationship with the media; the metrics obsession; the focus on beating SM, etc.

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This "discovery" of BigBang/GD&TOP/2NE1 by the critical sphere is a big part of one of my upcoming episodes. Stans today are largely unaware of the big role this played in paving the way for K-Pop in the US especially.

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@elite_gz

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i was the first one playing k-pop for the rock kids. i wrote about it for pitchfork. everybody thought i was crazy

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This is sadly common. Partly due to the metrics arms race where the benchmark for "hit" album has been set way beyond any ties to actual human listeners and partly due to things like photocards and other bonuses. In Japan Seventeen has a very robust card trading fandom...

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渋谷公園通りにseventeenのベストアルバムがダンボールごと廃棄されていました…これは酷い… #SEVENTEEN #セブンティーン #세븐틴

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Not that the Big 3 era was perfect but at least the quality of the music was good and the groups were entertaining.

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Kimura Takuya for KANEBO in the late 1990s This series of ads was so popular, women would rip them down in the subway to take home.

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@rogue_taeminbot @topgirl207 It truly was. I don't understand how these outlets are STILL getting K-Pop so wrong in 2022. It's like fact checking doesn't exist. Nothing exists before the author received a press release 3 months ago.

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Live from Hybe HQ lmao

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3 years

Yoon! I was thinking about this the other day but Yoon's run on King of Masked Singer was kind of his T-Pain Tiny Desk Concert moment when people who hadn't been paying attention were like, oh wait the Really Really guy can REALLY REALLY SING.

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A lot of Japanese vocabulary I later learned was not typical women's speech. 😅😅😅

CDJapan

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Would you tell me what have you learned from Johnny's groups? Comment us here.

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This is the context that debut BTS should be viewed in. Here's Block B in 2011:

Block B - Wanna Be, 블락비 - 워너비, Music Core 20110507

공식홈페이지 http://www.imbc.com/broad/tv/ent/musiccore/index.html방송시간 SAT, 16:15Block B - Wanna Be, Show! Music Core(쇼! 음악중심), EP257, 2011/05/07, MBC TV, Republ...

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Watching the documentary. I'm at 2:15 and he's already claimed Johnnys dominated the market since the early 1960s (false); used fan video of Sakurai Sho at NY Comic Con in 2009 to illustrate "fans all over the world"; and spoke over an idol, denying the idol's own reaction.

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I know I've said this before but in many, many ways K-Pop boy groups have been following BigBang's mold for at least a decade. They have yet to be overtaken:

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@justasnidge

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boy groups circling back to these outfits 10 years later has been funny

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A little post on some thoughts I've been working through on G-Dragon's Elvis cover:

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And here's B.A.P. in 2012

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Arashi doing their best Takarazuka dancing -- wait for Matsujun's "YAH!"

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Can we please let the myth of the "organic" group end now?

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I'm sure there's more to come in the ongoing Hybe/Ador saga but what I find interesting so far is the confirmation of things we long-time Hybe watchers have strongly suspected. The extremely cozy relationship with the media; the metrics obsession; the focus on beating SM, etc.

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🧐😑😑😑 This book won't help you understand what K-Pop is and how it works but it will help you understand the narrative being promoted around a certain group. So I guess that's maybe helpful to "parents perplexed by army offspring."

The Economist

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In less than a lifetime, South Korea went from being a poor country to becoming an economic and technological powerhouse. But there are dark sides to this success story 👇

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This is a hilariously bad list.

Rolling Stone

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1 year

K-pop is a multi-billion-dollar industry, now embraced globally across generations and cultures. Rolling Stone ranked the 100 best Korean pop songs ever made.

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"There's so little differentiation between these guys" Yes, because you're looking a wall of Sakurai Sho pictures my dude. If this is what the documentary is like... 🥶🥶🥶

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Tokio and the chocolate objects game 😂

Nindy_i ❤️👑

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2 years

@johnnysfess share video talent janis yg bikin ngakak dong 🙏😂

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The song/MV that was the personality of at least one generation of idols to follow... Legend.

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10 years ago today, G-DRAGON released the music video for ‘CROOKED’.

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Being proudly ignorant of Korean popular music before a few years ago when it's been part of the music industry conversation in the USA for decades. How else did JinuSean get Cypress Hill to guest on their album in 2001? "Nobody" heard of Korea or just you?

