QRIMOLE – New Year 2026

It’s time for the first QRIMOLE of 2026, the series where readers ask Kpopalypse questions! Let’s take a look at the mailbag for the last month!

The main business of Unis (i.e. the Gehlee group) agency is selling clothes. What are some reasons that a clothing company might want to have a kpop idol group in their employ?

If you’re a clothing company and you need a lot of modelling done, it’s probably more convenient to have in-house models already under your wing rather than inking a deal to get a freelancer or someone from IVE or aespa to do it or whatever each time you need someone to wear a shirt. Even better from your point of view if they’re known to the public already through other activities, and also if they have a strict training regimen. I guess those might be the reasons.

what’s your take on this?

I’m not a Korean military expert so I’m inclined to agree with those who are that say that Woozi had little choice in the matter. I can’t imagine disobeying requests from seniors would go down all that well in the army, and especially not if you also have “idol” baggage, there’d be pressure to be seen as not treated as special. If he refused, would it have become a viral story too: “entitled idol refused to follow orders”?

Am I crazy or is Primrose’s “Cinema” a pretty obvious soundalike (I know better than to use the P word) of IVE’s “Rebel Heart”?

Primrose’s song definitely have similarities in structure and instrument/vocal meter choices to the I Am/Rebel Heart template. Not a very close soundalike mind you (I’d say “Golden” is a much closer one to “I Am”) but yes the influence sounds like it is there.

why do you use bluesky why do you do that why do you willingly torture yourself like im so confused just why

Bluesky is better than Twitter, straight up. It has less engagement, but more real engagement, most of what I see on Twitter is just bots and troll farm employees posting “hot takes” to farm money or political influence whereas (for now) most people interacting with me on BlueSky are actual real people, because there’s less to gain by spamming on BlueSky. The only thing I really dislike about Bluesky is despite it apparently being quite big in Japan none of my favourite JAV stars seem to have an account on the thing. BlueSky is like Twitter in about 2015, along with everything both good and bad that that entails. Also it has a feed called “BookSky” so I can talk to other authors pretty easily using that and ignore all the people boringly posting their political take every ten minutes.

I’m sure that just like Twitter, BlueSky will get enshittified one day. It seems to be the way of all things. But for now it’s working well enough. Mind you to be honest my engagement with any social network at all is fairly minimal, it’s really just there fore me to post my website content to alert my readers and if any readers want to interact. I generally don’t go wandering into other people’s threads much etc, and I don’t go randomly scrolling through my feed hardly ever, I mostly mind my own business when I’m not on my own social media.

Did Chuu’s boobs ‘get prettier’?

Impossible to say. She doesn’t really wear the kind of clothes where you can tell.

1. I see NMIXX’s Fe3o4: Break as a fairly accurate parody of radio pop slop, but their follow up, “Stick Out” baffles me. It’s bad. But I can’t put my finger on why. Not only is it infinitely more dull than Break, it sounds unmastered. Why do you think they did that?
2. What makes NMIXX’s early attempts at “mixxpop” different from SNSD’s IGAB, or even NMIXX’s later attempts?

1. NMIXX’s song titles are just as confusing as their songs, I tried to answer this but wasn’t even sure what I was listening to. I think I’ll save talking about this until it’s time to review a whole NMIXX album and piece it all together. There will be album reviews in 2026 so I’ll try to dust off an NMIXX album just for you so you get an answer here because I do get a lot of questions about NMIXX album tracks. It’s on the list.

2. The first couple of big NMIXX feature tracks, “O.O” and “Dice”, literally sound like three separate songs stapled together. In fact they may have been exactly this in their original form, as in live concerts NMIXX perform the different parts of the songs completely separately as standalone pieces. This makes those NMIXX tracks different from Girls’ Generation’s “I Got A Boy” where there’s at least some vague consistency between most of the parts, and even though it doesn’t all fit together that well, it was clearly designed to fit together in its original form much like, say, Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody”. NMIXX on the other hand sounds like stitching the songs together was a marketing afterthought after everything was already written.

tl;dr wikipedia’s e-begathon are entirely needless.

your thoughts?

I actually knew this, which is why I’ve taken the piss out of Wikimedia’s begathons in the past. I have no problem with people soliciting for political causes but I wish they would be a bit more upfront about where the money was going. Organisations like this seem to operate on a constant “yellow alert” to try and get people to spend, which I don’t like.

Do you think that next to nobody outside of his fanbase would’ve heard of this guy, if feminist Karens hadn’t Streisand Effected him with very vocal cancel culture, deplatforming campaigns?

I don’t know enough about the origin story of Andrew Tate and how he tracks generally to know if the people trying to shut him down on social media etc helped him or hurt him. As far as I can tell most of the shutdown attempts happened after he already became very well known (and started influencing high school kids), not before. I haven’t even seen much chatter about him at all recently, I thought he had been forgotten especially after his entire website got hacked and ridiculed. Surprised he has followers at all after he was caught human trafficking underage girls into doing webcam work, you’d think people would be against pedophilia in this day and age but I guess we still have a way to go yet.

“There’s snobbism in all kinds of music. And in my opinion, there’s no more snobbism in classical music, if anything, there’s less. At least in my lifetime, and I’m not young, you won’t impress anybody by saying that you like classical music of by playing Bach. You won’t get the chicks. And it’s been many decades since pop/rock is studied in academia. Bob Dylan is nobel price in literature. My experience is that classical music lovers are accused of being elitists just because classical it’s a more obviously intellectual way of listening to music: in silence, during an hour or so, with not breaks, with mindful attention… For someone used to dance music and sing along songs that’s jarring”

This gem was found in a youtube comment section. Why are classical music listeners like this, and do you agree with him?

I think “less” depends on what you’re comparing it to. But generally speaking I did actually find the people who I studied classical music with at University, and the people who I’ve worked with after that, in that field, to be pretty open-minded, and the academics at the University who gave lectures were open to all sorts of things. I mean, they let me do a postgrad degree there, pretty open-minded if you ask me. Bad music taste yes, but still open to listening to new things. The worst is jazz, that’s where the real snobs are. Jazz snobs are just incredible. But yes there’s degrees of snobbishness everywhere, because it’s just a human thing, that some people are like that.

convo starting @17:19, why do you think that the australian forgot how to speak english briefly?

I don’t know? Maybe she forgot or it’s just habit or maybe she wants to practise her Korean or maybe she just couldn’t be fucked. Perhaps she’s trying to make it hard for the interviewer, hahaha. Your guess is as good as mine.

your thoughts on her thoughts? (you get the gist within the first 6 mins.)

