Really enjoyed getting to highlight such a prolific and important figure in K-pop composition — and relished the rare opportunity to get nerdy about a part of the industry we don’t often get to hear about. Check it out in print as well in July’s Hot Issue 🔥
KENZIE helped invent the sound of K-pop as we know it for more than two decades. She’s just getting started.
In a rare interview, the @SMTOWNGLOBAL producer and songwriter talked to us about making hits, “Western” pop vs. K-pop, and more.
https://t.co/HZ2iRgip8c
yesterday, I wore a shirt designed by mingyu for svt’s anniversary one year — my physical therapist had never heard of the group but loved it, and was blown away by how something so personal could be part of an artist’s merch.
every seventeen show is so fun and interactive because music is truly a way of connecting for them 🥲 i think of this paragraph that @nbmorin once wrote often
super unsettling to me that we're losing so many archives of pop culture history during this particular period of people thinking that having a twitter or tiktok account makes them a music business expert and culture historian without actually knowing much of anything at all
sickening (derogatory) to see the entire @mtvnews archive wiped from the internet. decades of music history gone...including some very early k-pop stories.