No Kpop No Life

In this episode we check the switch ups from Twice, NCT and IU + we discuss the very anticipated Billlie debut.

1:40 Twice – Scientist

24:00 NCT - Favorite (vampire)

34:25 IU - Strawberry Moon

37:15 B.I. - Cosmos

37:40 Boyz - Maverick

38:40 Oneus - Luna

42:40 Adora - Make u dance

43:50 Dreamnote - Ghost

45:30 Billlie - Ring x Ring

1:08:20 Game - Guess the #2 in Spotify

A rookie ranks special episode. Will any of these rookie groups take Stayc's crown?

2:20 Posh Girls – Got Chu

6:45 Pritti-G – Hola

15:10 Azer Blossom - Elegante

25:15 Ichillin’ – Got’ya

34:40 Hot Issue – Icons

42:30 Pixy - Addicted

1:00:30 Tri.be – Would you run

1:12:50 Lightsum - Vivace

1:26:30 Game: Do you know aespa?

We get knee-deep on aespa’s universe and share our thoughts on Twice’s western debut.

2:00 Aespa - Savage

39:05 Twice – The Feels

1:00:15 Key – Bad Love

1:05:10 Yukika – Tokyo Lights

1:10:15 Jo Yuri – Glassy

1:14:00 Craxy – Gaia

1:22:40 Luna - Madonna

1:24:50 Game: Stage name or real name?

Itzy unleashes their first full album and Stayc and Purple Kiss battle it out for the best spot in our rookie ranks.

1:30 Itzy - Loco

17:00 STAYC – Stereotype

31:30 Purple Kiss – Zombie

58:10 Bibi - Pado

1:00:50 Baek A Yeon – 0%

1:02:50 Lee Hi - 4 Only

1:07:15 Yukika –Tokyo Lights

1:11:30 Loona – Hula Hoop/Starseed

1:21:40 Baek Yerin – Loving you

1:22:50 One word reviews: Lisa – LALISA

1:23:30 One word reviews: Hyuna and Dawn – Ping Pong

1:25:00 Rookie Ranks graduation - Lunarsolar

1:29:45 Game: Guess the 20 song list from Cool

The queens are back. Red Velvet, Somi and fromis_9 agreed to release music in the same time period and Eunbi joins the party with her solo debut

2:10 Red Velvet - Queendom

20:00 fromis_9 – Talk & Talk

32:25 Eunbi - Door

48:35 Somi – Dumb Dumb

51:45 Seori - Dive with you (feat. eaJ)

53:30 Key – Hate that (feat. Taeyeon)

55:55 Stray Kids - Thunderous

1:02:10 Youha – Ice T, Cherry on top

1:03:30 Gray – Eternal Sunshine

1:04:00 Loona – Not Friends (Prod. Ryan Jhun)

1:19:00 Brave Girls – After we ride

1:23:00 Game: Guess the song from the chords, Red Velvet edition

Past present and future summer vibes.

2:00 Weeekly - Holiday Party

17:35 Dreamcatcher - BEcause

30:55 Sunmi – You can’t sit with us

47:10 Cherry Coke – love game in summer

49:20 D.O – Rose

51:10 Hyolin & Dasom – Summer or summer

52:40 AKMU – Next Episode

57:00 Laboum – Journey to Atlantis

58:50 Game: Guess the song from the chords

The freshest releases for the summer season.

1:30 Brave Girls – Chi Mat Ba Ram

8:40 Twice – Alcohol free

18:20 NCT Dream – Hello Future

21:10 Soyeon (G)I-dle – Beam Beam

30:40 Sori – Deja Vu

33:00 Taeyeon – Weekend

36:55 Even of Day (Day6) – Right Through Me

38:55 2PM – Make it

42:00 Rookie ranks: Weeekly graduation

54:40 Game: Time to first win

In depth discussion of Loona's [&] comeback.
Note: This version will play the album track before the discussions (only 30 seconds if you have the free version of Spotify). The timestamps will reflect the times for Spotify Premium users)

3:30 Paint The Town (P.T.T) song discussion

21:55 Music Video discussion

35:20 Lore discussion

53:50 Live performances

68:10 Track by track discussion 

68:20 &

74:20 Wow

83:25 Be honest

94:10 Dance on my own

108:50 A different night

115:45 U R

122:20 General album thoughts

126:15 Hopes and dreams for the future

136:10 Game

In depth discussion of Loona's [&] comeback.