I don’t know… censorship is bad?

do you know how the deals where an idol in a group signs with another label but also remains with the group under the original company work (like whats going on with blackpink for a recent example)? im curious what yg gains out of this since i assume sponsorships and cfs etc would fall under “individual activities” and thus their other labels would be reaping the profits. blackpink is probably popular enough to be making money through touring alone, but i’m not sure if a group like red velvet can maintain popularity as a unit for it to be worth it for sm as another example

Hard to generalise because it just depends what’s agreed to and that can take many forms. There’s no “standard contract” for multi-label deals. But all you really need to know about such things is that very big stars have bargaining power once a contract expires and they will use that, if they’re smart, to leverage the best possible deal going forward. Labels in Korea are actually tiny in the grand scheme, they are “independent labels” by western standards, so when a star gains global fame on a seriously big level, and start getting pursured by big international labels, these Korean labels often can’t offer a deal that’s attractive enough to keep the star from going somewhere else. But since the small(er) Korean label also probably owns some intellectual property (for instance maybe the name “Blackpink” is owned by YG) the members might see some benefit in essentially throwing YG a bone and/or keeping their brand value intact, while at the same time not being trapped into a big contract with them and having the freedom to do other shit. On the other hand perhaps Red Velvet aren’t at that same level where they would get pursued internationally so they might be better off with SM, maybe. I can’t really give a blanket informed opinion based on contracts that I’m not privy to.

i know you’re one of the big proponents of shorter song lengths but what is your favorite long lengthed (4 minutes or more ) pop song and what makes it work in comparison to others?

I honestly don’t pay that much attention to song lengths unless they are VERY long or short. I could give you an example of a lot of longer songs I like, but it’s highly debatable whether I’d call them “pop music”. I can’t think of a single example off the top of my head that’s 4+ minutes and also very “pop”, like idol pop, but I’m sure there are actually plenty and I just don’t remember because I don’t bother to time shit out. Four minutes isn’t that long, really – not noticeably long if the song is well written enough to work for that length, until a song gets into the 6 minute region I wouldn’t consider it “long”. Just generally though, a longer song needs more stuff “in it” to work. So either a lot more lyrics (maybe telling a story), or more contrasting musical sections, or some kind of musical development, it needs to maintain the interest for longer. Ballads can also stretch things out more because if the entire tune is going slower, every verse and chorus takes more time, this is one reason I tend to lose interest in ballads.

I guess in summary, the song length has to be right for the song. It’s not a case of “shorter songs are better” or “longer songs are better”, it’s more “people should start with the idea for the song, write the song, and then while they’re writing it be mindful of what length works best for the idea”. Just like songs should never be a vehicle for a singer to wank off with vocal runs and high notes, songs also shouldn’t be a vehicle for someone who wants to write a long song “just because”. The song length must serve the song, not the other way around.

now that you temporarily become vocaloidyalpse every qrimole

yeah and I’m so fucking over it, please no more vocaloid questions I don’t give a fuck I am not vocaloidopalypse seriously omg

i did always think this song was among the only worthwhile pieces in the genre so i wanted to know your thoughts it.

ffs

techinally i know it’s got all of the jpop problems but the insane speed and the giddy joy of it saves it and i always wished kpop would steal some of its nachos instead of always going for the same akb48/yosabi shit when it comes to their japanese endeavors. in unrelated news i hope that my predication that good girl at heart will be in the top five best kpopalypse songs of the year has come true by the time i’m reading this.

This is fucking awful. Completely hideous. Like a nursery rhyme at three times the speed. I actually didn’t expect to hate it this much after the glazing you just gave it. Change the vocaloid voice to a human and it’s not significantly different to the AKB48s of this world etc, it’s got that same awful style of melody that a lot of j-pop has. I could have lived my life happily not hearing this. Congrats on the best-list song prediction though, not that it would have been hugely difficult as I had been crapping on about how good that song is quite a bit through the year.

so this song samples fx’s rum pum pum pum and i’ve never really liked it despite the instant rush of hearing that interoperation. it’s got the rapper sample problem of taking one element of a good song and ringing it into the ground while it actively interrupts the rest of it, it’s annoying. is there like a musical name for this issue or is this just a case of repetition gone wrong?

They’re just doing what anybody does when they sample a song for a beat and make a new song out of the loop, although in this case they barely even changed it, the better producers will generally try to change stuff up in more creative ways than this. It’s just a really poor track, because it doesn’t work as a rap beat in its current form, it’s just not the right rhythm, it needed more work to be used in this context. It’s sad that these days rap has “progressed” to a point where rappers will rap over literally any backing track at all, whether that backing actually suits rap music or not. Rappers have such massive egos, they think their voice alone is so great that it can carry literally anything, so they just rap over whatever now, but in reality it doesn’t work like that, you need a fucking proper beat that complements the vocal. Rap was much better in the 80s and 90s where there were pretty strict unwritten rules about the type of beats that rappers would consider worthy of putting on a record, these days it feels like it’s just open slather and rap music is absolutely worse off for it. A rapper’s voice alone is not enough, the backing track has to fit, and this doesn’t.

I’m looking for a job for the first time and hate everything about it. Everyone I know who is currently working is being run ragged, USA-style corpo cocksucking is widespread, nepotism is common, both international and local companies break laws because corrupt institutions don’t care to enforce them, salaries are low, contracts are sometimes worded in an intentionally vague way because everyone is trying to fuck you over, finding job offers is difficult, I almost got scammed once and failed an interview for an internship. I’ve been a neurotic mess (probably actual mental illness) and a total doormat my whole life so it’s been very overwhelming. Please God what do I do

Your first job doesn’t have to be “a good job”. It just has to be something that gets money. Doesn’t even have to be a lot of money, just something. So just try and get the best job that you know you can definitely do or that they can train you in and then you can do, or if not then the most shit, balls-licking worthless sucky job will still be okay as long as you can definitely do it and get money from it. Once you get in then you start planning to move either upwards (if there are btter jobs higher) or laterally (if it’s a real dead-end everything-sucks job) and just check that you can do those things. Skip internships if you can, get shit that pays money. Then just progress to better shit. Or if you like the shit you’re doing stay, whatever. Along the way talk to people and be nice and don’t neglect the social side, that’s how you build your network. And try to stay out of work politics. If you can convince people that you’re that person who can reliably do shit, when they need someone who can reliably do shit, they’ll come seeking you out. That’s how I’ve progressed from having zero employment at the start of this year to being right now so overworked out my ass that I can barely write.

do you any thoughts or commentaries on my observations below? note that i know almost nothing about intricacies of specific music genres. most of the music i actually listen to are female kpops.

the chorus of SM girl group song GPP – Bring It Back sound like Pendulum – Propane Nightmares to me.

also the rap verse @1:07 sounds like the verses from Dreamcatcher – OOTD.

