Benedetta Geddo

The best K-pop songs of 2022 took us on a journey through girl group supremacy, glitch modes and hype boys, memories of the past, and visions for the future.

Storytelling works in archetypes, broadly speaking. Those archetypes can be played straight, completely subverted, mixed together, or stuck in a story that wouldn’t really be the best one for them just for the fun of seeing what comes out of it. Of course, there are always nuances and particular cases, but the fact that archetypes are a core part of any narration is pretty much a given.

Even though we had all pretty much guessed it already, Netflix recently confirmed that the third season of Shonda Rhimes’s blockbuster hit Bridgerton will indeed be entered about Penelope Featherington (a.k.a. the ton’s one and only Lady Whistledown) and Colin Bridgerton and words can’t express how ready I am for it.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe—just like any universe, really, our own included—is constantly expanding. This year’s San Diego Comic-Con introduced the studio’s Phase 5, which will run from 2023 to 2024, and we can be certain that there’s no stopping it for the time being.

K-Pop never sleeps, and novelty is always around the corner— new groups, new faces, new styles and new concepts. This is always true, but I would argue that is especially relevant now that the generations are moving from the 3rd to the 4th and the playing field is still pretty much open for the taking.

Ever since BTS announced their group hiatus during their 2022 Festa dinner—an annual celebration of their debut and a cherished tradition for both the members and fans alike—ARMYs all over the world have been holding their breath to see what Namjoon, Seokjin, Yoongi, Hoseok, Jimin, Taehyung, and Jungkook have in store.

One of the most anticipated movies of this spring, Everything Everywhere All At Once, is a take on the multiverse that doesn’t feature any Marvel superheroes—just a family and its complicated intergenerational relationships, with a side of a failing laundromat and IRS auditing.

The K-Pop girl group, LOONA, also known as Girl of the Month, has one of the most interesting stories and rises to fame. And they continue to keep the buzz alive between fans—known as Orbits—and non-fans alike—with choices that can sometimes seem curious at best. But let’s start from the beginning.

The first thing that pops into one’s head, when they think “K-Pop,” is usually the music, of course, but there’s another huge element to K-Pop fandom that many of us get equally excited for (well, at least, almost equally) and that’s the fashion. K-Pop and fashion are essential to one another—and very few groups know it better than BLACKPINK.

It’s a well-known fact among BLINKs that among the four members of BLACKPINK, Jisoo is the one who has always had her eye on an acting career. She famously joined the group’s agency, YG Entertainment, to actually debut as an actress before becoming a part of the trainee project that was going to turn into one of the most successful K-Pop girl groups of all time.

Sometimes being a BLINK—and waiting for a BLACKPINK comeback—can feel like, to quote a great classic, “Waiting for rain in this drought. Useless and disappointing.”
It does really feel like a drought to BLACKPINK fans, especially right in the middle of a hiatus.

Whenever I think about composer Michael Giacchino and his work, there’s only one thing that pops into my head — and it’s one of the most famous spaceships in pop culture, exploring the final frontier on its five-year mission.

Here's your guide to some of the most famous and beloved female solo artists currently active in the K-Pop scene.

When people think about K-Pop, they usually picture a group—be it a girl group or a boy group, a mega-world famous group like BTS and BLACKPINK or relatively smaller like ONEUS and OH MY GIRL, a group with decades-long experience like GOT7 and APINK or freshly-debuted like IVE and KEP1ER.
The standard building block of K-Pop always seems to be a group, but that doesn’t mean that the industry is completely devoid of soloists who were able to build successful careers and establish massive fando...

When people think about K-Pop, they usually picture a group—be it a girl group or a boy group, a mega-world famous group like BTS and BLACKPINK or relatively smaller like ONEUS and OH MY GIRL, a group with decades-long experience like GOT7 and APINK or freshly-debuted like IVE and KEP1ER.
The standard building block of K-Pop always seems to be a group, but that doesn’t mean that the industry is completely devoid of soloists who were able to build successful careers and establish massive fando...