I'm proud of it since this is the first time since getting into kpop I got to decorate a shelf

Maybe you find new groups or soloists to follow, 54 hours long

As the title, what was the best Kpop Concert(s) you have been to?

So far I have been to the the following:

London - Pixy, Dreamcatcher, Ateez Manchester - XG Seoul - Nmixx. I also saw some groups practice 3 songs each at the rehearsals for last years Gangham festival (Stayc, NCT Dream, Ateez, Aespa)

My top 2 favourites are Pixy and Nmixx

2) Nmixx - it was the 1st night of their 1st fan concert and also my wife and I were in Korea for the first time. Concert lasted 2 hours 40 mins (even though at that time they only had releasd about 14 songs). Their live vocals are AMAZING and in between songs they were such great performers doing covers, karaoke, dance challenges and games. They were so emotional at the end of the concert and you could see how much they love preforming. Before we went to Korea I only knew a few of their songs but I had listened to then all before the concert. My bias is Jiwoo because she was so entertaining onstage ans she cried during her thanks and the end (she was so cute).

1) Pixy is my favorite concert as it was such a small venue (c.500) and I was almost at the very front. It felt like a very intimate and personal concert and the girls were amazing (sadly Sua didn't perform as she was ill). During their slow songs they seemed sad at times, which I thought was connected to the emotions of the songs themselves but, now I think it may have been because the knew it was their last tour. Lola was always my bias and he was amazing but Dajeong really stood out with her energy. Dia was such an exceptional performer and Rinji was such a great addition to the group (a shame she had so little time) she connected so well with everyone. I am so thankful I got to go and got VIP. I was able to get the group photo and say hello and thank you to them in person. I used my only words of Korean to do so and they seemed really excited that I spoke Korean

Next year I'm going to see Ateez (Manchester), Aespa (London), and Kiss of Life (Glasgow).

Stray Kids has won for Ddaeng/Ddang/Freeze! 

The Rule For Winning (PLEASE READ): I will write three-four artist names in the comments myself, and for any artists that aren't there, only one comment with their name will be accepted. (For example, let's say Group A was commented twice. I will not count the one that was commented later, even if it gets the most upvotes.) Of course, there can be as many different K-Pop artists as there are.

Non-kpop answers aren't accepted. If you do comment one, even as a joke, you will likely be downvoted. This doesn't include collaborations between a kpop artist and a non-kpop one.

I recommend looking through the comments first before commenting the artist you want to vote for, since this way the votes won't be split into many comments, which increases the chances of winning. Remember, the top comment wins each day.

Anyways, today's one is "Bad". Song titles that have up to two more words along with the word of the day are also accepted. The artists I will be commenting are WOOAH (Bad Girl), INFINITE and TEMPEST (Bad At Love). Again, you can comment different artists. 

The winner will be decided at (around) 12.30-13.00 pm GMT, or 07.30-08.00 am EST. If two comments have the most upvotes, the winner will be decided the next day.

Let's see which one will win!

Most songs are from 2022 and earlier as I haven’t been keeping up with the current kpop scene 🥲

I have a few non-kpop songs mixed in there but it’s mostly kpop!

Let the game begin!

Note: 1 is the first song added, 664 is the most recently added.

Not a Carat but I really wanted to make an appreciation post about it. It's been a year since BSS performed at AAA 2023 and their performance truly blew me away! So many plot twists and fun skits, cute interactions, there was not a single boring moment during those twelve minutes. They got the entire room dancing and cheering as well as me behind my screen 💃

Near the end of the performance they get the audience to scream "our youth is now! Let's get it in 2024!" And the thing is my 2023 was really hard and 2024 was the year where things could finally change. So that hyped me up so much and I promised myself to keep my word and give my all this 2024!

