This jazzy version of the dodree song is cool www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqvH...

Jazz편 dodree (도드리) X Oldie but Goodie (올디 벗 구디) "HAWWAH (夏渦)"

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Tamar Herman@tamarherman.com · yesterday

dodree are essentially answering the question of what a heavy-emphasis on the Koreanness of K-pop can look like when you base your identity around classical culture, traditional training, and blending them with modern performance sensibilities. Read the whole interview at NotesonKpop.com!

dodree are essentially answering the question of what a heavy-emphasis on the Koreanness of K-pop can look like when you base your identity around classical culture, traditional training, and blending them with modern performance sensibilities. Read the whole interview at NotesonKpop.com!

In Conversation: dodree on blending traditional arts with K-pop

The fusion of traditional Korean culture and popular culture via K-pop has been around for years, with acts like VIXX, BTS, Blackpink, Stray Kids, and Oneus incorporating elements and aesthetic of tra...

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Sometimes just sending it to a trusted group chat is enough.

Sometimes I wonder if I need to go back to Twitter for professional reasons, but god I really don't want to

dodree are essentially answering the question of what a heavy-emphasis on the Koreanness of K-pop can look like when you base your identity around classical culture, traditional training, and blending them with modern performance sensibilities. Read the whole interview at NotesonKpop.com!

In Conversation: dodree on blending traditional arts with K-pop

The fusion of traditional Korean culture and popular culture via K-pop has been around for years, with acts like VIXX, BTS, Blackpink, Stray Kids, and Oneus incorporating elements and aesthetic of tra...

notesonkpop.com

Hi! I'll be going to KCON! If you're in LA that week for it, I'd love to connect! If you're an editor looking for some K-pop coverage, please reach out.

It's so bad. Even jobs at places that once seemed "stable" aren't. And with editors being laid off and budgets being cut, there are less opportunities for freelancers to pitch, while it feels like even more people are trying to freelance because of lack of full-time jobs.

s. e. smith@sesmith.lol · last wk.

I am so tired of witnessing media layoffs and publications just throwing away amazing talent as this career becomes less and less sustainable and growing numbers of people are pushed out. All for shareholder profits.

BTS have announced they will not be submitting their music to the Grammy’s this year.

Tamar Herman@tamarherman.com · last mo.

I love a good award show, I value awards for what they tell us about art. But the backlash to the new Asian Pop category at the Grammy’s shows yet again how the American music and media establishment engages with art and audiences that increasingly don’t necessarily want or need it

Famously, we love books it’s very annoying.

Bjorning@bjorning.bsky.social · last wk.

Professionally, we're overrepresented in media and banking due to historical antisemitism (an external factor), but in science, medicine, and law due probably to internal cultural factors.

I think something interesting is going on with K-pop music production in 2026: we're seeing more cohesive albums than the past few years have given us, and I wonder if it's a shift away from using albums as nothing more than chart-seeking streaming-oriented packages notesonkpop.com/in-2026-k-po...

In 2026, K-pop is Revisiting The Album

It’s officially halfway through 2026, and I’m starting to think that this is K-pop’s Year of the Albums.  Every year, there are good releases. Usually, we as humanity focus on the singles. The songs ...

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I am always trying to explain to folks that most Americans have never met a Jew and people do not believe me and I just need you to understand that the perception that we are a powerful group in this country is intentionally created by antisemites and you’re unknowingly buying in.

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · last wk.

This actually explains something about how people talk about the Jewish community.

Idk if it’s just me but it really rubs me the wrong way when I read something written by anyone who only cites men writing about BTS as if non-men journalists and critics do not have any validity as sources when discussing one of this generation’s biggest pop acts.

CRJ makes music that feels like finally getting on the ferris wheel with your summer crush and having your first kiss while fireworks go off.

Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq.@clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · last wk.

Literally every time Cut To The Feeling comes on I am baffled that it wasn’t a massive, Call Me Maybe-esque hit

Has anyone done the yearlong cuny writers’ institute program? Very curious about it

Hmm

Gov’t hopes integrated K-pop awards show will become global 'Fanomenon'

A Culture Ministry-backed 11-day event led by Korea’s four biggest agencies will debut in 2027, with awards honoring fandoms and a projected economic impact approaching 1 trillion won.

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I think something interesting is going on with K-pop music production in 2026: we're seeing more cohesive albums than the past few years have given us, and I wonder if it's a shift away from using albums as nothing more than chart-seeking streaming-oriented packages notesonkpop.com/in-2026-k-po...

