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Kpop Critical is a kiki where we deconstruct Kpop. Catrina and Morgan, talk notions of "the Diva", Kpop being the grandchild of Motown and Hollywood, the commodity of art-making, white supremacy's relentless grip on pop, and the intersection of "pointless" and "perfect" in pop culture. It might not sound like it sometimes but we like Kpop, we would just prefer if celebrity and US imperialism didn't exist.
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AAAAANNNDDDDD we're back... sorta kinda. We're back today and that's what matters :) We have a special guest (my friend Kelly) to discuss an incredibly important topic (women). Has Taeyeon's sound changed this time around? (Yes) Can anything top this INVU? (it's early but uh... so far...) Is INVU her best work yet? (it is) There's also a lil bit of…
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Aw hiiiiiii~ gearing up for some more stuff but here's a lil announcement...Check out the Black into Kpop Coalition here: http://blackintokpop.tumblr.com/@blackintokpop *~Music this Episode~*Don't Call Me | SHINeeGGB | Bling BlingHitzão da Porra | MC RebeccaFollow Us:@kpop_critical_$kpopcriticalCatrinaCash App: $catrinajkwww.instagram.com/catnastee…
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Aw... welcome to season 3 of the show yall...This time we talk closing out 2020, SMTown's charity/not charity concert, some releases from the first 5 seconds of 2021 and what we think will come of this already "tew much" year.Also to note! It wasn't so much Epik High that was hesitant to work with BI but BI himself apparently made a point to say th…
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Oooooh shit, hey didn't see you there. Snuck up on me. Huh, what do you mean we've been gone for months?Today's episode is, obviously, the first in a while. Been a busy year but Kpop works a bit harder than us all apparently so we've been behind amongst other things like getting our lives together and trying not to catch a debilitating airborne ill…
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Hey friend... it's been a while...We're back with a few announcements! We'll actually be BACK back very soon. Eventually! In the meantime, hit us up and we might play your message on an upcoming episode!Follow Us:@kpop_critical_$kpopcriticalCatrinaCash App: $catrinajkwww.instagram.com/catnastee/MorganCash App: $mrgnhayeswww.instagram.com/mrgnhayes.…
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This is uh... a trailer for our show... because we literally just gone a year without one lmfao! Carry on and we'll see you all later this month!*~Episodes Mentioned~*Ep 4: The Case for ZimzalabimEp 22: Trauma: Get Your Parasitic Parasocials UpEp 2: #FREEHANBINFollow Us:@kpop_critical_$kpopcriticalCatrinaCash App: $catrinajkwww.instagram.com/catnas…
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Some y'all be like "Pick me! Pick me! Pick me UP! Pick me! Pick me! Pick me UP!" and don't even know it... It's been a while, as usual. Just think of us as a solar eclipse. Depending where you are in the world, not everybody is going to see us. Make sure not to look directly at us if you do see us tho. This episode is the third part to our Trauma S…
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Yay!! Back with a cute, reasonably-timed episode for y'all. This episode, recorded live during Kpop Social Night's Podcast Fest, we speak on Taemin's birthday notes, the steep spiral of iKON, the uptick in female recording artists' rights, and pop in Seventeen just because. Definitely more of a kiki...Special thanks to all who attended and to every…
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BEFORE YOU BUY ANY KPOP ANYTHING, DONATE TO YOUR LOCAL BAIL/MUTUAL AID FUND AND CASHAPP A BLACK TRANS PERSON IMMEDIATELY. We'll even help you get started: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bail_funds_george_floydKPOP, you are not getting a single cent from me EVER again! However, I do plan on uplifting the SeulRene cb coming out July 6th...Alternat…
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Soft release for the girls since there's a bunch going on at the moment. Donate to your city's Freedom Fund and support someone's bail. Start below, then continue and give individually to the black people you do and don't know:https://minnesotafreedomfund.org/donatehttps://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/louisville-community-bail-fund/https://www.pay…