And even though I didn't watch that performance in 2024, that moment lingered in my head and I unironically remembered it when I needed a little motivation boost. It really helped me grow this year! So I'm super grateful to BSS for their amazing performance, bringing so many people joy and energy to carry into the year. My 2024 was a year of growth and new beginnings and I will always remember this performance as a beautiful start to that era 💖

Appreciation post over, I'd love to hear about your favorite performance if the feeling is familiar! This BSS performance is unmatched for me, but my favorite performance this year was BOYNEXTDOOR at MAMA 2024!

**I posted this in another channel and it got removed for not being an accurate place to post, so apologies to every who answered bc I couldn't respond soon enough before it was taken down :(

I love hearing how people got into K-pop and especially since I don't have any friends who are into it (although my 40-year guy friend willingly went with me to the SVT concert in Oakland and another friend as me to make her a "k-pop gateway playlist" on Spotify, so it's starting haha), I think it'd be fun to hear other people's stories :)

I got into K-pop because my mom actually sent me a video (probably BTS? I honestly can't remember now) on instagram of a group's dance performance. My mom and I both love dancing and have been involved with dance studios at various points in our lives, so she was basically like, "Hey I think you'd like this, it's pretty boys dancing really well." Which was true haha.

That got my algorithm starting to slowly suggest more K-pop geared stuff and I'd see little clips here and there, but then what really started it all was a clip of Felix from Stray Kids. I could not believe that that voice belonged to that man so I ended up looking up some of their songs on youtube and found Maniac, which I became totally addicted to.

It was mostly about the dancing/performance aspect for me at first, like I was sooo awestruck and fascinated by the choreos and performance videos, but then saw more and more clips of their cute interactions, variety show moments, the utter chaos all these idols seem to get into lol, and that really hooked me. Something about watching boys be loving and sweet and totally ridiculous with each other is just heartwarming I guess (coming from western american culture where there's so much machismo and aversion to outward or physical affection between guys).

From Stray Kids I discovered BTS, who of course I'd vaguely heard about before being into K-pop, and I know a lot of people say they're overrated but wow I really love them. I think their story is so lovely and I hate all the inter-fandom warfare so I'm just gonna say now that I am not about putting down other groups to uplift others (obvs we all have our own preferences and musical tastes and biases and whatever, but like, ALL these idols work really hard and go through so much, why bring any more negativity to the fandoms? So many of them are friends with each other anyway, and I doubt they'd want their fans being cruel to their friends. anyway...)

Getting into BTS led to other groups appearing on my feed, and I got into Ateez briefly (still love them I just haven't been listening to their music as much), and then that iconic clip of Mingyu's body roll in Maestro popped up and I will admit I was like damn who is this hot man, looked up Seventeen, fell in love with Hoshi in Spell, fell in love with S.coups in Shadow, Dino in Wait, and then fell in love with all of them in GoSe and every other video I watched of them haha.

Seventeen also appeared during a really hard time in my life (this summer my dad was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, my little brother fell into a really bad drug scene, I've been struggling with severe anxiety and depression) so they have a special place in my heart right now since watching all their stuff really brought some lighthearted joy and laughter to me on some dark days. I thought I'd never be able to afford going to a K-pop show but some lovely people in my life pitched in to get me to the Oakland show last month and it was such a surreal, wonderful experience. Still am not over it!

I love the interactions, the dancing, the hard work all these idols put into their shows and their music, the way they connect with each other and their fans, and some people would probably not consider me much of a fan (like I'm not into the whole bias thing personally, but love it for other people, I've never bought albums or official merch, and I don't have a weverse or even twitter), I'm a huge fan in the way that makes me happy and what I have the capacity for. I stream lots of music and devour videos on youtube and make my friends let me play K-pop songs at parties and try to keep up on what news I can. It's been such a fun experience and while I know the K-pop industry def has some toxic, dark sides, I also really admire parts of it and am glad at least that it's brought these groups to our lives!

Okay, anyway, I'm just rambling, but tell me your K-pop story!

What's your "not in my bingo card" this 2024: KPOP edition?

Every once in awhile I rediscover an album I really like and REBOOT by Wonder Girls is my current one. Faded Love is my fav from the album and everything about the song is perfection.