I think some of the sounds are similar but I wouldn’t say the songs are very similar. I mean it’s just the nature of pop music that a lot of things sound alike.

what’s your opinion on this issue?

I’m on the fence on this one. I despise talking about work but I hate “what are my hobbies” too. Every time I meet someone new and they find out I’m into k-pop I groan because I know they’ll have 50 questions that I’ve answered before many times and it’s exhausting to even know where to start because “why are you into blah” alone is like a ten minute answer at least. I just hate talking to people in general, I guess. I even made a video specifically to get around the problem.

wtf does this statement even mean? some meyers briggs BS?
“what it’s like traveling with a type B personality”

My guess is maybe she means a “beta female”… whatever that might be? I don’t know. Koreans are into Myers-Briggs thought-cancer but this doesn’t seem like that as there’s no B in that system so I guess it’s just “B” for “some other bullshit”.

what fucking hobbies should a working adult have then? fishing and thinking of jesus? i swear a lot of these overly extroverted ppl should fuck right off, man.

Just ignore people on Twitter. It’s mainly just people posting unpopular takes to ragebait replies so they can get two cents from Elon. They are hoping to piss you off that you go and share the link somewhere (like here for instance) and more people click. Since you couldn’t control yourself and fell right into their trap, I replaced the links with something more wholesome to help you out.

Thoughts on “Girls Gone Wild” by JT from City Girls? A lot of people dislike the beat switch but I think it’s cute

I don’t hate it, but it’s a bit pedestrian once you get over the lyrics. The main beat makes it sound like a weaker version of So Solid Crew. The breakdown part doesn’t change things radically, it’s only a small section, didn’t change my opinion of it.

what sort of software is she using here and why would she want to use it?

Never used or even seen the app she’s talking about but it sounds to me like something that uses something similar to “MR removed” tech to silence just the lead guitar out of a track and play it back at slow speed so she can practice along doing her own guitar to a guitar-less backing. Useful stuff for guitar practice but by no means something that you have to use.

is hybe paying you

I wish! Could sure use the bucks from “big k-pop”. Ko-fi here if you’re from HYBE and are considering it, don’t expect me to change my content though.

Do you think Demi Lovato’s career can ever recover again? If you are not familiar with her, she is definitely considered as one of the more controversial global pop acts out there. In my opinion, no fellow pop girl has experienced more than her and her unlucky life story grabs me in a way no one else does. Demi is well-known for her past struggles with addiction as a former child star and for using non-binary pronouns. I actually wish people knew her more for her immense talent and her outspokenness before it even became trendy. Demi is a really gifted vocalist, a multi-instrumentalist and has released music in multiple different genres (pop, rock, R&B, country, you name it…). Back in the 2010s, Demi was one of the first to constantly use her celeb platform to speak up about important social issues (e.g. BLM, mental health). She is quite a huge metalhead too.

While she was once relatively successful, the sad thing is that Demi’s numbers took a big hit after she overdosed and she ended up making it as the #1 most searched celebrity of 2018 for that alone. Upon overdose, she was raped by her drug dealer, experienced multiple heart attacks and was left with blind spots for life. 2020 was supposed to be Demi’s big comeback year. She performed at the Grammys and the Super Bowl, yet her rollout fell apart due to the COVID pandemic starting the week of her initial lead single’s release. Afterwards, her gay ex-fiancé embarrassed her by crying on the beach post-breakup while calling TMZ and from that very moment, fans noticed quite a huge shift when it came to Demi’s life direction…

Not only did Demi scrap her original album plan, she eventually shaved her head as part of her identity struggle and her 2021 frozen yogurt shop scandal of hers (while on drugs) made headlines that left her career beyond repair. Her numbers dwindled more than ever after she came out as non-binary and the public hasn’t given her a break since. Although she has grown back her hair, the public interest in her has completely dissipated and many people consider her a weirdo now, which I find extremely unfair. It doesn’t help that her label doesn’t pump any money into airplay, playlisting or promoting her, favouring acts like Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter over Demi. No one is aware of her releases.

Demi’s attempts of a public comeback have failed for three consecutive album cycles in a row (one of them being a rebrand as a rock singer) and as an avid fan of hers, I’m starting to think that it’s impossible for her to regain her old glory now no matter what she does. Her current manager Brandon Creed, who also manages more successful artists like Ariana Grande and Charli xcx, has tried his best repairing Demi’s image to a fair extent, yet it’s clearly not enough for people to pay attention to her latest album It’s Not That Deep. Is this a case of Demi flying too close to the sun only for her to collapse like Icarus? Or is it because the music doesn’t stick?

Firstly, I’m not westernpopalypse and I don’t follow Demi Lovato so everything you’ve said here is completely news to me. I don’t give a single fuck about western pop and I’m always baffled by how the questions on it just keep coming. Why do you think I write about k-pop instead.

Now that’s out of the way…

Demi had a good run career-wise (not talking about her music here which idgaf about for reasons stated above) and it’s probably over or at least well past its peak. There are younger fresher artists in her field and she lasted longer than most people do but she’s not staying relevant to pop music forever. The Madonna type person in pop music who just keeps going and going and going with charting hits for decades in a row is the exception, not the rule, and even her star has finally faded these days after a good 30 years of intermittent chart dominance. Your average pop singer (male or female) is lucky to get five years in the sun, most don’t even last that long. A lot of them either give up on the limelight when the sales fizzle out and do something else unrelated, or sometimes they transition to other music industry roles such as songwriting, production, dance choreography, etc. Demi will probably always have an audience but nobody is on top of the pop tree forever, that’s just the nature of the game.

Which of these two girl groups do you find more rebelliously determined for standing their ground: T-ARA or NewJeans?

The NewJeans story is still unfolding so I can’t really make that type of comparison yet. Ask me again when it’s all done and dusted.

Fave Cocteau Twins song and why?