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Some of the screenshots I've seen going around are either incredibly petty or just full of misinformation and distortions. I'd take anything written in that book with a massive grain of salt.

timi ☺️

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Fanwars have always . Now we are talking about they openly feeding his insane pack of hyenas. Maybe, hybe felt that army had become insufficiently motivated and angry in the solo era. Lol

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"Unfortunately Glam never caught on" 🤔🤔 I suppose that's one way to say it.

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I've been listening to this live CD in the car a lot recently and this track gives me chills every time. Gorgeous arrangement of Haru Haru. I love how fresh it still sounds. We didn't know how good we had it until it was gone #BigBang

BIGBANG - If You + Haru Haru | 0.to.10 in japan the final

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When I say neither a certain boy group nor K-Pop generally are known to normies and locals, this is what I mean. After 7 years there's no bigger recognition in the USA outside of "generic K-Pop boy band" = ***

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This is something I've been pointing to for a long time. The fact that BigBang is still charting so well with a single, completely unpromoted song just shows that they are still most popular boy group in the domestic market.

The Korea JoongAng Daily

@JoongAngDaily

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Boy bands are nowhere to be found gracing the top spots of streaming charts. At this rate, #BigBang is the only boy band to have secured a spot on the 2022 annual #Melon Chart, while it remains uncertain if #BTS 's #YetToCome will do so. #Kpop

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Kanjani8 as human sushi

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ABCZ didn't have a CD single "debut" until 2015 with "Moonlight Walker". They were/are a performance/stage focused unit and their first run of "DVD singles" were all done in one shot, no special effect tricks and acrobatics choreographed by the members.

Rin 💚 (‘◇‘ )

@MidoRin_1224

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Since Johnny’s Fes is allowing everyone to get a taste of and possibly get into other Johnny’s groups (I know I am 😆) … QRT something new fans should know about your fave Johnny’s group(s) and/or fandom✨

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Just pure NONSENSE! "Semiotics" that doesn't engage with the corporate marketing; lyrical analysis relying purely on fan translations; access journalism done without question. Very little engagement with the musical content, the music history in context, or anything of substance

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I was discussing this with some other old time fans and it used to be the pipeline ran from J-Pop to K-Pop. Johnny's fans -> SHINee or AKB48 -> Girls Generation. As "K-Pop" stagnates artistically, the flow has reversed.

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A friend passed this along. I just find it so fascinating that Seo Taiji and Boys has been retroactively canonized as the "first Kpop group" when the truth is a lot more complicated.

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Brooke Fu*KTheNRA🟧🟦🇺🇸🇰🇷BLM 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

@SHM_Colorado

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PSA: Kpoppies, especially moots, the "right person/group, wrong place 🇰🇷" trend is not a flex. Y'all sound racist AF. If Korea offends you that much, well... Your faves are Korean/Asian and will be until they leave this earth. You, however, are free to leave Kpop.

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Incredible bit of hagiography to release in the middle of the meltdown happening at home 🤪

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'Hitman' Bang, the Powerhouse Behind BTS, on His Expanding Music Empire, HYBE, and His Shift into Gaming

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"Something that had never been tried before... Hip Hop Idols." Looking back at the early era of #BigBang you can really see the seeds of that later boom of hip hop idols to follow. Paving the way, if you will...

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And we're live! Part 2 of my #BIGBANG M.A.D.E. series is up, covering 2006-2008.

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Sorry, I'm still laughing about "no sex and drugs in our rap, please, we're K-Pop fans" 😂😂😂

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🧐😑😑😑 This book won't help you understand what K-Pop is and how it works but it will help you understand the narrative being promoted around a certain group. So I guess that's maybe helpful to "parents perplexed by army offspring."

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This has been obvious for a while. Things that would have been covered as scandals in other idols/companies are ignored or whitewashed...

pannatic

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K-Netz Uncover Dispatch's Bias Towards HYBE Amidst HYBE-ADOR Controversy #Dispatch #HYBE #ADOR #디스패치 #하이브 #아도어

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NewJeans' performance directors finally speak up against Hybe stealing their work for ILLIT after finding out that their latest choreography for NewJeans' McDonalds ad was allegedly stolen

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We still see their influence trickling down in art design, sound, even group composition. In many of the ways that count, BigBang defined and continues to define Kpop.

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Hybe unleashing that sweet, sweet vulture capitalism on the industry... the enshittification will continue until morale improves. I've said it before but the Weverse suite of sales and fan management tools is Hybe's main product. The "music" is just a loss leader.

