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 | SHINee GGB | Bling Bling Hitzão da Porra | MC Rebecca Follow Us: @kpop_critical_ $kpopcritical Catrina Cash App: $catrinajk www.instagram.com/catnastee/ Morgan Cash App: $mrgnhayes www.instagram.com/mrgnhayes.co.uk/ "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for -fair use- for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use."

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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 that him featuring would be a risky move. *~Music this Episode~* Mmmh | KAI Resonance | NCT 빛 (Hope) | SMTOWN Better | BoA Girls on Top | BoA Amnesia (기억상실) | KAI What Do I Call You | Taeyeon 수상소감 (Acceptance Speech feat. BI) | Epik High Perfume (향수) | Yubin 오늘 조금 취해서 그래 (Abittipsy) | Youha 호피무늬 (Hop In feat. Hwasa, DPR LIVE) | Uhm Jung Hwa Thank U | U-Know Loco (House Party) | U-Know La Rosa 불면 (不眠 feat. Shin Yeeun) | U-Know Time Machine | U-Know 무자비(無慈悲) | CSVC Follow Us: @kpop_critical_ $kpopcritical Catrina Cash App: $catrinajk www.instagram.com/catnastee/ Morgan Cash App: $mrgnhayes www.instagram.com/mrgnhayes.co.uk/ "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for -fair use- for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use."

2012 Will be My Year :)

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 illness. But somehow in the midst of this... we've been able to muster up enough strength to FINALLY start our series on Blackness and Kpop. (Or really just Morgan flying solo here lmfao.) This episode is dedicated to Black fans. We'll talk about doxxing, cultural appropriation, Black Lives Matter, whatever happened to kmusicandblackwomen and why the fuck antiBlackness is so normalized in pop culture. Super lighthearted episode... yeah. Don't forget! We have our phone lines OPEN throughout the duration of this series for y'all to call in to talk to us. Our next episode in this series will revolve around Black music and the sound of Kpop! Call us anonymously at (862)438-5353! Links: K-pop trainees learn about Cultural Appropriation: Digital Blackface ?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flqKIrQDYyo KmusicandBlackwomen ?KmusicandBlackwomen.tumblr.com Follow Mason on Apple Music ?@masonw David Guetta Tribute to George Floyd ?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5ZgEtgxxg0 *~Music this Episode~* Automatic (Remix) | Chancellor Somewhere (ft. GRAY, Hoody, ELO & DeVita) | GooseBumps Can’t Stop Me | TWICE Make a Wish (Birthday Song) | NCT U 못된 여자 (Lovekiller) | Niel LA DI DA | Everglow Bionic | Christina Aguilera Together | Beabadoobee Alcohol | Millionaires Stupid Horse | 100 Gecs MMM | Treasure Why Not | LOOΠΔ Idea(理想)| Taemin Caution | Mariah Carey Wet Me | Ray J Touch | NCT 127 Ko Ko Bop | EXO Numb | Jessi Ringtone | 100 Gecs Know Your Name (ft. Dok2) | Jay Park I Need You To | Tobe Nwigwe Follow Us: @kpop_critical_ $kpopcritical Catrina Cash App: $catrinajk www.instagram.com/catnastee/ Morgan Cash App: $mrgnhayes www.instagram.com/mrgnhayes.co.uk/ "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for -fair use- for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use."

Blackness Series: Kpop Really Kinda Destroying My People Tho...

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_ $kpopcritical Catrina Cash App: $catrinajk www.instagram.com/catnastee/ Morgan Cash App: $mrgnhayes www.instagram.com/mrgnhayes.co.uk/ "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for -fair use- for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use."

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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 Zimzalabim Ep 22: Trauma: Get Your Parasitic Parasocials Up Ep 2: #FREEHANBIN Follow Us: @kpop_critical_ $kpopcritical Catrina Cash App: $catrinajk www.instagram.com/catnastee/ Morgan Cash App: $mrgnhayes www.instagram.com/mrgnhayes.co.uk/ "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for -fair use- for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use."