3:30 Paint The Town (P.T.T) song discussion

21:55 Music Video discussion

35:20 Lore discussion

53:50 Live performances

1:04:50 Track by track discussion

1:05:00 &

1:09:30 Wow

1:15:30 Be honest

1:23:00 Dance on my own

1:35:00 A different night

1:38:20 U R

1:42:00 General album thoughts

1:45:50 Hopes and dreams for the future

1:55:45 Game

In this special episode, we do a big shake up to our rookie ranks after the wave of summer releases

2:00 Red Square graduation

6:00 Secret Number graduation

9:40 woo!ah! graduation + Purple

23:45 Hot Issue – Gratata

28:30 aespa – Next Level

45:30 tri.be – Rub-a-dum

56:50 Bling Bling – Oh mama

1:09:40 PIXY – Let me know

1:24:50 Lightsum – Vanilla

1:41:50 Rookie re-ranks

1:48:10 Game - how much do you know about Weeekly?

Joy brings out the Joy of the panel and Everglow make their boldest release yet.

1:45 Everglow – First

16:05 Joy – Hello

30:00 Weeekly – 7Days Tension

34:50 TXT – 0x1=LOVESONG

41:00 Loona [&] Choerry teaser live reaction

46:50 GWNS – Like it hot

58:10 B.I. – Waterfall

1:01:25 Game – Guess the “Nanana”

This episode is all about groups with several years under their belt, that have mature their sound.

2:00 Oh My Girl – Dun Dun Dance

18:40 fromis_9 – We Go

41:00 BTS – Butter

56:00 WJSN: The Black – Easy

1:06:10 Yuqi (from (G)I-dle) – Giant

1:13:10 Heize – Happen

1:20:00 Rocket Punch – Ring Ring

1:29:30 NCT Dream – Hot Sauce

1:39:20 Taemin – Advice

1:46:00 Game: The alphabet of kpop

Itzy takes a left turn, Bibi sticks on her line while Twice fuses their different sounds for their latest japanese release.

1:25 Itzy – Mafia in the morning

28:30 Bibi – Bad, sad and mad

38:00 Twice – Kkura Kkura

45:10 ph1 – 365&7, Cheeze – Loser, Meenoi – Dool

48:40 Rookie Ranks : Hot Issue – Gratata

1:12:30 Enhypen – Drunk&Dazed

1:16:40 Highlight – Not the end

1:20:50 Brave Girls – Red Sun

1:25:00 Game: Chained words

In this episode we tackle SHINee's transformative repackage album, and Kang Daniel's trilogy closer YELLOW, as well as new releases from DAY6, Whee In, NU'EST and Majors.

1:25 SHINee - Atlantis

16:30 Kang Daniel – Antidote

32:00 Rookie Ranks: Majors – Rain on me

52:20 DAY6 – You make me

1:03:40 Whee In – Redd

1:06:00 NU’EST – Inside Out

1:09:45 Davichi – Just Hug Me

1:12:10 Game: Guess the song by the English lyrics in the bridge

We tackle the divisive Stayc comeback, as well as the interesting different approaches from soloists Yukika, Sejeong, Wendy and much more.

1:25 Stayc - ASAP

26:10 Yukika – Insomnia

38:20 Kookie rant (Yukika, Sejeong and Wendy)

44:50 Wendy – Like Water

57:20 Sejeong – Warning

1:07:20 Rookie Ranks: Lunar Solar – Dadada

1:19:10 Baekhyun – Bambi

1:23:15 WJSN – Unnatural

1:34:00 3YE – Stalker

1:38:20 OnlyOneOf – libido

1:45:30 Game: Guess the Hanteo Top 20 from the 1st trimester

This episode is all about expectations, both from rookie groups trying to get the spotlight like Weeekly and Purple Kiss, to well stablished artists like IU.

1:20 IU – Lilac

14:30  Purple Kiss – Ponzoña

31:40 Weeekly – After School

52:30 Rookie Ranks: Purple Kiss, Weeekly

1:02:25 Jackson Wang – LMLY

1:07:45 Pentagon – Do or not

1:08:20 Dreamcatcher – Eclipse and Crossroads concerts impressions

1:10:25 Mirae – Killa

1:16:40 Seori – Lovers in the night

1:18:30 Game: Highest number

Rosé gets to debut and WayV and ATEEZ get slightly out of their comfort zone with mixed results. Some new rookie debuts to spice things up fror our Rookie ranks, plus a wave of indie releases that took our attention.