Not sure but I will say that the very last song on any Cocteau Twins album is always, without fail, the best song on whatever that particular album is. For some reason they mastered the “album finisher”. So it’s one of those. I’d have to listen to them all again to know for sure. These album-finishing tracks always tend to be quite long too so this might be relevant to the person before who was asking about very long pop songs, although again calling Cocteau Twins “pop” is stretching the term a bit… or maybe it isn’t, isk. Certainly a grey area.

I went to check out Celtic Frost after you recommended them, and really enjoyed A Dying God Coming Into Human Flesh, but unfortunately can’t look at spiders so that album cover is no go. Anything similar you’d recommend? (Thank you for the Tosin Abasi video too, he’s fantastic—immediately supplanted Hizaki from Versailles as my personal favorite)

There’s. no spider on the “Monotheist” album cover…? Or maybe there is but because I’m Australian I just don’t notice spiders because they’re everywhere? Celtic Frost sound VERY different depending on which album you investigate, but if you enjoyed that particular song try Tom Warrior’s post Celtic Frost project Tryptikon which is similar and album covers are similarly spider-free (pretty sure).

hi hope you’re good, just some q’s to I’d like to know about in little or lots of detail, whatever you’re feeling

1. Isn’t the whole music industry glorified venture capital? Labels give advances to artists to spend how they like to create their album, and the network/hype/promo for a lions share of profits and full control over their career. A distribution deal is selling just the streaming network for a smaller cut of revenue. Is there any difference?

2. Is music as a career viable in 2026? If you want to be a signed artist, you’re going to need to do some gay tiktok promo and/or do some nostalgia baiting. Do you think John Mayer would be farming out 4 short form contents a day for a month asking “Have I written song of the summer????” or something like that. Let’s say you don’t want to do that, your best chance seems to be with teaching music, getting an internship or trying to break into a big 3 label. Is this worth it over a lifetime, or are you better off doing a boring 9 to 6 and doing music for fun, paying for studio time and an engineer?

3. Do you wish you were writing about something more interesting/different? Site’s been around for over a decade, and you’re still spending a lot of your time listening and writing about trash. I don’t think the music is much better, it’s a lot more modern sound selection but the songwriting still often sucks. Assuming you were to stop writing or engaging with the site by 2027 and didn’t care about your reputation, how much money could you milk out of this site?

4. What do you think people mean when they say they grow out of music? I’ve listened to much less kpop in 2025, maybe it’s because I recognise everything from that KSHMR vol 3 sample pack everyone uses? That’s me though, why does your average stan stop caring? Is it just employment?

5. I was in your ends (Adelaide) last month for some work & see family, I get why it’s a popular ex-pat spot, when the UK goes too far off the cliff I’m def moving there. Why are Adelaidians (and Australians in general) so laid back/lazy? Most companies in the UK aren’t very efficient or productive, but what I saw in what claims to be a prestigious workplace was on another level of slow. What’s it with tradesmen (tradies?) and their driving? It’s always a Ranger or Hilux and they don’t even overtake, they tailgate and flash the high beams seemingly for the love of the game. Why do I not hate the pie floater, it sounds stupid but for some reason it bangs. Why do people wear hoodies, it’s not like it’s cold ever. What do you do about the sun? I ended up doing what the Indians/Chinese birds do and did umbrella, hat, sunscreen, long sleeves but most men weren’t doing any of that, is skin cancer part of the game?

Cheers 🙂

1. I don’t know enough about how venture capital works to be able to answer this accurately, but the scenarios you describe aren’t universally how it’s done always. A lot of younger artists are very wise to the major label game and are smart enough to avoid the more toxic deals. The music industry is very spawling and not everybody operates the same way.

2. You’re always better off not doing a music career. Seriously, anyone thinking about it, do anything else, you’ll have a better life. The people who do music like me do it because it chooses them. I did music because I was young and dumb and lazy and I loved music a lot and knew a lot about it and knew fuck all about anything else so that’s what I did, I felt like there was no other option for me.

3. I could milk quite a bit of money out of this site but I don’t. I get offers daily for all sorts of moneymaking bullshit, half of it’s probably scams I’m sure but at least some of it is genuine, and it’s all stuff that would be harmful for the site (backlinks to paid sponsors, paid guest posts about crypto or gambling, etc etc). The reason why so many places on the Internet get enshittified and ad-encrusted is because the enshittifiers are very frequently knocking on the door offering sums of money in return for you making your content suck just a little and hope your readership doesn’t run for the hills. I’ve recently removed my emails from my site just to try and stem the flow of daily bullshit, because all a public-facing email address seems to do is give me spam.

4. People’s music tastes change, they discover other things. Part of why I throw in references to non k-pop music is because I want people to go through that process. If you’re only listening to k-pop and nothing else, your musical diet is pretty shit honestly. But then if you totally refuse to listen to any pop music ever I also think you’re missing out. I like expanding people’s horizons a bit, even if that only means they get a better view of the unstoppable tidal wave of shit headed in their direction hahahaha. Don’t assume employment has anything to do with it, I’ve met plenty of k-pop fans in high paying jobs, they need them to buy their fave’s album 50 times over to collect all the photocards.

5. Adelaide is great, it’s a big city with 1.5 million people but it’s chillax like a country town, I love that about it. Yes things are a bit slow here but that’s fine, shit gets done eventually. Patience is a virtue that you will learn here. I can’t do the pie floater, heartburn central. Ford Ranger drivers are a national curse, not restricted to Adelaide, since Holden and Ford shut down their factories and there are no more Commodores or Falcons manufactured in Australia, the bogans who used to love those cars have now switched to Rangers. The sun is evil, Asian girls are just smarter.

I am a fairly introverted person. I can be extroverted when around my friends, but I generally avoid public/non-alone scenarios where I can. However, a byproduct of this which I’ve been noticing lately is that I’ve been consuming a lot of k-pop variety show/behind the scenes content, and I’m slightly concerned that I am developing a parasocial relationship with my biases. Now, I do think that the fact I’m aware of the dangers associated with these relationships does kinda protect me from negative things happening, but I’m still a little worried nonetheless. Am I worrying about nothing, or if there might be an issue, how can I happily watch my favourite idols being cute and happy all the time without developing a parasocial relationship which ends up damaging my mental health???

Thanks oppar!!!

Probably worried about nothing. Nothing to do with personality type either, because I’m the most introverted person ever and I’m immune to it. Awareness is 90% of the battle. You are only entering the danger zone when you are opening you wallet or booking flights. That’s when alarm bells should ring – anything else is basically fine.

how would you combat a witch hunt like this one?