~*KPC Trailer*~

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 Series! We discuss the spectacle of the training process, "hardship" as a concept, and how baring witness to growing pains doesn't necessarily guarantee safety, security and money (which... like most regular people... most of these kids are looking for)for the ones trying their hardest. When is someone prepared enough for the whirlwind of connections and luck that industrialized art runs on!? ? I'm convinced this episode would be a solid 4 hours long if we talked about No Mercy, Finding Momoland, The Unit, Dance or Band, Boys24, MIXNINE, YG Treasure Box... Even though there are a slew of underrepresented and disbanded groups we stick to mostly Produce but trust, we touch on a couple of other ones too. Shoutout After School... shoutout Pristin... shoutout Fromis_9... shoutout Gugudan... shoutout Weki Meki... shoutout DIA... shoutout WJSN... Also the lovely professor referenced is Suk-Young Kim, head of Theater and Performance Studies at UCLA. She's also @DrAjumma on Twitter. *~Music this Episode~* Trauma | SEVENTEEN Spotlight | 1THE9 10억뷰 (1 Billion Views)| EXO-SC 질렀어 (Now or Never) | SF9 죽겠다(KILLING ME)| iKON I Feel You | Wonder Girls You Raised Me Up | Josh Groban The Climb | Miley Cyrus I Got a Boy | Girls Generation Applause (Lady Gaga Cover) | Yoo Jeongyeon youtube.com/watch?v=vLISena_9Us Headlines Freestyle | Choi Vernon youtube.com/watch?v=Geg5j_ivuKQ Pick Me | Produce 101 EOEO | UNIQ 봄바람 (Spring Breeze)| Wanna One Flash | X1 Secret Tape | Sunmi Drip | Hinapia Follow Us: @kpop_critical_ $kpopcritical Catrina Cash App: $catrinajk www.instagram.com/catnastee/ Morgan Cash App: $mrgnhayes www.instagram.com/mrgnhayes.co.uk/ "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for -fair use- for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use."

Trauma: Look at Me, Wait Don't Look at Me. Ok, Now Look at Me

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 everyone who organized at KPSN and MACG Productions! We'll try to get into live shows more because this was great! That being said, this is our first recorded live show so there are tech difficulties and points where the audio is a bit low. Bare with us! ? *~Music this Episode~* The SHINee World (Doo-Bop) | SHINee Bling Bling | iKON Danger | Taemin 보라빛 밤 (Pporappippam) | Sunmi yaya(넵넵) (ME TIME) | Yubin Life Sucks | HA:TFELT Monster | Irene & Seulgi 10억뷰 (1 Billion Views) (Feat. MOON) | EXO-SC Hot Babe | Super Junior-D&E I’m Ok | iKON Trip (Ella Mai cover) | Jinhwan Left & Right | SEVENTEEN Apple | GFriend Follow Us:  @kpop_critical_ Catrina  Cash App: $catrinajk  www.instagram.com/catnastee/ Morgan  Cash App: $mrgnhayes  www.instagram.com/mrgnhayes.co.uk/ "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for -fair use- for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use."

KPC Live at #KPSNPODCASTFEST 2020

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_floyd KPOP, you are not getting a single cent from me EVER again! However, I do plan on uplifting the SeulRene cb coming out July 6th... Alternatively if you see us at a Shinee concert look the other way please..... Seventeen? You will be dealt with. She’s coming in late but she’s coming in hot. It's been a month... of just utterly... unbearable... antiblack-genocide popping off at an ACCELERATED rate. Sorry we haven't put out an episode, but we've been incredibly angry and actively fighting with our government.......... This episode, we discuss the moral obligation of celebrities and idols along with the moral compass their fans may or may not have. Whether NCT or SM likes it or not, Punch is now one of the many songs of the revolution. Here's a link to our notes and full thought process for this episode: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OBoZQbWcmacHJ3yfozpHQjCDrWClCPRFRTHRKUvXOW8/edit *~Music this Episode~* NCT 127 x Grace Lee Boggs Mix Vice News "Who Was George Floyd" Candy | Baekhyun More & More | TWICE Oxygen | TWICE Don't Call Me Again | TWICE Turn Back Time(超时空回)| WayV 水 (H20) | Lay Ungodly Hour | Chloe x Halle Our 25th ep :’) (Intro is all our wonderful friend Moses’ doing and we thank and love him!!!!!!!) Follow Us:  @kpop_critical_ Catrina  Cash App: $catrinajk  www.instagram.com/catnastee/ Morgan  Cash App: $mrgnhayes  www.instagram.com/mrgnhayes.co.uk/ "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for -fair use- for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use."

