Fourteen years into their career, it’s amazing how immensely popular DAY6 have become. Their 2019 title track Time Of Our Life has (rightfully) become a sleeper hit on the charts, while newest single Welcome To The Show has also experienced a boomerang over the past… Read More »Song Review: DAY6 – Melt Down
With mega-hit songs like aespa’s Supernova and TWS’s Plot Twist sucking up the oxygen for female and male idol groups this year, we can’t forget to mention the incredible fortunes of QWER’s latest single TBH. Hailing from a little-known subsidiary, this all-female rock group has… Read More »Song Review: QWER – Fake Idol
Loossemble have carved out a niche for themselves within the extended post-LOONA universe. Thus far, their music has delivered a blend of slick and trendy, never reinventing the wheel but always making it stylish and cool. New single TTYL fits very strongly as part of… Read More »Song Review: Loossemble – TTYL
No K-pop group has grown on me more in 2024 than BOYNEXTDOOR. How’s that for a triple-rhyming statement? Seriously, though… when they debuted last year I wasn’t sure what to make of them, but with each comeback my interest and appreciation grew until I retroactively… Read More »Song Review: BOYNEXTDOOR – Dangerous
In connection with my desire to fully keep up with the J-pop industry, I’m planning to do a weekly round-up of any new releases that have caught my ear. Some of these may have been covered on the blog already, but my hope is that… Read More »New & Noteworthy J-pop of the Week (September 1, 2024)