Probably the same way the devs did. Seems to be working out okay for them.

Peter Frampton wig snatched?

I llike the idea of this pedal, it’s cute. I don’t think I’d ever buy one though because I honestly can’t think of a single practical application in my case for the one very specific thing that it does. Definitely more of a fun mantlepiece object rather than something you’d actually use as a working musician, unless you were making some very strange-ass music, but if I was in some kind of experimental black metal shoegaze weirdness I’d definitely try a signal chain of Hatsune Miku > distortion > tons of reverb for some fun times.

in broad strokes: what’s some solutions to accomplishing the audio production side of this video if you aren’t a zillionaire who wants to invest in Apple hardware and software? say you’d want to focus on buying instruments and the audio interface. can you get buy with Windows or Linux and pirated and/or free open source software (like I-Dle Soyeon would)?

Sure. In fact you can save a lot of money here.

• OpenShot is a great free open-source video editor for PC or Linux, other video editors are better but they cost more and/or need ninja systems, OpenShot will run on a new system AND a ten year old 32 bit machine and still get the job done either way
• The PRS Custom guitar she has is worth more than my car, something cheap will do, anything with a humbucker in the bridge position can handle the metal stuff she’s doing, here’s what I’d use and yes you can make it sound just like that
• Yes get a Focusrite but why get the 18i16 when you’re only dealing with one input signal at a time? Sure, if you’re planning to expand your studio it’s a worthy purchase, but if literally all you’re ever intending on doing is DI-ing one signal at a time into your computer, a base model like the 212 will do the same job way cheaper, no need to blow megabucks for the top end model unless you have big plans down the road
• If you’re strapped for cash and don’t have i-dle’s Soyeon on speed dial, a lot of people are really liking Reaper as a DAW these days it’s like $60 (haven’t used it yet myself but glowing reviews from everyone I know who has, including other readers of this site)
• A trip to the local discount shop will get you some funky lamps and some cellophane for colours if the good lighting is a bit pricey

Good video though, cool how she breaks it all down.

Youtube comment: “Her rap part was so sassy and her vocals…. She is the best vocalist in the 4th generation”

What arbitrary parameters are they using to determine that Lily’s group NMIXX is part of a “4th generation”? The phases of the moon? The alignment of the planets? You write about kpop industry weekly, so I assume that you probably have a much better idea of this than I ever could.

Glad you asked. I actually have a post on this very topic.

any truth to this or no?

Completely true. I’d also add that men are highly stigmatised for talking about their feelings or problems, it’s seen as “weak” or “gay” or “not masculine” or whatever, you’re supposed to “harden the fuck up” etc. I mean personally I don’t really feel that stigma because my “give a fuck” meter is just so low, but I know many do… and of course they shouldn’t, but social pressure is a thing for voth men and women, we just feel it in different ways.

Have you looked at f5ve at all? You’ve mentioned them a couple of times but I couldn’t find any real discussion of their music. They released a deluxe version of their debut album recently with a few new songs and a bunch of remixes, including some by artists you’ve liked in the past like kimj and The Deep. They seem to have a bit more of an overlap in fanbase with kpop than other jpop groups. They’re also kinda notorious for having a very “chronically online” social media manager that interacts and jokes with fans a lot more than other groups, almost to a fault (there was an incident where they posted a meme mocking Goo Hara’s death to the official Instagram account’s story).

No. Outside the scope of what I do, and don’t like their music anyway.

My boyfriend likes to listen to Arab dance music. Can you listen to like 20-30 seconds of the following two songs and share your thoughts/if you have previous experience listening to anything similar?

Absolutely hate it. Sounds like restaurant music, but for a Lebanese restaurant. I have plenty of experience listening to this stuff because there’s decent Lebanese food in my city and they play this poop all the time, so I usually order takeaway. Maybe that’s their strategy to keep the tables clear. Maybe if I was brought up in this kind of musical culture I would dig it, but I wasn’t, so I don’t. The thing that grates about this kind of music is it all has exactly the same kind of melodic scheme. For the same reason, I don’t like bhangra, which sounds similar, just with a slightly different but equally shit melodic flavour and more modern percussion.

kpopalypse hyung, i have a terrible problem

i’m a highschool sophmore with a 2.2 gpa, and i can’t get off of my fat fucking ass to do anything about it because i’m too preoccupied with watching the attractive kpop idol do the singing and dancing on my screen. Help!!!111 is it time for me to abstain from kpop until i get accepted into an ivy? is it too late for me to get into an ivy because i have a 2.2 gpa? caonima

If you’re a high school sophomore basically nothing that you do matters, so just watch the idol and have a good time. No parent or teacher will tell you this but it’s only your final year of school before uni that makes a difference before getting in, everything before that is just a practice run and the only thing that matters is getting to the next step. Do as well as you need to to get to the next level, and then bust out the big academic moves in your final year. Nobody running a marathon tries to sprint the whole thing, save your energy for the finish line.

I discovered something massive that I feel the need to report, but if I do, I have an almost certainty that I’ll be killed for it. It’s so big that whistleblower laws won’t stop the people who’ll want me dead. I don’t know what to do. Do you have any advice?

Those “external forces” can be powerful, can’t they. I suggest that you get into fiction writing. It’s worked for me!

Hi Kpopalypse,

What do you think about people using AI to generate songs?

I have created songs using AI for two years. The reasons were twofold, sometimes I just can’t find any good songs that match my taste and I’m tired of looping songs either, so I need to look for other sources. Second, I like to write a song myself even though I can’t play musical instrument and my understanding towards your music theory post is almost zero. Then I explore Suno, one of the bigger platform and generate many songs.

First, it’s just one of the lyrics I wrote, then some other songs to see what AI imagine about the lyrics using the style, then I wrote the lyrics to generate songs. The results are okay in my book, they know catchy hooks, adjusting the song structure to the lyrics, and they can do ad-lib adequately. Although with AI you have to deal with glitchy vocals, mispronounced words, and super weird rhythms. Still, I enjoy making AI songs for my personal amusement, but I can’t help thinking it is wrong to do this, turning into AI because it’s difficult to find good songs, but at the same time the possibility with this is limitless. I can make songs with many genres, mix and matching like NMIXX, make a raunchy, crazy song that finishes in 30 seconds to enjoy then if not, I’ll just remove it. I don’t know but I feel like a producer (of course I’m not). Even I make ‘albums’ from those songs and now it reaches the seventh lol.

