I ended up liking the MBC show the most because it was actually exciting to watch all the way through despite its lack of collaboration stages. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a huge sucker for collabs (hence why my favorite performance was the SHINee/f(x) collabo which was, in all honestly, kind of a dud), but [...]

Nothing quite like ringing in 2013 after spending two straight days following these MARATHON year-end music shows. After three years of following year-end gayos, I think it’s safe to say that my standards are set way too high for these shows. I mean, this is literally the one thing I look forward to in K-pop [...]

It’s always a good feeling whenever I put together one of these end-of-year posts and am met not only with a ridiculously long list of songs from this year that I loved, but also an even longer list of songs from this year that I didn’t get a chance to listen to. Even though my [...]

I had an unusually difficult time trying to figure out how to structure this list, and these difficulties mostly stemmed from the realization that I generally have a hard time picking favorites when it comes to K-pop. To be more specific, I don’t completely love everything and I don’t completely hate anything. But I guess [...]

Public service announcement: It looks like the whole “indulging-in-end-of-year-kpop-festivities-in-Taiwan” thing didn’t really work out, which partially explains the epic lateness of this post. Wi-fi was nearly inexistent where I was staying, and I just haven’t had a spare moment to write this post, aside from sporadically jotting down ideas while riding the subway. I’ll be [...]