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1.4: More K-Pop with Rob Cunningham

1.4: More K-Pop with Rob Cunningham

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 Show Notes Ep 4: More K-Pop with Rob Cunningham How does an experimental music aficionado become a K-pop fan? Always on the search for mind-blowing sound (see part one of his story in Epiosde 3), Rob reoriented to fun and living in the present during the pandemic. This led him to K-pop and its spectacular, dramatic audiovisual abundance. We talk about K-pop’s relationship to 80s music, Rob's favorite bands, originality, whiteness, politics, and joy as a compass. You can find playlists and reviews at his blog: https://theaquamarinelayer.blogspot.com/ Or on mastadon at: @toblaveistobluff@kind.social -- 1:54 Pandemic reset 5:10 Intro to K-pop via homeschool conference 9:53 Twice 19:48 Diving into the deep end 24:05 Connection to past music genres 28:34 Functional versus spectacle aesthetics 33:26 Girls Generation “The Boys” as a quantum leap 38:32 Fandoms and politics 47:54 K-Pop Dreaming podcast 53:32 Joy as a compass -- Key links K-pop homeschool: https://www.instagram.com/kpophomeschool/ Twice “Jelly Jelly”: https://youtu.be/WuLQ5iV3Q64 Dreamcatcher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QD0FeZyDtQ Red Velvet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBnGBb1wg98 Girls Generation “I got a boy”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq7ftOZBy0E About “I got a boy”: https://web.archive.org/web/20230120020946/https://www.mtv.com/news/nol58l/girls-generation-i-got-a-boy-new-retro K-Pop Dreaming Podcast: https://laist.com/podcasts/california-love Maid: https://www.netflix.com/title/81166770 -- More links Homeschool conference: https://www.hsc.org/ YP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JYP_Entertainment Itzy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zndvqTc4P9I Black pink: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S24-y0Ij3Y Ministry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2MH5c2sTvc Guy Debord: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectacle_(critical_theory) Girls Generation “The Boys”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pA_Tou-DPI Exo “Mama”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH6ZwnqZ7Wo Loona https://youtu.be/zW-AIXAnLcE NewJeans https://youtu.be/js1CtxSY38I On BTS “Not Today”: https://muish.wordpress.com/2015/12/06/bts-baepsae-english-translation-ramblings/ Politics: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/22/arts/music/k-pop-fans-trump-politics.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4E8.mhXf.l7jYUvwCUm-q\&smid=url-share “Flawless”: https://www.npr.org/2023/05/22/1177477181/beauty-culture-in-south-korea-reveals-a-grim-future-in-flawless K-pop and feminism: https://web.archive.org/web/20211213160637/https://catapult.co/stories/dear-irene-im-still-learning-how-to-be-a-feminist-too-k-pop-fan-giaae-kwon
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