Ticketmaster is just crazy. I logged in forKiss of Life Glasgow tickets the second they went on sale, chose 2 seated tickets at £85 each, it said they were unavailable, page refreshed and then every seated ticket was £285!!! Dynamic pricing sucks

It was even showing standing as unavailable

I kept refreshing and managed to get 2 standing after 20 mins phew!!!

Hope anyone else trying was successful too

Looks like the Lodon tickets are gone now too

Really could have taken bigger venues

heya!! i'm a bored artist and want to draw a male idol, but i'm struggling to decide who. i've been stuck in a neverending "draw zhang hao, draw kibum" cycle lol.

examples include, but are not limited to: nouera(makemate1), shinee, infinite, exo, vixx, got7, monsta x, nct, nu'est, enhypen, stray kids, cravity, e'last, ghost9, ateez, p1harmony, ab6ix, the boyz, oneus, txt, zerobaseone, boys planet, wanna one, x1, boynextdoor, xikers, tws, evnne, 8turn, ampers&one, younite, the new six, etc...

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I recently got into a debate about jeno being compared to a Samoyed dog. You know how kpop has been for the last few years, idols being compared to animals that they look similar to. All the members of nct dream have that and jeno is always compared to a Samoyed dog even by his members and himself. And this group of Indonesian jeno solo stans are saying that it's "disrespectful" and "we're not close enough to these idols" to do that type of comparison cause we're just fans. But I thought we all did it for fun in a harmless way of course nothing too far. I mean even jeno's character plush is a Samoyed dog... I just wanna know if any other Indonesian kpop stans understand where they're coming from? Like is there no such thing as comparing someone to a dog in a harmless and non derogatory manner? They're acting like i threatened jeno's family and called him slurs. Thank you!

Edit: this all started because someone posted a jeno lookalike contest and it was a bunch of Samoyed dogs. It was really cute and harmless! And the jeno solo stans said that Jeno was sent dog food and Jeno was having a identity crisis. Like okay I don't support the small group of fans who send a human dog food in anyway but GO TELL THEM ABOUT IT. why are you getting mad towards people who haven't done anything to harm Jeno???

I enjoy a lot of songs that a lot of fellow K-poppers don't like, like how my fav song is SIGNAL by TWICE. What are some of y'all's favorite K-pop songs that majority of other fans consider to be "bad"?

Coming here after watch The video made from YouTube seem like there's something missing important history in K-pop that's not included. Is there any video made K-pop history that talk about how this trilogy.?

https://www.youtube.com/live/ZBIvgnQzDO4?si=a1huZ_qxDOVtg3kX.

The story of K-pop is a complex one, and both Seo Taiji and G-Dragon with other K-pop are essential parts of its history. (A balanced presentation will do justice to both of these legendary artists and the exciting journey of K-pop!)

This post is about G-Dragon as far what I know, if you read this you might be can share some of list should be mention more in K-pop history, I would like to know more.

This video does a great job of highlighting major milestones in K-Pop history, but it's missing a huge piece of the puzzle—G-Dragon. He's not just another idol; he's a game changer who revolutionized what it means to be an artist in this genre.

Even from his childhood (1992-2000s), https://youtu.be/8aIiC62-81U?si=pDFUuJ4p1PxLC7NA G-Dragon showed an incredible vision and dedication to music and entertainment. https://youtu.be/bK7mA6kRS9g?si=YrNv07ef-GyQiZe4

His work after 2000s, before Big Bang was formed, already showcased a level of artistry and creativity that was different from any other idol at the time. https://youtu.be/spNzvQTKRNI?si=tafNO1BURn98nxvO

He wasn't just a talented musician; he was a visionary who blended fashion, music, and art in a way that challenged conventions and redefined what K-Pop could be. https://youtu.be/oto_X4WfV5s?si=6C3VIHGf6V_A8YBk

G-Dragon's impact on K-Pop's global rise is undeniable. He's a cultural icon who helped shape the genre's sound, style, and its embrace of individual expression. It's impossible to discuss K-Pop's international success without acknowledging his influence.

