K-YOS
By Pressed Petals Creative Collective
K-YOSNov 17, 2023
K-Pop Review: April 2024
A rollercoaster of a month for the girls at K-YOS...
Artists mentioned: Le Sserafim at Coachella, Stray Kids at The Met Gala, Babymonster, TXT, EPEX, BoyNextDoor, Onewe, Riize, Seventeen, and IVE.
K-Pop Review: March 2024
Artists mentioned: ZeroBaseOne, Lun8, Purple Kiss, The New Six, Lucy, ILLIT, NCT Dream, j-hope (BTS), ARTMS, and aespa.
K-Pop Review: February 2024
Artists mentioned: P1harmony, Billlie, Yena, Ten (NCT), Aimers, Le Sserafim, A.C.E., Twice, Taeyong (NCT), and Cravity.
K-Pop Review: Dec 2023-Jan 2024
2024 has arrived and, likewise, the k-pop machine begins to spin back up. December and January are notoriously slow months in k-pop, so we've combined the two to recap the releases that most caught our attention!
Artists mentioned: Lucy, Riize, Itzy, SF9, OnlyOneOf, NMIXX, Hui (Pentagon), TWS, and CIX
2023 K-Pop Songs of the Year
2023 has come and gone, meaning it's time for us to cover our favorite k-pop songs of the year! From the period of December 1st, 2022 to November 30th, 2023, we saw dozens upon dozens of amazing releases in and around the realm of k-pop, many of which we covered monthly on this very podcast. But now, it's time for only the best of the best. Dani, Lotus, and Azalea join up once more to share their ranked Top 25 lists and share an important announcement about the future of the podcast.
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K-Pop Review: November 2023
It's the last episode before our yearly wrap-up! There were quite a few last minute releases this November, and we're here to review the ones that caught our attention.
Artists mentioned: WayV, Jungkook (BTS), ZEROBASEONE, aespa, Stray Kids, Red Velvet, &TEAM, The Boyz, VIXX, and Dreamcatcher.
K-Pop Review: October 2023
With autumn comes more k-pop releases as artists try to squeeze in before the slow season of winter. Dani and Lotus recap all the k-pop comebacks they had opinions about during October... and share some video game opinions, too!
Artists mentioned: NewJeans, ONF, NCT 127, TXT, IVE, Kingdom, Seventeen, Paranoia (Baekhyun), Le Sserafim, Riize, and Taemin (SHINee).
K-Pop Review: September 2023
September was, as per usual, another light month for k-pop. Although we mostly saw singles and pre-releases, there are still some good comebacks for Dani and Lotus to talk about!
Artists discussed: Seventeen & New Kids on the Block, RIIZE, Purple Kiss, Blackswan, Stray Kids, V (BTS), Cravity, Weeekly, Tempest, ONEUS, and Jungkook (BTS).
K-Pop Review: August 2023
It's a quieter month for k-pop despite the influx of new releases, so our episode is a little quieter, too!
Artists discussed: xikers, The Boyz, Jeon Somi, STAYC, Lucy, Jihyo (Twice), Seventeen, and NCT 2023/NCT U.
K-Pop Review: July 2023
Sorry we're late! K-pop season is in full swing with lots of releases each month, and no sign of slowing down until the end of the year.
Artists discussed: Jun (Seventeen), TXT, EXO, ZeroBaseOne, NMIXX, Enhypen, Jungkook (BTS), NCT Dream, MiSaMo (Twice), NewJeans, Oh My Girl, Treasure, and ITZY.
K-Pop Review: June 2023
June has come and gone, so Dani and Lotus are back to talk about the k-pop releases that caught their attention!
Artists discussed: Stray Kids, Halsey ft. Suga (BTS), fromis_9, The New Six, &Team, Ateez, SHINee, Treasure, and UKISS.
K-Pop Review: May 2023
As per usual, May was a pretty light month as far as k-pop comebacks go. However, we expect to see a few of these in SOTY/AOTY discussions at the end of the year... or maybe just ours?
Artists discussed: LE SSERAFIM, Oneus, (G)-IDLE, Enhypen, Joohoney (Monsta X), KARD, Dreamcatcher, CIX, and Twice.
K-Pop Review: April 2023
It's April in k-pop land! This was a strange month for k-pop with releases like NewJeans's Coca-Cola collaboration, IVE's album I've IVE, and multiple soloist and subunit releases — Iz*One's Lee Chaeyeon, BTS's Suga, and NCT's DoJaeJung, to name a few. Dani and Lotus hash out their thoughts on this month's comebacks, as well as what they're looking forward to in May.
Other artists discussed: Apink, Kep1er, Onewe's Giuk, Seventeen, Taeyang, and Enhypen.
K-Pop Review: March 2023
Dani and Lotus have fixed their mics, returned from vacation, and are ready to judge the k-pop releases of March 2023. Correction: nabi (나비) means "butterfly," nabillera (나빌레라) means "like a butterfly."
Artists mentioned: Jimin (BTS), Billlie, Kai (EXO), OnlyOneOf, NMIXX, Twice, j-hope (BTS), and more.
K-Pop Review: February 2023
Dani and Lotus return to cover the goings-on in the k-pop world for February 2023.
Artists mentioned: Stray Kids, Key (Shinee), tripleS, TRI.BE, Purple Kiss, The New Six, The Boyz, Fifty Fifty, and more.
K-Pop Review: Dec 2022-Jan 2023
K-YOS's new schedule begins with Dani and Lotus discussing the k-pop scene of the last couple months — the comebacks we liked, the ones we didn't, and some major news.
Artists mentioned: ATEEZ, NewJeans, SMCU, LOONA, OnlyOneOf, Twice, TXT, MAVE, and more.
Top 25 K-pop Songs of 2022
We're officially in 2023, so you know what that means: K-YOS is back to provide you with our ranked lists of the best k-pop songs from the last year. We discuss not only our top 25 songs each, but also how we felt about the year in k-pop overall and our podcasting plans for 2023. In order to get the podcast out in a timely manner, we modified our release window to be January 1st to November 30th, so please keep that in mind. Our audio is pretty scuffed due to issues we found after recording, which we'll hopefully have fixed by the next episode!
Listen to our playlists and follow us on social media:
Dani (@Chironidess): https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1061BHjAavBTxVgW6f467T?si=ce7df1cec6d24fe9
Lotus (@LotusLovesLotus): https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1IAWTazptAOYmotuBerJr3?si=c0a45d6164d64271
Azalea (@twelveazalea): https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3YPXBcLH2nlx1X9EPm5VnB?si=0573232d2f4544d0
Kpoppies in STEM
Concept: "How much do we really like these groups?" but with math. Dani, Azalea, and Lotus return for a deep dive into the discographies of some of the most popular k-pop groups in the world (including BTS, STAYC, NCT 127, and more) and use math to determine how good they really are.
Top 25 K-pop Songs of 2021
Dani, Lotus, and Azalea have decided to enable each other in an official capacity and start a k-pop podcast. We're swinging big with our first episode and giving a full SOTY list for 2021, with 25 songs each.