2:45 Rosé – On the ground

17:30 ATEEZ – Fireworks (I’m the one)

32:30 WayV – Kick back

38:05 Rookie Ranks: Majors – Spit it out

45:40 Rookie Ranks: AZER - Elegante

1:00:20 Yoon Jong Shin – Forbidden game (ft. Miyu Takeuchi)

1:02:30 Rain – Why don’t we (ft. Chung ha) and Magnetic (ft. Jackson Wang)

1:03:20 Neon Bunny – Kosmos

1:13:30 dosii – Swan

1:17:05 Buzz – Analogue

1:18:30 Bibi - Timeless

1:20:10 Yukika – Lovemonth

1:22:10 Hype check: Purple Kiss and Weeekly

1:26:15 Game: Guess the fandom names

Some of the veteran artists are feeling really bold in 2021, and that's the reason why we have this stacked episode with long awaited releases from SHINee, Chung Ha and Sunmi. But it's not all about the bold releases, Keembo, Kang Daniel and ONF stay on their very effective lines and we get 2 new entries in our Rookie Ranks with tri.be and Pixy's debuts.

1:20 Sunmi - Tail

10:00 Chungha – Bicycle

32:00 SHINee – Don’t Call Me

53:05 Kang Daniel – Paranoia

1:00:45 Suran – Sunny

1:02:45 Keembo – Inside

1:05:30 ONF – Beautiful, Beautiful

1:09:30 Rookie Ranks: Tri.Be – Doom Doom Ta

1:22:20 Rookie Ranks : Pixy – Wings

1:31:00 Game: Don’t call me

The big profile rookies go for unconventional follow up singles and we place some ridiculous bets for Kpop in 2021

2:30 Rookie ranks: cignature graduating

4:00 Purple Kiss – Can we talk again

18:30 aespa – Forever

34:10 Bibi – Eat my love

39:00 Youra – MIMI

42:45 EXID – B.L.E.S.S.E.D

50:55 Daybreak & Heize – Doesn’t make sense

53:10 Momoland & Chromance – Wrap me in plastic

57:25 2021 Kpop bets

2021 first heavy hitter releases take us from the familiarity of Dreamcatcher's rock, to the new ground of mainstream IU, with some surprises from Cherry Bullet, Epik High and Itzy.

1:43 Dreamcatcher – Odd Eye

20:20 IU – Celebrity

30:45 Hyuna – I’m not cool

38:15 Cherry Bullet – Love so sweet

49:45 IZ*ONE – D-D-Dance

53:30 Epik High – Based on a true story, Rosario

58:25 Chungha – X

1:05:30 Itzy – Not Shy (English version)

1:15:45 Hoppipolla – Your Ocean

1:17:00 Game: Guess the 2020 top 10s

Starting Season 3 having a look at the first releases to start the year, plus look back at our 2020 time capsule.

1:50 (G)I-dle – HWAA

21:13 Treasure – My Treasure

32:00 TWICE – Cry For Me

36:55 Youha – A bittipsy

39:25 Woo!ah! – I don’t miss U

49:12 Alexa – never let you go

50:50 Opening the 2020 Time Capsule

Join us why we look back at the best releases from 2020 in kpop. We cover everything from songs, albums, music videos... to best cover, best concept in our longest episode yet. 

0:02:00 MV of the year

0:23:10 Bonus Cool award: A minute of moments

0:43:43 ROTY

0:53:40 Bonus Doul award: Survived the hype

1:03:00 Performance of the year

1:11:10 Bonus kookie: 3 minimalistic tracks that get you in the feels

1:20:10 Group of the year

1:27:45 Bonus Jeti: Best concept

1:38:30 AOTY Album of the year

2:16:00 Bonus roa: Best cover

2:24:10 SOTY Song of the year

Last episode before our best of the year episode. Everyone decided to drop long format albums, from 20 year veteran BoA, to big mega groups IZ*ONE and NCT, but not forgetting indie darling Baek Yerin. Also, big shake ups in the rookie ranks, with Purple Kiss and Bling Bling getting in the mix and woo!ah!'s redemption arc.

2:06 BoA – Better

13:30 NCT 2020 – Work it, 90s love

31:40 IZ*ONE – Panorama

43:45 Keembo – Scene

44:05 Chungha – Dream of you

50:20 Baek Yerin – tellusboutyourself

57:45 Enhyphen – Given-taken

1:01:10 Rookie Ranks (Purple Kiss, Bling Bling, woo!ah!)

