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In this episode, we begin digging into the discography of Apink days before their 12th anniversary. Their debut EP, Seven Springs of Apink, was released April 19, 2011, and marked an entry into an arena filled with some of the most fierce female-group competition at that time. Their origins, right after the drop.
When you have a lot of companies involved in the success of an act, theres likely a lot of interest before they hit the big stage. In Apinks case, their founding in 2011 was chronicled in a reality show called Apink News. The cable show chronicled their launch process for three seasons with second generation K-pop idols as the hosts, such as members of BEAST, MBLAQ, and 4MINUTE.
Then, on April 19 of that year, members Son Na-eun, Park Cho-rong, Oh Ha-young, Jeong Eun-ji, Hong Yoo-kyung, Yoon Bi-mi, and Kim Nam-joo made their debut with their first extended play, Seven Springs of Apink.
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Learn about (the) K-POP Museum, located in the Gyeongju Bomun Complex, in this episode. The museum specializes in pop music and has permanent and planned exhibitions of rare original music albums released between the Korean Empire period when pop music started until present day.
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In this final episode of Season 6, host Ashley gives her final discography ranking and provides context to one of the most haphazard season to date of the K-pop discography review podcast.
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On this odd episode, Ashley rants about podcasting, exercise, busy schedules and the greatness of Shoott.com.
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While editing this I realized that I jinked myself tremendously. If you can stick it out to hear the full review, then you'll hear how I doomed myself to not upload this when it dropped, too.
That realization aside, I'm still listening to the album and enjoying its facets. It's a unique piece. I apologize for the way this episode drags on... it's a reflection of early morning recording, for real.
Some key points are identified in the transcript. To read more on this review, visit https://a3day.tumblr.com/
Thank you for waiting.
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Since the podcast is back and we are doing what needs to be done for Season 6 in my own little way before all of the beauty and Immaculate work of my new team comes through for season seven and eight (which start very soon!). We need to finish this season and there's no way I can get through today, March 13 2023, without acknowledging EXO Kai.
1:58 - I give up on recording
2:02 - full audio reaction
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It's been over seven months, and the K-pop scene is rapidly evolving.
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You already binge on K-pop. So now's the time to know a little about everything with your favorite foreign Korean music historian explorin all the industry from A to Z!
Journey through the entire catalog of some of Korean entertainment's most popular artists and become familiar with lesser known acts with my shortcast, "An Album a Day."
Were traversing over 30 years of discographies with opinionated and fact-based commentary. Join the experience when you find An Album a Day on your favorite podcast platform or on www.a3daypodcast.com.
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YG Entertainment boy group BIGBANG make their official comeback as a foursome this month. The host of A3Day provides live commentary as she views and reacts to the comeback video on April 4, 2022 U.S. time.
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An Album a Day is my exploration into the Korean music scene. This podcast will cover mainstream, indie and some underground artists within the scene and provide both factual and opinionated commentary. The biggest benefit to sharing my thoughts this way is that it will hopefully expose you to more great music and exploration of your own.
Visit a3day.tumblr.com to read the full show notes.
Special shout out to my Patreon patrons -- the Freshmen, Student Body, the Scholars, and the Staff (Jackie P. and Laura T.) -- who keep my vision of becoming your favorite foreign Korean music historian, exploring all the industry from A to Z a real thing.
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An Album a Day is my exploration into the Korean music scene. This podcast will cover mainstream, indie and some underground artists within the scene and provide both factual and opinionated commentary. The biggest benefit to sharing my thoughts this way is that it will hopefully expose you to more great music and exploration of your own.
Within this K-pop fangirl experience, Ive had just a handful of correct predictions: 2017 was the official start of girl groups taking more risks and making their presence known, BTS would release an album featuring solos by each member, B.A.P. would come back for one last hoorah in 2018, Wonho wouldnt come back to Monsta X, G-Dragons government-named album was the end of an era; and in a 2019 ATEEZ, along with another group whose name Ill withhold until later in this episode, are the next big thing. The album that sealed the deal, right after the drop.
