If you’ve been a K-pop fan for long enough, you’d know that there used to be a time where violence in MVs was not a big deal. Knives, guns, and blood: they were all tools used to bring out the grittiness of a song or a group’s image. T-ara‘s “Day By Day“, B.A.P.‘s “One Shot“,
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TVXQ‘s Yunho is known for, amongst other things, constantly challenging himself, and for giving his all when he does. There’s no surprise, then, that his first Korean solo album exceeds expectations (even if it comes only sixteen years after his debut). It’s not his first solo venture; the veteran idol has had countless solo singles
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Welcome back to another installment of For Your Viewing Pleasure, where we take time out of the week to curate a set of photos from the K-pop landscape. Fashion shoots give idols and actors the opportunity to experiment with style and showcase different sides of their personalities – and often, there’s no better side than
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Welcome back to another installment of For Your Viewing Pleasure, where we take time out of the week to curate a set of photos from the K-pop landscape. Lighting can make or break a photoshoot. It is the lighting tricks backstage that let colors dance on the photographic film and allow the subjects to shine
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Welcome back to another installment of For Your Viewing Pleasure, where we take time out of the week to curate a set of photos from the K-pop landscape. K-pop is known for its crazy, often kaleidoscopic fashion, but in these pictorials we dial it back to explore the contrast of black and white. The simplicity
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TVXQ deliver another cool and cohesive album with, New Chapter #2: The Truth of Love. The album mainly consists of R&B tracks with a touch of jazz and pop. Lyrically, there isn’t anything remarkable about the album but it’s a change of pace from what’s trending in K-pop. The album starts off with its lead
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For their 15th anniversary, the members of TVXQ returned with New Chapter #2: The Truth of Love, with “Truth” as the title track. Following the sound of their preceding title track (“The Chance of Love”), “Truth” continues to show a mature, sophisticated side of the duo. It seems as though their post-military service music seems to lean towards a more subdued
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You might have noticed a common, albeit peculiar, trope in many K-pop MVs: the presence of a bathtub. They come in various sizes, shapes, and fillings, and rarely go unnoticed. You might have even asked yourself why such an object is a recurring choice in the most varied contexts a music video can have. Question
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