1:27:00 2020 bonus awards

1:34:10 Game: Was that 2020?

Gfirend shaking things up and high profile debuts from aespa and Stayc for our last regular episode of 2020.

1:10 - Gfriend – MAGO

14:18 aespa – Black Mamba

31:21 Stayc – So bad

46:30 Rookie Ranks

1:06:00 Loona – Star MV discussion

1:14:30 AKMU – Happening

1:16:02 Momoland – Ready or Not

1:20:12 BTS – Life goes on

1:26:45 Game: Guess the song from the lyrics

Some Twice hot takes and some rookie ranks shake ups

Note: There is some synchronization issues with the recording, sorry for the inconvenience.

1:17 Twice - Can’t stop me

24:30 KD/A – More

34:30 Rookie Ranks : Secret Number – Got that Boom

47:40 Primary, Sam Kim, Woodz, ph-1 – Bless you

50:24 – TXT – Blue hour

53:20 – CIX – Jungle

54:00 – AB6IX – Salute

59:25 – Dahye – Bad Blood

1:01:45 – Yezi – Mimew

1:04:20 – Dreamcatcher [Dystopia: Seven Spirits] Online Concert discussion

1:11:10 – Guess the total runtime of an album

The long anticipated comeback. We got together to fanboy over Loona’s [12:00] (Midnight) with a big deep dive were we cover the title track, the MV, the album, the performances, the lore, and even the styling and the hair!

Join us in this 2 hours and a half extravaganza, where we discuss the past, the present and future of Loona.

Companion video: Talkin' bout chord inversions and why it makes Loona's Voice/Star amazing: https://youtu.be/FFamZodYfTQ

0:00 new intro!!!

1:45 Why Not – Music discussion

25:30 Why Not – Music video discussion (no lore)

42:10 Why Not – Music show performances

51:33 [12:00] – Album discussion

55:07 Kookie’s nerd corner – Why Star / Voice is so special?

1:52:50 Why Not? – The lore

2:19:40 Hopes & Drams: The Future of LOONA

Quick turnaround release from some of the groups trying to build their resume for our End of the Year awards, with Weeekly, NCT U and Weki Meki as part of our bold releases.

1:00 Weeekly – Zig Zag

3:37 Kookie’s Tirade (11 minutes lmao)

21:22 Rookie Ranks

23:12 “SM Girl Group definitely not debuting in 2020”

24:03 WE-KEY ME-KEY (Weki Meki) - Cool (I counted I think 5 or 6 "cool" puns)

33 :33 NCT U – Make a Wish (Birthday Song)

44:22 Loco – Can’t sleep (ft. Heize)

48:02 K-Drama Male Leads

49:55 WJSN CHOCOME – Hmph!

56:28 DAWN – DAWNDIDIDAWN (ft. Jessi)

59:30 Bronze – Aquarium

1:00:50 Game: Guess the amount Vlive hearts

Blackpink with The Album, Everglow with The Comeback and SuperM with The SHINee.

(0:50) Blackpink – Lovesick Girls

(20:05) Everglow – LA DI DADA

(33:00) SuperM – One (Monster & Infinity)

(47:40) Rookie Ranks update: cignature – Arisong

(1:05:41) Treasure - Boy

(1:07:44) Checkmate – Drum

(1:08:55) Game: Guess who I am?

Kpop got extra diverse with fresh releases from fromis_9, Taemin, Stray Kids and Yooa's solo debut as part of the bold releases.

0:45 Fromis_9 – Feel Good (Secret Code)

9:05 Taemin – Criminal

14:50 Stray Kids – Back Door

20:03 YooA (Oh My Girl) – Bon Voyage

31:50 Mamamoo – Wanna be myself

35:10 H1ghr music - Blue tape

35:50 Serri ( Dal Shabet) – Come Closer

36:28 Cool’s confession time

40:10 Game: Guess the MV views

Blackpink, Lovelyz and Sori, all our bold releases showing a new side of them with their releases, but where they successful? We also cover latest KD/A, CLC, SuperM, KARD, Jackson Wang.