MF DO NOT BE HATING WHITE SUPREMACY ENOUGH FOR ME

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/donate https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/louisville-community-bail-fund/ https://www.paypal.me/columbusfreedomfund https://brooklynbailfund.org/donate https://fundly.com/coloradofreedom?form=popup# https://secure.givelively.org/donate/the-bail-project *~Music this Episode~* BAZOOKA! | GWSN Tweaks ~ Heavy cloud but no rain | GWSN (玉) Jade | Lay 100 Ways | Jackson Wang 那幕 (Falling Down) | THE8 舞い落ちる花びら (Fallin' Flower) | SEVENTEEN Ridin’ | NCT DREAM 내게 말해줘 (7 Days) | NCT DREAM Say It | Tory Lanez Quiet Down | NCT DREAM Punch | NCT 127 NonStop | NCT 127 Chocolate | MAX Piano | MAX Me, Myself & I | MAX ya ya (넵넵) (ME TIME) | Yubin Happy | Taeyeon Yours (Feat. Lee Hi, Changmo) | Raiden X Chanyeol Not By the Moon | GOT7 Trust My Love | GOT7 Zombie | DAY6 사랑, 하자 (Let's Love) | Suho 너의 차례 (For You Now) Feat. Younha | Suho Remember | WINNER 뜸 (Hold) | WINNER I'm in Trouble | NU'EST Knock (널찾아가) | ASTRO Can’t You See Me? (세계가 불타버린 밤, 우린…) | TXT 덤더럼 (Dumhdurum) | Apink LALALILALA | APRIL Nonstop (살짝 설렜어) | OH MY GIRL Who Dis? | SECRET NUMBER Stay Tonight | Chungha Tiger Eyes | Ryu Sujeong 자나깨나 (Mayday) (Feat. Joy) | Crush 사장님 도박은 재미로 하셔야 합니다 (KAZINO) | BIBI 비누 (Binu) | BIBI Womp Womp (Feat. Jeremih) | Valee Candy | Baekhyun Follow Us:  @kpop_critical_ Catrina  Cash App: $catrinajk  www.instagram.com/catnastee/ Morgan  Cash App: $mrgnhayes  www.instagram.com/mrgnhayes.co.uk/ "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for -fair use- for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use."

Jupiter's In Retrograde

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 parasocial relations to each other. Idols and their relationships to fans, journalists, social media, and people who stay hate watching. The kinds of influence that media has on parasocial relationships. These parasocial relationships that aide to fantasies of deranged, but generally wealthy people, we have sasaengs (stalkers) emerge and fit into a category of the Kpop-industrial complex. We talk about some absolute nut shit that has gone down because idols must be available to their audience, while not individually knowing their fans. Its like a little tragic but also kinda funny sometimes? Anyways, we’re speaking on some little and large known facts of Kpop which vary in severity. We also deal with spectacle and what creating spectacle really means, and how it functions with relation to idols. We got that drops episode coming up soon that mentioned in the end. Happy summer, stream us and Yubin’s yaya (ME TIME) Sources: The Adoring Audience: Fan Culture and Popular Media *~Music this Episode~* Trauma | SEVENTEEN 넵넵(ME TIME) | YUBIN Follow Us: @kpop_critical_ $kpopcritical Catrina Cash App: $catrinajk www.instagram.com/catnastee/ Morgan Cash App: $mrgnhayes www.instagram.com/mrgnhayes.co.uk/ "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for -fair use- for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use."

Trauma: Get Your Parasitic Parasocials Up

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.