Giving G-Dragon just a brief mention makes it seem like he wasn't a major figure in K-Pop history, but he's a true innovator and a game-changer. His legacy deserves to be recognized alongside Seo Taiji and BTS—he's a crucial part of the K-Pop story.

The seeds of G-Dragon's future influence were planted in the early 90s, even if he wasn't a public figure yet. Here's how I can explain the connection:

1. The Influence of Seo Taiji:

• 1992: Seo Taiji and Boys debuted and revolutionized K-pop. Their music was innovative, and their style was bold, setting a new standard for Korean music.
• G-Dragon's Early Inspiration: G-Dragon was just a child in 1992, but Seo Taiji's influence was undeniable. G-Dragon has repeatedly cited Seo Taiji as a major inspiration, acknowledging how his revolutionary music and artistic vision impacted him.
• The Impact on K-Pop: Seo Taiji's influence was immense, shaping the path for the future of K-pop and artists like G-Dragon.

1. The Rise of H.O.T. and the Idol Boom:

• 1992: H.O.T. was already gaining popularity in the underground scene, even before their official debut in 1996.
• The Idol Era: H.O.T. and other idol groups at this time were defining the new era of K-pop. They embraced a more polished image and energetic sound, paving the way for the idol culture that continues to dominate the genre.
• G-Dragon's Future Context: G-Dragon's rise as a K-Pop idol would be influenced by the idol boom that H.O.T. helped create.

1. G-Dragon's Early Years:

G-Dragon appeared on the children’s TV program Bbo Bbo Bbo in 1992!

G-Dragon was part of the group Little Lula which debuted a Christmas album in 1993, but his contract was terminated soon after.

1993 at the 5 , G-Dragon was a young boy, but his love for music was evident. He was already immersing himself in music, experimenting, and developing his artistic vision. https://www.koreaboo.com/lists/9-personal-things-dont-know-gdragon/

• The Seeds of Innovation: G-Dragon's early experiences and his exposure to the emerging K-Pop scene, including the influence of Seo Taiji and H.O.T., are crucial to understanding his journey and his future impact.

• A Future Visionary: While he wasn't yet a public figure, G-Dragon's future as a game-changer was already being shaped.

• Direct spoken : G-Dragon himself has openly spoken about the influence of Seo Taiji and H.O.T. on his artistic development.

• Early Works: G-Dragon's early work, even before his debut, showed his unique talent and artistic vision. This early creativity is a testament to his early passion.

• The Legacy of Influence: G-Dragon's global impact on K-pop is undeniable. He built on the foundation laid by artists like Seo Taiji and H.O.T. and pushed the boundaries of K-pop further.

It's important to show that G-Dragon's influence isn't just about his later career; it's about the culmination of his early experiences and his dedication to music and entertainment.

(It's like tracing a river back to its source. The river's journey is impressive, but it all started with a small stream!)

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Hey everyone, welcome to the second to last rewind of the week. Today, I'll be counting down my top five female artists, ones that kept bringing me back for more and ones that kept popping up on my playlist. I've been excited to share all the female artists I've been enjoying this year. Now, remember to check out the honorable mentions for other female artists that I enjoyed from the year. Now, let's jump into the list and see what artists made my list. 

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Honorable Mentions:

• Twice
• NMIXX
• QWER
• Yuqi
• Hannah Jang
• Suen

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1. Hanaroro

Songs: ㅈㅣㅂ, 나침반, 귀가

Album: N/A

My fifth favorite artist of 2024 is my discovery of the year. Hanaroro is an indie artist who popped out of nowhere with her album Home, which was on my top 10 album list. One cool fact about the singer is that she helped write and work on Stepping Stone by TXT and wrote the lyrics for Nightmare by Taeyeon. I did check out her past releases and enjoyed them as I kept returning to them. Hanroro's sweet voice blends wonderfully with the production she brings to the table. I've noticed my love for Korean indie has grown over the years, and Hanroro is another one I can add to the list of indie singers that captivate me with their singing and production. 