Timestamps

0:47 Blackpink – Ice cream (ft. Selena Gomez)

10:52 Sori – Initial S

24:26 Lovelyz – Obliviate

35:42 KD/A – The Baddest

43:16 CLC – Helicopter

49:45 SuperM – Tiger Inside

56:00 Rookie ranks: Lunar Solar - OH YA YA YA and Waka Maka – Burning power

1:11:42 Cool recap: (G)-idle, Cherry Bullet, Hyorin, JYP x Sunmi

1:15:05 KARD – Gunshot

1:16:50 Jackson Wang x Galantis – Pretty Please

1:19:25 Game: Guess the debut dates

In this episode we time travel to the past, present and future of kpop thanks to the releases from JYP, Dreamcatcher and Itzy. We also discuss the latest releases from Produce 101 alumni Sejeong and Kang Daniel, as well as first all English BTS track, BoA’s 20th anniversary project and new Rocket Punch.

1:00 JYP & Sunmi – When we disco

6:04 Dreamcatcher – BOCA

14:34 ITZY – Not Shy

26:10 Sejeong – Whale

29:40 Kang Daniel – Waves, Who you are?

33:25 Kookie’s tangent: Summer Hate vs Waves

36:30 BoA 20th anniversary covers (Gallant, Red Velvet, BOL4, Baekhyun)

44:30 BTS – Dynamite

53:30 Jeti’s boy group break:  ONEUS – To be or not to be and ONF – Sukhumvit Swimming

56:15 Rocket Punch – Juicy

59:50 Game: 3rd comeback rule

Join us in our trip down memory lane assisted by the insane SSAK3 project and the queen of our hearts, Yukika. But not everything is looking back, we have a deep look at Gfriend's and ATEEZ's future, Red Velvet's magical hidden Bside and Somi's first comeback among others.

0:38 SSAK3 - Beach Again

17:15 Yukika - Soul Lady 

30:28 GFriend - Apple 

43:43 Roa Needs a Support Group 

44:40 Kookie Forced Recommendation (LOONA for New Theme Song)  

45:10 Cool wants to talks about Red Velvet Irene and Seulgi Naughty MV  

51:40 BiBi  

53:33 Hoody - Submarine  

47:50 Unji - Away  

58:20 Songjin - Long Time No See   

1:00:50 ATEEZ (The Next BTS) - Inception  

1:07:00 Somi - What you been waiting for? (Not this)

1:12:00 Reveal your two favorite children LOONA Songs 

1:18:40 Game - Guess the Song by Song Description 2 (Electric Boogaloo)

In this episode we tackle the debuts of the Irene and Seulgi Red Velvet subunit and the front runner rookies Weeekly that have taken over the panel’s bias lists. The rest of releases are mostly powerful soloists: Sunmi, Chungha, Yukika and Bibi battling it out to land in our playlists. 

To put a mark at the first half of the 2020 in kpop we unleash part of our top 10 through a game where everyone has to guess to which member of the podcast top 10’s belong some preselected songs.

1:00 Red Velvet (Irene & Seulgi) – Monster

18:35 Weeekly – Tag Me

31:45 Rookie Rank update

34:38 Sunmi – Pporappippam

45:35 Chungha - PLAY

57:00 3YE – Yessir

1:00:15 Yukika – Yesterday

1:09:00 Bibi – I’m good at goodbyes

1:11:52 Forced recommendation - Sechskies – Couple

1:25:20 Game: Frankenstein NKNL 2020 kpop playlist

Blackpink asked everyone “How You Like That” and we got a lengthy answer for them. We also discuss the latest releases from IZ*ONE and WJSN without the supervision of Doul. It’s three weeks worth of content, including DIA, Nature, Momoland, Twice, Weki Meki, Baek A Yeon, Heize, IU, …

For the game, everyone has to put awaken the memory and come up with artists releasing songs with the same song titles.

0:53 Blackpink – How You Like That

15:33 WJSN – Butterfly

30:20 IZ*ONE – Secret Story of the Swan

45:28 Baek A Yeon – Looking for love

50:48 DIA – Hug U

52:45 Momoland – Starry Night

56:45 Nature – Girls

1:04:02 Twice – Fanfare

1:07:19 Weki Meki – Oopsy

1:12:07 Heize – Whatever song she put out

1:12:57 Cool’s tangent: Kdrama It’s ok to not be ok

1:15:00 IU – Into the I-land

1:18:35 Golden Child – ONE (Lucid Dream)

All our attention goes to Twice’s anticipated comeback More & More. But that’s not all, we also have a look back at osme releases we overlooked as well as a revisit to our Top 10 kpop songs of the year from 2019. For the game, we try our amazing English lyrics knowledge to guess the kpop song.