Do you have any suggestion for this? Really like to know your input!

AI music generation works quite well and that’s because it basically just rips off existing songs. You’re actually listening to a song that someone really wrote, most of the time, that’s just been simply plagiarised in whole or in part. The reason why this happens is it’s almost impossible to stop AI music programs from “overtraining” on the source material:

So the songs you like are out there, you just haven’t found them yet, but the AI plagiarism machine is finding them for you (and not paying the artists). These days all music is basically free so there’s no reason not to just go and explore it the normal ways that people do it. But if you must generate your own AI music, for god’s sake just do it privately, don’t put it online, unless you love the idea of collecting copyright strikes.

Hey Kpopalyse! Long time I don’t send you a question, hope it’s not boring.

So, this year I got back at collecting physical albums on CD. I still have the CDs I owned as a teen and I had bought a few k-pop albums on recent years, ofc, but it was mostly for the photobook and that shit. In June (or was it July?) I found a copy of ‘ABBA Gold’ at good pricing and bought it. I listened the hell of it, and idk, call it nostalgia but it was a good feeling to listen to music “offline”, if that makes sense?
Then I started to track down other albums I like and I noticed I’ve been leaning towards Greatest Hits compilations. I already got ones by Queen, Girls Aloud, Beatles and Kpopalypse’s ultimate fave Bob Dylan. It’s funny because I never owned any Greatest Hits before ABBA’s, but now it’s nice to have all killer tracks from my favorite artists without purchasing multiple albums and if the label is smart you also get a nice-looking booklet. So all my questions are regarding Greatest Hits collections:

1) What’s your overall opinion on greatest hits albums? You can answer from either an artistic or a commercial point of view. I know bands such as AC/DC and Metallica despise it.

2) As you know, k-pop never been big on Greatest Hits/Best Of albums. The ones that do exist were Japan-exclusive releases (a market that is fond of “Best Of” releases to this day). Why do you think that is so? I always found it odd, especially considering K-Pop is very much a singles-focused genre.

3) Do you think greatest hits still make any sense in the streaming era? After years of pretty much zero greatest hits albums in the Korean market, this month saw the release of two! Taeyeon’s ‘Panorama: The Best of Taeyeon’ and 9Muses’ ‘HÊRA: Best of 9Muses’, which I’d definitely buy if it wasn’t a fucking expensive vynil-exclusive. Neither were much promoted and were just “anniversary releases”, but we never had that before. Could this be the start of a new trend? Do you believe there’s an untapped market in there?

That’s it. Sorry for the length. Nice holidays!

1. Artistically, “greatest hits” albums generally are a negative, because album track order and concept is something that artists think about a lot, and by removing those factors you’re missing the bigger picture. Like reading just chapter 5 of a ten chapter book on its own. However if the album itself has no specific concepts or unifying sonic threads tying it together (such as is often the case in idol pop where building an album is often just a case of “what do we have lying around that we can sell”), this usually isn’t a factor.

Commercially it’s a double-edged sword. On one hand, a “greatest hits” album is very popular if it’s for a popular artist, because fans appreciate having all the most popular songs on one album. On the other hand, it may come at the expense of the audience investigating the full albums for the “deep cuts”, which depending on the group, could hurt overall sales across an entire catalog. This is very extremely popular legacy groups with a large back-catalogue don’t like them, but pop groups with only one or two really big songs and a whole bunch of other stuff nobody really cares about can benefit from them.

2. K-pop doesn’t bother with “greatest hits” albums because as far as the agencies are concerned, the music is not actually the product, therefore a compilation of the best music makes little sense. Also, it’s assumed that almost everyone listening to the group onboarded with them since early/debut days and has all the songs anyway. In Japan it’s a little bit different, Korean groups have usually been working the Korean market for a while before they’re introduced to Japan so a compilation of retrospective stuff for that audience makes more sense. Also, in Japan physical music sales are more popular than in other markets, which leads us into…

3. Streaming, which makes official “greatest hits” compilations fairly redundant, as the streaming service can just look at what gets streamed te most and generate its own. However it’s sometimes relevant for souveniers for longtime fans, but it’s really not designed to be listened to. The sort of thing you stick on your wall or coffee table or on a shelf somewhere so when people come over they can see how hard you stan Chorong or whoever.

Seriously, where the hell is Asian Junkie? More and more, I’m getting concerned that he’s lying in a ditch somewhere, and a group of sportball players are taking turns butt-fucking his corpse.

While there’s a non-zero chance that this has happened, he has posted on Twitter lately… or the sportball players who took over his account have, before they fled the crime scene. He says he’s working his way up to posting, I think he’ll probably break his fast when the Siyeon comeback happens. If that doesn’t get him posting I think it’s fair to say that he’s failed as a Dreamcatcher stan and he should quit for good. However I believe in him, he can do it. I think if he hasn’t got it in him to post anymore, he should go out with a bang, tell everyone that Siyeon ended all k-pop forever, rename his site to Siyeon Junkie and do a find-replace on all his old articles to change the name of every idol he ever wrote about to Siyeon. Bonus points if he can remove all the ads and replace them with ads from Dreamcatcher label.

Firstly Happy New Year oppar

Secondly how can you deal with your manager and colleagues being temperamental and bully you? I mean despite their attempt at “oh no we obviously don’t hate you pinky swear” the red flags are just too much to ignore. Like they always target my education level (“wow your education is so high you should have known that”) and didn’t bother to train me despite knowing I have no experience or knowledge on the field (my job is not my major), or testing my knowledge which is unrelated to my job and even if I answer correctly they were like “I know that too”, if I answer wrong they spent fucking 15 minutes shaming me. Basically love giving unsolicited “advice” to me and prove that they know more than me in… how to live life. There’s also this colleague of mine being angry if I only said yes/being nonchalant but also being angry if I argued back and always called me disrespectful and ungrateful (my mom suspects that probably her personal life sucks so she needs to vent on me but Idk). Oh and they are mad when I don’t react/agree with their opinions when they were the first ones asking me when all I did was… not answering or outright agreeing with their shits. They also called me childish for not sharing my personal information to them.

Idk should I give this job up because I’m too desperate for job but the salary is below average, toxic workplace and I basically can’t grow my positions or have something new to learn from as this is just an administration job…

Sounds like you should look for a new job regardless. Start hunting now, and don’t tell anyone there that you’re doing so. Then when you get a new job just leave.

