aespa - Girls A mammoth SMP-style throwback from one of Korea's biggest and most popular groups, Girls reaches back to the SM sounds of old to create one of the years most magnetic singles. Endlessly creative and consistently thrilling, Girls stands as the groups most vocally exciting and instrumentally bombastic track yet, harnessing their many … Continue reading 2022 K-pop Roundup (July – August)
While I predominantly cover singles on here, I’ve always been an avid consumer of albums. More often than not, this results in some songs that I adore but others that I detest. As a remedy to this issue, we have Beast Sides! These songs put the Beast in B-side and are either stronger than their … Continue reading Beast Sides: BLACKPINK (Rosé) – Hard to Love
While K-pop dominated most of my artistic consumption for the past few years, this years overall lack of real standouts has really led me to expand my horizons. And while this is primarily a K-pop focused blog (as the name suggests), sometimes I just love to talk about things that interest me. So, I thought … Continue reading Arpydarpy’s 2022 favourites (Mid-Year)
Yes. This is really happening. BLACKPINK have often been the butt of many jokes on this blog. And while I have given the group a number of scathing reviews since 2020's How You Like That, It should be said that I do (or at least did) have a lot of love for this group. Despite … Continue reading Top 10 Best Songs By BLACKPINK
Well. It's been kind of rough hasn't it. To put it simply, 2022's been kind of a bore for the K-pop landscape. Don't get me wrong, I've like a lot of stuff but few have felt as essential or as iconic as anything released within the past few years. I've mentioned it a lot before … Continue reading Best Kpop Songs of 2022: Mid-Year edition
As someone who loves K-pop and has literally spent the last 2 years writing about it, I've been quite bored with the current slate of releases that 2022 has given us. Sure there have been some highlights and the average quality of tracks hasn't been the worse, an entire sense of mundanity has fallen over … Continue reading Arpydarpy’s 2022 Pop Highlights (Q1)
Although I’ll primarily be reviewing singles, there are some albums that are too influential, notable or strong to not cover. In this segment, I will be spotlighting those albums and giving my thoughts on each and every track. As my current favourite boy group, I approach every TXT release with a sense of optimism and curiosity. … Continue reading Album Review: TXT – minisode 2: Thursday’s Child
As someone who loves to keep records, I thought it would be fun to have a running tally of my most listened to artists and songs on a week by week basis. Each of these posts will likely go up every Sunday or Monday depending on when I get the time and yes, i will … Continue reading Kbopped’s Weekly Stats (vol. 3)
As with many groups within the Johnny's umbrella that unabashedly love, I couldn't really write much about Kis-My-Ft2 due their music being basically inaccessible for many. Something that has recently been undone due to most of their videography being added to Youtube. A move that has made this particular fan, and I assume many many … Continue reading Top 15 Best Songs By Kis-My-Ft2
As someone who loves to keep records, I thought it would be fun to have a running tally of my most listened to artists and songs on a week by week basis. Each of these posts will likely go up every Sunday or Monday depending on when I get the time and yes, i will … Continue reading Kbopped’s Weekly Stats (vol. 2)
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