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Funny how we’re posting this this week and Baekhyun goes on Lysn to say a fan had stalked him to his home and that he’s disappointed and feel violated. His ass goes i never forget a face! So to that girl…keep those eyes peeled. So we got part two of our Trauma Series. Parasocial relationships in Kpop! How different subjects and mediums have parasoc…
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Damn... social distancing got y'all too...? This episode probably couldn't have come at a better time! We catch up on this entire first quarter. Just peeping what the girls are into u kno... We may not show it but staying indoors and away from people is giving us brain damage... Just act like we're your friends who came over to kiki for the afterno…
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In which Morgan compares SHINee to Beyoncé and the Jackson 5... lightly... and forgets to talk about Key's Forever YoursShinee way for life we don’t know ANY other way... so this starts off a series of episodes dedicated to groups we stanning. We're gonna do more like these as we go and we needed Shinee to be the first of the girls. Who was doing i…
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Trigger Warning: Death, Sexual AssaultOn October 14th 2019, Choi Jinri, popularly known as Sulli from f(x), committed suicide. The same day, one of her good friends, Goo Hara of KARA, went on Instagram live citing her own struggles with mental health. On November 24th, Hara committed suicide. they were both 25 and 28, respectively. Earlier in the s…
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Oh my god!! We’re back lmfaoooooo. Today, 잊지 못할 ladies ladies ladies night! We talk the last of the old decade and first drops of the new decade, except only the drops from women. We rollercoaster into Irene’s head and talk Reve Festival Finale teas, hags and gals, and fit a little Loona in as well. We also talk about Chen and the non-celebrity lov…
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Damn y'all, we might not show it, but this decade been REALLY giving us brain damage.Today! We hold our Inaugural Annual Arbitrary Awards. We honor those who served tf out of this decade and those who annoyed tf out of this decade. Unfortunately, this is edited for time so we'll also be posting all nominees and winners on our social media. Argue wi…
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Hey y'all, we have a lot coming up in 2020. But first, we resting. We'll be off for a few weeks in January, but we'll return late in the month with more reviews and the start of a new season.Thank you so much for streaming. Hope you guys see the light, you niggas better know.Before I go! We'd love for you guys to help us out with our next big three…
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Omg hey y'all, anyone have like $2,000 for flights so we can see EXO... jw... hit us up if you do.Today! We ramble, we get into the second half of this EXO serve, and we bug out a bit about how few women are called to write. We talk the semantics of romantics and then we talk to some of our friends, kpop haters and otherwise.Also another quick shou…
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Surprise! You probably thought this was coming out Wednesday. Well, we're posting early cause we wanted to let you know that we will personally beat your ass if you do not stream the Obsession music video before listening to this episode........... we're almost at 40 million views................ I need that dance practice. Like NEED it need it.Thi…
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Oh, my bad... we were just busy taking a flower shower, sing it sing it babe, wing it wing it babe, bring it bring it babe. Did you miss us?This episode, we kiki. We talk about Gemini legends and fashionable Keebler elves, Hyuna and Dawn. We shoutout BVNDIT ~VERY~ briefly. We talk WayV and NCT and !!WHERETHEFUCKISJUNGWOO!!We also do an "Ok, Stop" w…
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ꉂꉂ꒰•̤▿•̤*ૢ꒱ Back at it again with SuperM!! (Warning... there is so much screaming in this episode... sis...)Sorry it's been so long, we had to Jop first. This episode is a story time about seeing a group of Korean men that I thought I'd never be able to see this decade (twice.) The first Kpop boygroup to sell out Madison Square Garden and even play…
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Hey y'all we're hitting you with a double feature this week and uh... it's not with good news...All of a sudden it's 2014, boys are dropping from their groups like flies and notorious transphobe and idol dropout, Han Seohee is running rampant destroying men's lives but uh not the men whose lives need to be ruined... I mean who goes out here destroy…