Did you hear that XG’s Cocona now identifies as AFAB transmasculine non-binary and underwent top surgery?

Yes, I am aware… in fact I knew about this before it happened!

I was fucking around online (as I am prone to doing) mostly listening to really niche online radio mixes. I started thinking about my own aspirations of hosting a kpop radio show, so I decided to look around to see if any existed. Lo and behold I found a fun collection of radio shows that you did. I had no idea this was a thing you did nor that it was the reason this blog even exists (I think?). This is because I didn’t start as a weekly reader until 2021 and clearly I wasn’t that keen on reading far enough back to see the announcement post you did when the show ended. Either way I have tried using websites in the past like stationhead to do something akin to a radio show, so imagine my shock when I found out people only really use stationhead to mass stream songs and they don’t like boosting other groups numbers by doing something crazy, like playing them. Is there any hope for my radio hosting dreams? Also did you learn anything valuable from your time putting together the shows? I desperately need tips.

What I’d suggest for you is what I did… inquire at local radio stations in your area. Every big city has several of these and even small towns will have at least one or two. Don’t just go there with an “I wanna do a show” attitude though, just offer your services as a volunteer. It may not be easy to get in, many radio stations have waiting lists as they get inquiries like this often. Volunteer radio stations work in a “you scratch my back I’ll scratch yours” kind of way. Find the right station and be valuable to them and they may return the favour by letting you do the kind of things you wanna do.

Who do you think is the better guitarist and why, Kyuhee Park or Nacoco?

Kyuhee Park. Not even close. Nacoco certainly is solid, better than me at her specific niche by far, but the fluidity and cleanness of Kyuhee’s playing is just on another level, she’s one of the best in the world at what she does.

A while back, a friend and I visited Australia. We rented a car and drove around Atherton Tableland, stopping at lakes and waterfalls and shit. At one stop, a cassowary walked up in the parking lot. We didn’t know what it was, so we got up real close to it & got photos. That night, a bartender told us that cassowaries are mean cunts who like to fuck people up, & we were lucky we didn’t get hurt.

You ever come across one of these things? How about huntsman spiders or great whites or stonefish or any of the other Australian nightmares?

Holy fucking shit that bartender is right you’re lucky to escape from your cassowary encounter uninjured, you’re lucky you didn’t piss it off. You would have been able to get very close to it no problem because these lethal birds are like kookaburras, they are not afraid of shit and will just let you walk up. The cassowary can be a pretty aggressive bird when it wants to, it does some pretty wild flying kicks and loves to try disemboweling humans by kicking them in the stomach with its bladed feet. I’ve never met one personally as Australia is big and I’m not generally in the part of the country where they are, not a lot of live music theaters out that way.

I don’t really deal with sharks or stonefish because I don’t go in the water here because I’m not a crazy person, but someone does get chomped on by a shark here every few weeks or so. A lot of surfers have had close calls with sharks, but sharks don’t tend to specifically hunt humans, they just get a bit territorial and curious.

Huntsman spiders on the other hand are harmless and quite cute actually. Sure they are basically huge tarantulas, but they won’t attack humans unless provoked and will actually feast on other smaller more dangerous spiders like redbacks and whitetails that will bite humans and that you really do not want to get bitten by. Although having a huntsman crawl up the windshield on the inside of your car while you’re in traffic is still not a great experience.

do you think edm is going to have a moment in kpop? is it already idk i dont really keep up lolll

Well almost all k-pop is “edm” of a type. Unsure even what you mean.

Hi Oppar!
I asked you a question about a life problem a long time ago and your response was really helpful so thank you for that! I have some random questions that I was hoping you could answer:

1. I read through all of Qrimole after some time and I was surpised by how many people are trying to get you to say something about some political issue (trans people, racism, etc.) Was that always the case or has that increased in recent years?
2. Do idols from failed groups struggle to cope with real life once their groups get disbanded since they have no real life skills and grew up in an isolated environment? How well do they cope with making a living if they never became famous enough to make an alternative career off of that? What kind of career paths are open to these ex idols?
3. Why in your opinion does jpop suck? You say that kpop isn’t a specific genre and is just pop music made in korea so the music can be good or bad. Does jpop have a specific sound that’s bad? Or a way that they produce songs? I don’t know enough about music to articulate this so I would love to know.
4. I’ve been reading your blog for years, I fell off the middle because I lost interest in kpop for a bit. What has made you keep going on at this blog for so long? What made you start blogging in the first place? What was your first article? I’m sure it’s a huge time commitment that doesn’t benefit you monetarily. I do appreciate your blog, I started reading it when I was a teen and it has shaped my perspectives for the better, so thank you!

1. Yeah I haven’t been tracking it. I don’t know. I have political opinions like anybody but you can’t expect a political take from me to actually be worth much. I find politics boring, not because it doesn’t matter (it does) but because I think it’s something people should make up their own minds about. I’ll reference politics tangenitally in humour but not much more than this. “Culture wars” are the most boring shit, always nonsense manufactured by bots and trolls that misses the point.

2. Yes they do. If they picked up any skills while they were idols they can sometimes use that, but an idol that nobody cared about and that doesn’t have any creative aspect to what they do (i.e they just did what they were told, didn’t diversity into production etc) then they’re at a disadvantage when they leave the idol world. I tried to capture that in my book series, when Hana’s group dies she really has no idea how to even survive.

3. This again, lol. A lot of it is the melody choice, there’s a real twee nursery-rhyme type of melody choice which is really popular in j-pop. Also productions are similarly twee sometimes, but for the most part it’s just the songwriting. It works better when they combine it with other styles like punk or heavy metal where that childish kind of songwriting is offset by the harsher textures. That’s why I often praise a lot of Japanese music except their pop music.

4. Why I started writing:

My first ever article was my 2012 favourites list.