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OP talks about missing KPOP when Hybe didn't exist

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The Dark Side of Kpop narrative is played out so we move to the Dark Side of Jpop... the charges against Kitagawa have been in the English press for over 20 years: Kitagawa won an initial libel case but it was overturned by a higher court.

James Hadfield

@JamesHadfield

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Bring it oooooon.

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New post!

Writing BigBang back into the K-Pop Narrative — The Idol Cast and other writings

I was talking with Monia from Exiled Fan yesterday about the changing narratives surrounding the Beatles over the decades. I’ve watched the narrative turn from primarily an artistic one—in which...

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A little translation just for fun: V6's Inohara on the differences between Korean and Japanese idols, written in 2002, the year of the jointly held World Cup.

“The Way of the Idol” by Inohara Yoshihiko, Chapter 2 (2002) — The Idol Cast and other writings

This piece is taken from a collection of essays by Inhoara Yoshihiko titled, アイドル武者修行 ( Idol Mushsha-Shugyo), which translates to something like The Way of the Idol, deliberately echoing a martial...

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Pre-debut #BigBang

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@mastermistres14 Stans need to understand that Hybe's priority is IP and tech, not music.

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A lot of imitators are out there right now but there's only one T.O.P.

탑(TOP) - 둠다다(DOOM DADA) at 2013 MAMA

탑(TOP) - 둠다다(DOOM DADA) 2013 MAMA[2013 Mnet Asian Music Awards]2013.11.22 at AsiaWorld-Expo, ArenaWanna know more about your favorite K-pop artist?- Follow u...

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You can only treat your fan base as ATMs for so long...

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Absolutely incredible!! I cannot believe I'm seeing Johnny's & Associates on American TV! Let's go to Hollywood!!!! #TravisJapan

America’s Got Talent

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Travis Japan brought the #AGT trifecta: personality, talent, and lotsa glitter!

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TFW it's 2008 and you're K-Pop's no. 1 noona-slayer.

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😂😂😂 Oh do "we all know" that?? The refusal of "academic" super-fans to understand the group in the context of K-Pop is fascinating. It means everything the group does is exceptional because their fans don't acknowledge what has been done by the rest of the industry.

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@idolcast

2 years

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@idolcast

8 months

@ArcticEllie Lollll! I'm sure he is salty about that. They threw EVERYTHING at trying to get that exemption.

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@idolcast

7 months

Very excited about this new episode series I'm working on. Coming at some point in the nearish future... a look at BigBang and the song series I consider the artistic high point of K-Pop: MADE.

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@idolcast

3 months

100% and it doesn't help that the stan narrative of great artists doing "music for healing" exists parallel to the reality we all hear in those encore stages.

Ciera 씨에라 ⭐

@cierabyul

3 months

this is probably year 6 of discussion about hybe's lack of vocal training. its clearly not a priority if their artists are gonna get support in spite of that. however, when they put them on big stages, of course they're leaving artists open to criticism on their exposed faults.

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@idolcast

1 year

Legend Saijo Hideki sang the opening song to the Japanese version of Emperor's New Groove 🤩🤩

Azumoff

@Azumoff_lchabod

1 year

ディズニーオタクしか知らないトリビア『西城秀樹がディズニーソングを歌ったことがある』

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@idolcast

1 year

So much from this era has been erased or written out of the "K-Pop narrative" as inconvenient. Histories today jump right from Seo Taiji to the mid-2010s.

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@idolcast

3 years

It really is incredible how a group that hasn’t released any music in 5 years still dominates Kpop discourse.

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@idolcast

8 months

Time to bring this back on the impermanance of K-Pop.

OneHallyu

@OneHallyu

8 months

OneHallyu Will Be Closing at the End of 2023

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@idolcast

5 months

YES!!!!! It really doesn't help that every article written past 2018 pretends the years from 2006-2018 do not exist. "... and then a rap position happened by magic mysteriously"

thatkpopauntie

@thatkpopauntie

5 months

@idolcast Looking forward to this series. My sisters introduced me to BB back in 2008/2009 and to say they were THE tastemakers and epicenter of K-pop's rise and relevancy is an understatement. The MADE album release was a cultural shift that I wish newer kpop fans could grasp.