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Brown Eyed Girls released an album of covers, didn't go on music shows to promote and still filleted and smoked all of y'all's favs... how you feel?This week, we talk about our sisters... Taeyeon, WayV, and Brown Eyed Girls! We play a game of "Ok Stop" with our first Mandopop feature for KPC. We also talk about upcoming drops and even fit in a litt…
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Hi y'all here we are talking about TWICE and some new NCT unit called SuperM.We're also going to act like this isn't our tenth episode because we've been very busy and would maybe want to do something that makes us and you all "feel special" for listening to this. Or maybe we'll just wait until episode idk 25 and do something then? w/e... and just …
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SKSKSKSKSKSKSKSKSKSKSKSK not at how yall thought we were done talking about HIT by Seventeen.Today, we bring to you our longest (by far) episode. Yes... a full three hours of us talking about Seventeen's "An Ode". We do a close reading of some tracks, explain how Seventeen is the common link between Beyoncé and EXO, and discuss what this wildly imp…
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Hey girls... we know its been a while... we have to tell you something...FUCK THE POLICE AND FREE IKON!!!!!!!We also play a short round of "Ok, Stop." with a super skinny SuperM teaser and go over some music with y'all from TWICE, Monsta X, and Amber. We even make time for KARD on this episode so... yes.Before I go! We'd love for you guys to help u…
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H-H-H-H-HIT SOUND...SAAAA-!BRRRRRRRR- SAAA-Late July and early August reviews!!!! That's it!!! (Our recording said brrr- SA- and deleted our first thirty minutes and we started recording at 9pm so... what you hear is uh... what you get.)Before I go! We'd love for you guys to help us out with our next big three episode. Submit to this survey and you…
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♪ If you want to feel it say yeah, YEEAAHHHHH Super.......... mmmmmMmmm.....!! ♪We got a couple of quick things to go over with you guys before we get to our next big episodes. SM wants a redo on capitalism and EXO-L is not having it because they prefer their version of capitalism. Jihyo and Kang Daniel are getting it in, and iKon's looking a lil..…
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Twas the night before an EXO drop, when all through the houseEvery bitch was screaming— even roaches and a mouse...We do a quick synopsis on SM's colonizing of July as EXO Month, Baekhyun's debut, and EXO-SC plus why the girls are fighting today. We also play a quick game of "Ok Stop" with What a Life.Before I go! We'd love for you guys to help us …
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felix: m͔̪ͫ͝y̮̯̱͗̔̓̽̒̕ ͮ̾͋̔҉ḩ͚̫̬̪̱̔e̜͉̭̞̎͋̉̀̓͋̄ȁ͙̚d̠̹̦ ̨̳͓̗̤͕̔ͨͮ̄ͪh͎͔̥͕̦͂̈́́͋͋ͦų̩̹̓ͫ̅ͥ̐̀͒r̙̩̫͌́̑͂̋̓̆t͈͇͎̖͌́ͅṣ͇͍̺̞͂͑̅ͧ̊̓̀͜This week we discuss SF9, VIXX, Yunho, Ailee, i.o.i. alum, koreaboo, yellow-face, superstar idol Lana, and do a close reading of Red Velvet's Zimzalabim to help explain why this song isn't that fucking bad, come on...Before I go!…
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This episode, we do a halfway review of 2019 comebacks and debuts! We talk American outreach, enlistment, and pop underdogs. There’s also a little bit of BoA slander but it’s coming from a place of love. ALSO, quick note: We mention that LE didn't write Me & U but we were dead wrong and she DID which makes us even more sad.Before I go! We'd love fo…
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Wheeeeeewww, did not think we'd release episode two (or have our first guest) already but here we are! An emergency discussion and explanation of the termination of iKON's Kim Hanbin from YG along with a quick rundown of drug policies within Korea and why this is just so fucking sad.Before I go! We'd love for you guys to help us out with our next b…
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Part 1/3 Series!We didn't have time to talk about JYP and Salvation Sect but hear what we got to think about the future of his official, legal, less weird 20-something year company, JYP Entertainment. (Excuse the off audio! Someone just had to step away from their mic...)Before I go! We'd love for you guys to help us out with our next big three epi…
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