Happy 2026 and thank you in advance!!! Multiquestion submission:

1) I was dating this guy from Hinge for about 2-3 months in the summer/fall. We had some significant differences, but we sure were attracted to each other and had common experiences we wanted to have. I don’t fully understand what happened, but he went from being into me to losing steam fairly quickly. He had only had long-term relationships before, and 2 were long-distance, so I didn’t expect that at all. He’d send me good morning texts every day, reply to me, and comfort me when I was upset, but he wasn’t making as much of an effort to see or call me like before. I wanted to at least try working on it, but we broke up despite him claiming our connection was “meaningful.” We had a final conversation where he said that I didn’t do something wrong, just that his work got stressful and maybe we should have been friends first before dating since that’s how all his last relationships went. I wanted to respect how he felt, but he wasn’t convinced that I’d like his friends and he didn’t want to introduce me to them since he had already told them about me. It isn’t real friendship if I’m someone’s secret, so I said goodbye, but I was definitely confused and heartbroken. It’s been a while and he finally softblocked me on IG mid-December, so I don’t miss him quite so much and want to move on. However, I’m in my second year of medical school and will be at a rural hospital for at least a year. My male classmates aren’t good options for various reasons. I worry that it may not be good form to date any residents I’m rotating with or that my schedule will be weird, if not crazy. What do you think I should do? I’m fairly inexperienced at 26 so that was the farthest I got with a man intimately (nearly everything short of penetration, but he never pushed me to do anything. I wasn’t resistant to having sex, but I really wanted things to grow and be a more established relationship first). I’m scared I’m not going to find a guy that’s attractive and better for me than him on the apps… or that those better guys will also stop liking me 😦

2) Completely unrelated, but to get through this shit year of my life–it would be too difficult to list everything that happened aside from this breakup–I got back into my video game habit. I was already a new-age Zelda fan, so I explored more open worlds and ended up finishing RDR and RDR2. I can’t even think of a game to play following something as incredible as RDR2. What would you recommend? Ideally something with similar story depth.

1. Plenty of guys out there, I wouldn’t worry. I mean you hit it off with this guy more or less okay and you had differences, so you weren’t even that compatible. Imagine what it will be like with someone more suited. Our brains tend to trick us into thinking the most recent relationship was “the one” but often it isn’t and you find that out later on. But don’t worry about it too much for now, just live life and enjoy being single. Shit will happen, or maybe it won’t, but it probably will, just keep the radar running.

2. I haven’t played either of the RDR games so I couldn’t tell you. I’ll throw this open to my geeky readers to comment, of which I’m sure I have a few who can do so because it’s time for…

GEEKY QUESTIONS

Thoughts? GOG was taken private by one of its original founders. The former parent company was CD PROJEKT, a publicly traded, AAA game developer.

I don’t know enough about the old owners to know if this move is good or bad. People seem happy so I guess it’s fine? I don’t know. I’m not deep enough down the gaming rabbit hole to have strong opinions here but if people are generally happy I’ll take that as a win.

good news then? ppl can happily use the same hardware for a few more years. do you think that anyone would be upset about this news?

I don’t use consoles at all, I haven’t had “my own console” ever and my family hasn’t had one since the 1980s. But if I did still have one maybe I’d still use it. Nobody has to upgrade hardware, ever.

this you?

A much better and more succinct video on the same topic is here.

your thoughts on this article writer’s rant about hiding the the highest level graphical settings from ppl?

I play fifteen year old games and stuff written with RPG Maker. Nothing that I play maxes out my system or even gets close. I’ll get back to you in 2040 when this issue starts affecting me.

Thoughts on news?

(@13:59) They describe Valve developing a translation layer software wrapper that lets x86 software run on ARM CPU architecture, Lepton. I.e. the CPU most commonly used in mobile devices. I think the thing keeping PCs alive as we know them is all of the decades’ worth of legacy software (including games).

In addition to Valve’s existing Windows to Linux wrapper, Proton, it might help gamers transition away from Windows.

If you could 100% abandon Windows, would you? If you could transition to a desktop ARM computer, would you?

I don’t really quite know what this fucking shit means, even after both watching the video AND having you explain it. Personally the thing I need the most is MS Office (specifically Excel and Word), any computer I use needs to be able to run that stuff, without question, and LibreOffice/OpenOffice won’t cut it. And yes I’d like to be able to run my games too, but that’s secondary. Anything else is just whatever. So if whatever the fuck they’re talking about here with this ARM shit means that I could have MS Office but not Windows I’d be fine with it, I’m not particularly enamoured by Windows as an operating system. But if all of this is major headfucks to set up I’ll just stay with Windows, I’m not someone who actually enjoys configuring my system and overcoming those sorts of challenges, I just want my shit to work easily and whatever the easiest way to make that happen is, that’s what I’ll probably do. At some point this ARM shit might get really easy, or conversely Windows might become such a pain in the ass that it becomes too hard, that’d be the tipping point, but for now I’m good with what I have.

“they’ve re-released skyrim 19 different times and i’ve bought it every single time.”
isn’t this a catch-22? it’s probably the youtuber’s day job to review the game to inform punters out there, but isn’t buying it yet again making him part of the problem, even it is just to review it?

One reviewer’s purchase isn’t going to make a huge world of difference (and the bigger reviewers tend to get stuff sent to them for free), but their review might make more difference as it could convince several others to either buy the game or not. Reviewers in any field (not just gaming but also music and other things) are such a tiny minority of the amount of people who consume content that their collective purchasing power just on their own isn’t significant enough for “but the reviewers had copies” to make a dent in anything.

Thoughts on cosplay vs inspirations?

(This asker provided way too many links for this question. Any question that requires me to open up six separate links just to fucking answer it is a hard nope, I stopped at the second one.)

This is fron that Nikke game, right? I don’t really give a fuck about that game, I don’t play it (got bored of it and uninstalled after about 15 minutes of dull shooting) and everyone in it looks kinda samey. Yes she looks good but it’s just in that generic cosplay way. A lot of cosplay women look good.

Your thoughts on his point of remembering which companies stuck around in the consumer market before AI bubble bursts is a good one or no? (frankly I’d still buy from whoever has the best prices)

Nice thought, but nobody will give a fuck. This feels like the Fifty Fifty boycott. There’s not going to be mass riots when some company “abandons gamers” and then comes back with a new product, people will just go “ah, more stuff” and buy it. The always-online gaming rabbit hole people are a tiny minority of gamers overall, whatever hot issues are circulating in that community space often doesn’t make a dent with the general population.

BEST QUESTION

oppar! can you suggest a few articles for a new caonima to read?

Start here
How the industry markets idols while ripping them off part 1 and 2
Interviews with Sarah Wolfgang (Tahiti), Melanie Lee (ChocoLat) and Cheska (Fiestar)
Good songs I promise
Once you see it, you can’t unsee it
A lexicon to explain site-specific terms and in-jokes
Some sites to avoid
Find some new artists
Don’t die
Learn a new culture
I’ve had to diversify into fiction writing due to “external forces”, here’s how
I don’t know what this is just ignore it

You’re welcome – enjoy your stay!

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