0:40 Twice – More & More

19:08 Moonbyul – Absence

22:40 Baekhyun – Candy

31:45 Minseo – Good Girl

36:40 Ryu Su Jeong – Tiger Eyes

46:30 SOLE – Happiness

52:45 Revisiting our 2019 SOTY picks

1:12:45 Game: Guess the song by the English lyrics: rap edition

Some heavy hitters and some soloists battle it out for our attention in this episode. We discuss the new releases from NCT127, TXT and Bvndit as part of our bold releases, but we also dive into the new music from DAY6, August D, Crush, OnlyOneOf, Keembo, Sujeong and BOL4.

We also introduce a new section in this episode, Rookie Rank, where we will keep tabs of groups during their first year. To start things of, we order our preferences between RedSquare, Secret Number and woo!ah!

1:20 NCT127 – Punch

10 :10 Bvndit – Jungle

18:10 TXT (Tomorrow by together) – Can’t you see me

29:35 DAY6 – Zombie

33:45 August D (Suga from BTS) - Daechwita

37:25 Crush – Mayday (ft. Joy from Red Velvet)

44:08 OnlyOneOf – Angel (prod. GRAY)

50:32 Keembo – Scandalous

51:30 Ryu Su Jeong (from Lovelyz) – Tiger Eyes

55:20 BOL4 – Hug

56:50 Rookie rank (Secret Number, Woo!ah!, Redsquare)

1:12:00 Game: Kpop word chain

It's the battle of the korean charts. We focus our attention on Oh My Girl's breakout hit NONSTOP and the top billing IU single featuring Suga from BTS. But there is also room for other releases, like new music form Chungha, GWSN, NCT Dream, Risso, Taeyeon and, what could possibly be the worst song we have heard this year.

For the game in this episode, the panel digs dip and try to guess how niche are some obscure twitter kpop hashtags.

0:55 Oh My Girl – NONSTOP

12:17 IU – Eight (ft. Suga from BTS)

22:50 GWSN – BAZOOKA

31:00 BIBI – Kazino

37:15 NCT Dream – Ridin’

41:35 Taeyeon – Happy

45:00 Chungha – Stay Tonight

48:20 Risso – Sorry

51:05 Fanatics – All you are (ft. JOHNEAST), V.A.V.I girl

57:30 Game: kpop hashtag game

It’s the battle of the Naeuns, but we all win! Join our discussion of April’s and Apink’s long awaited comebacks and new GOT7. We also go really deep on some indie recommendations with the debuts of Hajin and  Hoppipolla, the full album of Ha:tfelt and we also dab into some ballad territory, in part forced by the girls of LOONA.

For the game, the panel faces off in a guess the song by a sound. You can play along with the panel and also check out the game by itself:

[KPOP GAME] CAN YOU GUESS 30 KPOP SONGS BY ONE SOUND
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEk2q6ysaw8

0:50 April – LALALILALA

13:00 Apink – Dumhdurum

24:00 GOT7 – Not by the moon

35:55 Hajin – Daydream

41:30 Hoppipolla – Enough

46:15 cool’s tangent: SuperM - Let’s go everywhere

46:52 HA:TFELT – Satellite, Solitude, Cigar, Sweet Sensation, Life Sucks

54:40 BEN – The song with Heejin in the MV

59:45 Jinsoul - As times goes

1:03:10 Bvndit – Children

1:08:12 Game: Guess the song from one sound

In this episode we take a deep dive with the heavy tracks from (G)I-dle’s Oh My God and DalSooobin’s DIVE. Some other releases caught our attention include the surprising debuts from EXO’s Suho and new AOMG artist DeVita and other equally surprising relesase from TVXQ’s Changmin/MAX, Cignature, MCND and Stella Jang.

In the game, we take the panel to spin their wheels (while having a lot of fun) figuring out the groups from asking Yes or No questions.

1:10 (G)I-dle – Oh My God

14:50 DalSooobin - DIVE

26:30 Suho – Let’s Love

30:47 MCND – Spring

33:21 DeVita – EVITA!

34:18 Chungha – LIE (ft. TVXQ’s Changmin)

34:48 Stella Jang – Villain

37:22 MAX – Chocolate

45:27 Cignature – Assa!

50:33 The no name kpop game

Animal Crossing took over, but we still find some time to discuss (or re-discuss) the latest releases in kpop.