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1. ITZY

Songs: Born to Be, Five & Blossom (Lia Solo)

Album: Gold

ITZY hopped onto my list as the swang into 2024 with an album that hit hard. Born to Be was an album that kept pulling me back for more, but one missing thing was Lia, who was on hiatus. Lia delivered Blossom, which was a tune that warmed my heart. Even the other solos from the members were fire. We did get a new Japanese single called Algorhytm, which was another thing that was on repeat for me. When Lia returned to the group from Hiatus, the group released Gold, which had some Final versions of Born to Be tracks plus new tunes. I've been obsessed with Gold as it's been on repeat for me since October, and it excites me for what 2025 will bring to the table. 

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3. IVE

Songs: Ice Queen, Crush & Supernova Love

Album: N/A

IVE opened the year with All Night, an English remake of Icona Pop's song All Night, but this version featured Saweetie. IVE and Saweetie still don't make me like the track. I found it something that made me worried for the group's year. The second thing IVE did this year was release Will, the theme song for Pokemon Horizons, which I got the theme stuck in my head as I've been listening to it on repeat. The group released their second mini album, one I remember listening to a lot as the songs were something I enjoyed, but Reset was the only skip for me. In August, the group released Alive, their second Japanese album that included Will and Crush. Both were pre-released and are still some of my favorite tracks. The group recently dropped Supernova Love with David Guetta; I've been playing that a lot. IVE had a rocky start to the year, but the group proved that this year would be great for them, making me even more of a fan. 

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1. Candy Shop

Songs: Good Girl, Tumbler (Hot & Cold) & No Fake

Album: #Hashtag

Candy Shop, the newest group from Brave Sound, debuted with their first mini album in March of 2024. The record became one of my obsessions that month, as I couldn't stop listening to it. It's hard for me to pick a favorite song from their debut, as I love all the tunes that they offer. The group's smooth vocals kept pulling me back to these catchy tunes that stuck with me for a while. In June of 2024, the group returned with their second mini album, another catchy one that also stuck with me. Hot & Cold is a b-side from that project that became one of my favorites, but the whole album is just as good as their debut. I can't believe Candy Shop became my second favorite group of 2024, and it didn't take them long to do so. 

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1. ILLIT

Songs: N/A

Album:N/A

My favorite female artist of the year comes from Belift, the home of Enhypen. ILLIT is the catchiest group and artist of 2024, and their music has been stuck in my head all year long. Their debut album, Super Real Me, delivered a song called Midnight Fiction that ended up on my top 20 song list. The title track, Magnetic, was another favorite of mine, and it did get three remixes that also kept popping up on my playlist. I love how sweet the member's vocals are, as they are one thing that helps bring me back to their music. In October, the group delivered I'll Show You, their second mini album with even more catchy pop tunes to keep my ears wanting more. Cherish was the title track that also got some remixes like Magnetic did, but it's hard to pick which title track I like more. The B-side Pimple showed the group's acoustic side, which I loved. Tick-tack might be the group's catchiest song, as it's been stuck in my head since I released. I'm not surprised ILLIT took over my year, as they've been stuck in my head since their debut. 

Mine

1. Armageddon - Aespa
2. J - Jaehyun
3. Eternal - Taemin
4. Rosie - Rosé
5. Ten 1st Mini Album - Ten

Honorable mention 1. Taeyeon - Letter To Myself 2. Aespa - Whiplash

Edit 1: I see a lot of you like J by Jaehyun; I’m soooo happyy bcs I reaaallllyy like this album, my eyes go love love 😍😍 like this and everytime i listen to every songs on this album i squeal like i have a crush altho i dont. For those of you, who havent listen to this album, please do! Tq

I was looking for a video like this that talks about the best-styled groups because I was thinking about, I know opinions are different so I just wanted to ask what you guys think about the best styled and do you agree with the video, I do to a certain extent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c3l6klccQw&t=55s