by Raizel Liebler If Brooklyn Vegan can write about CoC, one of my musical boos, and correctly get their subgenre right — “North Carolinian thrash/sludge/crossover…
by Keidra Chaney The YouTube Music Awards are a great idea. While Spotify and Pandora gets most of the attention (and the scorn) when it…
by Raizel Liebler This discussion of Ga-in is part of a series of posts about gender and sexuality in K-pop. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO_EZpJ74TI If you’ve ever seen…
by Raizel Liebler We are launching a new series focusing on gender and sexuality in kpop. We will be writing about several women performers and…
Despite all of the talk about PSY in the United States, there is still so little substantive discussions of K-pop in English. Here, then, is…
For our next edition of “TLF Has Bad Taste,” we cover our favorite really-bad sexy songs. If any of these songs get you in that…
The Learned Fangirl is steeped in the experience of being a fangirl. Unfortunately, there aren’t nearly enough pop culture examples that are from the perspective…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Gdw1KiIs_8] Today, the BBC posted an article entitled The Dark Side of Korean Pop Music. Interestingly, this is only a couple of months after the…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I96WdNuim4] Here in the U.S., it seems like there can only be one highly successful female rapper at a time — now Nicki Minaj (and…