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Hey yall. I wish I could find the tweet within my archives to back me. As an online content creator, I download all my tweets annually I dont like saying that I said something without receipts and I definitely dont like providing social media with more than it already has of things to jab back at me about. I said it, nonetheless, I absolutely said it. And how could I possibly know such a thing when I hadnt listened to any of Ateezs music until this point in time, youre wondering? I know momentum in entertainment. I know trends, knew journalistic buzz, and I knew from the moment the Internet was buzzing over their KQ Fellaz videos that something attention grabbing was coming from an unexpected label.
I had no musical proof to back this whatsoever beforehand. However, after listening to Treasure EP.3: One to All and Treasure EP.Fin: All to Action, the statement I made last week about Ateez declaring theyre going nowhere was solidified.
First, One to All. At the time of this recording, it is winter in my country. Listening to this bubbly, warm, summer-birthed 18-minute EP while wearing layers was ridiculous. The albums crafted with this vibe intentionally, as it pulls from moombahton, a genre of music derived from EDM, house, and reggaeton. This is the first time Ive identified an album in Korean pop idol music that drives that genre home. It is sonically pleasing and consistent from start to finish, despite picking a horrible time to listen to it, climate-wise.
All to Action though? ATEEZ delivered a dynamic 30-minute hip-hop and R&B experience that even they used to announce that they dont know whats next, but they know whos next: themselves. This is a no-skip album, truly. And the greatest flex of the entire first studio album is the trifecta of tracks 4, 5, and 6. The time between these two projects is four months June and October 2019, respectively is a small window of time to level up so greatly as a group. Its insane. Its genuinely insane how much they progressed in such a short time.
Eden and his team? Touch his face. Its not time yet for me to dive into the production nuances but understand that singer-songwriter Eden, a name associated with ATEEZs sound since their debut, put a whole, entire, moisturized foot into the process of this album. As I said earlier, ATEEZ and another group, Stray Kids (who made their debut a year before ATEEZ in 2017), are ones to watch.
I feel confined by not getting deeper into it! This self-inflicted restriction is equal parts needing to clean up my content on this podcast so that it appeals to wider English-speaking audiences who dont prefer to hear explicit language and the desire to secure more sponsorship.
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An Album a Day is my exploration into the Korean music scene. This podcast will cover mainstream, indie and some underground artists within the scene and provide both factual and opinionated commentary. The biggest benefit to sharing my thoughts this way is that it will hopefully expose you to more great music and exploration of your own.
Visit a3day.tumblr.com to read the full show notes.
Special shout out to my Patreon patrons -- the Freshmen, Student Body, the Scholars, and the Staff (Jackie P. and Laura T.) -- who keep my vision of becoming your favorite foreign Korean music historian, exploring all the industry from A to Z a real thing.
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An Album a Day is my exploration into the Korean music scene. This podcast will cover mainstream, indie and some underground artists within the scene and provide both factual and opinionated commentary. The biggest benefit to sharing my thoughts this way is that it will hopefully expose you to more great music and exploration of your own.
Quick note! Go to multifacetedacg.com, select Shop, and check out the new merchandise featuring my koala mascot, Mac. Discount code is MACSBACK until February 28, 2022, and podcast merchandise drops in March. Now let's go!
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Were alphabet hopping from the letter A which, in this case, stands for various positive adjectives like amazing, awesome and absolute to the letter M with one group, by way of the letter T. Using Naver Vibe to listen to this group will be a worthwhile resource.
A-Prince was a group re-established in 2012 under New Planet Entertainment. Prior to the boy band being called A-Prince, they were known as TAKEN and had made their debut in November 2011. They released one song under the name TAKEN called Only You, and then re-named themselves A-Prince for their re-debut in July 2012. From there, the 5-member group consisting of Sungwon, Minhyuk, Seungjun, Siyoon, and Woobin released Youre the Only One, an extremely synthesized pop ballad.