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@idolcast

8 months

In the last episode we talked about K-Pop's Larry Stylinson moment... perhaps it's coming sooner than we expected. Holland was absolutely right. Shipping can be fun but don't take it into the real world. And FFS don't harass idols with it.

Koreaboo

@Koreaboo

8 months

HOLLAND Apologizes For Now-Deleted Statement About Shipping Male K-Pop Idols

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@idolcast

1 year

Just recorded a fun episode on the Johnny's documentary, J-idol fandom, and how the media often gets it wrong. Do I use this as an excuse to bring up that 2014 Japan Times article about how Sexy Zone should do drugs? Yes. Yes, I do.

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@idolcast

3 years

Blow Up Hideki was ground breaking. Really worth a watch if you can find it.

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@idolcast

27 days

I've been pointing to this company's pivot away from music/talent and towards platforms for YEARS. Glad to see everyone else catching up.

The Korea Herald 코리아헤럴드

@TheKoreaHerald

27 days

Binary Korea, a subsidiary of K-pop powerhouse Hybe, will officially launch the country’s first creator fandom platform, “Theus,” on June 22, the company said Monday.

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@idolcast

5 months

I got hounded for saying exactly this last year but it's true. A decade ago, K-Pop was positioned as an innovator but that reputation has vanished. Which both is and isn't fair. Some companies (and artists) lean far harder into the emulation...

arctic minkey 🗝️🔮✨

@arcticminkey

5 months

instead of positioning themselves as the new innovative pop player in the game, kpop companies have decided to emulate what already saturates the western markets. it’s baffling.

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@idolcast

1 year

This has nothing to do with music or idols. The way H*be has moved over the last few years has been about trying to consolidate all of "Kpop" onto a single proprietary app: W*verse. They don't care what you consume as long as you do it on W*verse.

Kpop Charts

@kchartsmaster

1 year

According to media outlets, Min Hee Jin and Bang Si Hyuk are being appointed as potential new directors for SM Entertainment.

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@idolcast

5 months

The number of people who care about presenting an accurate history of K-Pop in English is so vanishingly small that it makes sense that 90% of what’s on offer is stan lore and aggressive PR. But it doesn’t make it less frustrating for the 10% of us who want to actually understand

The Idolcast Podcast

@idolcast

5 months

New post!

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@idolcast

8 months

👇👇👇 This is something I've talked a lot about re: K-Pop "Journalism," most of which is either access journalism/copy-paste press release stuff or stan journalism.

Ben Goggin

@BenjaminGoggin

8 months

The rise of the stan journalist who always gives glowing reviews of the artists they love is one of the best encapsulations of how social media has poisoned parts of the media. To score points with their favs stan writers give positive coverage the stars they're obsessed with.

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@idolcast

1 year

I'm sorry this documentary is extremely irresponsible and just poor journalism. The victims deserve so much better.

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@idolcast

6 months

When BigBang debuted in 2006 they were called the "Super Rookies" and had a deal lined up with Tony Ahn's Schoolooks uniform company before their first single had even dropped! The excitement was real. Thousands of fans showed up for fan events. "Tempo" and "Taekwon"

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@idolcast

9 months

The framing of that Time article is interesting because it's feels like apparently there is only narrative in the K-Pop media for boy groups and it's been this one since like 2010:

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@idolcast

5 months

This is the first in a series of episodes looking at the musical evolution of #BigBang and you know I had to start at the very beginning... with G-Dragon and Taekwon.

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@idolcast

2 months

The BBC has nothing better to do than trawl Asian entertainment for scandals to exploit?

Kpop Charts

@kchartsmaster

2 months

BBC releases documentary of the Burning Sun scandal, with exlcusive pictures and chat groups recording.

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@idolcast

8 months

Pleasantly surprised at the positive response to this! Thank you for reading! 🎶

The Idolcast Podcast

@idolcast

8 months

New post on "K-Pop" minus the "K"

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3 months

This is the problem with the "-Pop" suffix. K-Pop IS the export idol industry by design. "J-Pop" is 邦楽 of which the idol industry is only a part. The market for a "J-Pop news site" covering everything from King Gnu to Starto to the live house scene is vanishingly small.

Patrick St. Michel

@mbmelodies

3 months

problem with creating a "J-pop news site" is that the industry's reality (and strength) lies in how all over the place it is, making it hard for any coherent focus to emerge. K-pop, meanwhile, is presented as all idols, making it easier to specialize

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