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K-Pop Demon Hunters and Song Recommendations: “What It Sounds Like”

| October 15, 2025

If you’ve watched the “K-Pop Demon Hunters” movie on Netflix recently, you might still have some of the songs from the movie stuck in your head. While the songs on the whole had a bit more English than the majority of K-pop songs do (though there are certainly K-pop artists who have done songs or […]

K-Pop Demon Hunters and Song Recommendations: “Your Idol”

| October 1, 2025

If you’ve watched the “K-Pop Demon Hunters” movie on Netflix recently, you might still have some of the songs from the movie stuck in your head. While the songs on the whole had a bit more English than the majority of K-pop songs do (though there are certainly K-pop artists who have done songs or […]

K-Pop Demon Hunters and Song Recommendations: “Free”

| September 17, 2025

If you’ve watched the “K-Pop Demon Hunters” movie on Netflix recently, you might still have some of the songs from the movie stuck in your head. While the songs on the whole had a bit more English than the majority of K-pop songs do (though there are certainly K-pop artists who have done songs or […]

K-Pop Demon Hunters and Song Recommendations: “Takedown”

| August 27, 2025

If you’ve watched the “K-Pop Demon Hunters” movie on Netflix recently, you might still have some of the songs from the movie stuck in your head. While the songs on the whole had a bit more English than the majority of K-pop songs do (though there are certainly K-pop artists who have done songs or […]

K-Pop Demon Hunters and Song Recommendations: “Golden”

| August 6, 2025

Back to posting about “K-Pop Demon Hunters” songs! If you’ve watched the “K-Pop Demon Hunters” movie on Netflix recently, you might still have some of the songs from the movie stuck in your head. While the songs on the whole had a bit more English than the majority of K-pop songs do (though there are […]

K-Pop Demon Hunters and Song Recommendations: “Soda Pop”

| July 16, 2025

If you’ve watched the “K-Pop Demon Hunters” movie on Netflix recently, you might still have some of the songs from the movie stuck in your head. While the songs on the whole had a bit more English than the majority of K-pop songs do (though there are certainly K-pop artists who have done songs or […]

K-Pop Demon Hunters and Song Recommendations: “How It’s Done”

| July 9, 2025

Time for a new Wednesday feature! If you’ve watched the “K-Pop Demon Hunters” movie on Netflix recently, you might still have some of the songs from the movie stuck in your head. While the songs on the whole had a bit more English than the majority of K-pop songs do (though there are certainly K-pop […]

Video Recommendation: “Hands Up” by Meovv

| June 11, 2025

K-pop has some incredibly surreal and evocative music videos. I’ve written a couple of stories that were inspired by one or more videos, and there are some videos that have a better storyline than some movies! “Hands Up” is a recent track by a new girl group, Meovv (yes, with two Vs instead of a […]

A Day Off After a LONG Weekend

| May 26, 2025

It’s been quite a long weekend for me, having taken most of Thursday and all of Friday off so I could see Rolling Quartz on Thursday night, followed by Stray Kids on Saturday night. I’m spending today recuperating from both shows (which were incredible!), so today’s a day off from posting. Back tomorrow with my […]

“Earworm” in New Moons Under Which to Sleep

| January 11, 2022

“Earworm” was a story I wrote for a very specific anthology call that involved “space opera” in a more literal sense than the genre typically means. So my main character was the alien beatbox for an operatic vocal group. As I’ve talked about before, the inspiration for the story was related to K-pop videos, even […]