The closer game is GUESS THE REVERSED KPOP SONG by boo chan: https://youtu.be/PU0tXRG_lrA

1:03 Animal Crossing

1:40 Kookie caught a Sturgeon

1:50 Sejeong – Plant

15:57 Winner – Hold

25:13 Jackson Wang – 100 ways

30:17 Purple Beck and Garage Band

37:51 ONEUS – A song written easily

41:41 Kang Daniel – 2U

44:43 Xydo – Betting (ft. pH-1)

46:00 Cool’s tangent: Beethoven sunbaenim

50:00 Game: Guess the reversed song

Us against the flood of February kpop releases. Check who wins as we go through new releases from IZ*ONE, BTS, Dreamcatcher, Rocket Punch, KARD, Cherry Bullet, Weki Meki and Moonbyul. To close the podcast, we have a new game were llehuty tries his best to trick roa, kookie and Doul with ambiguous clues while they try to guess the kpop group.

0:45 - Dreamcatcher – Scream

16:25 – IZ*ONE – Fiesta

27:08 – BTS – ON

43:02 – KARD – Red Moon

48:46 – Moonbyul - Eclipse

52:50 – Rocket Punch – Bouncy

1:02:11 – Weki Meki – Dazzle Dazzle

1:05:13 – Cheery Bullet – Hands Up

1:09:30 – Cool’s update

1:11:25 – Game: Get the clue

1:22:10 – Time capsule

In this episode, we try to collect our thoughts on the stampede of girl group comebacks on February. Loona, Gfriend, Everglow, Cignature, Bvndit, Siyeon from Dreamcatcher, Bibi and Saay have new music for us to analyse and discuss.

There is an excerpt of Loona So What lore discussion at the end. Video version of that part is available here: https://youtu.be/0oLWYaqekWY

0:18 Gfriend – Crossroads, Labyrinth

10:36 LOONA – So What, #

27:24 Everglow - Dun Dun

34:07 Cignature – Nun Nu Nan Na

39:25 Bvndit – Cool

41:38 Siyeon (Dreamcatcher) – Paradise

44:51 Bibi – Restless

45:33 Saay – Winter

47:10 Tangent: G-idle and Everglow international tours

54:10 Game: Guess the song by the English lyrics

1:05:28 So What lore discussion

2020 still warming up, and before the February kpopalypse we get to discuss BTS’ prerelease track Black Swan, both the studio version and the performance version, and Taeyeon’s Purpose repackage album. We also share out thoughts about the intriguing Stray Kids English EP, Sophiya’s latest release and duets from Paul Kim, Chungah and Solar with Kassy. For the game, roa and Doul have a French face off guessing who made it to several end of the year charts.

0:49 Taeyeon – Dear Me

10:00 BTS – Black Swan

24:30 Solar from Mamamoo and Kassy – A song from the past

26:25 Stray Kids – English versions of Double Knot and Levanter

32:48 Sophiya – Ripple

35:34 Paul Kim and Chungha - Loveship

38:17 Preview: Girl-group-pocalypse

42:45 Game: Guess the 2019 Top 20 charts

Season 2 is here! We trimmed a bit the format and we will be focusing on the newest stuff. We start the year with in depth discussion of Momoland’s first comeback with the new lineup, Ateez’s EP that closes their Treasure saga and Younha doing her thing in her new mini album. We also discuss new Dreamnote, ph1 and Baek Yerin’s collab. We also have room to spazz about how amazing is having Ryu Sera back in our lives through her youtube channel.

We close the episode playing a game having a look at the hits of 2019 in kpop through the amazing 8bit medley by Darnu. You can check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZQZvFvCFX8

1:00 Momoland – Thumbs Up

10:20 Younha – Unstable Mindset (Dark Cloud, Winter Flower)

17:30 ATEEZ – Treasure Epilogue: Action To Answer

27:51 ph-1 and Baek Yerin – Nerdy Love

32:25 Dreamnote - Wish

39:40 Hype check on incoming Loona, IZ*ONE

41:22 Game: Guess the song from 2019

54:30 Ryu Sera fanboying tangent

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This is it. We say goodbye to 2019 picking or favourite everything in kpop, going from music video and album of the year to best rap verses and driving songs.