A-Prince followed the re-debut with Hello, their first mini album on November 6, 2012. The lead track is nothing without its music video. The cuteness levels are heavily imposed upon the guys with aegyo left and right. Im not a foreign commentator who hates on aegyo, it serves its purpose. In the case of A-Prince, the dance version video of Hello has them throwing aegyo daggers at their target fanbase and it feels like it was demanded and not wanted. By this point in their short time as A-Prince, they physically appear to be in between concepts, for lack of a better description. Yes, they were young, but they did not seem naive. Taking a look at the previous pre-debut members (something I encourage you to see at Kprofiles.com) drives that point home, in my book. That aside, the mini album consisted of three songs and two instrumentals.
Their second mini album was released on June 25, 2013, entitled Mambo, consisting of three Korean songs, a Japanese version of their 2012 single Hello, and three instrumentals. Mambo pushes the dance music energy with every track, incorporating a relentless 808 and synthesizers left and right. Given the time period it came out, its the right sound for the era but it isnt the most appealing production quality. By the time they made their orange-haired final comeback with Peter Pans Kiss in March 2014, the synthesizers were cemented as the only real memorable sound of this group. They disbanded not too long after and four of the five young men re-debuted, some with new stage names, under the group name MAP6 with a different entertainment label.
Between November 2015 and May 2017, MAP6 released four Korean singles and one Korean single album consisting of three tracks. The music was much more dynamic and memorable but the focus was an attempt at grabbing the attention of the Japanese audience by this point. The group is reportedly on hiatus due to military enlistment but I am inclined to keep an eye on them for a comeback.
K-pop fans on a scale of 1 to 5 with 5 being essential listening and 1 not worth mentioning, the A3Day rating for A-Prince/MAP6 is a 4. Ultimately, as A-Prince they were a cute boy band created to pull on the heartstrings of their fans but no opportunity to grow from that concept,...
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An Album a Day is my exploration into the Korean music scene. This podcast will cover mainstream, indie and some underground artists within the scene and provide both factual and opinionated commentary. The biggest benefit to sharing my thoughts this way is that it will hopefully expose you to more great music and exploration of your own.
Idol groups are known for their large teams. Seeing a group with less than 5 members seems odd compared to what you might expect from your favorite western pop groups. These days, most K-pop fans are aware of big member group NCT, but did you know that theres another boy band that began with 21 members? Today, lets become familiar with Apeace, formally known as Double B, right after the drop.
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In 2011, Golden Goose Entertainment decided to round up 21 young men from around South Korea and debut them as Double B 21. Based on the number of members, from their debut until June 30, 2014, they were officially the largest K-pop boy band in the world. With such a large team, and the creative energies of industry veteran Kim Kyungwook behind their development, why have you possibly not heard of them? The first reason is that some believed the group disbanded at various times in its history. The most likely reason youve not heard of them, however, is because youre not in their target market. Although its true that K-pop has amassed praise and loyalty in foreign markets, this group was developed with Tokyo, Japan in mind.
Given that their history in the South Korean pop scene is limited, Im moving forward with 2010 debut details versus pre-debut history. After all, wed be talking about 21 people. We dont have that much time to get into each backstory! That aside, the original team contained four sub-units: Sky, Earth, River and Burning because clearly it would have been too difficult to simply use water and fire... and Sky took on debut responsibilities with the solo One on August 25, 2010. By December of that year, the groups name changed to A-peace (with conflicting history on whether or not this stands for Angel Peace or to appease the ambitious needs of a label housing a 21-member boy band) and some leaving the group.
In order to maintain the high membership number, new performers were brought in and with that, the group opened K Theater in Japan and performed daily from May 2011 until December 2014. Mind you, this was before their official Japanese mini-album release, which did not happen until 2012. By this point, they were not only back at 21 members, but also with a hyphen-free name and three 7-member sub-units: Lapis, Jade and Onyx.
Their entire career rests in the arms of Tokyo; and whether or not theyve disbanded at the end of 2021 as it has been alleged, what remains true is that their Korean discography boils down to two digital singles and one mini album. They were never crafted to focus on their home countrys audience. Singles, One and S.O.S. display pop ballad and generic anthemic vibes, respectively. Its less a reflection of them not being good performers and more of the sounds that were popular during that time in South Korean music. Do you remember in past episodes when Ive mentioned the One band, one sound, idea from the American film Drumline? Apeace takes it to musical status with their song Lover Boy, off their June 2011 mini album, We Are the One. The level of vocal unison is a bit unsettling! Its almost two dozen males on stage yet it sounds like 4 are responsible for the singing!