In 2026, K-pop is Revisiting The Album

It’s officially halfway through 2026, and I’m starting to think that this is K-pop’s Year of the Albums.  Every year, there are good releases. Usually, we as humanity focus on the singles. The songs ...

notesonkpop.com

I had Shabbat lunch this week with a Miami Boys Choir guy & am now wondering again about why Yerushalayim keeps going viral, & it just occurred to me that it may be catchy because there are no sounds in it that are unnatural to English speakers, without any ח or צ in the key phrase

youtu.be/QmS7WuI9u40?... are you normal or are you crying at the idea of Galadriel and her husband finding each other amid the end of an age?

The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power - Season 3 Teaser | Prime Video

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IDK what it says about me that my life was easier when I was being paid minimum wage in a Hong Kong newsroom in the middle of a pandemic

Hollywood's rich and famous are complaining about critics again Are people who make TV and film aware that the job of critic barely exists anymore? Probably not! Perhaps the fact that anyone is still employed as a critic is the actual sticking point This week’s newsletter

I'm not mad. Please don't put in the newspaper that I got mad.

Hollywood's rich and famous are complaining about critics again.

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Tonight begins Tisha B'Av, the Jews' mourning the destruction of the First & Second Temples & more. So I'm looking at a now near-lost practice of Jews in Morocco, Kurdistan, Calcutta, the Caucasus, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Ethiopia, Eastern Europe & beyond: Specialized women lamenters / wailers:

"She can make stones cry."

The 2000-year history across the globe of Jewish women wailers

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I'm always interested in the artists others find the most irritating www.npr.org/2026/07/20/n...

How much should we care about a pop star's baggage?

Gracie Abrams, one of today's biggest new singer-songwriters, has polarized critics with her confessional writing and A-list upbringing. Why do people care so much that she is taking up space?

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There’s a novella in the Vorkosigan books about a planet of just men nearly dying out (due to their donor eggs running out) because they hate women so much they fled us all and everyday I feel like we’re getting closer to that reality

Jared Yates Sexton@jysexton.bsky.social · 3w ago

I'm going to become the Joker

Okay, what does everyone think is the best K-pop release of 2026 so far?

As a longtime fanfiction reader (and occasional fic writer), I am deeply concerned about the way AI is impacting fandom spaces. @fansplaining.bsky.social was the perfect place to explore this anxious curiosity in the context of the booming Heated Rivalry fandom.

Elizabeth Minkel@elizabethminkel.bsky.social · 4w ago

I've been looking at AI in fic spaces since these tools were released to the public, and it's not surprising that HR—huge numbers of new readers & writers in fandom, a promise of Manacled-like deals in the air—was where this melted down. @kaytiburt.bsky.social does a fantastic job reporting this:

Saw a meme of GenZ baffled by how pre-internet travel worked, and realized we’ve crossed an enshittification threshold where IRL services that once seemed outdated, like travel agents, now seem luxurious: “You meet with a human expert who plans out your whole trip with you” sounds incredible now tbh

Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · 4w ago

You guys are never gonna believe this, but going to a brick-and-mortar running store and getting sized by employees who know what they're doing and can recommend brands and models for you is a WAY better strategy than Googling "Nike running shoes" and buying whatever's on sale

The people of this generation who "made it" know that we are standing on the ruins of something that was on the verge of being vibrant and promising, and they're extremely correct to be bitter, even if that's annoying to the people who only know the ruins.

I've been seeing a few people who came into games writing/journalism like a decade after I did and they talk about my peers who've got some of the few jobs remaining as if they "made it" and I would like to be clear: virtually none of us made it, even (perhaps especially) the people who seemed to

Writers! As of today, we're officially open for pitches. 🎉 New Fansplaining has been live for two months: hopefully time for folks to see the ambition of the project, and the kinds of stuff we're hoping to publish in the future. Also...do you actually want to be edited? 😉 (I always do!)

Fansplaining@fansplaining.bsky.social · 4w ago

Fansplaining is officially open for pitches! 🥳 Please read our guide to get a sense of what we're looking for, and if you have any questions we haven't answered here, feel free to get in touch! info@fansplaining.com

Going to need someone to ask Vernon his thoughts on Cobra Starship, and hopefully that someone will be me if I ever place an interview again in my entire life