This time we tackle the latest releases leading to the end of the year, with new music from IU, AOA, EXO, WJSN, Twice, Crush, Sejeong. The meat of the episode is however, the Korean adventures of No Kpop No Life Texan subunit composed by @ElevenGreenEggs and @david_theworld. They explained their experience visiting different cities, their food discoveries, language struggles, watching some nugus busking, SM Museum and LOONA (and specially Olivia Hye’s) fan landmark, “Cafe Rosy”.

We close by discussing the sad but expected Momoland lineup changes and the underwhelming award shows to start the holiday season.

1:08 IU – Blueming and   Above the time

8:50 WJSN – As you Wish

18:52 AOA – Come see   me

27:08 EXO –   Obsession

37:10 Crush – From midnight   to sunrise

41:00 Twice - &Twice

44:46 Sejeong –   Tunnel

45:20 Blue.D –   Nobody (ft. Mino)

48:53 CSVC – Just 4   U…

53:05 J.Y.P. – Fever   (ft. Bibi)

59:00 NKNL TX   subunit korean adventures

1:50:40 LOONA’s   Orbit 2.0 fankit

1:52:00 News: Momoland’s   lineup shake up

2:14:04 News: MAMA   and other Meaningless Asian Music Awards

2:26:20 Best of the   year awards teaser

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In this episode, we tackle a varied set of new releases from Bvndit, Mamamoo, Hyuna, Rainbow, Stray Kids, Nature and WayV among others. Our Texan subunit also shares their hype about their long trip to South Korea. We end up making up our minds on our official MAMA ballot and play a quick game where Roa and Doul battle it out trying to guess kpop songs from their English lyrics.

0:40 Bvndit – Dumb!

8:27 Mamamoo – HIP!

18:54 Hyuna – Flower Shower

25:15 DAWN – Money

33:21 Stray Kids – Astronaut

37:40 WayV – Love Talk

38:20 GOT7 – Call my name, runaway

40:40 A.C.E – Slow diving

41:10 Rainbow – Aurora

46:00 I LUV – Open the door

48:03 Nature – Oopsie (my bad)

1:02:00 NKNL-US subunit trip so South Korea preview

1:19:22 Who is NKNL’s MAMA? (Part 2)

1:26:07 Game: Guess the song y the English lyrics

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In this packed episode, we go through impressions from 2 recent live events some members of our panel attended: Doul and roa saw Dreamcatcher live in Paris on 191103 as part of the European leg of their “Invitation from Nightmare City” and kookie saw Weki Meki and Chic Angel on 191026 in Kpop Together 2019 in Dallas. As always, we share our thoughts on the recent releases, including Hinapia, Taeyeon, IU, Brow Eyed Girls, ARIAZ, Purplebeck, Hoody, TXT, Only One Of and Alexa.

As part of the news segment, we discuss Queendom’s finale and also share our sadness over I.O.I’s reunion being delayed again.  We close the episode with “Who’s your MAMA?”,as we go through their nominees in key categories in the Mnet Asian Music Awards and decide NKNL official picks for this VERY IMPORTANT awards.

You won’t believe what we talk about in this episode!

Just kidding. As usual, we discuss the most recent releases, including Twice’s Fake and True, Ladies Code’s Set Me Free, Tiffany Young’s Run For Your Life, ATEEZ’s Wonderland, Stray Kids’ Double Knot, Lim Kim’s Yellow, AB6IX’s Blind for Love, Kei’s I go, Joji x Jackson Wang (GOT7)’s Walking, ONF’s Why, Heize’s Late Autumn. We also discuss our hopes and dreams about IOI’s reunion and Red Velvet’s Reve Festival Day 3. Check out cool’s throwback to one of the most mistreated popular kpop groups and a game that tested the intuition and knowledge of the panel.

Timestamps:

0:30 Ladies Code – Set me free

6:14 AB6IX – Blind for Love

10:30 I.O.I reunion?

13:00 Twice – Fake and True

17:26 Red velvet – Reve Festival Day 3?

20:18 Stray Kids – Double Knot

24:54 Tiffany Young – Run For Your Life

29:30 kookie concert adventures

32:00 Lim Kim – Yellow

37:54 Kei – I Go

39:21 88 rising (Niki, Joji x Jackson Wang)

43:15 Heize – Late Autumn

46:11 Ateez – Wonderland

52:40 ONF – Why?

54:54 Cool’s tangent – LOONA is better than Blackpink?

1:01:25 Mnet is trash (tease for next episode)

1:02:01 Dreamcatcher in Paris hype check

1:05:12 Cool’s throwback

1:31:06 Game: Fake or True

1:43:50 Sulli

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