Each member certainly is singing, however. A quick search on YouTube of fan-made videos from their performances in K Theater shows that the mics are indeed on, for better or worse. Thats the experience of daily live performances and honestly sets them apart from most other idol groups A3Day will explore. They are a theatrical act by design and...
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After a four-year hiatus, the legendary and infamous boy band is allegedly making a comeback this spring. In a world where K-pop is less of a novelty and more focused on younger groups, where will BIGBANG fit in? We'll start with a rant and end things cleanly on A3Day's official tumblr.
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Before we dive back into the fun and pseudo-musicology of A3Day, I must address something. This is fully unrelated but I want it historically on record.
To the neighbor in my Houston apartment complex who felt compelled to park their truck as close to our doors as possible, knowing full well that their engine is loud enough to wake the dead on the other side of Texas: you shouldve parked farther away. You woke me up at 5:12 a.m. for nothing. I am not a person who graciously falls back asleep once jarred by the hands of evil.
I have a long day ahead of me today. Ive a long day every day. And I wish to kick you in the shin if I see you. I wish to kick you with the fervor of Stray Kids, Gods Menu bassline. I will not look like a chef. I will look like a woman whos not grasped quality sleep since July 2018, that being the last time I slept in utter peace and silence anywhere in the world. Tread lightly tomorrow morning. I may be on the porch with my shin-kicking boots and a cup of chamomile tea, looking unassuming! That is all.
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Multifacetedacg Presents: An Album a Day turns three years old this spring and A3Day Sister Show turned one year old this past January. I didnt do anything celebratory on that anniversary date but will combine the two celebrations later. Its an accomplishment and one that took more momentum than pandemic living can afford. I made mention last year on an A3Day episode that genuinely churning out the day part of this concept is a lot to chew on right now. Its still a whole panopticon going on outside with an Omona They Didnt variant floating around at this time. (Yes, long-time K-pop fans, that Live Journal still goes strong.)
My current responsibilities and time constraints dont need to be ironed out in great detail. I believe you can sense that theres a lot going on. However, what needs to be addressed is the plan moving forward. First, that infamous Season 6 that still isnt completed. I must re-record the episodes for the remaining A-named artists of the season that wont stop ending. Afterwards, I will be releasing the episodes on Wednesdays only until the season finally comes to its close. I will observe the podcast anniversaries in April with a special episode and then take a brief break from May 18 until June 10. Wait! Dont roll your eyes and complain, I have pressing schedules I cannot escape that must have that break.
Following that, promotions and energy will be deeply tossed into the annual podcast fest I oversee. Episodes will likely continue once-a- week until the events conclusion in July. A summer hiatus will occur and then well finally return to several-weekday-episodes as the show was intended. A3 Day Sister Show is already a biweekly experience when it has its seasons and showcases other hosts, so Im not as nervous for its stability as I am for A3Day, but it will work.
The important thing is not backing down. I have a commitment to creating the content and with the help of the patrons, the means to afford professional assistance as needed. As Ive shared in the past the contributions from Patreon 100% belong to the show. I do not pocket anything from their support. It covers hosting with the awesome Captivate.fm platform. It covers new merchandise development, eventual multilingual transcribing, marketing efforts and anything else the podcasts needs. In fact, the newest accomplishment through our mutual efforts is, I will finally have the joy of sharing music directly in the show.
You do realize that for 3 years, youve never heard any song Ive talked about, right? Thats insane, given that my podcast is about music commentary. Ive left you to your own devices to seek out the music and make your own opinions without ever playing a portion of any song. I think thats a bit of a flex! And also something Im grateful for youve rolled with the...
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How many times can a podcast "return"? As many times as it takes, in this case.
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Through finally completing the exploration of Ace of Angels (AOA), the question of whether or not the girl group had actually reached their artistic ending is addressed. Albums explored in this episode include all Korean-language projects between 2015 and 2019.
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As the host continues to scrape the rust off her podcasting skills, SM Entertainment's NCT 127 has chosen to confirm her belief that they're vampires.
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