Ding ding ding .

if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this. can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.

I know it’s not really the right vibe or time, but I’m going to Seoul the week of Nov 16 and would love to meet up with anyone smart and fun or get everyone’s suggestions for smart and/or fun things to do

“Average musician makes $12 a month on Spotify. The fact that they are not even able to sell a record and it’s taken from them by rich motherfuckers on streaming platforms who get paid royally by record labels,Ticketmaster, merch companies. They’re all fucking getting paid, except for the musician.”

Also ICE is not targeting Bad Bunny, they’re targeting his fans because racial profiling.

The world sucks, but at least we finally got a K-pop song of summer, even if it dropped in September notesonkpop.com/the-k-pop-so...

honestly the *only* workable way to use social imo

I recently explained to a K-pop group visiting nyc how they have all the permission in the world to stomp on lanternflies and their reaction reminded me how weird it is being in New York sometimes

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

Don't let anybody hit you with some form of "I can't believe y'all are so easily distracted. The halftime performer doesn't mean anything." Putting a global artist who won't even tour in the US bc it's not safe for his community & core fans on the biggest televised US stage matters.

This is because he’s a Ne Zha 2 hater I bet

Can’t believe I have to watch some sports yet again just to see some glorious performance art

I bet this takes off in South Korea as peak streetwear…

Spent three seconds reading about what happened last night and the fact that people are so in denial of reality is terrifying

Every social media & messaging app needs Away Messages

Whenever I post about being Jewish here people follow me assuming they’ll get some good, interesting Jewish content but I literally am here to bring some K-pop distraction into everyone’s grim af timelines

Deleting paranoia posts about Jewish fears that you breathe into existence and regret is the essence of being Jewish if you think about it.

I constantly point out to friends who are not Jewish that them having a friend who is Jewish and practicing is an abnormality among human existence. Most people currently alive will never live among any sizable Jewish community, let alone learn about us in-depth as a people & culture

Reminder (mostly to me) that international press has more accurate information about what is happening in the US

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...

Bluesky is where I rant about being Jewish and threads is where I rant about the lack of great nyc concert venues

Jewish holiday season is about to be upon us and I for one am dreading all the sermons and meals that will inevitably get political in the worst of ways

Interesting to see who gets this

Take a break from (*gestures vaguely around*) and enjoy this consideration of Kai, with videos.

I did this with Carvel a few weeks ago and it haunts me.

I think it's terrible that Gen Z and Gen Alpha continue to live in a world where K-12 and college campus shootings are a normal part of life and that's all they've ever known and I think we should arrange things so that any kind of school or university shooting is impossible

Saw Kai, and had a lot of thought about how he sets the standard for catering to the girls and the gays gaze notesonkpop.com/kai-understa...

It is unfathomable that people think reporting anyone to ICE is a game. Don’t fucking do it for fanwars, or for memes, or to go viral.

Between visa issues for crews and potential ICE sweeps, he will not be the only person to avoid the U.S. for tours

Monsta X is back, please go listen to all their old and new songs. And don’t worry! If you don’t know what to listen to first, I have a starting playlist for you @recordingacademy.bsky.social www.grammy.com/news/essenti...

I think social media is run by a lot of people who simply can't imagine there are people who read for fun and/or who don't learn best visually. Hate to break it to you, but lots of humans love words. We've had them for a long time, and we don't need tech to use them. I think reading here to stay.

Live albums make me so happy, and hopefully we'll be seeing more of them in K-pop given the industry's current reliance on tours over album releases. www.notesonkpop.com/live-album

Childless pop girly revisionism 🥲

New mix gathers the A-pop installments and other writing in one place, then flies through 26 songs in 72 minutes, w links to @tamarherman.com on K-pop, @misterminsoo.bsky.social on V-pop, and Alphonse Pierre on his grandmother and Fat Joe www.otherdavemoore.com/p/cherry-slu...

First, there’s no legal basis for this. Second, a “Real ID” is sufficient for air travel because it requires extra documentation to obtain. Third and again, there’s no legal basis for this. Fourth and most important, this is the “papers please” stage of fascism and the biggest possible red flag.

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What do dont deny our r squared pi and mystery saja have in common? notesonkpop.com/notes-on-k-p...

If only

so, in the course of a month, the New York Times reassigned four veteran critics, the Washington Post’s film critic took a buyout, Vanity Fair decided it doesn’t need a film critic at all, and the Associated Press got rid of book criticism altogether? Cool.

I was thinking the other day that I bet Hearts2Hearts doesn’t end the year without releasing an SNSD remake, so I think we’re definitely moving in that direction

I am a collector myself so certainly part of the problem BUT there are def fans thinking about the impact of physical (and digital!) media. There’s even an environmental K-pop org pushing for green business promises from entertainment companies www.scmp.com/lifestyle/k-...

I do think this reflects on the power of K-pop as a global force, one that is increasingly not just competing with American pop but in some ways displacing its gravity. (I also think American pop has maybe been playing catch-up with K-pop through the neo-disco turn, not sure though.)

In a final message... al-Sharif said he “lived the pain in all its details... I never hesitated to convey the truth as it is, without distortion or misrepresentation, hoping that God would witness those who remained silent, those who accepted our killing" www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...

Idk if I agree with framing “Golden” as a K-pop song in this way? It’s not truly from the same industry as other songs we consider K-pop. I have to think about it.

"Golden" is the first song from a girl group since Destiny's Child to hit No. 1 on Billboard, we love to see it!

A friend today pointed out if my book about BTS was a human I'd have a kindergartner and that's terrifying BUT happy five years to BTS:BST, a book that I have a rocky relationship with that I wanted to talk a bit about notesonkpop.com/words/

Do you think Enhypen likes What We Do In The Shadows?

I’m stuck working on something but going to try and make it tonight. Hope to see you all there!